The Mary and Tom Podcast (Hollandspiele): Recent Episodes
Mary and Tom Russell
00:01 Introduction; 00:40 Whales; 01:50 Slander and fictitious rumor; 02:50 Bee death liability; 04:25 Anxiety about similarity; 07:00 Out-of-the-blue designers; 08:40 Shields & Swords Ancients; 09:50 Mary's next game; 10:40 Monster's question; 11:25 Kaiju Table Battles logistics; 14:30 "I've been told that I'm reasonably frivolous."
00:01 Introduction; 00:40 "That's not fair"; 01:40 Wild parties; 03:25 Stuff Going On; 04:35 Amabel's brain is bleeding; 06:55 Holiday game errata; 09:55 Focus and concentration problems; 10:40 Kaiju Table Battles; 11:15 Endurance; 13:00 Big depressing games; 13:45 Send Us Questions; 14:30 The best vegetable.
00:01 The Guatemalan Handshake; 01:00 "Is this going in the podcast?"; 01:25 Start of our sale; 02:10 "Real" companies; 03:25 "Monster doesn't really do anything"; 05:30 Sex vacation; 06:10 Stress; 07:15 Then and now; 08:35 Collaboration; 10:25 More solo games; 11:45 Midnight and one-thirty; 12:30 The Hannibal story; 14:45 Mary sings.
00:01 Introduction; 01:00 Horse & Musket V released; 02:40 The 2021 H&M Redux; 06:20 Ginormopod; 09:00 Dinosaur Gauge; 12:50 Different game design priorities; 14:20 Factory sub-system in Dino Gauge; 15:50 Airlines and building incentives; 17:55 A joke that doesn't work in an audio format.
00:01 Introduction; 00:15 Monsterfied; 00:35 The speed limit in Montana between the years 1995 and 1998; 02:05 On the car; 02:55 Tennessee trip; 04:00 Rope safety tips; 05:20 Siege of Mantua bits; 06:05 Trunk bottles; 07:40 "I don't think I'll be able to take a bottle just yet"; 08:25 Long car trips; 10:15 "You kind of like dinosaurs a little bit"; 10:40 Too much Ohio; 11:20 Mary's license plate game; 12:40 Designing games in the car.
00:01 Introduction; 00:15 Our first episode; 00:35 We changed our names; 01:50 What Mary wanted to be; 02:10 "We should do some exposition"; 03:00 A chicken word; 04:50 Horse & Musket V; 05:35 "That's not number seventy"; 05:50 Ginormopod 2050 A.D.: Attack of the Giant Bug Monsters; 07:45 Amabel loves bugs; 08:55 "Them!"; 10:40 Kaiju Table Battles; 11:20 New directions in Amabel's work; 12:00 "This is not true"; 13:20 Dinosaur Gauge.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 “This time I’m going to edit it”; 00:35 Empire at Sunrise; 04:10 Pretty Soldier Sailor Holly; 05:45 Table Battles: The Grand Alliance; 06:30 “Monster, what are you doing?”; 07:00 Wood bits; 08:00 Specialty components.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Questions and answers; 00:30 Dinosaur comment; 01:00 “It doesn’t say groat”; 02:40 Sci-fi games; 03:10 Pre-1800 games; 06:20 Three cup series; 06:55 “Dear Monster”; 07:30 Shot & Shell Battle Series; 10:05 Mary’s Picket; 11:55 Choo-choo games; 12:45 How are Tom and Mary; 12:55 “We’re not even small-big yet”; 14:05 “How are they going to breathe, Mary?”; 15:00 Expansions; 18:40 Cole Wehrle; 20:10 Give Mary a t-shirt or a button; 21:30 Centered.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Mary is funnier than Tom; 01:10 “We had a sale, and we wrapped it up”; 01:30 Out-of-stock updates; 03:00 Christmas; 03:50 Friesday; 04:40 Empire at Sunrise; 06:20 Charles Ex-eye; 07:00 Table Battles: The Grand Alliance; 07:15 “Better not be late February”; 07:50 Going at our own pace; 10:00 Horse & Musket; 13:40 Tom’s games have a new developer; 14:35 Announcing Westward Rails and That Others May Live; 17:00 Endurance; 18:30 “Jesus wasn’t a dinosaur”; 19:00 Send us your questions.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Sale aftermath; 00:35 “Hey, where’s my stuff?”; 01:05 “That’s a lot of work”; 02:40 Handling the stress better this year; 03:10 Delayed orders for Boom & Zoom and Wars of Marcus Aurelius; 04:50 Good triples and bad triples; 06:00 “You knew this when you married me”; 07:10 Out of stock games; 09:15 “This is pretty easy”; 11:30 “Why are you so anti-dinosaur?”
00:01 Programming note; 00:40 Introduction; 00:50 New computers; 01:40 Mary is noiseless; 02:05 Hectic weekend; 03:05 The sale; 04:40 Dual Gauge; 06:00 New bits order; 07:40 Photoshop; 09:10 Emails.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Dinosaurs; 00:40 Squiglets; 02:55 Claws got in trouble a lot; 04:50 Hollandays Sale starts November 23; 05:25 Dual Gauge; 07:10 Comparing Dual Gauge and Soo Line; 08:15 Ratboy.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 The Vote released; 00:30 "We sold a few billion"; 01:00 Sale coming November 23; 01:10 Tom has a bad idea; 01:40 Eye candy; 01:55 Wood bits; 03:00 Tom looks like her sister; 03:40 Technical difficulties; 04:05 Huge card order; 04:40 Mary is very talented; 05:05 "Tom forgot how to shave"; 07:10 Tim Taylor.
00:01 Introduction; 00:15 New Releases; 01:00 Our mustard years; 03:50 Cards and cash-flow; 04:20 Flooding in the basement; 08:00 Bagging wood bits; 08:40 The Vote sample game video; 11:00 Editing styles.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 We have returned; 00:20 White Eagle Defiant released; 01:00 Adventures; 01:40 Four squirrels, plus a chipmunk; 02:40 Lefty; 03:50 "Everybody should play Dino TB"; 04:55 Dino TB expansion; 05:40 Holly the Hollandspiele spokesdinosaur; 06:40 Tiny baby ships; 10:40 Ugly, unhappy fish; 11:30 Mary's dad's boat; 12:20 Mary's dad's car; 12:55 "I'm taller than you are".
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Stilicho released; 01:25 Four years of our nonsense; 05:20 Charles S. Roberts nominees; 05:50 White Eagle Defiant; 06:45 Iberian Gauge licensed by Capstone; 07:50 Following directors; 09:50 Dual Gauge; 11:00 Dinosaur Gauge.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Mary rescues caterpillars; 01:40 Holes; 03:45 Upcoming releases; 04:50 Christmas sales; 05:20 Mary's mom's shop; 06:00 Fast food jobs; 08:35 The Saga of Mary's Frosty; 09:20 Gift cards for Appleby's; 10:05 Grand opening; 12:20 Buffets; 13:35 Garbage City; 15:10 "Get out of my driveway".
00:00 Introduction; 00:15 Horse & Musket plans; 01:00 Final, final, final rewrite of the core rulebook; 01:35 Yes, we are actually going to call it "Because Mary Demanded It"; 02:30 Releases for 2019; 03:10 Tom's radar; 03:25 Dinosaur-themed 18xx; 04:50 Systems versus standalones; 07:25 Long deferred projects; 08:35 It is not shtick; 09:05 Playtesting; 09:30 Hobbies and distractions; 09:50 Character assassination; 10:25 Pontifacts; 11:30 Travis, get with it; 11:55 Tabletop Simulator and Vassal; 12:30 Double oven adventures; 13:25 Movies; 14:30 Hardest games to dino-ify; 15:05 "What all people would have done"; 15:45 Europe; 16:40 Games for three-plus; 17:00 Nicaea; 19:20 "That's not what it says".
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 "Stay out of our house, guy from Police Academy"; 00:45 Business strategy; 01:35 "Between now and the heat death of the universe"; 03:20 "You just want more dinosaurs"; 05:05 Stilicho, Last of the Romans; 06:35 The door; 07:50 "Moses wore a bowtie"; 08:30 Call for questions.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 "You love me so much, you gave me twice as many ovens"; 00:25 "That's the one that cracked you up?"; 01:30 The old oven; 04:05 We're frugal people; 06:10 "Stop that"; 07:00 Totally okay if you buy some games from us; 08:15 The Field of the Cloth of Gold; 10:00 Flexibility; 11:50 "Buy a second one, she will not mind".
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Dinosaur Table Battles Microbadge; 00:30 Digging into Dinos; 01:05 Anti-expansion; 04:00 "The fantasy game and the sci-fi game"; 04:45 A printing disaster; 06:30 Formats and shoehorns; 08:20 Art budgets; 10:55 Shipping & release delays.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Dinosaur Table Battles released; 00:45 Topics on our list; 01:15 Maniacal laughter; 01:55 "I can't believe this"; 02:50 "One"; 04:00 Mammals; 04:35 "I always wanted to be an astronomer, but math"; 05:10 Awful math teachers; 07:00 Folks helping Tom with game-related math; 08:20 Calculus is not arithmetic; 09:00 Professor Calculus and Snowy; 09:25 Reading French comics in Arabic; 10:05 Movies without subtitles; 11:05 Movies with bad subtitles; 11:30 Throne of Blood; 12:25 Alexander Nevsky; 13:20 "You just wait until I get a dinosaur"; 13:40 The Field of the Cloth of Gold.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Dino TB Update; 02:10 June releases; 02:55 Mary gets Tom some water; 03:30 June unreleases; 03:45 Operation Unthinkable; 04:45 Dynasty; 05:55 Russelloids and Hollanders; 07:00 Richard's Egyptian game; 08:20 Pricepoints & components.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Dino TB update; 01:00 Missouri; 01:15 Ypsilanti; 01:30 Indianapolis; 02:00 The wrong tucky; 03:10 "Kentucky, you're okay"; 03:15 The Vote; 04:00 Working with artists; 05:10 Tom is not a map artist; 06:10 Reign of Witches; 08:35 Stuff we used to get at the library, 08:55 Sondheim; 11:05 Nixon in China; 11:50 "Daydreaming about being anywhere else but there"; 12:15 Three dollars too much; 13:45 The time Tom got thrown out of a movie during the opening credits; 14:40 People are terrifying; 15:40 "I don't follow arrows, this is America"; 16:05 "I've met a few people, I like you best."
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Cards update; 00:40 "It's a factual statement"; 01:40 Wood bits update; 02:10 Dino TB update; 03:20 Priority number one; 03:35 "Dinosaurs, dinosaurs, dinosaurs"; 03:50 Insulting our customers; 04:50 The Vote; 05:00 Dual Gauge - Detroit map; 06:40 Chicago police scared to drive through Detroit; 07:45 New Years; 08:10 "I also hate fireworks"; 08:45 Shout out to Scott Peltz; 09:35 "The boy governor! The young hotspur!"; 10:05 "That was old back then"; 10:35 "I don't know why we keep invading Canada"; 11:45 The Grass Crown; 12:20 Roman trophy case; 13:00 Shackleton game; 13:40 "That poor wall".
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 We have nothing to talk about; 00:25 Dinosaurs, again; 01:00 Going slightly stir crazy; 02:10 Peter's grandma's house; 02:35 Taking off Mary's birthday; 03:05 Failed birthday surprise; 04:35 "I bought a pizza for you boys"; 05:10 The carpet stays; 06:30 Playing a mean trick on two dogs; 08:25 Mary disavows Tom's mean tricks; 08:55 "I've never seen a raccoon"; 09:40 The groundhog story; 10:20 Mary believes.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Mary steals Tom's punchline; 01:15 "No, dinosaurs"; 02:25 Cards; 03:00 Eleven million dollars; 03:40 Impossible amounts of money; 04:15 "Would they?"; 04:50 Nerfing Utahraptor; 06:00 Dinosaur Table Battles coming in May; 06:30 Streets of Shadows delayed; 09:00 Who doesn't want to play Dinosaur Table Battles; 09:35 Field of the Cloth of Gold coming in June; 10:20 Dinosaurs not included; 11:00 Expansions; 13:55 Dino alchemy.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 One hundred; 00:30 "A person or two who listens"; 01:05 Shrink-wrap; 01:22 The subtitle for Dinosaur Table Battles; 02:10 DJ Spinosaurus; 03:15 Animals in school; 04:25 Tom's favorite game; 04:40 Tom's favorite game to play solitaire; 05:10 Working on Dinosaur Table Battles; 07:20 The bestest game; 07:55 White Eagle Defiant; 08:40 Solo games for 2020; 09:10 A question from Mary; 10:05 Other solo games in the pipeline; 11:05 Cup adjustment games; 12:15 Napoleon; 12:45 Shipping rates; 13:10 Favorite train games; 14:00 Train game plans; 15:00 When games are ready to hit the table; 15:35 Train games versus wargames; 16:50 Development on The Vote; 17:25 Guests and sharks.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Send us questions; 00:20 "Monster, that's not your purse"; 01:25 Grandma; 04:45 No release for April; 06:20 At All Costs! released in March; 06:40 Getting caught up; 07:10 Dinosaur Gauge, a pick up and devour game; 08:00 Testing Dual Gauge on Tabletop Simulator; 08:45 Tom is loud apparently; 09:15 Appearance on Armchair Dragoons podcast; 09:40 Harold on Games; 09:50 Livestream with Moe's Gaming Table; 10:30 Space-Biff; 11:00 Job interviews; 11:30 "A real bad attitude"; 13:35 "That was not her jam at all".
00:01 Introduction; 00:10 Dinosaur negotiations; 00:50 COVID-19 related disruptions; 02:30 "I forgot the name of it, Mary"; 02:55 Shame; 03:30 Playing it by ear; 03:50 Field of the Cloth of Gold; 04:35 The next transit of Venus is in December of 2117; 05:30 An opportunity to get caught up; 06:15 New title announcements; 06:40 Empire at Sunrise; 08:10 The American Civil War Operational Series; 09:25 Our God Was My Shield; 09:40 "He has no chill"; 10:20 Very nasty.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Social distancing; 00:35 Mary is a loner and a rebel; 01:15 The two reasons Tom purchased a DVD player; 02:40 Shelves, who knew it?; 04:20 Groceries; 06:40 Spaghetti with salsa; 07:25 Mashed potato soup; 08:20 "I did not just throw vegetables in a blender"; 09:30 Horse & Musket Annual 2 released; 10:10 "Why are there no dinosaurs in it?"; 10:50 Upcoming releases; 11:50 Canvas maps on sale; 13:05 "More, more, more"; 13:30 Dynasty canvas map offered for the last time.
00:01 Introduction; 00:30 Sick; 01:45 Chicago; 02:00 The Drake; 03:30 "She took the crackers"; 04:25 The time Tom almost got arrested; 05:35 "It was really quiet"; 06:15 "You usually find these weird ones"; 06:50 We did not meet Oprah; 07:10 Mary's stealth mission; 07:30 Westphalia Phasing Player stream; 08:00 A very awkward, nervous screen presence; 08:30 District Commander Binh Dinh released; 08:40 Table Battles Second Edition released; 10:50 Horse & Musket Annual 2; 11:05 Dinosaurs.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 The topic is not dinosaurs; 00:25 Westphalia live stream; 00:40 Brief insert; 00:55 Chicago; 01:30 "Mom, I was two"; 01:55 The cereal factory; 02:55 "What honeymoon"; 03:15 Listen: Mary Russell has become unstuck in time; 03:50 Alleged honeymoon; 04:30 Alleged cat-sized cockroaches; 05:10 Londons; 05:55 The Hot 'n' Now; 06:50 Hundred dollar burgers; 07:15 Forty bucks, that's a lot of money man; 07:45 The seafood platter special; 10:00 "No, the can opener is fine"; 11:00 "Dinosaurs were mentioned".
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Kingdom of Dyflin released; 00:20 Irish ancestor(s); 00:50 Not adopted; 01:35 Books Tom's parents owned; 02:10 Organ music; 03:30 Wood bits; 04:05 Binh Dinh; 04:50 This time last year; 05:45 A very heavy squirrel; 06:25 Lefty; 07:10 People are actually playing Westphalia; 07:55 Balance tweaks; 10:00 Dinosaurs already in the box; 10:30 Dinosaur Table Battles; 11:00 Hex numbers; 11:45 Dinosaur ballet.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Hollandays Sale update; 01:20 "Out of stock"; 01:50 Cold hands and feet; 02:15 Tom's terrible back; 03:00 Mary runs over Tom's foot with the car (twice); 03:20 Dinosaur-toed; 03:50 "The first of many games with dinosaurs"; 04:00 "I want a serious, non-dinosaur answer"; 04:55 Mary moves the pillow; 06:40 Dual Gauge does not have dinosaurs; 07:20 Preview of Dual Gauge; 09:10 "Why will we get songs with it"; 09:35 "Are they as good as Supertramp"; 12:05 Air Supply; 13:35 Journey.
00:01 Introduction; 00:15 The sale so far; 00:35 Compared to last year; 01:50 Westphalia doing really well; 02:20 Dinosaur corner; 03:05 Westphalia advice from Mary; 03:50 Increased sales for Hades and Matchlock; 04:10 Traffic and Teutons reminder; 04:25 Thanksgiving; 04:55 Family from the inside; 05:55 Tom used to swear, and Mary used to not to; 06:55 Normal is being nice to everybody; 08:00 Kingdom of Dyflin; 08:30 Some choice moments from the Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh; 09:55 District Commander Binh Dinh; 10:05 "Animals and war, no, absolutely not"; 10:45 Francis the Talking Mule did indeed serve in Burma; 11:35 Ambitions for next year.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Belabored set-up for a dumb joke; 00:22 Punchline for said joke; 00:40 "This is an audio medium"; 00:55 First visit; 01:25 Second visit, and a diagnosis; 02:10 Mary is better at phones; 02:55 Third visit, and a correct diagnosis; 03:10 Wait a minute hang on; 04:00 "No you did not"; 04:50 The sale starts today; 05:15 Our annual freebie games; 05:35 Absolutely Aces is very historically accurate but also very divisive; 06:45 The Toledo War; 07:30 Monsterdeal19; 08:05 Where are the dinosaurs; 08:40 What looks like a lobster; 09:10 An Infamous Traffic and Teutons leaving the catalogue; 11:20 Last year's sale; 12:25 The joke is that it's almost Thanksgiving; 13:20 Everybody's bringing dessert; 14:15 Bring a better dessert; 14:40 "A cheesecake I had once"; 14:50 Differing opinions on spam; 15:55 White Castle recipes; 16:15 The cheesecake mentioned previously; 16:55 Tom has a terrible idea.
00:01 Introduction; 00:08 It's cold in here; 00:30 Cataloguing videos of all NASCAR races from 1994 to 2005; 01:20 Why not let Mary design the dinosaur games; 02:10 What is your favorite dinosaur and why is it a triceratops; 02:50 "You want all dinosaurs to die?"; 03:20 Dinosaur Table Battles; 04:05 Hollandays Sale; 04:35 Canvas maps list for the sale; 05:30 Larger map for Horse & Musket; 05:45 Multiplayer games; 06:50 "You ignore most of what I say"; 08:25 Shrink wrap; 08:45 Space travel is horrifying; 09:25 Back to shrink wrap; 10:00 Negotiation games; 10:45 Don't play Catan with Big Mike; 11:45 Sharing in the victory.
00:01 Introduction; 00:10 Special Guest Host Monster; 00:15 Escape From Hades released; 00:35 Waiting for the sale; 02:00 "So I injured myself earlier"; 03:15 "Falling over was not part of my plan"; 03:40 Pigeon-toed; 04:40 Horse & Matchlock coming soon; 05:50 Announcing Kingdom of Dyflin; 06:15 Mary uncharacteristically works blue; 07:10 Announcing District Commander: Binh Dinh; 07:50 Westphalia layout underway; 08:20 Announcing White Eagle Defiant; 09:20 That Others May Live; 09:45 Mary puts Tom on the spot about the Shackleton game; 11:25 "Just want to get through one episode without dinosaurs"; 12:25 Send us questions.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 We have returned; 00:25 Westphalia wood bits; 01:25 The driveway saga; 04:30 Minimal noise outside; 05:05 Shooting a movie right by the airport; 05:35 "You're really into plays" (ouch); 06:15 Tom's black-and-white student film; 07:15 Color films in black and white; 08:10 That horrible play; 09:00 "I've done a lot of character growth since then"; 09:20 A bad version of No Exit written by someone with no life experience; 09:55 These are the hands that baked her cookies; 11:05 The problem with the young people; 11:50 A running gag that will never have diminishing returns and is always entertaining; 13:20 Escape From Hades release imminent.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Double confirmed; 00:15 Discourse on the nature of time and the ephemeral nature of podcasts; 00:40 District Commander Maracas; 01:25 Dinosaurs (of course); 03:00 Speaking of Brians; 03:35 "Frozen" custard; 05:00 "What did I do?"; 05:10 Lawrence of Arabia; 07:20 The big Leone argument; 08:50 Playtime; 09:45 Trafic; 10:15 Ben-Hur and the Ten Commandments; 10:55 Hunters Jeffrey and Tab; 11:20 A story about John Wayne; 12:10 Those poor horses, Mary.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 GrandmaCon; 00:55 Paternity Court; 01:55 Dinosaur Table Battles is a real thing; 02:55 "He needs to be a DJ"; 03:50 Tom is in no position to critique facial hair; 04:15 A lack of hair awareness; 04:40 Tom's unfortunate hair choices; 05:10 Stupid bets; 05:45 Something Tom regrets; 08:40 Irish Gauge; 09:00 GrandCon; 10:10 Working with Capstone.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 "I've seen you around"; 00:25 Three year business anniversary; 00:55 "I like my employee"; 01:00 Thanks; 01:30 A tough year; 03:10 Figuring out our niche; 04:55 Mary sees the garlic baker; 05:40 A gassy little Monster; 05:55 Escape From Hades; 09:20 "We can publish things just because we want to"; 10:10 Westphalia.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 WBC; 01:10 Missing the plane; 03:15 Mousers; 04:05 Table Battles: The English Civil War releasing this week; 04:30 Still no dinosaurs; 05:00 Games in our pipeline; 06:20 "No, we want dinosaurs now"; 06:45 People apparently listen to this thing; 07:10 Engaging with people; 08:00 People don't look like their avatars - or do they?; 09:15 District Commander Maracas; 10:00 PNP catchup.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Claws; 00:50 Siege of Izmail released; 01:00 Slower release schedule; 01:50 Working in Offices; 02:55 Tom was an adequate manager; 04:25 Right and wrong fits for a team; 06:05 Mary lays out a book; 07:10 Exploding keyboards; 08:10 Table Battles: English Civil War; 09:45 District Commander: Maracas; 10:00 Page count follies; 11:20 WBC.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 "No one would pay for this show"; 00:25 Siege of Izmail; 01:10 Videos; 01:35 Birdus interruptus; 02:40 Tactile and personable; 03:30 "There are running gags and then there are running gags"; 03:50 Incendiary political commentary; 04:45 Who's a Good Boye; 05:05 "Good news, Mary: they are dead"; 05:20 Podcast sponsor Ford Motor Company; 06:00 Stories about Mary's dad; 07:55 Horse and Dinosaur; 08:35 A lot of squished horses; 09:40 A completely inaccurate representation of the plot of Leprechaun in Space.
00:01 Introduction; 00:15 Didn't go to Origins; 00:35 Lots of little sneezes; 02:10 With It Or On It sales; 02:55 Trouble working on the next medieval game; 03:15 Those poor horses; 05:10 "That was a big sneeze"; 05:40 Siege of Izmail; 06:20 ZOC and mandatory combat in Izmail; 07:30 Introductory wargames: Lost Provinces; 08:50 Shields & Swords II series; 10:15 Brave Little Belgium; 11:00 Learning Empire of the Sun; 11:30 That one game; 11:55 EotS South Pacific scenario.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 "Start talking"; 00:10 With It Or On It release eminent; 00:25 "I assume they have a house"; 01:35 Smell-o-vision; 02:20 The internet; 02:35 On the phone; 03:20 A couple words in Tom's defense; 06:05 Claws and Doc; 09:40 Very zippy; 09:45 Origins; 10:30 Glasses.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Monster is not super-happy; 02:10 Attempted jailbreak; 03:20 Grown-up fun-time stuff; 04:30 "Just tell her it's purple"; 05:20 With It Or On It; 06:25 Red Rose figurines; 07:05 Proxy miniatures for D&D 07:45 J.D. was bad at Sweden; 08:15 Testing Westphalia; 08:45 First round problems; 09:30 "Gabe, our friend Gabe"; 10:00 "That other person"; 10:55 "They all think they're doomed"; 11:25 Sample games/turns; 12:20 "You always shoot down all of my dinosaur ideas".
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Canvas map sale; 00:20 Special guest star Monster; 01:00 Monster's ultrasound; 01:50 Shaved belly; 02:40 A joke which didn't land; 03:25 Origins; 05:05 WBC; 06:05 Rent paid in worms; 06:30 The robin's nest; 07:35 No chainsaw for Tom; 08:05 The Legend of Stumpy; 09:55 With It Or On It Without Dinosaurs; 10:25 A change in our release schedule.
00:01 Introduction; 00:10 We were at the vet a lot; 01:10 Horse & Musket Annual no. 1 released; 01:30 "Hiya Monster"; 01:40 Horse & Matchlock; 02:05 Dinosaurs with horses and muskets; 02:30 With It or On It; 02:55 Bugs; 03:50 Things that eat mice; 04:20 Tom is wrong about skunks, they do eat rodents; 04:40 Adventures in movie theaters; 06:35 Mary has a terrifying flashback; 07:05 Children cackling like maniacs; 07:45 Tom has warmed up to koalas; 08:20 Devil Facial Tumor Disease; 09:40 Wolverines on vacation; 10:25 Canvas map sale coming in May; 12:50 The Noble Order of Clawsewitz.
00:01 Preamble; 00:25 Introduction; 00:30 Antony and Cleopatra released; 00:45 Topics that appeal to Europeans; 01:30 Or maybe the British have Roman accents; 02:00 Mary enjoyed being frustrated; 02:25 Questions about duration; 02:55 A space occupied by cats; 03:35 Long games; 04:30 Too long and too big; 05:00 Production cost and MSRP; 06:55 Games with too few components; 07:15 The weight test; 09:00 "I do these books, Tom"; 09:25 Understandable enthusiasm; 09:50 Our reach; 10:25 Short games easier to test and table; 11:05 Pins and needles; 11:30 The immediate gratification of Table Battles; 11:55 Richard Berg's Dynasty; 12:50 Early tests of Westphalia; 14:30 Duration in solo games.
00:01 Introduction; 00:10 Hitting the ground hurts; 00:20 A game that includes Monster; 00:35 A game that includes Claws; 01:25 Michigan politics and finance; 02:15 Suffrage game; 04:05 The right person to approach a subject; 05:00 Tobacco game; 05:15 Shackleton game; 05:35 Abstracts; 07:00 Two player shenanigans train game; 07:35 Multiplayer train game series; 07:55 The Winsome Question; 09:20 The future of Hollandspiele; 10:35 Cats and dogs; 12:25 Solo games for 2019; 14:35 We miss Ania; 16:25 Tom's compensation; 16:40 Release schedule; 19:00 Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser; 21:05 Shields & Swords Ancients update; 21:55 Favorite films; 23:00 The first time we met; 23:30 The pillow story.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Boy, are my arms tired; 00:40 Tom's one joke; 02:15 Missed you; 02:40 The most expensive three blog-things in existence; 03:30 Mary's adventure; 04:45 Antony and Cleopatra update; 06:00 Our evolving business model; 07:30 Horse & Musket Annual; 07:45 Ugly horses; 10:20 Eagles that look like bats; 11:45 Mary helps Tom with basic addition; 12:15 Various ways to reach us or not reach us.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Time travel is disorienting; 00:50 The remote for the bed; 01:50 Shopping with grandma; 03:10 When Tom wakes up; 04:00 "This is being cut out of the podcast"; 04:05 Metro Detroit Gamers Winter Con; 04:40 Successful Westphalia playtest; 05:30 Less successful Westphalia playtests; 06:10 Reasons to not buy Westphalia; 07:20 "Unless you have a secret group"; 07:30 Teaching An Infamous Traffic; 09:00 Niche games and broader audiences; 09:35 Tomato soup; 09:50 Pineapple and sweet potato are gross; 10:15 Tom knows pineapple isn't a vegetable, but it's still gross; 11:00 Traveling; 12:30 Cat medications; 12:45 "That's a very deep cut, Mary"; 12:55 Resolution to last week's cliffhanger.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Our ability to stay on topic; 00:20 New faucet; 02:05 "Sounds like the mail lady"; 02:20 "How did the sidewalk look out there?"; 03:40 Table Battles: Gettysburg released; 04:25 "Dinosaur Table Battles will be a thing"; 04:45 Surprisingly large fandom for the English Civil War; 05:20 Mary sees how it is; 06:10 Antony and Cleopatra; 07:20 MDG Winter Con; 08:10 "You're going to be there how long?"; 09:30 Jury duty; 10:25 The pawn shop robbery; 13:40 "You can go"; 14:35 "Why to Saginaw?"; 15:15 Cliffhanger ending.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Faucet follies; 04:15 Wandering aimlessly; 05:00 Toledo War; 05:50 Charts for four days; 07:15 "Dinosaurs to you too, sweetheart"; 07:20 Table Battles: Gettysburg; 07:50 Antony and Cleopatra; 07:55 "I don't want to see another PAC for a while"; 08:25 With It Or On It; 08:50 "On the back of the book, not the map"; 09:15 District Commander; 09:25 Wacom; 10:30 At All Costs; 10:40 Streets of Shadows; 11:00 Siege of Izmail; 11:30 No timetable for dinosaurs.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 "I was supposed to say dinosaurs"; 00:15 "What did you get on there?"; 01:15 "Fifteen years you've put up with me"; 02:00 Circumventing Valentine's Day; 04:35 The actress with food on her shirt; 05:25 No work on weekends mostly; 06:25 A two hundred page PAC; 06:55 The Mary Wins Rule; 07:15 Graphic design work; 08:45 Prototype cards; 10:35 Table Battles: Gettysburg; 10:5 Antony and Cleopatra; 11:20 Mary is great at PACs.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 The d-word; 00:30 Brave Little Belgium; 00:50 Brave Little Toaster and Hardware Wars, both of which are real movies; 01:40 Sunlight for shooting; 02:05 Videos and presentation; 04:40 Advertising; 07:00 A little bit cold; 07:25 Tom's 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera; 08:20 Tom's uncle buys the car; 10:10 Tom's maternal grandfather outran imaginary Nazis and/or tornados; 11:15 Tom's paternal grandfather actually fought in WWII and Korea; 11:35 Tom's father avoids going into the military; 12:20 Tom's other uncle joins the coast guard; 13:10 No stairs; 14:30 Teetotaler; 15:00 Table Battles: Gettysburg; 15:55 Wilcow.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Extra-Super Wolfman Dracula Moon; 00:30 Episode 39 Recap; 01:00 The Mummy (1932); 01:30 House of Dracula (1945); 04:10 Westphalia playtest; 05:55 Negotiation games; 07:15 The luck of Mary; 09:30 Commands and colors; 11:30 Stuck playing Spain; 13:50 The energy we needed.
00:01 Introduction; 00:10 All year jokes return; 01:00 Twenty minute joke; 01:55 The Heights of Alma; 02:40 Second Chance Games announcement; 03:30 The mysteries of customs charges; 06:05 Problems on our end; 07:00 Disappearing packages; 08:00 "Does it make sense for us?"; 08:25 Customer demographics; 10:20 What about Brexit?; 11:10 Money matters.
00:01 Is it on; 00:05 Introduction; 00:10 What are we talking about?; 00:25 2018 releases; 01:40 The Heights of Alma; 02:30 Hi, mayonnaise, how's it going; 02:40 An inventory of the things on the table; 03:20 Light bulbs; 04:30 Band-aids; 05:30 A sense of loss; 06:00 Tomato sauce hides the blood; 06:35 Brave Little Belgium; 06:45 Widows and orphans; 08:45 Tom attempts to make a request; 09:15 Countermix follies; 09:45 Tom makes a request; 10:40 That's closer to a yes than a no is; 10:55 The Devil's Details; 11:30 A whole stack of books; 12:00 Discworld; 12:20 Tom did well this Christmas; 13:00 Tom didn't do well our first Christmas; 14:20 Not big gift people; 14:40 Mary voids a warranty.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Dinosaur-free Christmas special; 00:55 "Is celebration the word?"; 01:15 Small people punching everybody; 01:55 "I was a weird kid"; 02:20 Birthday knife fight; 03:15 "Has my sister been arrested?"; 03:50 Busting up a poker game; 04:30 Babies are hideous and ugly; 05:00 Our nephew, Volkswagen Russell; 06:00 Westphalia; 07:00 Mary saves the day a lot; 07:30 RIW Hobbies and their old U of M sale; 08:35 The other Agricola; 09:10 Destructive and constructive play; 12:30 Westphalia's victory conditions; 13:25 Hundreds of normal games.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Sale recap; 02:40 c3i; 03:20 In my defense; 04:05 Table Battles c3i expansion; 05:20 Table Battles: Gettysburg; 05:35 The Heights of Alma; 06:00 Brave Little Belgium; 07:25 Dracula voice; 07:55 Normal human laugh; 08:50 Antony and Cleopatra; 10:10 At All Costs; 10:40 Escape from Hades; 12:50 Streets of Shadows; 13:45 Ania B. Ziolkowska is awesome.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 The sale; 00:40 Mary does all the work; 01:40 Hanging out with Max; 02:55 Hanging out with some friends; 03:20 Labyrinth the movie the game; 04:55 Daylight Savings Time is not cheating; 05:25 Tokaido; 07:05 "That sounds like the dumbest thing"; 08:15 Cribbage every night; 09:30 Meltwater out of stock; 10:45 Monster's idea.
00:01 Introduction, sort of; 00:25 Talking turkey; 01:50 Foods that are gross; 02:20 Tom does in fact eat corn; 03:10 The Hollandays Sale; 03:50 Absolutely Aces; 05:10 The Soo Line; 05:50 Dice towers and trays; 06:00 Canvas maps; 06:40 Tom announces his intention to drink Mary's water; 07:05 Mary is surprised for some reason that Tom drank her water; 07:40 Money chips; 09:40 Disclaimer; 10:05 "Why would they buy fifteen?"; 10:20 Shipping timeframes; 11:40 "Dinosaurs, stay away from my water"; 12:15 Second Chance Games.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 This Guilty Land released; 01:25 AIT Upgrade decks; 02:35 More questions; 03:00 Escape from Hades; 04:40 Sci-fi games generally; 05:30 The only two fans in the world of High Speed Hover Tank; 06:10 Shields & Swords Ancients; 06:55 Shields & Swords (medieval edition); 08:05 Black beans; 08:45 Endurance; 10:10 Roman games; 11:40 Developers; 14:45 Mary has a flashback; 16:40 Dinosaur Table Battles.
00:01 Introduction; 00:35 The greatness of Bitskrieg; 00:55 Expiring licenses; 01:45 Union vs. Central; 04:00 Table Battles: Gettysburg; 04:50 Inspirations and influences; 05:25 Knizia; 06:45 Sackson; 07:20 Knizia, again; 08:30 Naval games; 09:45 That old chestnut; 10:35 Narrative-driven; 12:00 Dinosaur Table Battles; 12:45 Digital games; 13:30 Aurelian, Restorer of the World; 16:00 The Shackleton game; 16:30 PNP timeframes; 17:55 State of siege games; 19:30 Bergie epics; 20:20 Component costs and price points; 21:05 Train games; 21:45 Hips.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Days of vomit and defecation; 00:15 Monster, what are you doing; 00:45 Claws gets embarrassed; 03:30 Horse & Musket III released; 03:45 About those tilesheets; 07:05 Halloween parties and costumes; 08:20 No trick-or-treaters; 09:20 Mary remains committed to a gag; 09:30 Send us your questions.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 NATO Air Commander update; 00:30 For-Ex update; 00:45 A sore spot for Mary; 01:55 Why we are doing that; 02:40 Two large closets; 03:50 Hassles at the bank; 06:10 High-level bank executives are dumb; 06:50 The one with the swimming pool; 08:45 Inspections; 10:30 Our new commute; 10:45 Horse & Musket III; 11:35 Theoretically on vacation.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Star Treks; 01:00 Q is boring; 02:35 TNG; 04:20 DS9; 05:15 Smart characters acting dumb; 06:10 NATO Air Commander released; 06:25 First day sales; 07:15 Tom's business advice; 07:45 The PNP question; 09:40 Tom's amused face; 09:55 Prioritizing our time; 11:00 This Guilty Land.
00:01 Introduction; 00:10 Our backyard is overgrown; 02:00 "You let yourself have a chainsaw"; 02:40 A short overview of trees that fell on Tom; 03:45 Mary has the best laugh; 04:00 Ribbit and Meltwater released; 04:35 Blog-things; 06:15 The benefit of writing said blog-things; 07:05 Mary says something really mean about an infant on an airplane; 07:30 Horse & Musket III; 08:00 Mary does not like being a year out; 08:45 Update on At All Costs; 09:20 Update on Escape from Hades; 09:50 Possible delays in shipping orders; 10:35 NATO Air Commander; 11:05 Dinosaurs, again; 11:55 The Doll Hospital and Toy Soldier Shop; 13:15 "You're my star baker, Mary"; 13:35 Tom made a pie, and it was terrible.
00:01 Big garlic; 00:35 Introduction; 00:50 Alleged day off; 01:55 The video game Doom; 02:55 AAUW book sales; 04:50 Adults only portion of the podcast; 06:30 Mark Herman's Ribbit; 07:25 Fun fact about frogs; 07:40 Michigan J. Frog is a jerk, but not a reptile; 08:15 The Soo Line segment; 11:15 Michigan Roads; 12:25 Michigan roads; 14:50 Laziness as a motivator.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Campaign of Nations released; 01:30 Our month-to-month existence; 01:45 New games drive sales; 02:30 September releases; 02:45 Two Cold War games; 04:00 Horse & Musket Volume III; 05:10 Horse & Musket Annual; 05:55 "It used to take me hours"; 07:20 "Dino time"; 08:10 Tom attempts to announce the next Table Battles expansion; 09:30 The only valid criticism of Root; 10:05 This year's holiday game; 10:45 We actually announces the next Table Battles expansion; 12:05 Tom turns down a commission.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Two year anniversary; 00:25 Then and now; 00:50 "Generally, you're not annoying"; 01:05 Finding our niche; 02:30 Mary's psychotic powers; 03:15 Mary's the one with the numbers; 04:25 The old podcasts are back up; 06:40 Ten or eleven hours; 06:55 Gulp-gulp-gulp; 07:15 The hotness; 08:15 Northern Pacific; 09:05 California wildfires; 11:30 This Guilty Land; 14:30 Thank you.
00:01 Introduction; 00:28 Updates; 00:55 Mary is great; 02:20 Mary gives constructive criticism; 03:00 Tom proposes a new holiday; 03:25 Errata; 05:10 Re-layouts are not Mary's favorite thing; 06:52 Working with an "editor"; 07:38 Working with an editor; 08:44 The glue factory rule; 09:32 Mary learns about a lie told to children; 11:28 Mary's cat; 12:10 The basenji; 13:24 Lance loved to get in the car; 14:00 Research for Supply Lines 2; 14:17 "Oh my God, not the bugs".
00:01 Introduction; 00:06 Announcing Wars of Marcus Aurelius; 00:18 Claws says hello; 00:19 Decision space in solitaire games; 01:13 Reasons to say yes; 02:57 Thirteen-hundred cards is still too many cards; 04:30 Trying to shuffle eight-hundred cards; 06:07 Marcus Aurelius cover; 06:28 First draft cover for Seven Pines; 07:34 Optimates et Populares display sheets; 09:43 Here you can start hearing what we assume is either a wasp building a nest or a some kind of swamp mammal in the background for the next two minutes; 10:44 Seven Pines release date.
00:01 Introduction; 00:06 It's been very hot; 00:30 Mystery of the Missing AC Unit; 01:00 Effects of heat on productivity; 02:13 Mary says something gross; 02:50 The summer with no AC in the car; 03:31 RIP, Mary's car, 2001-2016; 04:04 Meet-cute; 04:35 Working at a library; 06:10 No reading in the library; 06:58 On being a manager; 08:40 Comparing development to management; 09:08 Mary is super-cool; 09:34 Tom gets mushy; 09:50 Remembering Tom and Mary's first date.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Conversations with Heavy Cardboard; 01:08 Problems of articulation; 01:40 Competitive versus experiential designs; 03:12 Reiner Knizia is not Mary's Favorite Designer; 05:00 Deck-building games; 06:17 Tom and World War II games; 07:25 Hollandspiele's 2017 release slate; 07:47 Dynasty; 08:31 Seven Pines; or, Fair Oaks; 08:50 Table Battles; 09:20 The goofball niche; 10:16 Objective Shreveport!; 10:55 For-Ex; 11:15 Bitskrieg; 12:15 Charlemagne, Master of Europe; 12:42 Things we can't talk about yet.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 New microphone; 00:28 Tom is cheap, apparently; 00:40 Full-size map upgrades now available; 01:45 Why our maps aren't mounted; 04:15 Methods of risk mitigation; 05:13 Turn-around times for crowdfunding; 06:10 Why crowdfunding is a bad fit; 06:57 What we're interested in, and not; 08:03 Structuring unstructured time; 09:28 The secret origin of Monster's name; 10:11 Dynasty coming out soon; 11:02 Announcing "Bitskrieg"; 11:30 Tom's native language.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Operation Unthinkable; 02:45 Tom's "Annual" Sausage Fest; 04:30 Expensive sausages; 05:00 Duration in games; 05:30 The 18XX; 06:28 Monster games; 07:10 Long video games; 08:28 That sci-fi film where the guy is sad for four hours; 09:50 Richard Berg's Dynasty; 10:40 The elusive crossover market.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Best laid plans, etc., etc.; 00:30 It's really warm; 01:03 Tom allegedly does yard work; 01:33 Don't let trees fall on you; 01:42 Columbuses and Parises; 02:35 Origins; 02:55 People who need to take remedial walking classes; 03:28 Aquaman; 05:08 The wrong shoes; 05:25 Namedropping; 06:18 We've never played games at cons; 06:53 Bad news for European customers; 09:04 Good news for all customers.
00:00 Introduction; 00:08 June's a good month; 00:30 Monster is an effective cat; 01:00 More Aggressive Attitudes; 01:24 Operation Unthinkable; 01:42 theplayersaid; 02:04 July usually comes after June; 02:14 Seven Pines; or, Fair Oaks; 02:36 Dynasty: The Era of the Five Dynasties; 03:10 Crossover appeal; 03:32 Announcing Objective Shreveport!; 04:07 Announcing Table Battles; 04:52 Musical interlude; 05:10 W1815; 06:13 Using dice to make decisions; 07:20 Christmas at White Mountain; 08:14 Foregrounding "Tempo"; 09:53 Origins.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Ow, my back, part two; 01:27 Tentative Origins plans; 01:45 An awful folio game Tom bought; 02:48 A possibly completely wrong short history of Origins; 03:16 Layouts for our July releases; 03:47 Scheduling goals; 04:25 Marketing; 04:42 Doing more videos; 05:30 Charlemagne update; 06:50 Modeling medieval military power.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 We can't go to CSW, sadface; 00:51 What's that movie, Mary?; 01:29 Tom used to be invulnerable; 02:03 Signs on ladders; 02:38 Fear of heights; 02:46 Fear of public speaking; 02:57 Jellyfish are scary terrifying monsters; 03:19 Chevy Chase; 04:36 Battles on the Ice; 05:04 Dead Ringers; 05:33 Next month's releases; 06:08 Anguished sigh; 06:10 Dynasty Update.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 The Fifth Element; 00:50 "Maybe it's too French"; 01:05 Mary is hard to surprise; 01:35 Mary's Multipass; 02:46 Tom's Uncle's Alibis; 04:20 Art budgets; 05:25 Star Wars; 06:45 The cowboy in Hail Caesar; 07:15 Flat characters; 08:08 Hokey music cues; 08:25 The Last Man on Earth; 09:30 PNP sales
00:00 Introduction; 00:08 Horse & Musket out now; 00:20 How we price our games; 03:30 The Golden Age of Wargames; 04:30 "Movies now are terrible"; 05:30 Dinner with a part-time flea market chiropractor; 10:55 Nostalgia is the worst; 11:21 Mary likes science fiction; 13:12 In praise of our artists; 15:12 Forex announced.
00:01 Introduction; 00:06 Weeklyish; 00:47 Special Surprise Guest Host the amazing Claws; 00:56 Lost Provinces; 02:00 Traditional hex-and-counter games; 03:15 Tom is excited about everything; 04:00 Long tails and short windows; 04:55 Upticks; 06:05 Drivers of sales; 07:20 Increased interest in Tom's weirdness; 09:20 Not another dinosaur episode Mary; 09:35 We have the best fans; 10:50 Upgrades sale ends July 31; 11:40 Canvas maps.
00:01 Introduction; 00:08 Lost Provinces released; 00:35 A joke that didn't land; 01:45 John Candy; 02:45 Upgrades available until July 31; 03:45 Dinosaurs; 05:30 A dark place; 05:45 Trains in New England; 06:20 The Soo Line; 06:45 Dinosaurs; 07:00 Don Pteranodon; 07:30 Poor fish; 08:25 Dinosaurs; 08:45 Sold out showings; 09:50 Speaking of dinosaurs; 10:10 Sam Neil's Vineyard; 11:00 Watching all sixteen Andy Hardy movies; 11:20 Dinosaurs.
00:00 Introduction; 00:07 Mail time; 01:18 Prices for wood bits; 02:00 Playing Horse & Musket for three days straight; 03:16 Tom remembers an article from "The General"; 04:17 Tom's Grandpa's Birthday; 04:33 International Tabletop Day; 04:45 The promise of barbeque, unfulfilled; 05:28 Mary wants an expansion for a game we don't own; 06:08 Immune to the lure of Ticket to Ride; 06:25 The airplane one with the stocks; 07:03 Our Dominion habit; 08:05 "Ehhh, but I love you"; 09:10 Playing games for fun; 09:30 Evolution: Climate; 09:53 Sekigahara; 10:13 Mary likes block games quite a bit; 10:46 At All Costs! announced; 11:18 The Gracie Allen Joke.
00:00 Introduction; 00:07 Geographic Tongue; 01:42 An Infamous Traffic Golden Elephant Nomination; 02:17 The Eternal Question; 03:15 Teaching video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpgQ5vRrYmc); 04:36 Optimates et Populares; 05:34 Origins of World War II; 6:00 Why Isn't Opt-Pop 3-4 Players?; 07:44 Charlie-man; 08:09 Roman Numerals; 08:45 Mary's Dracula Voice; 09:20 Blind-Testing for Charlemagne; 10:06 Tom Gets Melancholy.
00:00 Introduction; 00:05 Horse & Musket update; 01:45 Tom attempts to make a casserole; 02:10 Water with vegetables in it; 02:30 White Castle; 03:20 Questions from our listeners; 03:37 How much time do you spend a week running Hollandspiele?; 04:04 Walking the cat; 04:25 Tom's old job; 05:34 Playtesting; 06:48 What are you looking for in a design?; 07:35 Tactical games; 08:35 Tom likes Combat Commander; 09:13 Hammer of the Scots; 10:00 How to Pronounce "Scots"; 10:30 Mary wins; 11:13 C&C Napoleonics (Mary wins); 11:41 Cribbage (Mary wins); 12:17 Scrabble (Mary wins); 12:58 Something Dana Lombardy told Tom; 13:39 The Most-Asked Questions; 14:46 Distribution; 15:41 Overseas; 16:30 Now on Twitter.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 CSW Expo; 02:25 Tom is bad at impressions; 02:40 The Big Push out now; 03:05 Our fiftieth episode; 03:40 "Can we not say we?"; 05:00 We might have three listeners; 05:20 The first question; 05:45 Playing scientific; 07:20 How we got into modern games; 09:45 The second question; 09:55 This Guilty Land; 10:20 The Soo Line; 12:10 Westphalia; 13:35 Shields & Swords Ancients; 14:10 "I notice on your list there are no dinosaurs"; 15:35 This went to a dark place; 16:05 Mowing the grass; 16:35 Contractor stories.
00:00 Meow; 00:01 Introduction; 00:21 Mary's Computer; 01:02 Carrots; 01:32 Recipe for Carrots with Shallots; 02:33 Unsolicited Advertisement for Vernors Ginger Ale; 03:25 Mary Tells a Vernors Story; 04:35 Tom Tells a Vernors Story; 06:00 My Friend the Knife Salesman; 06:30 You Should Watch Rantasmo; 07:15 You Should Listen to Inter-Party Conflict; 07:30 Mary's Computer Issues Solved (Sort of); 09:10 Mary Laughs for Approximately Thirty Seconds; 09:41Working on Charts; 10:30 Tom Slightly Injured His Ulnar Nerve, and It's About As Much Fun As It Sounds; 12:10 Optimates et Populares; 13:20 Forex, The Currency Trading Game; 14:59 Panzer-Pushing.
00:00 Introduction; 00:10 Mary is amazing at driving; 00:30 Root Canals - Not That Bad, Actually; 01:00 Supply Lines out now; 01:32 New titles for old games; 03:07 Horse and Musket update; 03:53 Mary's Eye; 04:16 Games we're playtesting.
00:00 Introduction; 00:10 Cheese-Tasting "Event"; 01:45 Richard Berg's Question, Answered; 03:00 Limburger and Durians; 03:24 Cats and Their Toys; 04:03 Horse & Musket Update; 04:20 Playtest Counters; 05:14 Charlemagne, Master of Europe; 07:45 Supply Lines of the American Revolution: The Northern Theater, 1775-1777: The Title; 08:50 Historicity and Scale/Intent; 10:20 The Road That Wasn't; 11:30 Mary Plays "The Good Guys"; 12:15 The Saga of Mary's Picket.
00:00 Introduction; 00:30 Power Outage; 02:24 Electricity is Great; 03:15 Cubes & Cards; 04:10 Ukrainian Crisis & The Little War Releasing This Week; 04:48 More Aggressive Attitudes, Dynasty, and Operational Unthinkable; 05:24 Battles on the Ice; 06:30 Who's the Director, Mary?; 07:16 Another Battle Whose Name Escapes Me (Karuse); 07:40 Charlemagne; 08:54 The Spanish Ulcer; 09:30 The Glorious First of June; 10:57 "Master and Commander" is Great.
00:00 Introduction; 00:45 Ukrainian Crisis & The Little War; 02:05 Unhappy Mail Lady; 03:25 German vs. Domestic Wood Bits; 05:20 Romans with Zero Noses; 06:54 Reasonably Smart and Cool on Average; 07:45 Horse & Musket; 09:22 Tom Can't Pronounce Jalapeno; 10:45 Pricing and Marketability for Obscure Battles; 14:15 Tom Gets Into Trouble.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Air conditioning; 01:30 The HVAC guys; 03:25 Origins; 05:05 Send Mary t-shirts and buttons; 06:30 People playing our games at Origins; 08:40 Getting lost in Ohio; 10:20 Next episode.
00:01 Introduction; 00:10 Mary's water; 01:00 Age of Alexander released; 01:15 Games with cards; 02:55 Tom's allergy; 04:30 Tom's three fish; 05:15 The Big Push; 05:45 The Six Million Dollar Cat; 07:25 Monster's weird belly; 09:05 Air conditioning update; 09:45 Origins and CSW Expo; 10:30 Playing things by ear.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 It's kinda warm; 01:05 In-between chickens; 02:20 Everything we own is broken; 02:55 Heavy Con; 04:50 The flight back; 05:40 I'm not saying the TSA stole my suspenders; 06:10 The people you meet on airplanes; 08:45 Age of Alexander update; 09:20 Old episodes.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 The Southern Strategy released; 00:50 Hotter and farther south; 01:40 Linking games; 03:50 Hypotheticals; 04:50 Bagging bits; 06:50 Updates on projects; 07:20 Finding good photos for the Franco-Thai War of 1941; 09:15 Tom thinks he's funny.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Wars of Marcus Aurelius released; 00:50 Tom's initial skepticism toward solitaire games; 02:35 Other solo games in the works; 02:55 Backlog of games and submissions; 04:50 Difficulty finding games previously; 06:15 Tom takes a year off apparently; 07:00 The Endurance game; 08:45 Mary is pushy; 09:20 So let's talk about Prepotent; 13:15 Tongue twister; 13:45 What works for our model; 14:15 How the size of our guest bedroom impacts our release schedule; 15:15 Types of nuts.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Cards of Marcus Aurelius; 01:40 Longform Videos; 04:00 We just paid our taxes; 04:50 Porch steps; 06:00 The Mary and Tom and Tom's Grandma Show; 07:05 Sopa de Ajo; 09:35 Salty leeks; 10:25 Supply Lines Update.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Texas is warmer than Michigan; 01:10 Dry heat is a hoax; 01:45 Snow in April; 03:15 Girl scout cookies; 05:40 Coconut is gross; 06:30 Great Heathen Army; 07:25 What was that movie; 07:55 Tom's grandmother; 09:05 Tom would not be a good bounty hunter; 09:40 The Goodwill Store; 10:40 Wars of Marcus Aurelius; 11:55 Meltwater; 12:55 Still surprised about Supply Lines; 13:40 Where's my stop button?
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Top Secret Tabletop RPG; 01:00 "Why did you do this to us?"; 02:00 Mary enjoys breaking things; 02:15 Mary chooses a real-world profession; 03:30 Black pajamas all around; 04:00 Hudson Hawk; 06:20 Monster is also a big sci-fi fan; 07:10 2d6 roll probabilities and target numbers; 09:10 Werewolves who smoke; 09:40 But Mary; 10:05 Publishing science fiction games; 10:04 Announcing Fred Manzo's Escape From Hades; 12:20 Hood's Last Gamble; 12:25 Great Heathen Army.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Boom & Zoom released; 00:05 Games about dinosaurs, by decree of Mary; 02:10 Tom's computer starts making annoying noises; 02:50 The international market for abstract games; 03:15 Hood's Last Gamble; 03:40 The Great Heathen Army; 05:20 Wars of Marcus Aurelius; 05:35 Supply Lines: The Southern Strategy; 06:00 Stuff happens; 06:40 The meaning of "tabletop RPG"; 08:00 Crabs with money; 08:35 Dogs named Ralph; 10:05 Feeling guilty about killing things in video games; 10:45 Event Horizon Dawn; 11:15 "I don't like killing robots either"; 12:45 Bugs; 14:15 Lumo; 15:10 Platforming; 15:55 Infected controllers; 16:20 Way enough stuff for a podcast.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Four-zero; 00:30 Train games; 02:10 Wargames with a train game sensibility; 02:55 Brittle designs; 06:15 Cup adjustments; 06:50 What is a game series?; 08:35 Mushy stuff.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Alleged supermoon; 01:35 Actual supermoon; 03:15 Table Battles: Wars of the Roses; 03:35 Pre-release versus post-release buzz; 04:40 Deadlock as decision space; 06:15 Humbled; 06:50 A day off; 07:45 February is not conducive to romantic picnics; 08:05 Grief diminishes and happiness grows; 08:40 "I still can't believe you married me"; 08:55 Mary is the magic that makes this work; 09:20 Mushy stuff.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 It has been a week; 00:10 Our car's cool convenience feature; 01:30 Mary teaches Tom a car thing; 03:00 Visiting Tom's grandfather; 04:00 John Gorkowski's The Lost Provinces; 05:00 Mark Herman's Ribbit; 06:30 Playing Final Fantasy; 07:40 A tragedy; 08:45 Dee and Dee; 09:30 Our long-running campaign; 09:55 Sheriff Feer and Jen; 10:30 Baby owlbear; 11:30 "You did give me a dragon"; 12:00 Squoonched; 12:35 Creating a story together; 13:15 "We have a lot of stuff on the backburner"; 13:45 "This week is going to be a good week".
00:01 Triple Introduction; 00:30 An excellent business strategy; 01:24 A Monster under the table; 01:50 Every day is Saturday; 02:40 Next three games are done; 04:10 NATO Air Commander update; 04:30 Making a Vassal mod is hard; 05:45 The Hollandspiele Theory of Playtesting; 07:00 A stack of submissions; 07:20 Making submissions easy to get on the table; 08:40 Making prototype counters; 10:25 Pitching the banana game; 10:45 Fun facts about bananas; 11:45 Engaging with history; 12:25 Not a napkin; 13:15 Why isn't it turning off?
00:01 Introduction; 00:06 All Year jokes; 01:10 The Christmas Plague; 02:15 Going to the store; 04:35 Reprimanded for being sick; 06:15 Reprimanded for not dying; 08:30 Oddly fairly productive; 09:50 Excited about This Guilty Land; 10:50 "You get sick and you do a lot of work"; 11:40 We tried to go to a movie; 12:20 January releases.
00:01 Introduction; 00:20 Christmas snuck up on Tom for some reason; 00:45 Christmas music; 02:30 A distinct lack of novelty songs; 02:50 Depressed houseplants; 03:35 Giving weapons to children; 04:15 Stuff; 06:10 Christmas has gotten really low-key; 06:50 The dragonslayer; 08:45 "Where are you?"; 10:15 Table Battles update; 11:20 Everybody likes dinosaurs.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Sale update; 00:40 Table Battles bits saga, continued; 03:20 We're fans of the United States Postal Service; 04:40 Mary ordered the snow; 05:35 The snow plow's vendetta against our driveway; 07:45 They don't plow in Detroit; 09:30 Supply Lines of the American Revolution: The Southern Strategy.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 That was me; 00:35 Monster, don't eat dirt; 00:55 Experimenting with sales; 03:05 Going all in on Napgammon; 03:30 Monster, don't eat Kleenex; 03:55 Ascribing human motivations to animals; 04:30 Update on upgrades; 07:00 Table Battles bits update; 08:50 Dang that mail lady.
00:01 Introduction; 00:06 Accidental hiatus; 00:35 Hi us; 00:51 Very historically accurate; 01:38 Volume of sales; 03:10 Table Battles out of stock (again); 03:55 Pretty much at the dumbest level; 05:00 Holiday sale starting 12/1; 06:25 Napgammon question mark; 08:07 January releases; 09:15 Game does not actually talk.
00:01 Introduction; 00:20 Getting rules wrong; 01:25 Meeting Patrick; 02:30 The pushy waitress; 03:40 Table Battles: The Wars of the Roses; 04:20 Designing Table Battles scenarios; 05:30 Tighter morale cube mix; 06:23 General plans for Table Battles expansions; 06:55 Dinosaurs; 07:35 Mary always has great ideas; 07:50 Supply Lines: The Southern Strategy; 08:40 Partisan forces; 09:30 Paired impulses; 10:40 How the two conflicts feed into one another; 11:10 The Heights of Alma; 11:40 While you were blathering on; 11:50 Mary's Picket was very brave.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 We sold a few copies of For-Ex; 00:35 Mary never doubted; 02:00 Matching games to customers; 03:40 Comparing For-Ex to Acquire; 04:40 Comparing For-Ex to Northern Pacific; 06:10 Playing time; 06:35 India Rails; 07:40 Our weird games sell better; 08:05 Received wisdom in the wargames industry; 09:55 Bitskrieg release date; 10:20 They do in fact have an animal.
00:01 Introduction; 00:06 For-Ex Released; 00:28 Cat-related interlude; 00:50 Container; 02:15 Blottie; 02:35 Our kickstarter history; 03:25 The inevitability of the American Civil War; 04:31 Should you buy For-Ex?; 05:25 Winning with no idea how you did that; 06:15 Random stock availability at set-up; 07:55 The paradox of investing; 08:35 The paradox of divesting; 10:00 For-Ex as a risky game; 10:15 Player counts; 12:25 Mary the World For-Ex Champion; 13:35 Division warning; 14:20 Tom alienates a large and very vocal part of science fiction fandom.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Guys, it's autumn; 00:40 Saga of the Pickle Soup; 02:16 Bread-and-butter pickles versus dill pickles; 02:55 Parmesan cheese; 03:35 Mary has been cruelly denied Romano cheese for fourteen years apparently; 04:50 Limburger cheese; 06:05 Tom's culinary upbringing; 06:20 Scalloped potatoes and spam; 07:10 Mary introduced Tom to food; 07:51 We should probably talk about games, I guess; 08:48 Development of Bitskrieg; 09:15 Streamlining; 09:45 The key to strong game design; 10:25 The job of a developer; 12:35 We have a lot of stuff to work on.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Objective Shreveport! released; 00:15 Comparing Shreveport with More Aggressive Attitudes; 01:25 For-Ex update; 01:40 Tomsbakasaga; 02:10 "We're quite a pair"; 02:45 "Baby tanks"; 03:20 Charlie-man rulebook layout; 04:40 Horse & Musket II update; 05:08 Announcing Table Battles: Wars of the Roses; 06:03 Announcing The Big Push; 07:10 Announcing Pharaoh; 08:50 No Pasta water rules; 09:20 Gary Busey; 09:50 Business advice for first-time designers.
00:01 Introduction; 00:06 A tree falls in Dearborn; 01:07 Museumfest; 01:25 Tom's sense of direction; 02:20 The return trip; 03:35 "Where am I?"; 04:25 ASL; 05:05 Time scale; 05:45 In which we discuss several sitcoms; 07:00 The joke is always on whatever the woman's name was; 07:45 Tom can't tell how old people are; 08:25 Comparing Table Battles to an introductory hex-and-counter game; 09:10 Playing Battles on the Ice with a kid; 10:00 Tom hates children, apparently; 10:40 Playing draughts with a kid; 12:20 Supply Lines cubes are like Hot Pockets; 13:45 Feeling blessed.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 The number twenty-five; 00:19 A shocking twist; 00:45 Table Battles did okay; 01:00 Spoiler alert: they did arrive; 01:20 Tom is a dweeb; 02:00 Table Battles as a filler game; 02:30 Mary's opinion of odds-based CRTs; 02:45 Charlemagne release plans; 02:55 Differences between Charlemagne and Agricola; 03:15 Time scale and turn structure of Charlemagne vs. Agricola; 04:55 Things that sap VP and wealth in Charlemagne; 05:35 Minimum military strength; 06:15 Winning conditions for Charlemagne; 06:50 How to become Holy Roman Emperor; 07:30 Replay value of Charlemagne vs. Agricola; 08:27 Difficulty level; 09:20 Battles in Charlemagne; 11:43 Suppression and Siegecraft; 13:00 The next Shields & Swords II game; 14:10 Shields & Swords Ancients; 15:25 Number five; 15:38 Holiday sale plans; 16:48 Freebie game for the holiday sale; 17:22 Roll-and-move game with a deterministic odds-based CRT.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Running late; 00:25 Company business stuff; 00:39 Our seveneighteenth release; 01:00 Dang that mail lady; 01:35 Table Battles play example available; 02:10 For-Ex update; 02:50 The reddit; 03:20 For-Ex rules; 05:05 The broader audience for super-niche games; 06:08 A shocking twist; 07:13 Quote-unquote normal; 08:18 Blood & Guts Games, LLC; 08:40 We can't go to Essen unless you smuggle us in your luggage; 09:15 Bitskrieg cover; 09:40 Baby tank; 10:00 The dual audiences for Bitskrieg; 10:38 Our first (only?) game with a mounted board.
00:01 Introduction; 00:05 How the anniversary sale went; 00:50 "We" (or Tom) made a mistake; 01:49 Mary has the best laugh; 02:20 Sales predictions; 04:25 Claws, don't chew on that bag; 04:57 Table Battles info; 05:25 Shortage on Table Battles; 07:40 For-Ex and its audience; 07:59 Mary likes For-Ex; 08:43 For-Ex has a lot of cards; 10:24 Cranbrook is pretty nice; 11:00 Mary is unflappable; 11:17 Tom is risk-adverse; 11:46 The best environment for panicking.
00:01 We live in a fly zone; 00:17 Introduction; 00:23 Altercation at the cinema; 01:45 We could have saved the day; 02:53 The worst part about seeing movies in the theater; 03:45 That time we saw The VVitch; 05:03 The absolute worst; 05:37 We continue to pay our mortgage; 06:18 Convincing people not to buy our games; 07:58 Trying to get ahead; 08:22 Traffic Living Rules update; 09:28 Mr. Green; 10:20 Difficulty getting some games on the table.
00:01 Introduction; 00:07 An anniversary; 00:24 Mary disagrees; 00:34 Another anniversary; 00:45 How time works; 00:56 Mary changes her mind; 01:05 Sale announcement; 02:21 Updates on upcoming games; 03:16 Canadians are usually pretty good people; 03:45 A serious discussion of tank counter art; 05:40 An ode to Mary; 05:52 Playtesting Wars of Marcus Aurelius; 07:13 A running gag; 07:25 "I don't do words good, Mary"; 07:42 Claws wants to go outside.