STABcast
Ryan Sliwoski, Ben Fowler, Tim Hannon, Will Hime 194 episodes Oct 22, 2026
A podcast dedicated to Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars Legion. Based out of Knoxville, Tennessee, the Sunsphere Tactical Attack Brigade brings stories, tips, builds, news, and entertainment centered around Atomic Mass Games' Star Wars Legion.
Episodes
STABcast Episode 186: Wizards on Phallic Bicycles
This week on the STABcast! The gang read old news to Ben, with a couple battle reports mixed in for flavor. Enjoy!
STABcast Episode 185: The First Amanda Episode
This week on the STABcast! A new host joins the show as the whole gang discuss their games in Orlando at the Crucible! Hope you like battle reports!
STABcast Episode 184: Defenestrated to a Permanent End
This week on the STABcast! Will recaps his games at Tacticon! While Tim and Ben discuss lists for the upcoming Crucible GT!
STABcast Episode 183: In Defiance of the Lord
This week on the STABcast! Battle reports all over this thing! Will, Ryan, & Ben all have games to talk about!
STABcast Episode 182: Confusing Episode Names
This week on the STABcast! Will talks about the Collectormania League, and reads cards to two older gentlemen who apparently don't play this game.
STABcast Episode 181: I Like My Men Tall and Silver
This week on the STABcast! Battle reports from across the nation! And that's about it
STABcast Episode 180: Banana Balls and Event Halls
This week on the STABcast! The recap of the STABcast Open Invitational! Plus Mando news!
STABcast Episode 179: Will and Tim's Excellent Adventure
This week on the STABcast! Tim travels to far off Denver to play in the RMO alongside Will!
STABcast Episode 178: Losing My AI Action by R.E.M.
This week on the STABcast! New points! New rules! Yet the same old bad hot takes from the STABcast!
STABcast Episode 177: With Extra Forehead Please
This week on the STABcast! Ryan returns from Adepticon, though not in triumph, obviously. We discuss the boat load of news from the con, and try to be less wrong than we were last episode.
STABcast Open Invitational Tickets!
https://tabletop.events/conventions/stabcast-open-invitational
STABcast Episode 176: Announcing the Open Invitational!
This week on the STABcast! A very special announcement about our event in May, followed by 2 hours of just chilling and some reading of new cards!
Get your STABcast Open Invitational tickets here!
https://tabletop.events/conventions/stabcast-open-invitational
STABcast Episode 175: 14 Games, 105 Inches of Excuses
This week on the STABcast! We've got battle reports coming out of our ears! There are 14! games of Legion discussed in this LENGTHY episode! Ben and Ryan went to the FLG Cherokee Open, and Will attended a Denver area tournament! Tim is also on the show.
STABcast Episode 174: A Spectrum of Baldness
This week on the STABcast! Battle reports! News! Discussions of body hair! Tune in for the usual sillyness!
STABcast Episode 173: Wheely Greg and the Windy City
This week on the STABcast! Ryan goes to Chicago for Legion shenanigans! Meanwhile Ben engages in a friendly, casual, welcome back game for Will (who then did terrible things to him)
STABcast Commentary Track 5: Like Mambo Number 5, But Worse
Welcome to one of the always unpredictable STABcast Holiday Specials! As is tradition we make a commentary track of sorts for you to enjoy, this time we watched the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special! For those who do not wish to view the film, however, there is a bit of the usual STABcast magic at the beginning and end.
The commentary begins at 10:57
And ends at 54:49
Enjoy! And Season's Greetings
STABcast Episode 172: Legion is my Sunshine
Welcome back! With the holidays making our availability a little rough, we bring you this episode of the STABcast... now! Always trying to be a beacon of positivity in a a hive of scum and villain, the STABcast has sooooo much to talk about. Battle Reports from Ben! Disney Pin talk with Tim, and the back half of the episode is a measured look at the news from Ministrav. You know two phrases that
STABcast Episode 171: Dastardly Deeds in Dixie
EDIT: Apparently Ben went to fix an issue with the audio and accidently uploaded the podcast with only his mic activated. Sorry! It is fixed. It is what happens when we bring you four channel sound, sometimes mistakes happen in the edit. Thanks everyone!
Come join the STABcast on this Ministravaganza Eve as we talk about Ryan's tournament adventures in Alabama, Ben's more than glowing thoughts on
STABcast Episode 170: Ram your Friends
This week on the STABcast! Will is back! Just in time to provide more excuses, and react to weeks old news, in the STABcast way!
STABcast Episode 169: NIIIIIIIIICE time at Crucible
Like our Geonosians, Ewoks, and Ryan's cat Milo, we like 'em chonky. So prepare yourself for a chonky episode of the STABcast. Tim, Ryan, and Ben all made it out to Crucible and had 3 days worth of fun and battle reports to talk about.
For those on your way to LVO or to paint your Legion or to play locally or to practice some mind Legion, this episode is for you!
Show Notes:
Winter Moon Strea
STABcast Episode 168: Tim and Ryan Don't yell at each outer
Ryan and Tim are left unsupervised and rant about the new hot generics and recap the Yoda Cup!
STABcast Episode 167: GenCon Fun!
Come join Ryan and Ben discuss Ryan's adventures at GenCon. Man, we love that convention. You can hear Ben's jealousy throughout the whole thing.
Lots of Battle Reports, talk of MegaGames and some small travelogue-ing, as you would expect from the STABcast. Come for the Legion talk, but stay for the gamer camaraderie!
STABcast Episode 166: A Marketably Short Episode
This week on the STABcast! Will, Tim, and Ryan talk about the recent update and how it affect list building with the typical amount of STABcast research... None!
STABcast Episode 165: Cha-cha-changes
Come listen to Will, Tim, and Ben explore the new changes to the Legion landscape. Ryan pulled a Rip Van Winkle and slept through the recording. Overall, we are pleased until we are not, and shocked when we probably shouldn't have been. Stay for the conversation after the episode about the great sci fi epic Dune!
Editor Ben here: I tried for hours to fix Tim's audio to little luck. I apologize.
STABcast Episode 164: Get in my Unmarked Victory Van
This week on the STABcast! Ben and Will provide their prompt and timely coverage of their quarterly games of legion at Rocky Top Game Con! And a new enemy of the podcast is declared??
STABcast Episode 163: A Milky Discourse
This week on the STABcast! 75% of the show preps for RTGC! 75% of the show also joins the realm of excuses!
STABcast Episode 162: Late to the Update.
Ben, Tim and Ryan Break down the new update poorly!
https://www.rockytopgamecon.com/ Come hang out with us at RTGC 2025
STABcast Episode 161: New Venue, Same Results
This week on the STABcast! Ryan returns from the frozen north to talk all things adepticon with 3 guys who were there in spirit, guiding his opponents. Apologies for the audio quality on Will's track, we had some audio issues.
STABcast Episode 160: 10 is the new 8
This week on the STABcast! Will actually plays legion! Ben is back to mind legion, and Ryan goes on 30 minute sidetracks during battle reports!
STABcast Episode 159: "we talking about practice"
Ben Talks for over an hour about most of his games for the year. we cover some GAMA news, and Ryan and Tim are along for the Ride.
Get Tickets to Rocky Top Game Con 2025! https://www.rockytopgamecon.com/
STABcast Episode 158: Our Chemically Romanced Legion
Come have some fun with the Will, Tim, and Ben as we talk about Will's Skirmish event fun, Tim's misadventures not playing Legion, and Ben's woes assembling new Crab droids for his quarterly legion play at Cherokee this weekend.
Come for the fun, but stay for the love on this episode of the STABcast.!
STABcast Episode 157: Sleeping on Sleeper Cells.
Ryan, Will and Ben Talk about LVO the fall out and Sleeper Cells.
https://www.lvois.com/legion to submit your event for LOVIS back in Vegas next year.
STABcast Episode 156: Sometimes a legion podcast!
We take a look at some of the details for LVO! play some TI, Civ 6, Lorconna, and a bit of legion.
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STABcast Holiday Special 2025! Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
The lads sit down to drink and watch a bad movie and Drink!
STABcast Episode 155: Ben Looks at many cards for the first time.
Ben, Tim, and Ryan are back looking at the new submersible droids, LVO prep and lack of, and a recap of the Sci FI city local event.
STABcast Episode 154: The LVO Low Down.
Ryan and Tim are left unsupervised so LJ Has to come baby sit and tell us all about the upcoming LVO.
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STABcast Episode 153: Jar Jar Étouffée
This week on a spoooooooky edition of the STABcast! Tim and Ryan talk about games! Will provides excuses! And we talk about list building alone in the dark!
STABcast Episode 152: Close the Doors and Shutter the Windows
This week on the STABcast! Its a Will episode! As we cover his experiences at a local event, and chat about terrain in the new ruleset.
STABcast Episode 151: Somewhat Coherent Ramblings
This week on the STABcast! Tim, Ben, and Will play Mind Legion, while Ryan has an actual game to talk about. Also, Tim airs more bad opinions about Rebels, and we chat about how to play turn 1!
STABcast Episode 150: Bulgogi Attracts Alligators
This week on the STABcast! Will edits out hundreds of Ben LOTRO clicks, Ryan commits sudoku, Tim quits halfway through, and Ben overdoses on insulin. Buckle up folks, its the crucible recap.
STABcast Episode 149: Rushed but On Time
This week on the STABcast! We had to record late so this episode is a bit rough on the edit. But Will shares his battle reports from Tacticon! Ben plays theoretical Legion! And Ryan goes back to the world of being a TO!
STABcast Episode 148: Fat Bottom Droids Make the Legion World Go Round
This week on the STABcast! Ryan has batreps from our Legion 2.6 stream! Tim finally played the new rules! And we cover some news a month late, as is our tradition.
STABcast Episode 147: Clickbait Legion 2.0 Title
In this SHOCKING episode of the STABcast, you won't believe what's next, as we list our top 12 and a half changes from the announcements from ministravaganza.
STABcast will be back after these messages from our sponsors.
We are taking a break this week guys see you in 7 days.
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STABcast Episode 146: Like Explaining Terrain to a 4-year-old
This week on the STABcast! Ryan and Tim play real Legion, but Ben challenges you to a game of Mind Legion! He already won.
STABcast Episode 145: Ice Cream Piracy
This week on the STABcast! We start the episode by talking about anything BUT clone commandos, followed by a group therapy session on how busted the unit is. Ryan gives battle reports from Indy, and we go over the news!
STABcast Episode 144: Señor Chewie's Rooftop Performance
This week on the STABcast! The end of the Ben excuses? Will goes undefeated at RTGC? Tim and Ryan get along? NO! None of those things happen! Enjoy!
STABcast Episode 143: Sparkling Opinions
This week on the STABcast!! Episode 142 was taken out back and "retired" but we all mourn its loss. Ben and Will prep for the Rocky Top Game Con happening this upcoming weekend! And Ryan... well, tune in to find out!
STABcast Episode 141: The LVOILCQO
This week on the STABcast! Will continues to play the wrong game! We have a special guest! And Tim has a new neck bone? Tune in to find out more!
https://www.lvois.com/
STABcast Episode 140: Its OK to be Bad
This week on the STABcast! Ben has legitimate excuses! (no he didn't lose another toe) Ryan and Tim talk battle reports, and we try to convince Ryan Experimental Droids isn't ruining the game!
STABcast an intermission
Sorry no show this week, the lads are all busy. we will be back next week to contact you about your cars extended warranty.
STABcast Episode 139: A Damp Onesie in Chicago
This week on the STABcast! Worlds recap! Rocky Mountain Open battle reports! And Ben plays a card game?
STABcast Episode 138: Some Kind of Mood
Oh my! The episode starts spicy and clears the sinuses, tingles the lips, and melts the gut on the back end. It is a far ranging episode talking about a battle report that moves into talks of thematics, list building for Rocky Mountain and Worlds, the place of monarchy in the modern era and the politics of the happiest place on earth. It is a doozy, I tell you. So, come spend your paint time, your
STABcast Episode 137: Never Go Full Tim Hannon
This week on the STABcast! Battle reports from... Ben??
Link to Daisy fundraiser <3
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Check out Crit2block's recap
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qrVzg-10eoQ&feature=youtu.be
Dice and Cardboard Recap
https://diceandcardboard.com/legion/cherokee-open-2024-after-action-report/
STABcast Episode 136: Just Trying to Find Happiness Somewhere
This week on the STABcast! Ryan batreps, Will & Ben excuses, the word skew, and much much more!
Link to purchase Rocky Top Open Tickets:
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This is a test of the emergency STABcast system this is only a test
The guys are slammed this week so enjoy a tidbit of mail, we will be back next week with a full show!
STABcast Episode 135: Waking Up In Vegas
Come listen to the STABcast's tales of time spent at the Las Vegas Open. True to STABcast form, Ryan rarely left the venue and Tim did everything but play Legion after Friday. Listen to the trials, tribulations, dissolution and reformation of Tim during his sojurn through Vegas's city streets, and listen to Ben's incredulous responses.
It is a fun, jam-packed (with just enough peanut butter to
STABcast Episode 134: Are We Bad Friends?
Come join us for the fun as Ben, Tim, and Ryan discuss game play, predict LVO, and ask the question "Are we bad friends?" Ryan and Tim throw around outrageous takes and Ben plays the mental game of Legion. All the fun you could possibly have in this week's episode of the STABcast!
STABcast Bonus Episode 8: Caravan of Courage, An Ewok Adventure Commentary
Join us in the (sometimes) holiday tradition of the STABcast movie commentary! This year Ben dragged us to the bottom of Disney+ for his formative childhood Star Wars film, "Caravan of Courage, an Ewok Adventure." Listen along with the movie as Will, Ryan, and Ben all struggle to make sense of it.
STABcast Episode 133: Tauntauns, Cough Drops, and Wookiees, Oh My!
This week on the STABcast! Ryan and Will recount their latest Legion adventures, while Ben struggles to not feel like death in the midst of the flu. Most of Ben's coughs and sniffles have been edited out, but some have been left in for flavor! Enjoy!
STABcast Episode 132: Better Late Than Never
This week on the STABcast! Ryan and Tim talk Legion games, while Will and Ben theory craft excuses lists. The later in the show, Tim makes proclamations against Australians, Ryan gets cancelled, and Will takes Ben on a journey into the desert.
STABcast Episode 131: Wookiee-Mania Goes North
This week on the STABcast! Will, Ryan, and Tim talk about their games of Legion! While Ben provides his usual excuses! Topics of discussion include: sandwiches, Dallas, breakfast burritos, Geography, and much much more!
STABcast Episode 130: There are no Mountains in Denver
This week on the STABcast! Will, Ryan, and Ben discuss Will's plans to run the new wookiee battleforce, answer listener feedback, and in honor of spooky season, each talk about their personal Legion boogeyman! Also Will talks some smack about Denver. Also no Tim, he was too busy eating at Huddle House.
STABcast Episode 129: More Weight! Crucible 2023
Welcome cadets and commanders to Tim and Ryan talk about their games at Crucible 2023. Yes, somehow Ben managed to make it through the entire episode without a reference to the Arthur Miller play by the same name, but he couldn't let the episode description make it though. Editor's perogative. Come and listen to Ben feel the weight of his job keep him from Crucible! Hear Tim meet his pointy reckon
STABcast Episode 128: Trying Experimental Droids with the Boys
This week on the STABcast! In an episode without Will, our other three hosts do their best to read the news from ministravaganza, Ryan takes vengeance for not having any talking time last episode, Ben makes rude remarks about Geonosian biology, and Tim didn't do well enough for his other shows so he was forced to record with us again.
STABcast Episode 127: Never Listen to Droid Chat
This week on the STABcast! Ben and Will take over the show with 4 battle reports each, they actually played Legion! Ryan plays moderator as we cover the recent Knoxville store championship and the great fun that was had there!
STABcast Episode 126: Furry Happy Monsters Laughing
Welcome cadets and commanders to another episode of the STABcast. Ryan, Tim, and Ben reunite to talk about some games, talk about some lists, and just talk. Continuing this week's theme of Muppet Madness, we have way to much fun while trying to count the number of ATSTs is the appropriate number for a Tempest list.
Come have another furry happy time.
STABcast Episode 125: Rotate Winnie the Pooh in your mind
This week on the STABcast! Tim talks a lot! About Gencon! Will has a battle report for the wrong game (again) and Ben mocks the British Premier League!
STABcast Episode 124: Never Let Doubts Stop You
This week on the STABcast! Join us as we discuss lists, Brisket, Shatterpoint, Buc-ee's, Lord Farquad, personal philosophy, and even more!
STABcast Episode 123: Bass Player Energy
We have a very healthy conversation about battle reports, dice pools, the sproinginess of plastic light sabers and much, much more!
Join us for the fun, stay for the thoughtful debate, and luxuriate in the funky bass rhythm from Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
STABcast Episode 122: A Tennessean Reminds the British of their Place
Welcome back dear listeners! In this week's episode, Ben has made it to the tables and has not one, not two, but THREE games to talk about. It is a battle report heavy episode, but we played some games and have lots of experiences to share and praise and lament.
Additionally, we take a look at the recent news, some slights from across the pond, and MUCH, much more. So come for the jokes about Ben
STABcast Episode 121: Hit by a Bag of Trucks
This week on the STABcast! The whole crew is back (Scoundrels didn't have space for Tim this week) as we discuss games played, Ewok cards, and the points update! Sadly the errata update released after recording, just to make sure the STABcast is never fully up to date!
Slight content warning, Ben talks about a medical condition and surgery in this episode so if that bothers you skip to the 10 mi
STABcast Episode 120: Now with 50% More Hillbillies
Ryan is back and joined by Chad and other Will, as the rest of the crew was standing in solidarity with the Writer's Guild. Chad and Will crossed the picket line. Tim, Ben, and Will Prime just shake their heads.
We look at new Ewoks and talk RTGC!
You can check out Chad's show with Wes at: https://nerdyoldmenpodcast.buzzsprout.com/
STABcast Bonus Episode 7: 2003 Clone Wars 2D Part 2, Almost One Year Later
This week on a Bonus episode of the STABcast! We had nothing to talk about, so instead we resumed our STABcast commentary track for the 2003 Clone Wars animated mini series! Follow along as Ben watches for the first time, our commentary begins at 7:22 in the episode. We encourage you to listen along with the show from Disney+ and if needed go listen and watch along with our commentary track for pa
STABcast Episode 119: But I Didn’t, so He Didn’t, so I Couldn’t, so He Won
This week on the STABcast! Will and Ryan face off in the final of the Knoxville Legion League! The gang reacts to Ashoka's command cards, and Ben reads listener mail! Tim of the 5th Trooper was too busy for us this week.
STABcast Episode 118: Jolly Ranchers Party
This week on the STABcast! Battle reports from Adepticon! A discussion of jellybeans and ear-holes! And Tim smacks his mic several times and I'm sorry I couldn't edit it out...... All this and so so much more!
STABcast Episode 117: Somehow No Halo Jokes
This week on the STABcast! Ben recounts all the ways things have gone wrong, Will has battle reports from playing Legion while struggling with oxygen deprivation, and if you'd like to play along, try counting all the times Ryan says "Hell Yeah" in this episode! All this and... somewhat more, on the STABcast!
STABcast Episode 116: Fiddle Faddle Fiddlin’
This week on the STABcast! Will and Ryan recap their Cherokee Open experience, and Ben provides the usual excuses, along with a lovely story about AutoZone!
STABcast Episode 115: My Mistress’ Eyes
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
Th
STABcast Episode 114: Supporting Smaller Tournaments
This week on the STABcast! In this very unique episode Ryan and Tim recap their weekend at small event in Las Vegas, while Will geeks out about Shatterpoint, and Ben provides his usual observations from the exclusive excuses lounge!
STABcast Episode 113: Hosted on Club Penguin
This week on the STABcast! Ryan and Tim share their salt, while Ben admires Giancarlo Esposito, and his mertalizing metallic mechanoid pals! Also just a PSA, Ryan Sliwoski hates penguins! (yes really!) We're back to Will editing, so tune in to for more STABcast chaos!
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