Acronyms and initialisms are a tricky thing. In SVWAG circles, one must be careful to use proper punctuation, lest GOA imply 2022's Game of the Year (GotY, not Gotye) Guards of Atlantis. Mark remains enraged that the SC2 acronym was robbed from Greatest of All Time (GOAT, not goat, obviously) Star Control 2 by the usurper StarCraft 2.
Games Played Last Week:
01:07 -The Old King's Crown (Pablo Clark, Eerie Idol Games, 2025)
08:05 -Keltis (Reiner Knizia, KOSMOS, 2008)
11:43 -Das letzte Paradies (Reiner Knizia, KOSMOS, 1993)
16:01 -Keep the Heroes Out (Luís Brüeh, Brueh Games, 2022)
20:56 -All In: Predictions (Phil Walker-Harding, Next Move Games, 2026)
23:52 -Finspan: Sharks and Reefs (Michael O'Connell, Stonemaier Games, 2026)
27:16 -Genshin Tarot (MingYang Lu, Brother Ming Games, 2022)
33:43 -Recall (Helge Meissner, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Kjetil Svendsen, and Anna Wermlund, Alion – by Dr Ø, 2025)
36:21 -Railway Boom (Hisashi Hayashi & Simone Luciani, Arclight Games, 2025)
News (and why it doesn't matter):
41:29 Come join us in Kingston, Ontario July 24th-26th for SVWAG Con!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/svwag-con-ii-electric-boogaloo-tickets-1986634285627
42:21 Icebreaker events to meet new people at SVWAG Con!
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43:06 Star Trek Lower Decks: Chaos Protocol. Escape room in a box!
43:38 Witches of Willowspur by Devious Weasel and Jenna Felli. Murray's origins!
44:50 Feature Game: Goa (Rüdiger Dorn, Quined Games, 2026)
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Shelley and I get an Essen 2025 release which is a re-themed game from 2013 to the table:
Reef Garden by Jeffrey D. Allers from dlp games
then get one of our "not played in far too long" games to the table, also originally published in 2013:
Russian Railroads by Helmut Ohley and Leonhard Orgley from Z-Man Games and Hans im Gluck. We also checked out the German Railroads and American Railroads expansions too!
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It's been a while since we've plumbed the depths of the bottomless chasm we call "fanmail", so this week we're reaching our hands as far as we can and pulling out some questions that have yet to see the light of say. Before we dig too greedily and too deep, we talk about Politrickers, Marvel Champions: The Card Game, and Banana Governance.
02:19 - Politrickers 10:47 - Marvel Champions: The Card Game 19:13 - Banana Governance 30:33 - Minimum expectations with new players? 40:59 - "Late to the Party" games? 47:19 - Stuff that we're looking forward to! 47:45 - The Danes 56:57 - Purple Haze
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SVWAG CON II Electric Boogaloo
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We are now a transnational podcast, bearing the official approval of both United States Customs and Immigration Services and the King of Canada. While it is commonly held that New Jersey is a lawless wasteland ruled over by full service gas station attendants and Wawa franchise holders, the writ of the American Federal Government does in theory hold sway. As for the King, while Walker's embarrassing incident at high tea that one time in '12 didn't go over well, he hasn't been expelled from the Commonwealth yet.
1:11 AYURIS: Captain Flip (Remo Conzadori and Paolo Mori, PlayPunk, 2024)
Games Played Last Week:
04:14 -Corrosion (Stefan Bauer, Capstone Games, 2021)
08:07 -Hunt for Blackbeard (Volko Ruhnke, Fort Circle Games, 2026)
16:26 -Shards of Infinity: Saga Collection (Gary Arant & Justin Gary, Stone Blade Entertainment, 2025)
19:51 -Azure (Trevor Benjamin & Brett J. Gilbert, Bitewing Games, 2026)
23:05 -Nokosu Dice (Yusuke Matsumoto, Engames, 2016)
28:31 -Tag Team (Gricha German & Corentin Lebrat, Scorpion Masqué, 2025)
34:44 -Tidal Blades 2: Rise of the Unfolders (Tim Eisner and Ben Eisner, Druid City Games, 2024)
36:50 -Schotten Totten (Reiner Knizia, IELLO, 1999)
39:23 -Tidal Blades: Banner Festival (J.B. Howell and Michael Mihealsick, Druid City Games, 2022)
News (and why it doesn't matter):
48:10 Come join us in Kingston, Ontario July 24th-26th!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/svwag-con-ii-electric-boogaloo-tickets-1986634285627
48:45 Icebreaker events to meet new people at SVWAG Con!
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50:37 Please support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/svwag
51:46 Concordia Special Edition fills us with sadness
54:54 Harmonies expansion! Crescendo
55:15 X-Com Miniatures Game from Modiphius
55:42 New edition of St. Petersburg
56:16 Topic: The Successful Campaign Experience
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Tom tells us about his adventures in The Philippines before we spark some discussion from a Tale of Boardgaming Horror: What do you do when you learn your game design is similar to a game that already exists? Plus, we dive into the bag of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops and pull out some winners.
00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Senior Slacking Revisited
02:05 - Tom's Journey - Travel Woes
04:07 - All aBOARD EXPO
18:35 - Focusing on Dice Tower East
19:36 - Language Issues
20:19 - Discussion of Horror: Parallel Game Design
35:16 - Grow Sky
38:51 - Deep Sea Divers of Jeju
42:21 - Flamenco
47:15 - Stratego Quick Battle
50:41 - My Book Nook
54:38 - Cloud City
Flamenco Ad (Dancing Cats): https://youtu.be/mz7Qh79K8GA?si=JpknJaXuh22wgE5J
Questions? Tales of Horror? tom@dicetower.com
00:01:15 Intro
00:06:30 Chaz is back!
00:09:45 Fun collaboration
00:12:00 How has gaming changed over the years
00:40:00 Miniature Market
00:41:00 New Review System
00:47:00 Chang’an
00:58:00 Zombie Princess
01:05:00 Portal Games
01:06:00 Comic Book Boom
01:17:30 Outro with Chaz
In this episode, Marty is joined by Chaz Marler from Game Night Picks. They talk about all the different ways the table top industry has changed over the past 10 years from content creation, to games, to the community.
Marty and Tony review some new games using their new format. Shorter, more concise and with a numerical rating. Let us know your thoughts on the new format over on our Discord Channel
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Welcome to another episode of the Boardgame BBQ!! In this weeks episode Joe is quilting the most immaculate, blanket for his kitty cats to perch themselves on with Calico. Conor has been building cities for his fantasy races while constantly making poor decisions in Age of Innovation.
The two lads also discuss their successes in Regicide Legacy and the old addiction begins to bite Conor again as Joe talks about playing his Magic the Gathering commander decks.
Don't forget to let us know you answer to this week's question of the pod, 'Which game do you consider a modern classic?'
All that and more on then latest episode of the Board Game BBQ Podcast!!
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