Board Game Battles Podcast

Randal, Drew, and Ashley discuss two Dice games that also use cards in a competition between the players, They discuss Seasons vs Dice Forge. Then they discuss the online board game platform Board Game Arena.

Randal, Drew, and Ashley discuss two deck building adventure games Clank! A Deck Building Adventure vs Thunderstone Quest. Then they discuss current and recent Kickstarters they are interested in.

Randal, Ashley and Drew give their top ten games for the 2010's.

Randal, Drew, and Ashley discuss two Stefan Feld games where one is a reimplementation of the other. They compare The Speicherstadt to Jorvik. Then they have a Christmas Potluck of little mini discussion topics.

Randal, Drew, and Ashley discuss two World encompassing adventure games for Halloween. They compare Flying Frog’s Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game vs Fantasy Flight Games Eldritch Horror. Then they discuss what makes a good game to play on Halloween.

Randal, Drew, and Ashley discuss two Dice Rolling, Resource collecting, tableau building games. They compare Masao Suganuma’s Machi Koro vs John D. Clair’s Space Base. Then they take a look at the Pathfinder Free RPG day adventure “We Be Heroes?”.

Randal, Drew, and Ashley discuss two Cooperative save the world/village games. They compare Antoine Bauza’s Ghost Stories vs Eric Lang’s XCOM: The Board Game. Then they take a first look at the new Pathfinder Second Edition.

Randal, Drew, and Ashley discuss two popular train games that both have a type of delivery mechanism. They compare Martin Wallace’s Railways of the World vs Alan R Moon’s Ticket to Ride: Marklin. Then they discuss in detail with spoilers the D&D campaign Tomb of Annihilation.

Randal, Drew, and Ashley discuss two games that both use a hybrid Rondel/Mancala action selection mechanism. They compare Stefan Feld’s Trajan vs Seth Jafee’s Crusaders: Thy Will be Done. Then they discuss themes in games and their preferences.

Randal, Drew, and Jeff discuss two space exploration and mission completion games. They compare Firefly: The Game vs Xia: Legends of a Drift System. Then they discuss games based on popular Intellectual Properties.