Season 15, Episode 3 - Rock Hard: 1977
The Board Boys Podcast
Board Boys rock out as hard as humanly possible for a dork hobby podcast with Rock Hard: 1977, a sick game about becoming a rockstar by designer/rock legend Jackie Fox. Also in this episode, a long lookback on Barcelona, plus naming all the Beastie Boys and their DJ. Cam's Rock Hard: 1977 playlist: 0:00 - Intro: E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 2:00 - Music Chat 19:00 - CDSK 21:25 - Lifeboats: Planks of Carneades 25:10 - Harvest 29:25 - Cities 31:30 - Jorvik 34:30 - Bomb Busters 38:35 - Rock Hard 1977 - Intro 43:10 - Interlude: Cherry Bomb - The Runaways 44:50 - Rock Hard 1977 - Initial Thoughts...
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Season 15, Episode 2 - Coimbra
The Board Boys Podcast
Board Boys are back with "oldie" but goldie, Coimbra from Eggertspiel: a game about patrons and influence and merchants or something in the Renaissance Era which is basically the greatest theme of all time. So grab your floppy hats and join us at the table for this and more! 0:00 - Intro 4:00 - Peru and Weather Talk 6:00 - Finders Creepers 7:40 - Things in Rings 12:35 - Wrath of Fire Mountain 15:30 - Race to the Raft 18:20 - Coop QB Discussion 21:00 - Azul Summer Pavilion 23:00 - Age of Innovation 25:30 - Botanicus 31:25 - Coimbra Stats and Intro 34:16 - Informer - MC Shan...
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Season 15 - Beau-nuss Episode - Gencon 2024!
The Board Boys Podcast
In this Beau-Nuss episodes of The Board Boys Podcast, Rob and Beau attend GenCon 2024! We see and do lots of cool stuff including things from CGE, Renegade Game Studios, Devir Games, Hachette Games, and we participated in the Rolling Dice and Taking Names Strike tournament lots of fun to be had! We were super tired for some of the recording especially Beau but he was a trooper - which was awesome... We hope you like board games! 0:00 - Intro and Day 0 8:17 - Day 1 8:45 - Catchables 10:20 - CGE Room 11:00 - Lifeboats 11:45 - Allplay 13:15 - Mandolorian Adventures 13:45 -...
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Season 15, Episode 1 - Inventions: Evolution of Ideas
The Board Boys Podcast
Today on The Board Boys we check out Inventions: Evolution of Ideas by Mr. Lacerda himself from Eagle Gryphon Games. Also on this episode we take a look back on Season 14. We also have a discussion about games we have played a bunch but never won. Intro - 0:00 Nocturne - 2:00 5 Towers - 6:30 Season 14 Lookback - 10:30 - Evacuation - 11:28 - Djinn - 12:40 - Voidfall - 14:25 - Ticket to Ride Legacy - 17:15 - Wyrmspan - 18:00 - Trismegistus - 20:00 - Kutna Hora - 20:10 - El Grande - 23:10 - Obsession - 24:00 - Anunnaki...
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Season 14, Episode 13 - Beyond the Sun
The Board Boys Podcast
In this episode we deep dive Beyond the Sun from Rio Grande Games! We also pontificate space travel, talk some older games, and Rob gives his Game Challenge update! 0:00 - Intro 5:35 - BGA Chat with Cam 7:30 - Video Game Chat 14:25 - Jake Game Speed Run - Whistle Mountain, Isle of Cats, Castles of Burgandy, Wind the Film, MLEM, Faraway 15:25 - Coimbra 20:00 - Ponzi Scheme 23:25 - Five Tribes 26:30 - KingDomino 28:35 - Rob Game Challenge Update 29:25 - Megaland 32:35 - Beyond the Sun - Intro 35:15 - 2001: A Space Odyssey 36:30 - Beyond the Sun - Initial Thoughts 40:30 - Beyond the...
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Season 14, Episode 12 - Skyrise/Cascadero
The Board Boys Podcast
Join Board Boys for a twofer in: Skyrise - one of those games that has nice looking molded buildings with a fun auction wrinkle and cool scoring Cascadero - a game about surrounding the villages to talk about how nice you are while going up tracks on tracks on tracks
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Season 14 - Beau-nuss Episode 1: BGGCon Spring Recap!
The Board Boys Podcast
Hey everyone welcome to another Beau-nuss episode of The Board Boys Podcast. In this one Beau and I discuss what we thought of our first time at BGGCon Spring in Dallas, TX! Intro - 0:00 1:45 - Cosmoctopus 2:30 - Everdell: Farshore 3:00 - Kabuto Sumo w/ Expansions 3:55 - MLEM Space Agency 5:00 - The Same Game 7:15 - Kitty Paw 8:25 - Captain Flip (SdJ Nominee) 9:45 - Tumblin' Dice 10:55 - Dodos Riding Dinos 13:15 - Indiana Jones Sands of Adventure 15:30 - Cascadero 17:00 - Beaument with Mo - Werewolf 18:30 - Little Alchemists 22:50 - Amoebunnies 27:10 - RA and Skyrise Auction Games 28:00...
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Season 14, Episode 11 - Ezra and Nehemiah
The Board Boys Podcast
Board Boys are back and polite enough to listen to Cam talk for large chunks of the episode about some of his favorite books of the Bible in conjunction with a play of Ezra and Nehemiah, a game about rebuilding the temple, teaching the Torah, and making the walls around the city kino l33t again. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 5:30 Faraway 9:00 Hegemony 13:15 Emerge 16:15 Everdell Farshore 21:15 Ezra and Nehemiah: Overview 27:30 Rivers of Babylon - The Melodians 28:45 Ezra and Nehemiah: Review 57:00 Ezra and Nehemiah: Verdict 1:02:45 Board Boys Bump: Challengers! 1:07:00 Thank...
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Season 14, Episode 10 - Anunnaki: Dawn of the gods
The Board Boys Podcast
Board Boys get goofy with some big brain alien superpowers in Annunaki, a Looch joint (w/Danilo Sabia). 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 12:45 An Age Contrived 16:45 Patzcuaro 21:00 Fromage 27:30 Anarchy Pancakes 31:45 Kabuto Sumo: Total Mayhem 36:00 Next Station: Paris 41:15 Anunnaki: Overview 45:15 Rapture - Blondie 46:45 Anunnaki: Review 1:17:45 Anunnaki: Verdict 1:26:45 Board Boys Bump: Darwin's Journey 1:33:00 Thank You, Patrons 1:33:30 Attack of the Name Game - Stacey Lattisaw
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Season 14, Episode 9 - Obsession
The Board Boys Podcast
Board Boys are back with another Camless episode (minus editor's notes) to play a game about fancy society, Obsession (Kayenta Games). Who will be the most posh? Stick around and find out. 0:00 Intro, Obsession - Animotion 4:00 Camp Refresh recap 10:00 Glory to Rome 12:30 Lords of Baseball 21:30 Cascadero/Cascadito 25:45 Nucleum: Australia 29:00 Foundations of Rome: Roads of Fortune 31:00 Necromolds: Monster Battles 33:30 Obsession: Overview 38:00 A New England - Kirsty MacColl 39:30 Obsession - Review 58:15 Obession - Verdict 1:03:15 Board Boys Bump: Earth 1:12:30 Thank You, Patrons...
info_outlineAll aboard the train of unrealistic hype from Board Boy Cam as we finally tackle Ultimate Railroads from Hans im Gluck, a train game that really isn't a train game at all, but a worker placement deal with exploding scores and hecka combo wombos. Also discussed in this episode: Pro Wrestling, kayfabe, Jelle's Marble Runs, Can't Stop, Marrakesh and the Stefan Feld figurine therein.
Music: E.V.A - Jean Jacque Perrey, Back on the Chain Gang - Pretenders, Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips