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The Board Gaming Doctor

The Board Gaming Doctor•boardgamegeek.com
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Hello everyone, welcome to the Board Gaming Doctor, my name is Phil, and I will be your board game doctor today. I diagnose games based on strategic depth, and love going into what it takes to win a game. But if a game is purely fun that matters too. I primarily enjoy medium to heavy Euro-style games, but all games are welcome on my table. In particular, I subspecialize in Uwe Rosenberg games, and often blog about them. Thanks, and hope you schedule an appointment with your board game doctor real soon!
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Episodes

Black Forest - Comprehensive Review

00:00 Intro 01:50 Game highlights 05:59 Game comparisons 15:34 Peer review 19:54 Deep dive - strategy thoughts and gameplay insights 43:40 Concluding thoughts

Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 1 min

Board Game Journal - October 2024

00:00 Intro 01:25 Glass Road/Competitive gaming thoughts 06:35 Duck and Cover 09:04 Resist! 12:15 51st State 14:22 Akropolis: Athena Expansion 17:00 Kingdomino, playing with family

Oct 30, 2024•22 min

Rosenberg News and Board Game Wrap Up September 2024

00:00 Intro 01:13 Rosenberg News (Click a Tree, At the Gates of Loyang) 02:57 Harvest 05:43 Arctic 07:16 Castle Combo 10:05 Colt Express 12:21 Cosmoctopus 13:38 Darwin's Journey 16:06 DVONN 17:34 Finca 18:56 A Gest of Robin Hood 24:37 Inori 28:34 Orleans 33:24 Smallworld 37:01 Treos 39:36 Outro and rankings

Oct 04, 2024•40 min

Top 5 Board Game Themes

00:00 Intro 03:08 Honorable mention 04:59 number 5 09:07 number 4 12:08 number 3 16:29 number 2 21:14 number 1

Aug 12, 2024•27 min

July 2024 Wrap Up

00:00 Intro 00:29 Spirit Island 05:34 Distilled 08:05 Age of Innovation 12:28 Path of Civilization 16:41 Linx 18:41 Botanicus 21:07 Coal Baron 22:50 My Lil’ Everdell 24:55 Next Station: Paris 25:55 WyrmSpan 29:49 Galactic Era 32:15 The Red Cathedral...

Aug 06, 2024•35 min

Luthier First Impressions

00:00 Intro 01:17 Game highlights 04:16 Game comparisons 10:46 Peer Review 12:04 My first impressions

Jul 31, 2024•19 min

These Games NEED Expansions!

Games I think need expansions, and games with expansions already that I would love to check out.

Jul 21, 2024•28 min

June 2024 Board Game Wrap-Up

00:00 Intro 01:13 Cat in the Box 03:23 Trio 05:17 Middle Ages 07:07 Pax Renaissance 10:24 Brass: Birmingham 14:04 Dune: Imperium 19:11 Confusing Lands 20:47 Roll Through the Ages: Iron 22:46 Sail 24:41 River of Gold 26:56 Cascadia: Landmarks

Jul 09, 2024•32 min

Healthy Heart Hospital First Impressions

00:00 Intro, PnP Campaign for third edition https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3203049/a-campaign-pnp 01:14 Game overview and highlights 04:18 Game comparisons 06:23 My first impressions

Jun 17, 2024•17 min

Rise of Babel First Impressions

I have no personal or financial bias towards this game; this review was done solely due to interest. 00:00 Intro, game overview 00:49 Game highlights 03:32 Game comparisons 05:07 My first impressions

Jun 06, 2024•15 min

Harmonies First Impressions

00:00 Intro, Game overview 00:55 Game highlights 03:02 Game comparisons 07:50 Peer review 09:37 First impressions

Jun 03, 2024•19 min

Top 10 Games I Want to Revisit

00:00 Intro 01:40 number 10 03:57 number 9 06:01 number 8 08:08 number 7 09:52 number 6 11:48 number 5 13:46 number 4 15:12 number 3 17:08 number 2 19:33 number 1

Jun 01, 2024•23 min

Black Forest Rulebook Analysis

I highlight some of my favorite mechanisms from the rulebook of Black Forest, and see how it compares to Glass Road.

May 23, 2024•8 min

Stupor Mundi Review

00:00 Intro, game overview 01:23 game highlights 02:53 game comparisons 05:08 peer review 06:23 my review

May 22, 2024•9 min

Nature Preview and Evolution Mini-Review

How to access beta app of Nature: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17_3K0GMmYmO8eW2QF4wo69x6FcoY_mv3MfOaY78wqAo/edit 00:00 Intro, game overview 01:33 Game highlights 05:33 Game comparisons 08:20 Evolution peer review 13:03 My final thoughts

May 14, 2024•20 min

Black Forest Board Game Geek Page Analysis

I go over my thoughts and guesses on what Black Forest, the latest Rosenberg game announced, has to offer. This game is slated to release by Spiel '24, and is advertised as the sequel to Glass Road.

May 08, 2024•6 min
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