Episode #3: Top Ten Games by Component Quality
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2007
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, originally aired May 24, 2005, Tom Vasel and Joe Steadman talk about games they are playing, and review both Lineage II and Sergeants on the Eastern Front. Tom rants, Joe talks about the soldier of the week, and both come up with a variety of wacky Catan variants. They discuss Games Workshop's pricing, answer a lot of questions, and end the show with their top ten games - component quality.
This show was sponsored by Days of Wonder.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, Episode 3,. This is part of our classic series in which we look back at older |
| 0:24.0 | episodes of the dice tower with better sound quality and comments. We'd like to |
| 0:28.5 | thank Days of Wonder for sponsoring this episode of the Dice Tower |
| 0:31.7 | podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | Days of Wonder has brought us all some of our favorite board games such as Ticket to Ride, |
| 0:37.4 | Battle lore, Memoir 44, Shadows Over Camelot, and Pirates Cove. |
| 0:42.1 | To learn more about any of their excellent games, visit them at |
| 0:44.8 | W All right folks welcome to episode number three as I said in the intro this was originally |
| 0:56.8 | aired May 18 2005 and wow as I listened to this show it's just amazing how far we've come. |
| 1:04.8 | My wife says I sound boring, and I do sound boring to myself, but you know I probably |
| 1:09.7 | sound boring even now. |
| 1:10.9 | But I have learned a little bit over the years and that is to be more |
| 1:14.9 | expressive when when talking into the microphone and you have to learn just to |
| 1:19.6 | talk as if I'm talking to people straight in front of me. |
| 1:23.0 | As you can tell, we still, what we've done in this episode is we're still recording |
| 1:26.8 | at our church when we record this in our church, it's right outside a train, a major train line, and so in the very beginning episode you'll |
| 1:35.0 | hear a train go by. We still didn't know how to pause recording at this point in time so Joe falls |
| 1:40.1 | out of the chair in one point and the microphone lines get all tied up and we still didn't |
| 1:46.0 | know how to stop it so we just kept moving along and see what happens. |
| 1:50.5 | This show also marks the first letter from Walt O'Hara, who became quite a staple of these |
| 1:57.8 | early episodes. |
| 1:58.8 | Haven't heard so much from them lately, but back then, once he started in episode three we started here for a lot then |
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