
Board Game Barrage
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Join Kellen, Neilan, Mark, and Christina for a podcast about board games, the latest hotness, and how to have fun with your friends even when you're losing.
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Join Kellen, Neilan, Mark, and Christina for a podcast about board games, the latest hotness, and how to have fun with your friends even when you're losing.
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Episodes
#331: One Thing I Hate About You
4/3/2025
We've spent a lot of time over the years singing the praises of the games we love, but they can't be perfect right? Surely there's something, one little thing, that bugs us - a small blemish in our otherwise most beloved games? Before we come clean, we talk about Classified Information, Starline Hill, Panda Spin, and SHASN: AZADI.
03:13 - Classified Information
11:54 - Starline Hill
13:35 - Panda Spin
25:32 - SHASN: AZADI
41:56 - Things we hate about games we love
42:39 - Throught the Ages: A New Story of Civilization
44:14 - Tigris and Euphrates
44:36 - Archipelago
45:09 - Cthulhu Wars
45:17 - Cosmic Encounter
45:57 - Diplomacy
46:09 - Innovation
48:28 - El Grande
49:26 - Age of Steam
49:26 - Arboretum
49:26 - The Estates
49:26 - Fresh Fish
50:28 - Marvel Champions: The Card Game
51:22 - Brass: Lancashire
51:30 - Barrage
51:38 - Agricola
53:57 - Blood on the Clocktower
54:08 - A Feast for Odin
56:22 - Sidereal Confluence
56:22 - Stationfall
56:22 - Alchemists
57:30 - Yellow and Yangtze
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Duration:01:04:27
#330: We Played a Load of Games!
3/20/2025
We just got back from Dice Tower West, so you know what that means ... bunches and bunches of games! Between the convention, and the meetup, and just hanging out at Mark's place, we got a lot of great stuff played, and we're going to give you all the highlights, with such treats as Moon Colony Bloodbath, Out of Sorts, and Feierabend.
04:16 - Corporate America
12:19 - Acquire
18:09 - Inside Job
23:12 - Feierabend / Finishing Time
33:13 - Moon Colony Bloodbath
44:44 - Family Dinner: More or Less
52:00 - Mister Diamond
57:21 - Out of Sorts
01:07:16 - Dragon's Gold
01:08:13 - Carrom
01:11:15 - The Gang
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#329: All the Stars Are Here!
3/6/2025
I'm not sure why you'd make a hall of fame that's not also a sidewalk, but that's exactly what BoardGameGeek have gone and done - they've curated 25 games into their hall of fame, and we're here to judge them for their choices. It's weird that they didn't come to us first, honestly. Before we deck the halls, we talk about Arborea, Beyond the Horizon, and Taiwan Night Market.
02:49 - Arborea
10:32 - Beyond the Horizon
20:43 - Taiwan Night Market
32:00 - BGG Hall of Fame
38:57 - Diplomacy
40:35 - Acquire
41:55 - Cosmic Encounter
43:25 - Civilization
45:05 - 1830: Railways and Robber Barons
45:46 - Magic The Gathering
48:02 - Catan
49:03 - El Grande
49:58 - Tigris and Euphrates
51:04 - Ra
52:07 - Carcassone
53:29 - Power Grid
53:49 - Ticket to Ride
54:16 - Caylus
55:26 - Twilight Struggle
56:26 - Through the Ages
58:17 - Agricola
59:35 - Brass
01:00:25 - Race for the Galaxy
01:01:53 - Dominion
01:02:38 - Pandemic
01:03:39 - Seven Wonders
01:04:51 - Castles of Burgundy
01:05:14 - Terra Mystica
01:06:54 - Concordia
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Duration:01:11:22
#328: Anticipation Auction: Games of 2025
2/20/2025
Okay, pay attention, this is gonna be different! We're looking at the rest of 2025, deciding what we think the most well received games of the year are going to be - but then we're going to be bidding on them, auction style. Whoever's slate ends up performing best in their categories at the end of the year gets all the glory ... and if you vote on who you think is going to win, you could get $50! Before we're going, going, gone, we talk about Nyakuza, Hooky, and Altay: Dawn of Civilization.
03:26 - Nyakuza
10:26 - Hooky
16:15 - Altay: Dawn of Civilization
27:16 - Anticipation Auction 2025
32:52 - Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread
38:12 - Puerto Rico 1897: Special Edition
41:10 - Molly House
45:03 - Nemesis: Retaliation
47:09 - Finspan
49:59 - Luthier
51:24 - The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era
55:23 - Transgalactica
59:18 - The Witcher: Path Of Destiny
01:01:56 - The Old King's Crown
01:04:07 - Star Trek: Captain's Chair
01:06:32 - Dune: Imperium – Bloodlines
01:08:38 - Zenith
01:10:26 - Galactic Cruise
01:12:10 - Speakeasy
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Duration:01:14:29
#327: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: 10-1
2/6/2025
It's finally time to cap it all off with the cream of the cream, Mark and Neilan's final set of ten games each! These are the games that we think are the pinnacle of our respective tastes, that we'd never turn down, that any person ought to try at least once. It's the Top 10 Games of All-Time!
01:48 - Mark’s #10 - Age of Steam
08:17 - Neilan’s #10 - Brass: Birmingham
11:21 - Mark’s #9 - Arboretum
17:35 - Neilan’s #9 - Time’s Up!
20:15 - Mark’s #8 - Marvel Champions
23:48 - Neilan’s #8 - The Oracle of Delphi
28:35 - Mark’s #7 - The Estates
33:44 - Neilan’s #7 - Pictomania
35:14 - Mark’s #6 - Time’s Up!
38:26 - Neilan’s #6 - The Search for Planet X
42:09 - Mark’s #5 - Brass: Lancashire
45:59 - Neilan’s #5 - Alchemists
48:49 - Mark’s #4 - Fresh Fish
52:56 - Neilan’s #4 - Sidereal Confluence
57:33 - Mark’s #3 - Barrage
01:03:52 - Neilan’s #3 - A Feast for Odin
01:09:03 - Mark’s #2 - Agricola
01:14:01 - Neilan’s #2 - Blood on the Clocktower
01:20:27 - Mark’s #1 - Biblios
01:23:04 - Neilan’s #1 - Through the Ages
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Duration:01:31:45
#326: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: Neilan's 30-11
1/30/2025
Neilan's back to continue the journey down the lazy river of cardboard that is his top 50 board games of all time. It's games 30 through 11! I just counted, and that's twenty amazing games that I can't wait to tell you all about!
00:59 - #30 - Gloomhaven
02:58 - #29 - War Story: Occupied France
07:35 - #28 - Gaia Project
10:17 - #27 - Ark Nova
12:26 - #26 - Kemet
14:55 - #25 - Yellow & Yangtze
17:09 - #24 - Undaunted: Stalingrad
19:51 - #23 - War of the Ring: Second Edition
22:39 - #22 - Guards of Atlantis II
25:14 - #21 - The Quest for El Dorado
26:49 - #20 - Hansa Teutonica
28:33 - #19 - Exit: The Game
31:23 - #18 - Taj Mahal
34:05 - #17 - Cthulhu Wars
35:24 - #16 - Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar
38:23 - #15 - The Resistance
41:28 - #14 - Patchwork
43:16 - #13 - Ra
44:58 - #12 - Stationfall
49:44 - #11 - Blue Lagoon
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Duration:00:53:12
#325: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: Mark's 30-11
1/23/2025
And back to Mark! It's the soggy middle of his top 50, or as he insists on calling it, his numbers 30 through 11. That is twenty more delicious games, and he's here to tell you all about them while we continue to berate and praise him for his choices.
01:20 - #30 - Anomia
05:12 - #29 - Sidereal Confluence
08:47 - #28 - Chicago Express
11:46 - #27 - Rise & Fall
16:34 - #26 - Tigris & Euphrates
19:14 - #25 - Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory
22:29 - #24 - Blue Lagoon
25:37 - #23 - Lancaster
28:07 - #22 - El Grande
30:57 - #21 - Modern Art
33:54 - #20 - Pictomania
36:58 - #19 - Ark Nova
40:19 - #18 - Stationfall
41:59 - #17 - Stephenson’s Rocket
43:36 - #16 - Cascadero
45:19 - #15 - Ra
48:45 - #14 - Bus
50:49 - #13 - Tramways
52:40 - #12 - Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020
57:05 - #11 - Caylus 1303
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Duration:01:02:36
#324: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: Neilan's 50-31
1/16/2025
It's meeeeeeeeeee! So if you care to find my top 50 list, look right here. The first twenty incredible games on the list that early critics are calling "incredibly tasteful" and "delightfully roomy" is finally yours to consume. It's the greatest board games of all-time, Neilan edition!
01:10 - #50 - Anachrony
03:56 - #49 - The Vale of Eternity
05:47 - #48 - Arcs
09:05 - #47 - Bus
11:26 - #46 - Wilmot's Warehouse
13:03 - #45 - Spectral
15:57 - #44 - Innovation
18:12 - #43 - Codenames
20:12 - #42 - In the Year of the Dragon
21:17 - #41 - Decrypto
23:50 - #40 - Werewords
27:27 - #39 - Challengers!
31:03 - #38 - Inis
33:39 - #37 - Watson & Holmes
35:17 - #36 - Twice as Clever!
36:17 - #35 - Scythe
39:45 - #34 - Iberian Gauge
41:47 - #33 - Cascadero
47:04 - #32 - Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy
49:19 - #31 - Dune: Imperium - Uprising
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Duration:00:53:25
#323: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: Mark's 50-31
1/9/2025
It's time! The grand spectacle that is our greatest games of all time is here at last! We're breaking things out a bit differently this year, so Mark's taking center stage while Kellen & Neilan mock his choices. It's the first twenty games from his list, so games 50 through 31. LET'S GOOOO!
01:53 - Cthulhu Wars
03:23 - Ricochet Robot
05:21 - The Voyages of Marco Polo
08:22 - Zoo Vadis
10:53 - Wilmot's Warehouse
12:45 - Tycoon: India 1981
15:17 - Dogs of War
17:30 - Dune: Imperium
20:42 - Decrypto
22:30 - Amalfi: Renaissance
25:33 - German Railways
28:44 - The Vale of Eternity
32:00 - Kutná Hora: The City of Silver
34:58 - Hansa Teutonica
37:12 - Cuba Libre
39:28 - 1830: Railways & Robber Barons
42:00 - La Granja
44:27 - Karvi
48:52 - Container
51:21 - Dungeon Fighter
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Duration:00:55:54
#322: And What a Year It’s Been
12/12/2024
As we approach the end of 2024, it's about time we stop, take stock, and dare I say look back at the year that's been. The highs, the lows, the mids - all the stars are here, and we're going to break them down for you with some of our favourite games, and biggest moments, and general assessment of the year that's been. Before we reflect, we talk about Let's Go! To Japan, Mombasa, and The Gang.
01:52 - Let's Go! To Japan
10:17 - Mombasa
15:05 - The Gang
21:00 - Looking back on 2024
22:01 - ARCS
27:54 - Cascadero
29:29 - Slay the Spire: The Board Game
31:17 - Wilmot's Warehouse
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Duration:00:41:16
#321: Fire Away, Ghost Turkey
11/28/2024
Gobble Bobble, here comes trouble in the form of a pairing we never thought we'd see - Bob and the Ghost Turkey have delivered us another holiday nightmare. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Before we tuck in, we talk about Tapple, Mini Rails, and Naishi.
05:48 - Tapple
11:07 - Mini Rails
17:45 - Naishia
22:56 - BGBBOB Bird Games
24:45 - Ice Cool
24:52 - Root
26:17 - Rook
26:26 - Songbirds
28:05 - Fancy Feathers
28:15 - The Bird Told Me to Do It
29:09 - Piepmatz
32:17 - Wingspan
32:28 - Penguin Party
33:44 - Angry Birds: Star Wars - Jenga Rise of Darth Vader Game
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#320: We Played A Clump of Games!
11/14/2024
We've been to Las Vegas and back for the very unofficial recurring gathering we like to call BarrageCon (which is really just all of us hanging out at Mark's place). We had a lot of games lined up to play, and I daresay we did a pretty good job of getting through them. Here's our report back, just a bunch of impressions of a bunch of games - including Rise & Fall, Fractured Sky, and Wilmot's Warehouse!
02:26 - Harvest
07:18 - Fractured Sky
18:13 - Penguin Party
22:10 - San Marco
27:14 - EGO
31:45 - Barony
37:30 - Rise & Fall
49:49 - Wilmot's Warehouse
56:45 - Tiny Laser Heist
1:01:32 - Nekojima
1:02:45 - Bottle Imp
1:07:45 - The Vale of Eternity
1:11:53 - Shogun
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#319: One Exception To Rule Them All
10/31/2024
I think it's fair to say at this point, that we've pretty firmly established each of our respective tastes when it comes to board games, whether it's for genre, theme, mechanic, whatever. There's always something, though, right? Something that flies in the face of those rules and boldly proclaims, "I like this, even though..." Before we prove the rule, we talk about Andromeda's Edge, and Karvi.
03:05 - Andromeda's Edge
13:15 - Karvi
23:32 - Exceptions to our Gaming Tastes
24:47 - Through the Ages
26:41 - Ark Nova
30:57 - Stationfall
34:04 - Thunder Road: Vendetta
35:35 - Terra Mystica
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Duration:00:40:01
#318: A Mix of Things We’d Like To See with Mike DiLisio
10/17/2024
The Fandango Tank returns! The ever wonderful Mike DiLisio joins us again, this time to collectively cast our minds forward to some things we'd like to manifest into the board game future. We've got a mess of ideas, a veritable mixtape of miscellany that we either want to play, or hope to see more of as the hobby progresses. Before we unspool, we talk about Fishing, EGO, The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth, and Key Market (Second Edition).
02:57 - Fishing
03:03 - I Made You a Mixtape
11:31 - EGO
21:00 - The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth
27:46 - Key Market (Second Edition)
40:49 - Things we'd like to see
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#317: Fantasy Draft: Overrated Games
10/3/2024
So we've done a lot of these drafts before, but I don't think we've done one quite like this. This time we're each trying to draft a set of five games that we think you might agree are incredibly overrated. What does that mean exactly? Well that's up for debate too. What isn't up for debate is that you could win $100 just by voting! Before we widen our delta, we talk about Undaunted 2200: Callisto, Nature, and Barcelona.
03:37 - Undaunted 2200: Callisto
13:10 - Nature
23:00 - Barcelona
31:22 - Overrated Games Draft
37:07 - Nemesis
39:10 - Frosthaven
41:15 - Star Wars: Rebellion
45:19 - Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition
47:37 - Earth
48:45 - Wingspan
51:19 - 7 Wonders Duel
52:24 - Mechs vs. Minions
53:17 - Everdell
55:43 - Crokinole
58:52 - Caverna: The Cave Farmers
59:55 - Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
1:01:24 - On Mars
1:02:45 - Lost Ruins of Arnak
1:04:13 - Catan
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#316: Four Heads Are Better Than One
9/19/2024
I'm in a bit of a quandary here, because Mark told me not to tell you what this episode is even about, but I want this description to be, well, descriptive but he's glaring at me really hard, and making a throat slitting gesture so I daren't risk it. It's about ... board games? Before we get ahead of ourselves, we talk about Binho, Stamp Swap, and First Rat.
03:33 - Binho
07:24 - Stamp Swap
17:04 - First Rat
30:16 - ???
34:47 - Agricola
34:47 - Bohnanza
36:28 - Patchwork
37:05 - A Feast for Odin
39:02 - Power Grid
39:43 - Friday
40:06 - Fearsome Floors
41:25 - 504
42:40 - Fast Sloths
43:03 - Fresh Fish
44:44 - Ra
45:28 - Tigris & Euphrates
46:45 - Lost Cities
46:52 - Yellow & Yangtze
47:23 - Blue Lagoon
47:43 - The Quest for El Dorado
48:22 - My City
49:13 - Through the Desert
49:28 - Ingenious
50:59 - Schotten Totten
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#315: Essen SPIEL 2024 Hype List
9/5/2024
We may or may not be going to Germany (who can say), but that's where all the good gaming is gonna be, so that's what we're gonna talk about. It's almost Essen SPIEL! That sure is a lot of games debuting there though, so which ones should you care about? Don't worry, we've done the hard work for you. Before you go back to being eine faule socke, we talk about Nekojima, We're Sinking!, Hues and Cues, and Colorful.
02:46 - Nekojima
09:01 - We're Sinking!
15:31 - Hues and Cues
15:31 - Colorful
22:09 - Essen SPIEL 2023 Preview
22:57 - Æterna
25:32 - Babylon
27:17 - Bus & Stop
28:55 - COSCA: Take Over the Mafia
31:54 - Galileo Galilei
33:41 - SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
34:39 - Fishing
37:19 - AI Space Puzzle
38:59 - Zero to Hero
40:51 - The Gang
42:46 - Golden Cup
45:09 - Black Forest
50:02 - Battalion: War of the Ancients
53:01 - Beyond the Horizon
56:10 - Asian Tigers: A Story of Prosperity
58:16 - Skull Queen
58:38 - King of Tokyo: Origins
59:15 - Penguin Airlines
1:00:18 - Dungeon Exit
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#314: Bringing Out the Best in People
8/22/2024
It's about people, right? Below all the mechanics, after all the rules explanations, beyond every crushing loss and glorious win, what really matters is people we're playing with. Some games make that more apparent than others, and we're here to celebrate that. Before we realize it's about the friends we made along the way, we talk about Arcs, and Luthier.
03:02 - Arcs
19:26 - Luthier
37:11 - Games that make you feel good about people
41:11 - Codenames
42:05 - Decrypto
43:09 - Time's Up!
43:38 - Telestrations
43:56 - Fuji Flush
44:04 - Mino Dice
46:01 - Word Slam
47:00 - Krazy Wordz
47:43 - Just One
48:16 - Pictures
48:44 - Stationfall
51:12 - The Estates
51:37 - Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant
52:16 - The Resistance
52:16 - Blood on the Clocktower
52:55 - The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31
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#313: That Don't Impress Me Much
8/8/2024
The only thing worse than coming away from a first game with a really bad impression, is when it takes a really long time to shake. Imagine all the amazing games you're not playing because of one bad first game! Whether we saw the error of our ways or not, we're reflecting on the times that games left a mark that took a long time to fade. Before we make our impression, we talk about Things in Rings, Yedo: Deluxe Master Set, and Harmonies.
01:51 - Things in Rings
10:29 - Yedo: Deluxe Master Set
24:03 - Harmonies
30:05 - Draft winner!
32:48 - Bad first impressions
33:49 - Brass: Birmingham
33:49 - Hansa Teutonica
34:49 - Agricola
37:25 - Race for the Galaxy
37:37 - Tigris & Euphrates
39:04 - The Great Zimbabwe
39:51 - Ark Nova
41:25 - Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization
42:43 - 7 Wonders Duel
45:29 - Ginkgopolis
46:51 - Arcane Academy
49:24 - Century: Spice Road
50:37 - John Company: Second Edition
52:27 - Stationfall
53:58 - Hanabi
56:10 - Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra
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#312: Fantasy Draft: Spiel des Jahres Winners
7/25/2024
It's awards season, which means that Germany's back to tell us what games are popping off over there. And that also means we're back to tell you what we think about what they think. More than that - we're looking through the annals of Spiel des Jahres history to drafting the winningest games of all the winners! Which means you too can be a winner of $100! Just vote! Before everyone's a winner, we talk about Chess, Vabanque, The Mandalorian: Adventures, and Path of Civilization.
04:06 - Chess
10:27 - Vabanque
14:06 - The Mandalorian: Adventures
20:14 - Path of Civilization
31:00 - Spiel des Jahres 2024 Review
36:19 - Spiel des Jahres Fantasy Draft
38:43 - El Grande
39:33 - Codenames
41:12 - Azul
42:29 - Dominion
43:02 - Wingspan
44:36 - The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
45:22 - The Quacks of Quedlinburg
45:46 - Hanabi
46:21 - Cascadia
47:26 - Just One
49:52 - Camel Up
50:49 - Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King
51:58 - Sky Team
53:04 - Dixit
53:33 - Challengers!
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Duration:00:56:16