Two Wood for a Wheat

Tony and Mitch and guest Bill/Varianor discuss The Isle of Cats: Explore and Draw. Then we move on to discuss our most (and least) loved roll and write, dice game, and card game spinoffs of existing games.

6:34 FEATURE REVIEW - The Isle of Cats Explore & Draw

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Today we're reviewing Splendor: Duel, a gem-infused two player engine building game redesigned by Bruno Cathala.
Then we're discussing what we find in the best duel games.

:01:20 Splendor: Duel
00:01:27 Applejack, Nova Luna, Patchwork
00:05:29 Tiletum
0000:07:09 Architects of the West Kingdom
00:08:23 Tigris & Euphrates
00:09:13 Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum
00:10:33 Frosthaven
00:13:07 Gloomhaven
00:14:08 FEATURE REVIEW Splendor: Duel
00:14:44 7 Wonders: Duel, Splendor
00:33:10 FEATURE DISCUSSION Duel Games
00:33:23 Magic the Gathering, Radlands
00:34:42 Duelosaur Island, Cosmic Encounter: Duel, Kingdomino: Duel, Yokohama: Duel, Bohnanza the Duel, Neuroship Hex: The Duel, Cthulhu Wars: Duel, Imhotep: The Duel
00:35:27 Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small, Caverna: Cave vs. Cave, Le Havre: Insland Port
00:36:38 7 Wonders: Duel
00:39:31 Saboteur: The Duel
00:40:02 Watergate, Twilight Struggle
00:43:04 It's a Wonderful World
00:43:57 Race for the Galaxy
00:46:15 Patchwork
00:47:28 Azul
00:48:48 Isle of Cats: Explore and Draw, The Isle of Cats
00:49:31 Mombassa, Skymines

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Mitch and Tony reminisce about their most memorable board game moments.

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Today we review Atiwa, one of Uwe Rosenberg's newest games about balancing human expansion and forest growth in Ghana.

00:04:24 Anachrony
00:06:33 It's a Wonderful World, Race for the Galaxy
00:08:18 Isle of Cats: Explore and Draw, The Isle of Cats, Tiny Towns
00:08:51 Vegetable Stock
00:10:23 Horseless Carriage
00:17:34 FEATURE REVIEW Atiwa
00:27:33 A Feast for Odin

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Mitch and Tony review Obsession, a five year old board game about social climbing in Jane Austen's England. We examine both the mechanisms and what's made this game grow in popularity as time has gone on.

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The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting the emperor in his afterlife.The figures, dating from approximately the late third century BCE, were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong County, outside Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. The figures vary in height according to their roles, the tallest being the generals. The figures include warriors, chariots and horses. Estimates from 2007 were that the three pits containing the Terracotta Army held more than 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses, and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which remained buried in the pits near Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum.

Also, uh, end-of-round bonuses are cool and change incentives.
00:02:13 Splendor: Duel, Splendor
00:03:01 It's a Wonderful World, Race for the Galaxy
00:03:18 Skymines, Obsession
00:03:47 Frosthaven
00:05:54 Harvest, Empyreal: Spells & Steam, Argent: The Consortium
00:08:28 FEATURE REVIEW Terracotta Army
00:08:37 Origins: First Builders, Nemesis, Lords of Hellas
00:09:31 Frostpunk
00:10:21 Underwater Cities
00:31:38 Bunny Kingdom
00:38:09 Tekhenu
00:39:07 Verdant
00:39:25 FEATURE DISCUSSION End-of-Round Objectives
00:43:28 Terra Mystica, Gaia Project, Terra Nova
00:46:19 Barrage
00:47:33 Wonderland's War
00:50:32 THE CONTEST: Win Ark Nova

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Mitch and Tony discuss the many times they’ve gotten the rules of a game wrong, and how unintentional cheating or other inaccuracies are inevitable parts of the board game experience.

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We're revealing our most anticipated games of 2023.

00:02:00 Unconscious Mind, Darwin's Journey, Horseless Carriage, Annunaki: Dawn of the Gods, Revive
00:02:48 Frosthaven (mild item spoiler)
00:04:38 Splendor: Duel, 7 Wonders: Duel, Splendor
00:06:11 Fyfe, Calico
00:08:36 Woodcraft: Roll & Write, Woodcraft
00:09:11 Creature Comforts
00:27:33 Everdell
00:11:04 FEATURE DISCUSSION Most Anticipated Games of 2023
00:12:36 Shake that City, Tiny Towns
00:14:15 Daybreak, Pandemic
00:15:52 Aelderman
00:17:14 Red Cathedral, White Castle
00:18:38 Pioneer Rails, The Guild of Merchants Explorers
00:19:40 Septima
00:20:14 Broom Service
00:21:11 Trickerion, Anachrony
00:21:44 The Fox Experiment
00:23:34 The Guild Academies of Valeria, Resurgence, Endless Winter
00:24:11 Paladins of the West Kingdom, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Explorers of the South Tigris, Scholars of the South Tigrs
00:25:48 Rolling Heights, Dead Reckoning, Empire's End, No Thanks!
00:27:05 Marvel: United, Marvel: Champions, Marvel: Age of Heroes
00:27:42 Lords of Waterdeep, Tyrants of the Underdark
00:29:36 Divinus
00:31:06 Shake that City, Tiny Towns
00:31:41 Bloodstone
00:33:03 Age of Comics: The Golden Years
00:35:28 Point Salad, Point City
00:36:44 Fit to Print
00:37:32 Destinies, the Dark Quarter
00:39:18 Daybreak, Pandemic, Terraforming Mars
00:40:59 Autobahn, Arborea
00:42:12 Bitoku, Tzolkin
00:45:21 Wonderland's War
00:45:41 Empire's of the Void II
00:45:49 Copan: Dying City, Museum
00:46:25 Last Light
00:47:12 Lords of Ragnorak, Lords Of Hellas
00:47:20 Maple Valley, Creature Comforts
00:47:47 Race to the Raft, The Isle of Cats
00:48:00 Lumen: The Monde Perdu (The Lost World)
00:48:28 Endurance
00:48:45 Irish Gauge, Iberian Gauge, This War of Mine, Unrelenting: Through Ice & Snow
00:50:09 After Us
00:51:09 Zoo Tycoon, Ark Nova, Darwin's Choice
00:51:57 Earth
00:52:29 Carnegie, Ark Nova
00:54:37 Terracotta Army

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More spoiler filled rants on the latest state of the Frosthaven campaigns being run by Pat, Tony, and Mitch. Listen to Mitch talk about why he'll never quit the Banner Spear, Pat Geek out on the huge amount of damage he can do now that he's broken the game, and Tony kvetch about how he's unable to unlock half the content.

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Have you ever wanted to live your life as a Keebler elf? What? No, me neither. I mean, not until I played Woodcraft.

Join us for our review of this brand new dice manipulation euro by Vladimír Suchý and Ross Arnold.

And then, Mitch joins us for our top 10 games of 2022.

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00:01:17 FEATURE REVIEW Woodcraft
00:01:18 Messina: 1347, Praga Caput Regni, Pulsar: 2849, Underwater Cities
00:21:41 Race for the Galaxy
00:25:38 FEATURE DISCUSSION Top 10 Games of 2022
00:26:12 Revive, Atiwa
00:26:39 Frosthaven
00:27:33 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
00:28:24 Dice Realms, Wonderland's War
00:29:22 Now or Never
00:30:42 The Guild of Merchant Explorers
00:31:44 Verdant
00:32:24 Cascadia, Calico
00:32:45 Tiletum
00:33:34 Woodcraft
00:33:48 Evergreen
00:34:02 Photosynthesis
00:35:16 Weather Machine
00:36:36 Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Endless Winter: Paleoamericans
00:38:37 Ascension: Tactics
00:39:19 World of Warcraft Miniatures
00:40:07 Discordia, Anno: 1800
00:41:31 Ready, Set, Bet!
00:44:00 Space Station Phoenix
00:45:05 Tiletum
00:45:44 Planted
00:47:33 Akropolis
00:48:53 Planet Unknown
00:49:13 Resurgence
00:50:17 Ascension Tactics, Ascension Tactics: Inferno
00:52:04 Bitoku
00:52:45 Teotihuacan
00:53:46 Long Shot: The DIce Game
00:54:52 Exit: The Game - Advent Calendar: The Hunt for the Golden Book
00:56:43 Long Shot: The Dice Game
00:58:10 Messina: 1347
00:59:51 Resurgence
01:01:48 Now or Never
01:03:02 Wonderland's War, Rising Sun
01:04:59 Creature Comforts
01:07:37 Resurgence
01:08:52 Woodcraft
01:09:47 Space Station Phoenix
01:12:52 Wonderland's War
01:14:14 Ark Nova
01:16:29 Terraforming Mars
01:17:00 Vagrantsong, Dead Reckoning, Woodcraft, Fosthaven, Clank: Catacombs, Clank
01:17:44 Tiletum
01:18:11 Golem
01:18:29 Splendor: Duel, Splendor
01:19:04 Boonlake
01:19:23 Planet Unknown
01:20:13 Planted, Creature Comforts, Riverside, Mindbug: First Contact, Terracotta Army
01:20:44 Wonderland's War
01:21:11 Akropolis
01:21:33 Autobahn
01:22:42 Planted, Verdant
01:23:04 Living Forest, Woodcraft, Planet Unknown