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Wooden Cubes & Iron Soldiers: Live Webcast #10

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Welcome back to Wooden Cubes & Iron Soldiers. Join your hosts Lance and Joel where they discuss a variety topics including the Doom of Atlantic City, Girl Scout Cookies, Superman, and most importantly Gen Con 2013! For the first 1:16:32 we catch up with each other and talk about Man of Steel, Superman, Scooby Doo, and Pacific Rim. We also talk about The Doom That Came To Atlantic City and it's possible implications for Kickstarter in general. For the last three hours, we cover ALL of the upcoming games for Gen Con 2013! For those who want to follow along at home, you can use Eric Martin's fantastic Geeklist which we use as reference: http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/153611/gen-con-2013-preview We also cover a couple of twitter questions towards the very very end.

Welcome back to Wooden Cubes & Iron Soldiers. Join your hosts Lance and Joel where they discuss a variety topics including, Origins, Gen Con, some of the recent and upcoming board game releases (or lack thereof). Specifically, we go into some depth on some of the recent Kickstarter successes and failures, speculate on the popularity of the Wave 3 X-Wing ships, and what may come next. Please note that the language gets a bit loose towards the end. Not excessively so, but this episode is not for small children!

Welcome back to Wooden Cubes & Iron Soldiers. In this episode we talk about a variety of non-boardgame related topics. Zombies. Television. Sports. But not to fret! We also talk extensively about Bora Bora, the Up Front debacle, the Emperor's New Clothes Kickstarter project and much more. Games covered in this episode, in no particular order: Poker, Pandemic, Police Precinct, Sim City, The Emperor's New Clothes, Bora Bora, Up Front, Il Vecchio, Rise of the Zombies, X-Wing, Dungeon Heroes, and much more.

“Viking and Mouse Attack…”   Welcome back to Wooden Cubes & Iron Soldiers. Our first episode of 2013! It’s been a while! Lance and Joel spend the episode talking about a myriad of topics and we cover a lot of different games and gaming topics: CO2, Tzolkin, Space Cadets, Darkest Night, DVG Leader Series, The Hunters, Love Letter, Coup, DC Comics Deckbuilding Game, Power Grid: First Sparks, Lords of Waterdeep, Agricola, Terra Mystica, Torchlight II, Diablo III, XCom, Level 7 Escape, Tabletop, BoardGameGeek, Quarriors, GenCon, BGG.CON, X-Wing Miniatures, Robinson Crusoe, Náufragos, Friday, Clash of Cultures, ...

Essen! Woot!

Gencon! Woot!

“Everybody hates Jesse Dean, with Special Guest: Jesse Dean!”   Welcome back for our tenth episode of Wooden Cubes & Iron Soldiers! In this episode we are joined by Board Game Blogger extraordinaire: Jesse Dean.  Before diving in to talk about some of the recent discussion/kerfuffle/hornet’s nest/meta-critique on board game criticism and analysis… which is all Jesse’s fault, we briefly discuss some games we have recently played including Descent, Hemloch, Mage Wars, Quebec,  and Le Havre. During the show we also discuss some other recent blogs and articles on this subject. I have included them here ...

"Kickstarter Sucks... or does it!?"

“Just the Two of Us”   Welcome back for our eighth episode of Wooden Cubes & Iron Soldiers! In this episode we focus on two player games, specifically some of the differences between a two player game and multiplayer games, as well as games that will play more than two people, but possibly play best with two players. We also cover some of the different types of two player games on the market. Some games we cover in more detail: Omen: Reign of War and Meltdown 2020 Finally, we are visited by a special guest ...

“Origins, Gencon, BGG.CON, Essen, and ConsimWorld Expo!”   Welcome back for our seventh episode of Wooden Cubes & Iron Soldiers! In this episode we spend the first two hours covering a wide variety of games and topics, discussing everything from what makes a game “gamey”, to Wil Wheaton, TableTop, and some of the pitfalls and trappings of being a board game reviewer. For the final six hours (just kidding)… In the last 45 minutes we cover a bunch of information about the upcoming convention season. I think we covered just about every large gaming ...