It's our annual Con special! First up, Second Breakfast with CotR from Saturday morning at the hotel. Chad, Chris, and Jon are joined by Brian, Robb, Vardaen, Alex, Matt, Splice, Eric, and special guest, Sabina!
Then, through the magic of editing, we jump to a recap of Saturday, Sunday, and a few missing Friday stories with the crew.
Thanks to our amazing patrons who make this show possible. And, as always, the .5's are on us. Enjoy!
Opener: 7Seas (Or Scopa, if you want to learn the original) Remember when I used to do "Essen Anticipation" episodes? I know I did several in the past, but it's been a while. This year, Essen sort of snuck up on me. I went through the preview tool on BGG, but never managed to completely make it through. The tool is easier to use than ever, and now includes all of the things I need in a preview (designer, publisher, photo, brief description, and link to more). And yet...it's just too much. Is it too much in an absolute sense? Too much for anybody? Too much for a healthy hobby and industry? I don't know about all of that. I just know that it's now too much for me. Which isn't too say I'm no longer enthusiastic about Essen--I merely let it kind of wash over me, not trying to keep up. I'll certainly hear about the consensus picks for the best new titles, and I may also find out about some more obscure ones for oddball reasons--perhaps my thematic interest, a friend stumbled across it, a weird speculative purchase on Amazon.de... whatever! This year my "Essen episode" starts with mentioning how close I was, on a business trip to Germany and the Netherlands just a few days before Essen. But I didn't make it to Spiel. I bought some games from Europe...but I "cheated" by ordering from Amazon.de instead of packing from local shops into my luggage to bring home.
(The Essen coffee mug is my favorite and lasting purchase from Spiel when I last went in 2016. I may not even own any of the games I purchased then, but I always enjoy this mug!) At any rate, when I went through most of the enormous Essen preview list, only this handful of oddball titles were the ones most interesting to me. Several are demos, most are oddly personal thematic choices that may not prove to be good games (they rarely do!), but they're my personal choices. Not recommended for everyone!
For a more universal, reliable recommendation list of new titles from Essen, you should look to the Fairplay Scoutaktion report. These are the annual feedback collections that Fairplay magazines collects at their Essen booth from any gamer who stops by to share their rating. On the one hand, lots of games are barely demonstrated at Essen, so the ratings may not be based on informed plays. On the other hand, they've been doing these Scoutaktion reports for decades, and they've proven to be reasonably good barometers for the hits of Essen. A long while back, I tried to do some analysis of their track record, and as I recall it just made some errors of omission sometimes. So take a look at the final list of top-rated games from this report. I also recommend Ben Bruckhart's article about this list at Opinionated Gamers. This remains one of the better websites/blogs about our hobby. Ben also takes a retrospective look back at the list from the previous year, something I appreciate.
Finally, another great thing about Fairplay magazine is their annual ranking of the best card games. This is called their A La Carte prize, and I've repeatedly found nice surprises on these top ten lists. Especially since small card games may not be made in English language editions, and can go undiscovered even in 2022.
Closer: At a management retreat for my job I brought a bunch of games. One person had requested them, but really this represented hope that I might get a group of coworkers to enjoy them with me. These days I'm a lot smarter about what to suggest in those settings, and after the recording I was successful! We played Just One and it was an enormous hit. -Mark
Replete with a robust menagerie in this episode, we perhaps begin to see why anthropomorphic animals seem to feature in every other game lately. We have Dalmations (plus a cow named Doog trying to impersonate a Dalmation), horsies, goats, weasels and wombats (seldom do we see such an august alliteration!), meeses (not to be confused with mooses), and some needed stinkin' badgers. Not a great petting zoo, sure--of limited utility in a game of Ark Nova--but an impressive collection nonetheless.
Games Played Last Week: 02:05 -Spots (Alex Hague, Jon Perry, and Justin Vickers, CMYK, 2022) 02:20 -Long Shot: The Dice Game (Chris Handy, Perplext, 2022) 03:37 -Mountain Goats (Stefan Risthaus, BoardGameTables.com, 2020) 06:10 -Mysterium Park (Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko, Libellud, 2020) 09:08 -Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood (Jamie Jolly, Shadowborne Games, 2022) 15:50 -Weasel-Tech (Ivan Sorensen, Nordic Weasel Games, 2021) 21:22 -Hand-to-Hand Wombat (Matthew Inman, Elan Lee, & Cory O'Brien, Exploding Kittens, 2022) 25:02 -Root: The Marauder Expansion (Nick Brachmann, Patrick Leder, Cole Wehrle, and Joshua Yearsley, Leder Games, 2022) 28:45 -Capital Lux 2: Generations (Eilif Svensson & Kristian Amundsen Østby, Aporta Games, 2020) 29:22 -I.S.S. Vanguard (Andrzej Betkiewicz, Krzysztof Piskorski, Paweł Samborski, and Marcin Świerkot, Awaken Realms, 2022) 36:08 -Cult of the Deep (Sam Stockton, B.A. Games, 2022) 39:58 -Strike (Dieter Nüßle, Ravensburger, 2012)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 42:40 Aegean Sea by Carl Chudyk on BackerKit 43:18 All sorts of Patreon-exclusive content and free games! www.patreon.com/svwag 44:27 Canadian patrons! Sent a message through Patreon to possibly win a copy of Horizons of Spirit Island: Tell us your Spirit Name!
46:08 Feature Game: Dead Reckoning (John D. Clair, Alderac Entertainment Group, 2022)
In this episode Sarah, Conor and Mike are back discussing an assortment of dexterity, dice and deck-builders! In our Sizzling Games segment, Conor is building blocks for bonuses, Mike is battling braindead brawlers with bullets, and Sarah is drowning in dynamic dice.
We also recap last week's Question of the Pod: What is your favourite unique theme or setting? Thanks to everyone who contributed and shared their experiences with us on Discord and the Facebook Community.
Finally, in Swear An Oath, Sarah "learnt" a new/old game on Board Game Arena, Conor knocked out Block and Key, Mike played Zombicide: the shooty bang-bang cowboy edition. New oaths include Civilization: A New Dawn (Sarah), burncycle (Conor), Founders of Teotihuacan (Mike).
Question of the Pod: How do you feel about "meanness" in games?
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.
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In this episode of the news, Ben and Steve welcome a new member to the compound and Ben speaks to Dan Hughes about the new CoraQuest expansion, George Jaros about his charity auction and Christian Kudahl about Mind Bug and his experiences at Essen. Get on it!
In this jam-packed episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, we’ve got a SMORGASBORD of hosts who are ready to tell you all about the games they played at SHUX. Ava! Tom! Pip! Quinns! ‘Sick Matt’! They’re all here!
Not satisfied with just having ‘a whole bunch of hosts’, we’re also talking about a ‘whole bunch of games’ - notably the boxes we enjoyed whilst at SHUX in sunny Vancouver. Not all of these are out yet, and some of them aren’t really real, but we figured that you would enjoy the chat nonetheless.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
04:23 - Hair of the Dog
08:11 - Dutch Blitz
13:09 - Bagged & Boarded
20:11 - Harrow County: The Game of Gothic Conflict
25:07 - Starry Night Sky
28:52 - Space Bound
36:01 - Flick Fleck
39:04 - Highlights! (RPGs, Hot Potatoz, and more!)
Games are getting bigger and more lavish, especially in the age of crowdfunding, but how far is too far? How many luxury bits, giant boxes of minis, and silk-screened wooden meeples until it's all gone a bit far? Before we dress for excess, we talk about Habitats, Blood on the Clocktower, Twilight Inscription, and It's a Wonderful Kingdom.
01:59 - Habitats 13:07 - Blood on the Clocktower 18:44 - Twilight Inscription 21:40 - It's a Wonderful Kingdom 32:46 - Excess in games 33:28 - ISS Vanguard 35:40 - Too Many Bones 37:04 - Anachrony 37:55 - Everdell 38:19 - Millennium Blades 38:57 - Council of 4 41:37 - Puzzle Strike 2 Check out our game of Twilight Inscription with Brain in a Jar and friends at: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1632447670
Dave has some special help as he hosts this weeks 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/
We apologize for the all-caps implied yelling, but really, given this volume we had to have a corresponding... uh, volume. The puns are also somewhat fishy--but those you can feel free to skip, jack. The nautical theme doesn't end with fishing, as the recent Crash Octopus (when compared with older titles that are comparatively crusty) shone. More specifically given that it's about an octopus and we want to minimize the yelling, it's a safe, low pod. Wait, no, that's the wrong family. If you wanna shop in latin... you mall, usque?
Games Played Last Week: 03:27 -Lords of Hellas: Dark Ages Expansion (Adam Kwapiński, Awaken Realms, 2019) 09:43 -Hallertau (Uwe Rosenberg, Lookout Games, 2020) 12:27 -Keep the Heroes Out (Luís Brüeh, Brueh Games, 2022) 17:37 -Nusfjord (Uwe Rosenberg, Lookout Games, 2017) 21:49 -Santa Maria (Eilif Svensson and Kristian Amundsen Østby, Aporta Games, 2017) 25:47 -Spots (Alex Hague, Jon Perry, and Justin Vickers, CMYK, 2022) 29:37 -Long Shot: The Dice Game (Chris Handy, Perplext, 2022) 33:37 -Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood (Jamie Jolly, Shadowborne Games, 2022) 41:00 -Return to Dark Tower (Tim Burrell-Saward, Isaac Childres, Noah Cohen, Rob Daviau, Justin D. Jacobson, & Brian Neff, Restoration Games, 2022) 43:52 -Car Wars (Sixth Edition) (Samuel Mitschke & Rany Scheunemann, Steve Jackson Games, 2021) 49:39 -Twilight Inscription (James Kniffen, FFG, 2022) 51:47 -Space Cadets: Dice Duel (Geoff Engelstein and Sydney Engelstein, Stronghold, 2013) 53:56 -Scooby-Doo! The Board Game (Guilherme Goulart and Fred Perret, CMON, 2022) 57:32 -Guards of Atlantis II (Artyom Nichipurov, Wolff Designa, 2022) 1:02:50 -Chronicles of Avel (Przemek Wojtkowiak, Rebel Studio, 2021) 1:04:23 -Crash Octopus (Naotaka Shimamoto, itten, 2021)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 1:06:29 Funbrick Series by itten: two Reiner Knizia dexterity games! 1:07:19 Queen's Dilemma, and the consumer's dilemma 1:09:09 Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate on BackerKit. Strangely information-free campaign. 1:12:32 HeroScape campaign floundering. 1:14:08 Another G.I. JOE expansion: Cold Snap 1:14:37 Both Sadler brothers out of professional game design 1:15:26 A reason why we don't do previews 1:16:23 October 27th is Arkhipov Day
Intro Taste Buds RDTN Update Bridal Show: Candles Ole Guacamole Black Angel Cult of the Deep Miniature Market Game Toppers Ark Nova The Thing Portal Games Virtu Splendor Duel Ultra […]
In this episode Mitch, Adrian and Def are joined by US-based game designer Duane Wulf. Duane talks about his journey to becoming a designer, the inspiration for his new game, Union Stockyards, and of course it would be remiss of us not to ask him about his favourite cut of meat to BBQ!! Mean while in Sizzling Games, Def has been caught in a card-assisted counterinsurgency, Adrian has been forgoing fossil fuels for farms, and Mitch is prospering as prehistoric people.
We also recap last week's Question of the Pod: Who have you met through boardgames? Thanks to everyone who contributed and shared their experiences with us on Discord and the Facebook Community.
Finally, in Swear An Oath, Adrian taught Pampero at PAX recently, Def played ISS: Vanguard, but Mitch failed his ambitious oath to teach Cuba Libre to the BBQ crew at PAX. New oaths include Fire In The Lake (Mitch), Fleet the Card Game (Mitch), Cerebria (Def), and Endless Winter: Cave Paintings (Adrian).
Question of the Pod: What is your favourite unique theme or setting for a board game?
Sizzling Games: Fire in the Lake (19:19), Pampero (35:30), Endless Winter: Paleoamericans (45:30)
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.
**PATREON**
Yes, that's right. We have a Patreon. By becoming a Patreon member you will receive exclusive content, have access to a members only section of our discord where you can contribute to the content of the show, and much more. Your Patreon support will also allow us to expand the podcast and deliver some exciting upcoming projects that we have planned for 2022.
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
Reviews of The Great Split, King of Monster Island, Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu and so many more. Featured review: Rear Window by Funko Games; Reroll Unfathomable by Fantasy Flight Games. Board game discussion starts at 31:56. https://bluepegpinkpeg.com/ep230.Thank you to our sponsors: Queen Games and Grand Gamers Guild.
An ancient dragon threatens Nidavellir, the realm of the dwarves! The King needs an army, so off to the taverns you go, collecting warriors, blacksmiths, hunters, and more. Bid to recruit the best assembly of brave heroes, upgrading your coins as you go.
Shelley and I get the mics set up around the boardroom table once again, but this time it's a more intimate and deep discussion with just a couple other great people and designers:
Tom Lehmann: Dice Realms, Race for the Galaxy, Res Arcana, Fast Food Franchise, Throneworld
Joe Huber: Blue Skies, Caravan, Starship Merchants, Scream Machine, Ice Cream, Burger Joint
Jason is joined by Dice Tower reviewer and Connecticut native Eric Summerer to discuss the fun they had at FalCon, a local gaming convention. After we talk about the con itself, we discuss games such as Cascadia, Return to Dark Tower, Ark Nova, and more.
In this buoyant episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Quinns are sailing the seas with Ahoy, stealin’ safes in 3000 Scoundrels, and doing another alliterative activity in Dead Reckoning! It’s the Clear Card Pirate Special, where each game is thematically linked to the others in a conga line of cardboard.
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