Talk Cardboard

Undaunted: Battle of Britain, Hamlet, Autobahn

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.
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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 Autobahn

Next Station: London, Skymines, Maquis

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

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

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://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/12119/components-dice-tossing-meeples-houses

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Horseless Carriage, Rolling Heights, Ginkgopolis

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 timestamp to avoid the spoilery question (it will make sense when you listen)
1:15:53 Horseless Carriage

Carnegie, Whaler Riders, Wir Sind Das Volk!

Has it been two weeks already? Time flies when you’re reviewing board games. Or when you’re riding whales for that matter. In real life and also in the game! Does it fly when you’re under Soviet occupation or working for Mr. Carnegie? Who’s to say, but we can at least tell you whether the games based on these events and/or entities are any good and/or bad.
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:
8:57 Wir Sind Das Volk!
30:17 Whale Riders
40:38 Audience Correspondence: Fueling Consumerism
1:01:12 Carnegie

Paul Dean, Wind the Film!, That Time you Killed me, Koi Koi

There are many famous Paul Deans in the world, but today we’re only interviewing one of them. Maybe one day we’ll get a chance to talk to some of the others, but honestly, why bother, we already got the best one. We got a chance to talk to Paul about what it’s like having left the board game industry and how he feels about board games right now.
This is far from the end though. Brace yourselves because you are entering the land of numbers, voxels and vertices and you can only emerge by listening to us review three abstract board games (which may or may not be card games).
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
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On to the timestamps:
5:53 Audience correspondence - GWT: Argentina, Aeon Trespass Publisher Write-in, Colour Vision Difference
16:06 Wind the Film! (Photograph)
31:11 That Time You Killed Me
44:16 Intereview Guest: Paul Dean
1:19:56 Koi Koi
1:43:48 Audience correspondence - Torturing Efka

Aeon Trespass: Odyssey, GWT: Argentina, Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game, Yokai Septet

This episode is jam packed with exciting board games and has a reference to clotted cream - that's right - it's the scone episode! A tasty delicious dessert for your ears full of rich indulgent cardboard. What's especially exciting is that we've got a little bit of everything for everyone - from very light to very heavy, all pretty great in their own ways so if you're looking to enrich your collection - this week is definitely full of good recs. Enjoy!
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:
4:00 Audience correspondence - Historical Wargames and MILDA MATILDA
13:02 Yokai Septet
23:23 Audience correspondence - Rulebooks
30:10 Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game
44:58 Great Western Trail: Argentina
1:04:12 Aeon Trespass: Odyssey (first impressions)