Episode #8: Top 10 Gateway Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2007
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Originally posted July 11, 2005 - this episode of the Dice Tower has us reviewing Granny Apples and Sword of Rome. We talk about our turkeys and kangaroo games, discuss some thoughts about the complexity of war games, and mention the Meeples Choice Awards. We have the worst session report of all time flanked with our top ten Gateway games, and asnwer a pile of questions along the way.
This show was sponsored by TenkiGames.
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| 0:00.0 | Board and card games and the people who play them. |
| 0:02.8 | Today's episode, Number 8, is part of our Classic series and was originally aired July 5, 2005. |
| 0:09.6 | This week's episode of the Dice Tower is brought to you by Tenkey Games, publisher of Chang Chang, the first game in which you really build the Great Wall of China. |
| 0:18.0 | To discover all the features of Chang Chang, go to W.W. |
| 0:22.0 | Tengue Games. |
| 0:24.0 | And now, here's your host, Tom Vassal. |
| 0:27.0 | Well, hello everyone. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to episode 8 of the Dice Tower. |
| 0:31.0 | Now, this was one of our pre-record episodes. I don't really like doing these because you're not out to date maybe with the necessarily hot news or anything that's going on in that regard, but it kind of worked. This episode has, you'll have to listen for it I guess, has our |
| 0:46.2 | most requested, never do that segment again where we do our session report with bang. |
| 0:55.0 | And okay, looking back, I can see that maybe we probably shouldn't have ever done that in the first place. |
| 1:01.0 | But it was an idea I had and not every idea works out as well as we |
| 1:04.9 | like it to. So anyway, without any more blabbering for me, here we are, episode 8. I like that part of the song better. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, welcome to the dice tower, this is Tom Vassil. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Joe Stepping and I thought we're getting rid of that song. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, we're going to get rid of it in two episodes. |
| 1:25.0 | When we come back in August. |
| 1:27.0 | All right. |
| 1:28.0 | Just so you know, this is, this should be airing somewhere around July 6th, but we're actually recording this on June 6th. |
| 1:37.6 | This is episode 8 of the Dice Tower and because Joe decided to skip town and go to America all summer. We're recording all our |
| 1:43.8 | episodes early. So we have questions that we split between our last two |
| 1:48.6 | episodes. So if you've asked a question and you're wondering why have they not |
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