Reviews of Frosthaven, The Wolves, Retrograde and so many more. Featured review: Marrakesh by Queen Games. Board game discussion starts at 25:57. https://bluepegpinkpeg.com/ep236.Thank you to our sponsors: Queen Games, Grand Gamers Guild, and AEG.
This week's guest is the designer of Resurgence and Endless Winter, Stan Kordonskiy. We talk about growing up in the Soviet Union, being a nurse and the Ukraine war...but which games did he choose?
Shelley and I peruse our list of played games in 2022 and separately choose which ones belong in our personal Top 10 Lists for 2022. We did NOT peek before we sat down to record!
Doug's Honorable Mentions:
Bitoku
Yokohama Roll & Write by Hisashi Hayashi from Okazu Brand
Dandelions by Takashi Sakaue from BoardgameTables
Exhaust by Hisashi Hayashi from Okazu Brand
Maui by Frank Crittin, Gregoire Largey and Sebastien Pauchon from Next Move/Plan B
Dog Park by Lottie & Jack Hazell from Birdwood Games
Shelley's Honorable Mentions:
Maui by Frank Crittin, Gregoire Largey and Sebastien Pauchon from Next Move/Plan B
Isle of Cats Explore and Draw by Frank West from City of Games
Pastiche: Birth of a Masterpiece by Rikkati from Twins Lion Do
Ark Nova by Mathias Wigge from Feuerland Spiele
Doug's Top Ten:
10) My Lil' Everdell by James A and Clarissa A Wilson from Starling Games
9) Akropolis by Jules Messaud from Gigamic
8) Pastiche: Birth of a Masterpiece by Rikkati from Twins Lion Do
7) Dinner in Paris by The Trolls from Funnyfox
6) Dom Pierre by Rola and Costa from R&R Games
5) Ark Nova by Mathias Wigge from Feuerland Spiele
4) Foundations of Rome by Emerson Matsuuchi from Arcane Wonders
3) Tiletum by Daniele Tascini and Simone Luciani from Board&Dice
2) Applejack by Uwe Rosenberg from The Game Builders
1) Catherine: Cities of the Tsarina by Johannes Schmidauer-Konig from Capstone Games & dlp Games
Shelley's Top Ten:
10) Foundations of Rome by Emerson Matsuuchi from Arcane Wonders
9) Applejack by Uwe Rosenberg from The Game Builders
8) My Lil' Everdell by James A and Clarissa A Wilson from Starling Games
7) Yokohama Roll and Write by Hisashi Hayashi from Okazu Brand
6) Catherine: the Cities of the Tsarina by Johannes Schmidauer-Konig from Capstone Games & dlp Games
5) Dinner in Paris by The Trolls from Funnyfox
4) Dog Park by Lottie & Jack Hazell from Birdwood Games
3) Dom Pierre by Rola and Costa from R&R Games
2) Dune Imperium w/Rise of IX Expansion by Paul Dennen from Dire Wolf
1) Tiletum by Daniele Tascini and Simone Luciani from Board&Dice
[apologies for some slightly wonky audio on this one - it's another one-mic-two-boys special!]
In this close quarters episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Quinns are having a natter about two very interesting Collectible Card Games they’ve played recently - Flesh & Blood and SolForge Fusion! Enjoy nearly an hour of rambling chat where we don’t entirely know what we’re talking about - but are having fun regardless.
Where would we be without the mailbag? We get such lovely questions from you lot, that we rarely get the chance to answer, so when the opportunity comes, one has to strike. Time to hear what's on your minds, kids. Before we rustle in the cloth, we talk about Dinosaur Gauge, and Starship Captains.
Timecodes:
01:39 - Dinosaur Gauge 10:18 - Starship Captains 21:24 - Holiday games? 21:51 - Fire in the Hole 25:10 - Weather Machine 26:12 - Surprise Top 50 games? 29:56 - Has how you play games changed?
In between big, national cons like GenCon or BGGcon and your local Games Days are regional conventions. Some folks think these can be the best of all, focused on just playing games in a group all weekend long. EsCon is one of those in my area, held twice a year in EsCondido, California (get it?). Kind of like my own Santa Clarita is north of Los Angeles, Escondido is north of San Diego. I've been a few times, including just last month, and I hope to keep going. The guy behind EsCon, Steve Paap, joins me on this podcast while I pepper him with questions about what it takes to put on events like these.
Besides being a great host who runs a great event, Steve is a gamer-buddy of mine who nicely turns the table on me and asks me about my convention-going preferences and experiences.
Closers: Steve talks about positivity and how to overcome your own curmudgeon-ness, then I share how I've managed to play some card games over lunch hours at work...and the big boss is cool about it. Because she knows that games are good for our enjoyment together, and for sparking our brains individually. -Mark
The Founders are back for another jam-packed episode starting out with a bit of tv show talk and leading into and a bunch of games we've been playing including The Thing: The Boardgame, QE, Wonderland’s War, Heroes of Land Air and Sea, Scout and a feature review of Encyclopedia. Then Tony T gives us the greatest tabletop gaming news in the world of tabletop gaming as the rest of the gang quacks in the background. And finally, the boys discuss that special magic that games certain board games explode in popularity. Encyclopedia Review 01:01:22, Founders Update 01:29:03, News with Tony T 01:33:12, X-Factor of Popular Board Games 02:46:21
Mike is still easing in to the new year, don't tell him it's Ferbruary...
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.
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Our favourite Serge Laget game is Senji. "Senji" is a contraction of "Sengoku Jidai," or Warring States Period, which refers to over a century of near total civil war in Japan that started in 1467. Scholars differ as to when it ended, but mostly we can agree that it started when I traded Huey my grandpa in exchange for boats and then he shipped ol' gramps to Louis' estate. I found this out the hard way when my armies marched on Château Louis to be met with my ex-grandpa. I was a bit miffed, but I was able to use Huey's boat to steal his best stuff, so I guess I got over it. Besides, Dewey gave me Huey's son in exchange for some weapons.
01:19 AYURIS: The Red Cathedral (Israel Cendrero & Sheila Santos, Devir Games, 2020)
Games Played Last Week: 02:35 -Autobahn (Fabio Lopiano and Nestore Mangone, Alley Cat Games, 2022) 08:57 -Soda Smugglers (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2022) 11:11 -Woodcraft (Ross Arnold and Vladimír Suchý, Delicious Games, 2022) 12:37 -Chinatown (Karsten Hartwig, Z-Man, 1999) 15:21 -Atiwa (Uwe Rosenberg, Lookout Games, 2022) 20:39 -Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy (Touko Tahkokallio, Lautapelit.fl, 2020) 23:15 -Karate Tomate (Reiner Knizia, AMIGO, 2018) 23:31 -Monikers (Alex Hague and Justin Vickers, CMYK, 2015) 25:45 -Herd Mentality (Rich Coombs and Dan Penn, Big Potato, 2020) 26:50 -Senji (Bruno Cathala & Serge Laget, Asmodee, 2008)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 27:00 Pearl Games closed by Asmodee, but Sébastien Dujardin might resurrect it 28:37 SVWAG Videos! Uwe Rosenberg and Top 10 of 2022 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn7rQYKYwsxouP_7nSza9qQ 29:15 Tom Jolly's Wiz-War on Kickstarter via Steve Jackson Games 30:25 King's Dilemma: Chronicles on Steam
In this episode Mike, Sarah and Conor take us on a journey through their week of games, starting with some Tennis, which is technically a game, where Mike struggled with this foreign concept, Sarah finally gets around to telling us why Mage Knight is her favourite game of all time, Mike gets into using a few Bullets and Conor introduces us to a new take on a Marvel card game.
We also recap last week's Question of the Pod: What games make you scream? Thanks to everyone who contributed and shared their experiences with us on Discord and the Facebook Community.
......and as always, we Swear An Oath
Question of the Pod: What would be your perfect game?
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In this episode of the news we learn about Goblin Vaults for Thunderworks Games, a new secret project from Stephen Buonocore and a whole raft of 5G4D goals. The hottest news you've ever consumed!
Shelley and I get two more fantastic games to the table this week, beginning our discussion with how the Contractors expansion affects the solid small-box game
Red Cathedral by Israel Cendrero and Sheila Santos from Devir
then the box gets bigger, and the dice manipulation gets even more interesting in
Tiletum by Simone Luciani and Daniele Tascini from Board&Dice
Thanks again this week to our sponsor LEIRIACON - taking place March 23-26 in Portugal. Shelley and I look forward to seeing any listeners who make the trip!
Remember you can also sponsor the podcast at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames or buy a couple of games from us, helping solid games find a new home (new games added all the time):
In this rapidly plummeting episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking about Stationfall and Deal with the Devil - two games that we didn’t quite love, but really enjoyed thinking about!
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Hunt a Killer: Body on the Boardwalk and Artisans of Splendent Vale. We then talk about gaming remotely, but with physical board games, not digital games! Make sure to check out our new Ko-Fi page!
This episode was sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Use the code "BGBLITZ2023" to get 10% off your ENTIRE ORDER, including upgrades not available anywhere else!
You know how at the start of the year you make a lot of promises to yourself that you have no chance of holding yourself to? Yeah, this isn't like that, we absolutely, definitely will not see out 2023 without following through on all of these whims. Before we hold ourselves accountable, we talk about Challengers!, Eleven: Football Manager Board Game, nana, and Zoo Vadis.
Timecodes:
04:49 - Challengers! 12:24 - Eleven: Football Manager Board Game 21:49 - nana 29:40 - Zoo Vadis 39:46 - Mark's Resolution(s) 47:09 - Neilan's Resolution 48:37 - Kellen's Resolution 53:19 - Christina's Resolution Check out our playthrough of Zoo Vadis with Before You Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTRQO2q7bhw
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