Episode 47: Beer games and board games

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Pull up a chair at the bar as Tambo plays barkeeper as the team talk about mixing board games with drinking games...what could possibly go wrong.
FIRST PLAYER: Tambo
OTHER PLAYERS: JP & Davey
OVERVIEW
In this episode you'll learn:
- about Davey's thoughts in the new Dune Uprising and how different from Dune Imperium it really is
- that JP has jumped into the Abyss in Revives latest expansion
- that this town isn't big enough for all of us in Tiny Epic Westerns
- about our hypothetical conversation of mixing in drinking games with board games with some unique ideas
- that we invented a drinking style boardgame called AlphaSlang which has probably been developed elsewhere before...maybe
- whether the Whose Turners will choose to play Battlestar Galactica with Starbuck or Twilight Imperium with Seven of Nine
LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW
Our live UK Games Expo 2024 event - Plan your calendars and join in with us on a live recording of the show. https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/1415-whose-turn-is-it-anyway-live-podcast/
EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
4:28 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex
4:48 - Davey - Dune Uprising
14:25 - JP - Revive: Call of the Abyss
22:31 - Tambo - Tiny Epic Westerns
28:10 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Beer games & board games
29:03 - Party games usually works well
39:11 - Is playing dexterity games whilst drinking a good idea?
41:44 - The birth of Alpha-Slang in the heart of Coventry
45:03 - Levelling up the drinking into mid-weight games
55:47 - Do we even dare ourselves to play the heavy games whilst drinking?
1:00:40 - TURN 4 - Would you rather...play Battlestar Galactica with Starbuck or Twilight Imperium with Seven of Nine
1:04:37 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up
1:04:46 - Davey - Star Wars Shatterpoint & Unlimited
1:07:28 - Tambo - Time off work whilst gaming
1:07:52 - JP - Our first LIVE episode recording at the UK Games Expo 2024
1:10:36 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn

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Chapters

1. TURN 1 - Player Count (00:00:00)

2. TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex (00:04:28)

3. Davey - Dune Uprising (00:04:48)

4. JP - Revive: Call of the Abyss (00:14:25)

5. Tambo - Tiny Epic Westerns (00:22:31)

6. TURN 3 - Main Event: Beer games & board games (00:28:10)

7. Party games usually works well (00:29:03)

8. Is playing dexterity games whilst drinking a good idea? (00:39:11)

9. The birth of AlphaSlang in the heart of Coventry (00:41:44)

10. Levelling up the drinking into mid-weight games (00:45:03)

11. Do we even dare ourselves to play the heavy games whilst drinking? (00:55:47)

12. TURN 4 - Would you rather...play Battlestar Galactica with Starbuck or Twilight Imperium with Seven of Nine (01:00:40)

13. TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up (01:04:37)

14. Davey - Star Wars Shatterpoint & Unlimited (01:04:46)

15. Tambo - Time off work whilst gaming (01:07:28)

16. JP - Our first LIVE episode recording at the UK Games Expo 2024 (01:07:52)

17. TURN 6 - The Final Turn (01:10:36)