Meeple Nation Board Game Podcast

We finally review Star Wars Outer Rim. Is this the Firefly killer? Can the rebels and empire dethrone the browncoats in the Verse? Even though the games are similar and we like both, Outer Rim doesn't blow the ship out of the trenches. Still, it's fantastic. Check out our podcast review now!

Game of Thrones: Oathbreaker Kevin Spak Dire Wolf Digital 5-8 players 30-45 minutes This is social deduction at it's socialist, to the point that one player's job is to watch people to determine if they are helping or not. Nathan and Logan loved it. Find out what Ryan thought inside. Inside your ears. When you listen.

Join your hosts as we discuss some great games. Nathan loves him some hidden roles, and these four games highlight a great use of the mechanic. Games discussed: Don't Mess with Cthulhu Bang! and Bang! The Dice Game Salem and Sheriff of Nottingham We're not sure if that last one is hidden roles or not, but Dave is special, so we didn't tell him to take his sweet voice and go home.

We talk all things hidden roles. What does Nathan find so appealing about seeking out the traitor or becoming one to turn the tables on the heroes? We discuss: Dead of Winter Don't Mess with Cthulhu Battlestar Galactica Shadows over Camelot One night anything Werewolf Betrayal at House on the Hill Resistance Secret Hitler Spyfall Dark Moon Betrayal Legacy The Thing: infection at Outpost 31 Werewords TimeBomb Evolution Deception: murder in Hong Kong

So much news coming out of GenCon. Join your GenCan'ter hosts as we discuss all of the hot new game announcements.

The Lord of the Rings - Journeys in Middle-earth is an app-driven exploration game in the world of Middle-earth by Fantasy Flight. This is a spiritual successor to the app-driving plugged into their Imperial Assault and Decent properties, but this game was designed that was from the ground up. If you love Middle-earth, you will enjoy this game. If you don't mind a phone giving you all of the game's details, this will work. Ryan is unconvinced.

Dinosaur Island by Pandasaurus Games utilizes Action Points, Dice Rolling, Set Collection, Tile Placement, and Worker Placement all to replicate the great documentary Jurrassic Park. We only lose a few patron in the process. Well, every turn. It's okay. They keep coming anyway.

Your hosts each pick a tile placement game that make great use of the mechanic and talks about why we like it. Our game choices are: Nathan - Number 9 Logan - Escape Ryan - Between Two Cities

Tile placement is awesome. We love it, and we discuss for a half hour our favorite games that use tile placement well. Games we talk about are, in no particular order: Carcassonne Azul Galaxy Trucker Suburbia Takenoko Patchwork Castles of Mad King Ludwig Dinosaur Island Kingdomino Tsuro Scrabble Vikings Viceroy Magic Maze We definitely don't mention Attica again.

Join your hosts as we discuss some great new games coming out soon. We talk: Clank! Expeditions: Temple of the Ape Lords Magic Maze: On Mars Robin Von Locksley Aftermath Star Wars: Outer Rim Proving Grounds 3 Laws of Robotics Monster Slaughter Deep Blue Tasty Humans The Isle of Cats

We discuss three games or two players or best with two players: Reckoners Designers: Brett Sobol, Seth Van Orden Publisher Nauvoo Games One Deck Dungeon Designer: Chris Cieslik Publisher: Asmadi Games Battle Line Reiner Knizia GMT Games

Nathan finally gets to review Star Wars: Legion by Fantasy Flight and talk about his expanding troops and terrain. SW: Legion is a 2 player game where players pit the rebellion against the might of the Empire. Assemble your point based squad, heroes, villains and vehicles and try to destroy your opponent. Fun times. Just watch out for Darth Vader.

Join your hosts as we talk about playing awesome games two player. We hit games designed specifically for two people, co-op games, and games of variable player counts, but shine with two players. Also Nathan talks about raising his girls to love games too. Some games we discuss include: Star Wars Rebellion Not Attika Star Wars X-wing Lost Cities Ballon Cup Patchwork Catan Card Game Starship Catan Star Realms Tally Ho 7 Wonders: Duel Splendor Chronicles of Crime Codenames: Duet

Dave joins us again as we talk gaming goals and SaltCON Summer. We discuss: Chronicles of Crime The Reckoners Big Trouble in Little China Ultimate Werewolf Magic Maze Robo Rally Shadows over Camelot Deception: Murder in Hong Kong Don't Mess with Cthulhu And others.

Spiel des Jarhes nominees. Catan: Starfarers, Asmodee Ecos: First Continent, John D. Clair and AEG Dead Reckoning, John D. Clair and AEG Pandemic: Rapid Response and Z-man Raccoon Tycoon: The Fat Cat Expansion Fickle: A Fairy Board Game, BARD Games Tiny Towns: Peter McPherson and AEG

The exciting journey into the world of Aeon's End, Legacy style. Nathan loves legacy games already and Ryan even said that he likes the game at one point! Friend Dave joins us again as we talk about this fun new deck builder!

In this episode, we discuss all things Legendary, including Marvel, Alien, Buffy, and the rest. We talk The Quest for El Dorado, which mixes deck building with a spacial race across platters full of different terrain types. We end on Clank! In! Space!, which is a glorious ride through science fiction pop culture with deck building while stealing artifacts from a space ship. It's beautiful.

Deck/bag/dice builders are games where your starting deck or pool changes throughout the game as you buy more cards or cull cards. We love this mechanic and talk through the game that started it all: Dominion. Other games we discuss are: Thunderstone (all varieties) Clank! Mystic Vale Arkham Horror TCG Star Realms (Hero Realms) Tyrants of the Underdark

The City of Kings is a co-operative tactical role-playing board game for 1 - 4 players. Your unique hero ventures out from the City of Kings to explore tiles, gather resources and vanquish monsters. Designed by Frank West and Published by The City of Games

Meeple Nation talks April 2019 News. We cover Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein! Space Base: Command Station Game of Thrones: Oathbreaker Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Core Set Kingdom Rush: Rift in Time Venom Assault: Villains and Valour Takendo Giant: Chibis and Terraforming Mars : Turmoil

Call to Adventure challenges 2-4 players to create the hero with the greatest destiny by acquiring traits, facing challenges, and overcoming adversaries. Designed by Johnny O'Neal and Christopher O'Neal Published by Brotherwise Games

Tableau Building is a fantastic family of games. In this episode, your hosts select a game each and detail how their chosen game utilizes tableau building for fun and profit. Innovation by Carl Chudyk and Asmadi Games Charterstone by Jamey Stegmaier and Stonemaier games. Near and Far by Ryan Laukat and Red Raven Games

Your hosts, Nathan, Ryan and Logan discuss Tableau building games and what makes them great. From Race for the Galaxy and 7 Wonders to Citadels and Terraforming Mars, tableau builders give players an array or components (cards, tiles, player boards, etc.) to buy, build, manipulate and combine for victory points. You hopefully create an engine for fun and profit.

Meeple Nation was at SaltCON 2019 and ran a bunch of games. Listen to get our highlights of the con. We hosted Brent Mair's Puzzlehunt, the Game Show, a bunch of Werewolf and a dozen other social deduction games. We had a blast.

The hosts of Meeple Nation deliver your March 2019 News with special guest Ashlee Howard. We discuss a bunch of forthcoming games including: Star Wars: Outer Rim from Fantasy Flight Terraforming Mars: Turmoil from Stronghold Ravnica Inquisition from Wizkids Time Breaker from Looney Labs Talisman: Kingdom Hearts from USAopoly Hako Onna from Ejin and Wizkids and Kickstarters: Creature Feature by our friend Kristopher McClanahan of Deeply Dapper Games Throw Throw Burrito from Exploading Kittens High Rise from Formal Ferret Games The Silver River from Robert Burke Games

Join the Nation as we gush about the board game Nemesis by Awaken Realms, designed by Adam Kwapiński. This epic board game is loosely based on the Alien franchise. You start the game waking from hibernation to find a crew member with a hole in their chest and blood everywhere. Each player has hidden objectives they need to complete in order to win, but you first have to survive. Mechanics: Campaign / Battle Card Driven Cooperative Play Dice Rolling Modular Board Partnerships Player Elimination Variable Player Powers The theme is spot on, the components excellent, and the play experience tense and exciting.

Nathan has been itching to bring Star Wars Rebellion from Fantasy Flight to the podcast. Nathan is a sucker for all thing Star Wars, and he's pretty lucky because Fantasy Flight always delivers a quality play experience. Logan has Nathan's back. Ryan just doesn't seem to like games. Listen as we discuss the flavor and mechanics of Star Wars Rebellion.

Join Meeple Nation as your hosts discuss three of their favorite area control games. We each chose a game that uses the mechanic in different ways, and different than Risk. The chosen games are: Carolvs Magnvs (2000) by Leo Colovini Carcassonne (2000) by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) (2011) by Christian T. Petersen All of these are older games. We think they show great and unique ways that area control can be used in board games. Plus, they are fun and a little cutthroat.

Area Control games like Risk tend to have a bad rap in our playgroup, but does that make the mechanic problematic? Many players love area control and seek out games like Heroes of Land, Sea, and Air, Twilight Struggle and Scythe. Join Meeple Nation as we discuss those games as well as Area Control games like El Grande. Other games discussed: Spirit Island Terra Mystica Carolus Magnus Attika Carcassonne Tyrants of the Underdark Bunny Kingdom

Join the Meeple Nation with your hosts Nathan and Ryan as they discuss the board game news for February 2019. Will every property release a roll & write version? Will Nathan buy all the kickstarters? Only one way to find out... We discuss: The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth Chronicles of Crime: Noir/Welcome to Redview Gloomhaven: Forgotten Circles Tuki from Next Move Games Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write Dracula's Feast: New Blood Aftershock Valor and Villainy

Join Meeple Nation with your hosts Ryan, Nathan, and guest host Logan as we discuss Big Trouble in Little China The Board Game. Big Trouble is Nathan's all time favorite movie, so the game has a lot to live up to. Will Nathan ever choose a different character than Jack Burton? Will he stop quoting the movie long enough to take his turn? Only one way to find out? I'm a reasonable guy. But, I've just experienced some very unreasonable things. Year 2018 Designers Christopher Batarlis Boris Polonsky Jim Samartino Artists Henning Ludvigsen Boris Polonsky Publisher Everything Epic Games

This week we continue our discussion of press-your-luck in games as we talk card flips in Dead Man's Draw, gear dice selection and dice rolling in Formula D, and progressing deeper and pushing clank in the game Clank!

This week we review the press-your-luck game, winner of the 2018 Kennerspiel des Jahres, Quacks of Quedlinburg

Just flip one more card or roll the dice on more time, right? This week we are talking press your luck games such as Quacks of Quedlingburg, Dead Man's Draw, Incan Gold, or Deep Sea Adventure.

Join us as we talk about gaming goals, what we accomplished and what we didn't. We celebrate Nathan's fantastic gaming year. We also talk news including New Frontiers The City Suburbia Collectors Edition Clank Legacy: Acquisitions Incorportated Proving Grounds ...More

We dip into the mailbag and answer a few questions from listeners, starting with the question of Time Travel in board games.

We talk everything Pandemic including: Pandemic 2008 On the brink 2009 In the Lab 2013 State of Emergency 2015 Pandemic: Contagion 2014 Pandemic: The Cure 2014 Experimental Meds 2016 Pandemic: Legacy Season 1 2015 Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu 2016 Pandemic: Iberia 2016 Pandemic: Rising Tide 2017 Pandemic: Legacy Season 2 2017 Pandemic: Fall of Rome 2018

We discuss NaNoWriMo, Social Deduction, Gaming Goals, App Supported Board Games, and answer a few questions.

Brent and Nathan sit down and talk about their last few days of gaming from BoardGameGeek.Con 2018 in Dallas. Games played: Poker Two Rooms and a Boom Capital Lux Rebel Nox Discover: Lands Unknown Lost Expedition Sentient Dominion: Nocturne and Renaissance.

We are joined by Matt for this news episode. We talk Keyforge Names, Kickstarter Games, One Dollar Kickstarter Pledges, Errant Uber Drivers, Layoffs and Acquisition during this Golden Age.

Nathan and Ryan made it to BGG.Con 2018. This recording is their coverage of the first 20 games they play which includes: Downfall Brikks Blueprint Sherlock: Last Call Sherlock: Tomb of the Archeologist Flowerfall x3 The Quest for El Dorado Heroes and Hexes New York Slice Thunderstone Quest A Study in Emerald Ticket to Ride New York Big Trouble in Little China Steamrollers Big Dig Fuji The River Kashgar: Merchants of the Silk Road U.S. Telegraph Firefly Iron Dragon

This is the episode that everyone, or at least one, has been waiting for. In this episode we discuss dozens of games, and a history of what makes up the Cthulhu Mythos. We start with the Fantasy Flight games, labeled Arkham Horror Files, including Arkham Horror 2nd Edition, 3rd Edition, Mansions of Madness 1st and 2nd Editions, Elder Sign, and Eldritch Horror. Then we discuss a good many games that are not Fantasy Flight properties, including Cthulhu Wars, Towers of Madness, Cthulhu Realms, and many more. Music Clip provided by: Echoes of Time v2 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This is our 5th annual Holiday Gift guide. We each bring five recommendations to the table, along with our recommendations for audience. Nathan Muse Sagrada Space Base Azul Magic Maze Brent Ticket to Ride Pandemic Sushi Go Party! King of Tokyo Exit and Unlock! Escape Room Games Ryan Codenames (Harry Potter) The Mind Disney's Villainous Magic: The Gathering Reef

This week we have an intervention of sorts, but who needs intervening, Nathan or Ryan? We discuss how perception, attitude, and enthusiasm affect enjoyment in gaming, for everyone. What is your attitude towards games? What types of games do you enjoy?

Ryan, Brent and Nathan sit down with Matt and Barb and talk news and Kickstarters. Make sure you look for us at BGG.con and consider donating to our Extra Life effort at https://extra-life.org/team/nugg Thanks for listening!

Once again Brent is away which somehow means that Sam comes over to play. Sam Aho from Sam Says Game Reviews joins Ryan and Nathan while they discuss Introducing New Games to Players. What should you do when an experience player teaches a game to a new player? Should there be strategy discussion, commentary on moves, warnings about game timing and more? Tune in to listen to a few differing opinions on the subject.

We discuss games from the past, ones we consider hidden gems including Taj Mahal, Balloon Cup, Cartagena, Pirates Cove, Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Reinick version), and Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel, among other games from the listeners.

This week, Sam Aho, of Sam Says, joins Ryan and Nathan to talk about two games from Gamelyn Games and Scott Almes, Tiny Epic Zombies and Tiny Epic Galaxies, including the Into the Dark expansion. Listen to hear their thoughts!

Nathan, Ryan and Sam Aho from Sam Says sit down to discuss their experience with this Scott Almes creation from Gamelyn Games. Heroes of Land Air and Sea is a 4X game, and definitely not tiny. Listen to hear their thoughts.

In this month's news episode we discuss expansions including The Quest for El Dorado: Heroes and Hexes, Magic Maze: Hidden Roles, remixed games including Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, and many more original games.