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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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Mar 28, 2023
Mar 28, 2023
36 min
was a movie released in 2011 staring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johannson. Damon's character buys a zoo and then moves his family there in order to renovate it. It was directed by Cameron Crowe, the same person who brought us Say Anything, Almost Famous, and Jerry Maguire. You're welcome for the reminder. It also has nothing to do with this weeks' game Ark Nova. It was released in 2021 by Capstone Games and designed by Mathias Wigge.
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Mar 21, 2023
Mar 21, 2023
39 min
Was J. Jonah Jameson on to something? Is being a newspaper editor awesome? If if you were an editor and a woodland creature? Well it's time to find out. We're bringing you the news of Thistleville this week in Fit to Print designed by Peter McPherson and published in 2023 by Flatout Games.
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Mar 14, 2023
Mar 14, 2023
34 min
On June 4, 1919 the US Government sent the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was sent to the states for ratification. Tennessee voted in favor just over a year later becoming the 36th state and gaining the required two-thirds majority for ratification. In the end, 40 states voted in favor and 8 voted against it. The 8 that voted no, would reverse their decisions years later, with the final being Mississippi in 1984. This week Kiwi and bP are playing Votes for Women published in 2022 by Fort Circle Games and designed by Tory Brown.
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Mar 7, 2023
Mar 7, 2023
30 min
This weeks' title is from Winston Churchill's "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech he gave on June 4, 1940 shortly after Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk.
Kiwi makes another attempt at finding a wargame that Eric will enjoy. Over a few sections and the course of a week, Eric and Kiwi playing Combat Commander: Europe. Published in 2006 by GMT Games and designed by Chad Jenson.
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Feb 28, 2023
Feb 28, 2023
33 min
Where the donkey goes, there goes the supplies. As the common saying goes. There's a solid chance I made that up. The donkey train thing? Maybe. The part that it's a common saying? Perhaps. This week we're playing Hamlet, designed by David Chircop and published in 2022 by Mighty Boards.
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Feb 21, 2023
Feb 21, 2023
31 min
In their Autumn-obile! That's for free and I promise that it's the only pun in the whole episode. Actually .. no promises ... you should listen and find out though! This week we've got everybody together to play Leaf by Tim Eisner published by Weird City Games in 2023.
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Feb 14, 2023
Feb 14, 2023
45 min
It's time to play the "beautiful game" whether you call it soccer or football. This week, Kiwi and bP with special guest Royce take over their own soccer/football clubs and do their their best not to run them into the ground. That's right, we're playing Eleven published in 2022 by Portal Games, designed by Tomas Jansen.
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Feb 7, 2023
Feb 7, 2023
32 min
But a Torii gate ain't one! This week scheduling worked out and the gang is back together to play The One Hundred Torii. It was published in 2020 by Pencil First Games and designed by Scott Caputo.
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Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023
34 min
Some might argue that the Treaty of Versailles had a few holes that may or may not have been one of the many catalysts for the next war. So being the historians they are, Kiwi and bP have decided they can do better in the course of an afternoon. Join them this week as they play Versailles 1919 by Geoff Englestein and Mark Herman. Published in 2020 by GMT Games.
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Jan 24, 2023
Jan 24, 2023
31 min
When you go in reverse, things come from behind! He's the getaway driver? What the *&%$ can he get away from? That's right, Eric ... and someone else (probably Kait? I don't know I wasn't there) are playing Getaway Driver designed by Jeff Beck and published by Uproarious Games in 2019!
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