Episode #115: 2008 Preview
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2008
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Paul talks about politics in war games, and Geoff talks about the Past, Present, and Future of luck. Tom reviews the kid's game Baren Stark, while Sam discusses Soccer Tactics World. We debate the merits of Quick Count Football, and talk about recent games played - Ra, Commands and Colors, Hyper Slide, and Power Grid. Finally, Giles, Mark, Tom and Sam all discuss the upcoming year, and what they think will be great expansions and games coming out.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 115. |
| 0:03.2 | Our top 10 games we're looking forward to in 2008. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games, card games, and the people who play them. |
| 0:20.7 | In this episode, we'll be taking a look at the upcoming year 2008 and our most anticipated games. |
| 0:26.8 | This episode of the Dice Tower is sponsored by Your Move Games, makers of Battleground, Fantasy |
| 0:32.1 | Warfare, the miniature war game without miniatures. |
| 0:35.8 | To learn more about Your Move games or to take a flash demo of Battleground, please visit |
| 0:40.8 | www.orghumvgames.com. |
| 0:44.1 | And now, here are your hosts, International Men of Mystery, Tom Vassel, and Sam Healy. |
| 0:51.1 | All right, this is Tom Vassel. Welcome to the Dice Tower. |
| 0:53.8 | Hello, everyone. If this is your first time to the Dice Tower. Hello, everyone. |
| 0:55.0 | If this is your first time at the Dice Tower, we're a podcast that talks all about board and card games, basically stuff you can play on the tabletop that usually doesn't involve electronics. |
| 1:04.1 | And we are so mysterious. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, also, you can find our podcast archived at funagaingames.com. |
| 1:13.3 | Funagain is the largest online retailer of board games, and you can find many of the games that we talk about in our show at that site. |
| 1:20.9 | Great service, good prices, good delivery, and a gigantic selection of games. |
| 1:26.5 | All right, well, it's, you know, oddly enough, when vacation was here a couple weeks ago, the holidays |
| 1:35.4 | and other things got involved, and we played a decent amount of games. |
| 1:39.3 | But now that the vacation's over, it seems like we're playing more. |
| 1:42.8 | Does it feel that way to you? Yeah, a little bit. But I think it's just because we've had so many meetings with the soldiers lately that it just feels that way. I mean, we had something on Saturday with them, and I had something on Tuesday with them, and then we've been playing games in between that, too. So I guess that's just how it is. |
| 2:03.1 | Yeah, so there you go. |
| 2:06.0 | I mean, a lot of games we're playing and a lot of different things going on. And we're going to talk about some of the games that we played soon. |
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