This week Shelley and I get our pens out and check out
Joan of Arc - Orleans Draw & Write by Reiner Stockhausen and Ryan Hendrickson from Capstone Games
then wrap our heads around re-populating and revitalizing a future Earth in
Revive by Kristian Ostby, Helge Meissner, Anna Wermlund, and Eilif Svensson from Aporta Games
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Every Talk Cardboard episode is a journey, and in this episode that journey is competitive card games, competitive card games with engine building and destroying the engine with hard alcohol (not necessarily in that order).
Today we’re taking a look at Distilled, an aspirational game about being a small time distillerer in a world of big alcohol, Wordlbreakers: Advent of the Khanate, a magic the gatheringalike card battler that’s punching very far above its weight and Res Arcana, a distillation (no pun intended) of Race for the Galaxy style card engine building with the world’s smolest deck.
If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com
On to the timestamps:
4:14 Audience Correspondence – Past Games
23:13 Res Arcana
42:25 Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate
1:03:05 Distilled
You can find the study on game component rolling probabilities here https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/12119/components-dice-tossing-meeples-houses
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Phantom Ink, Fiction, and My City: Roll & Build. Then, we celebrate our 7 year podcast anniversary by taking you on a behind the scenes tour of how an episode of Board Game Blitz gets made!!
Follow us on Twitch for the anniversary stream!
0:00-Intro
0:43-Announcements
2:24-Recent Games - Phantom Ink
8:17-Fiction
11:01-My City: Roll & Build
14:12-Behind the Scenes
19:10-How BGB is Made
37:21-Outro
38:16-Bloopers
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!
It's just two of us, so we turn our attention to the burning questions that you've been asking us, in a feature we're calling Topic Talk Back. This is not to be confused with the format we've used before, mailbags are old news now, and we'd appreciate it if you'd stop bringing it up. Before we do anything but rustle in the cloth sack, we talk about By Stealth and Sea, and Undaunted: Stalingrad.
Timecodes:
02:38 - By Stealth and Sea 12:11 - Undaunted: Stalingrad 25:41 - Topic Talk Back 26:37 - Favorite Campaign Games 27:20 - Gloomhaven 27:44 - Frosthaven 30:56 - Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon 33:31 - Games that are too short? 34:03 - The Voyages of Marco Polo 34:17 - Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan 35:38 - Woodcraft 37:47 - Designer Mount Rushmore
HEY OH! It's time for some more Secret Cabal in your life. Today the gang goes bananas outta the gate and gets into some games they've been playing including Thunder Road Vendetta, Nemesis: Lockdown, New York 1901, Dead by Daylight: The Boardgame, Galaxy Trucker and feature Simone Luciani and Nestore Mangone's newest masterpiece, Darwin's Journey. Then after Tony T gives us what he does best - the official tabletop gaming news, the gang digs into a discussion about games that fired other games and feature some Cabalist thoughts! Darwin's Journey Review 00:51:54, News with Tony T 01:15:18, Games that Fired Other Games 02:24:14
---AUDIO DISCLAIMER--- Apologies for the audio quality not being as up to scratch on this episode, we've cleaned it up as much as possible.
Prepare for Dr Davey to enter the house as he and the team personifies board games to understand which ones would fair in a variety of situations. Are you confused? Don't worry everyone else was.
FIRST PLAYER: Davey OTHER PLAYERS: Rob, Chris & Tambo
OVERVIEW In this episode you'll learn: - How our dungeon crawler loving group members have been dabbling into more thematic games - Dr Davey gets everyone on his "questionable" sofa to see what would happen if board games where people and which games are a good fit for different situations. Is it random...absolutely - Just Three gets an downgrade to Just Two again - The group are looking forward to all of the upcoming conventions and make sure you look out for us at the UK Games Expo this year.
LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW N/A
EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count 0:34 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex 1:01 - Rob - Civilization New Dawn 2:31 - Chris - Star Wars Outer Rim 3:18 - Tambo - Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion 6:24 - Davey - Dune Imperium 8:50 - TURN 3 - Main Event - Board Game Relations 9:52 - The rules of the episode...there are no rules 10:10 - What game would you take out on a date? 14:36 - What game would you like to be trapped on a desert island with? 19:12 - What game would you use to help you cover up a murder? 23:42 - What game would you take to meet your parents? 26:27 - What game would you play a boardgame with? 31:59 - What game would you trust your life with? 35:48 - What game would you bet on in a fight? 40:03 - TURN 4 - Badly Hexplained Games - Just Two Edition 40:34 - Just Two - Game 1
It is a truth universally acknowledged in eurogames that every famous historical man (it's almost always a man, of course) had a retinue of about 2-5 hangers-on whose sole job was to impress him. They did this mostly by doing stuff he did; maybe after he did them, maybe running states he conquered, maybe even by doing the stuff he was credited with. Their names are lost to antiquity. All we know is that they liked solid colours, and that the famous dude was most impressed with one of them.
Games Played Last Week:
00:54 -Lacrimosa (Gerard Ascendi and Ferran Renalias, Devir, 2022)
06:30 -Tapple (Uncredited, The Op Games, 2021)
07:48 -Forests of Pangaia (Thomas Franken, Pangaia Games, 2022)
09:48 -Wizards of the Grimoire (Cole Banning and Joe Banning, Grimoire Games, 2022)
12:46 -Sentinels of the Multiverse (Christopher Badell, Paul Bender, & Adam Rebottaro, Greater Than Games, 2011)
In this exciting episode Adrian plays a game that’s not his sizzle but he ends up sizzling anyway (who would have thought he would ever change his mind midway through recording!) Jules is BACK and running a political campaign in 19th century New York. And Dan, a mysterious man in the shadows from out of town, takes revenge on his sizzling card game set in the noir era. Will he win? Who knows, but wherever he goes trouble follows him like the embers on a half-smoked cigarette in the pale moon light
We also catch up on last weeks Question of the pod “what keeps you engaged in a board game??”
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First of all, thanks to everyone who voted for us in the latest round of BGG's Golden Geek awards. Second runner up in the Best Podcast category!
Because we want to spread the word about all of our favorite podcasts, we have been given permission to run a full episode from the new Right Brain Rollers podcast. Brandt Sanderson and Eric Summerer review Earth, the new engine building card game taking the BGG Hotness by storm. Give them a listen and a subscribe!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/right-brain-rollers/id1678023646
This week's guest is the designer of Arkham Horror, Richard Launius. We talk about designing baseball jerseys, pioneering co-op games and the south...but which games did he choose?
In this pitch-black episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Quinns tells Tom and Matt all about his time at Cabin Con in the United Situation of America! On this podcast, we’re talking about a cluster of small RPGS (Bluebeard’s Bride, Cowboys With Big Hearts, Brindlewood Bay) and a couple of games that require an entire house (This House Is Haunted and Werewolf in the Dark). It’s a fun time!
It's the penultimate draft of the BGG Top 1000 series, and all of these games are garbage ... but it's up to us to sift through that garbage, and each find a collection of five games that's worthy of you. Vote for your favourite, and you could win a $50 gift voucher! Before we find diamonds in the rough, we also talk about Paperback Adventures, and Woodcraft.
Timecodes:
02:31 - Paperback Adventures 13:29 - Woodcraft 23:51 - Drafting BGG's #801-900 26:27 - Babylonia 28:37 - Blue Lagoon 30:57 - A War of Whispers 32:22 - Signorie 33:19 - The Mind 34:52 - Pictomania 36:04 - Brian Boru: High King of Ireland 36:57 - Santiago 38:45 - Werewords 39:49 - Battle for Rokugan 41:19 - Vasco da Gama 43:20 - Cerebria: The Inside World 44:21 - Bullet♥︎ 46:10 - Incan Gold 49:00 - Railroad Ink Challenge: Lush Green Edition
The Lords are back and today the gang gets right down to business talking about Jess' first time running a gamer for the group and what she learns, what she did great and some things she plans to work on for next time. Then the Lords dig into a meaty topic submitted by a listener asking what we are looking for in our RPG game systems and rulesets.
I (Matthew) writes these desciptions and honestly I have no idea what happens in this show. I let them record while I was away and Dave seemed very happy about it. Enjoy!
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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