Episode 68: Heavy Games: When the Juice is Worth the Squeeze, with Edward from Heavy Cardboard

The BoardGameGeek Podcast

Edward from Heavy Cardboard joins Candice to discuss the appeal of heavy board games, the ones they've been diggin, and the ones where the juice is worth the squeeze.

• 00:00:00 Introduction
• 00:15:38 Fresh Plays
  • 00:16:35 Ayar: Children of the Sun
  • 00:25:38 Cosmic Frog
  • 00:31:54 Speakeasy
  • 00:40:23 Dungeon Degenerates
• 00:54:25 Heavy Games: When the Juice is Worth the Squeeze
  • 00:56:15 The Heaviness in Board Games
  • 01:16:59 Age of Steam
  • 01:22:22 Leaving Earth
  • 01:26:20 Crystal Palace
  • 01:30:52 Black Rose Wars: Rebirth + Age of Innovation
  • 01:34:04 Stress Botics: Odyssey
  • 01:40:25 Feudum
  • 01:42:53 Edward's List of Games Worth the Squeeze (Stress Botics Odyssey, Age of Steam, Antiquity, Pax Transhumanity, Reef Encounter, Weimar: The Fight for Democracy, Tales of the Northlands: The Sagas of Noggin the Nog, Mr. President, Die Macher, John Company, Dilluvia Project, The Colonists, For-Ex, Sekigahara)
  • 01:46:24 Candice's List of Games Worth the Squeeze (Feudum, Too Many Bones, Spirit Island, Mage Knight, COIN & ICS series, War of the Ring: Second Edition, TI4, Cerebria, Here I Stand, Fields of Fire)
• 01:51:08 D-Day at Omaha Beach
• 01:55:38 Sign-off

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