Board Game Bros

This week the Board Game Bros discuss the atmosphere-altering game of corporate battle Terraforming Mars. Listen as they rank resources, encourage engine building, and compliment how the game works when all the cards are shuffled together (even though one time Jeff drew 16 unplayable cards in a row).

The Board Game Brother's are back again with the shortly-awaited sequel to episode 24 in Charterstone part 2! SPOILER ALERT: Jeff and Matt (along with their parents) finished the game and in their longest episode yet these brothers are prepared to give you their lengthy look back on the game's surprises and the strategies they made along the way.

This week the Board Game Brothers are back to discuss the Mediterranean-spanning euro game Concordia. Jeff and Matt have some hangups on the game's otherwise ingenious card action system, but some thing have to be overcome in order to master this Kennerspiel nominee.

It's another installment of BGB goodstuffs, the Board Game Brothers discuss a whole host of topics, board gaming and otherwise! Learn what games they've been playing lately, what games won Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel, and get a spoiler for what game Matt and Jeff will discuss next!

Jeff's feeling under the weather this week, so for your listening pleasure here is a Board Game Bros episode recorded May 31, 2017 covering Geekway 2017! This was the second episode Jeff and Matt ever recorded, so cut them some slack alright? Since we're sharing some fun facts then here's another one... did you know Jeff writes all of these episode descriptions? Also, did you know Jeff tags all of these episodes with the games they discussed? One last fun fact: did you know Jeff didn't feel like listening back to this one to give it the proper tags? Anyways, Enjoy!

In the final week of Expansion month, the Board Game Bros are hitting you with a double feature of expansions: Red Dragon Inn 2 and 3. Learn the various ways the designers addressed the same-ness of the characters in Red Dragon Inn 1, and check out how things were kicked up a notch with the characters in Red Dragon Inn 3.

In the next expansion of the Board Game Bros' month-long look at board game expansions, Matt and Jeff discuss the expansion/sequel Small World: Underground. Learn how the addition of a simple mechanic vastly changes the gameplay and replay-ability, and hear how the redistribution of powers and race abilities changes the play patterns and identities of the players' armies.

In July the Board Game Bros are discussing expansions of games from previous episodes. In the first episode of this series, Jeff and Matt talk about the first expansion of the OG deckbuilder Dominion, Dominion: Intrigue! Learn what Jeff and Matt believe makes for a good expansion, and hear how Dominion: Intrigue did it right (for the most part).

This month the Board Game Bros have more video games to talk about than ever! New Magic set, new Overwatch hero, plus we tried out Roll Player.

This week the Board Game Bros give helpful tips for the process of game design. Learn that there's no such thing as too much playtesting, and don't sweat trying to make the perfect game - the important thing is to have fun!