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It’s that time of year again!! BJ from Board Game Gumbo is back with Dan as we give our top 11 lists of games to Try (only available to Demo) and To Buy at Gen Con 2024!

Tons of great games you may or may not know will be at the con this year.

Tell us what is on your list!

GameToppers

Their new KS now live! 

Game Toppers 4.5 Galactic Game Tables, Terrain Packs & Mats  

Clank! Digital went to EA today on steam! $22.99

Gen Con Preview!!

  Top 11 to Try (Reminder these are games you CANNOT Buy Demo only  

DAN LIST

11 Dead Cells:The Rogue-Lite Board Game

10 Biomes of Nilgiris

9 Aeterna (Martin Wallace heavy euro)

8 Avalon:The Riven Veil

7 Luthier

6 The Paradox Initiative

5 Ada’s Dream

4 Vrahode:Age of Prophecy

3 Ascendancy — Also kinda cheat since I backed it just want to play (Was my #1 last year just wanted to list it again)

2 Mistborn Deckbuilding Game John D Clair!

1 Star Trek:Captains Chair (I have not actually played imperium horizons or others but everyone keeps telling me how much I would love those games)  

 

BJ  

1. Chaos Cove (cheat)
2. Bomb Busters (English edition) (check out the artwork and gameplay)
3. Tales of the Arthurian Knights (never played the original)
4. Reef and Ruins (R&R) (Weird Giraffe’s follow up to Wicked & Wise)
5. SETI: Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CGE’s big one)
6. In The Footsteps of Marie Curie (the follow up)
7. Finca (the classic!)
8. Galactic Cruise (What’s all the hype?)
9. Lairs (KTBG – a kid’s version of Dungeon Keepers?)
10. Knitting Circle (Flatout)
11. VNTYPL8S (25th Century) Clarence Simpson (The Wolves)

 

Top 11 to BUY– Games that will be for sale (or we were told or think will be for sale)

 Dan

First the Cheats b/c of course– games from our friends games I own or games been out a while. Just mentioning in case not on anyone else’s List) 

French Quarter $30

River Valley Glassworks $39

Slay the Spire (I already own but go buy this!) $170

Top Tier 

Yokohama (New Ed)

Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught – Tendrils of the Lichen Lich Starter Set (English edition) $100 Crossbows and Catapults:Fortress War $90

Vale of Eternity (we’ve been talking about forever)  $35

Faraway ($25)  

Honorable mentions from Dan–Expanions

Aquatica Coral Reefs

Geen Team Wins- Holiday Party $10

Clank Catacombs Lairs and lost chambers  –may or may not be there

Astro-Knights Eternity $50  

DAN list  ($665?)

11 Portals $45

10 Evenfal $60

9 An Age Contrived $80

8 Reavers of Midgard the Card game $40

7 Landmarks  $25

6 Metrorunner $60

5 Divinity Original Sin:The Board Game $150

4 Pirates of Maracaibo $50

3 Rock Hard: 1977 $50 (so their site says)

2 Invincible the Hero Building Game $55

1 The Mandalorian:Adventures $50

  BJ

Games I already own but would recommend:

French Quarter $30

River Valley Glassworks $39

Rebel Princess $25  

Top 11 I don’t own: ($398)

1. Tir na nog $35
2. Sea Dragons (Draco Studios – Simone Luciani) $38
3. Cities (PWH / Steve Finn) $25
4. Pirates of Maracaibo $50
5. Comic Hunters  $25
6. Aquatica – Coral Reefs $40
7. Video Game Champion $60
8. Seers Catalog $15
9. River of Gold  $50 (Keith Piggot, Office Dog)
10. Neodreams  $35
11.  Spectacular $35  or Zuuli (Oink) or Sherlock: The Game is Afoot $30 (co-designers of the new TMNT: Unmatched Adventures set)

  Also wanted to mention some great people who will be at the Thunderworks GM booth doing demos and signings. Go check them out at booth #1363)

• Phillip DuBarry (Citizens of the Spark, upcoming)
• Keith Matejka (Roll Player, etc)
• Nate Linhart  (Tenpenny Parks)
• James & Peter Ryan (Roll Player Adventures, writers)
• Stephen Kerr (Metrorunner)
• Jason Lentz (Dawn of Ulos)

 

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KS

Zoo tycoon:TheBoard Game– New Shores–:Expansion

Peaks

Tales from the Red Dragon Inn Second Printing

And the head scratcher of the week…. Realms of Eldaador:The Quest for the eternal flame

News/whatever 

Steam summer Sale Riddle did you pick anything up?  

SDJ /KDJ chat  

Spiel des Jahres 2024:  

Captain Flip, from Remo Conzadori, Paolo Mori, and PlayPunk

Sky Team, from Luc Rémond and Scorpion Masqué (and from KOSMOS in Germany)

In the Footsteps of Darwin, from Grégory Grard, Matthieu Verdier, and Sorry We Are French   And the recommendations  Harmonies, Passt nicht!, Phantom Ink, Schätz it if you can, Trekking Through History, and Trio.  

KDJ

The Guild of Merchant Explorers, from Matthew Dunstan, Brett J. Gilbert, and AEG (and from Skellig Games in Germany)

Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West, from Alan R. Moon, Rob Daviau, Matt Leacock, and Days of Wonder

Daybreak, from Matt Leacock, Matteo Menapace, and CMYK (and from Schmidt Spiele in Germany)  

The SdJ jury recommended Bier Pioniere, Botanicus, Forest Shuffle, and Ritual.  

What we’ve been watching

  Dan-  

House of Dragons

S2 Acolyte (not great– more on that in a future show)

Riddle

Evil

Derry Girls

Renegade Nell  

Chris

Reacher

The Boys

Oppenheimer

Rewatched the Deapools in prep  

What we have been playing 

Dan

Dandelions with Roscoe in Harrisburg  

Riddle

Sausage Sizzle!

DabbaWalla

Mojo      

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Tonight Dan Waybright and Riddle talk about a TON of what we have been playing, hit some Crowdfunding and talk about petting Dogs. 

As always meander into and out of some Dan-Gents!

Kickstarters

Agemonia

Rebirth— Knizia

Dabba Walla-— Great light game For Sale Feel — Basically pre-order Deliver in Aug

Secret Villages and Santa’s Workshop

Big Sur, Grand Central Skyport, Sand Art, & Wine Cellar — 25th C Games  

Coming soon to steam (And currently on KS)

Maximum Apocalypse Video Game KS ($12 for Early access and final Game)

Maximum Apocalypse   

Game Found

Stupor Mundi— Is on BGA to try as well

Grimcoven — Boss Battler  

What we have been playing 

  Dan

Steam Games

Hades 2

Circadian Dice Way better than it has any right to be for $6 and a demo  

BG

Just One at a Brewery

Thunderstone Quest Solo going through the campaigns

Stupor Mundi  

David

King of Tokyo Duel

Board Games

Windmill Valley

 

 

 

 

Unstoppable

And so many con-season games are starting to show up!  

Video Game

Pinball FX Super League Football table

More Balatro  

Riddle

Harmonies

Moorland  

Steam

Midnight Suns  

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Tonight Dan and Chris are joined by Justin Jacobson and Marty Connell for a fun time of movies and TV chat some what we have been playing and an amazing time doing the Perfect Album draft. Let us know what albums you think have ZERO songs to skip on them and are otherwise perfect.

Kickstarters

Mad Matchup

Regicide Legacy

Rove  

What we’ve been watching

Dan-  

The Marvels

Finished Fallout 

Road House

Just about every true crime doc we can find apparently. Most recently started one on this spanish chef murderer (Cooking Up Murder: Uncovering the Story of César Román)

Also nutty doc on a weird cult–  Escaping Twin Flames   

Chris

Finished Fallout

Road House

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Ricky Stanicky  

Justin

Trust

Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare  

Marty

The Fall Guy

Fallout

Shogun

X-Men 97

The Gentlemen  

What we have been playing 

  Dan

Frosthaven

Board games at the beach recap (more on this in upcoming shows)

DabbaWalla (new from Queen)  

Chris

The Moving Game  

Justin

Sail

Fairy Tale Inn

1960: Making of the President

Frosthaven  

Marty

Star Wars Unlimited

Unmatched – Slings and Arrows  

DRAFT!!  

Today’s Draft- The perfect Album draft– basically those with no skippable songs

This was recommended to us by Mat Franz.

These are albums with no bad songs on them

 Restrictions– no Greatest hits and no soundtracks.  

	Justin	Chris	Marty	Dan
Round 1	Nevermind (Nirvana)	Rumors (Fleetwood Mac)	Thriller (Michael Jackson)	Purple rain (Prince)
Round 2	Green Day Dookie	Counting Crows -August and everything after	Boston-Boston	Led Zeppelin  IV
Round 3	NWA –Straight Outta Compton	Beastie Boys License to ill	Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the moon	Metallica (Metallica)
Round 4	Tenacious D- Tenacious D	Charlie Brown Christmas- Vince Guaraldi	Supertramp- Breakfast in America	Alanis Morrissette Jagged little pill

  Once I get the voting up it will be HERE!    

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Tonight Riddle is back with Chris and Dan to talk about a bunch of Crowdfunding some movies and actors some of us have never heard of, and a bunch of oldies but goodies games we have played and also a couple of new ones. And Dan gives a nice overview of the new Slay the Spire Board game.

Don’t forget next month is Board Games at the Beach!

We have 2 weekend passes to give away for this year’s event so if you are interested reply here, on the guild post OR mail us directly.

KS

 Aqua ROVE – A Button Shy Wallet Game

The Eternaut the Board Game –co-Op Survival

Dragonbound Lords of Vaala— Expansions and base game

Tiny Epic Game of Thrones

Bloomchasers

Heroes of the Sanctum:The Strategy Card game

Xenofera: Galactic Market  

CMON announced the upcoming DC Heroes United— Coming to Gamefound in July 

Castles of Burgundy Special Ed Reprint coming soon as well. Should be live as you are hearing this.

What we’ve been watching

Dan-  

Some real crime NY thing on Netflix real good

Fallout   

Chris

Tournament of Champions

Mission Impossible  

Riddle 

Luther — I. Elba  

What we have been playing 

  Dan

Slay the Spire the BG   

(Game night with the neighbors)

Vegas

Can’t Stop

Cascadia  

Riddle

Stonespine Architects

Tipperary

Trio    

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If you are early adopters of the show you can still likely get into the GAS NCAA bracket on CBS sports link in the guild.

I’ll give the winner something likely a pick from the prize closet

KS

River Valley Glassworks

Etherstone 

Cascadia: Rolling

Inventors of the South Tigris

Super Boss Monster

Fantasyform — Button Shy

Shogun Revised ed

Flash Point:Legacy

Armello:The Board Game

Requiem – Downfall of Magic

GameFound

Baseball Highlights 2045 Bases Loaded Ed

  NEWS AND GAMES!!

The Acolyte Trailer (2 ep June 4th)

Adam hosts a few blind rank challenge

What we’ve been watching

Dan-   Wonka Started Full Swing S2 The Spaceman (Sandler)  Almost done with Lessons in Chemistry   Adam

• Shogun
• Poor Things
• Napoleon

Ben

• Slow Horses
• The Diplomat
• Fool me once
• Drive to Survive
• Manhunt

 

What we have been playing 

Dan SolForge Fusion now on Steam (early access) More BGA   Adam

• Cuzco – Feld (reimplementation of Bora Bora)
• Barcelona – Dani Garcia
• Colab – John Mietling and Jon Gilmour
• Tiger & Dragon – Oink Games domino game (modernization of Goita)
• Expeditions – Stegmaier (Scythe adjacent)

  Ben

• BGA mostly
• After Us
• Sea Salt & Paper
• RVG
• Framework
• Evolution
• Piepmatz
• Heat

 

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Tonight Dan, Chris Riddle and Waybright are back as always to do our top 11 Board Games of 2023. We also have our Schmoe’s choice (listeners choice)

It’s a fun time with a few Dang-ents as a group as always.

Past GOTY

2023– ??

2022– Ark Nova

2021– Witchstone

2020– The Lost Ruins of Arnak

2019– Fleet:The Dice Game

2018– Coimbra

2017– Gloomhaven

2016– Terraforming Mars

2015– Codenames

2014– Imperial Settlers

2013– Keyflower

2012– Lords of Waterdeep

2011– Eminent Domain  

Goty 2023

Tune in next week for the full reveal but until then go listen to the show!!

11 Star Wars DBG

10 Apiary   

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Tonight Dan Chris and Riddle talk about some new KS, a few things we watched, and then cover a bunch of games we played at Motor City Con in Detroit, including Marrakesh and Wonderlands War.

Kickstarters

Votes for Women reprint

Explorers of Navoria 

Fate: Defenders of Grimheim  Terraforming Mars Designers

Metrorunner Thunderworks GM

What we’ve been watching

Dan-

Reacher (finished S2 almost over)

Percy Jackson Started

Slow Horses

Rebel Moon

Riddle

Slow Horses

Loudermilk

Chris

Rebel Moon

What If…?

Games Played!

Dan

MCG Con

Septima

Wonderlands War 

Marrakesh

Scout

Bacon

Lancaster  

Chris 

Imperial Miners

Freehand

Criss Cross    

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Rock Manor Games– Check out the Rock Manor Games store for some great games Use the coupon Code- GEEKALLSTARS for 10% off your order! And for other great sponsors check the links above to support them and for our affiliates some will come back to help the show!