Heavy Cardboard

We hope you think this will be a fantastic episode. In addition to some preliminary chatter on the much anticipated Food Chain Magnate, we cover the Knizia classic Medici and get into the list of games we are anticipating for the rest of 2015. We talk about 25 games over 82 minutes!

Masters of Venice. A quirky, under-the-radar game that has an awful lot going for it & we dive deep into it during our featured review. We also give a couple of Martin Wallace titles a good look when we do an extended trailer on Tinner's Trail as well as touch on Liberte a bit. There's a little bit medium, a good bit of heavy, and a full heaping of quirky, so sit back & enjoy the listen! We would love to hear from y'all with your thoughts on the show and on the games discussed. We hope you enjoy the episode as much as we had recording it!

Argent: The Consortium is the featured game of this episode. Yes, Argent: The Consortium. Give a listen, you may be surprised! Have you played this game and if you have, what are your thoughts on it? We also touch on Triumph & Tragedy and Praetor. Yep, full of surprises in this episode! As always, enjoy the show!

Forge War, The Networks and Baltimore & Ohio get discussed in "the trailer episode". A trifecta of trailers! We hope that you enjoy the episode and, as always, let us know what you think about these games. Have you played them? What are your thoughts on them?

Nothing says an evening of fun like making dresses and suits for the ball, right? Right? Yup, that's right! No, but really, yes. This episode has us talking about the beautiful game, Rococo. Euro-y goodness? Listen and find out! We also discuss the 2-player Trambahn and The Staufer Dynasty. As always, let us know what you think of the games and the show!

18XX games have a reputation for heaviness & for being intimidating to get into. It doesn't help that, on top of that, they seemingly are a niche genre within a niche genre. In this episode we discuss why we're excited about 18XX gaming in the hopes that we can help folks get over the hump & inspire our fellow heavy game enthusiasts to explore this genre of game!

Terra Mystica, currently the #2 game in the land, is the subject of our featured review. We also get into a couple of train games, String Railway and Chicago Express. Give a listen and let us know what your thoughts are on the game.

We're starting off year 2 of Heavy Cardboard with a bang! Joris and Jeroen, the brain-trusts of Splotter Spellen are the featured guests in this episode. We ask them about game design, publishing, themselves...and...yeah...Food Chain Magnate which is scheduled to be available at Essen. We also talk about Brew Crafters and Ra. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did and let us know what you think!

Change of pace alert! Heavy Cardboard discusses Uwe Rosenberg. We end up talking about a lot of games of course! Also, we take some time and offer up an extended trailer for the brand new release, Kraftwagen, as well as a trailer for the excellent 3-player game, Maria

The guys talk about Container. It's OOP and costly, but is it worth the money? They also touch on Merkator and London. HeavyCon 2015 is also a topic of discussion. Lastly, Ask the Elephant returns in this episode with great questions from the listener community.