Episode #72: Top Ten Games from Essen 2006
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2006
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
And from Germany and Korea, another episode of the Dice Tower!
Not so much regular news this week, but we continue our contest for Quest for the Dragonlords. I review Take Stock, and we discuss our Hot Games of the Month. We answer some questions, but the main part of our show is a special report from Rick Thornquist and Moritz Eggert - along with their top ten games from Essen 2006. We have the show available in .mp3 format, which you can download below by right clicking the link below, and selecting "save link as".
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| 0:00.0 | The Top 10 Games from Essen It's the Dice Tower helping gamers out across the world. The Dice Tower is your online home for fun and informative discussion of Euro games, |
| 0:24.4 | war games, card games, and miniatures. |
| 0:26.6 | Featuring the latest industry news, in-depth product reviews, contests with amazing prizes, |
| 0:31.5 | and of course a new top 10 list every week with contributions |
| 0:34.8 | from Rick Thornquist more at Seger Jason White and a variety of other well-known |
| 0:38.6 | gamers and now here's your hosts the man who just wants to play games Sam Healy and the man who puts the |
| 0:44.4 | views and game reviews Tom Vassal. Well hello Tom Vassal speaking and we're |
| 0:49.9 | glad to have you today. |
| 0:51.0 | Haiti hope. |
| 0:53.0 | And there's a big week for gaming. |
| 0:55.0 | It's the week directly after Essen. |
| 0:57.0 | And Essen, for those you don't know, is the city where the Spio or the largest board |
| 1:01.7 | gaming fair in the world is held. |
| 1:04.0 | They have, I think, there was almost 300 new games introduced at this fair. |
| 1:10.0 | 151,000 people, I think, showed up to it, and of those 151,000 people, Sam and Tom were not two of them. |
| 1:20.0 | But, Rick, Thornquist, and Mords-Eggert were, and so they have their top 10 games from Essen, |
| 1:26.8 | and we'll get to that later in the show, so we won't be doing their normal clips. |
| 1:31.5 | Also, people have been asking where Jason White is and he normally records a clip for a show, but he was |
| 1:37.2 | injured for a while and so he's doing fine per my last email with him, but he'll be back shortly so like to thank you for those |
| 1:46.7 | who were thinking of him and yes we know we need more war games and he'll be here |
| 1:50.4 | to give us his war gaming. We like to thank Boardgame |
| 1:53.8 | news dot com which is the best source for board gaming news on the internet |
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