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First Turn Tabletop Thoughts: Where three friends play board games for the first time and discuss our immediate reactions. It’s like book club … but for board games!
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Tuesday May 11, 2021
Tuesday May 11, 2021
We're Reclaimers (not the band) who work for the Bureau of Balance, while we might not be Meryl, Magnus, or Taako sometimes they show up! Join us this week for ... THE ADVENTURE ZONE!!!! We're playing The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance, a McElroy family inspired board game designed by Keith Baker and Jennifer Ellis from Twogether Studios!
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Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Get it? It has a train on it? Yeah, still not a visual medium. This week it's our 2nd Anniversary! That's right, we've been doing this for 2 years! We played Colt Express by Christophe Raimbault and published by Ludonaute! We're also joined by Kait while we all talk about what we love about Colt Express in this deep dive episode! (So spoiler I guess ... we love Colt Express).
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Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
A game with penguins ... on ice bergs ... and making sure you can keep all your penguins on the ice berg ... by Martin Wallace? Well, don't mind if we do! This week we play Volle Scholle, published by KOSMOS in 2011!
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Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
It's a digital to analog trip that bP and Kiwi take as Stardew Valley The Board Game is our game this week. A surprise from Cole Medeiros and Eric Barone published in 2021 by Concerned Ape. To answer the question from the XBox account ... fishing is only marginally easier.
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Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Evolution wasn't enough, we needed more crazy animals that we come up with! So we played Oceans by Nick Bentley, Dominic Crapuchettes, Ben Goldman, and Brian O’Neill. Published in 2020 by North Star Games.
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Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Our Intrepid Trio of Medieval Engineers try to build a cathedral, and other stuff, while sending each other's workers to prison in Architects of the West Kingdom! It was designed by Shem Phillips and SJ Macdonald, published by Garphill Games and Renegade Game Studio.
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Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Just kidding, but that was the best Kiwi could do for the title. He's tired, cut him some slack. This week, bP and Kiwi play Overboss by Aaron Mesburne and Kevin Russ. Published by Brotherwise Games!
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Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
This week are bring our strange creatures to life, much to the chagrin of Ian Malcolm, in Evolution by Dominic Crapuchettes, Dmitry Knorre, and Sergey Machin! It's published by North Star Games. Find out who has the dominant species and reigns supreme!
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Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
This week, we're collecting paintings and building our gallery! Luckily we're back in the 1920s so we don't have to worry about any Pandemics, or at this point a great depression! We're playing Museum: Pictura by Eric Dubus and Olivier Melison, published by Holy Grail Games! Join us and find out who the best Curator is!
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Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Except without the cannons and no ships, but still building a big 'castle'. Kiwi misses games like Rampart, simple yet difficult. Anyway, he digresses. This week we're playing the 2003 Spiel des Jahres winner Alhambra by Dirk Henn and published by Queen Games.
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