It's our favorite time of the year. Time to talk about our favorite games that came out in 2016. We both give our Top 5 list and as always, a few runners up.

We also cover a few other highlights from the last 52 weeks, plus news, new releases and more!

Join us next week as we talk about La Granja No Siesta from Stronghold Games. You can listen live on Wednesday's from 6 to 7 CST at www.kxtr.com or here every Thursday.

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This week on Bags & Boards, we got the chance to sit down with D. Brad Talton, Jr. of Level 99 Games. Brad is also the designer of games like the BattleCON system, Pixel Tactics, Millennium Blades & much more.

Hear about his design philosophy, what games he's been playing and all of Level 99's upcoming releases.

We also cover all of the news from the last week in tabletop gaming.

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Even though we are 72 episodes in here at Bags and Boards, this episode starts a new era of the show.

Bags and Boards is going back to weekly and will now be releasing full episodes the morning after we air live on KXTR 100.7.

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On this episode of Bags and Boards, we talk about Grand Prix from GMT Games and design duo Jeff and Carla Horger, weeks after our review of their previous racing game, Thunder Alley.

We also tell you what games we've been playing, talk about games on Kickstarter and go through all of the latest news, release dates and new releases in hobby board gaming.

We hope everyone enjoys the new Bags and Boards and please give us feedback.

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We take an in depth look at one of the newer titles from What's Your Game, Signorie.

Signorie is a dice drafting game that has players taking on the role of the head of a family in renaissance Italy.

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Less than a week after the end of HeavyCon 2016, I go over the entire experience from the convention.

We talk about games played, food eaten and people met.

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Our review of Commands and Colors Ancients. Commands and Colors is something Lariat and I both love and we were excited to get our hands on this game of ancient warfare using that system.

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The first expansion to Commands and Colors Ancients from GMT Games and designer Richard Borg. This expansion covers Greece and the Eastern Kingdoms.

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I recently had the chance to chat with Frank Dilorenzo from R&R Games.

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Spellcasters is a small 2-4 player game from R&R Games, in which players take on the roles of dueling mages! I know you've heard this somewhere before, but this one has some interesting mechanics that we haven't seen before.

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Lariat talks about the new game Slideways from R&R Games, which has the coolest use of magnets, but how is the game?

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