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#220: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 501-600
Board Game Barrage - April 07, 2022 07:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsIt's been a little while, but we're back with the next hundred games on BoadGameGeek, and we're drafting a five game collection from them. Who ended up with the best picks? Vote and you could win a $50 gift voucher! Before things get drafty, we talk about Imperium: The Contention, Wonderland's W...
#219: A Perfect Ten
Board Game Barrage - March 31, 2022 06:38 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsDoes the perfect game exist? Probably not, but is that even the point? This week we discuss the elusive 10/10 rating, whether it makes sense to apply it, and what that means for rating games in general. Before we realize pobody's nerfect, we talk about Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.”, M...
#218: Our Listeners’ Top 20 Board Games of All-Time 2022
Board Game Barrage - March 24, 2022 07:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsWow, hundreds of you sent in your favourite games, and it was absolute chaos. But we got all the data together, cleaned up the typos, and crunched the numbers via a super secret algorithm, and here we are, your favourite games of all-time! For this year, at least. Before you take the stage, we t...
#217: We Got Rid of a Bunch of Games!
Board Game Barrage - March 17, 2022 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsThere is a joy as equal in receiving a game, as moving it onto another person to enjoy. Especially, if you're Mark, when there's cash involved. We reflect on the many games that got left behind recently. Before we purge, we talk about Imperial Steam, Circus Flohcati, and Dogs of War. 02:33 - C...
#216: We're Doing This Together!
Board Game Barrage - March 10, 2022 09:25 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsWaiting your turn is so 2021. Simultaneous play is where it's at now. Fortunately, we got a chance to try A BUNCH of games featuring the mechanism at Dice Tower West! So, before we all hold hands and dive in all at once, we'll chat about Bear Raid, Loco!, Imperium: The Contention, and Libertali...
#215: Some Like It H-H-Hot
Board Game Barrage - March 03, 2022 10:27 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsWe're on the way to Dice Tower West, so we're keeping this one easy breezy with just a hot question. How many games on your shelf do you think you could teach without looking at the rulebook? Before we turn up the heat, we talk about Yokohama, Final Girl, and Mystic Paths. 03:04 - Yokohama 11...
#214: Bob's Alright (For Fighting)
Board Game Barrage - February 24, 2022 08:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsReturn of the Bob! If you don't know what a BGBBOB, boy you've missed out. Twelve games enter, and, well, they all exit, but only once they've been arranged in the appropriate order via a series of one on one fights. And fights are doubly appropriate this week, because we're battling it out in s...
#213: Approach Without Caution
Board Game Barrage - February 17, 2022 04:01 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsApproachability and accessibility are incredibly important to a wide swathe of gamers, but for those experienced in the hobby, it can often get overlooked. We investigate how games can aid those both in and especially outside the hobby to be more immediately appealing. Before we have a beer with...
#212: Two Can Play At That Game
Board Game Barrage - February 10, 2022 09:19 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsIt's the triumphant return of the terrific trio - you know exactly who we mean - to talk about games where one of us would have to be left out. That's right, it's two players only at this table, and we're talking about our favourite games that fit the bill, and why we love them. Before we one-th...
#211: Our Most Anticipated Games of 2022
Board Game Barrage - February 03, 2022 04:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsNew year, new games, and we're really in it now. We look ahead to the year ahead, and all the games that we're most excited to get our hands on ... but we couldn't do it without just a little bit of help from our friends. Before we consult our many crystal balls, we talk about American Bookshop,...
#210: No One Man Should Have All That Power
Board Game Barrage - January 27, 2022 11:39 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsFew things feel better than those moments in board games that make you feel powerful. Whether it's playing the perfect card, pulling off a perfectly executed turn, or splashing down that giant mini, we look at some of our favourite power plays in board games. Before we corrupt absolutely, we tal...
#209: Holiday Hits and Hot Questions
Board Game Barrage - January 20, 2022 10:40 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsAnd we're back! The holiday extravaganza is over, and it's back to business as usual around here. And what better way to get back into the swing of things than with some h-h-hot questions! Before that, we catch up on our holidays apart, with tales about the games that we played with our loved on...
#208: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 10-1 (ft. Tom Brewster)
Board Game Barrage - January 13, 2022 11:06 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsIt's the grand finale of the event of events that is the BGB Top 50 Games of All-time! These are our ten absolute favourite games, and, fittingly, it's a bumper episode with more than one surprise. Joining us in the peanut gallery this week, it's none other than the manic imp of Shut Up & Sit Do...
#207: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 20-11 (ft. Ambie Valdés)
Board Game Barrage - January 06, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsThe penultimate episode of the grand series is here, it’s the BGB Top 50! As the journey approaches its end, we’re venturing into our 20th to 11th favourite games, with some support from the peanut gallery. And with thirty more board games to blitz through, who better to help us than Ambie Valdé...
#206: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 30-21 (ft. Mike Walker)
Board Game Barrage - December 30, 2021 09:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsWhat better way to send off the year than part three of the party to end all parties, the BGB Top 50! We're adding thirty more incredible games to the list, with our 30th to 21st favourite picks. This week, we have the Black Tank, Mike Walker of So Very Wrong About Games tearing apart our choice...
#205: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 40-31 (ft. Monique & Naveen)
Board Game Barrage - December 23, 2021 09:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsWe're back for the second part of the year's greatest celebration, it's the top fifty! We've got thirty more incredible games to talk about this week, as we get into our games ranked 40th to 31st. This week in the peanut gallery, critiquing our picks, we're thrilled to have Monique (the Lavender...
#204: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 50-41 (ft. Mike Dilisio)
Board Game Barrage - December 16, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsIt's time. The event of the year is upon us, as we begin counting down our FIFTY. FAVOURITE. GAMES. OF. ALL. TIME. We're kicking it off where you kick off all good top 50s, with our games ranked 50th to 41st favourite games. And we've also invited Mr Delicious himself, Mike DiLisio of The Dice T...
#203: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Board Game Barrage - December 09, 2021 07:44 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsIt'd be great if we could only ever play our favourites. But sometimes, perhaps more often than not, we have to put up with playing games not because we want to, but because it's the polite or kind thing to do depending on the company. This week, we're talking about games that we don't necessari...
#202: Your Fulfilled Potential
Board Game Barrage - December 02, 2021 08:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsLooking back on the past made us all reflective. For instance, remember 166 episodes ago when we promised to play all those games on our shelves of shame? I thought you might. We're revisiting our crimes of yesteryear, and checking in on how guilty we are. Before we audit our past selves, we tal...
#201: I Choose You, Ghost Turkey!
Board Game Barrage - November 24, 2021 20:10 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsGobble gobble, gotcha again. What better way to follow up one of our biggest episodes yet, than with one of our stupidest? Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! 02:35 - Cursed Court: Pokémon Edition 04:30 - Unfathomable 05:36 - Wings of War: Deluxe Set 06:22 - Gods Loves Dinosaurs 07:12 - Wings of...
#200: The Big 200 Spectacular
Board Game Barrage - November 18, 2021 11:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsWe did it! Two hundred episodes later and we're still here. We're so grateful to every single listener, so we wanted to turn the mics back on all of you for your favourite voicemail memories from the show. Here's to another two hundred. Before we celebrate good times, we talk about Llamaland, Ma...
#199: Amerigames and Eurotrash
Board Game Barrage - November 11, 2021 08:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsThe split between Eurogame and Ameritrash gamers is as old as it it is silly, but in the last ten years it's also become a lot more nebulous. It's less clear than ever which side of the fence games fall on, so why still use these archaic labels at all? Maybe it's time for a change. Before we hea...
#198: Making Memories
Board Game Barrage - November 04, 2021 08:29 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsIf you've ever been a board game host, then you know it's not always just about playing games, it's about creating lasting memories for everyone playing. We'd never leave that to chance though, so of course we're often going out of our way to make a board game experience memorable. Before we do ...
#197: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 401-500
Board Game Barrage - October 28, 2021 08:54 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsIt's part five of our venerable draft series, a series so loved that it's now in syndication! We're moving on to the tail end of the BGB Top 500, but the format stays the same: draft five games to build a standalone collection that's better than the others. Vote for your favourite, and you can w...
#196: Question Time with Jeremy
Board Game Barrage - October 21, 2021 09:25 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsWe love all of the emails we get from you, our lovely listeners, but without a regular mail segment, we can't often give them the attention they deserve. Well that ends right now, as we delve into the long neglected pile of mail, and answer some choice questions that have been waiting patiently ...
#195: Eric, Eric, He's Our Lang
Board Game Barrage - October 14, 2021 02:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsWe're always excited for a new Eric Lang game, which makes him an obvious candidate for the absolutely-not-called BGB DOG - our series where we deep dive into a designer's .... designography. He's made a lot of our favourite area control games, and had his hand in some games we might not have ev...
#194: Essen SPIEL 2021 Hype List
Board Game Barrage - October 07, 2021 07:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsConvention season in the new world continues, and this time it's Germany's turn, with Essen SPIEL just days away from kicking off. But tanks, you say, I don't sprechen Deutsch. We've got you. We're going to highlight all the games that we think you ought to be paying attention to, no German nece...
#193: Three Dimensions of Space
Board Game Barrage - September 30, 2021 08:44 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsThere is one unenviable truth of board game ownership that we're forced to contend with - they occupy space. We've each had to wrestle with this reality in different ways recently, so we offer our thoughts on the awkwardness of sharing a physical world with our board games. Before we merely exis...
#192: Fantasy Draft: BoardGameGeek 301-400
Board Game Barrage - September 23, 2021 06:37 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsA new list of a hundred games to draft, and it only gets harder and harder. We're each picking a standalone collection of five games in a snake draft format. And the best part is you could win $50 just by voting on your favourite collection! Before we get to clubbing, we talk about Regicide, Dic...
#191: Take Off Every Zig
Board Game Barrage - September 16, 2021 09:34 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsWhile one of the appeals of following a specific game designer is the comforting familiarity of what they do best, it’s also really fun to see them go off the garden path. We’re looking at games and mechanics where one of our beloved designers zigged, when they easily could’ve zagged. Before we ...
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