So Very Wrong About Games

Mark had to reign himself in considerably this week, what with the song temptations of the Talking Heads followed by his favourite torch song teased by Welcome to the Moon. He also tried to workshop a Gourds of Atlantis joke, but responses were--to put it mildly--not encouraging. It wasn't a total loss, as he managed to sneak in some Norse mythology in Telestrations. So that's... something.

Games Played Last Week:
01:11 -XenoShyft: Onslaught (Keren Philosophales & Michael Shinall, CMON, 2015)
06:21 -Azul: Queen's Garden (Michael Kiesling, Next Move Games, 2021)
09:55 -Spirit Island (R. Eric Reuss, Greater Than Games, 2017)
11:42 -Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Scrawlers--Heroes of Undermountain (Vangelis Bagiartakis & Konstantinos Karagiannis, Wizkids, 2021)
13:41 -Telestrations (Uncredited, USAopoly, 2009)
19:17 -Trickerion: Legends of Illusion (Richard Amann & Viktor Peter, Mindclash Games, 2015)
20:40 -Psycho Killer (Michael Wilkinson, Escape Tabletop Games, 2020)
23:47 -Welcome to the Moon (Alexis Allard & Benoit Turpin, Blue Cocker Games, 2021)
25:47 -Yak (Michael Luu, Pretzel Games, 2022)
26:44 -Dice Realms (Thomas Lehmann, Rio Grande Games, 2022)
32:44 -Yokohama Roll & Write (Hisashi Hayashi, OKAZU Brand, 2021)
34:54 -Stars of Akarios (Brendan McCaskell & Jonathan Thwaites, OOMM, 2022)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
39:22 Spirit Island expansion to be funded on BackerKit; new crowdfunding options
40:55 Galactic Renaissance by Christian Martinez of Inis; the "Political Trilogy" by Matagot

42:05 Feature Game: Guards of Atlantis II (Artyom Nichipurov, Wolff Designa, 2022)

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The dam has burst, and the flow of large player-count games rushes without signs of abating. We are willing to be sufficiently foolhardy to gather in larger groups, so the demand for 6+ player games has skyrocketed; and with it, the chance to return to old favourites. Dare we call it... a party?

Games Played Last Week:
02:22 -Guards of Atlantis II (Artyom Nichipurov, Wolff Designa, 2022)
07:46 -Thor (Reiner Knizia, Heidelberger Spieleverlag, 2002)
10:37 -Reichbusters: Project Vril (Jake Thornton, Mythic Games, 2020)
12:13 -Just One (Ludovic Roudy & Bruno Sautter, Repos Production, 2018)
13:28 -Wits & Wagers (Dominic Crapuchettes, North Star Games, 2005)
13:58 -For Sale: Advisors (Stefan Dorra, Eagle-Gryphon Games, 2021)
17:39 -The Guild of Merchant Explorers (Matthew Dunstan & Brett J. Gilbert, AEG, 2022)
19:21 -Empyreal: Spells & Steam (Trey Chambers, Level 99 Games, 2020)
21:20 -Yak (Michael Luu, Pretzel Games, 2022)
23:28 -Trial by Trolley (Scott Hauser, Skybound Games, 2020)
26:59 -The Chameleon (Rikki Tahta, Big Potato, 2017)
28:09 -Cockroach Poker (Jacques Zeimet, Drei Magier Spiele, 2004)
28:49 -Blood Bound (Kalle Krenzer, Fantasy Flight Games, 2013)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
31:49 Joan of Arc: Orléans Draw & Write, Yokohama Roll & Write
32:53 KS: Metropolys becomes Skyrise, Septima from Mindclash, and Bot Factory from Lacerda
33:29 RIP Maureen Hiron, hall-of-fame designer of Continuo and many others

34:14 Feature Game: Golem (Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, & Simone Luciani, Cranio Creations, 2021)

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Walker yearns for a universal grammar, a sort of iconograhic Esperanto. That is a bridge too far for Mark, but they nonetheless find common ground on certain time terms and certain graphical conventions. They may be alone, of course, but they would rather that everyone deferred to their intuitions.

01:17 AYURIS: The Castles of Tuscany (Stefan Feld, alea, 2020)

Games Played Last Week:
03:17 -Unsettled (Marc Neidlinger & Tom Mattson, Orange Nebula, 2021)
08:45 -Sniper Elite: The Board Game (Roger Tankersly & David Thompson, Rebellion Unplugged, 2022)
12:48 -Hidden Leaders (Andreas Müller, Markus Müller, & Raphael Stocker, BFF Games, 2022)
15:18 -For Science! (R. Eric Reuss, Grey Fox Games, 2021)
17:41 -Stars of Akarios (Brendan McCaskell & Jonathan Thwaites, OOMM, 2022)
25:13 -Omicron Protocol (Brendan Kendrick & Bernie Lin, Dead Alive Games, 2022)
31:14 -Ark Nova (Mathias Wigge, Feuerland Spiele, 2021)
32:10 -Warpgate (Artyom Nichipurov, Wolff Designa, 2018)
33:45 -Shards of Infinity (Gary Arant & Justin Gary, Stone Blade Entertainment, 2018)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
34:36 TOYS! Snap Ships Tactics
36:09 CMON: Cyberpunk 2077 and Zombicide Flip and Write. Whee.
36:58 DVG Reprints & Dice: Pavlov's House and Soldiers in Postman's Uniforms
37:53 War of the Ring Card Game by Ian Brody
38:24 Drags 2 Riches: Eleganza Deckbuilding Extravanganza
39:00 MicroMacro Crime City All-In: Sept 22

39:28 Topic: Let's Get on the Same Page

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After a purgatorial thirteen months, Mark will be released from his Cain-like wanderings and allowed to repatriate to Kingston where he will get to be home. He figures that if Immanuel Kant got to be world famous before the age of global communications without leaving a 50 kilometer radius of his hometown, he has more than paid his dues. If anyone wants him to attend a function in the future, they had best plan on getting married and/or dying in close proximity to Mark's home.

01:43 AYURIS: Lost Ruins of Arnak (Elwen & Mín, CGE, 2020)

Games Played Last Week:
03:51 -Foundations of Rome (Emerson Matsuuichi, Arcane Wonders, 2022)
07:05 -Golem (Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, & Simone Luciani, Cranio Creations, 2021)
10:56 -Token Terrors: Battlegrounds (John de Campos & Phillip Doccolo, Terrible Games, 2020)
16:50 -Switch & Signal (David Thompson, KOSMOS, 2020)
19:13 -Unsettled (Marc Neidlinger & Tom Mattson, Orange Nebula, 2021)
27:09 -Ark Nova (Mathias Wigge, Feuerland Spiele, 2021)
28:21 -The Bridges of Shangri-La (Leo Colovini, Uberplay, 2003)
32:09 -Merchants of the Dark Road (Brian Suhre, Elf Creek Games, 2022)
36:09 -Paper Tales (Masato Uesugi, Stronghold, 2017)
38:31 -Memoir '44 (Richard Borg, Days of Wonder, 2004)
41:52 -Iwari (Michael Schacht, ThunderGlyph Games, 2020)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
44:51 Ghost Adventure: spinning, grabbing, tilting!
45:57 Uwe Rosenberg's Atiwa (Ghana)
47:42 Idavoll for Nidavellir: giants, Aesir, and more
49:33 Terra Mystica minus tracks becomes Terra Nova?
50:24 Terraforming Mars: Dice Game

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Multi-Deck System Games! Canadian content! Kevin Bacon! So many digressions in an episode packed with so much culture it couldn't even fit in one of Vin Diesel's muscle shirts. We do, however, focus on games long enough to rhetorically ask--with several stress patterns--of David Thompson: who is this guy? As a note, during the time of the taping of this episode, David Thompson released five more excellent board games. Oh, sorry, I type slowly, make that six.

01:23 AYURIS: Fort (Grant Rodiek, Leder Games, 2020)

Games Played Last Week:
03:36 -Contra: The Board Game (Adam Sadler & Brady Sadler, Blacklist Games, 2022)
08:23 -Hour of Need (Adam Sadler & Brady Sadler, Blacklist Games, 2022)
13:58 -Paint the Roses (Ben Goldman, North Star Games, 2022)
17:41 -Sniper Elite: The Board Game (Roger Tankersly & David Thompson, Rebellion Unplugged, 2022)
24:31 -SCOUT (Kei Kajino, Oink Games, 2019)
26:48 -Hidden Leaders (Andreas Müller, Markus Müller, & Raphael Stocker, BFF Games, 2022)
30:09 -Foundations of Rome (Emerson Matsuuichi, Arcane Wonders, 2022)
34:18 -Stroganov (Andreas Steding, Game Brewer, 2021)
37:44 -burncycle (Josh J. Carlson & Shannon Wedge, Chip Theory Games, 2022)
44:48 -For Sale (Stefan Dorra, Uberplay, 1997)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
46:39 Support the show on Patreon, by word of mouth, or don't. You do you!
48:56 Fantasy Realms Deluxe. With sleeves!
49:35 Arcs by Leder Games on Kickstarter now. Trick-taking!
50:27 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles Season 3. New rulebook!

52:48 Topic: Designer Spotlight: David Thompson
[EDIT: The actor who co-starred in Tremors is named Michael Gross. We regret the error.]

1:17:45 SVWAG Presents Masterpiece Theatre: The Pentaverate

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On Mark's drive across Canada (the first time), he stopped in Drumheller, Alberta for some dinosaur tourism. It has a truly impressive nodosaur specimen. The nodosaur is a close relative of the ankylosaur, a key difference being the former's lack of a thagomizer, the club-like appendage at the end of an ankylosaur's tail. Mark bought a plastic ankylosaur as a souvenir. Its name is Angie.
Perseverance doesn't have any ankylosaurs or nodosaurs. A shame.

Games Played Last Week:
00:53 -Planet Unknown (Ryan Lambert & Adam Rehberg, Adam's Apple Games, 2022)
04:53 -Carnegie (Xavier Georges, Quined Games, 2022)
11:16 -Imperium: Legends (Nigel Buckle & Dávid Turczi, Osprey Games, 2021)
15:08 -Titan (Matthieu Podevin, Holy Grail Games, 2022)
21:19 -Hour of Need (Adam Sadler & Brady Sadler, Blacklist Games, 2022)
27:25 -Get on Board: New York & London (Saashi, IELLO, 2022)
28:31 -Omicron Protocol (Brendan Kendrick & Bernie Lin, Dead Alive Games, 2022)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
34:05 Starship Captains by CGE (not Vlaada)
34:56 Leave the Church in the Village: Quoridor-esque?
35:50 Spiel des Jahres Nominees: Cascadia, SCOUT, Top Ten. Kennerspiel: Living Forest, Cryptid, Dune: Imperium
37:13 Escape from New York

38:07 Feature Game: Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles Episodes 1 & 2 (Richard Amann, Thomas Vande Ginste, Viktor Peter, Wolf Plancke, & Dávid Turczi, Mindclash Games, 2022)

1:09:53 SVWAG Presents Masterpiece Theatre: The Kid Detective

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We received a number of questions of a more personal nature which we have decided not to address. This is only partially out of a sense of privacy. Rather, we are firmly of the editorial position that the show is best when we focus on games, rather than the personal details of the hosts. We pride ourselves in only wasting a certain amount of your valuable time, and were we to indulge in more personal digressions that could easily balloon the show well beyond the limits of absurdity.

01:08 AYURIS: Flotilla (J.B. Howell & Michael Mihealsick, WizKids, 2019)

Games Played Last Week:
04:10 -Ark Nova (Mathias Wigge, Feuerland Spiele, 2021)
07:26 -Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape (Alex Olteanu & Marco Portugal, CMON, 2022)
11:40 -Foundations of Rome (Emerson Matsuuichi, Arcane Wonders, 2022)
13:31 -Planet Unknown (Ryan Lambert & Adam Rehberg, Adam's Apple Games, 2022)
17:45 -Ghosts of Christmas (Taiki Shinzawa, BoardGameTables.com, 2022)
20:00 -Imperium: The Contention (Gary Dworetsky, Contention Games, 2021)
21:26 -Legendary Inventors (Frédéric Henry, Bombyx, 2016)
22:50 -Capital Lux 2: Generations (Eilif Svensson & Kristian Amundsen Østby, Aporta Games, 2021)
26:22 -Paint the Roses (Ben Goldman, North Star Games, 2022)
29:40 -Space Alert (Vlaada Chvátil, Czech Games Edition, 2008)
30:57 -Reichbusters: Project Vril (Jake Thornton, Mythic Games, 2020)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
32:02 Tough Calls: Dystopia; negotiation reminiscent of Durance?
33:05 Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods is back, revised, on Kickstarter #noTyrnosale
34:10 Awlrach the Drowner from Games Workshop

34:49 Topic: Omnibus Questions Charlie Bravo

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Inquiring minds demand to know, and we, your humble servants, must perforce answer. Mark resists the urge to elaborate on Kant and Macross! Walker resists the siren call of nineties hip hop! Such feats of iron will are the least of what our curious and/or trolling listeners deserve.
(It's the curious trolls that always get you in the end)

01:21 AYURIS: Babylonia (Reiner Knizia, Ludonova, 2019)

Games Played Last Week:
03:05 -Switch & Signal (David Thompson, KOSMOS, 2020)
05:30 -Cryptid: Urban Legends (Hal Duncan & Ruth Veevers, Osprey Games, 2022)
09:21 -Horrified: American Monsters (Michael Mulvihill, Ravensburger, 2021)
11:48 -Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape (Alex Olteanu & Marco Portugal, CMON, 2022)
18:29 -Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles Episode 1 (Richard Amann, Thomas Vande Ginste, Viktor Peter, Wolf Plancke, & Dávid Turczi, Mindclash Games, 2022)
22:42 -Core Worlds: Empires (Christopher Guild & Andrew Parks, Quixotic Games, 2021)
30:47 -Paint the Roses (Ben Goldman, North Star Games, 2022)
35:19 -Envelopes of Cash (Andy Schwarz, Envelopes of Cash LLC, 2022)
40:17 -Fjords (Franz-Benno Delonge & Phil Walker-Harding, Grail Games, 2022)
42:55 -Capital Lux 2: Pocket (Eilif Svensson & Kristian Amundsen Østby, Aporta Games, 2021)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
46:30 Age of Steam Deluxe with new maps and no authorial attribution
47:05 Reprint of classic game Inkognito
48:40 David Thompson's RESIST! on Gamefound May 12th
49:09 Point Salad Pokémon version
49:56 Kingdom Builder: Empire Edition for exorbitant monies

51:57 Topic: Omnibus Questions Charlie Alpha

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I wanna be where the patients are
I wanna see, wanna see 'em coughin'

Buildin' your wings, you don't get too far
Clients are required for billing, charging

Up where they sneeze, up where they shudder
Up where they stay all day just to suffer
Treatin' for a fee, wish I could be
Part of that world

01:37 AYURIS: Cosmic Frog (Jim Felli, Devious Weasel Games, 2020)

Games Played Last Week:
04:10 -Wonderland's War (Tim Eisner, Ben Eisner, & Ian Moss, Druid City Games, 2022)
10:04 -Décorum (Harry Mackin, Charlie Mackin, & Drew Tenenbaum, Floodgate Games, 2022)
14:48 -Crescent Moon (Steven Mathers, Osprey Games, 2022)
23:07 -Gutenberg (Katarzyna Cioch & Wojciech Wiśniewski, Granna, 2021)
26:06 -Jekyll vs. Hyde (Geonil, Mandoo Games, 2021)
28:30 -Stroganov (Andreas Steding, Game Brewer, 2021)
31:01 -Ark Nova (Mathias Wigge, Feuerland Spiele, 2021)
39:25 -Hippocrates (Alain Orban, Game Brewer, 2022)
42:31 -Clinic Deluxe Edition (Alban Viard, AVStudioGames, 2019)


News (and why it doesn't matter):
46:38 Twilight Imperium Roll and Write
46:56 Twilight Imperium Codex on FFG website
47:27 Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods cancelled Kickstarter campaign; #noTyrnosale
50:07 Firefly deckbuilding game from Gale Force Nine

50:27 Topic: Hidden Trackable Information

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Preparation is important. We very carefully do our advance research here at SVWAG, but occasionally mild errors do creep in. For this week, Mark studiously crafted notes and observations on such issues as four octave vocal ranges, Nickelodeon celebrity culture, and whether boredom of a third party constitutes necessary or sufficient conditions for breaking up with one's girlfriend. Sadly for Mark, Ariana was not the Grande under discussion this week, so he was forced to begin anew.

Games Played Last Week:
01:12 -Clinic Deluxe Edition (Alban Viard, AVStudioGames, 2019)
05:36 -Contra: The Board Game (Adam Sadler & Brady Sadler, Blacklist Games, 2022)
07:08 -Furnace (Ivan Lashin, Hobby World, 2021)
08:38 -Pulsar 2849 (Vladimír Suchý, CGE, 2017)
10:59 -Settlement (Oleksandr Nevskiy, IGAMES, 2021)
12:43 -Race for the Galaxy (Thomas Lehmann, Rio Grande Games, 2007)
16:23 -Décorum (Harry Mackin, Charlie Mackin, & Drew Tenenbaum, Floodgate Games, 2022)
19:49 -Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition (Sydney Engelstein, Jacob Fryxelius, & Nick Little, Stronghold Games, 2021)
23:34 -Factory 42 (Timo Multamäki, Dragon Dawn Productions, 2021)
31:05 -Nidavellir: Thingvellir (Serge Laget, GRRRE Games, 2020)
33:31 -Dune: Imperium--Rise of Ix (Paul Dennen, Dire Wolf, 2022)


News (and why it doesn't matter):
37:19 Rise & Fall by Christophe Boelinger and Ludically launching on Kickstarter in July
37:54 Doomrock Ultimate on Gamefound
38:46 Castles by the Sea on Kickstarter
39:41 Robotech Macross DOG FIGHT follow-up: caveat emptor, perhaps best to wait and see
41:05 Mark on Board Game Barrage this Thursday, April 28
41:45 Check out our Patreon: www.patreon.com/svwag, new exclusive show BLOAT
42:30 Upcoming Omnibus questions episode! Please submit any and all questions. www.sowronggames.com/contact

43:07 Feature Game: El Grande (Wolfgang Kramer & Richard Ulrich, Hans im Glück, 1995)

1:15:08 SVWAG Presents Masterpiece Theatre: The Orbital Children

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