As we approach the end of 2024, it's about time we stop, take stock, and dare I say look back at the year that's been. The highs, the lows, the mids - all the stars are here, and we're going to break them down for you with some of our favourite games, and biggest moments, and general assessment of the year that's been. Before we reflect, we talk about Let's Go! To Japan, Mombasa, and The Gang.

01:52 - Let's Go! To Japan
10:17 - Mombasa
15:05 - The Gang
21:00 - Looking back on 2024
22:01 - Arcs
27:54 - Cascadero
29:29 - Slay the Spire: The Board Game
31:17 - Wilmot's Warehouse

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Gobble Bobble, here comes trouble in the form of a pairing we never thought we'd see - Bob and the Ghost Turkey have delivered us another holiday nightmare. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Before we tuck in, we talk about Tapple, Mini Rails, and Naishi.

05:48 - Tapple
11:07 - Mini Rails
17:45 - Naishi
22:56 - BGBBOB Bird Games
24:45 - ICECOOL
24:52 - Root
26:17 - Rook
26:26 - Songbirds
28:05 - Fancy Feathers
28:15 - The Bird Told Me to Do It
29:09 - Piepmatz
32:17 - Wingspan
32:28 - Penguin Party
33:44 - Angry Birds: Star Wars - Jenga Rise of Darth Vader Game

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We've been to Las Vegas and back for the very unofficial recurring gathering we like to call BarrageCon (which is really just all of us hanging out at Mark's place). We had a lot of games lined up to play, and I daresay we did a pretty good job of getting through them. Here's our report back, just a bunch of impressions of a bunch of games - including Rise & Fall, Fractured Sky, and Wilmot's Warehouse!

02:26 - Harvest
07:18 - Fractured Sky
18:13 - Penguin Party
22:10 - San Marco
27:14 - EGO
31:45 - Barony
37:30 - Rise & Fall
49:49 - Wilmot's Warehouse
56:45 - Tiny Laser Heist
1:01:32 - Nekojima
1:02:45 - Bottle Imp
1:07:45 - The Vale of Eternity
1:11:53 - Shogun

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I think it's fair to say at this point, that we've pretty firmly established each of our respective tastes when it comes to board games, whether it's for genre, theme, mechanic, whatever. There's always something, though, right? Something that flies in the face of those rules and boldly proclaims, "I like this, even though..." Before we prove the rule, we talk about Andromeda's Edge, and Karvi.

03:05 - Andromeda's Edge
13:15 - Karvi
23:32 - Exceptions to our Gaming Tastes
24:47 - Through the Ages
26:41 - Ark Nova
30:57 - Stationfall
34:04 - Thunder Road: Vendetta
35:35 - Terra Mystica

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The Fandango Tank returns! The ever wonderful Mike DiLisio joins us again, this time to collectively cast our minds forward to some things we'd like to manifest into the board game future. We've got a mess of ideas, a veritable mixtape of miscellany that we either want to play, or hope to see more of as the hobby progresses. Before we unspool, we talk about Fishing, EGO, The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth, and Key Market (Second Edition).

02:57 - Fishing
03:03 - I Made You a Mixtape
11:31 - EGO
21:00 - The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth
27:46 - Key Market (Second Edition)
40:49 - Things we'd like to see

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So we've done a lot of these drafts before, but I don't think we've done one quite like this. This time we're each trying to draft a set of five games that we think you might agree are incredibly overrated. What does that mean exactly? Well that's up for debate too. What isn't up for debate is that you could win $100 just by voting! Before we widen our delta, we talk about Undaunted 2200: Callisto, Nature, and Barcelona.

03:37 - Undaunted 2200: Callisto
13:10 - Nature
23:00 - Barcelona
31:22 - Overrated Games Draft
37:07 - Nemesis
39:10 - Frosthaven
41:15 - Star Wars: Rebellion
45:19 - Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition
47:37 - Earth
48:45 - Wingspan
51:19 - 7 Wonders Duel
52:24 - Mechs vs. Minions
53:17 - Everdell
55:43 - Crokinole
58:52 - Caverna: The Cave Farmers
59:55 - Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
1:01:24 - On Mars
1:02:45 - Lost Ruins of Arnak
1:04:13 - Catan

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I'm in a bit of a quandary here, because Mark told me not to tell you what this episode is even about, but I want this description to be, well, descriptive but he's glaring at me really hard, and making a throat slitting gesture so I daren't risk it. It's about ... board games? Before we get ahead of ourselves, we talk about Binho, Stamp Swap, and First Rat.

03:33 - Binho
07:24 - Stamp Swap
17:04 - First Rat
30:16 - ???
34:47 - Agricola
34:47 - Bohnanza
36:28 - Patchwork
37:05 - A Feast for Odin
39:02 - Power Grid
39:43 - Friday
40:06 - Fearsome Floors
41:25 - 504
42:40 - Fast Sloths
43:03 - Fresh Fish
44:44 - Ra
45:28 - Tigris & Euphrates
46:45 - Lost Cities
46:52 - Yellow & Yangtze
47:23 - Blue Lagoon
47:43 - The Quest for El Dorado
48:22 - My City
49:13 - Through the Desert
49:28 - Ingenious
50:59 - Schotten Totten

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We may or may not be going to Germany (who can say), but that's where all the good gaming is gonna be, so that's what we're gonna talk about. It's almost Essen SPIEL! That sure is a lot of games debuting there though, so which ones should you care about? Don't worry, we've done the hard work for you. Before you go back to being eine faule socke, we talk about Nekojima, We're Sinking!, Hues and Cues, and Colorful.

02:46 - Nekojima
09:01 - We're Sinking!
15:31 - Hues and Cues
15:31 - Colorful
22:09 - Essen SPIEL 2023 Preview
22:57 - Æterna
25:32 - Babylon
27:17 - Bus & Stop
28:55 - COSCA: Take Over the Mafia
31:54 - Galileo Galilei
33:41 - SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
34:39 - Fishing
37:19 - AI Space Puzzle
38:59 - Zero to Hero
40:51 - The Gang
42:46 - Golden Cup
45:09 - Black Forest
50:02 - Battalion: War of the Ancients
53:01 - Beyond the Horizon
56:10 - Asian Tigers: A Story of Prosperity
58:16 - Skull Queen
58:38 - King of Tokyo: Origins
59:15 - Penguin Airlines
1:00:18 - Dungeon Exit

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