Decision Space

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 127 - Chicago Express/Wabash Cannonball Choo Choo! The Interdecisiona Spaceship is now officially a train because we are now officially train game guys (some of the biggest ever)! Today, Brendan and Jake chugga chugga choo choo their way deep into the heart of Chicago Express/Wabash Cannonball's decision space. This game is designed by John Bohrer and published by Winsome and Queen games.     Pre-Planners Challengers!, Ark Nova, Can't Stop!, Spots, and more will be covered on the show soon! 👀   Timestamps  Intro/Ratings - 0:00 Game Background - 7:30 Rules Overview - 15:39 Deep Dive - 18:36   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 126 - Answering ALL of Reddit's Board Game Questions In this bonus episode of Decision Space, we answer questions found on r/boardgames.   Pre-Planners Chicago Express (Wabash Cannonball), Challengers! are in our hopper. Ark Nova is also going into the queue.   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 125 - Designer Space on Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling For the first time, Decision Space attempts to explore the ludography and design ethos of a famous board game designer. We are nothing if not ambitious, so perhaps unwisely, this first effort features two designers - Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling. We'll start with a mini review of Tikal, then dive into what the history and games that make these designers great. Buckle up Interdecisional Spaceship travelers, this trip will run a smidge longer than normal.   Pre-Planners Chicago Express (Wabash Cannonball), Challengers! are in our hopper. We are also considering adding Ark Nova to the queue. Timestamps Intro and Housekeeping - 0:00 Tikal - 4:33 Five Tribes - 14:30 Heimlich & Co - 24:15 Downforce -  24:44 El Grande - 30:55 6 Nimmt! - 33:22 Colloseum - 33:52 Princes of Florence - 35:11 Heimlich and Co. - 35:48 Azul - 36:36 Azul Stained Glass of Sintra - 36:47 Azul Summer Pavilion - 36:57 Azul Queen's Garden - 36:59 Bamboo - 37:27 Vikings - 39:49 Heaven and Ale - 41:03 Miyabi - 45:34 The Mask Triology (Tikal, Cuzco, Mexica) - 47:24 Cuzco - 47:42 Torres - 50:30 Joraku - 52:14 Palaces of Carrara - 53:08 Renature - 54:00 Savannah Park - 57:35 Maharaja - 1:00:07 Coal Baron - 1:00:13 Linko! - 1:00:38 Imhotep - 1:08:06   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 124 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Comfort Games Snuggle up in a favorite cozy corner, grab yourself a chai, and just make yourself comfortable. Today, all seats in the Interdecisional Spaceship are not in their up right and locked position. Today, we are laid back, relaxed, and chilling out to the low-volume, dulcet tones of Jake and Brendan as we talking about comfort games. We discuss what makes a game comfortable, why that is valuable, and offer some of our favorites in this broad and gentle category.   Pre-Planners Chicago Express (Wabash Canonball), possibly Challengers! are in our hopper. We'll post another poll to patreon for our patrons to select a deep dive game again soon. Timestamps Cascadia - 2:07 Dorfromantic - 2:19 Next Station: London - 2:41 Fun Facts - 3:01 Challengers! - 4:04 Tikal - 8:34 Azul - 9:40 Trajan - 14:06 My City - 15:31 Cascadia - 19:10 Welcome To - 22:58 Carcasonne - 24:27 Arboretum - 28:18 Cascadia - 29:36 Castles of Burgundy - 31:14 My City - 33:10 Qwixx - 36:33 Trails of Tucana - 38:01 Cartographers - 38:39 So Clover, Just One, and Codenames - 40:20 Fun Facts - 42:53 True Colors - 43:08 Dominion - 43:51 Sagrada - 44:57 Castles of Mad King Ludwig - 46:27 Aeon's End - 48:07 Kingdomino - 49:55 Savannah Park - 50:38   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 123 - Troyes It's been like 10 episodes since the last one, but we are finally back with the original, iconic deep dive Decision Space format. This week, we cover "TROY-EZZ," "TWAHH," and probably a bunch of other pronunciations for Troyes, a board game published by Pearl Games and designed by Sébastien Dujardin, Xavier Georges, Alain Orban. Would you believe Troyes came out 13 years ago? Now that you mention it, that it explains a lot! Thanks to our patrons for selecting this game for deep dive! The Interdecisional Spaceship is away!   Pre-Planners Troyes and Chicago Express (Wabash Canonball) are likely to be our next deep dive episodes! Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Ratings and Slogans - 2:11 Game Background -5:30 Rules Overview - 9:51 Deep Dive - 11:25   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 122 - Rondel Roundtable Feat. Findorff and Imperial 2030 Rondels baby! What could be more exciting than that? It's your favorite board gamer's favorite board game mechanism. RONDEL. Excuse me. Okay, now that that is out of my system, in this week's episode of Decision Space, we share our experience with two games featuring rondels, Findorff and Imperial 2030. After that we zoom out and chat a bit about what rondels in general! Interdecisional Spaceship, engage your spin drive, centripetal force, and all other round sounding things because rondels aren't gonna rotate pawns around themselves!   Pre-Planners Troyes and Chicago Express (Wabash Canonball) are likely to be our next deep dive episodes! Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Defining Rondels - 2:30 Findorff - 5:30 Imperial 2030 - 21:58 Rondel Discussion - 37:43 Great Western Trail -38:09 Glen Moore - 39:21 Heaven and Ale -39:43   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 121 - Geekway Plays and Large Player Count Games Feat. Blood on the Clocktower, Guards of Atlantis II, and Challengers! We did it. Jake and Brendan have final met and gamed together in person, and, good news, we aren't ending the podcast. In this episode we briefly touch on all the games we played that we said we wanted to play on last weeks episode, then we pivot. In the second half, we discuss some large player count games we got to try at geekway, including Blood on the Clocktower, Guards of Atlantis II, and Challengers! We are leaving room here to talk more in depth about all the other awesome games we played at Geekway in future episodes. We'll see you there, but before them, suit up decisionaughts and let's ride!   Pre-Planners Troyes and Chicago Express (Wabash Canonball) are likely to be our next deep dive episodes! Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Bamboo - 6:56 Findorff - 8:40 Challengers! - 10:39 Millenium Blades - 10:58 Blood on the Clocktower - 12:41 Samurai - 12:59 Imperial 2030 - 14:29 My City Roll & Write - 16:58 Pokemon TCG - 17:58 Monolith Arena - 18:52 Solforge Fusion - 19:56 Ra - 20:58 Babylonia - 22:04 Zoo VAdis - 24:06 Tikal - 25:07 Hansa Teutonica - 25:52 Unrest - 26:15 Blood on the Clocktower - 30:50 Guards of Atlantis II - 41:03 Challengers! - 54:13   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 120 - Mission Plan for Geekway to the West Brendan and Jake get hyped as they discuss the games that they most want to play this weekend at Geekway to the West. Now that the mission plan is complete, come back next week when we'll discuss the games that we actually played!   Pre-Planners The Resistance and Social Deduction Games and Troyes Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Main Topic - 5:25 Pokemon Trading Card Game - 6:50 Flesh and Blood - 8:37 Solforge Fusion - 8:38 Ra - 9:49 Babylonia - 11:04 Monolith Arena - 13:11 Bamboo - 15:15 Inis - 19:35 Imperial 2030 - 19:37 Kemet - 22:01 Findorff - 23:20 Sidereal Confluence - 27:36 Challengers - 32:37 Mosaic - 35:27 Millenium Blades - 39:38 Inside Job - 42:29 Blood on the Clocktower - 43:46 Samurai - 47:14 My City Roll & Write - 48:08 Orichalcum - 49:00   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 119 - Architects of the West Kingdom It's the return of the deep dive. Strap into your Interdecisional Spaceship safety harnesses because we are heading for the West Kingdom. Specifically, we explore Architects of the West Kingdom by Shem Phillips and S J Macdonald on this week's episode of Decision Space. Brendan calls it the Call of Duty of board games.    Pre-Planners The Resistance and Social Deduction Games and Troyes Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Ratings and Reviews and Game Background - 4:10 Rules Overview - 11:44 Deep Dive - 14:48 Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. VOTE for us for a Golden Geek award here - https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame. Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 118 - Top 10 Games of All Time Let's cut to the chase. Today, Brendan and I bring you our top 10 games of all time as of May 3rd, 2023. It's been about 80 episodes since we last shared our lists, so this seemed as good a time as any to update you as to who we are and how we are growing as gamers since last time around.    Pre-Planners The Resistance and Social Deduction Games, Troyes, Architects of the West Kingdom, and Chicago Express Timestamps Housekeeping - 1:42 Top 10 Games of All Time - 3:42 Honorable Mentions - 5:19 Modern Art - 5:24 Barrage - 5:41 Fox in the Forest - 5:49 Blue Lagoon - 6:18 The Castles of Burgundy - 6:20 Lost Cities - 6:21 Kanagawa - 6:22 The Resistance - 8:02 So Clover - 8:09 Wavelength - 8:12 Just One - 8:14 The Mind - 8:39 Aeon's End - 8:54 Spirit Island - 8:57 Arkham Horror: LCG - 8:59 Top 10 - 10:26 The Isle of Cats - 11:33 Monolith Arena - 14:54 Barrage - 18:41 The Resistance - 23:13 Broom Service - 27:00 Cascadia - 30:20 Renature - 34:14 Keyflower - 37:47 My City - 40:59 BattleCon - 44:03 Grand Austria Hotel - 47:18 Tigris and Euphrates - 49:46 Bruge - 52:32 El Grande - 55:34 Ra - 57:09 Cosmic Encounter - 1:00:18 The Castles of Burgundy - 1:02:16 Broom Service - 1:04:25 A Feast for Odin - 1:06:07 Babylonia - 1:09:01   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!