Adamantly Analog: A Board Game Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This week we welcome JR Cillian Green on the cast to talk about the Midwinter Gaming Convention in Peewaukee, Wisconsin. JR also joins us in our feature section to talk about our favorite social games.

What We've Been Playing

Corey

• Bloodborne: The Board Game

Harrison

• ⁠⁠⁠Let's Go to Japan
• Sea Salt and Paper

JR

• ⁠Explorers of Navoria

Featured Topic

Our favorite social games.

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blood on the Clocktower (JR's pick #1) / Pandamonium Institute
• Bohnanza (Harrison’s Pick #1) / Amigo Games
• Heat: Pedal to the Metal (Corey’s Pick #1) / Days of Wonder
• Phantom Ink (JR's pick #2) / Resonym
• Challengers! (Harrison’s Pick #2) / 1 More Time Games, Z-Man Games
• QE (Corey’s Pick #2) / Allplay Games
• Orconomics (Guest pick #3) / Economicus Games
• Emerald Skulls (Harrison’s Pick #3) / Thunderworks Games
• Cyclades (Corey’s Pick #3) / Matagot Games

Other Links

• Midwinter Gaming Convention

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On this episode of Adamantly Analog, we spoke to Sam Stockton, designer of Forges of Ravenshire and co-owner of B.A. Games. Sam shares some thoughts about working with his brothers, the process and inspiration behind Forges of Ravenshire, and teases some upcoming games. For our feature topic, we each share a list of our favorite worker placement games.

What We've Been Playing

Corey

• Lost Ruins of Arnak: The Missing Expedition

Harrison

• ⁠⁠Carnival of Monsters

Sam

• Warhammer 40K

Featured Topic

Our favorite worker placement games.

• ⁠⁠Dune Imperium (Corey’s pick #1) / Dire Wolf
• Andromeda’s Edge (Sam's pick #1) / Cardboard Alchemy
• Russian Railroads (Harrison’s pick #1) / Hans im Glück
• Yokohama (Corey’s pick #2) / Synapses Games (New), Tasty Minstrel Games (out of print)
• Raiders of Scythia (Sam's pick #2) / Garphill Games
• A War of Whispers (Harrison’s pick #2) / Starling Games
• Lorenzo Il Magnifico (Corey’s pick #3) / CMON, Cranio Creations
• Kingsburg (Sam's pick #3) / Ulisses Spiele, Stratelibri, and Truant Spiele
• Red Outpost  (Harrison’s pick #3) / Lifestyle Boardgames Ltd

Other Links

• ⁠⁠⁠BA Games
• Great Plains Game Fest

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This week, Corey and Harrison share a list of games that involve writing or drawing. We put an emphasis on games that encourage creativity in ways that checking boxes, writing words, or totaling up numbers don't. These games allow us to express ourselves as artists or laugh at ourselves as artistic wannabees.

What We've Been Playing

Corey

• Nerdz Day 2024

Harrison

• ⁠Pick a Pen: Reefs
• Slay the Spire the Board Game
• Forest Shuffle

Feature Topic

Games that you write or draw on:

• Cartographers (Harrison’s pick #1) / Thunderworks Games
• Pictomania (Corey’s pick #1) / CGE
• A Fake Artist Goes to New York (Harrison’s pick #2) / Oink Games
• Telestrations (Corey’s pick #2) / The Op Games
• Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated (Harrison’s pick #3) / Dire Wolf
• Captain Sonar (Corey’s pick #3) / Matagot

⁠Other Links

• After School Dice Club (anime)

Trivia Ambush

Name all of the ways you can score in Yahtzee

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This week, Corey and Harrison are talking about the games that got them into the hobby. These aren't the first board games they've ever player but they are games that opened their eyes to the cool things that hobby games could do.

What We've Been Playing

Corey

• Cyclades
• La Granja Deluxe Master Set

Harrison

• Gnome Hollow
• Pick a Pen: Gardens
• Next Station: London

Feature Topic

Games that got us into the hobby.

• Dominion (Corey’s pick #1) / Rio Grande Games
• Small World (Harrison’s pick #1) / Days of Wonder
• Arkham Horror (2nd ed) (Corey’s pick #2) / Fantasy Flight
• Gravwell: Escape from the 9th Dimension (Harrison’s pick #2) / Cryptozoic/Renegade
• Legendary: A Marvel Deck-Building Game (Corey’s pick #3) / Upper Deck
• Lords of Waterdeep (Harrison’s pick #3) / Wizards of the Coast

Other Links

• Wendy's Feast of Legends (Tabletop RPG)

Trivia Ambush

1. Which has more expansions?  Marvel Legendary or Dominion?
2. Is the BGG complexity rating for Arkham Horror higher or lower than 3.5?
3. How many Fantasy races are included in the base box of Small World?
4. In Lords of Waterdeep, during which round do players receive an additional meeple?
5. In a game of Gravwell, who begins?

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This week, Corey and Harrison are talking about our favorite games to play with large groups. These games can support six or more players without introducing too much downtime, too long of a teach, or too much chaos!

What We've Been Playing

Corey

• Apiary
• Harmonies
• World Wonders

Harrison

• Rock Hard: 1977
• Concordia

Featured Topic

• 7 Wonders [2-7 players] (Harrison’s pick #1) / Repos Production
• Ethnos [2-6 players] (Corey’s pick #1) / C’Mon Games
• Twilight Inscription [1-8 players] (Harrison’s pick #2) / Fantasy Flight Games
• Mosaic: A Story of Civilization [2-6 players] (Corey’s pick #2) / Forbidden Games
• Panda Royale [2-10 players] (Harrison’s pick #3) / Last Night Games
• Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig [2-7 players] (Corey's pick #3) / Stonemaier Games
• Cartographers [1-99] (Honorable Mention) / Thunderworks Games

Other Links

• Archeos Society (Ethnos reimplementation)
• Rack 'Em Stack 'Em Robots (Harrison's Game Jam Game)

Trivia Ambush

Which of these has a game (with their name in the title) with the higher rank on BGG?

Bonus points if you can name the highest ranked game for either.

1. Marvel or DC?
2. Batman or Spider-Man?
3. Star Wars or Star Trek?
4. Fallout or Elder Scrolls?
5. Pokemon or Digimon?

• BONUS McDonald’s or Burger King?

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This week, we're excited to share games that we played, demoed, heard about, or brought home from Gencon 2024.

What We've Been Playing

Corey

• Slay the Spire: The Board Game

Harrison

• Wrath of Fire Mountain

Featured Topic

• Forges of Ravenshire (Corey’s pick #1) / B.A. Games
• Video Game Champion (Harrison’s pick #1) / Arcane Wonders
• Comic Hunters (Corey’s pick #2) / Spin Master Games
• Flip 7 (Harrison’s pick #2) / The Op
• Illimat (Corey’s pick #3) / Twogether Studios
• Doomlings (Harrison’s pick #3) / Doomlings Inc

Trivia Ambush

Name the base game for each expansion:

1. Invasion
2. Missing Expedition
3. Nightfall
4. Salsa
5. Hall of Heroes

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This week, our topic is "Small Games That Pack a Big Punch" and we welcome Mark Besada from the Board Game Barrage podcast to join in on the conversation. These games are small in size but may surprise with their complexity, depth, or meaty decisions.

What We've Been Playing

Mark

• Luthier
• Yedo: Deluxe Master Set

Corey

• ⁠HiFi
• Pirates of Maracaibo
• Kinfire Delve

Featured Topic

• Biblios (Mark’s pick #1) / Iello
• Forest Shuffle (Corey’s pick #1) / Lookout Games
• Anomia (Mark’s pick #2) / Coiledspring Games
• Arboretum (Corey’s pick #2) / Renegade Games
• Innovation (Mark’s pick #3) / Asmadi Games
• Cat in the Box (Corey’s pick #3) / Colossal Games

Other Links

• Board Game Barrage Podcast
• Board Game Barrage Discord

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This week, our topic is "Games We Loved When We Were 10" and its been an excellent trip down memory lane. Flashback to the late nineties...cartoons are on TV and every ad break is packed with high intensity rock music, overly excited narration, and bombastic scenes of exciting board gaming. There was a major toy factor to these games and randomness and dexterity were in their heyday!

What We've Been Playing

Corey

• Forest Shuffle

Harrison

• Citizens of the Spark

Featured Topic

• Stratego (Corey’s pick #1) / Hasbro
• Waterworks (Harrison’s pick #1) / Parker Brothers
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Corey’s pick #2) / Hasbro
• Nuclear War (Harrison’s pick #2) / Flying Buffalo, Inc
• Electronic Mall Madness (Corey’s pick #3) / Hasbro
• Batman: The Animated Series - 3D Board Game (Harrison’s pick #3) / Parker Brothers

Other Links

• Invincible (TV Series)
• Moonbreaker (Video Game)

Trivia Ambush

Name the subtitles for these titles:

1. Clank Legacy
2. Eclipse
3. Marco Polo II
4. Heat
5. Caverna

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This week, we share a list of board games that, while not exclusively two players, play best with two players. These games may be tighter, snappier, or even more involved with modifications made for two player set ups.

What We've Been Playing

Harrison

• Revive
• Panda Royale
• My Island

Corey

• Scythe
• Azul

Featured Topic

• Lords of Waterdeep (Harrison’s pick #1) / Wizards of the Coast
• Merv: Heart of the Silk Road (Corey’s pick #1) / Osprey Games
• The Castles of Burgundy (Harrison’s pick #2) / alea, Ravensburger, Awaken Realms
• Underwater Cities (Corey’s pick #2) / Delicious Games, Rio Grande Games
• Azul (Harrison’s pick #3) / Next Move Games
• The Crew: Quest for Planet 9 (Corey’s pick #3) / Kosmos

Other Links

• Citizens of the Spark (upcoming 2025)
• Marvel Rivals

Trivia Ambush

Uwe Rosenberg has 5 (unique) games in the BGG Top 100 list. Put them in order of appearance:

• Le Havre
• Feast for Odin
• Agricola
• Fields of Arle
• Caverna

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This week, we welcome Stephen Kerr (@skerr1), the designer of "Metrorunner", the upcoming title from Thunderworks Games. The topic is "Video Games for Board Gamers". In other words, if you like this board game, try this video game. We'll each share a list of three video games that would appeal to fans of a similar board games.

Metrorunner (Thunderworks Games)

Stephen's Inspiration for Metrorunner

• Lords of Waterdeep
• Yedo
• Santiago De Cuba
• Covert

Featured Topic

• Dice Forge / Dicefolk (PC, Switch) (Harrison’s pick #1) / Libellud
• Burgle Bros.⁠ / The Swindle (⁠PC⁠, ⁠Switch⁠, ⁠PS4⁠, ⁠Xbox⁠) (Stephen's pick #1) / Fowers Games
• ⁠Fuse⁠ / Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (⁠PC/Mac, iOS/Android) (Corey’s pick #1)  / Renegade Games
• Call to Adventure⁠⁠ / Wildermyth (⁠⁠PC/Mac/Linux⁠⁠, Switch - unreleased) (Harrison’s pick #2) / Brotherwise Games
• ⁠Marvel Champions⁠ / Marvel’s Midnight Suns (⁠PC⁠, ⁠PS5⁠, ⁠Xbox⁠), (Stephen’s pick #2) / Fantasy Flight Games
• Slay the Spire: The Board Game⁠ / Across the Obelisk (⁠PC/Mac⁠, Playstation 5, Nintendo Switch) (Corey’s pick #2) (Steam) / Contention Games
• ⁠Brass: Birmingham⁠ / Slipways (⁠PC/Mac⁠) (Harrison’s pick #3) / Roxley
• A Message From the Stars / Chants of Sennaar (PC, Switch, PS5, Xbox), (Stephen's pick #3) / Allplay
• Warhammer 40K / Moonbreaker (PC/Mac) (Corey’s pick #3) / Games Workshop

Other Links

• ⁠Kings of the Wyld (Nicholas Eames)

Trivia Ambush

1. In "6 Nimmt!", a player takes a row when there are how many cards played in it?
2. In the game "Council of 4", how many regions are on the map?
3. What is the max player count for "Three Sisters"?
4. How many rounds are there in the party game "Two Rooms and a Boom?"
5. In the game "Just One", how many times are players allowed to write the same word?

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