1 Player Podcast

1P 293 - The Battle at Kemble’s Cascade

This week we talk about the vertical scrolling, space shoot-em up game, The Battle at Kemble's Cascade.  Don't worry though.  This isn't a video game but a board game with a theme of a space shooter video game.  It's a pretty unique concept that does a great job of simulating a video game.  It's a lot of fun but it does have a few small issues.

 

• The Battle at Kemble's Cascade (BGG)

1P 292 - Vagrantsong

This week Julius talks about the Wyrd Miniatures game, Vagrantsong.  The publisher is known for making miniatures games but this one uses plastic standies instead.  This is a tactical combat game with a campaign.  Think Gloomhaven or Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion but without quite the oomph of those games.

1P 291 - Resist!

This week Julius tells me all about the game Resist!.  This is a game about the Spanish maquis during the Spanish Revolution.  You take control of a number of maquis and complete missions by fighting the defenders at the location.  This is a deck-building game, though come to think of it, I didn't get the impression there is a lot of deck building involved but maybe I just missed that.  Anyway, it's a cool looking game with really nice art that also sounds very fun.

1P 290 - Popular Mechanic: One and Done

This week Julius and I finally return to our Popular Mechanic series.  In this brief episode, we talk about games that are "one and done".   Basically you play the game once and then can move on from that game, never to return... EVER.  Maybe.

1P 289 - Solo Game Master’s Guide

This week we have a very special episode.  I have a nice long chat with Deborah, the host of the  Geek Gamers YouTube channel.  We talk about all sorts of things including her channel, playing RPGs solo and her new book, Solo Game Master's Guide.  The title says it all.  This book is a handy guide for anybody that plays or wants to play RPGs solo.

• Geek Gamers (YouTube)
• Solo Game Master's Guide (Modiphius, Amazon.com)
• Wanderings: A Gothic Roll and Read Table (Amazon.com)
• Princess Ryan's Star Marines (BGG)

1P 288 - Stellarion

This is the final episode in our Oniverse series. Fittingly, it ends with us visiting more of the Oniverse in the way of voyages to other galaxies... well, sorta.  In this game, you don't travel anywhere but you enable ships to launch into outer space to visit 4 different galaxies.  This is a game about deck management and getting the right cards to show up at the right time in your various interplanetary decks.

 

• Stellarion (BGG, InPatience)

1P 287 - Aerion

As Julius and I make our way through the Oniverse, we've caught a breeze and ended up in the lands of Aerion where we are charged with making flying machines.  This is a Yahtzee like game in which you roll dice and try to manage good combinations.  You use those results to gather resources which are used to create amazing flying machines.  The game includes quite a few interesting expansions.

 

• Aerion (BGG, InPatience)

1P 286 - Nautlion

Our journey in the Dreamlands continue.  This time we drop below the waves for an undersea adventure with a guest aboard.  This, I think, may be the most thematic of all the Oniverse games so far.  This time we'll recruit some of the denizens of the oceans to help defeat the bad baddy - the Darkhouse!  He's the opposite of a lighthouse :D

1P 285 - Castellion

Week three of our tour of the Oniverse.  This week Julius and I visit the sandy beaches of Castellion and help the citizens build defensive formations again the armies of the Ravage (which we never see).  Castellion is a tile laying game in the Oniverse series in which you carefully place the citizens of Castellion into defensive formations of lines and squares.  This is a really interesting game!

 

* Castelion (BGG, InPatience)

1P 284 - Sylvion

Week 2 of the Oniverse!  Julius and I look at the 2nd big box Oniverse game, Sylvion.  This time around, we are protecting a dream forest for an attacking army of fire elementals.  It was fun to revisit this game and get a 2nd look at it.  Myself, I hadn't played in almost 8 years!

1P 283 - Onirim

We start the year off with a bang! This week, we have Jason Montgomery of the Meeple, Myself and I podcast and/or geeklist.  The three of us talk about the original Oniverse game, Onirim. This will kick off a series in which we re-visit each game in the Oniverse working our way up to Stellarion which just came out about a month ago.

• Onirim (BGG)
• Onirim 2nd edition (BGG, InPatience)
• Oniverse family (BGG, InPatience)
• Meeple, Myself and I (BGG, podcast)

1P 282 -Transmissions

This week Julius and I take a quick look at Transmissions.  It's a beautiful game about robots wandering around discovering nature.  If the theme, sounds pasted on, well, maybe but listen in because under the shiny but thin veneer is a veritable gem.  ...Or so Julius tells us

 

• Transmissions (BGG)

1P 281 - A Touch of Evil: Dark Gothic

Be polarized with our discussion of A Touch of Evil: Dark Gothic.  This is a deck-building game set in the Touch of Evil Universe by Flying Frog Productions.  Some folks love the stylized cosplay photography on the cards and some just can't stand it.  Other than that, this is a pretty standard deck-builder with a satisfying theme. 

• A Touch of Evil: Dark Gothic (BGG, Flying Frog)

1P 280 - Popular Mechanics: Dice Worker Placement

This week we talk about Dice Worker Placement games.  You'll get to learn just how much I don't know about the subject.  Thankfully, Julius has some good recommendations.

 

• Under Falling Skies
• So, You've Been Eaten
• Endangered
• Pocket Landship
• Artemis Project
• Twin Stars
• Black Angel

1P 279 - The Search for Planet X

This week's game is a solo/competitive game in which you are trying to be the scientist to first discover planet X.  Scientist have theorized that there must be a yet to be found planet out in space.  The math adds up right to prove it.  Nobody's found it yet.  In this deduction game, you get to try and find the lost planet by playing against an app driven AI.