The Crossbox Podcast is me, Jay (Fishbreath), and the editor here at the Soapbox, John (parvusimperator), gabbing for about an hour a month on topics of interest in the fields of gaming, firearms, and defense and foreign policy. Sometimes we delve into books, movies, and technology.
The most recent few episodes can be found below. Find an archive of all past podcasts here. Find the feed for new episodes here.
The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 12 - Carrier Frenzy
This month we bring you a very special edition of the Crossbox Podcast! Listen to us chat about game design and the Battle of Midway.
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The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 11
In this episode, Jay rambles for a full half hour on a gun topic (a Crossbox first!), we trash a three-gun group whose rules specify what color your magazines are (and are not) allowed to be, we make a connection between Bond and Longstreet, and we decide that the French aren’t so bad after all.
Further reading
Jay’s Goldeneye Source review in one line (approximately): wow, how old-school. I don’t remember it taking this many bullets to kill someone. Oh, right. I always used the P90. That’s why.
Goldeneye Source
Civil War II
Your Korean tank…
… and IFV
The FREMM
And the Gripen
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The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 10
In which we have no special theme for you, but we do have: a squee-worthy news topic immediately following a weighty warlike one, some further competition kit chit-chat, some defenses of indefensible procurement errors, and a proper savaging of a game that we describe as, “Factorio, but boring,” as well as, “EVE Online for shut-ins”. Listen and see for yourself.
Further reading
Glock trigger connector improvement
Geissele AR trigger
History of the Abrams and MBT-70
John’s Leopard 2 reference of choice
Armiger Solutions: our match sponsor!
Kytex-brand Kydex gear (that isn’t confusing at all)
Rebel Galaxy
Starsector
Battletech
What Price Glory, purveyor of reproduction military kit
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The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 9 - Shooting the Breeze
This month, radio gremlins do not replace our show with something straight from 1940, we talk about artillery through the ages in more ways than one, and we report on hitting the dusty competition circuit.
Further reading
Japanese license-built Krupp 12cm howitzer
7.7cm Krupp field howitzer, pre-hydraulic recoil, used by the Boers in the Second Boer War, still superior to British artillery in South Africa
Artillery causes 80% casualties in the Donbas war
Bridget
Three Kat articles
Intro to Glockblaster
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The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 8 - Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa began 75 years ago today. Join us for a look back to June, 1941, in inimitable Crossbox style.
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