Talk Cardboard

Toy Battle

Pew pew kaboom! That's the sound of every child's living nightmare - their toys coming to life and unleashing an arsenal of deadly weaponry in their bedroom. Many a sleepless night I've had in my youth with this vivid imagery - blood, guts, plastic viscera strewn across my chewbacca rug - which might I add, also comes alive and eats the other toys... anyway, turns out they made my nightmare into a board game and you can now play it.
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On to the time stamps:
0:00 Cold Open
Work In Progress
0:56 The Old King's Crown6:24 Ensemble12:19 Haggis
Audience Correspondence
16:14 Trick Taking
Main Feature
27:51 Toy Battle

Holiday Cast: Black Forest

Good news, we're still on holiday. Better news - we're still doing the holiday cast, which means more free podcast more delivered to more you. Moorish! You know what else is moorish? Trees! Just can't get enough of those suckers. And you know where trees live? That's right, in Germany. And you know what Germany has? Autobahns. But also forests.
Apropos of nothing, let's talk about a board game called Black Forest which is about a forest in Germany.
Once again, no timestamps because we're still on holiday and it's still just one game in the episode. You'll be fine.
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Holiday Cast: Moon Colony Bloodbath

Good news, we're on holiday. Better news, we're not leaving you without podcast. It's a smaller episode, yes, but it is Talk Cardboard delivered right to your door, for free! Mmmmm, free podcast, what could be more delicious? Oh, I know, human suffering! If you feel like what you need more in your life is a cardboard simulation of robots slaughtering endless amounts of flesh bags on the moon, Moon Colony Bloodbath has got you sorted.
 
Not doing timestamps cause we're on holiday. Also, it's just one game. You'll be fine.
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The Old King's Crown

Sharpen your papercuts because it's time to put cards face down in front of you and simultaneously flip them face up! The Old King's Crown is maybe the year's most exciting game and we've got an exciting early scoop!
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On to the time stamps:
0:00 Cold Open1:40 Intro
Work In Progress
2:08 Emberleaf11:19 Hot Streak22:00 Project L26:24 Survive the Island
Main Feature
31:06 The Old King's Crown

Eternal Decks

Efka opens our review of Eternal Decks with "This is the main candidate for Game of the Year 2025" and if you need a better endorsement to learn about a cool new board game, I can't think of one. And I'm Efka. This and more in this week's Talk Cardboard.
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On to the time stamps:
0:00 Cold Open1:30 Intro
Work In Progress
1:59 Barony: Royal Edition6:25 In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943 - 1944 (DNF)10:08 Emberleaf14:32 The Old King's Crown
Audience Correspondence: 
21:34 Blue Prince
Main Feature
28:46 Eternal Decks
 

Sunderfolk

You want me to do what now? Play a board game on the TV? Using my phone? Never!
*shakes fist at cloud*
*shakes more fist at cloud*
*picks up phone and starts playing*
Wait this thing is good! Like, real good. Okay, I guess today we're talking about a board game that's also a video game that's also a phone game. And you're going to listen and you're going to enjoy it.
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On to the timestamps:
00:00 Cold open
01:24 Intro
02:03 'Work In Progress"; Fruit Fight
03:50 Tenby
08:10 Deep Regrets
15:57 Correspondence
20:01 Sunderfolk

Rival Cities

Why duel with silly weapons when you can duel with whole cities? In Rival Cities, Hamburg and Altona go head to head to see who will be the city anyone's ever heard of. I think you probably know who pulled that off IRL. 
But if you'd rather fight with fruit or sausages, fear not because we have those for you too - in our Work in Progress.
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On to the timestamps:00:00 Cold open01:41 Intro05:18 Work in Progress06:05 Sausage Sizzle08:17 (Reiner Knizia's) Fruit Fight14:47 Corps of Discovery25:46 Correspondence27:16 Rival Cities

Ascending Empires: Zed-nith Edition

Get ready to flick your way to victory, or get the flick out of here because it's time to play Ascending Empires: Zenith Edition - a 4X game - but iiiin flicking spaaaaace! 
We also have the games we've been playing this week in our new segment: 'Work in Progress', where Elaine compares Eternal Decks to being back at school, and Efka tells us about under-salted negotiations in Moonrakers.
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Eternal Decks tutorials mentioned in the episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT1d_lHw4yM
On to the timestamps:
00:00 Cold open01:40 Intro02:10 'Work In Progress"; Eternal Decks08:09 Joyride11:52 Moonrakers16:01 Correspondence24:44 Ascending Empires: Zenith Edition