The boys are BACK, with a nice fun filled show.

We talk about a ton of games including reviews of The Big Score by Van Ryder Games and the expansion Colonies to Terraforming Mars by Stronghold Games.

We dip into 2018 in gaming and conventions as well as dip into the twitter Q and A bag. Oh and movies and TV? We got them as well. Spider-Verse, Bumblebee, Troopers, and Deadpool? sure why not!

Notes/Links (Will be edited a bit later-likely sunday)

Coming Soon, Games we are looking forward to in 2019

 

Looking forward to in 2019?

 

Edge of Darkness

Stygian Society

Legends of Sleepy Hollow

Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon

On Mars –Vital

Cloudspire! — Chip Theory

Empyreal: Spells and Steam— Level 99

Railroad Revolution expansion

The Artemis Project

Space Base Expansion  (Scenario based???)

Barrage

Dominant Species:Marine  Followup/Streamline?

Beta Colony

Medium!

Homebrewers

Ganz Shon Clever (2!) Q2?

Saw Some movies

Dan– Into the Spider Verse

Bumblebee

Deadpool 2

Super Troopers 2

Ready Player One

TV

Titans Season 1 in the books and it’s great. Also now available on Netflix!

Bird Box

 

Scorpius Freighter

Terraforming Mars with Mosley and Delk, with Colonies Prelude and Venus Next expansions

Fleet Dice 

Sagrada

Space Base 

Big Score on Christmas

Scarabya 

 

Keyforge on TTS with Mittsy

Fireball Island

Wingspan (more on the next State of Games!)

Soooo much more on SOG – plus our Games of the Year! Plug plug plug

Coming soon to the show, we have tons of games to be played including—> Boldest, Forum Trajanum, Monolith Arena, Treasure Island, Imperial Settlers Amazons  

 

 

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Kickstarters

• Welcome to Dino World
• Awkward Guests – Who Murdered Mr. Walton?
• New Stand alone Sword and Sorcery Core Set!
• The Crusoe Crew — Van Ryder

 

News

RIP Stan Lee

Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress

Mice and Mystics the movie?– Dreamworks has optioned the IP (Guess they finally listened to me when we keep being asked what IP would make a good movie)

More Theft at Essen

Super Dungeon Legends and their 1.3 Million miss handling and someone has gone to their state’s Attorney general

 

Essen– Wolfe How Was it??

Your experience with Pitching at Essen

How it differed for you than Gen Con?

Couple of games you think stood out?

 

Gamers for Cures–

8th year for the event.

Great Sponsors and players.

Thanks to all who have donated over the year and years, and those who helped out with the event this year.

— People come from far and wide (Charlotte, Minny) and many who have been a part for all 8 years.

–Our longtime sponsors Van Ryder, Red Raven, Stronghold,GTG, CGE, TMG, Cape Fear Games, The Gamers Armory

 

Our Gross is just over $15,000 little less net b/c of expenses, but brings our total to about 130,000 over the 8 years.

The Wall, Silent auctions (new and used game bundles), College b-ball tickets, Canes tickets and Day in the Dirt with Caterpillar.

 

Games played at the event!

 

Finca (Chris first time)

Food Chain Magnate

Coimbra

Brew Crafters

the big score

Carpe Diem

Fortune City

Newton

stuffed fables

Walking in Burano

Castle Flutterstone

Pandemic Iberia

4 Pints, Please

Halloween Candy Draft!!!

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Be sure to thumb the post or the thread to enter this months contest after voting.

 

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Tonight Dan Chris and Josh, get together to discus a bunch of KS and news, and a game each we are looking forward to at Essen 18.

But the crown jewel of fun comes during our fun 15 min power hour where we get into Geek Bay price is right!

NOTES!!!!

So PSA in case anyone wants to grab some Bento Boxes at 35$ plus shipping…

https://shop.boardgamebento.com/

Look at my old videos for what’s in some of the boxes and see if it’s worth it
Iello Box is good
Dec 17
Nov 17***
Sept 17**
Oct 17
Aug 16

Kickstarters

Cloudspire –Chip Theory Games

Barrage — Cranio Creations (Was on my top 11 to try from Gen Con)

Spirit Island: Jagged Earth

Lovelace and Babbage

Tidal Blades

Valhalla (Really want to pledge for the “be in the game” level – Chris)

Dreams of Tomorrow

Warhammer Age of Sigman Board Game coming soon

Rise and Fall of Anvalor

Nothing on BGG yet

 

Gen Con to stay in indy through 2023

Building more space and 2 new hotels

Mindes letter to GAMA 

 

One Game we are looking forward to at this year’s Essen?

Dan

Looking forward to at Essen

Underwater Cities Suchy Pulsar, Last will, Prodigals club

(Reminds me a little of Artemis project maybe only for the theme)

Chris

Solenia

Mills— Good luck to the Game Designers of North Carolina!

Dan

GAMES PLAYED

Terraforming Mars on PC–

 

CHRIS

Games Played

DEEP MADNESS

 

–Chris

Topics (Thanks to those who posted on the old thread as well!)

–Chris
Daniel Hutchison wants to know…
Any credible geek must…
1. Own this/these games
2. Have seen this/these movies

–Dan ukraineboo (Jonathan Powell) “A look back at your hot game(s) a year ago. Are you still playing them? How have they held up?”
OR— looking at our top 11 games from last year each or 2 years ago each and have they held up?

— Mills
I just finished Spider-Man from insomniac games. What other Marvel/DC franchise would we want to see video games of and why

— Dan: Geek Bay Price is right!!

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Tonight Dan and Chris cover a wide range of Kickstarters, some more trailers, a nice rabbit hole of youtube and then get into a nice discussion about playing games in the “Spirit of the game”.

And all this is followed by a very amazing mailbag and “Ask us anything”. Thanks for listening!

Kickstarters

Homebrewers — DHM

Stygian Society — Ape Games

Tiny Epic Mechs — Gamelyn

The Artemis Project — Grand Gamers Guild

Science! — Jason Inman Graphic Novel

Key Flow (Keyflower the card game)

Project L  — Jan Soukal

Viceroy Expansion— Discount 2$ if you backed 1st KS

BattleCon Unleashed — Level 99 games

Belfort is back

Hollywood Death Race – How long until a cease & desist? Or is this fair use under parody? (I don’t think so with Optimus)

 

Videos!! Yes some more Trailers and some YouTube Rabbit holes we went down!

 

 

 

 

 

BONUS!! This just in Harley Quinn animated Trailer (not discussed on show but I felt like adding it)

 

 

GAMES PLAYED

Finca  With Family

Rajas of the Ganges (Yucata)

EmDo on Yucata.de

Gizmos with family

 

“Spirit of the Game” Discussion

Ask us Anything– Some great questions here. If we did not get to yours, I promise we will come back to these very soon!

 

 

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Tonight Dan and Chris are joined by the Fleeples (Matt and Ben) to talk about a ton of news, Kickstarters, movies and also get into what we have been playing especially from Gran Con.

And we could not do a Knizia draft without having these guys on who are much more experts on the good doctor then we actually are!

So before anything else go to the Draft poll and VOTE on who won!

Some world famous show notes!

Kickstarters

Homebrewers — DHM

Stygian Society — Ape Games

Tiny Epic Mechs — Gamelyn

The Artemis Project — Grand Gamers Guild

Bad Maps — Floodgate Games

Bee Lives: We will only know Summer  Matt Shoemaker

Into the Black Forest-– Green Couch

Science! — Jason Inman Graphic Novel

News

 

 

 

DC Universe Launch! Some good pics from Titans and a new clip

Thunderstone Quest Releasing Nov 8th

Ghosts of the Moor — Kramer and Keisling TMG

Scorpius Freighter more info (price and Q4 release)

Potion Explosion upgrades and Camel Up 2.0

 

 

2018 Summer Movie Draft Results!

 

Dan $941,721,131.00

Chris $885,871,448.00

Marty $764,114,714.00

Tony $475,736,469.00

 

Games Played/Grand Con review!

 

Gizmos

nefarious

Villainous

Super Mario Level Up

Nemo’s War

Captain Sonar

In Vino Morte

Welcome To..

Ascension:Delerium 

Space Base

Hail Hydra

 

 

 

Knizia Draft!!

 

We will go 1-4 4-1 4 rounds and you at home will tell us who wins the draft!

 

Random Order

Matt—>  Chris Ben Matt Dan

Random numbers

Ben —>  4213

 

Draft order is

 

Dan

Ra

Pickomino

Lord of the Rings

Poison

 

Ben

Amun-Re

Quest for El Dorado

Winners Circle

Fits

 

Chris

Modern Art

Through the Desert

Medici the Card Game

Formula Motor Racing

 

Matt

Tigris and Euphrates

Samurai

Medici

Lost Cities

 

 

 

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Tonight is another one of our occasional off the rails potpourri shows.

We go from Comics (The upcoming DC Universe Launch) to TV to Movies to GAMA to Games and back again.

We cover a bunch of games and manage to get a nice review of Space Base thrown in there as well.

And no episode would be complete without some Gloomhaven love thrown in there for good measure!

All that and our first ever “I don’t Get it” segment where we each talk about a crazy popular game that we just don’t get it’s popularity.

Kickstarters:

Guild Master— Good Games–>  Has some Revolution feel to it.

The Ancient World 2nd Ed  

NEWS

DC Universe Launch Sept 15th

Age of Sigmar Champions, full App release in about a week Super Excited about the app, the card  game is great and the app will be too.

LOTR LCG releases on Steam– Crit Camp has been doing some great coverage

Yspahan Designer’s new game by DoW The River  Super Light Euro

Gama Talk- We cover both of these stories and Jeff Tidball’s Post about what GAMA should be and what he would like to see in a leader of GAMA

Gama Fires multiple people? John Ward (contract not renewed as of Feb 19) and Angela Ward… Future of Stephan Brussaud —still there as president? How Long?

More info on the Brussaud incedent.

People saying Shazam looks dumb

I say those people are CRAZY!

 

Superman is…. GERALT!!!  Based on Witcher series.

 

Good interview with Buonocore on Icv2

What we have been playing (ACTUAL GAMES NO WAY!!)

Monolith Arena! With Ignacy

Gloomhaven (yeah I know I said that)

Space Base

Welcome To…

John Corbett (We didn’t actually talk about this one this show, but hey go check it out anyway)

Carson City: The Card Game

Home Alone game (better than thought it would be)

 

And of course our “I don’t get it” segment where Dan doesn’t get the popularity of a real hot game right now and Kirkman takes the easy way out and bashes a game he’s bashed 100 times already. But still leads to a good “Spirit of the game” talk.

 

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Tonight Dan, Chris and Ben P., take on a TON TON TON of great games from Gen Con. And manage to make fun of Riddle a time or two.

There’s a bunch of new games from the con like Scarabya, and Pikoko, and a bunch of games just on the horizon we got to demo, including The Artemis Project and Scorpius Freighter.

 

Other Great Games Talked about!!

KeyForge: Call of the Archons
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions Trading Card Game
Crusader Kings: The Boardgame

Blue Lagoon

Tower of Madness   

Scorpius Freighter  

Pikoko

Scarabya   

Pioneers

Orbis

Artemis Project

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective:Jack the Ripper

Conex  

King of the dice

Dungeon Draft

Kingdom Run

Penk

Criss Cross

Piepmatz

Fortune

 

 

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Here it is!!

Your 2018 Gen Con top 11 to TRY and top 11 to BUY!!

Dan, Chris and Wolfe go over the games you cannot purchase this year but you can play (Try/Demo) and also the top games you want to purchase this year (BUY).

 

It’s always a great way to learn about the games we want to pick up and also the games you will be hearing about in the near future as the hotness to be!

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Dan

 

To Try List

Dan

 

11. Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps Gf9

     10 Empyreal Spells and Steam — Level 99 Trey Chambers (argent)

      9  Barrage — Cranio Creations  Luciani

       8  Call to Adventure— Brotherwise Dice Rolling building character to face challenges

       7  Scorpius Freighter — AEG  Dunston and Short

       6 Batman Gotham City Chronicles   –Monolith

       5 Wander:The Cult of Barnacle Bay  Panda Cult Games

4. Vault of Dragons— GF9  

       3 The Stygian Society — Ape== Kevin Wilson Cube Tower

       2– Thunderstone Quest

      1– Sorcerer  White Wizard

 

Chris

Demo

1. The Artemis Project Grand Gamers Guild
2. Kings’ Struggle WizKids
3. Cryptid Osprey Games
4. Helios Expanse Greenbrier
5. Haven Red Raven
6. Sovereign Skies Deepwater Games
7. Spymaster Calliope Games
8. High Rise Formal Ferret
9. The Estates Simply Complex
10. Bad Maps Floodgate
11. Scorpius Freighter AEG

Matt

Demo

1. Nightmarium
2. Barrage
3. Discovery: The Era of Voyage
4. High Rise
5. Treasure Island
6. The Phoenix Syndicate
7. On Their Merry Way
8. Cryptid
9. Vadoran Gardens
10. The Mansky Caper
11. ArchRavelry

 

 

Extras to Try

Fortune — Stronghold FF series

Champions of Hara Greenbrier — Fantasy Adventure Game

Franchise  Queen

Rice Dice  — APE — Dubarry

Snow White and 7 Dwarfs : A gemstone mining Game — Usaopoly (Quartz)

Megaland — Red Raven  

Startropolis  Petersen Games

Orbis— Space Cowboys– Tim Armstrong

Rallyman

Top 11 to Buy  

Dan

625$

11 Smiths of Winterforge Rule and Make 60

10 Woodlands Ravensburger 40

9  The Reckoners  — Nauvoo Games 100

8 Minerva — Pandasaurus 50

7 Scarabya— Karuba w/ Scarabs  BLue Orange 30 (Cathala and Maublanc) booth 1813

6 Multiuniversum Grey Fox  15

5 Founders of Gloomhaven  Cephalophair 70

4 Big Score— Van Ryder  50

3  Coimbra — PlanB 70

2 Rise of Queensdale Ravensburger 80

1 Newton  CMON Ltd (cranio Creations) —  60 Luciani (Lorenzo)

 

Chris

1. Nyctophobia Pandasaurus $40
2. Tower of Madness Smirk & Dagger $60
3. Gizmos CMON $35
4. Most Wanted North Star $35
5. Trade on the Tigris TMG $60
6. Newton CMON $60
7. Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game Portal $50
8. Catalyst DV GIOCHI $27
9. Carson City: The Card Game Quined Games $25
10. Spirits of the Wild Mattel $15
11. Carthago Capstone Games $40

 

$447

 

Matt

Buy

1. The Rise of Queensdale $80
2. Kingdom Run $20
3. Home Alone Game $20
4. Gizmos $35
5. Villainous $35
6. Piepmatz $15
7. Newton $60
8. Railroad Ink $20 each
9. Jungle Race $17.50
10. Dinosaur Tea Party $20
11. GoodCritters $25

$367.50 total

 

More to buy!!

History of the World  ZMAN  70

Shifting Realms —Soaring Rhino  75 Craig Van ness

Wakening Lair   Rather Dashing 35

Wendake  Renegade 65

Terra-forming Mars Prelude

Kitchen rush

Paper Tales

Kashgar (That Matt or Ben should buy this so we can play it with them)

A’Writhe (Eldritch Twister from Jay Treat)

Horizons

Legends of Sleepy Hollow demos

 

 

 

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Tonight we are joined (for the first time in a while) by Ryan Laukat from Red Raven games, for an interview and also a 15 min power hour.

Link to Ryan’s Game Illustration Story Geek List

 

We have 4 segments (roughly) 15 mins each.

There’s a topical segment each from Chris and Ryan. Also Dan hosts 2 game show segments with the others!

I hope everyone enjoys this show as it was a blast to talk to Ryan about his designs and one of my favorite games of the year Empire of the Void II.

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Also there’s another quick contest in the show for the first one to take a certain picture in a certain place, but you will have to listen to find that one out!

 

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Tonight we are Joined by the AWESOME world class designers THE FLEEPLES! Matt and Ben are great buddies of ours and it’s always a blast to have them on the show.

 

We cover a TON TON TON of great games from the con and might even have a bickering session or two.

First, as always  Grab one of our Shirts HERE!

Also I want to point out it’s our 7th anniversary as a podcast! With any luck many of you have been around from day one (It’s ok I know not many have been), and with any more luck we are a bit better by now!

SO check out the show for our 7th anniversary contest on how you can win 1 of 2 25$ gift cards to Cape Fear Games!

Also if you won the Fantasy Fantasy Baseball contest or came in 2nd please contact me! I will let you know how you can get your prize!

Kickstarters

Greg Cornell –Stikfa-mations how to play videos season 5

 

News

CMON Still being douchy — letter from CMON to Delk

Origins hit a new high in attendance (Press release)

Origins Awards

More info on GF9 DnD board game Vault of Dragons

 

What have we been playing (ORIGINS!)

Dan

Storm Chasers (Halstad)– Unpub

Valor City Vigilantes Smoley Superhero dice game Unpub

Medium— unpub

Home Brewers– unpub

Dare or Dare (Nat Levan)– UInpub 

Curators (DHM)– Unpub

Bee Lives  (Dan and Ben)– Unpub

Big Score (Van Ryder)– Coming at Gen Con!—  Bought some Graphic novel Adventures too

Endeavor  Grand Gamers Guild Reef

Karuba Card Game

Space Base (Awesome– John D Clair) 

Emperor’s Choice— Hayoshi Game TMG with Dan and Ben

Ganz Shon Clever

Coimbra (Dan Chris Ben)  2nd place.. Crazy dumb VP strategy

Piepmatz (Fleeples!!) 

 

Chris

Prototypes: Thieves Den, Maastricht, Homebrewers, The Curators, Supertall (on KS now) Medium!

Endeavor: Age of Sail

Majesty for the Realm

Riverboat

Decrypto

Ganz Schön Clever

Coimbra

 

 

Matt (Riddle)

Wolfe – Squaring Circleville–Unpub

Heaven and Ale

Space Base

Caveman Drawing

The climbers

The Mind

 

Ben

Floor 13– Wolfe–Unpub 

Fashionistas –Mills and Halstad– Unpub

Liars Dice

 

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