Author: Anthony
Anthony
Anthony cofounded Board Gamers Anonymous in 2013 and has been on (almost) every episode. Today, he lives in Philadelphia with his family and teaches first year writing at Thomas Jefferson University.
Time to blast off into space! We have three games for you this week which all take place in the so-called final frontier. First up will be Kepler 3042 (1:41), a Euro-style game which emulates space exploration, but with a heavy Euro twist. Next, we talk about Alien Artifacts (14:15), a new empire building card game from Portal Games. Finally, for all you Star Trek fans, we give you our opinions on the Borg expansion for Star Trek Ascendency (26:35). Finally, we canvassed some people online to see what they thought about space themes in games (42:48). What’s appealing? What…
As a special treat to our listeners, we packaged all the extra random stuff we talked about with Ignacy Trzewiczek into its own short episode. We talk about PayPal, Russian hackers, Jumanji, failing at podcasts, and more. If you haven’t already, please check out Episode 68 for the official interview with Ignacy.
2017 is finally over and before we look too far into the future for 2018, we wanted to take a moment and review the year that was. This week, Chris and Anthony dive into 2017 in review, including a look at our most anticipated games of last year and how they performed. First up, we asked the listeners which game they would like to see have a campaign-style expansion added to. Next up we dive into our acquisition disorders, including Gentes Deluxe and Scythe: Rise of Fenris. For our At the Table segment this week, Anthony reviews Civilization: A New…
We are very excited to be joined once again by Ignacy Trzewiczek, president of Portal Games. Ignacy joined us last year to talk about the pre-order campaign for First Martians. This time, he’s back to talk about the launch, future content, and yes… the rulebook. We think you will be very interested to hear Ignacy give his honest opinions. We also talk about lots more releases coming from Portal in 2018, including new expansions for Robinson Crusoe, Alien Artifacts, and Imperial Settlers. We hope you enjoy the episode. Also, stay tuned Monday for some extra conversation we had about all…
Viral is a game with an interesting concept. In terms of theme, much like Pandemic, it pits humans against viruses in a battle for supremacy, but instead of working together to overcome disease, you are the disease. Players take on the role of one of several different types of viruses (color coded of course), that are ravaging through the human body, attempting to reign supreme over the faceless person the board represents. An area control game, you’ll play cards and manipulate the board in an attempt to have supremacy and in some cases, complete control over certain systems and organs…
InsideUp Games provided a review copy of Summit: The Board Game for the purposes of this review. Summit: The Board Game is an ambitious game. It is loaded with options – from the double-sided board that supports two different modes of play, to the vast difficulty settings and the volume of items you’ll encounter during your ascent. This is part of what attracted me to the game – the sheer number of options to sort through and different ways to approach this game. It’s also why it’s taking me a bit of time to prepare this review after receiving the…
Episode 150! It’s a big one for us, so we wanted to do something extra special. Join Chris and Anthony as they revisit and rework the BGA Top 100 games of all time, in a brand new, very-euro heavy list. Listen to hear if your favorites made it, and where they fell. And if they didn’t, let us know which games SHOULD have made it. If you haven’t yet, be sure to connect with us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/boardgamersanonymous), Twitter (http://twitter.com/bgapodcast), and on our website (www.www.boardgamersanonymous.com). You can support the show as well by donating on Patreon (www.patreon.com/bga), or using our Amazon…
We had so much fun talking with Colin about some new FFG games that we invited him to stick around and talk about… some more stuff! We discuss two more adventure board games with large amounts of content and the promise of more to come. First, we talk the Dungeons and Dragons themed card game Dragonfire (0:58), comparing it to its predecessor Shadowrun: Crossfire as well as other similar, very popular games in the genre. Then we tackle the latest festival of miniatures and dungeon adventures that is Massive Darkness (13:05). We close out with a discussion of miniatures in…
A belated Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year to everyone out there! We’re a day late in getting this week’s episode up, but know you’ll appreciate having some extra content to listen to mid-week with the holiday break upon us. Kicking things off this week, we asked you, the listeners, what games they had spent the most hours playing this year. Next up, we dive into our biggest acquisition disorders of the last couple weeks, including the hotly anticipated digital implementation of Lord of the Rings Card Game and Uwe Rosenberg’s newest, Reykholt. Anthony Talks about his recent…
‘Tis the season for… lots of new releases from Fantasy Flight! There’s so much stuff, Jason and Anthony had to call in Colin from the YouTube channel One Stop Co-Op Shop in order to talk about it all. You will hear our usual in-depth coverage of three new, very different releases from FFG. First up, we break down the new Imperial Assault: Legends of the Alliance app (1:30) and let you know our opinion about how it opens up cooperative and solo play for people who already love (or might love) Imperial Assault. Then we cover Fallout (11:40), a more…