In this apparently aquatic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom, Ava, and Matt are talking about some suspiciously dry games! And spinners. And Twister.
First up is Khora: Rise of an Empire - the ultimate spreadsheet experience! Tom then rambles about Boonlake for a moment, before Ava takes us home with Founders of Teotihuacan; the game which we essentially forgot to have a discussion about.
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Hidden Leaders and Get on Board: New York & London. We then reminisce about the past 6 years of Board Game Blitz and celebrate our 6 year podcast anniversary!
This episode was sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Use the code 'GFGBLITZ2022' for 20% off non-exclusive items from their site: http://www.greyfoxgames.com/
Metagaming is all about the game that exists within (and without) the game - it's everything that's not written in the rules. Whether that's something that emerges at your table, or in the community at large, it can be a big part of the social experience, and we're all for it. Before we get meta, we talk about Rum & Pirates, Box One, Shamans, and Crescent Moon.
Today we have our great friend Rodney Smith of Watch It Played kicking off the show with a guest announce, and I gotta say, he goes an amazing job! Then the Founders confront Don about his sleeving mental issues and continue with a dive into a mess of games they've been getting into including Horrified American Monsters, Foundations of Rome, Cuphead The Fast Rolling Dice Game, Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age, Roll Through the Ages: The Iron Age, Era: Medieval Age, Gaia Project, and Cryptid: Urban Legends. After Jamie gives a little health update, he and Don crack open Boonlake from Alexander Pfister and Capstone Games for a feature review. Tony T, once again, wows the people with his fine upstanding journalism skill and news delivery skills. Then finally the gang talks about games designs that have gone through an evolutionary period over time. Boonlake Overview 01:10:22, Boonlake Review 01:14:06, News with Tony T 01:42:58, Evolution of Game Designs 02:36:12
Nick hosts another show of board game panel based nonsense.
This Game is Broken is a comedy board game panel show with Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Paula Deming, Nick Murphy and Mike Murphy. We play a lot of nonsense games full of role playing and trivia as well as other fun stuff which can be found at the links below.
This Game is Broken is eternally thankful to our Sponsors Restoration Games Find them at https://restorationgames.com/
The gaming group have got together to stage an intervention for JP and focus an episode on his favourite game "Too Many Bones"
FIRST PLAYER: JP OTHER PLAYERS: Rob, Davey & Ian
OVERVIEW In this episode "First Player" JP is joined by our other players Rob, Davey & Ian to do a deeper dive into Too Many Bones published by Chip Theory Games. In this episode you'll learn:
- That JP has some owning up to do and get's "confused" around microphone preferences - How Ian got outed in Unfathomable in turn 1 and will he ever not talk about Crokinole - The aftermath of the Splotter experiment that is Food Chain Magnate - Whether JP can list off all the Gearloc characters that have been released as well as the new Unbreakable ones - Why Davey's nickname is called Marty McFly - How excited Rob is to get out of the country and visit the bright lights of Las Vegas
EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count 2:01 - Who is the new first player? 4:29 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex 4:41 - Ian: Unfathomable 7:35 - Rob: Descent - Legends of the Dark 11:41 - Davey: Food Chain Magnate 16:51 - JP: Perseverance 22:11 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Too Many Bones 22:52 - JP's initial thoughts 23:20 - What is Too Many Bones? 27:07 - A new players viewpoint 32:12 - Why is it expensive? 35:28 - Gearloc roll call 42:08 - Introducing the Unbreakable Gearlocs 45:21 - There's even more bones!! 50:26 - TURN 4 - Question Time: What's your most memorable gaming moment? 57:13 - TURN 5 - The Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up? 57:24 - Davey: Warhammer 40K Tournament 57:55 - Ian: Crokinole UK Championship 59:45 - Rob: Viva Las Vegas!!! 1:01:05 - JP: More Vegas and Champions of Midgard 1:03:45 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn
We received a number of questions of a more personal nature which we have decided not to address. This is only partially out of a sense of privacy. Rather, we are firmly of the editorial position that the show is best when we focus on games, rather than the personal details of the hosts. We pride ourselves in only wasting a certain amount of your valuable time, and were we to indulge in more personal digressions that could easily balloon the show well beyond the limits of absurdity.
01:08 AYURIS: Flotilla (J.B. Howell & Michael Mihealsick, WizKids, 2019)
Games Played Last Week: 04:10 -Ark Nova (Mathias Wigge, Feuerland Spiele, 2021) 07:26 -Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape (Alex Olteanu & Marco Portugal, CMON, 2022) 11:40 -Foundations of Rome (Emerson Matsuuichi, Arcane Wonders, 2022) 13:31 -Planet Unknown (Ryan Lambert & Adam Rehberg, Adam's Apple Games, 2022) 17:45 -Ghosts of Christmas (Taiki Shinzawa, BoardGameTables.com, 2022) 20:00 -Imperium: The Contention (Gary Dworetsky, Contention Games, 2021) 21:26 -Legendary Inventors (Frédéric Henry, Bombyx, 2016) 22:50 -Capital Lux 2: Generations (Eilif Svensson & Kristian Amundsen Østby, Aporta Games, 2021) 26:22 -Paint the Roses (Ben Goldman, North Star Games, 2022) 29:40 -Space Alert (Vlaada Chvátil, Czech Games Edition, 2008) 30:57 -Reichbusters: Project Vril (Jake Thornton, Mythic Games, 2020)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 32:02 Tough Calls: Dystopia; negotiation reminiscent of Durance? 33:05 Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods is back, revised, on Kickstarter #noTyrnosale 34:10 Awlrach the Drowner from Games Workshop
Time Segment Intro Making stuff is hard Shipping Issues Is it Insanity The Connellson Cascading Impacts Force Majeure It cost what? Game Toppers 3.5 Rank’em The ORIGINAL At The Table […]
On this episode Mike, Jules and Dan shake off their boardgame-induced hangovers and debrief the latest BGBBQ Melbourne Game Day. The team share their highlights from the day including Decrypto, Azul: Queen's Garden, Unsettled and 6Nimmt!. Our Sizzling Games this week are Viticulture World, Mafia de Cuba, and Nemesis: Lockdown.
In the Board Game Bracket we settle the last match-up, Wingspan vs Root, before we cue up the next battle: Architects of the West Kingdom vs Everdell. To make sure your favourite goes through to the next round make sure you vote on our socials.
Finally, in Swear An Oath, Jules completed a fully-painted teach of Nemesis: Lockdown at the Game Day, Mike played Architects of the West Kingdom with all expansions, but sadly Dan fell short of getting Unsettled to the table. New oaths include Paint The Roses (Dan), Age of Steam (Jules), and Monsters on Board (Mike).
Sizzling Games: Mafia De Cuba (25:10), Nemesis: Lockdown (30:30), Viticulture World (37:35)
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Reviews of Decorum, Zapotec, Now or Never. Featured review: Golem by Cranio Creations; Reroll Ginkgopolis by Pearl Games. Board game discussion starts at 40:39. https://bluepegpinkpeg.com/ep220.Thank you to our sponsors: Queen Games, Grand Gamers Guild, and AEG.
Timestamps:
40:39 - Artemis Project-Satellites & Commanders; 49:32 - Zapotec; 1:01:56 - Decorum; 1:09:35-Now or Never.
Shelley and I take a break from reviews to reflect on our favorite Roll & Write or Draw & Draw games, a newer genre that certainly has exploded in the past few years.
Shelley's Honorable Mentions:
Silver & Gold by Phil Walker-Harding from NSV
On Tour by Chad DeShon from Boardgametables
Shelley's Top 5:
5) Explorers by Phil Walker-Harding from Ravensburger
4) Hadrian's Wall by Bobby Hill from Garphill Games, CMON Global & Renegade Game Studios
3) Second Chance by Uwe Rosenberg from Edition Spielwiese and Stronghold Games
2) The Clever Series (Ganz Schon Clever/That's Pretty Clever, Doppelt so Clever/Twice as Clever, Clever Hoch Drei/Clever Cubed) by Wolfgang Warsch from Schmidt Spiele and Stronghold Games
1) Welcome To... (+New Las Vegas, The Moon, etc.) by Benoit Turpin from Blue Cocker Games and Deep Water Games
Doug's Honorable Mentions:
On Tour by Chad DeShon from Boardgametables
Let's Make A Bus Route The Dice Game by Saashi from Saashi & Saashi
Doug's Top 5:
5) Biblios Quill & Parchment by Steve Finn from Dr. Finn's Games
4) Trails of Tucana by Eilif Svensson and Kristian Amundsen Ostby from Aporta Games, Matagot, and Pegasus Spiele
3) Hadrian's Wall by Bobby Hill from Garphill Games, CMON Global & Renegade Game Studios
2) The Clever Series (Ganz Schon Clever/That's Pretty Clever, Doppelt so Clever/Twice as Clever, Clever Hoch Drei/Clever Cubed) by Wolfgang Warsch from Schmidt Spiele and Stronghold Games
1) Welcome To... (+New Las Vegas, The Moon, etc.) by Benoit Turpin from Blue Cocker Games and Deep Water Games
Other Roll & Writes/Draw & Draws Mentioned at the top of the show that we have played & reviewed:
This week's guest is designer of Undaunted and War Chest, David Thompson. We talk about growing up in the south, being in the air force and verisimilitude in games...but which games did he choose? Support the show here Dungeons and Dragons 13 Days El Grande 1754: Conquest – The French and Indian War War Chest
In this themeless episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Quinns and Tom are talking about two of the driest games that they’ve ever been smitten with. First up is the Austrian Rail Simulation of Imperial Steam, followed by a dessert of semi-colonial discover-em-up The Guild of Merchant Explorers. Enjoy!
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