Episode 8: Exploring Asymmetry + "My Favorite Faction", with Tim Williamson

29 Fresh Plays from France, with Pénélope from Penelope Gaming

In this episode, I kick it with my good friend Pénélope from Penelope Gaming for a massive debrief on many of the games we played in Étourvy at Bruno Faidutti's annual gaming gathering. If we had another hour, we could've legally titled this episode "40 Fresh Plays from France", but we were too excited and spoke about some games for a while...and then crammed as many as we could when we discovered how long we were recording. We hope you enjoy! * 00:00:00 Introduction * 00:08:09 Fresh Plays from France * 00:10:11 Rocket Rollout * 00:11:43 Citadels Duel * 00:14:52 Cardia: Tide & Storm * 00:20:59 Things in Rings * 00:28:27 Giants Moving Tiny Furniture * 00:37:14 ARCTICA * 00:47:26 Koro * 00:50:49 The Happiest Cat in the World * 00:54:51 Got Five! * 00:59:42 Amarok * 01:04:45 Ill-Illan * 01:10:17 Gaudi * 01:13:33 Botswana * 01:18:36 Minikin City * 01:24:07 Tea & Rum * 01:33:39 CATsle Builders * 01:39:57 Back 2 Back * 01:49:53 Excalibur!!! * 01:57:16 FaeKin * 02:02:11 Cheese Thief * 02:07:21 French Toast * 02:10:30 The Silver Bayonet: A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Horror * 02:12:37 Ofrenda * 02:16:11 Seashells * 02:18:52 Fruit Cocktail * 02:21:05 Moon Colony Bloodbath * 02:24:12 Vroom * 02:26:20 Fetching Feathers/Peacock * 02:27:03 MON: Emblems of Sengoku * 02:29:37 Sign-off Thanks so much for listening and for your support!  For more content crafted by Candice, visit kickinitcreative.com [https://www.kickinitcreative.com/] We've got official merch [https://kickinitcreative-merch.creator-spring.com/] now! Be one of the first to rock the first run of KIC swag [https://kickinitcreative-merch.creator-spring.com/]!

Episode 10: The Beauty of Card-Driven Games, with Uli from Spielworxx

In this episode, I kick it with Uli Blennemann (owner of Spielworxx) for a lovely chat about card-driven games (CDGs) –why they're awesome and which ones we dig most – and we also discuss a few games we've played recently and found memorable. Cheers! * 00:00:00 Introduction * 00:01:30 LeiriaCon * 00:04:55 "moving house", heading to the UK for PunchedCon, GMT Weekend at the Warehouse * 00:11:48 new KIC podcast theme music?! * 00:15:49 Fresh Plays * 00:16:03 The Old King's Crown * 00:21:14 Age of Galaxy (Second Edition) * 00:35:32 Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars (Toy Battle, Dogs of War) * 00:42:41 Space Empires 4X * 00:59:00 The Beauty of CDGs * 01:07:50 Imperial Elegy + Big Multiplayer CDGs (Successors, Here I Stand, Virgin Queen) * 01:30:20 Uli's '5 CDGs for Doomsday' (Empire of the Sun, Pursuit of Glory, Weimar, Imperial Elegy, HiS, VQ) * 01:33:14 Candice's '5 CDGs for Doomsday' (Imperial Elegy, Land & Freedom, Founding Fathers, Wir sind das Volk!, Twilight Struggle (25th Anniversary Hall of Fame edition), Dual Powers) * 01:39:00 CDGs we want to try (Common Sense, Europe in Turmoil, Lenin's Legacy, Iron Storm) * 01:46:07 Hubris: Twilight of the Hellenistic World * 01:48:11 Sign-off Thanks so much for listening and for your support!  For more content crafted by Candice, visit kickinitcreative.com [https://www.kickinitcreative.com/] We've got official merch [https://kickinitcreative-merch.creator-spring.com/] now! Be one of the first to rock the first run of KIC swag [https://kickinitcreative-merch.creator-spring.com/]!

Fresh Plays: Emberheart + Clinic

* 00:00:00 Introduction * 00:00:45 Fresh Plays * 00:00:57 Emberheart * 00:15:35 Clinic: Deluxe Edition * 00:33:30 Signoff Thanks so much for listening and for your support!  For more content crafted by Candice, visit kickinitcreative.com [https://www.kickinitcreative.com/] We've got official merch [https://kickinitcreative-merch.creator-spring.com/] now! Be one of the first to rock the first run of KIC swag [https://kickinitcreative-merch.creator-spring.com/]!

Episode 8: Exploring Asymmetry + "My Favorite Faction", with Tim Williamson

In this episode, my amazing pal Tim Williamson joins me to talk about our epic learning game of Imperial Elegy, as well as several other lesser-known gems we've been playing. We also discuss the joys of asymmetry in board/card games and our upcoming video series – My Favorite Faction. * 00:00:00 Introduction * 00:01:53 Dual Gauge * 00:07:12 Root in NY * 00:08:33 Fresh Plays * 00:09:02 Imperial Elegy * 00:34:27 Auf Teufel komm raus  * 00:43:08 Wild Serengeti * 00:47:30 Embers * 00:51:33 Slay the Spire: The Board Game + Too Many Bones * 00:54:50 Stupor Mundi * 01:01:28 Faust vs Mephisto * 01:07:49 King and Peasant * 01:12:41 Exploring Asymmetry + "My Favorite Faction" * 01:12:50 Root, Spirit Island, Terra Mystica/Gaia Project, Prussian Rails, Dual Gauge * 01:14:20 COIN games, Oracle of Delphi, Guards of Atlantis II, Dûhr: The Lesser Houses, Cosmic Frog, Argent: Consortium, Too Many Bones * 01:18:49 The Loop, Fate of the Fellowship * 01:19:57 Vast * 01:21:30 The Defence of Procyon III * 01:26:35 KeyForge * 01:31:21 Sign-off Thanks so much for listening and for your support!  For more content crafted by Candice, visit kickinitcreative.com [https://www.kickinitcreative.com/] We've got official merch [https://kickinitcreative-merch.creator-spring.com/] now! Be one of the first to rock the first run of KIC swag [https://kickinitcreative-merch.creator-spring.com/]!

Episode 7: Cult of the OLD, with W. Eric Martin

In this episode, I kick it with W. Eric Martin to catch up on life beyond BGG, Board Game Beat [https://www.wericmartin.com/], and to discuss our grand plan to get old games to the table more often. * 00:00:00 Introduction * 00:00:44 Catching up with WEM [Con Crawl + Board Game Beat] * 00:27:16 Fresh Plays * 00:28:09 Symbiosis * 00:37:16 Ortus Regni * 00:50:46 DNUP (Revolve!) * 01:01:35 Mayor of Chicago * 01:12:47 Cult of the OLD Games of the Month * 01:14:07 Venedig * 01:16:24 Seasons * 01:18:45 Planet Steam * 01:21:51 Wabanti * 01:27:54 Ginkgopolis * 01:30:22 Aztlán * 01:38:07 Galaxy Trucker * 01:53:36 Sign-off Thanks so much for listening and for your support!  For more content crafted by Candice, visit kickinitcreative.com [https://www.kickinitcreative.com/] We've got official merch [https://kickinitcreative-merch.creator-spring.com/] now! Be one of the first to rock the first run of KIC swag [https://kickinitcreative-merch.creator-spring.com/]!