Arcs is one of the very rare games on this website that I don’t own and haven’t played. And unfortunately I haven’t played the other very popular game by this designer and artist team, Root, either! Too many games, too little time, especially when it comes to games that play best with more than 2 players and improve with repeated and committed play.
So I’ll content myself with lifting a paragraph from Boardgamegeek: Arcs is a sharp, tactical space opera game set in a dark yet silly universe. Players represent officials from a distant, decaying and neglectful Empire who are now free to vie for dominance whether through battle, gathering scarce resources or diplomatic intrigue. Ready yourself for dramatic twists and turns as you launch into this galactic struggle.
Due to my unfamiliarity with the game, I’ve kept this to just a rules summary, and there’s no mention of the Blighted Reach campaign expansion. I hope you find it useful nonetheless!
Releasing an album that consists entirely of cover songs is a risky proposition. For every Renegades of Funk there’s also a Thank You. IV Studio’s Realm of Reckoning is such a perilous venture, excising slices of ingenuity from some of the area control genre’s most prolific entities. The originality and expression exist in how these…
Oh man, oh man, it’s time that we ask you (yes, you) to tell us (yes, us) what your favourite games are, because for one time a year, it doesn’t matter what we think about games, but you better be ready to tell us what you think about games. A lot of you did, so here it is, the listener top 20! Before we ask you to do all the work, we talk about Emberheart, Gods & Mortals, and Feya’s Swamp.
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Timecodes:
01:30 – Emberheart 14:11 – Gods & Mortals 23:46 – Feya’s Swamp 33:38 – Listener Top 20 37:14 – A Feast for Odin 37:55 – Agricola 38:32 – Terraforming Mars 39:17 – Guards of Atlantis II 40:09 – Concordia 42:05 – Tigris & Euphrates 43:16 – Blood on the Clocktower 44:00 – El Grande 44:47 – The Castles of Burgundy 46:12 – Inis 47:38 – Race for the Galaxy 48:06 – Arcs 49:08 – Ark Nova 49:30 – Root 50:06 – Innovation 51:11 – Spirit Island 52:05 – Ra 52:51 – Brass: Birmingham 53:26 – Dune: Imperium 54:04 – Hansa Teutonica
Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.
If you don’t want to miss an episode, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts/Google Podcasts/Stitcher/Spotify, or add our RSS feed to your favourite app. Reviews and subscriptions really help us and would be greatly appreciated! To download the episode directly, click here.
If you’d like to discuss anything in the episode, please do so in the comments below, visit our BoardGameGeek guild, join our Discord, or Facebook Group! Any feedback is also always helpful. If you’d like to show your support for the show, we also have a Patreon with some fun rewards, and a merch store!
Timecodes:
01:30 – Emberheart 14:11 – Gods & Mortals 23:46 – Feya’s Swamp 33:38 – Listener Top 20 37:14 – A Feast for Odin 37:55 – Agricola 38:32 – Terraforming Mars 39:17 – Guards of Atlantis II 40:09 – Concordia 42:05 – Tigris & Euphrates 43:16 – Blood on the Clocktower 44:00 – El Grande 44:47 – The Castles of Burgundy 46:12 – Inis 47:38 – Race for the Galaxy 48:06 – Arcs 49:08 – Ark Nova 49:30 – Root 50:06 – Innovation 51:11 – Spirit Island 52:05 – Ra 52:51 – Brass: Birmingham 53:26 – Dune: Imperium 54:04 – Hansa Teutonica
Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.
It’s time again to turn the tables and get your take, to feel out the collective tastes of you, the listeners of the show. It’s the annual Listener Top 20! You’ve been sending in all of your lists (thank you!), I’ve been compiling all of the data (you’re welcome!) – and here it is, in a convenient list format. Before we ask the audience, we talk about Flip 7, Hot Streak, and Kolejka.
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If you’d like to discuss anything in the episode, please do so in the comments below, visit our BoardGameGeek guild, join our Discord, or Facebook Group! Any feedback is also always helpful. If you’d like to show your support for the show, we also have a Patreon with some fun rewards, and a merch store!
Timecodes:
02:37 – Flip 7 10:40 – Hot Streak 19:47 – Kolejka 27:42 – Listener Top 20 29:05 – Agricola 29:55 – Gloomhaven 31:26 – Guards of Atlantis II 32:20 – Blood on the Clocktower 33:20 – Arcs 34:40 – Tigris & Euphrates 35:21 – Terraforming Mars 35:54 – Marvel Champions: The Card Game 36:42 – Inis 37:24 – Innovation 38:13 – Race for the Galaxy 39:02 – Root 40:04 – Concordia 41:00 – The Castles of Burgundy 41:41 – Ark Nova 42:03 – Dune: Imperium 43:19 – Ra 43:35 – Brass: Birmingham 45:11 – Spirit Island 46:27 – Hansa Teutonica
Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.
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