Print and Play Podcast
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This list details the games featured on the "Print and Play" podcast.
Games are rated in the following way.
Terrible  : A waste of paper, ink, glue, tape and time.
Poor  : Less than your average game. Perhaps, game too long for content. May have no longevity, meaning, two plays and your done with it.
Average  : Amusing, keeps your interest, a game you would play if someone offered.
Good  : A game you would try to push to play. It's Fun!
Excellent  : It's Excellent, your favourite game, no better than that, it's double excellent with a cherrie on top.
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Pocket CIV is a solotaire Civilisation building game.
Rated - Good
Comment - The best Solo game I've ever played
Edit : A new improved version of this game has been released since the review was done.
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Board Game: OrkoMondo
[Average Rating:5.73 Unranked]
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OrkoMondo is "filler" tile-laying game for 2-4 players and has a fantasy theme.
Rated - Average
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Board Game: Commodore
[Average Rating:5.58 Unranked]
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Commodore is a two player card game (can handle four players) with a Napoleonic Sail theme. Short game length makes this a filler.
Rated - Average
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Richthofen is a two player World War I dog fighting game.
Rated - Good
Comment - Game play is very thematic.
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Lost Patrol is a two player Sci Fi themed game. Released by Games Workshop around 2000.
Rated - Good
Comment - Get it Now!
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Eastern Front 2 is a tiny hex and counter wargame for 2. Allows solo and double blind play.
Rated - Average
Comment - More complex than it seems.
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Miskatonic Madness is a two player Cthulhu themed tile laying game.
Rated - Poor
Comment - Only make this up if your a Cthulhu/Lovercraft fan.
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King for a Day is a game for 3-7, resource management and blind bidding.
Rated - Average
Comment - You have to pay for it. Fun and small down times.
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King of the Tabletop is a fantasy boardgame about gaining Prestige and trouncing your opponents armies.
Rated - Poor
Comment - A real 1980s game, player elimination, win by slow attrition.
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Dungeon Plungin' is a Dungeon exploration game for 1 - 4 players.
Rated - Good
Comment - Really works well solo and with multiple players
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Micropul is a 1 or 2 player Tile laying game.
Rated - Good
Comment - Should be produced professionally!
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Taiwan : Assassin's Mace, Scorpions Sting is a two player hex and counter wargame about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Rated - Average
Comment - Loverly Artwork, nice game.
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Board Game: Dune
[Average Rating:7.63 Overall Rank:88]
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Dune is game about political/military factions fighting for possession of the planet called Dune.
Rated - Excellent
Comment - A perfect blend of theme and rules.
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Board Game: Nocturno
[Average Rating:6.67 Unranked]
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Nocturno is an undead themed light filler or childrens game.
Rated - Average
Comment - Cute characters.
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Lock n Load Band of Heroes is a full bloodied Hex and Counter wargame.
Rated - Good
Comment - Darn good freebie given away to try and induce you to buy the game.. I'll buy it when I see it, based on this demo.
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The Way is a two player abstract about finding your way across a tile field that can be rotated.
Rated - Poor
Comment - OK as a one off, but no longevity for me.
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Board Game: Arclight
[Average Rating:8.17 Unranked]
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ArcLight is a set of rules for fighting spaceships.
Rated - Average
Comment - Good rules ( nice artwork too ).
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Space Junkyard is a tile laying space-ship building game.
Rated - Good
Comment - Reviewed by guest presenter Lawrence Spode (BGG user Subhuman, and presenter of the Bookshelf Games vidcast http://www.bookshelfgames.com/ )
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Island od D 2 is a solo fantasy adventure game.
Rated - Average
Comment - Very good, a tough game. Would have rated "Good" but if I ever complete the mission I think I'll lose the will to play again. That said I'm going to keep trying until I do complete it!!!
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Honey Springs is a Hex and Counter wargame based on an unusual battle in the American Civil War.
Rated - Average
Comment - Also available as full production version from the publisher.
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Cold War Naval Battles is a card game for 2+, themed on near modern fleets entering combat against each other.
Rated - Good
Comment - A lot of good fun, very thematic, and lots of expansions!
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Big Game Hunters of the Universe is a card/bidding game.
Rated - Good
Comment - Fun filler, but deeper if you want to play it that way.
Edit : You have to pay for this one, get it from RPGNow.
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Free At Last is a Twilight Struggle-like Card driven wargame themed on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of the 50s and 60s.
Rated - Good
Comment - Great theme, worth the effort
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Board Game: Subzero
[Average Rating:5.58 Unranked]
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Sub Zero is a kids game about pelting your pals with Snowballs!
Rated - Average
Comment - A fun kids game, quick and colourful
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Posted Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:09 pm
