Board Chitless - Board Gaming Podcast
We play board games, then we talk about games and we also record it. Sometimes we have guests.
Episodes
January 20, 2020 • 30 mins
Sam, Daz, Tristan and Leki nurture budding civilisations into thriving city states and play a little town planning Sudoku on the side playing Jamey Steigmaier's latest offering; Tapestry.
We also find a little time to have a quick go at 1565: St Elmo's Pay, Tristan's alternate history card game based on the siege of Malta.
How did you like Tapestry? Let us know your thoughts on the BoardChitless Facebook page or leave a comment.
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October 20, 2019 • 34 mins
This week Leki talks to Tristan about the latest game he's brought to Kickstarter - 1565: St Elmo's Pay. A historical competitive card game for 1-2 players based on the events of the great siege of Malta.
Check out 1565: St Elmo's Pay on Kickstarter today https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tristanhall/1565-st-elmos-pay-the-card-game-of-war-and-history
Like the sound of Tristan's latest game? Let us know your thoughts on the Boa...
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October 15, 2019 • 18 mins
At GenCon 2019 Tristan was lucky enough to talk with some titans of the industry about their upcoming games and new releases:
00:14 - Jason Hill of Flying Frog Productions/Shadows of Brimstone
05:44 - Isaac Childres of Cephalofair Games/Gloomhaven
08:16 - Board To Death video reviewers
11:18 - Adam and Brady Sadler of Black List Games/Altar Quest
14:50 - Caleb Grace of Fantasy Flight Games/The Lord of the Rings LCG and Marvel Cham...
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September 23, 2019 • 34 mins
Tristan and Leki speak to Sam Illingworth and Paul Wake about their game Carbon City Zero; a deck builder which sees mayors of rival cities race to be the first carbon neutral city.
Sam and Paul have been working with 10:10 Climate Action to produce a game that engages players with the concept of what being a carbon zero city means.
Check out Carbon City Zero on Kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1010climateaction...
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July 28, 2019 • 48 mins
This week Tristan, Leki, Daz and Sam get together to play The Ancient World and Call to Adventure but talk about them in the opposite order.
Call to Adventure is a card based fantasy game from Johnny O'Neale and Christopher O'Neale that challenges each player to evolve a character by completing several challenges and each challenge succeeds or fails by rolling runes.
The Ancient World is a worker placement/civ builder game from v...
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July 7, 2019 • 32 mins
This week Leki, Tristan, Daz and Sam grab their binoculars, head for the aviary and have a go at Stonemaier Games' eagerly anticipated Wingspan.
Wingspan is a card based engine builder from designer Elizabeth Hargrave.
Did Wingspan leave you feeling eggcited (sorry) then let us know how you got on with Wingspan by posting to the BoardChitless Facebook group:
www.facebook.com/groups/428015890882352
Thanks again to our listeners f...
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June 25, 2019 • 41 mins
Leki, Tristan and Sam don their finest denim and saddle up for an adventure across The Great Western Trail; a worker placement and deck building game from Alexander Pfister.
Have you also had a ridiculous amount of fun driving cattle or did it leave you in a moooooo-d (sorry!) share your thoughts on Great Western Trail by posting to the BoardChitless Facebook group:
www.facebook.com/groups/428015890882352
Thanks again to our list...
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June 16, 2019 • 39 mins
This week Sam, Tristan and Leki revisit 7 Wonders, Anotoine Bauza's card drafting civ builder this time dipping our toes in the Armada naval expansion.
Then we talk about our investigations into the hellish and paranormal playing Mantic Games' Hellboy: The Board Game, a co=operative dungeon crawler for 1-4 players.
To hear more about 7 Wonders check out episode 37 where we talk more about the base game.
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June 8, 2019 • 52 mins
Leki spent a weekend roaming the exhibition halls of UK Games Expo 2019 interviewing loads people inside and around the UK's board game industry.
Interviewees include (in order of appearance, timecodes included for interview fast travel, and all links included in description :);
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Mark McKinnon, designer of Wreck and Ruin and founder of Dream Big Games
https://www.facebook.com/dreambiggames
https://wreckandruingame.co.uk
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June 1, 2019 • 28 mins
This week Tristan, Leki and Sam follow leads, comandeer vehicles and chase bad guys all in the name of keeping the streets of Brook City clean!
Brook City is a brand new game from Blacklist Games featuring their modular deck system designed by Adam and Brady Sadler that sees the player take on the role of cops out to solve various crimes.
Thanks again to our listeners for tuning in each week. Please, please, please head over to ...
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May 27, 2019 • 40 mins
Adam and Brady Sadler return to talk to Tristan and Leki about Altar Quest, their latest game using the modular deck system.
We also learn about Adam and Brady's past as rock stars and what they do when they aren't designing board games.
To learn more about Altar Quest head to the Blacklist Games website. You'll also be able to find the Kickstarter campaign there once it launches on May 28th.
https://www.blacklistgamesllc.com/alt...
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May 19, 2019 • 49 mins
This week Tristan and Leki were lucky enough to be invited to Steamforged Games; the brains behind Guild Ball, Dark Souls: The Board Game and Resident Evil 2: The Board Game.
We talk to Steamforged's founder & CEO Richard Loxam and Senior Developer Jamie Perkins about Steamforged Games' latest project coming to Kickstarter; Devil May Cry: The Bloody Palace. We also chat about the development cycle, the current state of Kickstarter...
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May 12, 2019 • 32 mins
This week Leki, Tristan, Daz and Ant play take off their shoes and stomp their way to victory playing "Viticulture"; the classic wine themed worker placement euro from Stonemaier Games.
Tristan, Leki and Sam will also be attending UK Games Expo at the Birmingham NEC again this year so be sure to pop by stand 1-1016 on Kilforth Avenue to say hello and demo any of the Hall or Nothing back catalogue.
Disappointed that you missed t...
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April 15, 2019 • 29 mins
This week Sam, Leki and Tristan talk all about Euphoria, a worker placement-y, dice allocate-y, area control-y game from Stonemaier Games.
Thanks again to our listeners for tuning in each week, in particular TheLoneGamesman who left us a particularly lovely review recently. Please, please, please head over to iTunes and leave us a lovely rating and review...or even a mediocre one :)
itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/board…d1227891466?mt...
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March 19, 2019 • 30 mins
This week Sam, Tristan and Leki got lost within a nightmare realm and were forced to confront untold horrific monsters to escape but that's enough about the British winter, they also played Dark Souls: The Card Game!
Dark Souls: The Card Game is a deck evolution game from Steamforged Games based on the popular video game series of the same name.
Tristan has also been Kickstarting again. This time funding Shadows of Kilfort, the e...
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February 20, 2019 • 43 mins
This week Tristan and Leki found themselves all alone presumably after the others got fed up with all the betrayal!
We made the best of it by taking control of Waterdeep's nefarious factions in a race to uncover the secrets of the Vault of Dragons; a Dungeons and Dragons themed adventure card game by Gale Force Nine.
We also played Spirit Island by R Eric Rauss; a co-operative hand management/area control game where players contr...
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February 10, 2019 • 35 mins
This week we have a go at the fantasy themed card based strategy game Arkon from Hill Gaming.
We also find the time to go against the mutant horde playing Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel. A semi co-operative dudes on a map game.
Arkon - 2:20
Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel - 11:08
Thanks very much to all our listeners who have reviewed the BoardChitless podcast on iTunes, in particular BarleyCorn1875. Have a look...
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February 6, 2019 • 51 mins
We play Middle Earth: The Wizards and The Game of Thrones Board Game
This week we grabbed our archeology tools and dusted of ICE's 90's CCG Middle-earth: The Wizards. We were playing a variant of the rules known as 'The Ardour'.
We also cover the friendship smashing experience we had last week playing The Game of Thrones: the Board game form Fantasy Flight. The Game of Thrones is an area control game that sees each player control...
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January 26, 2019 • 54 mins
This week Leki and Tristan are lucky enough to play host to two very special guests; Matt Jarvis who is the editor of Tabletop gaming Magazine and freelance journalist Dan Jolin who is also contributing editor to EMPIRE magazine.
We talk about loads of stuff including what makes a compelling board game, Tabletop Gaming Live, Discover: Lands Unknown, 7th Continent and Matt and Dan make their predictions for what's coming up in 2019...
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January 20, 2019 • 35 mins
#BoardChitless Episode 57 - going V-Commando!
This week Daz, Sam, Tristan and Leki put on their camo make up and grab a rifle to go deep behind enemy lines and frustrate the Nazi war effort playing Triton Noir's V-Commandos; a World War 2 co-op game that sees you forming an elite fighting unit seeking to use stealth to overcome the enemy.
Let us know how you got on with V-Commandos or if there's another World War 2 game that is c...
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