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Its time to channel our inner Bob Ross and Duncan Rhodes, as we talk about our anual painting challenge, this time using only the Two Thin Coats starter paints. 

Go check out the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec37fRNzegc

We also talk about the Arthurian legend board game from the makers of Oathsworn, Avalon: The Rivel Veil, trade stocks and shares in Big Boss from Funko, and rebuild ancient city walls in Ezra and Nehemiah from Garphill Games.

We then answer listener questions on what we like and hate about the games industry and where to get the latest releases in the UK.

Games Mentioned

00:01:58 Airecon West 00:06:47 Andy bought a Baneblade 00:10:52 PHC painting contest with Two Thin Coats  00:19:43 Avalon: The Riven Veil  00:28:07 Big Boss 00:36:33 Ezra and Nehemiah 00:50:53 Questions from the mailbag

 

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Episode 155 is a bit of a Kickstarter Special as the boys discuss Vrahode, a fantasy adventure game with stunning miniatures and a fancy player console.

Mutagen, a worker placement game where your workers mutate and the meeples gain little rubber gloves to match.

And finally, Sid and Rory embark on a Timeless Journey in a clever hand management and action programming game in Renaissance Italy.

Games Mentioned

00:10:25 Vrahode: Age of Prophecy

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weathervanegames/vrahode-age-of-prophecy 

00:32:25 Mutagen

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drandagames/mutagen

00:48:23 Timeless Journeys: The Italian Grand Tour

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/liriusgames/timeless-journeys-the-italian-grand-tour

01:05:30 Expansions 01:09:23 The Top 100 Challenge

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Join Steve, Andy, Sid and Rory for a jam packed episode of board game reviews, a special Essen Spiel preview and more Ramshackle Nonsense than you’ve come to love and expect.      “I’m the Branston’s pickle in this ginger bread sandwich” - I mean, where else are you going to find tabletop commentary like that, eh?   The boys make camp on their way to face off against the big bad in a review of Set A Watch: Forsaken Isles.  Build some fancy magnetic monuments in an Age Contrived before jumping on a train  full of radioactive material in Nucleum before spending a good chunk of this episode gushing about all of the lovely games available to (finally) buy and demo and this year’s Essen Spiele.

Games Mentioned

00:02:46 Set A Watch: Forsaken Isles 00:18:55 An Age Contrived 00:33:58 Nucleum

Essen Preview 00:46:20 Revenant 00:49:02 Tir na NOg 00:52:57  Polaris 00:55:52 The bit where Andy said “Rory’s right” 00:56:35 Flatiron 00:59:32 Nucleum: Court of Progress 01:01:18 Get Salty 01:03:32 Rock Hard 1977 01:04:58 Bantam West 01:08:10 Chandrigah 01:10:30 Civolution 01:12:44 Escape from New York. Andromeda's Edge, and Undaunted 2200: Callisto 01:14:58 Pampero 01:18:15 Baghdad: The City of Peace

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In this episode of the Polyhedron Collider Podcast, Steve, Andy, and Rory break the mould and discuss a game on the bleeding edge of the tabletop gaming zeitgeist: Arcs, from Leder Games.  Andy shares his highlights from Airecon North West boardgame convention, and Steve and Rory go on tour with the band in Draft & Write Records (from Inside Up Games) before building rival romanticised county villages in Dorfromantik: The Duel, from Pegasus Spiele.

They round off the episode with some questions from the mailbag, including: what game mechanic are you rubbish at but utterly love? 

Games Mentioned

00:10:22 Sky Team and Colt Express 00:12:25 Prey Another Day 00:18:12 Draft & Write Records 00:30:05 Arcs 00:53:45 Dorfromantik: The Duel 01:07:35: Games we love but are crap at

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In this jam-packed episode of tabletop gaming chat, we have a few miniature painting brags to get out of the way before we delve into four in-depth board game reviews (sorry if you were hoping for some DIY or BBQ tips in this episode).

The dice-drafting, area control game, Castellans gets the Polyhedron Collider treatment, before Steve and Rory wax lyrical about the two-player cooperative game, the Spiel des Jahres game of the year winner Sky Team. We then explore and map new islands in Maps of Misterra, before sailing the high seas in search of booty in Port Royal: The Dice Game.

Finally, we delve into the mailbag to talk about AI in board games, and our biggest gaming surprise of the year. 

Games Mentioned

00:00:00 Miniature Painting, Star Wars: Imperial Assault and Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth 00:07:01 Castellans 00:19:18 Sky Team 00:27:30 Maps of Misterra 00:41:07 Port Royal and Port Royal: The Dice Game 00:58:26 The Mail Bag

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No, it’s not a Bisto advert, it’s Rory and Steve’s gushing review of Yonder from Sinister Fish[/company], their latest worker placement boardgame from Villagers and Moon designer Haakon Gaarder  - which is currently live on Kickstarter and absolutely worth your time checking out.

We then get all Lovecraftian with a lively discussion about Cthulhu Death May Die from CMON (and provided by show sponsor Kienda), its similarities to Mansions of Madness and whether both, or either are any good - are you Team Sid, or Team Rory?

We then move to the other end of tabletop gaming as we explore the bonkers, pulpy Achtung! Cthulhu 2D20 Starter Set from Modiphius.

Games Mentioned

00:02:30 Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 00:10:12 Yonder  00:29:12 Trickerion - The Role-playing Game  00:33:10 Cthulhu: Death May Die 00:56:32 Achtung! Cthulhu 2D20 Starter Set

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The boys from the Collider are back and they are still reeling from all the board game goodies they picked-up during the UK Games Expo - which means this is a packed episode full of reviews of the latest tabletop games. In fact there is so much to talk about, there really isn’t time to write a joke in this description.

In this latest podcast episode we build inner city trains in Terminus, grow tulips in Windmill Valley, trade spices in Sand, and re-terraform Scotland in Rebirth.

Games Mentioned

00:04:58 Terminus

00:21:24 Windmill Valley

00:37:34 Sand

01:02:18 Rebirth

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UK Games Expo 2024 has come to an end, and we are completely knackered! But that won't stop us talking about the amazing board games, tabletop roleplaying games, and miniatures we saw at the Birmingham NEC. Join us as we make some dubious awards!

Games Mentioned

00:09:15 The Shelf Dodger: The board game that hit the table before it hits the shelf

• Aethermon https://aethermon.com/ 
• Boop https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/355433/boop 
• War of the Rings the Card Game  https://www.aresgames.eu/games/war-of-the-ring-line/war-of-the-ring-card-game

00:17:51 The RPG Most Likely to Create a Rules Debate

• Arkham Horror: The Roleplaying Game https://www.edge-studio.net/categories-games/arkham/ 
• Candela Obscura https://darringtonpress.com/candela/ 
• Mappa Mundi https://www.threesailsstudios.com/mappamundirpg

00:29:15 Instabuy Award

• Akropolis: Athena https://www.hachetteboardgames.co.uk/web/content/67664
• Loot https://www.hachetteboardgames.co.uk/web/content/67664
• Courtisans https://www.hachetteboardgames.co.uk/web/content/67664    -
• Amritsar: The Golden Temple
• Faraway https://www.hachetteboardgames.co.uk/web/content/67664
• Galactic Cruise https://www.drandagames.co.uk/shop
• Huang https://phalanx.co.uk/games/huang-reiner-knizia-board-game/

00:40:42 Bling

• Buy the Same Token https://buythesametoken.com/
• Gamer Grass https://gamersgrass.com/
• Honey Badger Games https://www.honeybadgergames.co.uk/ 
• Terratop Workshop Dice https://terratopworkshop.com/

00:51:41 The Game Most Likely to Bankrupt us when it hits Kickstarter

• Ironwood https://gamefound.com/en/projects/mindclash-games/ironwood 
• Rove https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/addaxgames/rove
• Avalon: The Riven Veil https://www.shadowborne-games.com/pages/avalon
• World Order  https://hegemonicproject.com/games/strategy/world-order/

01:03:30 The Miniature We Are Scared to Paint

• Warcrow https://warcrow.com/games/warcrow
• The Goddess https://www.cerberus-studios.com/miniatures/goddess

01:06:10 Expo Strength Itch Relief: the game we are itching to play again

• Oranges and Lemons  https://medusagames.co.uk/orangesandlemons.php
• Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon  https://sorryweare.fr/fr/game/shackleton-base-a-journey-to-the-moon/   
• Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth  https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/421006/the-lord-of-the-rings-duel-for-middle-earth   
• SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence https://czechgames.com/en/seti/
• Terminus https://insideupgames.com/product/terminus/

01:16:08 The Polyhedron Collider Definitely Not Shit Award (i.e. the game of the show)

• Chronicles of Light: Darkness Falls (Disney Edition) https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/411369/chronicles-of-light-darkness-falls-disney-edition   
• Horror on the Orent Express: The Board Game https://gamefound.com/en/projects/chaosium/horror-on-the-orient-express-the-board-game

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Recorded live at UK  Games Expo 2024, the boys talk about the board games that have got their attention from this years show, as well as eclairs, sore losing, and our old mate Ron Dell.

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Games Mentioned

Ada's Dream Terminus Horror on the Orient Express  SETI  Courtisans  Shackleton Base Coffee Rush  Chronicles of Light  Mutagen  Acropolis  Athena  Aethermon  Arkham Horror the RPG  Avalon  Keep on Questing  Ironwood  Galactic Cruise

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The UK Games Expo will be hitting the Birmingham NEC between Friday 31 May and Sunday 2 Jun 2024 and to say the boy from PHC are excited is an understatement. In this episode we go through the board games and table top roleplaying games that we are most excited to see, think about our annual miniature painting competition, and talk about the food we plan to eat!

Come see us live on Sunday in Piazza 4 - Dice room at 11am. https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/1418-polyhedron-collider-uk-games-expo-live-podcast/ 

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Games Mentioned

00:13:00 Avalon: The Riven Veil 00:17:54 Ada’s Dream 00:21:04 Undaunted 2200: Callisto 00:26:08 Mutagen 00:28:55 Infinity and Warcrow Adventures 00:31:22 Celestial Affinity 00:35:38 Candela Obscura 00:38:48 Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game 00:48:37 Terminus 00:56:26 The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth 00:57:29 Rebirth 01:02:10 Sid's Mystery House: Vrahode: Age of Prophecy, Shackleton Base, and SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 01:11:43 Yonder 01:13:50 The last picks: Courtisans, The Flames of Fafnir, and Sand.

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The boys from the Collider waste little time in the latest episode of the Collider Cast and get straight to business discussing the clever but hideously ugly Carpe Diem by Stefan Feld on which both Andy and Rory agree upon, for a change. Steve talks us through the deeply satisfying, if not mentally taxing and beautifully pastel Salton Sea from Devir Games. Sid and Rory chime in with their two cents of their experience of that and Sea, Salt and Paper that they'd enjoyed on a work day bunk at the Games Den.

The episode wraps with some burning questions from the bag bag, such as Bacon of Sausage Sarnie.

Games Mentioned

00:04:12 Carpe Diem 00:19:20 Salton Sea 00:46:32 Sea Salt & Paper 00:58:36 Questions

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