History on the Table

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A monthly podcast discussing historical board games and other topics

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A monthly podcast discussing historical board games and other topics

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Leisure

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History on the Table

Episode 64: Are We Having Fun Yet?

Episode 64: Are We Having Fun Yet

Please note that’s Matt’s audio track was recorded usingthe wrong input. Apologies for the poor audio quality of this episode.

Intro

Recapping the Things We Missed

Listener Questions 00:11:00

Fun and Games 00:11:45
Mechanic Swapping 00:19:30
Favorite and Least Favorite 00:26:00
Kill ASL 00:33:00
Keeping Love Alive 00:37:30
Basic vs. Advanced 00:39:05
Finishing Games 00:49:05

History Off the Table 00:56:30

Spooky Season 00:57:00
RPGs 01:03:00

Black Lodge Trivia Night

History on theTable Discord Link

Cardboard Campaigns

2 weeks ago

1 hour 13 minutes 48 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 63: Episode 63?

If you want show notes, you'll need to wait 7 months.

We talk wargames and stuff.

Enjoy!

1 month ago

2 hours 12 minutes 55 seconds

History on the Table

The Top 20 Games of All Time (2024 Edition)

The Top 20 Games of All Time (2024 Edition)

Join us as we run through Matt's, Rich's, Kevin's and our community's top 20 games of all time.

Buckle up, it's a long one!

⁠First Contact Gamer⁠

⁠Black Lodge Trivia Night⁠

⁠Join our Discord!

9 months ago

2 hours 35 minutes 7 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 62: There’s Been a Murder?

Episode 62: There’s Been a Murder?

Intro

New Format

Top 20 of 2024

Games on the Table - 10:00

Here I Stand

The Hunters

Fort the People

Gest of Robinhood

Kevin’s Series Quiz – 33:35

The death of games and series … or not? 46:00

“Killers” defined?

History off the Table 1:23:10

Listener Questions

Marry, Boink, Kill

Wargame Daddy

Wargame Organization

Kev picks a Civil War game

Lots of Hockey talk – 1:40:00

First Contact Gamer

Black Lodge Trivia Night

Join our Discord!

9 months ago

1 hour 53 minutes 25 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 61: Traces of Hosts

Episode 61: Traces of Hosts

Intro
History on the Table Top 20 of 2024

Games on the Table

Thunder on the Ozarks
Stellar Horizons
Divine Right

Kevin’s Host Quiz

Featured Game: Traces of War
Every Wargame Ever
History Off the Table and Other Stuff
Discord

Don’t forget to check out Black Lodge Trivia Night!

10 months ago

1 hour 37 minutes 17 seconds

History on the Table

HistoriKC Fest 2024 and Series Gaming with First Contact Gamer

HistoriKC Fest 2024 and Series Gaming with First Contact Gamer Intro HistoriKC Fest Recap – 01:45 Next War Con – Next War Tournament Scenario Other Games at HKC – 19:25 BCS Weimar: The Fight for Democracy Red Strike The U.S. Civil War Cthulhu Wars Dune Republic of Carthage Other Games and Final Thoughts Series Games – OCS, BCS and D-Day 56:00 Games on our Table 1:24:05 HotT Seat 1:39:00 Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN Black Lodge Trivia Night First Contact Gamer YouTube Channel

1 year ago

1 hour 51 minutes 48 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 60: Rebel Fury

Episode 60: Rebel Fury Intro HistoriKC Fest – August 15-18, 2024 Games on the Table Books on the Shelf HotT Blooded Featured Game: Rebel Fury Every Wargame Ever BCS Month - Now July History Off the Table and Other Stuff Twitter: @HistoryTablePod Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN Black Lodge Trivia Night https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

1 year ago

1 hour 24 minutes 3 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 59: Revolution Goes HotT

Episode 59: Revolution Goes HotT Intro HistoriKC Fest – August 15-18, 2024 Charles S. Roberts Awards Every Series Ever Results Games on the Table Books on the Shelf HotT Blooded Featured Games NATO: The Cold War Goes Hot Prelude to Revolution: Russia's Descent into Anarchy 1905 - 1917 Every Wargame Ever May’s Featured Game BCS Month History Off the Table and Other Stuff Matrix of Gaming Comments, questions or concerns can be sent to: historytablepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @HistoryTablePod Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN Black Lodge Trivia Night https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

1 year ago

1 hour 38 minutes 38 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 58: Norman Fury

Episode 58: Norman Fury Intro HistoriKC Fest – August 15-18, 2024 Games on the Table 03:00 Virgin Queen Operation Mercury: The Invasion of Crete Books on the Shelf 08:15 Crete 1941: The Battle and the Resistance by Antony Beevor Read along for April: George Henry Thomas: As True As Steel by Brian Steel Wills HotT Blooded 12:00 Rebel Fury Mark Herman and the Civil War Wargame Game 14:45 Featured Game: Norman Conquests – Men of Iron Volume 5 18:35 Discussing the Game Every Wargame Ever 42:35 February’s Featured Games 46:30 Listener Mail 48:30 M/F/K Do We Play Games Enough? Looking Forward to the rest of 2024 History Off the Table and Other Stuff 1:04:15 Mysteries Comments, questions or concerns can be sent to: historytablepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @HistoryTablePod Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN Black Lodge Trivia Night https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

1 year ago

1 hour 13 minutes 16 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 57: A New Dawn

Episode 57: A New Dawn Intro HistoriKC Fest – August 15-18, 2024 Games on the Table HotT Blooded Republic of Rome – 20:00 Downfall: Conquest of the Third Reich, 1942-1945 – 1:37:30 History Off the Table and Other Stuff Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN Black Lodge Trivia Night https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

1 year ago

2 hours 16 minutes 21 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 56: My Kingdom For a Cart

Episode 56: My Kingdom For a Cart Intro HistoriKC Fest – August 15-18, 2024 Discord Does the EWE Games on the Table 03:25 Downfall Velikiye Luki: Stalingrad of the North Khe Sanh `68 Table Battles Waterloo Campaign 1815 Books on the Shelf 13:00 White Sun War by Mick Ryan The Battle of Britain by James Holland The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England by Dan Jones HotT Blooded 17:00 War of the Ring Mark Herman and the Civil War Wargame Game 21:15 Featured Game: Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, 1459 – 1485 23:45 Discussing the Game Recommended Reading Every Wargame Ever 52:50 February’s Featured Games 1:00:00 History Off the Table and Other Stuff 1:02:10 Pax Ren Triumph Discord Does the EWE Comments, questions or concerns can be sent to: historytablepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @HistoryTablePod Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN Black Lodge Trivia Night https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

1 year ago

1 hour 16 minutes 32 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 55: Best of 2023

Intro New T-Shirt Store and T-Shirt Design Number 6 Biggest Surprise of the Year Number 5 Biggest Disappointment of the Year Number 4 Publisher of the Year Number 3 What was our favorite gaming memory of the year? Number 2 What were our Best Solo Game Plays of the Year and Best Multiplayer Game Play of the Year Number 1 What game just missed our Top 6 Games this year? The Great Every Wargame Ever Reranking 2024 Gaming Resolutions Other Stuff - Non-Wargame Talk Books Movies/TV Drinks RPGs Other stuff Twitter: @HistoryTablePod Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN Black Lodge Trivia Night https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

1 year ago

1 hour 47 minutes 41 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 54: Top 20 Games of All Time: Part Deux

Episode 54: Top 20 Games of All Time: Part Deux Intro New T-Shirt Store and T-Shirt Design HistoriKC Fest 2024 Games on the Table 05:00 Empire of the Sun Algeria Star Wars: Legion Seas of Thunder Plantagenet Books on the Shelf 31:15 Brothers in Arms by James Holland Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard HotT Blooded 34:35 Featured Game: Great Battles of the American Revolution: Tri-Pack 39:35 Discussing the Game Recommended Reading Every Wargame Ever 1:12:15 Reranking the Every Wargame Ever List – Listener Feedback The Top 20 Games of All Time 1:16:45 Predictions 1:15:25 Simulation Games 1:20:15 Final Thoughts 2:19:00 Comments, questions or concerns can be sent to: historytablepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @HistoryTablePod Links of Note Dads On A Map Podcast Top Games of 2023 List Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN Black Lodge Trivia Night https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

1 year ago

2 hours 28 minutes 30 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 53: Anatomically Correct Sails

Episode 53: Anatomically Correct Sails New T-Shirt Store and T-Shirt Design Intro Top 20 Games of All Time Every Series Ever Games on the Table 05:30 Here I Stand Valley of Tears: The Yom Kippur War, 1973 Books on the Shelf 16:30 Eighteen Days in October by Uri Kaufman Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian HotT Blooded 20:35 1812!: War on the Great Lakes Frontier Valley of Tears: The Yom Kippur War, 1973 Wargame Game 31:25 Featured Game: Flying Colors 35:00 Discussing the Game Recommended Reading Every Wargame Ever 1:02:00 November Patron Pick 1:08:00 Patron Mail Bag – Combining Games 1:10:00 History Off the Table and Other Stuff 1:15:15 Winding Down Spooky Season Hockey Survivor League and hockey talk Simulation Games Comments, questions or concerns can be sent to: historytablepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @HistoryTablePod Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN Black Lodge Trivia Night https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

1 year ago

1 hour 36 minutes 1 second

History on the Table

Episode 52: Where Is Richmond?

Episode 52: Where Is Richmond? Intro Games on the Table Dien Bien Phu Kill Team Next War Tournament HotT Blooded Featured Game: On To Richmond II Discussing the Game Recommended Reading Every Wargame Ever October Patron Pick Patron Mail Bag – Guilty Pleasure Games History Off the Table and Other Stuff Comments, questions or concerns can be sent to: historytablepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @HistoryTablePod Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN Black Lodge Trivia Night https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

1 year ago

1 hour 21 minutes 29 seconds

History on the Table

Deserted Island Dice: Bill Simoni

Bill Simoni washed ashore with 5 games and conversation. Intro and Outro Music is Jungle Village by Der Plan and licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License. Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN https://historyonthetable.com/ https://history-on-the-table.creator-spring.com/ https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

1 year ago

1 hour 12 minutes 6 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 51: HistoriKC Beginnings

Apologies in advance for no show notes but this episode is primarily focused on what we played and enjoyed at HistoriKC Fest 2023. We split the episode by talking about the war/historical games played and then moved into some Patron mail before tackling everything else we played at HKC. Comments, questions or concerns can be sent to: historytablepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @HistoryTablePod Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN https://tabletop.events/conventions/historikc-fest-2023 https://historyonthetable.com/ https://history-on-the-table.creator-spring.com/ https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

2 years ago

1 hour 33 minutes 7 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 50: Guns of Liberty

Episode 50: Guns of Liberty HistoriKC Fest Black Lodge Trivia Night Games on the Shelf 03:00 Triumphe a Marengo Books on the Shelf 09:30 Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose Games on the Table 13:15 John Company 2nd Ed Next War: India Pakistan Red Storm Wargame Game 20:00 Featured Game: Liberty Roads Discussing the Game Recommended Reading Every Wargame Ever 54:15 Special Session – Every Wargame Ever List Edit Liberty Roads v. Normandy `44 August Discussion September Patron Nominations Patron Mail Bag – First Contact Gamer History Off the Table and Other Stuff 1:07:00 Premodern Comments, questions or concerns can be sent to: historytablepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @HistoryTablePod Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN https://tabletop.events/conventions/historikc-fest-2023 https://historyonthetable.com/ https://history-on-the-table.creator-spring.com/ https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

2 years ago

1 hour 23 minutes 52 seconds

History on the Table

Episode 49: Wild & CrazyKids

Episode 49 is an abbreviated episode where we really just talk about Wilderness War from Volko Ruhnke and GMT Games. Accordingly, the show notes are abbreviated this episode as well. HistoriKC Fest Black Lodge Trivia Night Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN https://tabletop.events/conventions/historikc-fest-2023 https://historyonthetable.com/ https://history-on-the-table.creator-spring.com/ https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable

2 years ago

1 hour 1 second

History on the Table

Episode 48: The Lions of Iberia

Episode 48: The Lions of Iberia HistoriKC Fest Black Lodge Trivia Night Games on the Shelf 03:30 Littoral Commander GTS Briefings magazine with Strike/Counterstrike Books on the Shelf 06:00 Texian Iliad by Stephen L. Hardin Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen Kingdoms of Faith by Brian Catlos Games on the Table 10:40 Levee En Masse The British Way ASL Sekigahara Andean Abyss (RTT) Operation Mercury Wargame Game 23:30 Featured Game: Almoravid: Reconquista and Riposte in Spain 1085-1086 30:55 June Game – 1:08:30 Listener Questions and M/F/K 1:10:30 History Off the Table and Other Stuff 01:25:30 Comments, questions or concerns can be sent to: historytablepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @HistoryTablePod Links of Note Discord: https://discord.gg/2wz8sdsbwN https://tabletop.events/conventions/historikc-fest-2023 https://historyonthetable.com/ https://history-on-the-table.creator-spring.com/ https://www.patreon.com/HistoryTable https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/254369/definitive-ranking-every-wargame

2 years ago

1 hour 39 minutes 59 seconds