It has come to our attention that there has been a great deficiency in SVWAG through the years, namely our shameful neglect of the French language. The sheer Gaul!

Games Played Last Week:

01:34 -The Isle of Cats Duel (Frank West, The City of Games, 2024)

04:28 -Res Arcana: Lux et Tenebrae (Thomas Lehman, Sand Castle Games, 2019)

08:00 -Worldspanner Factions (Brett G. Murrell, Worldspanner, 2024)

17:44 -The Crew: Mission Deep Sea (Thomas Sing, KOSMOS, 2021)

20:30 -Atiwa (Uwe Rosenberg, Lookout Games, 2022)

23:33 -My Favorite Things (Daiki [Nilgiri] Aoyama and Pepe_R, Play for Keeps, 2015)

31:03 Endeavor: Deep Sea (Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray, Burnt Island Games, 2024)

37:35 -Through the Desert (Reiner Knizia, Allplay, 2024)

39:39 -Dro Polter (Paul Schulz, Oink Games, 2023)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

41:34 Fort Circle Games' First Monday in October by Talia Rosen available for pre-order

42:28 Stranger Things Risk...?

43:10 APE Games to reprint Whale Riders

43:38 Kasper Lapp's Our Secret Society

44:04 Formaggio, expandalone to...

44:18 Feature Game: Fromage (Matthew O'Malley and Ben Rosset, Road to Infamy Games, 2024) 

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In today's episode, the guys discuss their recent plays and review Power Grid. They wrap up with a draft of top games from 2024. Help support the podcast on Patreon! www.patreon.com/punchboardparadise Join our Discord! discord.gg/4FrZ8S3yCv Check out the Website! punchboardparadise.com Need a new shirt? www.punchboardparadise.threadless.com Music by HookSounds

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Reviews of Saltfjord, Mountain Goats, Avant Carde, and the Fellowship of the Ring: Trick Taking game. Game discussion starts at {00:39:37}.

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This week's guest is the head of development at the world's biggest war game publisher GMT Games, Jason Carr. We talk about what a developer does, the state of the war game hobby and the death of originality in games...but which games did he choose? 

Star Wars:Rebellion Race for the Galaxy Combat Commander: Europe Lord of the Rings: The Card Game Twilight Struggle



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Shelley and I collect animals in figid temperatures, then head to China's Yunnan province to grow plants for Shelley's favorite beverage.

Arctic by Cedric Lefebvre from Ludonaute and Devir

Tea Garden by Tomas Holek from Albi and Capstone Games

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Clef and Tim ring in the New Year talking about the good things and bad with online gaming. Recent plays include Food Chain Magnate, The Great Zimbabwe, Age of Steam, and Nucleum. Join the discord here to get ready for the Winter Formal starting January 10, 2025! Come play some online games!! https://discord.gg/s8hYtWkMS3

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I've been doing this podcast for twenty years! I never would've guessed this in the beginning. The actual "birthday" for the podcast is March 3rd, so focus on the anniversary then. But for now, this is the start of Season 21. Blackjack! Despite my teasing of Davebo during the Davecember episodes about putting too much stock in games-played data...I actually keep track of it myself. I'm not 100% accurate about it, but I'm probably 95% in recent years. (Earlier years weren't as detailed or accurate.) These days I'm using te BG Stats app, sync'd online to BGG. I don't record scores or game durations, but I DO record gaming locations, and that's permitted me to conclusively look at my data with & without online plays. For my own purposes, I've always included online plays in my totals, but I get why others may not.

MJ's Games Played in 2024 with . . . and without online plays

In this episode I look back at 2024, mostly the games I played the most, but also events like conventions and games days. I was surprised to learn how many more games I played last year: more titles, more locations, more people, more new games, more everything. Now that I think about...more podcast episodes, too (thank to Mark Madness and Davecember :-) ). Along the way, the stats make me consider the nature of my boardgaming, how I play lots of favorites over & over online, while I try more new games in-person. Will it always be that way? Is that ideal? Last of all, I stumbled across a "shelfie" of my boardgame collection from 21 years ago, just about the same time I started this podcast. (And yes, those are my then-young kids' bikes in the bottom of the photo, and a toy rocking horse on the top shelf). Looking through it, I saw that my collection then was around 100 titles. It's double or triple that now. More significantly, I can see that I later sold three-quarters of this collection! Even accounting for the handful I re-acquired eventually, I can safely say that I turn over two-thirds of my collection. Put another way, that large fraction are not eternal keepers. I was disappointed to realize that, but perhaps it's ok? Perhaps many of our games are meant to be enjoyed just a handful of times, then passed on?

-Mark

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Hey Now and Happy New Year Cabalists! 2025 kicks off with AC from Lords of the Dungeon sitting in for Tony T as he's traveling for the holiday. We dive into a bunch of games we've been playing including Star Trek Captains Chair, Great Western Trail New Zealand, Clank Catacombs, Fallout, Compile Main 1, and feature Endeavor Deep Sea designed by Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray and published by Burnt Island Games. Stevie S takes over Tony T's newsman role for the day and gives you all the most important news stories from the tabletop gaming world. Then finally the gang takes questions from listeners including games we cant get to the table but refuse to get rid of, the TV shows we recommend, and how our hobby habits have changed over the years. Endeavor Deep Sea Review 00:52:36, News with Stevie S 01:30:36, Short Topic Extravaganza 02:26:25

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Trust the launcher.

01:28 AYURIS: Darwin’s Journey (Simone Luciani and Nestore Mangone, ThunderGryph Games, 2023)

Games Played Last Week:

03:49 -Iron Forest (Brian Gomez, Brain Games, 2024)

10:22 -Slide Quest (Nicolas Bourgoin & Jean-François Rochas, Blue Orange, 2019)

14:00 -The Gang (John Cooper and Kory Heath, KOSMOS, 2024)

17:08 -Harmonies (Johan Benvenuto, Libellud, 2024)

19:23 -Set a Watch (Mike Gnade and Todd Walsh, Rock Manor Games, 2019)

23:12 -Endeavor: Age of Expansion (Jarratt Gray, Burnt Island Games, 2020)

28:05 -Windmill Valley (Dani Garcia, Board&Dice, 2024)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

32:35 It's already Lunar New Year

33:33 From Fortress America to 2045, Walker makes associations

37:21 Second Zenobia Award winner: The Porters, by Lucas Cockburn, Neco Cockburn, and Alex Goss about unionization of black Canadian rail workers

38:57 Topic: Sheep in Wolves' Clothing

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00:00:00 Intro

00:02:30 Trans Siberian Orchestra

00:15:00 Gamegenic Token Silo XL

00:18:10 Jolly Youtube Channel

00:19:50 Imperial Miners on Steam

00:22:00 Steam Games

00:24:00 Mind Map

00:27:10 Gametoppers LLC

00:28:55 Res Arcana Duo

00:34:10 Minos: Dawn of the Bronze Age

00:56:50 Miniature Market

00:57:50 Runemasters

01:02:00 Portal Games

01:03:25 Outro

We are coming out of the gate almost hot for 2025. We got a very solid Board & Dice game to the table prior to the holiday break called Minos: Dawn of the Bronze Age. This game is like other Board & Dice euros where you really need a plan going into your turn knowing all so well that it is going to be modified at some point. So, you better have a Plan B ready to go. There is a twist to the dice drafting where you need higher numbers move you up a track, but higher numbers also mean you end up possibly not getting all the actions you want because you get bumped by lower numbers. However, you never loose out on doing the action which is nice. Lots going on with this game, so as with similar games, you can’t do it all.

Thanks for putting up with us through 2024 and we hope your 2025 is off to a good start.

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On this episode of On Board Games, Erik is joined by Grand Gamers Guildmaster Marc Specter to talk about games (and other things) they've played including:

• Mille Fiori
• Kingdom Rush
• Roll for It
• Tiny Laser Heist

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(32:26) Then, they discuss what their 2025 gaming resolutions are.

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To round out 2024, Shelley and I build a mountain, then build subway lines in

Solstis by Bruno Cathala and Corentin Lebrat from Lumberjacks and Blackrock Games

Terminus by Earl Aspiras and Tom Volpe from Inside Up Games

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It's time for our annual bonus episode! Ambie is joined by Mickey and Stinky Flower Pot as they talk about a couple games they played recently, Disney: Mickey and the Beanstalk and First Orchard. You can watch the video version of the podcast on YouTube.

0:00-Intro
0:38-Recent Games - Disney: Mickey and the Beanstalk
3:56-First Orchard
4:33-Outro
5:11-Bloopers

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In this episode of the Advent Calendar Ben amd Steve talk about designer Tony Boydell

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I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy!

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Bringing our Davecember to a fitting close, I welcome back Dave Arnott. He was the guy on my podcast earlier this fall when the idea of Davecember was born. He's been on plenty of my episodes before, but now we get to talk more about him.

-Mark

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We want to wish you all a fantastic Christmas to all of our listeners new & old and yes you have guessed it, it's time for another "Quiz-mas".  This year we've done something a little different and recruited a special guest & board game expert to help us be Quiz Master / Santa for the episode.

SPECIAL GUEST QUIZMASTER: Paul Grogan from Gaming Rules
QUIZZERS: JP, Dan, Kerley, Becky & Davey

A massive thank you to Brett, Alex & Peter who helped build the quiz who are part of Gaming Rules Patreon members, we had a blast doing it.

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EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
1:58 - TURN 2 - It's beginning to look a lot like quiz-mas
6:49 - ROUND 1 - Questions 1-5
11:16 - JP's x-mas plans & Cloudspire
17:59 - ROUND 1 - Questions 6-10
20:57 - Dan's x-mas plans & Nucluem
24:31 - ROUND 2 - Questions 1-5
26:59 - Kerley's x-mas plans & Twilight Imperium
37:04 - ROUND 2 - Questions 6-10
40:09 - Becky's x-mas plans & Ark Nova Digital & Obsession
44:39 - ROUND 3 - Questions 1-5
48:44 - Davey's x-mas plans & Civolution & Mutant Hero Zero
53:28 - ROUND 3 - Questions 6-10
57:53 - TURN 3 - Get your marking pencils it's time for the answers
1:26:20 - The results are now in...
1:28:40 - TURN 4 - The Final Turn

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In this episode of the Advent Calendar Ben amd Steve talk about designers Splotter Spellen

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