Description

With the guys about to head off to WDC in Bangkok, they play a face to face game & discuss their learnings to apply. Plus updates on their podcast listener game and new variants in development at vDip.

Intro

• The guys introduce their drinks and tonight’s initial venue (0 mins 10 secs)
• They talk a little around their plans for Bangkok's WDC before a bit of an intro on their recent face to face game in Brisbane (3 mins)

Chat with Reily Chapman on their face to face game in Brisbane

• The guys set up the context of their chat with Reily (previously on the show as Macca) about their recent face to face game in Brisbane (5 mins)
• The discussion starts as Kaner and Amby get into the Guiness  (6 mins) 
• Reily talks about his board topping game as Austria, and Amby’s poorly executed game as Italy (8 mins)
• Kaner discusses his game as Russia (12 mins)
• Amby’s psychological warfare against France (15 mins 20 secs)
• They discuss gameplay (19 mins)
• Kaner and Reily with different recollections of the same thing (22 mins 30 secs)
• Amby’s stab (24 mins 30 secs)
• Turkey starts threatening Turkey (27 mins)
• Amby discusses his misorder and how it all unraveled (31 mins)
• They discuss their top learnings from this game and the end game (38 mins)
• They start wrapping things up with some final thoughts to help for WDC (52 mins)
• Kaner & Amby return and give their thoughts on the discussion with Reily before moving onto a strategy talk (54 mins 30 secs)

Diplomacy talk

• They talk about timings for next episodes following the guys going to Thailand (1 hr 2 mins)
• The guys have moved from their starter bar (Prince Consort) to the Gatsby Lounge in Fortitude Valley and their new drinks (1 hr 4 mins)

Around the grounds

• They kick off their current games discussions with their podcast listener game based on Nine Dash Line (1 hr 6 mins 30 mins) 
• They discuss a proposed new variant at vDip set in New Zealand amongst Maori tribes by Porter Zach (1 hr 18 mins) 
• They review some of the other new maps in development (1 hr 23 mins 30 secs)
• They move onto a couple of Amby’s game including an American Conflict game and an Imperial Diplomacy game where he’s Britain (1 hr 30 mins)
• Amby gets block sizes mixed up before they discuss getting some variant maps printed for games without 7 players (1 hr 41 mins)
• The guys wrap up the show (1 hr 45 mins)

Venue: Prince Consort, Finn McCools & the Gatsby Lounge, Brisbane

Drinks of choice:

Kaner: Balter XPA, Guiness and 150 Lashes pale ale
Amby: Torbruk Woodcutter's shiraz, Guiness and St Hallet’s Faith shiraz

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Thanks as always to Dr Dan aka "The General" for his rockin' intro tune.