The Board Boys Podcast

Board Boys are back, baby, to play Evenfall from new dev Stefano de Silva as well as chat with pal David Kuntz about this year's Capital City Gaming Con (formerly Cardboard Caucus) coming up Oct 11-13

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey 

12:00 Capital City Gaming Con Preview w/David Kuntz

23:30 Ziggurat 

26:45 Arcs

29:45 Cats and Quilts of Calico

36:45 Bomb Busters

40:15 Evenfall: Overview

44:15 Bring Me To Life - Evanescence (karaoke from Bob and Bev)

45:15 Evenfall: Review

1:13:00 Evenfall: Verdict

1:19:30 Board Boys Bump: The Wolves

1:26:15 Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - DJ Steve Walsh

 

Board Boys rock out as hard as humanly possible for a dork hobby podcast with Rock Hard: 1977, a sick game about becoming a rockstar by designer/rock legend Jackie Fox. Also in this episode, a long lookback on Barcelona, plus naming all the Beastie Boys and their DJ.

Cam's Rock Hard: 1977 playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1DpICN2f9sqhbVQ4VNISKP?si=8bb2e0dcbdd6425a

0:00 - Intro: E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey

2:00 - Music Chat

19:00 - CDSK

21:25 - Lifeboats: Planks of Carneades

25:10 - Harvest

29:25 - Cities

31:30 - Jorvik

34:30 - Bomb Busters

38:35 - Rock Hard 1977 - Intro

43:10 - Interlude: Cherry Bomb - The Runaways

44:50 - Rock Hard 1977 - Initial Thoughts

48:00 - Rock Hard 1977 - Pros

1:01:30 - Rock Hard 1977 - Prawns

1:07:30 - Rock Hard 1977 - Cons

1:18:50 - Rock Hard 1977 - Final Thoughts

1:28:15 - Bump or Dump - Barcelona

1:38:15 - Wrap up and Patron Thanks

1:39:45 - Outro: Success - Iggy Pop

Board Boys are back with "oldie" but goldie, Coimbra from Eggertspiel: a game about patrons and influence and merchants or something in the Renaissance Era which is basically the greatest theme of all time.  So grab your floppy hats and join us at the table for this and more!  

0:00 - Intro

4:00 - Peru and Weather Talk

6:00 - Finders Creepers

7:40 - Things in Rings

12:35 - Wrath of Fire Mountain

15:30 - Race to the Raft

18:20 - Coop QB Discussion

21:00 - Azul Summer Pavilion

23:00 - Age of Innovation

25:30 - Botanicus

31:25 - Coimbra Stats and Intro

34:16 - Informer - MC Shan and Snow

35:15 - Coimbra Initial Thoughts

38:35 - Coimbra Pros

50:00 - Coimbra Cons

1:08:00 - Coimbra Final Thoughts

1:10:00 - Bump or Dump - Sabika

1:14:00 - Outro, BGA, Patreon, and Discord

1:15:08 - Red Red Wine - UB40

 

In this Beau-Nuss episodes of The Board Boys Podcast, Rob and Beau attend GenCon 2024!  We see and do lots of cool stuff including things from CGE, Renegade Game Studios, Devir Games, Hachette Games, and we participated in the Rolling Dice and Taking Names Strike tournament lots of fun to be had!  We were super tired for some of the recording especially Beau but he was a trooper - which was awesome...  We hope you like board games!

0:00 - Intro and Day 0

8:17 - Day 1

8:45 - Catchables

10:20 - CGE Room

11:00 - Lifeboats

11:45 - Allplay

13:15 - Mandolorian Adventures

13:45 - Marvel Crisis Protocol

15:50 - RDTN Strike Event

18:35 - Day 3 and 4

19:35 - Rock Hard 1977

20:00 - AllPlay Small Card Games and Kabuto Sumo Tournament

23:40 - Tales of Arthurian Knights

25:00 - TNMT Unmatched

27:00 - Dabba Walla

28:00 - Lord of the Rings Duel for Middle-Earth

29:45 - Spotlight from Horrible Guild

30:45 - Lucas Oil Stadium and Boop The Halls

32:10 - Marvel Multiverse Roleplaying Game

32:35 - Doomlings and the pinata

32:55 - Magic Maze Tower and Octocube

34:35 - King of Tokyo Duel

35:55 - Heroscape from Renegade Game Studios

36:50 - Blood on the Clocktower

38:20 - After the Empire with Evan

39:11 - Hewns

39:50 - Rumbleslam

40:40 - Ziggurat

41:12 - Civolution

41:54 - Crossbows and Catapults vs Catapult Feud

42:48 - Madcala

44:25 - Kill Team Laser Tag

44:45 - S.E.T.I.

46:35 - Adas Dream and Tinderblox

47:10 - Quoridor Pacman, CDSK, Doggerland, Nekojima

49:22 - Keep The Heroes Out

50:20 - Everdell Duo

50:30 - Trick or Treat Studios

50:20 -  The OP

55:00 - Heroscape again

55:30 - Wrath of Fire Mountain

57:15 - Bomb Busters

57:50 - Witness

58:20 - Capstone Games

1:00:00 - Top 3 Experiences

1:01:43 - Top 3 Games to Play Next

1:02:30 - Outro

Today on The Board Boys we check out Inventions: Evolution of Ideas by Mr. Lacerda himself from Eagle Gryphon Games.  Also on this episode we take a look back on Season 14.  We also have a discussion about games we have played a bunch but never won.

 

Intro - 0:00

Nocturne - 2:00

5 Towers - 6:30

Season 14 Lookback - 10:30

 - Evacuation - 11:28

 - Djinn - 12:40

 - Voidfall - 14:25

 - Ticket to Ride Legacy - 17:15

 - Wyrmspan - 18:00

 - Trismegistus - 20:00

 - Kutna Hora - 20:10

 - El Grande - 23:10

 - Obsession - 24:00

 - Anunnaki - 25:30

 - Ezra and Nehemiah - 26:50

 - Skyrise - 28:00

 - Cascadero - 29:00

 - Beyond the Sun -  30:20

Games We Have Played The Most and Never Won - 31:30

Favorite/Least Favorite Game From Last Season - 33:20

Inventions - Intro - 35:40

Interlude - I Love Technology - Kip

Inventions - Initial Thoughts - 39:20

Inventions - Pros/Cons/Prawns - 42:00 

Inventions - Final Thoughts - 1:03:30

Bump or Dump - Expeditions - 1:07:20

Outro - Patron Thanks/BGA/Discord Talk - 1:13:15

Oingo Boingo - Weird Science - 1:14:48

 

In this episode we deep dive Beyond the Sun from Rio Grande Games!  We also pontificate space travel, talk some older games, and Rob gives his Game Challenge update!

0:00 - Intro

5:35 - BGA Chat with Cam

7:30 - Video Game Chat

14:25 - Jake Game Speed Run - Whistle Mountain, Isle of Cats, Castles of Burgandy, Wind the Film, MLEM, Faraway

15:25 - Coimbra

20:00 - Ponzi Scheme

23:25 - Five Tribes

26:30 - KingDomino

28:35 - Rob Game Challenge Update

29:25 - Megaland

32:35 - Beyond the Sun - Intro

35:15 - 2001: A Space Odyssey

36:30 - Beyond the Sun - Initial Thoughts   40:30 - Beyond the Sun - Pros   51:20 - Beyond the Sun - Cons   58:45 - Beyond the Sun - Final Thoughts   1:04:15 - Bump or Dump - Newton   1:08:30 - Outro, Patron Thanks, Website Plugs   1:09:10 - Kate Bush - Hello Earth     

 

Join Board Boys for a twofer in:

Skyrise - one of those games that has nice looking molded buildings with a fun auction wrinkle and cool scoring

Cascadero - a game about surrounding the villages to talk about how nice you are while going up tracks on tracks on tracks

Hey everyone welcome to another Beau-nuss episode of The Board Boys Podcast.  In this one Beau and I discuss what we thought of our first time at BGGCon Spring in Dallas, TX!

Intro - 0:00

1:45 - Cosmoctopus

2:30 - Everdell: Farshore

3:00 - Kabuto Sumo w/ Expansions

3:55 - MLEM Space Agency

5:00 - The Same Game

7:15 - Kitty Paw

8:25 - Captain Flip (SdJ Nominee)

9:45 - Tumblin' Dice

10:55 - Dodos Riding Dinos

13:15 - Indiana Jones Sands of Adventure

15:30 - Cascadero

17:00 - Beaument with Mo - Werewolf

18:30 - Little Alchemists

22:50 - Amoebunnies

27:10 - RA and Skyrise Auction Games

28:00 - Star Wars Bounty Hunters w/ Tom Vasel from The Dice Tower

31:30 - The Lord of the Rings: Adventure to Mount Doom

32:50 - Djinn

32:30 - Marvel United Spidergeddon

33:52 - Emerge

36:10 - Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods

37:00 - Thunder Road Vendetta

39:30 - Top Convention Activities

41:00 - Top 3 Games of the Con

42:40 - Looking forward to Gen Con

 

 

Board Boys are back and polite enough to listen to Cam talk for large chunks of the episode about some of his favorite books of the Bible in conjunction with a play of Ezra and Nehemiah, a game about rebuilding the temple, teaching the Torah, and making the walls around the city kino l33t again. 

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey

5:30 Faraway

9:00 Hegemony

13:15 Emerge

16:15 Everdell Farshore

21:15 Ezra and Nehemiah: Overview

27:30 Rivers of Babylon - The Melodians

28:45 Ezra and Nehemiah: Review

57:00 Ezra and Nehemiah: Verdict

1:02:45 Board Boys Bump: Challengers!

1:07:00 Thank You, Patrons

1:09:15 Israelites - Desmond Dekker

Board Boys get goofy with some big brain alien superpowers in Annunaki, a Looch joint (w/Danilo Sabia).

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey

12:45 An Age Contrived

16:45 Patzcuaro

21:00 Fromage

27:30 Anarchy Pancakes

31:45 Kabuto Sumo: Total Mayhem

36:00 Next Station: Paris

41:15 Anunnaki: Overview

45:15 Rapture - Blondie

46:45 Anunnaki: Review

1:17:45 Anunnaki: Verdict

1:26:45 Board Boys Bump: Darwin's Journey

1:33:00 Thank You, Patrons

1:33:30 Attack of the Name Game - Stacey Lattisaw