Deploy the Garrison

DtG, is a Star Wars: Legion Podcast hosted by Kris, Alan, and Zack with a focus on Casual Competitive Play.

We are not here to help you win worlds, but hopefully we can help you clean up your game, bring some more fun lists to your weekly legion night and have some laughs along the way.

Season 3: Episode 11 - Unpaxing PAX: Unplugged

PAX Unplugged brought the Star Wars: Legion community together, and we’re breaking it all down in this episode! Alan hosts the show with Brenden (Inglorious Blasters) and Nick (Legion 99) to discuss highlights, tournament stories, and Nick’s journey to becoming the event’s overall winner. Brenden also shares insights from his role as Head Consular.

Season 3: Episode 10 - Long Live the Empire, Imperial Remnant List Building

Deploy the Garrison is back! This episode, Alan and Kris break down how to build an Imperial Remnant army list, from unit choices to tactics. If you're looking to dominate with the Empire, don’t miss it!

Season 3: Episode 9 - The Rise of Skywalker

Join Alan and Kris as they discuss the latest news for Star Wars: Legion, including the rules changes, and new points that AMG just dropped.

Season 3: Episode 8 - The Lost Jepisod

Kris & Alan catch up and cover the episode that should have been.

Focused on double sized units and their thoughts on them.

Season 3: Episode 7 - Secondary Advantages

Alan & Kris start exploring the new Battle Plans now that they have had a few games of not new Legion.

Season 3: Episode 6 - Return of the Raccoon

Alan and Kris are joined by returning guest Evan as they go long on this one, chatting about their thoughts on the rules changes now that they have all had some time, built some lists and played some games.

Season 3: Episode 5 - AMG Strikes Back

OK,

DtG Open II is over, the post episode recording is in the bag, and we have a whole load of new Legion to go over!

 Kris & Alan dont hit all of it, just the stuff that seems interesting and they are excited about.

Season 3: Episode 4 - DtG Open 2024

We hosted our 2nd, and biggest yet, Deploy the Garrison Open!
This year, we were able to bring you the event as a AMG Sponsored GT, and a LVO Qualifier.

Two days of games are in the can, and this show gives you the run down on it all!

 

Season 3: Episode 3 - Not New Legion?

Oh my!

We had planned to chat about the upcoming DtG Open GT and spitball some list ideas for our new armies, but today's news forced a bit of a change!

Join Alan and Kris as they try to remain calm and chat about some off the cuff thoughts on the Legion updates.

 

Season 3: Episode 2 - Empire List Building Splash vs Spam

Join Kris and Alan as they delve in to some Empire List Building, taking a closer look at more of the units with an eye on if they are units you want to take multiples of, or if you just want to throw in a single unit.

We also have the results of which Faction Kris will be playing next, after you all voted, more exciting news for the Deploy the Garrison Open, and more!

Link to the next Poll for Kris’s Army:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pick-kriss-next-107491391

 

Season 3: Episode 1 - A Splash of Spam

Kicking off Season 3, we have an episode we have been meaning to get to for a while. We open the discussion on Spammable units, vs Units that you just want to Splash in to a list.

Alan and Kris also talk the Deploy the Garrison Open, which has official GT status and is fast approaching, and Kris's plan to let the listeners pick his next army!

Most important of all, vote on Kris's new Army Here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pick-kriss-next-107152536

 

Season 2: Episode 8 - Complete the Mission

It's taken us a while to be able to do this, but Deploy the Garrison is back with Alan and Kris addressing the future of the show.
It was hard work to record, so apologies if its a hard listen at times.
Thank you, and we love all of you.

Miss you Zack

 

Season 2: Episode 7 - Guest who’s back!

Strap in folks, we have Evan back this week to talk his experiences at Adepticon, and help us go over the new Republic Commandos and Imperial Range Troopers.

 

Season 2: Episode 5 - Worlds Meta Predictions 2024

Join Kris, Zack, & Alan as they go over their predictions for what the worlds meta will look like for the main topic, and in the Officer's Mess, they chat about Inquisitors, and Kris being the new Deploy the Garrison Champion...

Season 2: Episode 4 - Bugbears

Kris takes a night off and Alan and Zack host a party.

David and Evan join the cast to talk tournament etiquette, Geonosians, and Ewoks.

Season 2: Episode 3 - Why we play?

It's Zack's show this week, and we let him ask the questions, and he wants to know why we play.

So come along with us for a slightly longer show, but the topic deserved some deep dives. 

Season 2: Episode 2 - Worlds Prep

Zack is having a crisis of confidence on list choices for Worlds, and Alan is actually going, so we take some time to chat about that.

 

Season 2: Episode 1 - Worlds Format

Join Alan, Kris, and Zack as they go to war with everyone at the start of 2024.
Discussing the worlds format and giving you some hobby insights on the joys of super glue.

 

Episode 28 - 2023 Year in Review

Join Zack, Alan, and Kris as they look back on 2023 and close out the year.

 

Episode 27 - BX Force?

Tyler joins the cast this week to teach us all about how he has been building his Experimental Droids and wrecking his local meta!

Episode 26 - Key Positions

Join Kris, Alan, & Zack as they talk about a years worth of shows, and cover Key Positions.

Episode 25 - Post DtG Open Car Cast

Join Kris and Alan, as they drive Zack to the Airport after the Deploy the Garrison Open. It's a long Officers Mess segmewnt effectively, but you should listen anyway :p

Episode 24 - Approach to List Building

You may not have noticed over the last year, but Alan, Zack, and Kris are all actually different people, with there own ways of doing things, this episode we explore that a little with a look at how each cast member approaches list building, and Kris heads up this weeks Officers Mess with some opinions on Bidding and Battle Decks.

Episode 23 - The Magnet Meta

Kris had some life happen, so Alan leads the show this time around with Zack coming in strong with some Magnet advice for the Officers Mess and then the discussion moves to the double header main topic of if FDs are propping Rebels up, or Holding them back, and a quick meta rundown from some recent events.

As Zack promised it would be in the show notes, here are the measurements for the size of drill bit/ magnets you want for your Ewok Magnetizing Projects;
5/64" or 3/32"

Episode 22 - The Trandoshan Terror

Join Kris, Alan, and Zack as they cover some games with and against the two new battle forces in the officers mess, and then, for the main topic we have a deep dive in to Bossk.

Episode 21 - Sabotage…

Alan, Zack, & Kris are back with another Mission overview, and Kris talks about running his Store Championship over the weekend.

Episode 20 - Hokey Religions vs A Good Blaster

We welcome Zack back to the cast after a week off, and Alan tables a listener question about playing Gunlines in to Jedi.

Episode 19 - When it Rains…

Hey folks, Kris here,

Unfortunately I had a super busy time this week and so we didn't have a suitable slot to reschedule in to when Zack could not make this one, so Alan and I pushed on with a two person cast.

We chat about our games both with and against Tempest Force, and then move on to talking about Self Balancing your own play to aid in community building.

Full disclosure, I have not had time to do a thorough edit on this one, so its a little over the hour mark and probably a little more rambally than usual...

Episode 18 - A Force to be Reckoned With?

Alan, Kris, & Zack are back, with some games to talk about, and then they give their thoughts on Tempest Force.

Episode 17 - Return of Episode 15

Kris has taken a couple of weeks off from Podcasting to enjoy some family time, but we did have this content in the wings from when The Fifth Trooper's Evan joined us to talk Star Wars: Legion.

Lots of List and Meta talk, so enjoy!

Episode 16 - Mission Breakthrough

The Garrison has been Deployed, this time with a mission to outline their thoughts on the Breakthrough Mission.

Episode 15 - Deploy the Fifth Trooper

We have a special guest joining us this week to teach us all about how to correctly Deploy the Garrison, Evan Bulriss!
If you enjoy the cast, why not check out The Fifth Trooper over at thefifthtrooper.com

(Who are we kidding, you probably came from there already...)

Episode 14 - Bright Future Post Points

Kris returns to the cast just in time to discuss points, Ewoks, and all of the things that went wrong while he left Zack and Alan in charge!

Episode 13 - Ewok Ya Gonna Do?

It's an All American Nightmare this week as Kris leaves Alan and Zack to their own devices.

Dare you listen to find out what they talk about when there is no one steering the ship?

Episode 12 - Cody & Wish Lists

Sorry for the delays on this one, we had a bunch of audio issues and there was a bunch of editing that needed to be done...

But here we are, we have Zack, Alan, and Kris here again talking Star Wars: Legion, Alan runs the Officers Mess this time, then we jump in to some points changes and other fixes we think could be made.

Episode 11 - Snips and Pieces

Join Kris, Alan, and Zack for another episode of Deploy the Garrison, this time they take a look at Ahsoka's spoiled cards, talk about the importance of the announced Store Championship kits and look at some of the other news to come out of Adepticon.

We also announced that we will be giving away an Asajj Ventress model for legion this month to one of our lucky Patreons, so thanks again for all for the support!

Episode 10 - The Winner of the Adepticon DtG Invitational is...

Join THE ZACK MATHEWS, Champion of the World and greatest Star Wars Legion player that has graced this podcast with his presence and some other people who seem to be Legion adjacent, Kris and Alan, as they go over Adepticon.

Episode 9 - Adepticon Casual

Join Zack, Alan, and Kris as they run through some thoughts on Clone Commander Cody, what things you could do at Adepticon this year, and what they think could win or do well.

Episode 8 - Immovable Object vs Unstoppable Force

Join Kris, Alan, and Zack for a quick three round contest as Kris and Zack fight about which needs the biggest nerf, Dark Troopers or Blizzard Force!

Episode 7 - You Have Something I Want

Join Alan, Zack, and Kris for another Deploy the Garrison, your favorite Star Wars Legion Podcast, after all of the good ones...

This time we find out how much of a liar Kris is, explore some games where everyone learned something and talk about some building ideas for Imperial Remnant.

Episode 6 - LVOh no he didn’t!

Guess whos back, back already, I know it feels like we were just all up in your ears talking Legion but LVO happened and there was more to go over, so join Zack, Kris, and Alan as they go over some thoughts.

Episode 5 - Rules & Remnants

Welcome back folks,
It's been a hot minute, but Deploy the Garrison returns with more thoughts from Alan, Zack, and Kris on Star Wars: Legion.

Featuring some thought son the Rules Updates now that they have been out in the wild for a little while and then some talk about Moff Gideon and the Dark Troopers.

Episode 4 - The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same

Join Alan, Kris, and Zack as they give some, let's call them tepid(?) takes on the upcoming changes and on some things that have not yet been touched.

Episode 3 - Points Table

Join Zack, Alan, & Kris as they talk about 3d Printed Terrain and Kris building his first Legion table and then check out how the cast did on their points predictions and where the Patreon Money is going to go!

Episode 2 - The Full Pykage

In episode two, Alan leads the officers mess as we do a tournament rundown and talk some Blizzard Force which rolls us nicely in to points predictions.

If you are new to a DiceHate Productions Podcast, any chance we get to make predictions on points changes and that sort of stuff we generally use as an excuse to give  our Patreon Money to charity, so if you want to be a part of it, check out the DiceHate Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DiceHate

Episode 1 - Covering Shatterpoint

Join Kris, Alan, and Zack for Episode 1 of Deploy the Garrison, for this episode"s Main Topic, Alan takes us through cover and how it works and some things to watch out for.  Zack runs the Officers Mess this time around talking about the Resurgence of Bikes.  

We also run a little long this week as we have some Shatterpoint talk while AMG dropped that big news the day we were recording.

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Deploy the Garrison is a new podcast with a focus on Star Wars: Legion.

Join Kris, Alan, and Zack as they give you their semi competitive takes on the game.