Episode Details

Roy Cannaday from the Dice Tower (and game designer of Last Light) joins Candice to discuss their favorite board games with asymmetric factions.

• 00:00:00 Introduction
• 00:04:43 Fresh Plays
  • 00:04:59 Let's Go! To Japan
  • 00:09:31 Tindahan (Filipino Fruit Market)
  • 00:13:44 Trick and Trade
  • 00:14:26 Like Cain and Abel
  • 00:16:56 Fortitude
  • 00:17:29 Star Wars: Unlimited
  • 00:22:31 Ironwood
• 00:35:58 Asymmetric Faction Satisfaction
  • 00:36:02 The Asymmetric Faction Secret Sauce
  • 00:41:34 Dune 
  • 00:44:56 Heavy Euros (Age of Innovation, Gaia Project, Terra Mystica)
  • 00:48:33 Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition) 
  • 00:51:29 Cooperative Games (Spirit Island, Too Many Bones)
  • 00:54:06 Root
  • 00:56:12 Historical Games (The COIN Series, Here I Stand)
  • 01:01:53 Heroes of Land, Air & Sea
  • 01:05:08 Two-player Epics (Dune: War for Arrakis, War of the Ring, Star Wars: Rebellion)
  • 01:12:12 Cosmic Encounter
  • 01:15:35 Multiplayer Games (TI4, Root, Dune, Hegemony)
  • 01:17:29 Two-player Card Games (Android: Netrunner, 1815 Scum of the Earth)
  • 01:20:12 Honorable Mentions (Vijayanagara, Defence of Procyon III, Vast, Crescent Moon, Red Dust Rebellion)
• 01:23:57 Sign-off

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