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Episode 169: Keepin' it Fresh

Von: Pickaxe
17. Juli 2024 um 07:00

Live from an abandoned garage Mike has a series of board game panel show style rounds that he was contractually obligated to create. 

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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#320: Slay the Spire

Von: Pickaxe
16. Juli 2024 um 12:00

Our next guest host during Michael Walker's recovery is Efka Bladukas, half of No Pun Included! Efka is an internationally-renowned board game critic and dog enthusiast, known for his detestation of whimsy and tireless tolerance of Mark's yammerings. He once split a mountain in twain with his bare hands while simultaneously inventing cold fusion, but he's so humble he'll probably deny it--which is proof positive that it's all true.


Games Played Last Week:

01:37 -Captain Flip (Remo Conzadori and Paolo Mori, PlayPunk, 2024)

08:30 -In the Footsteps of Darwin (Grégory Grard and Matthieu Verdier, Sorry We Are French, 2023)

13:31 -It’s a Wonderful World: Corruption & Ascension (Frédéric Guérard, La Boîte de Jeu, 2020)

17:34 -Cascadero (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2024)

22:03 -Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Scrawlers--Heroes of Waterdeep (Vangelis Bagiartakis and Konstantinos Karagiannis, WizKids, 2023)

27:27 -Power Vacuum (Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher, Keen Bean Studio, 2024)

39:03 -Leviathan Wilds (Justin Kemppainen, Moon Crab Games, 2024)

43:32 -Primal: The Awakening (Tommaso Mondadori and Alberto Parisi, Reggie Games, 2024)

53:38 -Dune: Imperium (Paul Dennen, Dire Wolf, 2020)


News (and why it doesn't matter):

57:55 Walker continues to recover and is doing well

58:32 Leviathan Wilds expansion and reprint soon on Gamefound; uncertainty as to possible fixes

59:22 Flickering Stars by Matt Leacock and Josh Cappel; another sci-fi flicking boardgame


1:00:34 Feature Game: Slay the Spire: The Board Game (Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano, Contention Games, 2024)




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RDTN Episode 327: Star Tycoon, Cities, Landmarks and SWU: Shadows of the Galaxy

Von: Pickaxe
16. Juli 2024 um 06:01
Tony McRee

00:00:00 Intro
00:03:51 Holiday Adventures
00:09:17 Slingz
00:14:57 Rehash of Old Games
00:18:45 Taste Buds
00:29:25 Miniature Market
00:31:05 Star Tycoon
00:49:07 Cities
00:56:31 Gametoppers LLC
00:59:11 Landmarks
01:12:05 Portal Games
01:13:10 Star Wars Unlimited
01:19:49 Gamegenic

There are many games about manipulating a stock market or trying to be a Tycoon of an industry. So, when we heard about Star Tycoon, we wondered what was different from all the other games in this category. For me, two things jumped out when playing. First, the market is not the dominating factor in this game, there is a nice balance between that and your other objectives. Second, the market wasn’t the only thing contributing to how you got your resources. Like the balance this game brought into the crowded stock market games.

Cities was a quick game to play with the need to concentrate on a few objectives and not many. And when teaching the game, it might need to be pointed out. This game will promote some sort of hate drafting to keep others from amassing large number of points and while this is solitary in play, little interaction, you need to pay attention to what others are doing.

Thanks for listening and hope you are having a wonderful summer so far.

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#319: When to Go Digital

Von: Pickaxe
09. Juli 2024 um 12:00

Our first guest host while Michael Walker is recovering is James de Moss, aka Jimbo!

Many a human being has become lost in the deep recesses of Jimbo's sonorous voice, and thus one must take care lest you become consumed by his powerful charisma. Jimbo brings his extensive experience of digital board games, and board game adaptations, to SVWAG.


02:29 AYURIS: Planet Unknown


Games Played Last Week:

06:13 -Skytear Horde: Monoliths (Giacomo Neri and Riccardo Neri, Skytear Games, 2024)

09:32 -Mythwind (Nathan Lige and Brendan McCaskell, Open Owl Studios, 2023)

12:10 -Slay the Spire: The Board Game (Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano, Contention Games, 2024)

15:07 -Sentinels of the Multiverse (Christopher Badell, Paul Bender, & Adam Rebottaro, Greater Than Games, 2011)

22:50 -Marshmallow Test (Reiner Knizia, Gamewright, 2020)

26:20 -Primal: The Awakening (Tommaso Mondadori and Alberto Parisi, Reggie Games, 2024)

37:33 -Oak (Wim Goossens, Game Brewer, 2022)

39:50 -Gaia Project (Jens Drögemüller & Helge Ostertag, Feuerland Spiele, 2017)


News (and why it doesn't matter):

42:50 A sincere thank you for the outpouring of support

43:23 Shapeways has filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations, independent operators left in the lurch

44:40 X-Wing community's efforts in the wake of cessation of official support

47:54 Martin Wallace news: Cthulhu: Dark Providence with Travis Chance, and Casus Belli


49:42 Topic: When to Go Digital




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Episode 168: Et Tu Croutons?

Von: Pickaxe
03. Juli 2024 um 07:00

In this weeks board game panel show Nick hosts as we play games that franky make less and less sense as it progresses. 

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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#318: Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan

Von: Pickaxe
02. Juli 2024 um 12:00

One of the under-appreciated virtues of an auction game is that each session can provide its own economy. While daunting to new players, who don't know what things might be worth, their flailing speculation actually helps determine what things are worth. If they buy that share of red for a squillion moneys, guess what, that is what that market would bear. At least for now, that is. Some jerk might then get the next share for two cents and a smile, but watching those economies develop differently every time is part of the magic.


Games Played Last Week:

01:22 -Snow Planner (Akashi, Soragame Studio, 2024)

04:24 -That's Not a Hat (Kasper Lapp, Ravensburger, 2023)

05:45 -Guards of Atlantis II (Artyom Nichipurov, Wolff Designa, 2022)

10:27 -Iberian Gauge (Amabel Holland, Capstone Games, 2017)

18:17 -Medici (Reiner Knizia, AMIGO, 1995)

23:08 -CATAN: Starfarers Duel (Klaus Teuber and Benjamin Teuber, KOSMOS, 2023) 

28:46 -Mythwind (Nathan Lige and Brendan McCaskell, Open Owl Studios, 2023)


News (and why it doesn't matter):

31:08 Star Realms 10th Anniversary edition and Star Trek Star Realms 

31:41 Satoshi Matsuura illustrates Yield 

31:56 Iliad and Ichor from Reiner Knizia and Bitewing on Kickstarter

32:53 Imperial Borders--massive numbers of troops on a massive map from Larry Summers


33:44 Feature Game: Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan (Gordon Calleja, Mighty Boards, 2024)



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RDTN Episode 326: AI Space Puzzle, Yokohama, Mojo, Nekojima

Von: Pickaxe
02. Juli 2024 um 06:01
Tony McRee

00:00:00 Intro
00:03:38 Warhammer: Age of Sigmar 4th Edition
00:08:30 Iron Kingdom Sold
00:11:33 Mojo
00:17:25 Taste Buds
00:23:45 Gametoppers LLC
00:25:32 Yokohama
00:40:25 AI Space Puzzle
00:48:00 Portal Games
00:49:15 Has the Golden Age passed
01:01:32 Nekojima
01:06:45 Miniature Market
01:08:03 Video Game Talk

What is the Golden Age of board gaming and has it passed? We give it some thought in this episode. One of us did a deep dive, while the other thought about it while setting up the microphone. Either way, it is defined differently for each of us. But we board gamers are drawn to rules, and so titles will rise in popularity and fall, just like we discussed in one of our reviews. Eventually, things get overused which leads to a shift and themes cycle. But fear not—new games emerge, striking a delicate balance, and the golden age continues.

In summary, the golden age isn’t a fixed point—it’s a dynamic journey fueled by creativity, passion, and the love of rolling dice and taking names.

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#317: The 180

Von: Pickaxe
25. Juni 2024 um 12:00

While we pride ourselves on our internationalist focus here at SVWAG, we have been remiss in our multilingualism lately. While we reliably rendezvous with French on a semi-regular basis, a skosh of Japanese here and there, a quantum of Latin periodically, and whatever language AYURIS pretends to be, our Spanish could use some work. We thus devote ourselves to utter three whole words of Spanish in this episode.


01:30 AYURIS: Dwellings of Eldervale (Luke Laurie, Breaking Games, 2020)


Games Played Last Week:

03:36 -Federation (Dimitri Perrier and Matthieu Verdier, Explor8, 2022)

06:40 -Successors 4th Edition (Richard H. Berg and Mark Simonitch, PHALANX, 2022)

12:10 -Knarr (Thomas Dupont, Bombyx, 2023)

13:13 -TRICKTAKERs (Hiroken, Joyple Games, 2021) [EDIT: Mark mistakenly claimed that there is no English edition, but this is incorrect]

16:40 -Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan (Gordon Calleja, Mighty Boards, 2024)

22:03 -The Plum Island Horror (Hermann Luttmann, GMT Games, 2023)

26:36 -Sky Team (Luc Rémond, Le Scorpion Masqué, 2023)

28:45 -Slay the Spire: The Board Game (Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano, Contention Games, 2024)

35:42 -Gaia Project (Jens Drögemüller & Helge Ostertag, Feuerland Spiele, 2017)

37:47 -nana (Kaya Miyano, Mob+, 2021)

40:48 -Murray the A**hole Frog (Jenna Felli, Devious Weasel Games, 2024)

46:04 -Jenga Maker (Uncredited, Hasbro, 2022)

48:32 -Arcs (Cole Wehrle, Leder Games, 2024)


News (and why it doesn't matter):

55:33 Game Brewer, publisher of Stroganov, Oak and Gugong, calls it quits

55:51 Star Wars: X-Wing and Armada terminated by Atomic Mass Games

56:56 Hans im Glück starts asserting its ownership of the word "meeple"

57:30 Mike Hutchinson and Planet Smasher Games' possible future products: Perilous Tales/Gaslands XL box sets?, Space Gits merging dexterity and miniatures, and more


59:26 Topic: The 180



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RDTN Episode 325: Charioteer, Rallyman Dirt, Heat, Sandbag, Agueda

Von: Pickaxe
25. Juni 2024 um 06:01
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00:00:00 Intro
00:05:08 Movie Talk
00:09:12 Squirrel Moment
00:10:55 Define rolling
00:15:52 Taste Buds
00:21:37 Gametoppers LLC
00:22:43 Rallyman Dirt
00:38:35 Miniature Market
00:39:25 Sandbag
00:46:09 Charioteer
00:59:22 Agueda
01:05:36 Heat: Heavy Rain
01:14:07 Portal Games
01:15:06 Final Racing Thoughts

Racing board games ignite the thrill of the track, where strategy meets speed. And being from NASCAR country, we enjoy our racing games. In this episode we explore three different styles of racing games: Charioteer, Rallyman Dirt, and Heat-Heavy Rain

  1. Charioteer:
    • Race into the winner’s circle with this set collection style racing game.
    • Play your cards to either sprint ahead, damage your opponents or navigate the turn of the forum.
    • Strategic card play will definitely factor in on who will win this game.
  2. Rallyman: Dirt:
    • Rev your engines by rolling dice and completing the track in the best time.
    • Push your luck as you navigate treacherous turns to outpace your opponents.
    • Modular tracks, dice-driven movement, and strategic decisions are key aspects of this game.
  3. Heat Heavy Rain:
    • Are you ready for two new tracks for Heat, then pick up this expansion.
    • New elements on the track will test your hand management skills as you race into the corners.
    • Draft, strategize, and sprint to the finish line while dealing with your opponents in this expansion for Heat: Pedal to the Metal

Sandbag is an anti-trick taking card game where you look to manipulate trump but in doing so help out the other players. Agueda is a collection game where you are trying to meet three scoring objectives set forth at the beginning of the game. While playing, the family compared it to Azul, but with a little less stress and hate drafting.

Thanks for listening and those back from Origins, hope you had a wonderful time.

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Episode 167: Five Bribes

Von: Pickaxe
19. Juni 2024 um 07:00

Dave takes the hosting chair, walks off with it and is never seen again. 

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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RDTN Episode 324: Skyrise, Donut Shop, Squirrels – The Card Game, Granblue Fantasy

Von: Pickaxe
18. Juni 2024 um 06:01
Tony McRee

00:00:00 Intro
00:04:21 Strike Tournament Updated
00:07:31 Move Story Update
00:08:45 Southern Fried Gaming Expo
00:13:22 Tokaido Duo
00:16:31 Taste Buds
00:26:37 Miniature Market
00:28:05 Skyrise
00:47:30 Portal Games
00:49:48 Squirrels: The Card Game
00:55:30 Donut Shop
01:10:25 Gametoppers LLC
01:13:09 Granblue Fantasy
01:27:32 E-Win Chair
01:29:39 Outro

Board games—those magical realms where cardboard, dice, and imagination collide. Whether you’re plotting world domination or unraveling mysteries, these tabletop adventures unite friends, families, and foes. And in this release, we hear Marty’s family tell you why that is true with their reviews of Donut Shop and Granblue Fantasy Skirmish Game.

But we also hear about a card game that fits right at home with RDTN called Squirrels: The Card Game. This Uno style game with a solid competitive flare will get the whole family involved as you see who can get rid of their nuts first.

Finally, Marty tells me about what a miss and sounds like I missed a great game night with Skyrise. Roxley has had some solid games lately and this just adds to the collection. Hope I will get to see it on the table soon.

Thanks for listening

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#315: Games that Make You Uncomfortable

Von: Pickaxe
11. Juni 2024 um 12:00

All I need to know about animal reproduction I learned from Uwe Rosenberg. I suspect many people have The Talk, which in my case was my father teaching me how to play Agricola. Navigating my twenties in utter ignorance wasn't easy, but now that Uwe has told me about the birds and the bees (and the sheep and the pigs and the cows) via Agricola I'm practically a biologist.


01:25 AYURIS: Dead Reckoning (John D. Clair, Alderac Entertainment Group, 2022)


Games Played Last Week:

05:10 -Tigris & Euphrates (Reiner Knizia, Hans im Gluck, 1997)

09:12 -Antike II (Mac Gerdts, PD-Verlag, 2015)

11:32 -That's Not a Hat (Kasper Lapp, Ravensburger, 2023)

16:26 -Galactic Renaissance (Christian Martinez, Matagot, 2024)

21:56 -The Vale of Eternity (Eric Hong, Mandoo Games, 2023)

23:58 -Meeple Circus (Cedric Millet, Matagot, 2017)

27:31 -Mythwind (Nathan Lige and Brendan McCaskell, Open Owl Studios, 2023)

30:48 -Titans Tactics (G. Kelly Toyama, Imbalanced Games, 2013)


News (and why it doesn't matter):

33:59 Please support us on Patreon, if inclined! www.patreon.com/svwag

35:06 Dávid Turczi and Nigel Buckle's pseudo-sequel to Imperium, Star Trek: Captain's Chair  

36:47 Dungeon Fighter will get a Star Trek reimplementation

37:05 Mark's new podcast with Caitlin Bailey, All My Best Friends Are Digital: video games and the stories they tell

37:37 Defenders of the Realm gets a reprint and a facelift


38:10 Topic: Games that Make You Uncomfortable




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Episode 166: Sheriff of Notting-Clam

Von: Pickaxe
05. Juni 2024 um 07:00

Matthew is in the Captains chair and no one is happy about it. 

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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#314: Leviathan Wilds

Von: Pickaxe
04. Juni 2024 um 12:00

After a prolonged period where we have not discussed Kramer & Kiesling (the Kramer & Ulrich duo yielded El Grande, which we mention rather frequently), here we see a bumper krop of K&K kollaborations. The gibbons are fickle, and even the mighty Wolfgang and Michael must yield to their whims. But fortune (and apes) have at last smiled on them, and we revel in the classic Euro goodness as well as their more recent offering.


Games Played Last Week:

01:05 -Monikers (Alex Hague and Justin Vickers, CMYK, 2015)

05:34 -Java (Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer, Ravensburger, 2000)

11:31 -Tikal (Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer, Ravensburger, 1999)

13:31 -Wandering Towers (Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer, ABACUSSPIELE, 2022)

18:30 -Morgan's Magic Map (Gian Andrea Cappuzzo, Rio Grande Games, 2023)

20:17 -Tiny Towns (Peter McPherson, Alderac Entertainment Group, 2019)

22:08 -Sniper Elite: The Board Game (Roger Tankersly & David Thompson, Rebellion Unplugged, 2022)

25:43 -Earthborne Rangers (Andrew Fischer, Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt, Andrew Navaro, Adam Sadler, and Brady Sadler, Earthborne Games, 2023)

35:57 -Through the Desert (Reiner Knizia, Allplay, 2024)

38:34 -Mythwind (Nathan Lige and Brendan McCaskell, Open Owl Studios, 2023)

44:41 -Tapple (Uncredited, The Op Games, 2021)

46:04 -G.I. JOE: Battle for the Arctic Circle (Matt Hyra, Renegade Game Studios, 2024)


News (and why it doesn't matter):

48:56 CYSMIC update on Gamefound and board game bundling economics

51:03 Ada's Dream from Alley Cat

51:20 So much drama around Wonders of the First CCG! AI art, NFTs, ratings, oh my!


53:10 Feature Game: Leviathan Wilds (Justin Kemppainen, Moon Crab Games, 2024)



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RDTN Episode 323: Path of Civilization, Sunrise Lane, Mind Map, Compile

Von: Pickaxe
04. Juni 2024 um 06:01
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:00 Marty’s Move
00:13:15 Easter Egg in Ep 322
00:14:16 Cheerwine Festival
00:17:00 Strike Tournament Info
00:24:40 My City Roll & Draw
00:27:30 Episode Title Stats
00:32:10 Portal Games
00:33:55 Sunrise Lane
00:40:50 Path of Civilization
01:02:20 Compile
01:07:45 Gametoppers
01:10:25 Mind Map
01:18:05 Miniature Market
01:20:02 Outro (Baseball & SWU)

It’s time for the big Gen Con Strike Tournament ticket sale! You can hear all the details in the episode.

Marty struggles to get through the episode as he tries to recovery from helping his son move. But he manages to find the energy to get through reviews of four games including one of our favorite style of games, a civ style game.

If you haven’t joined yet, we’d love to have you on our Discord Server. Very laid back, lots of fun and no drama!

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#313: The One that Broke the Kallax's Back

Von: Pickaxe
28. Mai 2024 um 12:00

In the vast panoply of human misfortunes, it is often fruitless to try to rank misery. Was historical tragedy X worse or better than atrocity Y? It seems callous to ask. That said, thanks to the applied research of a retired ethicist with the aid of Reiner Knizia's Zoo Vadis, we have conclusively discovered that it is better to be extorted by a marmoset than assaulted by an armadillo. Thus is human knowledge expanded.


01:01 AYURIS: Heroscape (Stephen Baker, Rob Daviau, & Craig Van Ness, Hasbro, 2004)


Games Played Last Week:

05:30 -Uprising: Curse of the Last Emperor (Cornelius Cremin, Pawel Mazur, & Dirk Sommer, Nemesis.Games, 2021)

10:23 -Zoo Vadis (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2023)

15:53 -Marabunta (Reiner Knizia, Space Cowboys, 2023)

22:35 -Feed the Kraken (Maikel Cheney, Dr. Hans Joachim Höh, and Tobias Immich, Funtails, 2022)

26:19 -La Granja: Deluxe Master Set (Michael Keller and Andreas "ode." Odendahl, Board&Dice, 2023)

31:30 -Sand (Ariel Di Costanzo and Javier Pelizzari, Devir, 2024)


News (and why it doesn't matter):

38:45 Calico spinoff: Knitting Circle

39:29 Founders of Reyvick: Richard Garfield and GMT

40:54 Boardgaming has jumped the shark: Winston: Nineteen Eighty-Four 

42:56 Expeditions: Gears of Corruption

43:14 Radlands gets 1.2 rules and a new deck


44:20 Topic: The One that Broke the Kallax's Back




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Episode 165: The Oklahoma Shuffle

Von: Pickaxe
22. Mai 2024 um 07:00

Paula hosts and she really has had an idea... 

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

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#312: Cascadero

Von: Pickaxe
21. Mai 2024 um 12:00

Before the people of Quebec celebrated the Journée nationale des Patriotes (National Patriots' Day), they instead on the same day had the Fête de Dollard. A cynic might speculate that the timing of these holidays was chosen so as to pre-empt the English Canadian Victoria Day, and that cynic would be right.


Games Played Last Week:

01:21 -Dice Flick (Rami Gaber, Pegasus Spiele, 2021) 

04:49 -A Message from the Stars (Clarence Simpson, Allplay, 2024)

11:21 -Switchbacks (Susumu Kawasaki, Allplay, 2022)

14:23 -Mage Knight: The Board Game (Vlaada Chvatil, WizKids, 2011)

18:29 -Leviathan Wilds (Justin Kemppainen, Moon Crab Games, 2024)

19:32 -Priorities (Uncredited, Clarendon Games, 2020)

22:11 -Word Traveler (Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance, Office Dog, 2024)

25:59 -Cascadito (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2024)


News (and why it doesn't matter):

28:27 Grail Games will be reprinting Marc André's Barony with its Sorcery expansion

28:53 Indonesia reprint from Splotter with a new board

29:51 Black Forest from Tido Lorenze, Uwe Rosenberg, and Feuerland Spiele

30:04 Another Frostpunk game, this time from Board&Dice

30:28 Walking Dead game from Button Shy

30:39 New expansion for Aquatica, Coral Reefs

30:50 Followup to Oathsworn from Shadowborne and Jamie Jolly: Avalon: The Riven Veil

31:02 Darktide the miniatures game from Games Workshop

31:33 Dungeon Twister 20th Anniversary Edition by Christophe Boelinger and Ludically

32:57 Congratulations to the Golden Geek winners! 


34:02 Feature Game: Cascadero (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2024)



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RDTN Episode 322: Vijayanagara, Lunar Rush, Unmatched: Slings & Arrows, Vampire Village, Tangram City, Pass Pass, Tetrarchia

Von: Pickaxe
21. Mai 2024 um 06:01
Tony McRee

00:00:31 Intro
00:03:00 Tangram City
00:10:51 Lunar Rush
00:23:32 Game Toppers LLC
00:26:00 Unmatched: Slings & Arrows
00:34:30 Vampire Village
00:46:16 Pass Pass
00:51:44 Miniature Market
00:52:57 Vijayanagara
01:05:27 Tetrarchia
01:11:36 Portal
01:12:39 Star Wars Unlimited Update

If spatial relations are not your thing, you’re not alone. I have always had trouble seeing what shape an unfolded piece of paper would make. But I also know that I can pack a car with luggage or don’t have navigational challenges. So, games like Tangram City are good ways for me to practice the challenges that I have with spatial relations.

We also played several games that were quick hitters and enjoyable. Vampire Village has the elements in a game that we like with card passing and then card assignment. Having Unmatched bring in some classic literature was fun and makes us reflect to our high school days as we reminder Shakespeare or what little remember from the plays.

Then the new GMT title Vijayanagar was so nice. In my opinion, a COIN style game that seemed to move at a great pace and still kept the elements that make COIN so popular.

Thanks for listening and appreciate all the support.

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#311: Omnibus Questions Delta Bet

Von: Pickaxe
14. Mai 2024 um 12:00

It is striking that no one submitted a question regarding the hues of our auras, so allow us to address the issue here and declare that amber is the colour of our energy.

I regret nothing.


01:39 AYURIS: Capital Lux 2: Generations (Eilif Svensson & Kristian Amundsen Østby, Aporta Games, 2020)


Games Played Last Week:

03:46 -G.I. JOE Deck-Building Game: Raise the Flagg Campaign Expansion (T.C. Petty III, Renegade Game Studios, 2023)

07:10 -Through the Desert (Reiner Knizia, Allplay, 2024)

11:27 -Leviathan Wilds (Justin Kemppainen, Moon Crab Games, 2024)

14:14 -Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Scrawlers--Heroes of Waterdeep (Vangelis Bagiartakis and Konstantinos Karagiannis, WizKids, 2023)

16:44 -Set a Watch (Mike Gnade and Todd Walsh, Rock Manor Games, 2019)

20:52 -Mysterium Park (Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko, Libellud, 2020)

24:08 -Biohack (Yofiandhy D Indrayana, uchibacoya, 2024)

30:05 -Mage Knight: The Board Game (Vlaada Chvatil, WizKids, 2011)

32:31 -Word Traveler (Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance, Office Dog, 2024)


News (and why it doesn't matter):

36:23 Regicide Legacy on Kickstarter! Can Badgers from Mars triumph again?

38:30 Dune: War for Arrakis expansion/reprint on Gamefound


40:03 Topic: Omnibus Questions Delta Bet



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