Sharpen your papercuts because it's time to put cards face down in front of you and simultaneously flip them face up! The Old King's Crown is maybe the year's most exciting game and we've got an exciting early scoop!
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On to the time stamps:
0:00 Cold Open
1:40 Intro
Work In Progress
2:08 Emberleaf
11:19 Hot Streak
22:00 Project L
26:24 Survive the Island
Main Feature
31:06 The Old King's Crown
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1:22:30
Eternal Decks
Efka opens our review of Eternal Decks with "This is the main candidate for Game of the Year 2025" and if you need a better endorsement to learn about a cool new board game, I can't think of one. And I'm Efka. This and more in this week's Talk Cardboard.
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On to the time stamps:
0:00 Cold Open
1:30 Intro
Work In Progress
1:59 Barony: Royal Edition
6:25 In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943 - 1944 (DNF)
10:08 Emberleaf
14:32 The Old King's Crown
Audience Correspondence:
21:34 Blue Prince
Main Feature
28:46 Eternal Decks
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49:22
Sunderfolk
You want me to do what now? Play a board game on the TV? Using my phone? Never!
*shakes fist at cloud*
*shakes more fist at cloud*
*picks up phone and starts playing*
Wait this thing is good! Like, real good. Okay, I guess today we're talking about a board game that's also a video game that's also a phone game. And you're going to listen and you're going to enjoy it.
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On to the timestamps:
00:00 Cold open
01:24 Intro
02:03 'Work In Progress"; Fruit Fight
03:50 Tenby
08:10 Deep Regrets
15:57 Correspondence
20:01 Sunderfolk
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52:39
Rival Cities
Why duel with silly weapons when you can duel with whole cities? In Rival Cities, Hamburg and Altona go head to head to see who will be the city anyone's ever heard of. I think you probably know who pulled that off IRL.
But if you'd rather fight with fruit or sausages, fear not because we have those for you too - in our Work in Progress.
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On to the timestamps:
00:00 Cold open
01:41 Intro
05:18 Work in Progress
06:05 Sausage Sizzle
08:17 (Reiner Knizia's) Fruit Fight
14:47 Corps of Discovery
25:46 Correspondence
27:16 Rival Cities
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50:40
Ascending Empires: Zed-nith Edition
Get ready to flick your way to victory, or get the flick out of here because it's time to play Ascending Empires: Zenith Edition - a 4X game - but iiiin flicking spaaaaace!
We also have the games we've been playing this week in our new segment: 'Work in Progress', where Elaine compares Eternal Decks to being back at school, and Efka tells us about under-salted negotiations in Moonrakers.
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Eternal Decks tutorials mentioned in the episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT1d_lHw4yM
On to the timestamps:
00:00 Cold open
01:40 Intro
02:10 'Work In Progress"; Eternal Decks
08:09 Joyride
11:52 Moonrakers
16:01 Correspondence
24:44 Ascending Empires: Zenith Edition
Netherlands