TDT - Episode # 279 - To Crush Your Opponent...
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2012
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, our contributors come out in full force! Mark Zielinski talks about Dark Vengeance, Brian looks back at the Great Dalmuti, Steve Avery talks with Richard Launius, Greg heads to Las Vegas' gaming stores, James talks about a better BGG, and Matt Bush talks about playing board games on your own. We also review the Casual Game Insider magazine, as well as Coup, Marvel Legendary, and We Didn't Playtest This: Legacies. We also talk about BGG.con, Secret Santa, Top 100, and Nothing Personal. A tale of horror shows up, and we finally end the show with the answer to the question - is it better to crush an opponent, or have a close score? Whew!
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| 0:00.0 | Hosting for the Dice Tower is generously provided by Fun Again Games, the world's best game source, online at funagain.com. |
| 0:08.2 | Thanks for your support. The Dice Tower, episode 279. |
| 0:11.9 | Do you want to destroy your opponent or not? |
| 0:16.0 | You asking me personally? |
| 0:16.9 | You asking me personally? |
| 0:37.2 | No. personally. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:43.6 | In this episode, Brian introduces us to the great Dalmoudi. |
| 0:47.2 | Steve Avery and Richard Lonias tell us about some Arkham Knights, and James gives us his suggestions for a better board game geek. |
| 0:54.8 | Plus, Greg's on the road again, Matt's playing some co-op games solo, and Mark has the |
| 1:00.6 | latest in Warhammer 40,000. |
| 1:03.1 | All that and a tale of board gaming horror, a magazine review, an impromptu Kickstarter rant, |
| 1:09.1 | and we tell you how close we want our games to be. |
| 1:12.8 | This episode is sponsored by Ruse, a brand-new Victorian steampunk card game, raising funds on |
| 1:18.3 | Kickstarter now, and by Robert Burke Games, and their new game, NOMS, the great sweeping of |
| 1:24.3 | Emma On. Check it out now on Kickstarter.com. |
| 1:44.1 | I'm Eric Summerer, and Sandy has me cowering in a closet. But here's your host, the mecha dragon to my cyber bunny. It's Tom Vassal. I don't want to be the mecha dragon. I want to be the king. All right, fine. You can be the king. We've actually had arguments as to who gets to be the cyber bunny. |
| 1:47.0 | And when we played with my son, we had to say, all right, |
| 1:44.6 | you want to choose first. You can choose first. |
| 1:49.0 | He actually doled out the roles. I will be the cyber bunny and you will be the mecha dragon |
| 1:54.0 | and you will be alienoid. It made a very interesting draft mechanism for King of Tokyo. |
| 2:00.6 | I've noticed. I think your son is a very controlling player mechanism for King of Tokyo. I've noticed. |
| 2:01.2 | I think your son is a very controlling player. |
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