In episode 255, The gang starts out with a story from back in high school and dive right into the games we've been playing including Catan Starfarers, Age of Atlantis, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, Nidavellir, Marvel Dice Throne, Kitty Paw and Star Trek Missions. Then the Founders jump into a deep dive review of The Great Wall from Awaken Realms. Then after Tony T gives us a rundown of all the most important news items from around the tabletop gaming world, the game returns to a discussion topic from the past regarding Replaybility and how it impacts our enjoyment, our perception of value and how it affects our reviews. The Great Wall Overview 01:09:15, The Great Wall Review 01:13:42, The News with Tony T 01:46:17, Revisiting Replaybility 02:42:53
Jason continues the conversation with Dr. Patrick Rael from Bowdoin College and the Ludica blog on BGG. We discuss the meaning of a historical game, what they are and what they are not, and how games get it wrong. In essence, history games should present counterfactuals. They should allow us to imagine and game out different ways that history could have gone. When a "history" game does not do that, it can fall in to the pit traps that I have identified on many other Good Trouble shows.
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The Smart Car was truly out-of-the-box thinking. "Why do passenger cars all have to be the way they are?" asked some clever group of designers, and designed the minimalistic teensy Smart Car. Of course, the challenges posed by manufacturing the little thing, or driving the little thing on a highway, or walking away from a crash in the little thing, proved to be compelling arguments in favour of more traditional passenger car manufacture. What I'm saying is that sometimes the box exists for a reason, notwithstanding the virtues of experimentation.
Games Played Last Week: 01:48 -The Guild of Merchant Explorers (Matthew Dunstan & Brett J. Gilbert, AEG, 2022) 06:25 -Street Masters (Adam Sadler & Brady Sadler, Blacklist Games, 2018) 11:37 -Oltréé (Antoine Bauza & John Grümph, Studio H, 2021) 17:08 -Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape (Alex Olteanu & Marco Portugal, CMON, 2022) 21:46 -Paint the Roses (Ben Goldman, North Star Games, 2022) 24:04 -Groundhog Day: The Game (Propsero Hall, Funko Games, 2021) 26:21 -Framework (Uwe Rosenberg, Edition Spielwiese, 2022) 29:11 -Circadians: Chaos Order (S J Macdonald & Zach Smith, Garphill Games, 2022) 33:59 -For Science! (R. Eric Reuss, Grey Fox Games, 2021) 35:39 -Vengeance (Gordon Calleja, Mighty Boards, 2018)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 42:24 Tiletum from Daniele Tascini and Simone Luciani, update on the Daniele Tascini controversies 44:47 HeroScape will not return with pre-painted minis and ode to American retail 47:31 SVWAG at the Shut Up & Sit Down Expo: SHUX! September 30 - October 2
47:45 Feature Game: Space Station Phoenix (Gabriel J. Cohn, Rio Grande Games, 2022)
Gen Con Day 1 Portal Booth Setup Chicken ‘n Waffles Hey, how you doing? Getting ready for RDTN Meetup Moving the stuff World Cup Battle Brazil – Marty’s Take Sonic […]
While Sarah hosts the episode, Jules and Adrian are snuggling together at Adrian's house. The crew discuss Jules' holiday and the resulting gaming bonanza with Adrian and Def over the past week. Meanwhile in Sizzling Games, Sarah is hand-making and trick-taking, Jules has been avoiding fails and blazing trails and Adrian is defying odds and moving Gods.
We also recap last week's Question of the Pod: Are you more likely to love a game if you win the first time you play it? Thanks to everyone who contributed and shared their experiences.
Finally, in Swear An Oath, Adrian blames Jules and babies for not playing Hues and Cues, Jules played all of the game modes in Trailblazers, and Sarah still has burncycle eyeing her off from the shelf. New oaths include Scout (Adrian), a non-committal lucky-dip (Jules), and to complete Mission 50 of The Crew (Sarah).
Question of the Pod: What game did you expect to hate and then after you played it you went and bought it?
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The great sound quality returns this week as Shelley and I put our printers hats on and select our movable type in
Gutenberg by Katarzyna Cioch and Wojciech Wisniewski from Granna and Portal Games
then we hurriedly clean our house to make it look nice in
Before the Guests Arrive by Saashi from Saashi & Saashi
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Welcome from Chad, Jon, Chris and special guest Autumn!
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Announcements and News
A Westron Reading! Thanks to the support from our amazing Patrons we have hired Chloe Elmore to read the story text for the entire Angmar Awakened cycle. A HUGE THANK YOU to the behind the scenes guys (Matt, Eric and Brad) for doing all the work to get this done.
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Ambie, Crystal, and special guest Nick (@Nyobari) discuss a couple games they played recently, including Master Word, Voices In My Head, and Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition. We then ask Nick about his time at Gen Con and hear some of his hot takes!
Announcements: 0:38
Recent Games: 4:18
Gen Con Hot Takes: 17:04
Outro: 38:16
Bloopers: 39:20
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Our first player Davey returns and we're going in heavy, well it's difficult to not when you've devoted an episode around one of our favourite publishers "Mindclash Games".
FIRST PLAYER: Davey OTHER PLAYERS: JP & Kerley
OVERVIEW In this episode our new "First Player" Davey takes us around the world in complex, heavy cardboard that is Mindclash Games. In this episode you'll learn:
- How Beckys recent purchase of Spirit Island is fast becoming a firm favourite in the Kerley household - That JP loves role playing the captain in Unfathomable a bit too much, "Throw him in the brig" - that Davey is finally getting his copy of Clank! Legacy to the table - How we rank the main 4 games from Mindclash (Cerebria, Anachrony, Trickerion and Perseverance) - how we "try" to answer the question of why do we buy board games and not play them
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EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count 1:55 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex 2:10 - Kerley - Spirit Island 6:49 - JP - Unfathomable 11:47 - Davey - Clank Legacy 15:06 - TURN 3 - Main Event - Mindclash of the Titans 15:16 - Cerebria 18:04 - It's full of terminology 19:38 - It's not going to be for everyone 22:57 - It's one of the most unique games & themes 24:08 - Anachrony 28:17 - Two worker placement areas 30:58 - Fractures of Time expansion 33:11 - Variability & first time players 36:02 - Perseverance 37:56 - Episode 1 39:16 - Episode 2 41:01 - Chronicle Mode 42:06 - Trickerion 45:35 - It's climbing to be one of our favourites 46:22 - Ensuring the trick lifecycle is understood 49:19 - How do we rank the games of Mindclash Games? 51:52 - What is Mindclash Games' DNA? 53:47 - What's coming up next from Mindclash? Septima & Voidfall 58:28 - TURN 4 - Question Time: Why do I buy games and not play them? 1:02:54 - TURN 5 - The Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up? 1:03:07 - Davey - The Boys & Barrage 1:04:32 - Kerley - Rediscovering Heroes of Might & Magic & On Mars 1:07:21 - JP - Viva La France & Twilight Imperium 1:09:41 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn
There was a time you could just stroll in a big box store in the United States and just buy a miniatures skirmish game that was actually pretty good. Sure, it didn't have analog movement or anything, but it used true line of sight and had amazing plastic terrain. So much plastic. Like, a whole lot. One the one hand, Hasbro says they're bringing HeroScape back, but on the other, ain't no way it's coming back the same as it was. They're going to bleed us dry for those little pre-painted dolls--even assuming they're still pre-painted, that is.
Games Played Last Week: 02:22 -My Father's Work (T.C. Petty III, Renegade Game Studios, 2022) 04:20 -Kleos (Jim Kavanagh, Azure Horizon Games, 2021) 08:14 -Meeple War (Max Valembois, Blue Cocker Games, 2016) 10:23 -Imperium: The Contention (Gary Dworetsky, Contention Games, 2021) 12:24 -Neuroshima Hex! 3.0: Beasts (Joanna Kijanka, Portal Games, 2021) 13:48 -Catch the Moon (Fabien Riffaud & Juan Rodriguez, Bombyx, 2017) 15:09 -A Feast for Odin: The Norwegians (Gernot Köpke & Uwe Rosenberg, Feuerland Spiele, 2018) 16:45 -Zeppelin Attack! (Eric B. Vogel, Evil Hat Productions, 2014) 19:22 -Arctic Scavengers (Robert K. Gabhart, Rio Grande Games, 2009) 20:43 -Capital Lux 2: Generations (Eilif Svensson & Kristian Amundsen Østby, Aporta Games, 2021) 23:04 -Wonderland's War (Tim Eisner, Ben Eisner, & Ian Moss, Druid City Games, 2022) 26:53 -Flourish (James A. Wilson & Clarissa A. Wilson, Starling Games, 2021)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 29:37 Everdell digital on Steam by Dire Wolf 30:37 www.patreon.com/svwag 31:39 HeroScape: Age of Annihilation announced at GenCon 34:35 Imperium: Horizons expandalone for Classics/Legends with 14 new civilizations 37:05 SVWAG at the Shut Up & Sit Down Expo: SHUX! September 30 - October 2
Sarah is back so Def and Conor join her to discuss Texan hospitality, the trickiness of Trickerion, tenderhooks vs tenterhooks, and theorising on Vital Lacerda's research methods for Escape Plan. Meanwhile in Sizzling Games, Sarah has been running out of patients (see what I did there?), Conor has been creating chaos in a collectable card-game, and Def has been taking tribes to task.
We recap last week's Question of the Pod: What game from your collection always makes it back to your table?
Finally, in Swear An Oath, Sarah and Def put a curse on Ian O'Toole's house for teaching On Mars to Dan before they had a chance, but Conor came through on his oath and relived some family memories by playing the new edition of Key To The Kingdom. New oaths include Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Keeper of the Keys (Conor), playing Marvel Champions solo (Def), and playing burncycle solo (Sarah)
Question of the Pod: Are you more likely to love a game if you win the first time you play it?
Our podcast is proudly sponsored by Advent Games. Advent Games (http://www.adventgames.com.au/) are an Australian online board game store based in Sydney, NSW. Their core values are integrity, customer satisfaction, and providing a wide range of products including those hard-to-find board games.
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Our team at the Board Game BBQ Podcast love what we do and will continue to deliver the same shenanigans that you have come to expect from us, and we are already incredibly grateful and humbled by all of your support. Being a member of the Patreon is by no means an obligation and please do not support the Patreon if it will it cause you financial hardship in any way. But if you would like to support us from as little as USD$5 a month please click the link and head to the Patreon page.
Thanks again for all of your continued support. We work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive community and you are all awesome. See you at the BBQ!! Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/BoardGameBBQ
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