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The Dice Tower

Episode #86: Light Wargames & Top Ten Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2007

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sam and Dulcy try out St. Petersburg, and Jason talks about "Pop" wargames. Moritz talks about wargaming online, and answers a question about the origins of Eurogames in Germany. Mary gives us the news, along with a review of Struggle for Rome; and we continue our contest for a custom designed Dice Tower. Finally, Eric Summerer gives us his top ten games.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Dice Tower, Episode 86.

0:02.6

Eric's top 10 games. It's the Dice Tower helping gamers out across the world.

0:19.0

The Dice Tower is your online home for fun and informative discussion of board games, war games and card games

0:25.4

featuring the latest industry news, in-depth product reviews, interviews, contests with

0:30.5

amazing prizes, and of course a new top 10 list every week. tests with

0:34.0

contributions from more and zager

0:36.0

Jason White and a variety of other well-known gamers

0:39.0

and now here are your hosts

0:41.0

the man who just likes to play games, Sam Healy, and the man who puts the views and game reviews, Tom Bassle.

0:48.0

All right, folks, is Tom Bassle, welcome to the show.

0:51.0

Hello everyone.

0:52.0

86 is a big number, but it's been a big week or I guess that's because February has started

0:57.1

and it is cold, cold outside.

1:00.8

Entirely too cold. Well when it's cold you can stay inside and do more things inside like play

1:05.9

games and that's what we're talking about here today folks about board games. In fact I got a new game in the mail today.

1:14.2

It's from a Gigantoscop from Sweden.

1:18.7

And they had their previous games, one of them was, what was it called?

1:24.2

Basically, it was about Russian roulette.

1:26.2

Well, this one looks completely different.

1:28.0

It's called Forceball.

1:30.0

And it comes with a large action-sized manga figure I call him asparagus head

1:35.1

yeah because he looks like he has asparagus growing out of the top of his head

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