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  • 7th Citadel, Wyrmspan

    11/03/2024 Duración: 01h07min

    This episode we only cover two games, but we had so much to say it ended up being a full length episode anyway. Which isn’t a surprise really when you end up with two follow ups for two massively succesful games. It’s the follow-up episode! And if you strain your thinking really hard, you could even argue that this very episode is a follow up to previous episodes, and thus thematically represents the games themselves. It’s nice when things like that line up perfectly. Please enjoy our chatter on 7th Citadel (sequel to 7th Continent) and Wyrmspan (sequel to Wingspan). If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded 0:00 Cold Open 0:38 Intro 2:44 7th Citadel 34:15 Wyrmspan

  • Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze, Witchcraft!, Revive

    19/02/2024 Duración: 58min

    “What’s good?” you might ask me. Oh, nothing. Nothing at all. Just board games. Three specific board games that are, in fact, good and COINCIDENTALLY are all featured on this episode of Talk Cardboard. What a treat! A threefer. A co-op boss battler that’s good, a solo deck-builder that’s good and, wait for it, a EUROGAME that is very good! It’s good games vibes only. Enjoy! If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded 0:00 Cold Open 2:00 Intro 3:17 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze 22:08 Witchcraft! 38:41 Revive

  • Age of Innovation, Raising Robots, Sidereal Confluence: Bifurcation

    05/02/2024 Duración: 01h17min

    A remake, a new take and an expansion walk into a bar. The barman says, “what’ll it be?” They all reply “something fresh.” Was that too mean? I think that was too mean, especially since at least (and also at most) two of the games discussed in this episode are pretty great. And one of them is okay. We revisit the classic Terra Mystica in it’s new more thematically demure incarnation, we explore how Raising Robots riffs on Wingspan and Efka finally gets to play the expansion to his favourite game of all time - Sidereal Confluence. Let me tell you folks - it’s been bifurcated. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded 0:00 Cold Open 2:48 Intro 3:43 Age of Innovation: A Terra Mystica Game 33:22 Raising Robots 53:23 Sidereal Confluence: Bifurcation

  • Dune: War for Arrakis, Daybreak, Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

    22/01/2024 Duración: 01h16min

    More and more board games are adopting eco themes! Whether it’s Daybreak and it’s simulation of climate change or Dune: War for Arrakis and Dune’s enviromental themes and… uh… one or two plastic miniatures or Ticket to Ride Legacy and… um… all the railroad constru…. You know what nevermind, welcome to board games! It’s board games everyone, aren’t they good? So good those board games. Are they good? It depends on which one it is. And thus enters the board game reviews. They’re here. Enjoy it. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 00:00 Cold Open 1:27 Intro 2:30 Audience Correspondence: Green Appreciation 6:08 Dune: War for Arrakis 38:26 Daybreak 59:07 Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

  • Dune: Imperium - Uprising, Most Anticipated 2024

    25/12/2023 Duración: 01h13min

    Can you believe it’s been a whole year of Talk Cardboard? Incredible! What’s a better way to celebrate the end of the year than by revisiting where we began? On the very first episode Efka talked about his most anticipated games for 2023, so today we’ll take a look at how those panned out and also take a peek at his most anticipated games for 2024. Plus we’ll talk about Dune: Imperium - Uprising, Efka’s game of the year and share some of Elaine’s impressions of it. Finally, we saved something a little special for the end of the episode, but you’ll have to listen to find out what that is. Thanks for sticking with us for a whole year! Here’s to another one. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 2:08 Audience Correspondence - Contentification (for the last time) 3:35 The Ones that Got Away 20:47 Dune: Imperium - Uprising 44:09 Most Anticipated 2023 Revisited 54:15 Most Anticipated 2024

  • Sail, Trolls and Princesses, Evacuation

    04/12/2023 Duración: 01h25min

    Winter months are here and a deep chill is setting over the world. A chill that can represent only one thing - Elaine and Efka’s disappointing week of board games. That’s right, it’s one of those episodes - where no one game is a standout and all of them feel like they’re missing just a little warmth. So grab a cup of hot cocoa and settle in for a grumpy cast of some grumpy cardboard talk. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 2:08 Audience Correspondence - Contentification (for the last time) 8:16 Sail 32:23 Thank you to Mark from So Very Wrong About Games https://www.sowronggames.com/ 37:46 Trolls and Princesses 55:45 Evacuation

  • Rob Daviau Talks Legacy, Empire's End, Ready Set Bet, Mind Space

    13/11/2023 Duración: 59min

    It’s a new episode of the Talk Cardboard podcast and I feel great! Rejuvenated even because today’s games are light, breezy, quirky and fun. And what’s a breezier topic than the collapse of an empire? Just the thought of that warmed something inside of me, like a cozy blanket gently touching the fireplace and setting aflame. If you too would like to partake in some famine, pestilence, war, etc. you might want to give Empire’s End a spin. And if that wasn’t cozy enough, how about some real time horse gambling? Honestly, all that cozyness put my brain in a twist. Thankfully, we’re also covering Mind Space. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 1:16 Audience Correspondence - Singapore 1819 3:33 Empire's End 13:17 Audience Recommendations 14:49 Ready Set Bet 26:06 Rob Daviau Talks Legacy Games 45:00 Mind Space 56:40 Audience Correspondence - All Time Favourites

  • Earthborne Rangers, Forest Shuffle, Planta Nubo, Sonny Liew and 1819: Singapore

    30/10/2023 Duración: 01h50min

    Every year in board games there’s a new fad. Legacy, polyominoes, roll and writes and trick takers. This year’s fad seems to be less genre based and more societally concious. Here at NPI every week we encounter more and more board games that reduce their use of wasteful material such as plastics. On this episode alone two of the three games discussed are 100% recyclable (if you ignore the stickers that hold the lid on the box). And the third one is themed around enviromental issues. How amazing is that? But on top of that, they’re really interesting games in their own right. Honestly, this feels like a celebration. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 1:43 Audience Correspondence - Contentification Part One 3:51 Earthborne Rangers 27:52 Audience Correspondence - Contentification Part Two 36:32 Forest Shuffle 59:10 Sonny Liew and the Two Board Games Called 1819: Singapore 1:25:31 Planta Nubo 1:42:06 Audi

  • The Best of Spiel Essen 2023

    16/10/2023 Duración: 01h23min

    What’s the biggest event of the year? That’s right, it’s the DFS Winter Mega Sale! But right after that comes Essen Spiel, or as it is now known: Spiel Essen. Every year, just under two hundred thousand board gamers flock to an industrial city in Germany to partake in a mass consumption event where over a thousand board game titles are released over the course of one weekend and this year we have played ALL OF THEM. Or at least tried to. We played twenty five, ate a kebab and fell asleep. But now, on this one and only episode of Talk Cardboard, we’ll rank them from worst to best and talk about each one a little bit. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 0:56 Intro Unranked Games: 3:13 Karvi 4:02 El Grande 5:30 Bruxelles 1893 7:30 Nana/Trio Ranked Games: 10:25 Here Comes The Dog 12:00 Stich für Stich 13:59 Sunrise Lane 16:32 Couture 20:19 Ninja Masters 23:19 Havalandi 27:55 Tangram City 32:30 Quick

  • Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall, Fit to Print, Vindication

    25/09/2023 Duración: 01h38min

    Tell me something, which other board game podcast episode can claim to contain the entire gamut of board games in one episode? Antropomorphic animals? Check. Weirdly themed euro? Check. Fantasy campaign game? Check. Real time? Check. Randomness? Check. Strategy, tactics, abstractification? Check check and check. In this episode we’ll take a long overdue look at Vindication, a game where you gather cubes to kill monsters, Fit to Print, a cutesy real time newspaper assembly simulator and Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall, a fantasy campaign game that signals the arrival of everyone’s most dreaded season - Campaignmass. Find the video we mention in the discussion on contentification right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMqtgN82fUY If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 2:48 Fit to Print 29:07 Audience Correspondence: Board Game Fan Fic Trivia 31:48 Vindication 46:51 A Discussion on Contentification 59:47 Kin

  • Kieron Gillen, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Schadenfreude, Freelancers

    11/09/2023 Duración: 01h39min

    Are games even real? According to Kieron Gillen, they certainly bleed into reality and reality bleeds into them. According to Great Western Trail, New Zealand isn’t even real. So who’s to say? On this episode of Talk Cardboard we review Schadenfreude, the little trick taking game that could, chat about the absurd comedy that is Freelancers, take an early peak at Great Western Trail: New Zealand and chat to Kieron Gillen about his comic book and role-playing game DIE. For more on DIE, here’s the links provided at the end of the interview in clickable form: Kieron’s Newsletter - https://buttondown.email/KieronGillen DIE RPG - https://diecomic.com/rpg/ Rowan, Rook and Decard - https://rowanrookanddecard.com/ If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 00:59 Intro and Audience Correspondence - Review copies 6:32 Schadenfreude 19:31 Freelancers: A Crossroads Game 37:07 Audience Correspondence - Dinged up Cards 39

  • Earth, Lacuna, Voidfall

    25/08/2023 Duración: 01h36min

    From Earth to Space to the abstract void in between, this episode has a little bit of everything, including a game that made Efka feel like he had to give a rating. That’s right, a bona fide numerical value asigned to the perceived quality of a game. What will they think of next? Verdicts? Comparisons? In the future, anything will be possible. On this episode of Talk Cardboard we review the many many card game Earth, the impossibly adorable abstract two player only game Lacuna and share our first impressions of the heaviest euro game of the year - Voidfall. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 0:00 Review Copies and NPI 6:13 Earth 25:20 Audience Correspondence - Game Wear and Tear 31:01 Lacuna 45:21 Audience Correspondence - Aeon’s End 52:16 Voidfall First Impressions

  • Sustainable Games with Andrew Navaro, Dorfromantik, Ancient Realm, Aeon's End: Legacy of Gravehold

    11/08/2023 Duración: 01h51min

    What if we don’t make games that last forever is the question Andrew Navaro, head of Earthborne Games is asking us. His answer is Earthborne Rangers, a game that will perish, but not before it lands on our doorsteps. On this episode of Talk Cardboard we interview Andrew about Earthborne Rangers and his vision for a more eco-responsible board game scene. We’ve also got reviews for Spiel des Jahres winner Dorfromantik: The Board game that’s all about a chill time laying tiles, Ancient Realms - a little game that fits in your pocket from the designer of Sprawlopolis and Aeon’s End: Legacy of Gravehold - big legacy campaign deckbuilder that’s more ambitious than it is impressive. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 5:16 Audience Correspondence: Obsession 13:59 Ancient Realm 28:02 Dorfromantik: The Board Game 39:53 Audience Correspondence: NPI Directed by 43:43 Sustainable Board Games with Andrew Navaro (In

  • Zoe Bee, Race to the Raft, Ra, Obsession

    28/07/2023 Duración: 01h41min

    It’s time to get schooled! Always wanted to say that and finally I have a good reason because today’s guest on the show is none other than Zoe Bee who’ll teach us about board games as educational tools. Oh but wait, there’s also board game reviews. A hot new release that asks us to save cats (again) - Race to the Raft, a hot old classic that’s got a shiny new coat - Ra, and a hot hidden gem that we finally got around to playing - Obsession. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 00:00 Cold Open 3:01 Audience Correspondence - NPI Geometry 8:28 Race to the Raft 31:08 Audience Correspondence - Hidden Movement 33:24 Ra 45:59 Board Game Education with Zoe Bee 1:12:47 Obsession: Pride, Intrigue, and Prejudice in Victorian England

  • Trailblazers, Isle of Trains: All Aboard, Beast

    14/07/2023 Duración: 01h30min

    Everybody always says, “Talk Cardboard is paving the way in board game podcasting!” and this episode it’s certainly true. We have biking, hiking, kayaking, train-ing, and hunting (along routes), which is the most path in any board game podcast ever. On today’s episode we’ll cover the cute but deadly Trailblazers, the old fashioned but sleek Isle of Trains and the gorgeous, voluptuous and strange Beast. If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 6:12 Audience Correspondence: Methods of Teaching Games 9:32 Trailblazers 29:53 Isle of Trains: All Aboard 47:11 Audience Correspondence: Imperial Onions 52:26 Beast 1:17:15 Elaine hates Hidden Movement games

  • Undaunted: Battle of Britain, Hamlet, Autobahn

    30/06/2023 Duración: 01h14min

    Sometimes you sit down to play some board games for a future podcast episode and you find yourself not particularly digging any of them? It happens. It’s a thing. It could happen to you. This week it happened to us. Whilst we weren’t especially jazzed about Hamlet, didn’t find Undaunted: Battle of Britain worth the trouble and at least one of us really didn’t get on with Autobahn, that doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t like them either. Or maybe you’ve already played them and disagree - dear listener, you should write in. If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 5:55 Audience Correspondence: Past Games 10:21 Undaunted: Battle of Britain 33:44 Hamlet 46:17 Audience Correspondence: How do you learn games? 51:07 Autobah

  • Next Station: London, Skymines, Maquis

    16/06/2023 Duración: 01h26min

    Welcome back, welcome back, it’s like we’ve never been gone. After a brief interruption Talk Cardboard returns to your ears and consequentially to your brains to deliver all the board game that it needs. Today’s brain ticklers include drawing a map of the London Underground in Next Station: London, a dose of helium 3 in Skymines and some good ol’ fashioned resisting in Maquis If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com On to the timestamps: 2:12 Audience Correspondence – Crispy Pancake Foods 10:37 Next Station: London 28:39 Skymines 58:36 Audience Correspondence - Board Game Canon 1:08:26 Maquis

  • Sadly, an Interruption

    02/06/2023 Duración: 02min

    Oh dear, oh dear, it looks like this week's episode is missing. We'll resume our schedule next week. Until then!

  • Distilled, Worldbreakers, Res Arcana

    19/05/2023 Duración: 01h32min

    Every Talk Cardboard episode is a journey, and in this episode that journey is competitive card games, competitive card games with engine building and destroying the engine with hard alcohol (not necessarily in that order). Today we’re taking a look at Distilled, an aspirational game about being a small time distillerer in a world of big alcohol, Wordlbreakers: Advent of the Khanate, a magic the gatheringalike card battler that’s punching very far above its weight and Res Arcana, a distillation (no pun intended) of Race for the Galaxy style card engine building with the world’s smolest deck. If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com On to the timestamps: 4:14 Audience Correspondence – Past Games 23:13 Res Arcana 42:25 Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate 1:03:05 Distilled You can find the study on game component rolling probabilities here https://boar

  • Adrian Tchaikovsky, Horseless Carriage, Rolling Heights, Ginkgopolis

    05/05/2023 Duración: 01h48min

    Building building building. If you like building (or buildings) you will enjoy at least one of the board games covered in this episode in which you build buildings, buildings and also cars. How's that for a build up? No? Let me construct some clarity. Today we'll talk about Ginkgopolis, a tile laying city building classic hidden gem, Rolling Heights, a city building game where you roll meeples and Horseless Carriage, a car constructing game from famed board game publisher Splotter Spellen. And finally, a real treat, an interview with famed speculative fiction author Adrian Tchaikovsky who reveals which modern board games he wrote into his novels. If you have personal experiences to share about any games discussed in this episode or any topic that's dear to your heart - we’d love to hear from you. Please write to: elaine@nopunincluded.com On to the timestamps: 2:49 Audience Correspondence – Past Games 18:04 Ginkgopolis 34:48 Rolling Heights 52:40 Interview – Adrian Tchaikovsky 1:08:09 This is the times

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