Category: Max Murray

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Braggart

Braggart is what happens when Michael goes Christmas shopping. He gets games for his friends. In this case for Max, who gleefully and expectantly opened this game with tears in his eyes at the thought of what wonderful time we were going to have playing this cute looking card game. After all Braggart is a…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Dominare

Published in 2012 by AEG, Dominare is part of the Tempest series of boardgame that the prolific company has released and that includes Mercante and others. In Dominare you try to gain control of the city of Tempest by spreading your influence through the city and developing a network to control the different areas of…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room Gluck Auf

I haven’t played an Euro with good theme since O2. And that wasn’t a game for beginners either. In fact it was quite a hard game. Michael Chamberlain was very excited about Gluck Auf but, since for him a headache induced by a game is the best way to rate how good a game is,…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Review Room: X-Wing

By Paco Garcia Jaen, Michael Chamberlain and Max Murray Star Wars has been at the heart of Science Fiction and geek culture since the first time it was screened in 1977 and the X-Wing has been one of the most iconic space crafts in the series. Thus it was no surprise that Fantasy Flight chose…
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Podcast episode – The Boardgame Review Room: Rasputin

By Michael Chamberlain and Max Murray In this podcast episode Michael and Max took a look at Rasputin, a game by designer Bob West and published Blue Panther. The premise of the game is to infiltrate the Winter Palace and destroy the menace that is Rasputin. Which is a lot easier said than done, btw.…
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