39: Classic games, culling games, and conventions (guests: Board Game Spotlight)

Mar 18, 2020

How do we pick which board games to cull when we move? What is gaming life like in the military? What's considered a classic nowadays? And what's our ideal convention experience -- deadly viruses aside, that is?

Lizzy Funkhouser (Board Game Spotlight) and Derek Funkhouser (Skybound Games) join us to discuss!

Here's a full list of games discussed on the show:

Intro

• Medium
• Q.E.
• The Walking Dead: Something to Fear
• Herbaceous Sprouts

Derek's topic: What makes an evergreen or classic board game?

• Axis & Allies
• Azul
• Ticket to Ride
• Dominion
• Settlers of Catan
• 7 Wonders
• Risk
• Paladins of the West Kingdom
• Marvel Champions: The Card Game
• Nemesis
• Terraforming Mars
• Twilight Struggle
• The Castles of Burgundy
• Viticulture
• Architects of the West Kingdom
• Quacks of Quedlinburg
• Tidal Blades
• Gloomhaven
• Blood Rage
• Carcassonne
• Monopoly
• Scrabble
• The Game of Life
• El Grande
• Wingspan

Christina's topic: What's your ideal convention experience?

• MetroX
• The Taverns of Tiefenthal

Lizzy's topic: How do you decide which games to cull or keep?

• Azul: Summer Pavilion
• Herbaceous
• Mombasa
• Gears of War: The Board Game
• Chaos in the Old World
• World of Warcraft: The Board Game
• StarCraft: The Board Game
• T.I.M.E Stories
• Small World
• Ginkgopolis
• Rococo
• Orleans
• Arboretum
• Lords of Hellas

Shoe's topic: What is board gaming like while deployed or in the armed forces?

• Magic: The Gathering
• The Crew
• Skull King
• The Resistance
• The Resistance: Avalon
• Hanabi
• Hive Mind
• Codenames

Final thoughts

• The Godfather: Corleone's Empire