Episode #85: Top Ten Catan Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2007
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sam and his wife continue their challenge with Dynasties by Jolly Roger Games, and Moritz talks about an enormous game collection. Mary gives the news and reviews Notre Dame. Tom muses about the differences between Eurogames and American games, and we answer a question about Shadows over Camelot. We also compare Settlers of Catan to Starfarers of Catan, and give the top ten list of Catan games. Also, we finish up our contest, and start a new contest for a custom dice tower from www.vixentorgames.com!
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, Episode 85. |
| 0:02.6 | Our top 10 Settlers games. |
| 0:16.0 | It's the Dice Tower, helping gamers out across the world. |
| 0:19.9 | The Dice Tower is your online home for fun and informative discussion of board games, |
| 0:24.6 | war games, and card games, featuring the latest industry news, in-depth product reviews, interviews, |
| 0:30.8 | contests with amazing prizes, and of course a new top 10 list every week, |
| 0:35.4 | with contributions from Moritz-Egger, Jason White, and a variety of other well-known gamers. |
| 0:40.7 | And now, here are your hosts, the man who just likes to play games, Sam Healy, and the man who puts the views in game reviews, Tom Bassel. |
| 0:49.0 | All right, folks, this is Tom Bassel. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:51.6 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:52.7 | And I think that the new microphone setup and everything that we had was causing a lot of rather bad audio last week. I apologize about that. So we're going back to what we know works, and we'll just keep tweaking the other thing until we get it to where we need to be. But however, if you go to our website at www. |
| 1:11.5 | the dicedower.com, you will be able to hopefully, by at least this weekend, download an enhanced version of this week's podcast, and that will include chapter breaks and pictures. |
| 1:23.6 | Now, this is all in the test stage. |
| 1:25.9 | So that means two things. |
| 1:27.1 | One, forgive us for any errors that may be in it. |
| 1:30.7 | Two, I'm not putting it on the RSS feeds. |
| 1:32.9 | You have to actually go to our website and manually download it. |
| 1:36.3 | And three, if you don't do it, I'm going to assume that no one wants it done. |
| 1:40.7 | And since it's a lot of work, I'm not going to do it anymore. |
| 1:43.3 | And four, it's going to be done with a max, so expect mistakes. |
| 1:48.2 | Well, I don't know. |
| 1:50.3 | Well, we just got back from a three-game session where we played the new struggle for Rome, |
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