Season 15, Episode 7 - Inferno
The Board Boys Podcast
Board Boys bounce into Des Moines' own Capital City Gaming Con (formerly Cardboard Caucus) to rip a ton of games, especially the creepy and scary Inferno, a "soul management" game very loosely about Dante's travels in heck. Also in this episode, Rob has a discussion with Jaime Brown, designer of Amoebunnies for a chat about the upcoming Kickstarter. Amoebunnies KS Link - BoardBoy Video Review Link - 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 4:00 Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth 9:00 Wizards & Co. 10:30 Amoebunnies with Jaime Brown 26:00 Altered 29:15 Kavango 32:15 Inferno:...
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Season 15, Episode 6 - Doggerland
The Board Boys Podcast
Board Boys are back to cave paint underneath the English Channel in Doggerland, a game about sending a bunch of your friends out of their warm huts to try to gank a mammoth in the middle of winter. 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 6:15 Inferno 12:00 Weirdwood Manor 19:00 Doggerland: Overview 23:00 Snoopafella - Snoop Doggy Dogg 24:30 Doggerland: Review 55:00 Doggerland: Verdict 58:00 Board Boys Bump: Blitzkreig!, Dogfight, Caesar!, and BOOoop. 1:05:15 Thank You, Patrons 1:05:30 Vapors - Snoop Doggy Dogg
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Season 15, Episode 5 - Windmill Valley
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Board Boys bounce back from the First Tulip Financial Crisis in Windmill Valley from Board and Dice, a game about spinning the water wheel as hard as you can to until you have more black tulips than even the Smiths would think is cool 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 6:00 Mycelia 12:30 18 Holes 20:45 Creature Caravan 27:45 Stonespine Architects 31:30 Reef Project 36:00 Windmill Valley: Overview 39:00 The Wind - Cat Stevens 40:00 Windmill Valley: Review 1:09:15 Windmill Valley: Verdict 1:15:30 Board Boys Bump: Thunder Road: Vendetta 1:23:45 Thank You, Patrons 1:25:00 Summer...
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Season 15, Episode 4 - Evenfall + Capital City Gaming Con Preview w/David Kuntz
The Board Boys Podcast
Board Boys are back, baby, to play Evenfall from new dev Stefano de Silva as well as chat with pal David Kuntz about this year's Capital City Gaming Con (formerly Cardboard Caucus) coming up Oct 11-13 0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 12:00 Capital City Gaming Con Preview w/David Kuntz 23:30 Ziggurat 26:45 Arcs 29:45 Cats and Quilts of Calico 36:45 Bomb Busters 40:15 Evenfall: Overview 44:15 Bring Me To Life - Evanescence (karaoke from Bob and Bev) 45:15 Evenfall: Review 1:13:00 Evenfall: Verdict 1:19:30 Board Boys Bump: The Wolves 1:26:15 Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - DJ Steve...
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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
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