War With A Mate - Episode 63.5: Technical Difficulties

Episode Date: February 21, 2026

Technical issues at WwaM HQ means the episode this week is delayed, very sorry! James explains the whoopsie in this brief out-of-office recording. You’ll hear from us very soon!

hello one and all and welcome to war with a mate with me james and no one else it's just me today don't worry andy hasn't died or been embroiled in some sort of scandal that means he's no longer here nor have i been carted off to a cell for my revolutionary common ground ideas this is unfortunately down to a mundane technical issue you see while we are experts at pretending to be experts at the campaign for north africa what we are not are technical experts when it comes to editing a podcast and even after a year and a half we still haven't got parts of it down it would seem because for some reason this week's episode has recorded at different rates on the audio tracks which means that they're completely out of sync so we're in the process of getting those synced up

but it is taking a lot more time than we thought it would so apologies but for now it's it's just me this won't be a full episode as you can probably tell by the runtime this is a bit of a stopgap we will be getting the episode out this week before the next one we can pledge that and you know what we're like with pledges we we keep them we keep to them for better or for worse we just wanted to put something out so you know that we are intact and that everything is still going ahead as usual we've played the game we as a high level overview i moved further west and retreated a little bit andy is befuddled as to what his next move should be and we had a listener mailbag segment we had a good history segment some common ground oh it was all good and it

will be coming i promise we'll not starve you of that but we wanted to make sure that you know in the meantime that the game has been played we've we've stuck with our pledge and i'm recording this in my bedroom on saturday in the middle of the day in the uk so this will be made available pretty much as soon as i'm done recording this so first episode not in andy's bedroom andy's bedroom is not where we record that and his living room is where we record it my bedroom is where we're recording this one andy's bedroom i feel is a sacred place i probably shouldn't encroach in that and also the acoustics would be completely off because it's probably full of strange paraphernalia about all of his common ground schemes that i'm convinced he's trying to realize

in real life actually with him not here he can't defend himself this is a perfect opportunity to throw him under the bus that kettle idea what was that that common ground that he did about the kettles that's insane that's crazy and mine mine are pretty good i think i've had some pretty good common grounds and the resounding silence i take that as a as a confirmation i think i'm going insane this is this is not healthy behavior the audio in this will be terrible unfortunately because i don't have a microphone set up here i'm just recording off my laptop so this is yeah this is not an ideal scenario for a release however time was ticking on it's it's the weekend we don't want to leave you without any sort of touch in to know that we're okay we're

nice like that this is just not a quality episode in any way shape or form audio content even the hosts. I rag on poor Andy but without him this just feels like one man's insane ramblings. At least I'm not talking too much about the game or attempting a common ground on my own. That would be futile. Another update that we did have to share in the episode which I'll just touch on briefly is that we have our first live show coming up which was a yeah bit of a shock to us but we've manage to put that together we are going to be at the uk games expo on 30th of may in birmingham we'll be doing a live podcast recording there so if you're going to the uk games expo we hopefully will see you there if you are on the fence about going you've got great reason to now we'll get

into more details closer to the time and we talk about it plenty in the episode to come the game itself won't be played there there's a few reasons around it we ascend we can't we're not we're not able to play an exhibition style game there and because it can't really involve more players due to the setup time can't really can't really go ahead in that sense but we'll wax lyrical about the game we'll have all the usual segments it'll be a jolly good time so hopefully we'll see you there and i think apart from that there's no real update in the interim i haven't eaten my into bueno yet i we haven't finished the game that's that's it i will get back to you guys you'll hear from us soon collectively and the episode will be out in the very near future so

keep an eye on that feed and until then stay subtle humble and brave in those deserts of your minds farewell We'll be right back.