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Podblast:  Edward's Essen interview with Richard Breese!

Podblast: Edward's Essen interview with Richard Breese!

While at Essen, Edward conducted many interviews with board game designers, publishers and more!

In this interview, Edward sits down with Richard Breese to discuss his older games, newer games and more!

Heavy Cardboard Episode 58 - Solarius Mission

Heavy Cardboard Episode 58 - Solarius Mission

Edward & Amanda sit down to discuss Solarius Mission by Spielworxx! We also feature two of Edward's interviews from Spiel 2016: Andreas "Ode" Odendahl, designer of Solarius Mission, and Uli Blennemann, the man behind the publisher, Spielworxx.

Enjoy!

Podblast:  Heavy Cardboard interviews Mark Swanson

Podblast: Heavy Cardboard interviews Mark Swanson

**Please note - this interview was very quiet. You may need to raise the volume. - Amanda**

Edward & Amanda sat down with Mark Swanson, the designer of Feudum at BGGCon - here's the interview. We discussed the game, the thought process behind designing the game, the art, and more! ENJOY!

Go join the discussion over at the guild to discuss the episode with us & your fellow Elephants!

Podblast:  BGGCon 2016 Day 1

Podblast: BGGCon 2016 Day 1

This is the second installment of our daily podblasts from BGGCon 2016!

We were joined in this one by Jim (@Punch_Cardboard on Twitter) giving our thoughts on Day 1 of BGGCon!

Podblast:  BGGCon 2016 Day 0

Podblast: BGGCon 2016 Day 0

This is the first installment of our daily podblasts from BGGCon 2016!

We were joined in this one by Matt (@braingoogames on Twitter) and Mark from Boardgame Corner, all of us giving our thoughts on Day 0 of BGGCon!

Podblast:  First Looks!

Podblast: First Looks!

In lieu of a featured review, we are giving a few first look mini-reviews on new releases we have played! We are headed to Dallas for BGGCon here in a few hours, so enjoy!

    0:00:53 North American Railways
    0:02:07 Kepler-3042
    0:03:56 Great Western Trail
    0:07:09 Pax Renaissance
    0:09:52 Princes of the Renaissance
    0:12:05 Plus Ultra: The Court of the Emperor Charles V
    0:14:23 Terraforming Mars
    0:16:48 Trick of the Rails
    0:18:46 Barcelona: The Rose of Fire
    0:21:26 The Arrival
    0:25:59 Dokmus
    0:28:24 Solarius Mission
    0:31:57 Lorenzo il Magnifico
    0:34:35 Vinhos Deluxe Edition

Heavy Cardboard Episode 56 - Edward Goes to Essen (part 2)

Heavy Cardboard Episode 56 - Edward Goes to Essen (part 2)

Edward & Amanda sit down for an interview style episode, recapping Edward's trip to Essen, Germany, and Spiel!

We also announce the winner of our contest for Arkwright or 1846, have two interviews from Spiel, and more! Enjoy!

 

Heavy Cardboard Episode 54.1 - Essen Preview

Heavy Cardboard Episode 54.1 - Essen Preview

***This upload is specifically for our listeners that are having problems downloading the show! Let us know if you still have issues!***

Eric and Jim from Punching Cardboard join Edward and Amanda for this special combined episode! We talk a TON of upcoming Essen releases, and highlight those that are high on our want lists!

Heavy Cardboard Episode 54 - Essen Preview

Heavy Cardboard Episode 54 - Essen Preview

Eric and Jim from Punching Cardboard join Edward and Amanda for this special combined episode! We talk a TON of upcoming Essen releases, and highlight those that are high on our want lists!

Heavy Cardboard Episode 53 - Panthalos

Heavy Cardboard Episode 53 - Panthalos

A whole lot of games acquired, games played, and TITANS! Not to mention a fair bit of abstract-gaming goodness to boot!

    0:30:56 Aton
    0:39:47 Tigris & Euphrates
    0:49:53 Featured Review: Panthalos

Heavy Cardboard Episode 51 - Fields of Arle

Heavy Cardboard Episode 51 - Fields of Arle

Feel like doing some solo/2p farming?

Feel like listening to some "Asmodee is taking over the world" talk?

THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU, MY FRIEND!

Edward and Amanda talk Fields of Arle, and Jim from Punching Cardboard joins Edward and Amanda to discuss the recent Asmodee takeover of ZMan and others.

Episode 50 - Saint Petersburg

Episode 50 - Saint Petersburg

Last episode was all about newer games, so to balance the scales, we're taking it back to 2004 (and 2014) in our featured review when we tackle the tried & true classic, Saint Petersburg! We also pay our respects to John Henry in our trailer of Martin Wallace's 2008, Steel Driver. And just in time to help folks decide whether to back (or not) the Kickstarter, we take on Yokohama in the second trailer. Oh and did we mention that we welcome back Tony (on a quarterly basis) to the show? ;)

    0:35:55 Trailer: Steel Driver
    0:44:07 Trailer: Yokohama
    0:59:11 Featured Review: Saint Petersburg

Episode 49 - Small City

Episode 49 - Small City

We tackle a few recent releases in this episode! We start out with trailer reviews of the super meta-game Millennium Blades & Wings for the Baron before we review, in depth, the latest release from Alban Viard, Small City!

Episode 48 - HeavyCon 2016 recap

Episode 48 - HeavyCon 2016 recap

Our recap of HeavyCon 2016 has lots of special guests, lots of trash talking, lots of laughing and lots of info.

There are no trailers in this episode, and there is no featured review. All HeavyCon recap, wall to wall!

Podblast:  Edward's weight loss

Podblast: Edward's weight loss

Edward takes a few minutes to speak candidly about his weight loss journey; the what, why, and how and what impact it's had on him.