Meeple Nation Episode 397

This week we are talking about economic games. Games that have some level of economy that needs to be managed.

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Meeple Nation Episode 396

This week we are talking about our Holiday Gift Guide for the year 2021. Want some suggestions on what to get those people on your shopping list? No matter what their gaming level is, we have a few ideas.

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Meeple Nation Episode 395

This week we are talking about November news, which includes a review of games we played at HUGG-A-Meeple Con South. We played a ton of games over two days. 

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Meeple Nation Episode 394

This week we are talking about Descent: Legends of the Dark. A game for 1-4 players, designed by Kara Centell-Dunk, and Nathan Hajek. Plays in 120-180 minutes, and is released through Fantasy Flight Games

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Meeple Nation Episode 393

This week we are talking all about Halloween games. It is Logan's favorite time of the year, and we dedicating the whole episode to his dark side.

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Meeple Nation Episode 392

This week we are talking about four different fantasy games. We discuss, Avalon, Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth, Ascension, and Beowulf: The Legend.

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Meeple Nation Episode 391

This week we are talking about fantasy games, or games that have a fantasy theme. A very large number of games fall into the group we try to fit as many as we can into our 30 time slot.

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Meeple Nation Episode 390

This week we are talking about September 2021 news.
Gaming highlights, new game announcements, and new games that can be found in the wild.

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Meeple Nation Episode 389

This week we are talking about Beyond the Sun. Players compete to score the most points by deciding on spacefaring technology and leading their faction to victory. A game for 2-4 players. Designed by Dennis Chan. Released through Rio Grande Games.

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Meeple Nation Episode 388

This week we are discussing Destinies. A competitive, story-driven game of adventure and exploration. A game for 1-3 players. Designed by Michal Golebiowski, and Filip Milunski. Released through Lucky Duck Games.

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Meeple Nation Episode 383

This week we are discussing four different exploration games. Break In: Alcatraz, Pandemic Legacy, Above and Below, and Dead Men Tell No Tales. 

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Meeple Nation Episode 386

This week we are talking about exploration games. Join us as we discuss several games and chat about the thrill of exploring new games.

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Meeple Nation Episode 385

This week we are talking about August  news.

Gaming highlights, SaltCon End of Summer 2021, some new game announcements, and some new games that can be found in the wild, and maybe a Kickstarter or two.

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Meeple Nation Episode 384

This week we are talking about Masters of the Night. Players are part of a vampire family and must work together to survive in a new unfamiliar City. For 1-5 players. Designed by Nikolay Aslamov. Released through Ares Games.

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Meeple Nation Episode 383

This week we are talking about Die of the Dead. Players compete to be the first to reach the 9th level of the stairs, helping the dead visit the living. A game for 2-5 players. Designed by James Allen and Mark Stockton-Pitt. Released through Radical 8 Games.

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Meeple Nation Episode 382

This week we are talking about four different dice rolling boardgames, Runebound 2nd edition, Taverns of Tiefenthal, Medici Dice, and Monopoly, yes I did say Monopoly.

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Meeple Nation Episode 381

This week we are talking about dice games. Dice are in so many games, we are talking about games where rolling dice is one of the main elements of a game.

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Meeple Nation Episode 380

This week we are talking news. We are discussing highlights, several new games, and some cool games that are found on Gamefound

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Meeple Nation Episode 379

This week we are talking about Merchants Cove, an asymmetrical game, where players play individual mini games in order to produce items to sell at the cove. Designed by Jonny Pac, Carl Van Ostrand, and Drake Villareal. Released through Final Frontier Games.

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Meeple Nation Episode 378

This week we are talking about The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31, a hidden role deduction game for 4-8 players. Designed by Joe Van Wetering, and released through Mondo Games.

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Meeple Nation Episode 377

This week we are talking about four deduction games. We are talking about: How to Host a Murder Mystery, Chronicles of Crime 1400, Alchemists, and Mystery of the Abbey.

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Meeple Nation Episode 369

This week we are kicking off our discussion of deduction games. From the early games like Clue, to games like Mysterium and Decrypto. 

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Meeple Nation Episode 375

This week we are talking news with HUGG. We are finding out which new games they have been playing, what are some Kickstarters they backed, and other new to them games. 

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Meeple Nation Episode 374

This week we are talking with the ladies of HUGG. HUGG is a group of gamers who have been gathering together for several years. We talk about how are two groups formed and the fun we have all had meeting at SaltCon

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Meeple Nation Episode 373

This week we are talking about both King and Queendomino. Designed by Bruno Cathala, and published by Blue Orange Games. 

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Meeple Nation Episode 372

This week we are talking about four different city building games, La Citta, Architects of the West Kingdom, The City, and Underwater Cities

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Meeple Nation Episode 371

This week we are jumping in the city building game category. These are games that build, buildings, cities, and empires. Most are Earth bound, but some are in space.

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Meeple Nation Episode 370

This week we are talking about May news.
Gaming highlights, new game announcements, new games that can be found in the wild, and a Kickstarter or two.

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Meeple Nation Episode 369

This week we are talking about Folklore: The Affliction, A campaign game for 1-5 players. Designed by Nick Blain, and Will Donovan, and released through Greenbrier Games.

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Meeple Nation Episode 368

This week we are talking about Mariposas, a 2-5 player game, from Elizabeth Hargrave and released through AEG games.

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Meeple Nation Episode 367

This week we are talking about four different animal games; Bunny Kingdom, Sewer Pirates, Everdell, and Agricola.

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Meeple Nation Episode 366

This week we are talking about animal games. There are so many animal games out there, and we can't talk about them in in such a short time, but we talk about as many as we can in 30 minutes.

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Meeple Nation Episode 365

This week we are talking news. New games out, new game announcements, and new gaming highlights. 

Plus we look at Pirate's Mark.

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Meeple Nation Episode 364

This week we are talking about each of our all-time top five games. Well, we are still questioning Dave's number one pick. 

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Meeple Nation Episode 359

This week we are talking about Museum. Designed by Eric Dubus, and Oliver Melison. This game plays in 30-60 minutes and is for 2-4 players. 

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Meeple Nation Episode 359

This week we are talking about three different trading games; Above and Below, by Ryan Laukat; Bootleggers, by Don Beyer, Ray Eifler, and Steve Gross; and Space Dealer, by Tobias, Stapelfeldt.

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Meeple Nation Episode 361

This week we begin our discussion of different trading games. There is a big pool of games that all include a trading element. Have a listen and see if we discuss one of your favorites.

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Meeple Nation Episode 360

This week we are talking News, we discuss new games we have played, new games coming out, and also mention some Kickstarters.

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Meeple Nation Episode 359

This week we are talking about Nova Luna, by Uwe Rosenberg. This is a tile placing game where players add tiles from the moon wheel to their tableau in order to complete color patterns. 

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Meeple Nation Episode 358

This week we are talking Uwe Rosenberg's New York Zoo, an puzzle animal park building game for 1-5 players. Simple to learn yet very challenging to be the first player to fill your park.

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Meeple Nation Episode 357

This week we are talking about Forgotten Waters, a crossroads pirate game. This game was full of fun and laughs with an amazing companion app that supplies great voice acting with awesome script writing that all make for a great game experience. 

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Meeple Nation Episode 356.

This week we are talking all about action and dexterity games. We cover games like Loopin Louie, and Flyin Goblins, and expand to many others.

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This week we are talking January news, Not a lot on Kickstarter right now, so we are focusing on new games played like Nova Luna, New York Zoo, and Pandemic Legacy Season Zero. Plus we discuss some new games that are coming out soon.

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Meeple Nation Episode 354: Abstract Strategy Games

This week we discuss several games that all fall in the category of abstract strategy games. We go from Chess to games like Azul, Tiny Towns, and Reef.

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Episode 353

Join Meeple Nation as we discuss new gaming goals, and what we are looking forward to in this upcoming year.

Fingers crossed, we can go to conventions at some point in 2021.

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Join Meeple Nation for episode 352 for our year end review of 2020.

It has been a tough year for sure, but there are always silver linings. 

We are going to focus on those.

Come join us at the game table for the last episode of the year 2020.

Join Meeple Nation at the game table as we have our last news episode of the year. Yup, 2020 is almost in the books. We talk about gaming highlights and new games that have recently come out or are heading to the shelves soon

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Join Meeple Nation as we discuss very asymmetric hand management game Root.

Designed by Cole Wehrle

Players play one of the four forest faction and fight to be the first player to score 30 points and claim that victory.

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Join Meeple Nation as we discuss four different hand management games.

Wingspan
The City
Charterstone
Marvel Champions

Each game is a takes that hand management mechanic a bit different.

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Join Meeple Nation, as we jump into the world of Hand Management games. We talk about several games in this episode and explore the variety of different hand and/or tile management games that are out there.

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Join Meeple Nation at the game table as we share our 2020 gift giving suggestions. We have ideas for the gamer in your life, and ideas of gift to give to people to help them get into gaming.

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Join Meeple Nation at the game table as we discuss new games. This month it is more about new games than new Kickstarters, but there is always room for some Kickstarters.

Join Meeple Nation at the game table as we discuss the 2019 game, Black Angel.
Designed by: Sebastien Dujardin, Xavier Georges, and Alain Orban
Published by Pearl Games

Join Meeple Nation at the game table as we discuss Halloween games, or games that more likely to hit the table because of the Halloween season.

Let us know what you plan to play this season.

This week we talk about four different grid movement games. Each of us picked a game to discuss.

Robo Rally
Secrets of the Lost Station
Betrayal Legacy
Battle Tech

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This week we begin our series of grid movement games. Games that players move their tokens along the grid. 

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This week we are talking October news. We discuss new games we have been playing, new Kickstarters, and at least one new game.

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Join us at the game table this week as we discuss the board game Sanctum. Designed by Filip Neduk, and released through Czech Games Edition. 2-4 players fight monsters gain skills and attempt to defeat the Demon Lord.

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This week we talk about bidding and bluffing games. Bluffing can be found in several games from poker to hidden role games. This episode we talk about several. 

As far as bidding games we talk about the thrills and fun that come with games like Camel Up.

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Join us at the game table this week as we discuss the board game Tapestry. Designed by Jamey Stegmaier, and released through Stonemaier Games. 

In Tapestry, players create a civilization that starts with the discovery of fire and then moves forward from there. Players build their capital city and some may even reach to the stars.

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This week we are talking about games that use the follow mechanic. One player picks and action, and other players may follow that action. Often but not always the first player taking the action will get a bonus for picking that action. 

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This week we are discussing September, 2020 News. 

We talk about games we have played.

Game that should be available soon.

And of course, we talk about some great Kickstarter games.

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This week we are talking about games that were first a board game but have been converted to a dice game. 

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This week we are discussing Dice Forge.

A 2-4 player game designed by Regis Bonnessee.

Released through Libellud games. 

Players make offering to the gods in order to improve the dice they are rolling hoping to earn the most points and be victorious.

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This week we talk about four different dice rolling games.

Boggle, one of David's favorite word games.

HEXplore It, a dice rolling adventure game.

Kingsburg, a game of growing your influence in the King's court.

That's Pretty Clever, and Twice as Clever, two dice rolling games all about combos and bonuses.

Join us at the table for this weeks discussion. 

This week we talk about the very large pool of games that include the dice rolling mechanic. There are over 30,000 games. Too many to get to so we only discuss a handful of them.

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This week we talk about Pictures and The Crew, the winner of Spiel and Kennerspiel  des Jahres for 2020. We talk about the excitement from the announcement of Pandemic Legacy: Season 0. We also talk about several exciting Kickstarters, and we also talk about Ignite, a Kickstarter that is in late pledge for a few more days.

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This week we discuss Great Western Trail, a 2-4 player game where players compete to get their cattle to Kansas City and ship them across the United States. Shipping cattle alone won't win you the game, you will need to build buildings, advance your train, and overcome hazards. Whomever scores the most points wins.

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This week we discuss the Libellud's game Obscurio.

2-8 players must watch the Grimoire closely as it provides clues on how to exit the evil Sorcerer's library. If the players can work together and find the correct exit six times they will have escaped. If they cannot, the Sorcerer, will have you trapped forever in the library.

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This week we discuss four different games with communication limits. 

First, we talk about about Time's Up! and Time's Up!: Title Recall.

Second, we talk about Blood on the Clocktower. 

Third, we talk about Dixit.

Four we talk about Pantone: the Game.

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This week we are talking about games that have some forum of communication limits. We go from Taboo, to Gloomhaven and several games in between.

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Join us at the table this week as we discuss Kickstarters, new games and even some puzzles.

This week we discuss the 1-4 player game Isle of Cats, designed by Frank West and distributed through City of Games.

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This week we are talk about Azul in its three forms.

Azul 

Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra

Azul: Summer Pavilion

We also cover the expansion for the base game, Azul: Crystal Mosaic.

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This week we talk about three different pattern building games.

Logan talks about Welcome to.. and several of the expansions. Welcome to... is designed by Benoit Turpin and produced by Blue Cocker Games.

Nathan discusses Copenhagen designed by Asger Harding Granerud, Daniel Skjold Pedersen and produced by Queen Games.

Ryan shares with us the joy that can be found in building the Best Treehouse Ever designed by Scott Almes and produced by Green Couch Games.

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This week we are talking about pattern building games. We get some Facebook feedback and then we talk about games like; Reef, Tiny Towns, Attika, NUMBR9, Kingdomino, and some how we include Boggle. 

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This week we talk about current Kickstarters, new games that are coming out, and some recently released games.

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In this episode we are talking about end game bonuses. Where you may think you are winning, but it is not proven until all the cards are counted.

We discuss It's a Wonderful World, Hawaii, Raiders or the North Sea, Majesty: for the Realm, and even Ticket to Ride. 

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Join us this week we discuss action games.

Action queue games, which players program their turn and hope they planned for the best (Robo Rally, Tiny Epic Mechs).

Action drafting games, where all players have a limited pool of actions to pick from (Puerto Rico).

Action retrieval games, where players can only play the action they control once until they spend an action to retrieve those actions (Centenary: Spice Road).

This week we discuss some online gaming options. We go from phone apps like Terraforming Mars, to Charterstone.

We talk online gaming sites such as:

Boardgamearena.com

Yucata.de 

Tabletop Simulator.

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This episode we respond to a question on how to keep games civil.

We talk about experiences we have had and how we have dealt with them. We offer some advice on maybe what not to play with some people and what mechanic might cause the most contention.

This week we talk about Kickstarters and new released games, including Frosthaven, They Live, and three Ten-minute games.

We cover new games such as Azul: Crystal Mosaic, The Crew, Tajuto, and Sanctum.

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.

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.

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

The Reckoners
Descent
Mage Knight
Cities Skylines

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

This week we talk about the board game The Menace Among Us by Jeff Gum, published by Smirk and Dagger Games. Hidden roles, space theme, and asymmetrical setup. 

This week we talk about all things Legendary, from Marvel to James Bond. Legendary was one the first game to use the semi-cooperative mechanic. We even suggest some new properties for Upper Deck. Who knows what is coming down the road?

This week we share our thoughts Semi-Cooperative games. We're a little loose on the definition of this mechanic a bit. Okay, maybe more than a bit. 

This week we talk recap and review the year 2019 as far as the board game hobby. None of that other stuff. We talk about our game of the year. We talk about some of our greatest game memories. 

Oh, and Nathan plays way too many game and has some way crazy game goals. Like a lot of goals. Think of a lot of games played. Nathan came close to that mark, or maybe blew it away. Find out inside.

This week we discuss the changes we have seen in the board gaming hobby over the last 5 and a half years, since our first episode. 

Also there are some free games to win. Not two or three contests, but four contest where you can win a free game.

This week we discuss Marvel Champions, the new game from Fantasy Flight. This is a 1-4 player, fully cooperative game where players take on the role of one of the five heroes in the core box, Spider-man, She-Hulk, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and Iron Man. The heroes face off against one of the three super villains, Rhino, Ultron, or Klaw.

Tune in to hear our thoughts and to see if it is a game the Ryan will like. (ed. note: why does Nathan keeps wondering if Ryan will like games?)

Last month, Brent and Nathan got to spend the week in Dallas Texas to attend Board Game Geek Con 2019. We talk about the experience of the con, the people of the con, and of course the games we played. Nathan adjusts his game list mid cast. Learn what game Nathan missed playing.

There's an app for that, Nathan.

We continue our discussion of fully cooperative games by focusing on one games each. We discuss three very different games that appeal to us and highlight the mechanic.

Spirit Island, City of Kings, and Chronicles of Crime.