Meeple Nation Board Game Podcast

This week we practice our social distancing as we discuss the new game from Everything Epic, Secrets of the Lost Station. This game was designed by Christopher Batarlis and Jim Samartino. 

This is a 1-6 player campaign game that has a lot of hidden content to explore.

Direct download: MN_0314_Secrets_of_the_lost_station.mp3
Category:BoardGame -- posted at: 2:00am MDT

This week we discuss the Mariucci J Designs, LLC game, HEXplore it.

Designed by: Kat Kimoundri, Nathan Loos, and Jonathan Mariucci.

This is a fully cooperative game where players must gain enough experience to survive and defeat the threat of the Dead King.

Direct download: MN_0313_HexploreIt.mp3
Category:BoardGame -- posted at: 10:19am MDT

This week we each talk about four different games with modular boards.

The Reckoners
Descent
Mage Knight
Cities Skylines

Direct download: MN_0312_I_have_a_modular_board_game_for_you.mp3
Category:BoardGame -- posted at: 2:00am MDT

This week we discuss a wide list of games that all have modular boards, such as Catan, The Quest for El Dorado, Takenoko, Nemesis, Clank! In! Space!, HeroQuest, and many others.

Direct download: MN_0311_Modular_board_games_edit.mp3
Category:BoardGame -- posted at: 2:00am MDT

This week we discuss march news and recap our experience at SaltCon Spring 2020

Direct download: MN_0310_March_2020_news_edit.mp3
Category:BoardGame -- posted at: 2:00am MDT

This week we discuss It's a Wonderful World, designed by Frederic Guerard.

It’s a Wonderful World is a cards drafting and engine building game from 1 to 5 players. Each round, players will draft 7 cards and then choose which ones will be recycled to immediately acquire Resources, and which ones will be kept for construction to produce Resources each round and/or gain victory points.

Direct download: MN_0309_Its_a_Wonderful_World.mp3
Category:BoardGame -- posted at: 7:38am MDT

This week we discuss Bunny Kingdom, a game designed by Richard Garfield.

In Bunny Kingdom, you draft cards, many of which represent a space on the board where you place one of your bunnies. As you connect territories, you create fiefdoms. The score for a fiefdom is the number of castle spires times the number of unique resources that fiefdom produces. Other cards can add resources and castles, connect territories, and provide end game scoring.

Build your fiefdoms to their greatest scoring potential and be named Big Ears by the Bunny King.

Direct download: MN_0308_Bunny_Kingdom.mp3
Category:BoardGame -- posted at: 2:00am MDT

This week we discuss some of our favorite card drafting games. Each game uses the card drafting mechanic in a different way. Each game we discuss we think is awesome.

Agricola
Fairy Tale
El Grande
Trekking the National Parks

Join us at the game table.

Direct download: MN_0307_Drafted_drafting_games.mp3
Category:BoardGame -- posted at: 2:00am MDT

This week we discuss the card drafting mechanic. It was a little surprising to find non-card games in this episode, but they fit the mold. We include games with trade rows like Clank! or markets like Aeon's End and Thunderstone Quest, and also games with tiles like Azul and Kingdomino.

Have a listen and share us your thought on our Facebook page Meeple Nation Off Air.

Direct download: MN_0306_Card_Drafting.mp3
Category:BoardGame -- posted at: 2:00am MDT

This week we announce our contest winners from episode 300. We sprinkle in some news and all this before the computer runs out of power.

 

Direct download: MN_0305_Feb_2020_news.mp3
Category:BoardGame -- posted at: 2:00am MDT