Welcome to the latest episode of Cult of the Old!

Each episode your hosts Iain McAllister, Matt Thrower, and Nate Owens are going to turn back the clock to look at games that are at least 10 years old. They’ll give their own critical impressions, tell you about the history of the game and its impact, and what relevance these games still have in the modern hobby landscape. 

Over the last two and half seasons of Cult of the Old we have covered some absolute classics. From the brutal farming of Agricola that kicked off our very first season to Catan that began our second we have looked at games venerable and revered, and some that are just past their prime Some of those games still hold their place in the hobby, but many have been surpassed as designers take the original ideas and improve on them ten fold. 

This is not the case for the game we are covering tonight. 

Hitting the scene in 1995, the same year as Catan, our next title quickly became a watch word for area control. Though many games have followed in this Grand Dames footsteps, none have managed the combination of simple mechanisms, devilish decisions, and twists of fate that this title nailed. Pick up your caballeros and send them into the depths of the Castillo as we explore El Grande. 

Show Links

Below are links to the games and anything else that the team mentions during the course of the cast.  We will be linking to BGG for games, designers, artists, and publishers as that is a good place to start for raw information about the game in question.

Games Mentioned

Catan - Episode Link

Civilisation

Risk

Go

6 Nimmt

Heimlich & Co

Torres

Tikal

Heroquest

Villa paletti 

San Marco

Mission Red Planet 

Race for the Galaxy

Dominion - Episode Link

Arcs

Root

Chaos in the Old World

Kemet

Wallenstein

Shogun

Other Mentions

Rio Grande Games

Z-Man Games

Team Links

Iain

The Giant Brain

Bluesky

Matt

Bluesky

Nate

Bluesky

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