Episode 22: Card-driven Games We Love, with Uli Blennemann

Spielworxx owner Uli Blennemann joins Candice to discuss their favorite card-driven games.

• 00:00:00 Introduction
• 00:04:04 PGC Con (trick-taking game convention)
  • 00:06:17 Robotrick
  • 00:07:42 Trick-taking in Black and White
  • 00:08:51 The Barracks Emperors
  • 00:10:51 Le Plateau
  • 00:11:07 Touchdown Heroes & Savage Bowl
  • 00:11:14 Inside Job
  • 00:11:58 Diamonds
  • 00:12:46 Bridge City Poker & Five-Three-Five
  • 00:13:48 Bacon
  • 00:14:10 Dual Gauge: Denmark
  • 00:14:50 An Infamous Traffic
  • 00:17:28 Blood on the Clocktower
• 00:21:55 Fresh Plays
  • 00:22:11 Land and Freedom
  • 00:25:59 Peak Oil: Profiteer
  • 00:35:27 Votes for Women
  • 00:38:57 Moonrakers
• 00:50:54 Card-driven Games (CDGs) We Love
  • 00:51:04 What CDGs are all about
  • 00:55:49 We the People (Mark Herman)
  • 00:58:50 Forged in Steel
  • 00:59:22 No Motherland Without
  • 00:59:54 Twilight Struggle
  • 01:02:02 1979: Revolution in Iran
  • 01:03:46 Paths of Glory
  • 01:05:53 Twilight Struggle: Red Sea
  • 01:08:42 Clash of Monarchs
  • 01:11:08 Clash of Sovereigns
  • 01:11:57 Brotherhood & Unity
  • 01:18:39 Washington's War
  • 01:21:04 Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? 
  • 01:25:25 Here I Stand & Virgin Queen
  • 01:30:58 Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory
  • 01:34:29 Empire of the Sun
  • 01:40:47 Wir sind das Volk!
  • 01:47:46 Uli's Honorable Mentions - No Motherland Without, Twilight Struggle, Wilderness War, Unhappy King Charles, For the People, Pursuit of Glory
  • 01:49:24 Candice's Honorable Mentions - Dual Powers: Revolution 1917, Red Flag Over Paris, 13 Days, Watergate, Successors, Verdun 1916: Steel Inferno, Europe Divided, Siege of Vienna
  • 01:52:43 Weimar: The Fight for Democracy
• 01:55:41 Sign-off

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