Episode 42: Asymmetric Faction Satisfaction, with Roy Cannaday

The BoardGameGeek Podcast

Roy Cannaday from the Dice Tower (and game designer of Last Light) joins Candice to discuss their favorite board games with asymmetric factions.

• 00:00:00 Introduction
• 00:04:43 Fresh Plays
  • 00:04:59 Let's Go! To Japan
  • 00:09:31 Tindahan (Filipino Fruit Market)
  • 00:13:44 Trick and Trade
  • 00:14:26 Like Cain and Abel
  • 00:16:56 Fortitude
  • 00:17:29 Star Wars: Unlimited
  • 00:22:31 Ironwood
• 00:35:58 Asymmetric Faction Satisfaction
  • 00:36:02 The Asymmetric Faction Secret Sauce
  • 00:41:34 Dune
  • 00:44:56 Heavy Euros (Age of Innovation, Gaia Project, Terra Mystica)
  • 00:48:33 Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition)
  • 00:51:29 Cooperative Games (Spirit Island, Too Many Bones)
  • 00:54:06 Root
  • 00:56:12 Historical Games (The COIN Series, Here I Stand)
  • 01:01:53 Heroes of Land, Air & Sea
  • 01:05:08 Two-player Epics (Dune: War for Arrakis, War of the Ring, Star Wars: Rebellion)
  • 01:12:12 Cosmic Encounter
  • 01:15:35 Multiplayer Games (TI4, Root, Dune, Hegemony)
  • 01:17:29 Two-player Card Games (Android: Netrunner, 1815 Scum of the Earth)
  • 01:20:12 Honorable Mentions (Vijayanagara, Defence of Procyon III, Vast, Crescent Moon, Red Dust Rebellion)
• 01:23:57 Sign-off

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