Burky and Badger's Board Game Babble Show · Kevin Burkhardsmeier & Barry Doublet

Woods of Evergreen 2015 - 2nd round

·40 min·3 clips

Burky reveals why Champions of Midgard's Valhalla expansion fixes the game's biggest flaw.

King Berkey and Badger host this episode of their board game show from the fictional Woods of Evergreen in Babelot. They continue their series revisiting standout board games from specific years, focusing here on a second selection of titles from 2015. The hosts previously chose games like Steampunk Rally, Baseball Highlights 2045, and Blood Rage in the first round for this year. Berkey selects Champions of Midgard, a Viking-themed worker placement game from Gray Fox Games. He praises its expansions, Valhalla and the Mountains, for mitigating the negative effects of failing combat missions. Badger's first pick is Codenames, the popular word association party game from Czech Games Edition, noting its many variants like Disney and Pictures editions. Berkey's second choice is Raiders of the North Sea, another Viking worker-placement game from Renegade Game Studios, which features a unique mechanic of placing and then retrieving workers. Badger selects The Pursuit of Happiness, a life-simulation worker placement game where players manage time and resources across a lifetime. Berkey's third pick is Voyages of Marco Polo, a dice-placement game involving contract fulfillment and route building on a map. Badger completes his list with Potion Explosion, a puzzle game from Horrible Guild where players collect marbles to brew potions, which he recently enhanced with new expansions. The hosts read comments from viewers suggesting other 2015 favorites like New York 1901, Seven Wonders Duel, and Raptor. They mention that many of the games they selected reside on their personal "top 40" shelves. An iOS app for Raiders of the North Sea is highlighted as a great way to play digitally. The episode includes sponsor reads for Arcane Wonders' new games and Game Toppers' upcoming Kickstarter for a new table called the Young Sherlock. The tone is highly conversational, humorous, and filled with inside jokes between the two hosts. The style is informal and meandering, often punctuated by playful banter and tangential sponsor segments. Board game enthusiasts who enjoy nostalgic retrospectives on modern classics would love this episode. Listeners seeking tightly edited, focused content or discussions on brand-new releases might prefer to skip it.

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