Episode #95: Top Games from the Gathering of Friends

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2007

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

On a biweekly schedule now, the Dice Tower is bigger and better! Moritz and Jason both give their points of view on their Wilderness War match, and Moritz gives us some strange game news from Germany. Sam reviews Ghoulash, Tom talks about Tenseseconds, and we answer a few listener questions. Mary interviews a few gaming personalities at the Gathering of Friends, and both she and Greg give their top game lists from the Gathering of Friends. Finally, Sam and I both compare and contrast Tide of Iron and Combat Commander: Europe.

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0:00.0	The Gathering of Friends Friends It's the Dice Tower helping gamers out across the world. The Dice Tower is your online home for fun and informative discussion of all types of board and card games
0:24.2	featuring the latest industry news in-depth product reviews interviews
0:28.4	contests with amazing prices and of course a new top 10 list every week with contributions from Morris
0:34.4	Egger, Jason White, Mary Prasad, Greg Schlosser, Eric Sommerer, Mike Hibber, and a
0:39.9	variety of other well-known gamers and now here are your hosts the man who just likes
0:44.8	to play games Sam Healy and the man who puts the views and game reviews Tom Vassal
0:50.7	All right everyone welcome to the show Glad to have you with us today.
0:54.0	Hello everyone. And it's beautiful. Spring is here. I don't care if it rains. I don't care if it's
1:01.0	sunshining. I'm just glad that the weather is finally no longer
1:04.8	freezing cold.
1:07.1	And it's a good time for games.
1:08.6	A lot of good games have come out.
1:09.9	They come out in the spring.
1:11.4	We look forward to the summer crop of games, just a lot of good
1:13.7	stuff going on and so I'm glad for that. One of the things we're talking about in today's
1:19.2	show is the Gather Your Friends that just happened last week. It's a special event that Alan Moon has in
1:27.0	Columbus, Ohio and about 300 people show up and it's an invitation only event and so normally I don't really
1:34.2	care that much about these things but what's interesting about the
1:36.4	gathering your friends is that they play a lot of the new games that are on the market
1:40.5	a lot of games that are coming out and so when you read the reports you get
1:44.6	to hear about all these new games and just the exciting games that are going to come out
1:49.6	this year, especially from the Nuremberg Convention, a convention that's held in Germany in February and such.
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