Episodes
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Episode 172 - 7th Son of a 7th Sun
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Ronan flies solo this time around and gives seven reviews of seven shorter games that have been hitting the table recently.
The game covered are; Watch, Dinosaur Island: Rawr'n'Write, Kim Joy's Magic Bakery, Photograph: Wind the Film, Cartographers: Heroes, Ten Suns and Genius Square.
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Monday Jan 17, 2022
Episode 171 - Picking Over the Bones
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Sean and Ronan delve into The Pit once more and pick the bones of eight more modern board games to give you their opinions.
The games covered in this episode are; IKI, The Great Wall, Almadi, Furnace, Savannah Park, Dinosaur Qorld, Great Plains and Pier 18.
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Friday Jan 07, 2022
Episode 170 - Top 10 Overrated Games
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Who knows why some men do mean things? Sean decided to kick off 2022 with a bang. Here are our Top 10 most overrated games of all time. Other opinions exist but they are probably wrong.
This was recorded back in November so apologies for dated references and out of date BGG rankings.
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Monday Nov 22, 2021
Episode 169 - Six Solos Sorted
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Ronan gives a review of six solo games he has been delving into over the past few weeks. Ranking them from least to most favourite.
The games covered are; Cartographers, EIYO, Nautilion, Solar Storm, Veilwraith and Warp's Edge.
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Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Episode 168 - Frontline Report: LoBsterCon XXI
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Ronan drops a quickie to cover a few of the games he managed to play at LoBsterCon XXI this past weekend including K3, Legendary: Buffy, Journey to the Center of the Earth, TM: Ares Expedition, So Clover and more...
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Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Episode 167 - Top 10 of 2020 and much more with Matthew Jude
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Matthew Jude joins us once more as we take a look back at 2020 through the lens of our annual awards which cover Under the Radar, Not in Our Wheelhouse, Best Presentation, Top 3 Disappointments and Top 10 Games of the Year.
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Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Sean is glorious in his return to reviewing games and talking about how very, very many games he buys while Ronan ponders whether he is The Sorceror Supreme.
Picked over this episode are Cascadia, The Initiative, Descent: Legends of the Dark, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Intrepid, Subastral Dive and My City.
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Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Episode 165 - Ronan Reviews: Cryo, Embarcadero, Dominant Species Marine and more
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Ronan is back into solitary confinement, probably the best place for him. His rambling this time around cover Cryo, Embarcadero, Dominant Species: Marine, Faiyum, Pan-Am, Wish Land, Die of the Dead, Embers of Memory and Dean 'Sexy Beast' Morris.
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Monday Aug 02, 2021
Episode 164 - Top 10 Deckbuilders
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Sean is back and dropping some opinions on a few of the games he has been playing recently including a free print and play that has tickled him.
Following that Sean and Ronan give their Top 10 Deck Building games. The best of the best to have grabbed their attention since the mechanism burst onto the scene just thirteen (???) years ago. Time flies.
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Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Episode 163 - Ronan Reviews
Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Apologies for the missing review of 2020, The Curse of Jude struck again.
Instead have some reviews covering; Detective: City of Angels, MicroMacro: Crime City, Marvel Champions: Rise of The Red Skull, Sprawlopolis, Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, Nations: The Dice Game, Isle of Cats expansion news and what is new to the collection.
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Monday Jun 28, 2021
Episode 162 - Ronan Reviews
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Back once again like a Renegade (not the publisher) Master, Ronan brings seven reviews to your ears as he catches up on his 2021 plays.
Rolling and racing with Cubitos, fiddling with future gladiators in Fired Up!, putting nutritionalists in peril in Dead of Winter: The Long Night, sky diving in Bunny Kingdom, space invading with Under Falling Skies, sneaking and beaking in Tyrants of the Underdark and getting a headache while thinking too hard in Solarius Mission.
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Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Episode 161 - Ronan Reviews
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
This time around Ronan is flying solo and reviews six games he has played in recent months; The Red Cathedral, Dune Imperium, Curious Cargo, Nidavellir, Aqualin and Champions of Midgard expansions. He also talks about recent additions to his collections and projects he has backed in Crowdfunding.
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Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Episode 160 - Natalie's Top 20 Games of All Time
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
As the title suggests Natalie is again lured into the Pit to reveal her all time top 20 games.
Sean puts unnecessary pressure on himself by trying to predict what games she will choose and they briefly talk/argue about some Kickstarter projects.
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Episode 159 - Top 10 of 2011
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Sean and Ronan travel through the mists of time to unveil the great board gaming monuments which were first published ten years ago and have truly stood the test of time to still entertain and engage. Join us for their Top 10 of 2011.
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Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Sean is joined by a mystery host as they review eight modern board games they have been playing recently followed by some chat on recent crowd funders they have sniffed at and what games have joined their collections recently.
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Monday Jan 25, 2021
Episode 157 - Reviews including Bonfire, Paris and more
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Sean and Ronan gather out of the cold and run through eight modern board games they have been playing recently. Games covered include the new Stefan Feld thinker Bonfire and the Kickstarted, Kiesling and Kramer area majority game Paris plus six more games.
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Friday Jan 15, 2021
Episode 156 - Feld vs Rosenberg with Dan Hughes
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Sean and Ronan are joined by Dan Hughes who announces some exciting new features for the upcoming CoraQuest family board game, available via kickstarter.com from 1st until 18th February 2021.
He also manages to sort of pull together a Top 10 comparing two actual titans of board game design to help us pick a kind of winner in this Head to Head Top 10.
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Friday Dec 04, 2020
Episode 155 - Pit Spit
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Sean and Ronan are back to review eight more modern board games including Alma Mater, Rome and Roll, Castles of Tuscany and much more. They also talk about what games have arrived in The Pit recently and which Kickstarter projects have caught their eye.
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Friday Oct 23, 2020
Episode 154 - Top 10 Games Outside BGG Top 5000
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Sean and Ronan have put together their Top 10 List of games outside the www.boardgamegeek.com Top 5000 in Ratings. This episode is full of hidden gems and neglected treasures of modern board gaming.
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Friday Oct 16, 2020
Episode 153: Pit Spit
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Sean and Ronan are back in The Pit after a summer break to deal with work, life and everything else that has had us all busy these past few months.
In this episode they review Project ELITE, Smartphone Inc and six other games that have been keeping their tables hot.
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