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Behind the Shield – Episode 80 – “Introduce a Friend to Collectible Card Games”

Friday, August 18th, 2017

Episode four in our “Introduce a Friend” series finds Andrew and Amanda talking about how to get friends into the collectable card game scene – with a concentration on Magic since that’s what we’re most familiar with. Also – discussion of Gencon and many, many games coming soon.

 

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Behind the Shield – Episode 78 – “Introduce a Friend to D&D”

Friday, August 4th, 2017

The second in our series about how to get your friends into the games you love. Today Sam and Al in Norton and Amanda and Andrew all talk about our love for Dungeons and Dragons and how best to introduce new players to the game and other role-playing games.

 

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Behind the Shield – Episode 77 – “Introduce a Friend to X-Wing”

Friday, July 28th, 2017

Today we start a month long series exploring how best to introduce your friends to the games you love. This week we feature a fantastic interview with Brian Frost full of great info about how to introduce people to X-Wing Minis. Some links from the interview:

www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/201…her-part-1/
www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/201…her-part-2/
www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/201…g-part-one/
www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/201…g-part-two/
drafts.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/20…rld-champ/
www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/201…bombs-away/
www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/201…l-veterans/

 

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Behind the Shield – Episode 76 – “Games of the Year”

Friday, July 21st, 2017

This week the “Oscars of Boardgames” – the Spiel des Jahres – were announced in Germany. In response we talk about some of the winners and also talk about a whole bunch of other great board games we’ve been playing. The guest interview with Ben, Steven, Fred and Sam is especially worth listening to.

 

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Behind the Shield – Episode 75 – “Why We Do It”

Friday, July 14th, 2017

 

We take on a big, important, topic today: Why do people game? From social interaction to the challenge of learning something new there are a lot of reasons that gaming is important to all of us at Battleground.

 

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Behind the Shield – Episode 73 – “Some Devastating Speculation”

Friday, June 30th, 2017

This weekend feel like it’s going to be one of the most packed few days of gaming outside of PAX for Battleground. Andrew is all by his lonesome as he talks about all the many things going on. After that enjoy a lengthy interview with Al, Andrew and Craig in Norton as they review some of the mechanics and notable cards in the new Hour of Devastation set of Magic cards.

 

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