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. 

Dear listeners, it is once again time for us to part ways. As we come to the end of our third season, let us reflect on the games we have covered. From the family friendly Ticket to Ride, to the genre defining titles like El Grande and Dominion, and the brutal chance of Blood Bowl we have covered a wide range of genre, mechanism, and complexity. However, no game this season has the reputation for sheer scale and difficulty of our final title. 

Not only did our last title this season establish its designer as a powerful voice, but it took a venerable genre and turned it inside out. The civilisation style of board games is almost as old as the hobby, and our final title took this genre, stripped out a lot of the fundamentals and made a game that took the world by storm. Join us for one last time this season as we go Through the Ages.

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

Pandemic

Mage Knight

Codenames

Francis Tresham Civilisation 

Mega Civilisation 

Prophecy

Sid Meier’s Civilisation

New Leaders

Through the Ages App

Can’t Stop - Playte Version

Flip 7

FFG Civilisation

Mare Nostrum

Imperium

Six Sojourns - Eight Minute Empire

Carta Impera Victoria

Civilisation: A New Dawn

Innovation

Ark Nova

Other Mentions

Matt Leacock

Boardgame Arena

Digital Antiquarian 

Team Links

Iain

The Giant Brain

Bluesky

Matt

BlueSky

Nate

Bluesky

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