Episode 65 - 2-Player Fighting and War Games

The Ascent of Board Games

Remember way back in Episode 33, when we talked about two-player games but excluded fighting and war games because there were too many? Now is when we finally talk about the fighty ones! Join us as:

  • Brian's tongue stops working.
  • We talk about chess - good chess channels on YouTube, weird chess games on forums, and absolutely bonkers chess games on the computer.
  • We look back at an early first-person shooter - in book form.
  • We haggle about the intricacies of the Avalon Hill game complexity scale.
  • And we generally correct each other, talk smack, and otherwise have fun.

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Intro and outro music is "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under a Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

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