Board Game Barrage

It's been a while since we've plumbed the depths of the bottomless chasm we call "fanmail", so this week we're reaching our hands as far as we can and pulling out some questions that have yet to see the light of say. Before we dig too greedily and too deep, we talk about Politrickers, Marvel Champions: The Card Game, and Banana Governance.
02:19 - Politrickers
10:47 - Marvel Champions: The Card Game
19:13 - Banana Governance
30:33 - Minimum expectations with new players?
40:59 - "Late to the Party" games?
47:19 - Stuff that we're looking forward to!
47:45 - The Danes
56:57 - Purple Haze
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The people demand takes, so get 'em while they're hot. We're weighing in on some possibly bad, certainly edgy opinions, and deciding where we land (spoiler: we're always right). Before we get heated, we talk about Diplomacy: The Golden Blade, and Cozy Stickerville.
01:46 - Diplomacy: The Golden Blade
12:33 - Cozy Stickerville
25:41 - Hot takes!
26:11 - Co-op games are just single player games with an audience
32:01 - Catch Up mechanics ruin competitive integrity
37:39 - Legacy games are a predatory waste of money
41:22 - If a game takes more than 30 minutes to teach, it's a bad design
45:56 - Player elimination is actually a good mechanism
47:36 - Hidden victory points are a cowardly design choice
51:38 - Gateway games Like Catan or Monopoly should be actively avoided
52:44 - House ruling a game means you bought the wrong game
53:10 - Theme is a myth
54:13 - Kickstarter deluxe editions are actively ruining the hobby
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We had such fun collaboratively coming up with our definitive Top 50 list back in December, that we've decided to do it again. In the spirit of award season, we're celebrating the games of yesteryear, or yester-ten-years to be precise. It's the definitive best games of 2016, as decided cooperatively by us! Before we come together, we talk about Shady Lady, In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943 - 1944, and Duel for Cardia.
03:02 - Shady Lady
09:58 - In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943 - 1944
20:25 - Duel for Cardia
27:12 - Games of 2016
32:28 - Krazy Wordz
35:00 - New Angeles
37:20 - The Oracle of Delphi
39:50 - Great Western Trail
42:06 - Scythe
44:40 - Fuji Flush
46:38 - A Feast for Odin
51:42 - Insider
53:48 - Inis
55:57 - SiXeS
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It's long been said that we're the foremost experts in knowing which way the awards winds blow, so we're putting our talents to use guessing, nay, predicting, nay, deciding who the winners in the Golden Geeks are going to be. Before we geek out, we talk about Chronicles of Crime: 2400, Quarto, and Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon.
04:07 - Chronicles of Crime: 2400
12:00 - Quarto
16:13 - Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon
30:16 - Golden Geeks 2025
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There are big spiky moments that happen in the meta that is the board game hobby, and the Brass: Pittsburgh crowdfunding campaign feels like one of them. It is after all, a successor to the #1 ranked game on BGG. That's something! Enough so that it sent Mark into a bit of an existential spiral, and we're here to talk him down. Before we catch a falling Wallace, we talk about Hummingbirds, Fendo, and Soothsayers.
06:59 - Hummingbirds
14:44 - Fendo
18:53 - Soothsayers
29:23 - Brass: Pittsburgh crowdfunding
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