Episode 139 :: Christmas Bonanza 2020

12/22/20 • 154 min

Recorded in War Room Studios - Albuquerque, NM : 12/22/20

This episode is brought to you by PowerToTheMeeple.com. Thanks to the great pandemic of 2020, this years holiday celebration is particularly important. Join Josh and Brandon as they look at favorite holiday traditions, including favorite Christmas movies! A quick call on the War Room Red Phone insures that the North Pole has Christmas COMPLETELY under control. Our recent plays have included some of the best games of the year - check out our thoughts on Detective Modern Crime Board Game - Season 1, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Dune Imperium and The Kringle Caper are all discussed at length - then we discuss some exciting upcoming releases, like: Darwin's Journey, SOS Titanic DELUXE and Vindication + The Chronicles Expansion. We wrap the show up with a Christmas celebration of our own! Join us as we open our Secret Santa gifts, and revisit our favorite Brawling Brothers Christmas carols from years past.

Episode Timeline:

0:00:00 - Intro / Banter 0:07:25 - BoredOfflineBoardOnline Giveaway 0:10:45 - The Professors Lab 0:15:10 - Red Phone Call to the North Pole 0:28:31 - TNT - Then -- Fave Christmas Movies! 0:56:11 - TNT - NOW 1:49:00 - TNT - Tomorrow 2:06:30 - Feature Segment : 5th Annual Christmas Bonanza Gift Opening! 2:19:00 - Christmas Hits Medley 2:19:14 ---- Brandon Baby 2:22:03 --- It's Beginning to Look A lot like Game Night 2:24:38 --- Let it Roll 2:26:31 ---- Do You Hear What I Hear? 2:29:12 ---- 12 Nights of Brawling Christmas

Board Game Timestamps:

Darwin's Journey -1:49:00 Detective Modern Crime Board Game S1 - 0:56:11 Dune Imperium - 1:27:45 Lost Ruins of Arnak - 1:12:00 SOS Titanic - 1:53:20 The Kringle Caper - 1:41:20 Vindication Chronicles - 1:58:00

Recorded in War Room Studios - Albuquerque, NM : 12/22/20

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Episode 138 :: Mystery Beef Van

Recorded in War Room Studios - Albuquerque, NM : 11/24/20

This episode is brought to you by PowerToTheMeeple.com and Thunderworks Games. Josh and Brandon have a host of contests to wrap up, but none will ever be as fun as Brawlers insulting Josh for prizes! Don't forget to sign up for Brawling Brothers Christmas Bonanza - our gift exchange is always exceptional, and we love seeing happy Brawlers! We take a deep dive look with our Rococo Deluxe Review! Tune in to find out if we think Rococo Deluxe should be on every gamer's shelf. We also look at Bites, Unlock: The Tonipals Treasure, Star Wars: Unlock! and Polis. We wrap up this action packed episode with a rare treat - a video game review! Listen in to find out what we think of Phasmophobia, the hot new indie game that has you hunting ghosts and cowering in corners!

Episode Timeline:

0:00:44 - Introduction 0:05:00 - Hitster Giveaway 0:07:00 - Curmudgeon Giveaway 0:08:00 - The Brawlers insult Josh (Featuring Grant Lyon) 0:25:31 - TNT: Then 0:45:55 - TNT: Now 1:14:39 - TNT: Tomorrow 1:22:55 - Feature Segment - Phasmophobia

Board Game Timestamps:

Rococo Deluxe Review - 0:26:00 Bites - 0:46:10 Unlock : Tonipals Treasure - 0:56:13 Star Wars: Unlock! - 1:08:08 Polis - 1:10:55 Dive - 1:15:00 Carpe Diem - 1:18:30 Phasmophobia - 1:22:55

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Episode 140 :: New Year, New You

Recorded in War Room Studios - Albuquerque, NM : 1/26/21

This episode is brought to you by Grand Gamers Guild & PowerToTheMeeple.com. Our expectations were that 2021 would start with a bang, and boy were we right! Find out why the Brawling Brothers have been MIA at the turn of the year, then hang out to hear about some of the games we have been playing recently, including Flamme Rouge, Dune Imperium, Wingspan and more. We also offer up our Endangered Review, as well as relive the excitement of Joshs' most recent Axis and Allies campaign! Noel and Jordan join us to discuss the best (and worse) of 2020 and we collectively look ahead and make some predictions on 2021.

Technical Notes: We somehow managed to prove that 2020 lingers - a dead hard drive sends the end of our NOW segment and our entire TOMORROW segment into a tailspin, as a result we lost For Glory (Spielcraft Games) and Cult of the Deep (B.A. Games). Stay tuned for our recut of that content in Episode 141.