Episode #125: Top 10 Games From 2007

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2008

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss Aquaretto and Times Up: Title Recall. Stephen talks about his latest finds at the thrift store, Moritz discusses Cloak and Dagger, Mark reviews Warriors of God, and Geoff talks about "group think". We review our top ten games from 2007, discuss some news items, and talk about the necessity of English versions of games.

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0:00.0	The Dice Tower, episode 125.
0:03.7	Our top 10 games from 2007.
0:14.5	Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games, card games, and the people who play them.
0:20.6	In this episode, we'll be discussing our top 10 games from 2007.
0:25.0	This episode of the Dice Tower is sponsored by Your Move Games, makers of Battleground, fantasy
0:29.8	warfare, the miniature war game without miniatures.
0:33.1	To learn more about Your Move Games or to take a flash demo of Battleground, please visit www.
0:38.3	www.yourmovgames.com.
0:40.3	And now, here are your hosts, the stars of Match Game 78, Tom Vassel, and Sam Healy.
0:47.3	All right, well, welcome to the Dice Tower.
0:50.3	I don't even know what Match Game 78 is.
0:52.3	Maybe it has something to do at curling. No. I do. Well, anyway, well, the mics are hot tonight. Here we are. We're on fire. Too hot. Yeah, well, what do you expect from the middle of July? Well, we like to welcome everybody here to the show. This is a Dice Tower. If this is your first time with us, we're a show that talks all about board games and card games.
1:15.2	And we have a lot of good stuff for you today.
1:17.0	But today, I think we'll start off with one of our popular contributors.
1:22.2	Jeff, and he's going to talk about something that happens in many gaming groups, and that's Group Think.
1:28.1	My current favorite game is Through the Ages by Checkboard Games, currently published by Fun Again.
1:33.5	It's a multifaceted game simulating the development of civilizations from the Stone Age to Modern
1:38.3	Times. I enjoy reading the discussions about the game on board game geek, especially people
1:42.6	talking about winning strategies seemingly without ever coming to any kind of consensus.
1:47.6	Some people love lots of farms, some like military, other libraries.
1:51.7	Some say that whoever gets Michelangelo will win, others swear by Leonardo, or Da Vinci, or Napoleon.
1:57.3	Interestingly, when people post about these topics, it's invariably couched with a phrase in my group. Everyone thinks that X, X, X, X, X, X, is the way to go. Or they described the last three games they played and why one strategy was dominant. I've played the game dozens of times now, and I don't think I'm any closer to figuring out what the, quote, best strategy is, unquote. If you want my strategy tips, I'd be happy to discuss it on the forums, but I bring this up,
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