TDT # 414 - Basic and Advanced Strategy

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk about Bountytown, Flick ‘em Up, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Rattle Battle, Battlelore expansions, and Parfum. We answer questions about the World Boardgaming Championships and more, we have a tale of Horror and one of Amazement, Geoff talks about the pronounn "they", and a bunch of other contributors stop by with great segments! Finally, we talk about whether or not we like to play the "basic" version of a game, or the "advanced" version.

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink cool stuff in stock at cool stuff ink dot com
0:09.2	thanks for your support the dice tower episode four fourteen basic or The Dice Tower, episode 414
0:12.6	Bicy or Advanced. Welcome. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them.
0:40.0	This time Brian tells us about Twonky. The Board Game Club tackles
0:45.2	Skull and Roses and Jeff makes the case for a singular they. Plus our final
0:51.5	thoughts on Dice Tower Con 2015, some questions from the mailbag, and the
0:56.0	Tale of Horror from a fellow podcaster.
0:59.2	And finally we team up to compare the basic and advanced versions of games.
1:03.0	I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host,
1:06.0	The Chess to my Checkers.
1:08.0	Tom Vassal.
1:09.0	You know, incidentally, Eric,
1:11.0	I got a game in the mail.
1:13.0	Yeah.
1:14.0	That said it was the strategy of chess mixed with the
1:17.5	simplicity of checkers.
1:19.5	I have this as well and I was actually going to complain about it.
1:23.0	Oh well I wasn't going to be very specific I was just talking about a random game
1:26.8	however I would like to point out that if you say your game has a simplicity of
1:31.1	checkers mixed with the strategy of chess it's probably a good
1:34.3	thing for either one of those to be true. But if your game is essentially tug of
1:42.2	war with a dye that uses checker pieces, but no other checker
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