Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content In Episode 166 of the Polyhedron Collider Cast, the gang dives into a mix of worker placement, architecture, victorian horror, and some good old rock and roll. Our fist building block Flat Iron, a 2-pla…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content In Episode 165 of the Polyhedron Collider Cast, the crew is back around the virtual tabletop to talk about some of the biggest, brain-burning board games hitting tables right now—and to share some excit…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content ​In Episode 164 of the Polyhedron Collider Cast, the PhC team welcomes back Jon for a lively discussion covering recent gaming events and tabletop gaming reviews. The episode kicks off with Andy reporti…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content In this episode of the Polyhedron Collider Cast, the team dives into a mix of science, board games, and digital adventures. We kick things off with a discussion on SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Inte…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content The boys from the Collider have been visiting some tiny conventions and getting lots of games played. First Rory and Sid take us through board games to play with the wee nippers, with Lego building game…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content In this episode of the Polyhedron Collider Cast, the team dives into the latest board game news, reviews, and some seriously unexpected topics, like geese! Tune in as we discuss playing the Warhammer 40…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider 2025 promises to be another thrilling chapter for tabletop games, so let’s peer into our gaming crystal ball and spotlight the board games and roleplaying games that have us buzzing with excitement for the upcoming year. Of course, there might be a few friendly debat…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Happy New Year Colliders! Its the end of the year, which of course means that its time for our annual review of our favourite games of the year, so join us as we talk about the best board games and table top RPGs that we played in 2024. We also talk about the highly …

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content During this season, it is a tradition for board gaming and RPG podcasts to embrace the festive spirit, sing, and celebrate. The Polyhedron Collider team will follow a more typical custom by indulging in…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content We’re flooded in, which means more time for games. We battle out in the future in Undaunted 2200: Callisto, colonise the moon in Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon, and decide the fate of the people…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Its time to channel our inner Bob Ross and Duncan Rhodes, as we talk about our anual painting challenge, this time using only the Two Thin Coats starter paints. Go check out the video at https://www.you…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Episode 155 is a bit of a Kickstarter Special as the boys discuss Vrahode, a fantasy adventure game with stunning miniatures and a fancy player console. Mutagen, a worker placement game where your worke…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Join Steve, Andy, Sid and Rory for a jam packed episode of board game reviews, a special Essen Spiel preview and more Ramshackle Nonsense than you’ve come to love and expect. “I’m the Branston’s pickle …

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content In this episode of the Polyhedron Collider Podcast, Steve, Andy, and Rory break the mould and discuss a game on the bleeding edge of the tabletop gaming zeitgeist: Arcs, from Leder Games. Andy shares hi…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content In this jam-packed episode of tabletop gaming chat, we have a few miniature painting brags to get out of the way before we delve into four in-depth board game reviews (sorry if you were hoping for some …

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content No, it’s not a Bisto advert, it’s Rory and Steve’s gushing review of Yonder from Sinister Fish[/company], their latest worker placement boardgame from Villagers and Moon designer Haakon Gaarder - which …

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content The boys from the Collider are back and they are still reeling from all the board game goodies they picked-up during the UK Games Expo - which means this is a packed episode full of reviews of the lates…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content UK Games Expo 2024 has come to an end, and we are completely knackered! But that won't stop us talking about the amazing board games, tabletop roleplaying games, and miniatures we saw at the Birmingham …

Recorded live at UK Games Expo 2024, the boys talk about the board games that have got their attention from this years show, as well as eclairs, sore losing, and our old mate Ron Dell. Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Games Mentioned Ada's Dream Terminus Horror on the Orient Express SETI Courtisans …

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content The UK Games Expo will be hitting the Birmingham NEC between Friday 31 May and Sunday 2 Jun 2024 and to say the boy from PHC are excited is an understatement. In this episode we go through the board gam…

Why not buy a board game from our sponsors Kienda: kienda.co.uk/polyhedroncollider Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content The boys from the Collider waste little time in the latest episode of the Collider Cast and get straight to business discussing the clever but hideously ugly Carpe Diem by Stefan Feld on which both Andy…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content We are over a quarter of the way through the year, so that means Rory and Steve, are a quarter of the way through their BGG Top 100 challenge, so we look back at the current highlights and lowlights and of course talk about some of the best board games currently playable. But its not …

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Join the PhC boys for Episode 145 as Andy discovers his lucky totem that allows him to make it to and from Airecon without his car breaking down. Steve accedentally creates what is sure to be the best fabric softener in the history of fabric softners. Sid invents a new word #Begrumble…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content In this episode we tread the rain soaked streets of the Blade Runner RPG, blow up dissident planets in Star Wars Rebellion, and explore the best Dungeons & Dragons adventures. But this is not before we take an in depth look at the historical economic game Kutná Hora: The City of Silve…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content The Polyhedron Collider Cast is back with another episode packed with tabletop gaming chatter. In this episode, our hosts, Steve, Andy, Sid, and Rory, bring us breaking news that's set to change the game – literally. We're talking about a new sponsorship deal with Kienda that's as exc…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content A relative return to normality at Polyhedron Collider HQ as we discuss the start of Rory and Steve's Top 100 challenge and the games we have played along the way. We then segway to some smooth jazz in rolle and write game The Gig and find spice in the desert in Agents of Dune RPG star…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content It’s time to read the tea leaves and consult the horoscope we list the board games and tabletop roleplaying games that we are looking forward to playing in 2024. It is of course an eclectic mix of heavy eurogames, miniature laden dudes on a map and quirky RPGs. We then discuss our BGG…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content 2023 has drawn to a close, so the boys from PHC size up their favourite board games and roleplaying games of the year. In addition to the best of the best, we announce the winner of our painting competition, Andy awards his insert of choice, and we ask you, the listener, to tell us yo…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Class war breaks out amongst the PHC crew as Steve and Rory discuss Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory while Andy tries to convince is that maybe its not all a terribly boring farce as he talsk us through Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition. Finaly we convince everyone to play The Wh…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Andy has been to a games convention, so sit back and let him regale you with tales of all the board games he played at Airecon West. Top of that list was one of our UK Games Expo darlings Tiwanaku and then we head to the high seas with Ahoy. From the mail bag, Kickstarter is our main …

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Jon is back! And he's played Twilight Imperium. After exploring and conquering the galaxy, we revisit Old King's Crown and look back at what other games from the last two UK Games Expos still tickle our fancy. Andy rounds up the episode by talking about his current D&D campaign Dungeo…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Kicking off with a, quite frankly, disturbing converstation about Sid's trousers, we then explore upcoming kickstarter Old King's Crown, while Andy examines the new Stonemaier hotness Expeditions. We then look at Parks, Block and Key, and Solani before talking about getting into minia…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Gorged on a diet of haggis and Irn Bru, Sid and Andy return from Tabletop Scotland to regail a story of playing Hegemony for a stupidly long time. Rory and Steve then take us through city building wuro-game Barcelona, and engage in a spot of monster huntng in Beast. Games Mentioned 00…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content We take a healthy diversion to the world of PC gaming to discuss the phenomenal Dungeons & Dragons video game, Baldur's Gate 3. Moving on to our more traditional cardboard fayre, we discuss camels and turbans in Merv: The Heart of the Silk Road, and explore unknown worlds in Sleeping …

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content S After a little rant about Games Workshop the boys gush about Castles of Burgundy before heading into more divisive territory discussing Disney Animated and Chilli Con Carne Recipes. Andy tells us how much fun he has been having with Dominant Species Marine and then we round off the …

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Steve and Andy explore a 2012 classic: Terra Mystica, Rory and Steve explore dungeons in the upcoming Kickstarter of Wizards & Co before discussing how great Dorfromantik the Board Game is and how it feels similar but also quite different and fresh. Sid then gushes about Cthulhu Nazis…

The dust has settled on UK Games Expo for another year but that won't stop us talking about all the awesome people, board games, card games, RPGS and miniatures games we got to see at the show. Games Mentioned 00:06:03 Distilled 00:18:30 Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan 00:22:42 Codename Brassage 00:24:05 Celestial Affinity - The Decimation of Bearmou…

Recorded live at UK Games Expo 2023, the boys talk about what has already got their attention at the show and answer questions from the audiance. Warning: a wee F-bomb may have made its way into the episode... blame Sid. We are aware that we mistakenly referred to Bez with the wrong pronoun. No offence was intended and we truly apologise for this m…

The UK Games Expo 2023 is only a few days away and we are very excited! So listen along as we discuss the board games, tabletop miniatures games, RPGs, publishers and events that have got us giddy with anticipation. For more details go to https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/ We will be hosting The Polyhedron Collider Podcast - LIVE! in the NEC Piazza 4 (…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content If you’ve ever wondered which Harry Potter character is most like Andy then you really should listen to this episode. Also in this episode we discuss the Siege 6 Kickstarter Fees, Rory nearly quits recording after Steve and Andy review Wayfarers of the South Tigris and then Steve is a…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Join the boys from the Collider as they discuss Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and optimal cinema seating considerations. Andy and Rory recap their mammoth 11 hour gaming day which started with Autobahn from Alley Cat Games, the excellent little engine builder: Furnace from A…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Join the boys from the PHC for another bag of board gaming goodies. In this episode Rory plays in the dark in 10 Candles, Andy goes hunting for clues in MicroMacro: Crime City, and we have an argument about Pegasus. We also delve into the mail bag to discuss board games taking up too …

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Andy has been to Airecon, so not only has he got a truck full of board games to talk about, he's also got lots of dirty street food to discuss, including the lowdown on Race to the Raft, Heat and the new game from Dávid Turczi (aka Big Davey T). Andy then gives the rest of the crew a …

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Back with a heavy portion of board gaming banter, the boys from the PHC talk about food poisoning, brush stealing kittens, Thunderbirds, Weather Machine and Kingdom Death Monster. We then reach into the overflowing mail bag to ponder what we would do with more time and are games getti…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Its back to the regular format, and we kick things off with an in depth look into the D&D OGL debacle, before trying to work out what the hell is going on in Tiletum, and printing money in QE. Games Mentioned 00:12:46 Scythe Expeditions 00:17:16 Sub Terra II 00:25:54 Dungeons & Dragon…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content It’s time to gaze into the crystal ball and consult the tarot deck we list the board games and tabletop roleplaying games that we are looking forward to playing in 2023. It is of course an eclectic mix of heavy eurogames, miniature laden dungeon crawls, and fantasy RPGs. Games Mention…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content 2022 has drawn to a close, so the boys from PHC size up their favourite games of the year, or at least their favourite games they've played this year, as all four podcasters can't seem to count. In addition to the best of the best, we also look back at our biggest dissapointments, whi…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content After a weekend at new Telford games' convention, Poole Party, Anyd regails us about Coffee Traders and Saboteur. Steve and Rory then mine monster guts in So You've Been Eaten, and Rory gives us a hot take on Arborea. We then delve into the mail bag and talk about our gaming bad habit…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content It was Sid's birthday, so to celebrate we played Twilight Imperium, therefore guaranteeing that our future friendships would be ruined! Don't worry, we can still argue over the best position in Terracotta Army and swear at our deck in Northgard: Uncharted Lands. Games Mentioned 00:11:…

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content The latest episode of board game chat has a distinctly Royal theme, as we talk Kings of Ruin (not Kings of Leon), Kingdom Come Deliverance, and The King’s Dilemma. We also talk about Bonfire but couldn’t stretch the royal analogy far enough. Games Mentioned 00:09:07 Tainted Grail: Kin…