By The Gaming Moguls
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Mark, Sobhi and special guest Nick from Talking Cardboard engage in a lot of wishful thinking about what we want to play at Gaming Moguls Summer Muster 2024. As you could predict, Mark wants to play a lot of Euros, Nick wants to play a lot of Wargames, and Sobhi doesn’t dare as long as there are trains.
Mark and Sobhi have a big announcement – MogulsCon 2.0 August 16-18 in Hopkins, MN! We also review games we’ve played and talk about three different space operas – two of which involve a dying sun or planet. We also talk about a couple of our favorite recent 18xx plays and rare Japanese trick-takers.
Note: Slight error fixed from the initial release
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:50 Big Announcement
00:05:32 What We’ve Been Playing
00:05:44 Barrage: The Nile Affair
00:12:34 Shut the Books
00:19:18 The Barracks Emperors
00:25:14 Magnum Sal
00:32:20 The Old Prince: 1871
00:40:39 18SJ – Railways in the Frozen North
00:44:21 Main Topic Intro – A Tale of Two Suns
00:44:50 Sol: Last Days of a Star
00:51:29 Evacuation
00:56:12 Arcs
01:06:51 Wrap Up & Outro
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Mark and Sobhi have a big announcement – MogulsCon 2.0 August 16-18 in Hopkins, MN! We also review games we’ve played and talk about three different space operas – two of which involve a dying sun or planet. We also talk about a couple of our favorite recent 18xx plays and rare Japanese trick-takers.
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:50 Big Announcement
00:05:32 What We’ve Been Playing
00:05:44 Barrage: The Nile Affair
00:12:34 Shut the Books
00:19:18 The Barracks Emperors
00:25:14 Magnum Sal
00:32:20 The Old Prince: 1871
00:40:39 18SJ – Railways in the Frozen North
00:44:21 Main Topic Intro – A Tale of Two Suns
00:44:50 Sol: Last Days of a Star
00:51:29 Evacuation
00:56:12 Arcs
01:06:51 Wrap Up & Outro
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Sobhi and Mark head off for the First Minnesota Muster – a weekend of heavy games, war games and train games and live to tell the tale.. but not all the games could say as much. We also discuss a new favorite of the group – Praga Caput Regni. Finally – we introduce a new recurring segment called “What Makes This Game Great” – in which we write a love letter to Brass.
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:12 First Minnesota Muster
00:09:50 Sidereal Confluence
00:18:38 Trade on the Tigris
00:20:41 Heul Doch! Mau Mau
00:25:53 1880:China
00:35:52 Boast or Nothing
00:37:49 Vinhos
00:46:10 Maria
00:47:50 Age of Steam
00:49:13 Oranienburger Kanal
00:50:15 Tall Tales
00:51:42 Praga Caput Regni
01:03:21 What Makes This Game Great – Brass
01:27:11 Wrap Up & Outro
The Gaming Moguls add a new co-host to the mix – Sobhi Youssef! We introduce Sobhi, talk about what we’ve been playing – then talk about games where the theme is clearly reflected in the mechanisms.
00:00:00 Intro
00:17:43 What We’ve Been Playing!
00:18:28 Fresh Fish
00:24:35 1849: The Game of Sicilian Railways
00:29:11 Oranienburger Kanal
00:35:26 Time of Crisis: The Roman Empire in Turmoil, 235-284 AD
00:37:06 Pax Pamir: Second Edition
00:40:04 The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition
00:42:39 Carnegie
00:44:00 Main Topic Intro
00:53:00 Union Stockyards
00:59:32 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition
01:03:13 Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition
01:07:04 Europa Universalis: The Price of Power
01:08:47 Die Macher
01:11:12 Heat: Pedal to the Metal
01:14:15 Leaving Earth
01:17:30 Wars of Religion, France 1562-1598
01:21:33 The Gallerist
01:23:05 Lisboa
01:26:27 Snowdonia: Deluxe Master Set
01:28:37 War of the Ring: The Card Game
01:31:46 Innovation
01:33:22 People Power: Insurgency in the Philippines, 1981-1986
01:37:34 Wrap Up & Outro
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Time again for that annual lookback at Mark’s best-of-the-best. It’s probably the most pure list ever – since very few “new hotness” games were played in 2022. Where does Age of Steam land this year? Did Ark Nova crack the list? Is it once again all Uwe Rosenberg?
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:05 Mark’s Top 20 of 2022!
00:08:43 Number 20
00:12:06 Number 19
00:15:10 Number 18
00:17:24 Number 17
00:20:39 Number 16
00:25:21 Number 15
00:28:39 Number 14
00:32:34 Number 13
00:35:07 Number 12
00:38:59 Number 11
00:40:30 Number 10
00:43:48 Number 9
00:47:52 Number 8
00:53:09 Number 7
00:57:53 Number 6
01:01:23 Number 5
01:07:21 Number 4
01:11:25 Number 3
01:16:41 Number 2
01:19:30 Mark’s Number 1 of 2022!
01:23:53 Final Thoughts
01:28:07 Wrap Up & Outro
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Our favorite time of year is when we review our top 20 games of the year to see how our tastes evolve over the year. We count ’em down from 20 to 1 and talk about the ones that almost made the list. To nobody’s surprise – Jake likes the trains and Tom Lehmann – and there are plenty of those on the list. What’s #1 – and are you Team Jake?
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:06 Jake’s Top 20 of 2022!
00:06:35 Number 20
00:09:37 Number 19
00:14:20 Number 18
00:18:44 Number 17
00:21:51 Number 16
00:25:54 Number 15
00:28:57 Number 14
00:32:00 Number 13
00:34:28 Number 12
00:38:31 Number 11
00:41:16 Number 10
00:43:21 Number 9
00:47:12 Number 8
00:50:20 Number 7
00:51:50 Number 6
00:55:18 Number 5
01:01:40 Number 4
01:04:27 Number 3
01:09:40 Number 2
01:14:09 Jake’s Number 1 of 2022!
01:17:13 Jake’s 2022 Runner Ups
01:24:07 Wrap Up & Outro
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Jake and Mark review a cabin gaming weekend and ponder why some cooperative games – especially some very highly rated cooperative games – leave such an emptiness after playing. They revisit Ark Nova with some additional thoughts after more plays, and talk about games that scare us.
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:20 Games We Played!
00:04:24 Castles of Burgundy
00:05:42 CoB BGG Player Aid
00:11:11 Ark Nova
00:21:23 Nemesis
00:36:32 Caverna: The Cave Farmers
00:46:17 Caverna: Cave vs Cave
00:51:30 Dandelions
00:54:19 Age of Steam
01:04:16 18Chesapeake
01:10:20 Wrap Up & Outro
We’re Back! After a lovely extended summer break – the Gaming Moguls rip into Season Two. We spend the episode catching up on the best games that we’ve played since the last episode and our favorites of the year so far. We also compare and contrast a group of four heavy hour-long games (Shinkansen Zero Kei, Bear Raid, Furnace and Nusfjord)
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:20 Games We Played!
00:05:48 Nusfjord
00:13:08 Bear Raid
00:23:46 Furnace
00:30:49 Shinkansen: Zero Kei
00:39:01 Res Arcana
00:51:49 Ark Nova
01:17:30 1849: The Game of Sicilian Railways
01:21:08 The Old Prince 1871
01:26:25 Wrap Up & Outro
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It’s Moguls Unfiltered tonight – where we discuss our unplayed games in the BGG Top 100 and what we think about them.. good, bad, or otherwise. This episode is full of rapid-fire hot takes and bad opinions.. or are they?
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:20 Top 100-91 Games
00:11:28 Top 90-81 Games
00:17:18 Top 80-71 Games
00:21:18 Top 70-61 Games
00:25:06 Top 60-51 Games
00:29:15 Top 50-41 Games
00:34:44 Top 40-31 Games
00:41:15 Top 30-21 Games
00:47:38 Top 20-11 Games
00:52:43 Top 10-1 Games
00:58:04 Recap
01:09:12 Wrap Up & Outro
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