Mile High Game Guys: Boardgaming Podcast

 In this week's episode, Zach immediately zones out as Jeff and Adrian discuss Civ 6 and snowboarding, two things he couldn't care less about. He is awakened when the off topic discussion shifts to Red Dead Redemption following the release of the new trailer. Eventually the 3 hosts manage to end up discussing boardgames as they recap the last week of gaming before launching headlong into news and kickstarter discussions. Building on the already solid foundation laid up until this point, the three of them take to reviewing the city building game Quadropolis before working their way into a discussion of pacing in boardgames. The show wraps up as Zach and Adrian recount meeting a fan and then Jeff's true identity is revealed in an email. As always, thanks for listening and ENJOY!!! 00:00:20 Bantering Banter 00:21:31 News and Kickstarter Roundabout Roundup   00:21:35 Bears Vs Babies   00:23:39 Mansions of Madness expansion - Beyond the Threshold   00:27:21 Matt Leacock's Chariot Race   00:28:52 Deep Madness  

Terraforming Mars and the Kickstarter Effect Opening up the episode, our hosts mention a couple of newly played and finished games, Joking Hazard and Pandemic Legacy Season 1, and Jeff shows his excitement for his upcoming Blood Bowl season. Some interesting news from Essen is talked about, including Pandemic and Ludicreation’s Steal this Game!. Jeff starts our Terraforming Mars review with a rule overview and then they dive into the components, gameplay, and “required” variants.The hosts then move onto our discussion topic, Kickstarter. When did we start using it? Do we still use it? Is it good for the industry? What about kickstarter exclusives? These questions and more lurk within. Finally, we announce the winner of our Giveaway! As always thanks for listening and enjoy!!   00:00:20 - Banter Begin! 00:12:50 - News and Kickstarters!    00:13:51 Pandemic: Legacy Season 2 00:18:33 Feast for Odin 00:19:21 Pandemic: Iberia 00:21:31 Steal This Game Kickstarter 00:23:43 MHGG Review: Terraforming Mars! 00:24:3

The Networks and the Bitter Rivals: Luck and Skill    The hosts unload a vast treasure of new played games into the opening banter, including Terraforming Mars, Quadropolis, and Twilight Struggle. Then, instead of a regular news and Kickstarter, they discuss Essen Spiel 2016 and some of the games they are looking forward to the most, lack of info be damned. In the review section, they discuss another Essen release, The Networks, and how great it is the run your own TV Network. The discussion of the day is Luck vs Skill. What is better? Can games be fun without a combination of both? Which is more important? These questions and more are answered to the best of our (limited) ability.The episode closes out with a reminder of our first ever Giveaway.   00:00:20 Banter!   Handegg! Weekend gaming! Lots and lots of games! Networks, Quadropolis, Terraforming Mars, Imperial Settlers, Twilight Struggle, The Others: 7 Sins, and Pandemic: Legacy 00:25:58 Essen Preview!   00:27:03 - Zach's picks: Raise Your Goblets a

Scythe and the Beauty of Great Components The hosts open the episode with the newly patented Banter section where they recap some newly played and acquired games. The News and Kickstarter section this week features a new Eldritch Horror expansion and a 2nd version of Dominion along with a couple interesting kickstarters; Pathogenesis and Druids. Zach then gives you another Rule Breakdown for this week’s Game Review: Scythe. As we Move from rules to game discussion, we each Produce our initial feelings of Scythe, we Trade some insights into different player counts, before Bolstering our Final Thoughts, which includes Jeff’s opinion on the solo version. The discussion topic today is all about components, including art, graphic design, and game pieces/minis. Lastly the guys announce our first ever Giveaway! As always, thanks for listening and ENJOY!!!     00:00:00 Banter! Featuring Oregon Trail the Board Game, More Captain Sonar, Oceanos, and Red Dragon Inn. 00:14:58 News and Kickstarters!   00:15:02 New Eldri

 The Jury is Still out on Editions Our Hosts, trying out the new “established” format, execute the prescribed Off-Topic Intro Banter, before entertaining themselves with some recently played games. They bring a couple news items to light, like Scythe’s Return policy, as well as mention a few Kickstarters that could be interesting. Moving into the Game of the Week, Zach gives us a Rules Breakdown of Mansions of Madness 2nd edition and then the group follows up with many, many opinions, including comparisons to first edition and the price point . The review smoothly transitions into our topic of the week, Game editions. Whether it's a rule shake-up, component upgrade, or money grab, we discuss what we look for in new editions. A listener email closes out the show. Enjoy!   00:01:00 - 00:21:39  Banter! Featuring beer, Jeff not knowing famous people, Captain Sonar, Scythe, Risk and Pandemic Legacy, Pillars of Eternity, Le Havre, and soap operas! Hooray! 00:21:15 News! Massive Darkness pledge manager goes live, Ha

  As the episode numbers climb further into double digits the guys decide to change up the show format one more time. Back is a looser banter section where they talk about what fun things they've been up to and briefly chat about a few games they've played recently. From there your intrepid hosts set out on a new quest: To provide a more specific game review section!   The target of this weeks quest is the team vs team game of submarine warfare: Captain Sonar! To start this new section, Zach runs through a loose description of the rules, then all 3 hosts chat about their experiences playing the game, and finally they all give their final verdict!   Following the shiny new review section comes a welcome bit of familiarity with a Kickstarter Round-Up and Industry News section featuring Thornwatch and Mechs vs Minions.   And last, but in no way least, is the discussion of the day where the hosts follow up on last weeks episode about gamenights by discussing what they look for in a "gamenight game"   Thanks for l

   Fresh off a post-Top 10 high, the hosts catch back up on what they've been able to get to the table. Jeff starts by leading an expedition into Caverna then taking a toss at Roll for the Galaxy. Zach tries to steal the show with Thieves Market but is soon distracted when Adrian lights the room with Lanterns.   With pleasantries out of the way, it's time for Jeff to mourn the split between Games Workshop- Fantasy Flight only to be comforted with news of a revamped version of Robinson Crusoe. New Kickstarter game Endangereds Orphans leads to a revelation for Jeff while Adrian and Zach double up on backing Unfair. Jeff and Zach also throw money at the Expansion for Tiny Epic Galaxies along with the entire known world.   Actual fan mail leads perfectly into this week's discussion topic where Jeff and Zach help Adrian share what little knowledge he has about organizing a large-scale gaming group in order to help you Organize a Game Night! Thanks for listening and enjoy! Banter and Recently Played 02:15 - Jeff

This episode is chock full of spoilers for the first 6 months Pandemic Legacy, as such we won't be doing time stamps/ a detailed episode description. We highly recommend listening only if you have completed Pandemic Legacy through June or if you don't particularly care about spoilers for this game.     If you listen just be fully aware of spoilers throughout the episode and enjoy!

  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

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 0

 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

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

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, B

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!

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 (08:5

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.    

Our hosts, joined by special guest Ant, try to chat about recently played games only to be constantly distracted by countless diatribes, causing the intro section to last more than half the episode. They finally pull themselves together to talk about some problems that can show up in gaming, including Analysis Paralysis, King making, and Enjoying a Game while Losing. 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 or collectively at Emails@milehighgameguys.com, you can find us on twitter @MHgameguys or on FB at facebook.com/milehighgameguys!   Episode Breakdown: Ant intro (00:54) Game of Thrones the boardgame (02:30) Blood Bowl (05:27) King of Tokyo/NY (08:05) Bang! Card and Dice Game (10:05) Rick & Morty Total Rickall (11:35) Hand & Foot (15:40) Masquerade (20:45) Spyfall (22:10) 7 Wonders Duel (25:30) 3 Dragon Ante (28:39) Hanabi (35:30) Star Wars R

   In this episode we start off talking a bit about what we've been playing recently, a topic filled with cutting edge games like Catan, Love Letter, Cribbage, and Euchre. Then we get on into the meat of the episode: Purchasing games! We discuss our preferences for where to acquire new games while debating the benefits of both online ordering and supporting your local game store. After we've established where we buy our games we move on into a chat about researching (or not) before purchasing a new game. This derails briefly into a discussion of our experiences with Munchkin and Marvel Dice Masters which in turn lead right into our debate about when we feel like a game is "worth it". To finish this segment we discuss purchasing and subsequently adding expansions to our games or, in the case of a few expansions, just letting them sit on a shelf and look pretty. 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 indivi

In this episode we mention the actual name of our podcast, discuss the many games we've played recently, delve into a brief movie review that is tangentially related to boardgames, and discuss the recent moneymaker that is Hero Realms. Come join us for another episode of boardgaming awesomeness!!!   Games discussed include: T.I.M.E. Stories (00:03:05) Patchwork (00:05:50)(00:18:50) Grizzled (7:25) Race for the Galaxy (00:13:15) Warcraft the movie (00:15:00) Brewing USA (00:21:15) Portal: The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game (00:26:30) Through the Desert (00:29:45) Star Wars Rebellion (00:32:00) Hero Realms (00:38:45) Epic (00:41:00) Massive Darkness (00:43:45)