Edward from Heavy Cardboard joins Candice to discuss the appeal of heavy board games, the ones they've been diggin, and the ones where the juice is worth the squeeze.

• 00:00:00 Introduction
• 00:15:38 Fresh Plays
  • 00:16:35 Ayar: Children of the Sun
  • 00:25:38 Cosmic Frog
  • 00:31:54 Speakeasy
  • 00:40:23 Dungeon Degenerates
• 00:54:25 Heavy Games: When the Juice is Worth the Squeeze
  • 00:56:15 The Heaviness in Board Games
  • 01:16:59 Age of Steam
  • 01:22:22 Leaving Earth
  • 01:26:20 Crystal Palace
  • 01:30:52 Black Rose Wars: Rebirth + Age of Innovation
  • 01:34:04 Stress Botics: Odyssey
  • 01:40:25 Feudum
  • 01:42:53 Edward's List of Games Worth the Squeeze (Stress Botics Odyssey, Age of Steam, Antiquity, Pax Transhumanity, Reef Encounter, Weimar: The Fight for Democracy, Tales of the Northlands: The Sagas of Noggin the Nog, Mr. President, Die Macher, John Company, Dilluvia Project, The Colonists, For-Ex, Sekigahara)
  • 01:46:24 Candice's List of Games Worth the Squeeze (Feudum, Too Many Bones, Spirit Island, Mage Knight, COIN & ICS series, War of the Ring: Second Edition, TI4, Cerebria, Here I Stand, Fields of Fire)
• 01:51:08 D-Day at Omaha Beach
• 01:55:38 Sign-off

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