#boardchitless - Board Gaming Podcast

#BoardChitless Episode 36 - A Distant Plain AKA The Hardest Game Ever? This week Jackie, Dave, Tristan and Leki go head to head in 'A Distant Plain', a war game based on the COIN gaming system and wonder whether this is possibly the hardest game to learn? #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BoardChitless Episode 35 - 838 Viking Street Masters This week Leki and Tristan show off their martial arts skills playing Adam and Brady Sadler's 'Street Masters: Rise of the Kingdom', a co-operative miniatures game inspired by classic video games like 'Double Dragon' and 'Street Fighter'. As if that wasn't enough combat we also get a good look at Academy Games' '878 Vikings'; a head to head area control game based on the Viking invasions of England. #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BoardChitless Episode 34 - One Deck Dungeon Tristan and Leki play 'One Deck Dungeon', a card based dungeon crawler for 1-2 players. #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BoardChitless Episode 33 - Nations This week Tristan and Leki talk about Lautapelit Games' civilisation builder "Nations". #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BoardChitless Episode 32 - Let's Not Fallout Guys! This week Sam, Tristan and Jackie have set out to solve the mysteries of the wastelands playing the 'Fallout' board game, Fantasy Flight Games' interpretation of the massively successful video game series. #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BaordChitless Episode 31 - Interview with Artwem Safarov, designer of Cauldron and Unbroken Tristan talks to game designer Artme Safarov about his latest game; Unbroken. Unbroken is a solo card game that sees the player take control of a wounded adventure following a disastrous quest. Unbroken is now available to back on Kickstarter and the campiagn can be found here www.kickstarter.com/projects/122787…val-and-revenge #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BoardChitless Episode 30 - Tokaido Road to the Rune Age This week Leki and Tristan are joined by composer Francesca Hall as they take a pilgrimage in FunForge's Tokaido. Leki and Tristan also have a crack at Rune Age, Fantasy Flight's fantasy themed deck builder. #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BoardChitless Episode 29 - Solo Games Roundup Their mother's said that they'd go blind but Tristan and Leki pointedly refuse to stop playing with themselves! This week's episode is a celebration of solo gaming with Leki and Tristan choosing their top 3 solo games in no particular order. #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BoardChitless Episode 28 - The 7th Continent This week Tristan and Leki get entangled in a good old fashioned 20th century adventure and attempt to lift an ancient curse in Serious Poulp's "The 7th Continent". #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BoardChitless Episode 27 - The Darkest of Souls! Leki and Tristan try their hands at Element Games' "Dark Souls", a dungeon crawler for 1-4 players based on the massively successful "Dark Souls" video games. We also learn that Mark Chaplin's sci-fi survival horror epic "Lifeform" is set for launch on Kickstarter on Thursday 29th March...YAY! You can check out the campaign by following the link below. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tristanhall/1945550561?ref=432185&token=8d774ec1 #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BoardChitless Episode 26: Lords of Warfighter This week Tristan and Leki return from active duty where they've been patrolling the jungle in search of drug lords and fighting insurgents in the middle east...Well they've been pretending with Dan Verssen Games' Warfighter. Tristan also gives us a debrief from his weekend at Airecon where he's been promoting the Hall or Nothing Productions roster of board games. #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BoardChitless Episode 25 with Timo Multamaki of Perdition's Mouth: Abyssal Rift Tristan catches up with Timo Multamaki lead designer of Perdition's Mouth: Abyssal Rift about projects spanning past, present and future. Timo talks about self publishing before KickStarter and how the platform has changed self publishing. Timo's latest design "Darwinnning" is live on Kickstarter until 16th March and can be backed herehttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/509519175/darwinning-card-game-evolve-to-rule-the-food-chain?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=Timo%20multamaki #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com

#BaordChitless Episode 24 with Mark McKinnon from Wreck and Ruin This week Tristan interviews indie game designer Mark McKinnon who's apocalyptic vehicle combat spectacular "Wreck and Ruin" comes back to KickStarter this month. Mark talks candidly on what he feels he did right and what he feels he got wrong in his first Kickstarter campaign and how he's tweaked his strategy before launching his latest campaign. You can check out the KickStarter for "Wreck and Ruin" here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1358316989/150251154?ref=445813&token=61c3380b #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com.

#BoardChitless Episode 20 - Empires to Avoid Tristan, Leki and Dave are just about on speaking terms again after playing 'Forbidden Stars'! Forbidden Stars is Fantasy Flight Games' epic space area control brawler set in the Warhammer 40K universe. Although popular this game is now sadly out of print as Fantasy Flight no longer own the license for the game. As discussed in the podcast the rules to this game are a beast to pick up so the rules overview video form 'Watch It Played' that Dave mentioned is highly recommended and can be viewed by following the link below. https://youtu.be/8USqNQxQGMY #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com/ If you like what you hear then please follow and share.

#BoardChitless Episode 22 Interview with Isaac Childres on Gloomhaven Tristan speaks to Isaac Childres about his magnum opus, the boardgamegeek number 1 board game of all time "Gloomhaven", which designers inspire him, what games he loves, and all things gaming in this insightful interview into one of the most successfully crowdfunded board game projects of all time. #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com.

#BoardChitless Episode 21 with Frank West of City of Kings Tristan speaks to Frank West about his board game "City of Kings" and the pitfalls of promoting projects on Kickstarter; especially working out which buttons to press. #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com/

#BoardChitless Episode 20 - Empires of the Void This week we have a full house as Tristan, Jackie, Dave, Sam and Leki tackle Ryan Laukat's space reboot "Empires of the Void 2". #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com/ If you like what you hear then please follow and share.

#BoardChitless Episode 19 - 51st State of Mind This week Tristan, Jackie, Dave and Leki get involved with Ignacy Trzewiczek's strategy card game '51st State' and can't help but compare it to Ignacy's earlier game; 'Imperial Settlers' . #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com/ If you like what you hear then please follow and share.

#BoardChitless Episode 18 - Imperial Appsault This week Tristan and Leki discuss Fantasy Flight Games' "Star Wars: Imperial Assault" after their first game using the shiny new companion app. Many thanks to Dave for bringing the game along. #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward www.thegamesteward.com/ If you like what you hear then please follow and share.

#BoardChitless Episode 17 - Flashpoints at Dawn! Tristan, Leki, Sam and Dave bid you a happy new year! This week we look back on our not so heroic tales of fire fighting with little success in Flashpoint. We've also had a little shufty at Civilization: A New Dawn which Tristan was eager to show off to the table and with good cause. #BoardChitless Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Game Steward https://www.thegamesteward.com/