Episode #103: Best Wargames & Twilight Struggle
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2007
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Mary gives the news while Greg tells us his opinions of the Spiel des Jahres nominations. We review Wings of War, and Tom rants about tie breakers and tells why he loves games. Paul gives us the best wargames of 2006, while Moritz continues his top ten commandments for game designers. Sam gives his top ten games from 2006, and we end the show with an interview with Jason Matthews - codesigner of Twilight Struggle.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 103. |
| 0:15.0 | featuring Mary Prasad, Greg Schlosser, Mike Hibbert, and Moritz Eggard. |
| 0:22.0 | The Dice Tower is brought to you biweekly, presenting a show |
| 0:24.8 | all about board and card games. Today's show features Jason Matthew, co-designer of Twilight |
| 0:30.4 | Struggle, and the top 10 games from 2006. |
| 0:34.0 | And now here are your hosts, world famous Shark Tamer's |
| 0:38.0 | Tom Vassal and Sam Healy. |
| 0:40.0 | You know, we actually could be Shark Tamer soon enough if this rain keeps up outside |
| 0:45.0 | We're in the middle of the monsoon season here and it is just raining and raining |
| 0:51.7 | It's not only raining cats and dogs. It's raining cat houses and dog houses too |
| 0:57.0 | Now we're going on a Sam scheduled a white water rafting trip this coming Saturday |
| 1:02.0 | If it stops raining which we hope it will so that we can go on the trip I'm still |
| 1:06.7 | curious what it's going to be like will there be floodwaters coming down the |
| 1:09.4 | yeah that that will we it is supposed to be a white water rafting trip so maybe it's you know just |
| 1:15.2 | setting us up for the real thing but uh... this is actually the second week we've |
| 1:20.0 | tried to go do this we tried to do this last week last week and the rain kind of rained us out there |
| 1:24.8 | because it was going to be too dangerous for us to go. So we're hoping that this Saturday |
| 1:30.1 | it'll be all good. We're also one week away from the first day of school which is a good |
| 1:35.4 | and bad thing. Bad because it will make us busier but good because our kids are going to school. |
| 1:40.6 | Yay! So at least three of mine are going to school now. |
| 1:46.0 | And in less than a month, September 3rd, my fifth child, another girl, should be born on Labor Day which is ironic I suppose |
| 1:57.0 | anyway. |
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