Mile High Game Guys: Boardgaming Podcast

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Episode 10 - The Top TenCast Sep 07, 2016

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So for Episode 10, not our 10th episode, we decided to do something just a little different. For this episode we are leaving behind our normal format and dedicating an entire episode to our favorite games. Each of us took the time to develop our own criteria for what makes a game fir our top ten, then we applied that criteria to all the games we've played and this episode is the result! Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy this special episode, we'll be back to our normal format next week with Episode 11.

Sincerely,

- The Mile High Game Guys

Criteria for our lists.

02:14 Zach's Criteria 03:06 Jeff's Criteria 03:39 Adrian's Criteria Number 10 05:06 Adrian's #10 07:00 Zach's #10 07:51 Jeff's #10 Number 9 09:49 Zach's #9 11:16 Adrian's #9 13:58 Jeff's #9 Number 8 15:55 Jeff's #8 17:52 Zach's #8 19:21 Adrian's #8 Number 7 21:13 Zach's #7 23:22 Jeff's #7 25:00 Adrian's #7 Number 6 27:05 Adrian's #6 28:54 Jeff's #6 30:48 Zach's #6 Number 5 32:00 Zach's #5 33:33 Jeff's #5 35:11 Adrian's #5 Number 4 38:35 Adrian's #4 41:01 Jeff's #4 44:13 Zach's #4 Number 3 45:10 Zach's #3 48:30 Jeff's #3 51:43 Adrian's #3 Number 2 52:58 Jeff's #2 54:15 Adrian's #2 56:04 Zach's #2 Number 1 57:03 Zach's #1 58:16 Jeff's #1 01:02:04 Adrian's #1 Games that didn't make the list 01:06:10 Jeff 01:07:41 Adrian 01:10:57 Zach Games that are close to the list 01:12:22 Adrian 01:14:22 Jeff

Episode 09 - The PlayerCast Aug 31, 2016

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This week the guys decide to introduce you to one of the other players from Jeff's Pandemic Legacy game: Wesley! After a quick discussion of his gaming cred they move on to this weeks recently played discussion featuring Fuse, Roll for the Galaxy, Total Rick-all, and Carcassone. This is followed by an overview of some recently announced games such as Welcome Back to the Dungeon, an expansion for Bang! The Dice Game, Spyfall 2, and Pandemic: Ibitha as well as some local gaming news featuring the grand opening of Boardgame Republic and the announcement of Denver B-Con. A short round up of a few kickstarters that are ending soon and one that just started gives way to the discussion of the day: Player Counts and their effect on games. Concluding the episode is a short reading of Jeff's 2nd email! Listen and enjoy! Chit-Chat 00:26 Wesley intro 02:24 Zach admits to cheating!!!!! 03:12 Wesley's Least and Most Favorite Game (least- Munchkin, most- Citadels) 04:01 New Citadals info 05:24 Brief Player Count Preview 08:27 Hate the Players, not the Game What we've been playing 08:50 Zach defuses Fuse 12:10 Adrian rolls around with Roll for the Galaxy 19:44 Jeff recalls Total Rick-all, works on Patchwork and welcomes a friend to Welcome to the Dungeon 24:37 Wesley goes expansion heavy in Carcassone News 27:23 Jeff ruins the transition to our news segment 27:31 Welcome BACK to the Dungeon -28:28 New Monsters -30:29 New Classes 33:12 Spyfall 2 35:10 Bang the Dice Gang: Old Saloon 38:19 Boardgame Republic Grand Opening 39:20 Pandemic: Ibitha 41:15 Denver B-Con Oct 22-23 Kickstarter Roundup 45:10 One Night Ultimate Alien 48:27 Polyhero Dice: The Wizards Set 52:01 Fantasy Coin and Electrum Campaign Coins Discussion of the Day 52:47 Player Counts in Gaming 1:08:36 A Second Email! 1:11:16 Episode Wrap up and Contact Info

Episode 08 - The AppCast Aug 24, 2016

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As our hosts continue to work their way through their stack of GenCon purchases, each of them have the opportunity to try some new games. First up for Adrian it was a lighthearted game of competing civilizations in Imperial Settlers, followed by Jeff who could not survive a trip to the Forbidden Desert and ended up ghosting around in Mysterium. Finally Zach tried hard to keep his sanity as cultists invaded Pandemic in Reign of Cthulu.

Having caught up on their recent gaming experiences your three hosts move on to discuss some current events and news buzzing around the gaming hobby where Square Enix is bringing Final Fantasy board and card games to America, Seafall receives a shipping update, No Man's Sky let's Jeff down, and Zach's need to buy all the expansions is triggered by Experimental Meds for Pandemic The Cure. From news they seamlessly transition into covering a few current kickstarter projects that are on their radar.

After all of that is finished these intrepid hosts and boardgamers move to the discussion of the day, boardgame apps. It is here that they delve deep into an interesting side of the hobby, talking about everything from app versions of their favorite games to games that require apps and even apps that aid in tabletop gaming. Along the way they cover the good, the bad, and the AI as well as some of their favorite (and least favorite) boardgame apps and how they feel apps can add or detract from the boardgaming experience.

Introduction and Chit-Chat

1:15 Imperial Settlers
8:12 Forbidden Desert
9:34 Mysterium/ Dixit
17:53 Pandemic Reign of Cthulu

Boardgaming News

25:44 Square Enix games:
- 25:57 Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
- 26:28 Chocobos Crystal Hunt -
27:21 Seafall shipping update
30:06 No Man’s Sky disappointment
32:04 Pandemic The Cure expansion: Experimental Meds

Kickstarter Roundup

33:28 Glorantha: God's War
37:08 Unfair
39:47 Pillars of Eternity: Lords of the Eastern Reach
41:13 Fallen Land: A Post-Apocalyptic Board Game
41:54 War Co. Expandable Card Game
44:06 Island Hopper

Discussion of the Day: Boardgame Apps

47:00 General Discussion

Bonus Link: Chwazi

Episode 07 - The Bits and Bags Cast Aug 17, 2016

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In this episode, our hosts finally dive into some of the games they acquired at Gencon. First is Jeff and his new yelling game known as Secret Hitler, followed by an older game called StarCraft. Next Adrian discusses his new love of Mystic Vale before Zach talks about seeing how far luck can go in Celestia. New games covered, they move on to the catchall discussion on storage, specifically on condensing, transporting, and shelving. Finally, Jeff gets to read his first email as the episode comes to a close.

01:17 Recent Plays

01:28 Secret Hitler
06:01 Starcraft the boardgame
13:32 Mystic Vale
25:30 Celestia

35:33 Discussion Topic: Organization

35:57 Kalax
37:21 BITBOX
40:10 Adrian's Condensing Magic
43:07 Gamefolio
45:47 BitCrates
51:10 Big Kickstarter Games
52:11 Broken Token Love

56:03 Jeff's First Email

Episode 06 - The GenCon Wrap Up Aug 12, 2016

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Our exhausted hosts regroup to discuss the amazing event known as Gencon. First, they talk about their overall impressions of the con and mention their friends’ accomplishments before getting down and dirty with the big games they played. They then dive into some of the big news announced during GenCon while complaining about sold out stuff. Next, Adrian and Zach listen to Jeff gloat about demoing SeaFall, further assuring them that it needs to end up in their collection. Last, they discuss the Huge* success of PandEPIC and

01:38 Zach's impressions on his first gencon

02:44 Friends events and successes

03:22 Ant fouls in blood bowl
05:16 Heather wins cosplay

09:58 Adrian's impressions on his second gencon

11:28 Jeff's impressions on his nth gencon

14:19 Featured games

14:30 Grifters
17:46 Legendary: Big Trouble in Little China
25:42 Deck building: the deck building game
26:54 The Networks

31:07 Our GenCon haul

Adrian: Dead of Winter: Long Night, Mystic Vale, Celestia
Jeff: 17 games, Star Realms, Brazilian Coup, Tiny Epic, Grifters, Pandemic Cthulu, Secret Hitler, Legendary:Big Trouble in Little China and more.
Zach: Mansions of Madness 2nd edition, Aquasphere, Deckbuilding, Grifters.

33:53 GenCon News

34:10 VIGs/exhibitors buy everything awesome
38:58 Rising Sun announced
41:07 Dead of Winter: Warring Colonies

44:10 Fantasy Flight - Inflight Report

44:29 Arkham Horror LCG
45:03 Runewars miniatures
46:18 New Angeles (Android)

48:20 Jeff's SeaFall preview

56:00 PandEPIC after action report.

Final day at GenCon. Aug 07, 2016

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Hey listeners,

Sorry for not getting another GenCon episode up, we ran out of time before we had to leave the con. But have no fear, we all had a great time and we have a big pile of new games to play and tall about when we get back to Denver so stay tuned. We will be returning to regularly scheduled recording as soon as we get back and will finalize a release schedule for you all. We are currently thinking of doing Thursday morning releases but that might change. Let us know if you have an opinion.

Also: Stockpile, The Networks, and Grifters are all as awesome as you may have heard, go buy/prder/play them!

Cheers and happy gaming,

-Adrian and the rest of the crew!

MHGG - GenCast 01 Aug 06, 2016

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The hosts along with two guests very briefly discuss a little bit of their experiences so far at GenCon and lay out their plans for day 3 of the best 4 days in boardgaming!

Mile High Game Guys GenCon Preview Episode Aug 02, 2016

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Episode 05 - The Sh-- Show Cast Aug 01, 2016

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In the final regular episode recorded prior to GenCon the what have we been playing segment runs a bit dry as GenCon prep consumes our lives. Jeff and returning guest Ant use this opportunity to introduce their Blood Bowl segment, the Bloody Minute, which naturally runs for almost 15 minutes. Ant and Adrian then take some time to discuss pandEPIC, their special giant version of pandemic they are putting together for GenCon and the process behind making it a reality. In another attempt to be professional we introduce a boardgaming news segment that mainly revolves around one piece of major news.

Enjoy and don't forget to get in touch with us through social media and let us know what you would like to hear us talk about. We can be reached individually at Adrian, Jeff, or Zach @milehighgameguys.com or collectively at Emails@milehighgameguys.com, you can find us on twitter @MHgameguys or on FB at facebook.com/milehighgameguys!

Episode Overview (00:50)

Manhattan Project: Chain Reaction (03:03)

Star Realms (08:52)

Cthulhu Realms (10:12)

The Bloody Minute (16:45)

#pandEPIC (31:30)

The Grizzled: At Your Orders (42:28)

Boardgaming News (46:58)

Asmodee purchasing F2Z (47:41)

MHGG Review - Rebels With a Cause Jul 31, 2016

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Special guest Ant makes a return in this episode as a seasoned (7-0) Rebellion player to help the hosts make sense of a game that has been getting the best of all of them. The four of them then discuss the outcomes of their various games of Rebellion and trade information about what rules they have been playing wrong. Convos of backstabbing and disaster give way to a brief, yet amicable, conversation about different Rebellion strategies from their varying perspectives.

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