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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

Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game

Have you ever wanted to be a poorly paid miner? What about on an Alien Planet? Whilst being bothered by swarms of beasties? If you answered yes, yes, and yes, then get your drills and ziplines ready for our deep dive into  Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game, 
If you answered no, then luckily we also have a whole host of other games we're talking about in our new segment "Work in Progress", where we give a quick look to the games we've been playing this week. 
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Onto the timestamps:
00:00 Cold open01:14 Intro & "Work In Progress" brief01:34 Nokosu Dice03:25 Eternal Decks07:36 Elden Ring: The Board Game11:34 Flow17:20 Dune: Imperium - Bloodlines22:43 Correspondence23:12 Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game

We're back! Here's how it's going to be.

Talk Cardboard returns tomorrow! Meanwhile, enjoy a mini psa on the format change and why the hiatus happened.

Thunder Road: Vendetta, Saltfjord, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan

Get your engines warmed up, your fishing rod at the ready, and your knee-pads on as we delve into a crash, bash racing game in Thunder Road: Vendetta, freeze our fingers building a village in Saltfjord, and co-operatively fight for the freedom of Kaan in Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan.
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On to the time stamps:
00:00 Cold open02:31 Intro03:39 Correspondance regarding board game libraries04:56 Thunder Road Vendetta22:24 Correspondance regarding learning games25:23 Saltfjord44:52 Correspondence regarding games made of chocolate49:40 Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan1:22:49 Outro

All the Games We Played at Essen Spiel RANKED

One thousand five hundred plus games released over four days is a HOT WEEKEND in board games and the Elaines and Efkas of this world were in attendance. Did we play all 1500 games? No. Did we play the hot ones? Yes. Did we play the weird ones? Yes. Did we play the good ones? Oh my yes yes yes. So grab a warm beverage, plonk yourself into a comfy chair and write off the next hour and a half because we bring you informed coverage of all the games that we played and what you should be on the lookout for in the next three months of board games. What a time to be alive.
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On to the timestamps:
0:00 Cold Open1:40 Intro4:15 15 - Milkuro6:44 14 - Rock Rubber Scissors8:58 13 - Potato Tomato11:18 12 - Bomb Busters17:45 11 - Overparked21:09 10 - Big Two26:17 9 - Bottle Imp30:50 8 - Civolution41:33 7 - Altay: Dawn of Civilization49:56 6 - Seas of Strife53:36 Joint 5,4,3 - ???1:01:29 Joint 5,4,3 - ???1:06:14 Joint 5,4,3 - ???1:18:55 2 - ???1:24:32 1 - ???

Kronologic, Nucleum (+Australia), Cities

Folks, folks and folks, please come join us for a marvelous carboard celebration through time, energy and cities. Gaze your eyes to Paris in 1920 and marvel at the deductive action of Kronologic. Now turn those eyeballs further east towards Germany and amaze yourself with the fantabulous power of Nucleum and finally, fly up and up and up and then look down for a birds eye view of cities in Cities. It’s a show like no other and that show is called Talk Cardboard. For more NPI please visit https://nopunincluded.com If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 0:00 Cold Open 2:48 Intro 3:42 Audience Correspondence: Convention Demo Learning 8:45 Kronologic: Paris 1920 19:52 Audience Correspondence: Board games in libraries 25:29 Nucleum + Nucleum: Australia 1:09:31 Audience Correspondence: Wilmot's Warehouse 1:13:26 Cities 1:25:40 Outro

Joyride, Invincible, Wilmot’s Warehouse

Vroom vroom it’s time to kaboom! Or something along those lines because today’s feature game is all about smashing cars into other cars. It feels like we’ve seen this type of game over and over through time, from Rock’n’Roll Racing to Mario Kart to Twisted Metal to Carmaggedon - the world is full of games that let you cause car accidents on purpose. But let me tell you, it’s never been done like that in cardboard. Joyride is a delight! And there’s other games too! We take a look at the somewhat bland and reliable Invincible: The Hero-Building Game and the charming Wilmot’s Warehouse in its new board game incarnation. If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on patreon.com/nopunincluded On to the timestamps: 0:00 Cold Open 0:39 Intro 1:44 Audience Correspondence: Qualia 5:29 Joyride: Survival of the Fastest 30:58 Audience Correspondence: Standardized Size 34:29 Invincible: The Hero-Building Game 53:19 Audience Correspondence: More Haggis Letters 55:29 Wilmot's Warehouse

Harvest, War Story: Occupied France, Dorfromantik: The Duel

Cute, but deadly! We used to dance under that name but you could also use those three words to describe today’s selection of games.
Harvest is a farming worker placement game so cloyingly sweet you could squeeze condensed milk out of it. Is it good? Jury’s still out.
War Stories: Occupied France is the unlikely combination of Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective and Undaunted - how does that even work? We’ve got the scoop.
And finally… Dorfromantik: The Duel. Last year’s adaptation of Dorfromantik to board game form was low key our favourite light tile layer. But now naturally come the spin-offs and we’ve got some takes.
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On to the timestamps:
0:00 Go Listen to So Very Wrong About Games
1:34 Cold Open
3:35 Intro
4:30 Audience Correspondence - Horror Games
12:25 Harvest
28:30 Audience Correspondence - Haggis
30:44 War Story: Occupied France
48:40 Audience Correspondence - More Haggis
51:26 Dorfromantik: The Duel
1:00:24 Outro