In this show we talk about Unicorn Glitterluck Cloud Stacking, Brains, Egizia, Demeter, Porto, and Empyreal Spells & Steam and serve up a Game Pie all about polyomino games.
Editor's note - the Tetris piece names were acknowledged as a fun joke.
Walker feels he has missed his calling, and tries out his tight five as an insult comic this week. He directs his barbs at the typical targets--Mark, board game covers, games no one asked for, Mark, media he finds unengaging, and Mark. The latter (and former) does his level best at being supportive in the classic tradition of Ed McMahon, but one remembers why Don Rickles and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog are solo acts.
02:03 AYURIS: Talon (Jim Krohn, GMT, 2016) and Talon 1000 (Jim Krohn, GMT, 2018)
Games Played Last Week: 03:45 -The Voyages of Marco Polo (Simone Luciani & Daniele Tascini, Hans im Gluck, 2015) 06:20 -The Crew: The Quest for Planet 9 (Thomas Sing, KOSMOS, 2019) 07:29 -Versailles 1919 (Geoff Engelstein & Mark Herman, GMT Games, 2020) 16:10 -The Taverns of Tiefenthal (Wolfgang Warsch, Schmidt Spiel, 2019) 17:38 -Cosmic Frog (Jim Felli, Devious Weasel Games, 2020) 21:02 -Reichbusters: Project Vril (Jake Thornton, Mythic Games, 2020) 26:20 -That's Pretty Clever (Wolfgang Warsch, Schmidt Spiele, 2018) 30:04 -The Hunted: Twilight of the U-Boats, 1943-1945 (Gregory M. Smith, GMT Games, 2020)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 36:14 Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps at last?! 37:20 Dim possibility of Descent Third Edition? 39:50 Not Alone expands on Kickstarter 40:26 Tammany Hall reprint 41:03 Rita Modl and King of 12 42:04 Mindclash's Perserverence: Castaway Chronicles 43:39 Catapult Kingdoms 43:48 Walker dunks on Escape the Night
45:41 Topic: I'm 90% Sure: Rules you Forget or Ignore
This episode we are joined by a special guest: renowned boardgame artist Andrew Bosley. You know his work from Mission: Red Planet, Everdell, Tapestry, and the newly-kickstarted Merchants of the Dark Road. Andrew shares some of the highlights of his career, which include his freelance days, working for Ubisoft as a concept artist, and of course his foray into board gaming. He also shares advice for young artists struggling with their work, looking for inspiration, or wanting to get into the board game industry. It's a fascinating conversation and Andrew was very giving of his time. In fact, he sticks around for the whole show!!!
In this episode's Sizzling Games Mitch rolled with the sharks on the Strip in Lords of Vegas, Connor played the asymmetric-attacker Skulk Hollow, and Andrew and his son unwittingly unleashed the curses from The Big Book of Madness.
In the Board Game Bracket we reveal the winner of Dice Throne vs Maximum Apocalypse, before announcing the new match-up: Great Western Trail vs Sheriff of Nottingham. Make sure you hit up our socials and cast your vote to make sure your favourite goes through to the next round.
Finally, in Swear An Oath, Andrew joins in the fun with a pledge to finally get Root to the table, and we look forward to hearing if he fulfilled his oath in a future episode. Connor follows up his victory in Skulk Hollow with an oath to play the roll 'n' write game Steamrollers, and Mitch swears an oath to play Circle The Wagons after ticking Crossroads of Heroes off his to-do list.
Thanks again to Andrew Bosley for joining us on the show, and to see more of Andrew's incredible work make sure you check out his website: https://www.bosleyart.com/
Topic of the Week: Andrew Bosley (1:38)
Sizzling Games: Lords of Vegas (41:03), Skulk Hollow (47:45), The Big Book of Madness (51:42)
Board Game Bracket (58:52)
Swear An Oath (1:08:01)
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For Sarah, it's all about strategy in the bag-building area control game War Chest.
For Dan, it's all about character in the story-driven game Call To Adventure.
For Steve, it's all about... his Uncle Bob? And lots of laughs!!
Our Sizzling Games this week are all very different, and all great fun!
How do you curate your collection? Do you have a 1-in-1-out policy like Steve? Do you hang onto games for when your kids are older? Do you buy games with a particular person in mind? All of these ideas and more are explored in our topic of the Week as the team chat about how they have come to amass their current collections, and provide advice to those listeners that are looking to build up a solid collection from scratch.
We have all been bitten by the Kickstarterbug again! Steve has backed Rallyman: Dirt and also Dead Reckoning. Sarah recaps our recent BGBBQ game of Blood on the Clocktower which she also helped kickstart last year, and Dan has put himself down for Catapult Kingdoms.
In our Boardgame Bracket we pit Azul against Aeon's End Legacy - two very different games with solid fanbases behind them. We also reveal the winners of our past two match-ups, Mage Knight vs A Feast for Odin, and Brass: Birmingham vs Incan Gold. Make sure you hit up our social and vote for your favourite to ensure they progress to the next round.
In Swear An Oath Steve, the AEG fan-boy, swears to play Ecos: First Continent, adding it to his yet-to-be-played Forgotten Waters.
Dan finally fulfilled Terraforming Mars but failed to put the paints down long enough to actually play Stuffed Fables. He then adds the co-op trick-taker Fox In The Forest Duet. Sarah had a blast playing Starfighter and vows to bring Obscurio to the table. (Beware of the traitor, Sarah!) And a special shout-out to friend of the show, Katia Howatson, who fulfilled her oath by playing Sorcerer.
Sizzling Games: War Chest (2:03), Call To Adventure (10:16), Bob's Your Uncle (18:48)
Topic of the Week: How to Curate Your Collection (24:42)
Kickstarter (41:51)
Board Game Bracket (53:23)
Swear An Oath (1:04:28)
The Saturday Night Gameshow!!
Adrian will be hosting a special event Saturday 11th for the BGBBQ Team, and we will be recording our shenanigans for you all to enjoy. Watch this space next week for all the fun.
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It's award season when we say it is, so we're looking back at the Golden Geek Awards, The Dice Tower Awards, and the Spiel des Jahres nominees. We offer our thoughts on their picks, and how wrong they are. I mean, Wingspan winning "Best Four-Wheel Drive SUV" just seems a bit much. We also talk about Battlestar Galactica, Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small, Paladins of the West Kingdom, and The Boss.
01:56 - Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game 08:09 - Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small 12:45 - Nusfjord 14:01 - Paladins of the West Kingdom 19:48 - The Boss 25:03 - Board Game Awards 2019 25:13 - Golden Geek Awards 26:10 - Through The Ages: New Leaders and Wonders 27:35 - Dune 28:35 - Wingspan 29:40 - Marvel Champions: The Card Game 30:55 - The Crew: Quest for Planet Nine 33:01 - PARKS 34:30 - Tapestry 35:08 - Spiel des Jahres Nominees 36:16 - Plumber Pants 38:30 - The King's Dilemma 40:10 - My City 40:38 - Pictures 41:27 - The Dice Tower Awards 42:30 - Detective: City of Angels 43:37 - Slide Quest 47:22 - Letter Jam Check out Kellen playing Battlestar Galactica over at Optimal Play: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/662734157
In episode 40, Bender starts out by talking about a new RPG he played called Blades in the Dark and the gang discusses campaigns in which all players play the same class. Then the Lords chat about the new edition of Warhammer 40,000. Aaron talks about his first time taking over as Game Master for our Star Trek Adventures campaign. Then finally the group discusses theater of the mind, setting the scene, and integrating more description in their games.
Nick is host... so yeah this episode is weird but you'll learn a thing or two.
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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"From the discovery of New France to the 1981 Referendum, all of Quebec history is based on a single fallacy: that the British actually wanted to own Quebec. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The British already had a surplus of colonies in the sunny Caribbean and took little interest in the Canadian icebox later dismissed by Voltaire as nothing more than 'quelques arpents de neige'... In 1759, with war raging everywhere between France and England, the British knew if would look suspicious if they didn't engage the French in North America. They placed the expedition in the hands of a thirty-two-year-old, inexperienced general, James Wolfe, and gave him strict orders: 'Put up a good fight... but lose.' Wolfe devised a clever theatrical strategy. He would choose an impossible attack-route: Arriving by boat on the St. Lawrence river then scaling the unassailable walls of the fortress of Quebec, thus guaranteeing defeat and dumping Quebec with France for good. But Wolfe's glorious defeat was snapped from the jaws of victory by Montcalm who brilliantly out-manoeuvred Wolfe and surrendered--a stroke of genius that got the colony off France's hands once and for all." -Nick Auf der Mar, "La Petite Histoire du Québec (Version Anglaise)"
Games Played Last Week: 01:09 -SEAL Team Flix (Pete Ruth & Mark Thomas, WizKids, 2018) 02:37 -Teotihuacan: City of Gods (Daniele Tascini & Dávid Turczi, NSKN Games, 2018) 04:04 -Yokohama (Hisashi Hayashi, Tasty Minstrel Games, 2016) 04:48 -Sprawlopolis (Steven Aramini, Danny Devine, & Paul Kluka, Button Shy, 2018) 08:26 -Mezo (John Clowdus, Kolossal Games, 2019) 13:25 -The Crew: The Quest for Planet 9 (Thomas Sing, KOSMOS, 2019) 15:02 -Qwixx (Steffen Benndorf, Gamewright, 2012) 16:41 -That's Pretty Clever (Wolfgang Warsch, Schmidt Spiele, 2018) 17:30 -Coloretto (Michael Schacht, ABACUSSPIELE, 2003) 19:32 -Orléans: Invasion (Inka Brand, Markus Brand, & Reiner Stockhausen, dlp Games, 2015) 20:59 -Scythe (Jamey Stegmaier, Stonemaier Games, 2016)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 25:55 Expansion to Twilight Imperium 4th ed. 26:44 Pandemic Legacy Season 0 27:20 Undaunted: Reinforcements 28:39 DeepMind: An AI for Diplomacy? 29:35 Lord of the Rings: Anniversary Edition 31:01 Steven Universe Beach-a-Palooza on Kickstarter July 14th 31:29 Pendulum by Stonemaier 31:39 Lost Ruins of Arnak by CGE 31:59 Documentary: Gamemaster
Tonight Steve, Mike and Adrian catch up at the BBQ and bring some Sizzling Games along with them. Mike had a blast playing the deck-builder Clank! and is already hankering for the expansions. Steve finally brings the feathered fun of Wingspan to the podcast, and life's a rollercoaster for Adrian with Unfair.
In this week's Topic of the Week the team shares the favourite games of their partners and the stories behind them. The guys quizzed their partners about their favourite games and which games they enjoyed playing with each other, and there were some surprising answers for the team. What games do you enjoy playing with your partner? Drop us an email or jump on the discord to let us know.
The Board Game Bracket served up a big surprise this week (even Mike was surprised), and we still have a few days left for Brass: Birmingham vs Incan Gold. Meanwhile, in Maximum Apocalypse vs Dice Throne, Adrian and Steve go head to head. Adrian explains why the cooperative roguelike adventure of Maximum Apocalypse should de-throne Steve, and Steve returns serve with the accessibility and balance of Battle Yahtzee... errr..sorry, I mean Dice Throne.
Lastly, in the spirit of our Topic of The Week, all three guys being forced to honour new oaths chosen by their significant others. After carefully making his way Through The Ages, Mike's partner wants him to be the King Of Toyko next. Fresh from Exploding Kittens, Adrian agress to take the plunge into Deep Madness. And after rolling out every excuse in the book, Steve settles for the cooperative clues of Codenames Duet.
If you are making your own oaths to play games from your "Shelf of Shame", make sure you share your success with the hashtag #oathfulfilled on Instagram!
(03:05) Sizzling Games
(31:48) Topic - Partners and Gaming
(54:49) The Board Game BBQ Bracket
(80:25) Swear an Oath
Blood On The Clocktower Event
We will be playing Blood On The Clocktower on our discord channel this Tuesday at 8pm (AEST). Join our discord channel to take part. If you miss out, don't stress because we will be running many more games in the future!
The Saturday Night Gameshow!!
Adrian will be hosting a special event Saturday 11th for the BGBBQ Team, and we will be recording our shenanigans for you all to enjoy. Watch this space next week for all the fun.
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Today's guest is one of the most important people in the world of gaming, the founder of Board Game Geek, Scott Alden. We talk about the founding of BGG, the vagaries of working in the video game world and what community means...but which games did he choose? Support the show here. Tigris and Euphrates Arkham Horror Gloomhaven Cities and Knights Time's Up