TDT # 561 - Best Train Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we're back! To normal, that is - and we run a very normal episode with a very normal advertisement at the very end. Wait, what? Anyway, we talk about Rise of Queensdale, the new Exit games, Thanos Rising, Megaland, and Gizmos. We also listen to Geoff talk about deduction vs induction, answer a pile of questions, and hear a tale of horror! Finally, we end the show talking about our favorite train games. Huzzah!!

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0:00.0	The Dice Tower is made possible by listeners like you. Thank you for your support.
0:04.5	And by Cool Stuff Inc.
0:06.2	Cool Stuff in stock at cool stuff ink.
0:09.7	The Dice Tower, Episode 561.
0:12.8	Choo, Choo.
0:14.8	Train games.
0:15.8	That was very realistic.
0:17.2	I feel like it was. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them.
0:45.0	On today's show, Tom and I look forward to some events at Dice Tower Con, share a social tale
0:50.4	of board gaming horror, and answer some questions from the mailbag.
0:54.0	Plus we lay some track and check the timetables for our top 10 train games.
0:59.0	I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host, the Sir Toppham Hat of board gaming Tom Vassil.
1:05.2	I don't I don't get this Topham Hat thing. Well he's from Thomas the Tank
1:09.7	Engine. Oh I hate that show. Which iteration is there a particular version you don't like or just generally you don't like Thomas?
1:17.0	You know what, the thing I don't like is I like the idea of the trains being characters, but the fact that their mouths don't move and it's just kind of
1:24.8	weird it feels like it's lazy animation that's what I feel to sell some really
1:29.3	super expensive trains that my boy wants well it it's true. Yeah but I mean at least I don't
1:35.5	know if the current version is like that but the the classic ones were
1:39.7	practical effects. They were actually models that they they filmed. It wasn't animation at all.
1:45.3	It just feels like if I was a kid that wouldn't really interest me much. Maybe I'm wrong.
1:50.1	I don't feel it. My son doesn't really watch it much. He likes to train so.
1:53.6	Yes. And they're really good quality trains. Yes.
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