In this Session Report show, we "Point-5" one of the games we discussed during our Lord of the Rings Extravaganza of Show 19.0.
This Session Report is based on a friendly game of ICE's Lonely Mountain: The Lair of Smaug the Dragon, that we shared with our good friend Bill. This is a light discussion of some of the strategies each of the three of us employed, and also of some of the unforeseen events that threw a wrench into most of our strategies. While this play example was quite atypical for a couple reasons, we still got some fun insights into this game, and so we hope you enjoy hearing about some of the surprises that awaited us deep in Smaug's Lair.
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Stay tuned for Show 20.0, on its way to you very soon.
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Show 26.0 of Gameopolis sees Mark and Jeff hosting a franchise-specific celebration that can ONLY be termed a "Spectacular". In this Spectacular, Mark and Jeff take a deep dive into the Axis & Allies board game series, with special focus on the boardgames in the series of more limited historical scope. Before launching the Spectacular, however, Mark and Jeff open up a Dusty Old Box that might teach you something if you're not careful!
After the Dusty Old Box segment, Mark and Jeff launch into a walkthrough of five different Axis & Allies board game titles, with emphasis on the new wrinkles introduced into the A&A game system by each game.
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00:00:00 Prelude
00:02:21 Dusty Old Box
00:15:11 Jeff talks about Mark W. Allen's "Midway Submerged" eBook/book
00:16:44 Axis & Allies background and memories
00:19:30 Axis & Allies Europe
00:30:54 Axis & Allies Pacific
00:34:35 Axis & Allies D-Day
00:46:55 Axis & Allies Battle of the Bulge
00:57:55 Axis & Allies Guadalcanal
01:19:31 Signoff
Related links:
Midway Submerged by Mark W. Allen can be found on http://www.ussbatfish.com
Stay tuned for Show 26.5 --our session report on one of these Axis & Allies games-- coming at you faster than a screaming dive-bomber!
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Get ready for the Rootinest, Tootinest, Shootinest Session Report we've ever done on Gameopolis, as we "Point-5" Twilight Creations' Deadlands: Battle for Slaughter Gulch. Yeehaw!!!! This episode is also our 50th regular episode of Gameopolis, so get ready to hear the clinking of a few toasting champagne glasses throughout the episode!
This was a three-player game that we played with our good friend Bill. We cover this play session at a high level, sticking to our overall strategies, and the game elements that we felt impacted the play experience the most. We also discuss some potential house rules that we would consider trying out.
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Stay tuned for Show 26.0, coming at you faster than Mad Scientist flying an autogyro!
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Show 25.0 of Gameopolis is a knock-down, drag-out episode that will have you reaching for your break-away prop furniture. But first, Mark and Jeff keep to Gameopolis tradition and cover a very old Dusty Old Box -a game with a colorful box and a colorful game board. After the Dusty Old Box Mark and Jeff dig into the show's first main segment by covering Merchant of Venus one last time, but they take a slightly different tact this time, by focusing on the differences --the deltas, if you will-- between the Avalon Hill version and the new Fantasy Flight Games' version. Mark finishes this segment by stating he will never mention Merchant of Venus again --for at least a half-hour!
After their discussion of Merchant of Venus deltas, Mark and Jeff move onto the show's second main segment, which gives this episode its knock-down, drag-out flavor: a discussion of Twilight Creations' Deadlands: The Battle for Slaughter Gulch. Jeff discusses the game elements and mechanics of this old west-meets-horror-meets-steampunk boardgame, as well as its production values.
We end the episode by signing-off just before Mark's hungry dogs overrun the studio and take over the microphones.
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00:00:00 Prelude
00:01:25 Dusty Old Box
00:11:24 MoV: Avalon Hill to Fantasy Flight deltas
00:41:45 Deadlands: Battle for Slaughter Gulch
01:05:08 Signoff, and siege of Studio B by hungry hounds
Stay tuned for Show 25.5 --our 50th Episode, and Session Report on Battle for Slaughter Gulch-- coming at you faster than a hipshot from a six-shooter.
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In this Session Report show, we "Point-5" Fantasy Flight Games' Merchant of Venus.
Due to a tear in the space-time continuum, Mark and Jeff end up recording an after-action report BEFORE the action! This show covers our first play-through of FFG's new version of MoV. Our discussion focuses on the strategies each of the three players tried, and some of the revelations we experienced during this first play-through.
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Stay tuned for Show 25.0, coming at you faster than a space freighter with a combo drive!
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In Show 24.0, Mark and Jeff revisit the show topic of the Premier Episode of Gameopolis: our Top Ten Games lists. After 3-and-a-half years of podcasting, it was apparent that these lists needed to be revisited. Before going into our Top Ten lists, however, we satisfy tradition by opening up a Dusty Old Box. Mark presents Jeff with a Dusty Old Box from his past, and we discuss an overview of the rules, and the things Mark finds most memorable about the game.
After the Dusty Old Box segment, Mark and Jeff do a coin toss (specifically, a dubloon toss) to determine who kicks-off the Top Ten lists. For each game, we give a brief description and then chat about the elements of the game that landed it on the Top Ten List.
In our Sign-off, we briefly discuss the role IOS games have played in our recent gaming lives, and we extend the invite to our listeners to join us for some virtual gaming. You can find us on Game Center as "stinkytom" and "Funky-Bass-Jeff".
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00:00:00 Prelude
00:05:08 Dusty Old Box
00:18:44 The Dubloon Toss...
00:19:35 Mark's #10: Warhammer 40K
00:22:41 Jeff's #10: Commands & Colors Ancients
00:26:54 Jeff's #9: Gamma World
00:35:39 Mark's #9: Battletech
00:41:09 Mark's #8: Blackbeard
00:43:54 Jeff's #8: Pandemic
00:47:42 Jeff's #7: Battlefront WW2
00:55:02 Mark's #7: Stone Age
00:59:43 Jeff's #6: Car Wars
01:02:51 Mark's #6: DragonStar
01:06:18 Mark's #5: Dungeons & Dragons
01:10:35 Jeff's #5: Magic: the Gathering
01:17:38 Mark's #4: Pandemic
01:18:21 Jeff's #4: Axis & Allies
01:23:45 Mark's #3: Awful Green Things
01:26:51 Jeff's #3: War of the Ring
01:31:42 Mark's #2: Arkham Horror
01:33:45 Jeff's #2: Dungeons & Dragons
01:34:33 Mark's #1: Merchant of Venus
01:38:37 Jeff's #1: Battletech
01:39:58 Summary, reflections on IOS Games, and Signoff
Stay tuned for Show 24.5 --our session report on one of our Top Ten games-- coming soon.
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