Odysseus Legion Podcast
- Episodes
- 23
- Released
- monthly
- Latest episode
- Nov 3, 2026
About the podcast
The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.
Episodes 23
Episode 22: About Narrative Play with Jason Hansa
The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.In …
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The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.
In today's episode we step away from talking about competitive play to talk about narrative games, game mastering, and asking our special guest Jason Hansa about his work as a BattleTech author.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 21: One Year of Podcasting BattleTech
The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.In …
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The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.
In today's episode we celebrate one year of podcasting with a special guest, Pirate from the Coolant Pod and MRC.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 20: Core Rules Winners and Losers
The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.In …
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The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.
In today's episode we announce we talk about some of the winners and losers in the new Core Rulebook, as well as tease the upcoming narrative campaign project, Charybdis Moon.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 19: Announcing the Crossroads GT
The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.In …
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The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.
In today's episode we announce that our friend Zess is hosting the first evert BattleTech Grand Tournament as part of Crossroads GT this September! We go over the list construction rules, and talk about tournaments in general.
Check it out here: https://www.crossroads-gt.com/For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 18: Motor City Mayhem
The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.In …
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The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.
In today's episode we talk about Chris and Garner's trip to compete at the Motor City Mayhem Alpha Strike Tournament.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 17: Eastern Assault
The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.In …
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The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.
In today's episode Luke takes over as host and interviews several of us who went and competed at the Eastern Assault tournament at the Richmond Open.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 16: IS vs Clan List Building
The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.In …
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The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.
In today's episode we ended up talking about list building for the two broadest categories of factions in the game, the Inner Sphere and Clans with our friend Nate.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 15: Adepticon
The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.In …
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The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.
In today's episode we talk about Adepticon with Garner and returning guest Zess. Both played in events at Adepticon, and Zess won several including the Grand Melee, Bloodright, and Instant Action events.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 14: New Rules or New Edition?
The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.In …
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The Odysseus Legion Podcast is your source for all things competitive BattleTech. From list building and play-by-plays to event structure and organization. Everything you need to play, compete, and organize.
In today's episode we are joined by both Chris and John to talk about the upcoming BattleTech Core Rulebook and the list of changes in the developer notes. We have some positive, some negative, and a lot of mixed thoughts.
A little disclaimer: These opinions are based on the knowledge we had at the time the podcast was recorded. Things may change as we get closer to the release. We will try and update this episode if so.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode NA: When technology eats your episode
We lost an episode to problems with our recording platform. We'll get something out ASAP.For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 12: Good Mechs, Bad Mechs, and Just Chatting
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode …
Show notes
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, or game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
Today we return with our regular hosts in a conversation about the lost episode, bad mechs that are popular, and some games we played among other topics in this very conversational episode.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 11: List Building Minisode
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode …
Show notes
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, or game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
Today Nicholas fills you in on some of his advice on list building as we lost the audio for an entire 2 hour episode with our three regular hosts.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 10: An Alpha Strike Odyssey
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode …
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Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, or game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
Today we talk about Alpha Strike and our format for it, the Odyssey. The advantages and problems of hex-map play, and possible changes for the future.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 09: Talking about Tournaments
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode …
Show notes
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, or game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
Today, we take a deep dive into tournaments and discuss a mini-tournament we hosted, the Iliad Invitational, as well as some of our plans on how to adapt Iliad for larger events. Plus, our guest reveals a major upcoming event!
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 08: About Battle Value
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode …
Show notes
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, or game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
In this episode Luke takes over and gives us a breakdown of Battle Value, what it is, and some times on how to make the most of it. We also go over some 'Mechs that we think are good and bad for their value.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 07: Upcoming Events, 2026 rules, etc.
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode …
Show notes
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, or game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
In this episode we... are sick. Well two of us anyway. So the conversation is a bit more casual than usual. We talk about some upcoming events, some things we are doing, and go over some of the upcoming changes to the 2026 Rules of Engagement.
Music in this episode was licensed through Adobe.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 06: Southern Assault 2025
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode …
Show notes
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, or game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
In this episode we sit down with Garner and Chris to discuss their recent adventures playing Alpha Strike and Classic at Southern Assault.
Music in this episode was licensed through Adobe.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 05: Iliad Chat
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode …
Show notes
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, or game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
Today we sit down with multi-tournament winner Zess and talk about our Iliad format, among other things.Music in this episode was licensed through Adobe.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 04: Proposed Rules Changes and Play Types
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode …
Show notes
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, or game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
In this episode, we go into what we mean by competitive BattleTech and contrast it to narrative play.Then we go into the proposed rules change packets for Classic BattleTech, and give you our thoughts on the changes.
Music in this episode was licensed through Adobe.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 03: Adventures at NOVA
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode …
Show notes
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, or game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
In this episode, we talk to two competitors at the Northern Assault at NOVA, an Alpha Strike tournament. We talk about the event, lists, the scenarios, and games played.
Music in this episode was licensed through Adobe.For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 02: The Salvage Free-for-All
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode …
Show notes
Welcome to the Odysseus Legion Podcast. This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, or game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
In this episode, we go into more detail about the most popular format we run, the Salvage free for all.
Music in this episode was licensed through Adobe.For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Episode 01: About Us
This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into …
Show notes
This is a podcast about competitive BattleTech. We cover event organizing, list building, tactics, and strategy for Classic and Alpha Strike BattleTech. Every episode will give you information and insight into competitions, events, organizing, and game mechanics, along with detailed reports on actual games played.
In this first episode of the Odysseus Legion Podcast, we introduce ourselves, go over what we do as event and community organizers, then cover some games we have played.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
Chapters (3)
Episode Zero: Welcome to the Podcast Trailer
The first full episode of the Odysseus Legion Podcast will go live on September 1st! But before we release the first episode, we want to show you some of what our BattleTech podcast will be like.Each episode we …
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The first full episode of the Odysseus Legion Podcast will go live on September 1st! But before we release the first episode, we want to show you some of what our BattleTech podcast will be like.
Each episode we will cover a topic before going in-depth into matches and games we have played. This is a podcast about playing and organizing games of BattleTech. It is not a podcast about BattleTech news and lore.
For rules of engagement, discord links, and an events calendar visit www.odysseuslegion.com
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