Board Game Barrage

Join Kellen, Neilan, Mark, and Christina for a podcast about board games, the latest hotness, and how to have fun with your friends even when you're losing.

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#6: Today's Theme: Pronunciation

Our feature topic this week is theme . How important is the theme of a board game to you? Does it affect your enjoyment of a game? What games best utilize their theme to put a neat little bow on their mechanics? We talk about all this (and more!!!) after a quick look at our week in games, which includes Tash Kalar , Krazy Wordz , Kanban, and The Mind . Timecodes: 01:04 - Tash Kalar 02:32 - Krazy Wordz 08:38 - Kanban 17:56 - The Mind 24:00 - Theme 30:30 - Gloomhaven 40:44 - Lords of Vegas 41:47 -...

Mar 22, 2018•49 min

#5: It's Good To Be Kingmaker

Kingmaking is our feature topic this week. If you can't win, what's your responsibility as a good player? It's a complex, divisive topic, but then, we're complex, divisive people. We also talk about Wyatt Earp , Coffee Roaster , and El Grande . Timecodes: 01:24 - Wyatt Earp 08:15 - Coffee Roaster 13:47 - El Grande 19:16 - Kingmaking

Mar 16, 2018•53 min

#4: Buy Buy Buy

How many board games do you need? If you're Mark, you need them all. Before we get there though, we also talk about what we've been playing, namely, John Company , Coffee Roaster , Adrenaline and Innovation . Topics discussed: 01:03 - John Company 08:40 - Coffee Roaster 09:42 - Adrenaline 14:30 - Innovation 22:10 - Collection Size

Mar 08, 2018•47 min

#3: Double Dragonfly

Rising Sun ! Everyone's talking about it, and so must we. It's our feature topic this week, but first, a brief look at what else we've been playing: Spirit Island , Hardback and Decrypto. We close the show with a look ahead to what we're hoping to play. Games discussed: 00:58 - Spirit Island 07:51 - Hardback 15:45 - Decrypto 20:20 - Rising Sun

Feb 28, 2018•53 min

#2: Catching Trains and Mathing Trades

We talk about what we've been playing ( 1830 , Archipelago and Gaia Project ), we dive deep into math trading for board games, and close out with what we're looking forward to in the weeks ahead. Games and topics discussed: 01:10 - 1830 07:39 - Archipelago 14:04 - Gaia Project 20:34 - Math Trading 42:09 - Guards of Atlantis

Feb 22, 2018•45 min

#1: I'm Not Upset, I'm Just Disappointed

We each talk about a game we liked from 2017, a game that let us down, and what we're looking forward to in 2018, including When I Dream , Gloomhaven , Charterstone , Battle For Rokugan , and more. Games discussed: 01:55 – When I Dream 04:16 – Charterstone 07:38 – Bob Ross: Art of Chill 09:45 – Battle for Rokugan 14:45 – Gloomhaven 18:01 – The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 21:27 – Tiny Epic Quest 24:01 – Sagrada 27:11 – Photosynthesis...

Feb 15, 2018•33 min

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