172: Time to get HEAVY...with these new heavy games (guest: The Game Table)

About this episode

The hosts discuss their experiences with new heavy board games alongside guest Daniel from The Game Table.

We might need to make this an annual tradition: We get new heavy games in. We take forever to learn them. We then spend hours playing them (with our good friend Daniel from The Game Table, who even spent the night at our place this time to get in more gaming the next day). Then we record a podcast episode giving our thoughts on them. We have a bunch of new, newish, and future releases to cover, so listen in to see what we liked and didn't like about our plays. Timeline: 1:34 - Brass: Pittsburg. 12:59 - Speakeasy. 17:40 - The Great Library. 20:50 - Nippon: Zaibatsu. 27:05 - Thebai. 33:25 - Tianxia. 40:09 - Covenant. 45:14 - Barrage: Duel. 51:57 - Darwin's Journey: Oceania. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Going Analog

Guest: Daniel

Topics covered

• heavy games
• board games
• game reviews
• gaming traditions
• new releases

Keywords

• heavy games
• board game reviews
• gameplay
• new releases
• gaming

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Brass: Pittsburg, Speakeasy, The Great Library, Nippon: Zaibatsu, Thebai, Tianxia, Covenant, Barrage: Duel, Darwin's Journey: Oceania

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