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jonnyalpha — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:38:27 +0000

alberron wrote:
jonnyalpha wrote:
You're right about Ave Caesar, it's only going in to annoy the heck out of Si.:D

:yuk:

Love you really. :kiss:

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ibn_ul_khattab — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:16:31 +0000

by ibn_ul_khattab

This is easy [thing=243][/thing]

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alberron — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:53:02 +0000

by alberron

jonnyalpha wrote:
You're right about Ave Caesar, it's only going in to annoy the heck out of Si.:D

:yuk:

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Bannor2000 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:04:46 +0000

by Bannor2000

I would rather have Le Harve than Agricola, so it would come down to Ave Ceasar or Amun Re, and I would settle for Amun Re.

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jonnyalpha — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:28:25 +0000

by jonnyalpha

Xanthos wrote:
I personally would chose Aton. It is personally my favorite of the A's out there. However, I fully recognize that Agricola will probably be the most popular with others and I would support that decision if it comes to that. It isn't my cup of tea but it is quite good. Ave Caesar is good but not great in my book.

You're right about Ave Caesar, it's only going in to annoy the heck out of Si.:D

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Pallet Ranger — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:17:50 +0000

by Pallet Ranger

I didn't realise quite how many A games I own 'til I just checked my collection!!
And working on the assumption I can play johnnyalpha's 'Agricola' ;), my decision is.....

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I don't play this nearly as often as I should, and it scales really well between 2 and 4.

Honourable mentions should also go to

Arkadia
Australia

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jmoody — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:20:59 +0000

by jmoody

Nostalgia bites me here. I like Agricola quite a bit more, but I just can't imagine not owning Axis and Allies.

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Xanthos — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:43:37 +0000

by Xanthos

I personally would chose Aton. It is personally my favorite of the A's out there. However, I fully recognize that Agricola will probably be the most popular with others and I would support that decision if it comes to that. It isn't my cup of tea but it is quite good. Ave Caesar is good but not great in my book.

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jonnyalpha — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:02:06 +0000

by jonnyalpha

Mike suggests that we should all select an "A" game from our own collections for a listener Time capsule.

I've only got a few "A" games which makes it easy:

Agricola
Archaeology: The card game
Army of Frogs
Aton
Ave Caesar

I like them all but I'm going to keep Agricola. It's the only game you can play solo. Aton is 2 player and Army of Frogs really needs 4. Ave Caesar is fun but needs lots of people. Archaeology is ace but just loses out on this round despite being quick, easy to teach and fun.

I'm going to smuggle Ave Caesar into the Gamescape time capsule to annoy Si.

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jonnyalpha — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:55:54 +0000

by jonnyalpha

mikehibbert wrote:
So, why not play along then folks, have a look at your games collections and choose an "A" to keep......

I think you should use this segment for more feed forward. We could all look at your game collections and pick one game to keep or a particularly nasty game to put on the compost instead of in the time capsule.

So Dabbawalla? Time capsule or compost? Hmmmmmm. Are we ever going to see that game in the wild?

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Bannor2000 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:37:35 +0000

by Bannor2000

Great Show, and thanks for talking about my Decathlon!

A letter for games is tough, but I think I would rather have Le Harve than Agricola so it would come down to Ave Caesar and Amun-Re for me and I would take Amun Re in the end, I play alot of 5 player games in my gaming circles.

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collywobbles — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:31:56 +0000

by collywobbles

mikehibbert wrote:
So, why not play along then folks, have a look at your games collections and choose an "A" to keep......

Age of Steam? I haven't played the newer Steam so can't compare...

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Moll — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:20:40 +0000

by Moll

mikehibbert wrote:
Moll wrote:
Cheers guys

A pleasure as always.......You just made my working day a hell of a lot more exciting....

...by the way you continue to refer to your facebook-accounts, but I can't seem to find you..... how are you called.

Just search for mike(dot)hibbert(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk

Great Thanks. Great show today.

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mikehibbert — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:30:12 +0000

by mikehibbert

Moll wrote:
Cheers guys

A pleasure as always.......You just made my working day a hell of a lot more exciting....

...by the way you continue to refer to your facebook-accounts, but I can't seem to find you..... how are you called.

Just search for mike(dot)hibbert(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk

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mikehibbert — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:29:16 +0000

by mikehibbert

So, why not play along then folks, have a look at your games collections and choose an "A" to keep......

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Moll — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:09:41 +0000

by Moll

Cheers guys

A pleasure as always.......You just made my working day a hell of a lot more exciting....

...by the way you continue to refer to your facebook-accounts, but I can't seem to find you..... how are you called.

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philmcd — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:07:20 +0000

by philmcd

Choosing games by their initial letter? That means some awful games will get kept and some superb ones will have to go..... I just canna take it Jim !!

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tonyboydell — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:03:45 +0000

by tonyboydell

The 'A's have it...

Just for a moment, my mouse pointer hovered over the UNSUBSCRIBE button on iTunes...you considered losing AGRICOLA in favour of Amyitis (which sounds like a venereal disease, for Knizia's sake!)

*cheeses*

Pour yourselves a doppio espresso and get with the programme!!!!

Love, as always,

Tony

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philmcd — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:48:43 +0000

by philmcd

A veritable cornucopia of the finest waffle chaps !

Now, get back into the gamescape and give us some more !

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jonbryon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:13:15 +0000

by jonbryon

jonnyalpha wrote:

I thought you'd all given up. I'll look forward to the waffle, it'll be a nice treat for later on when I settle down with a nice hot chocolate. Who else likes this time of year when it gets all autumny?

You've no idea what I would give for a hot chocolate :ninja:

Top show again chaps. New episodes can never come quickly enough. I've even started listening to old episodes again :p

Which reminds me: whatever did happen to Gordon?

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jmoody — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:10:27 +0000

by jmoody

philmcd wrote:

Until you put in GEETAR, I thought it was the theme tune to Bonanza !

go for it Hoss !! :)

I thought it was Jaws, and I wondered which character said anything about a guitar.

I don't have a commute tomorrow. Now I have to find an excuse to listen to the iPod.

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philmcd — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:11:38 +0000

by philmcd

mikehibbert wrote:
Dum dum, da da, dadum dadum dadum dadum, dum dum, da da, dadum dadum dadum dadum, “geeetar!!” nah nah naaah nanana……

Here is it folks, show 47 of the Gamescape, we finish the Decathlon (at last heh!), and then natter about gaming goodness.

Go on, download it, you know you want to!

http://www.thegamescape.co.uk/?p=174

Or, just use iTunes!

Until you put in GEETAR, I thought it was the theme tune to Bonanza !

go for it Hoss !! :)

Why do I remember that he was played by Dan Blocker? mutter mutter....

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jonnyalpha — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:05:41 +0000

by jonnyalpha

OMG! It's Alive!!!!!!!!

I thought you'd all given up. I'll look forward to the waffle, it'll be a nice treat for later on when I settle down with a nice hot chocolate. Who else likes this time of year when it gets all autumny?

Next episode sometime in November please chaps. Thank you.

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jond — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:28:39 +0000

by jond

No Wai! :surprise:

Well thats just made my day much better :D

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mikehibbert — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:26:06 +0000

by mikehibbert

Dum dum, da da, dadum dadum dadum dadum, dum dum, da da, dadum dadum dadum dadum, “geeetar!!” nah nah naaah nanana……

Here is it folks, show 47 of the Gamescape, we finish the Decathlon (at last heh!), and then natter about gaming goodness.

Go on, download it, you know you want to!

http://www.thegamescape.co.uk/?p=174

Or, just use iTunes!

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Chris Bayley — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:18:16 +0000

by Chris Bayley

Well, I voted yes as well. Like one other listener this encouraged me to set up a game decathlon with some of my long standing gaming buddies I've known for years. Real life(!) and the fact three of us live in Sheffield and three in Leeds mean that we'd only get together as a group maybe once or twice a year at most. There's nothing like a little friendly competition / meta-gaming to spark interest and now we hook up every 2-3 months.

So far we've played:

Age of Empires III
History of the World
Liberte
Railroad Tycoon
Republic of Rome
Age of Renaissance
Here I Stand

and next Sunday we're playing Princes of the Renaissance.

Its got us all back into gaming and meeting up with each other and having a laugh. We've also played a few games inbetween when we can't all get together at the same time (like Sword of Rome when I warned everybody else to treat the combat system with caution as it was fairly brutal and then did two gung ho attacks with the Greeks rolling seven 1's out of eight dice - then followed for me 4 hours of nothing but clinging on and recruiting - boy did I take some stick for that!!!) and head to head games of Hammer of the Scots and Twilight Struggle. Its taken us probably about 16 months to get this far but we're still going strong.

I think the Decathlon is one of your USPs compared with other Podcasts and enjoy the competitive edge it brought to your gaming wittering (particularly when Paul went on his unprecented winning streak a few months ago). However,if you think its run its course for the show then fair enough, but thanks a lot.

Chris.