Board Games – Chain-Attack: Recent Episodes

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Grading Geekery

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In this episode, the hosts run down their current playlists. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, the hosts run down their current playlists. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, the hosts run down their current books, movies, TV shows, and games. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, the hosts run down their current playlists. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, the hosts discuss their life goals and playing Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, the hosts discuss their weekend away playing Aeon’s End Legacy Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, the hosts discuss the board game industry and the impact of Tariffs. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, the hosts discuss real life “Succession” drama, Magic: the Gathering prices, and “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man”. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, we discuss our gaming goals for 2025. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, we discuss games we are playing and things we are watching. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, the hosts go over stuff they are reading, watching, and playing. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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This episode, the hosts discuss what items that are going to get themselves for Christmas. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we discuss the board game convention ICon and Josh’s business ventures into game store ownership. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we do our own Fantasy draft, where we make teams from tabletop game companies. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we discuss trading card games(TCGs) and the new TCG Altered. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss various games, shows, and books. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we finish our discussion of ICon and the board games we played there. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss the board game industry and the games Trevor and Josh played at ICon. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we discuss the board game Daybreak. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, the hosts grade the board game Spirit Island. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, the hosts recap their 2023 holiday season. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, Trevor and Josh wrap the tales of the BGG Con experience. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, Josh and Trevor continue the tales of their exploits at Board Game Geek Con. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, Josh and Trevor regale us with tales of the trip to Board Game Geek Con. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we discuss easy to play, quick to learn, small footprint, two-player games. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, Josh and Trevor continue to discuss their favorite board games from the ICON board game convention. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, Josh and Trevor discuss their favorite board games from the ICON board game convention. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, Josh and Trevor discuss their favorite games from SaltCon. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, we discuss Star Wars: Shatterpoint and rate our excitement for upcoming board games. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, Jay talks about various hiccups he has experienced working in the game industry. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In the episode, Jay and Josh discuss Barbie and other gaming topics. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we talk about some of our biggest Kickstarter surprises and disappointments. Hosts: Jay, Trevor, and Josh

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You only have a few minutes to throw some items in your backpack before you have to hide from the apocalypse. What are you taking? Hosts: Jay, Trevor, and Josh

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In this episode, Josh and Trevor discuss their current favorites on Board Game Arena. Hosts: Jay, Trevor, and Josh

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n this episode, the hosts discuss how D&D, Magic, & Games Workshop have managed to maintain their dominance in each of their genres. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, Josh and Trevor pitch Board Game Arena, Clans of Caledonia, & Carnegie. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we pitch ideas we have for board game themes. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we grade the deck-building game Aeon’s End.

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In this episode, we discuss Lets Go To Japan, the current board game hotness and talk about the changes to the norms with Kickstarter. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we discuss the marketing genius of Magic: The Gathering Lord of the Rings and the puzzle game Baba is You. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we talk about issues using Amazon, the Board Game Geek Top 10, and the Netflix show Full Swing. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we discuss some of our favorite board game genres, the best introductory games for that genre, and our favorite games in those genres. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we discuss and grade the board game John Company. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We talk about the digital card game, Marvel Snap. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode Trevor and Josh discuss the board games they played at this year’s Idaho Convention for Board Gamers. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we discuss and grade two board games, Ares Expedition and Sniper Elite. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode Josh and Trevor pitch the game Twilight Inscription to Jay. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We give our Independence Day celebration recommendations. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode Josh regales us with the tales of his adventures at BGG Con. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We talk about our recent play of Mouseguard RPG 2nd Ed. and some of the legacy board games we have finished. Hosts: Trevor and Jay

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We discuss and grade the board games Unfathomable and Return To Dark Tower. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss and grade the recently released board game Ark Nova. Hosts: Trevor and Jay

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We discuss Privateer Press’s failed Riot Quest Kickstarter, we also discuss Jay’s adventures in Chicago playing Hanabi and Pandemic Legacy. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We pitch various properties to the other hosts including War Chest, 3 Box MCP, and Station Eleven. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we pitch geekery to each other. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we pitch geekery to each other. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We talk about our perfect day wish from 2021, how well we accomplished our perfect day, and our goal for a perfect day in 2022. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We talk about the things we are most excited about this holiday season. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss and rate the Gloomhaven digital implementation. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We talk about what games we want to play over the Thanksgiving holiday and then grade the chances that those games actually get played. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We talk about Josh’s mad day of US History board games and we grade the grandest of them all, Founding Fathers by Rick Heli. https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/founding-fathers Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, we discuss the board games that Josh & Trevor played at ICON, the Idaho Convention for Boardgames. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh NOTE: This was recorded before Episode 78 and its associated Bonus, so if the chronology is confusing, you can blame timey wimey wibbly wobbly.

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We talk about and grade our experience with TI4’s first expansion Prophecy of Kings. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We talk about a really wide range of topics this week. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode, we discuss board games we are excited to play at an upcoming board game convention.

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We discuss the new Dune board game and the newest Dune trailer. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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Josh pitches Oath to Jay and Trevor. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We talk about the matchups of round 4 and how we feel about the properties. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We talk about the matchups of round 3 and how we feel about the properties. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We talk about all the things we want to do when the pandemic is finally over. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We finish the discussion of the properties and matchups of round 2 and share some of our ideas and thoughts on them for the future. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss the properties and matchups of round 2 and share some of our ideas and thoughts on them for the future. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss the various surprises and properties who advanced to round 2 and begin discussing some of the matchups. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We cover 5 more matchups in our debate format as we get closer to closing out the round 1 bracket matchups. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We cover 6 more matchups in our debate format and discuss lots of RPGs. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We cover 6 more matchups in our debate format and find out who likes tacos. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We continue our debate format of early matches such as Balders Gate vs. Stranger Things and Call of Cthulhu vs. Batman. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss our first six matchups in a faux debate format. Voting can be found on Discord, Facebook, and Twitter. https://www.facebook.com/ChainAttack https://twitter.com/ChainAttackTrev Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We continue our 2021 bracket challenge, the Galactic Geek Property Championship, by discussing the third division, Board and Video Games. We discuss which properties are the top 16 board and video game properties of all time. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode we talk about various Board Game mechanics and the ones we like the most. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We continue the discussion of holiday gift ideas for you or for the geek in your life. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss options for holiday games with family and how to get your uncle to try something new. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss one of the most intriguing legacy board games to come out in recent memory, The King’s Dilemma. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss our most anticipated upcoming board games. Continued in the bonus episode which can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-24-bonus-42265792 Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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This week we welcome Jason Matthews, one of the co-designers of Twilight Struggle, onto the show as a guest to talk about game design and his new board game Imperial Struggle. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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In this episode Jay describes his latest experiences with dealing with Games Workshop and other frustrations of owning a game store. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss some of our favorite properties from the past and whether they should be rebooted. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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We discuss and grade Pandemic the board game. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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During this episode, we welcome guest Tom Lehmann to the show and discuss game design, some of his history in the industry, and his favorite RPG shows Critical Role and Relics and Rarities. Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh

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Which economic-engine building game is better, the venerable Power Grid or the newcomer Terraforming Mars. We match them against each other! Hosts: Trevor, Jay, and Josh