First Turn Tabletop

How does Kiwi get bP to play wargames? But tricking her into playing games that are war themed but don't play like wargames (or vice versa, non-war themes with common wargame mechanics). Well, he's done it again this week. They bring the two player game General Orders: World War II to the table. It was published in 2023 by Osprey Games and designed by Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson.  Post your...

Don't worry, there's no $10 sprites here only a few gamers playing Sea Salt & Paper from Pandasaurus Games. It was designed by Bruno Cathala and Théo Rivière and was published in 2022. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more games!

After a short career in the major leagues pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and pitching a no hitter in 1948, he became a radio broadcaster and eventually the PA announcer for the Baltimore Orioles from 1969 until his death in 1997. He would give his famous phrase whenever a fan would catch a foul ball ... "Give that Fan ... A contract" ... if they dropped it however, he would state "Give that Fa...

Clocking in at 80 Roman miles, or 73 modern miles, Emperor Hadrian of Rome built a wall to separate the Roman province of Britannia from Celtic tribes to the north. The area had no natural boundaries otherwise. Started in 122 CE, it took 6 years to finish and involved three roman legions. Today it is a British cultural icon and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In this episode we play Hadrian's Wall,...

We head to the Cheeseries of France this week and collect animals, harvest their milk, and brew? up some cheese. Craft up some cheese? Mold it up? Who knows. We're playing Fromage, publishing in 2024 by Road to Infamy Games and designed by Matthew O'Malley and Ben Rosset. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, rev...

If Jeff Spicoli played board games, he'd certainly play this one. We hit the beach and paddle out this week to play The Perfect Wave. It was designed by Jason Mowery and Chase Williams. Published by The Op in 2023. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more games!

If only we had Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer to introduce us, how great would that be? Also, A Knight's Tale? If you haven't seen it you really should, it's quote entertaining. Anyway, bP and Kiwi play Blazon by David Conklin and published by 25th Century Games in 2023. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, re...

This week, we're trying out the voxel art inspire Cubirds from AEG. It was designed by Stefan Alexander and published in 2018. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more games!

Not all of it ... but Mozart. That's a Kiwi original, you can keep it. Have that ... cherish it forever! This week, we're playing Lacrimosa by Gerard Ascensi and Ferran Renalias. It was published in 2022 by Devir. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more games!

Sometimes it can be really hard to come up with something snarky or 'funny' to type at this point when it's a game that doesn't have a theme. I can tell you what the theme isn't … and that's Tetris, no matter how closely it resembles Tetris, it is not Tetris. This week, Paxton joins us again as we play Number Drop, published in 2021 by AEG and designed by Florian Sirieix and Benoit Turpin. Post yo...

1 out of 1 Kiwis agree, that Breakfast food is the best food. He'll be taking no questions at this time, thanks for enjoying this TED talk. This week we're playing Waffle Time. It was designed by Maxime Demeyere and published in 2023 by AEG. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next...

With Rock & Roll!!!!! Or tiles .... probably just tiles. This week, we're sans Kait as she galivants across the globe, so the other three are playing Shake That City, published in 2023 by AEG and designed by Mads Fløe and Kåre Torndahl Kjær. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until n...

With our GenCon recap episodes all wrapped up, we have a few episodes that we recording during the weeks leading up to the convention. In this one, Eric and Kiwi race around the world as birds in Odin's Ravens. This is a game by Thorsten Gimmler. We played the 2nd edition published by Osprey Games in 2015.  Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gma...

In our series covering GenCon 2023, we turn to Stephanie, Ernesto, and Alexei and we find out what they did and what they thought. It's their first time attending GenCon so tune in and find out what they thought! Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more games!

This week, we have part 2 of our GenCon series. This time we're covering the second half of the convention on Saturday and Sunday. We'll have one more part after this, covering the first time experiences of the other hosts: Ernesto, Stephanie, and Alexei. After that we'll be back to our regular format. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.co...

We're back from GenCon, we've had a few days to recovered and then we headed back into the studio to discuss what we did, the games we played, and all things GenCon. In this first part we talk about our arrival into Indianapolis and what we did and played on Thursday and Friday.  Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to r...

This was played a month prior to GenCon, but this is publishing the week after GenCon. If previous years are any indication our group of gamers had a great time and they are already looking forward to GenCon 2024. For those that were there, we hope you are recovering well. For those that couldn't make it, we hope you had a great time doing whatever you were doing anyway! In this episode, Eric and...

Kiwi's dream job is to just walk around in the forest and count trees, somewhere where you can lose count, start over, and no one is worried about it. There's a lot of trees out there, some body has to count them. In the meantime, tune in to Eric and Kait playing Forests of Pangaia, published in 2022 by Pangaia Games and designed by Thomas Franken.  Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTu...

You ever wake up in the morning as an Arch Mage and decide, today is the day I get into real estate? And then you realize you need a lot more help and you need to hire people? It happens more times than it should. So to live that dream, just one more time Kiwi, Paxton, and bP are playing Lizard Wizard from Forbidden Games, designed by Glenn Drover and published in 2021. Post your comments to Twitt...

I'm here to talk about a serious problem, TRIBES of wild Kiwi roaming the country side! This week, Paxton is back with bP and Kiwi to play Kiwi Chow Down from Detestable Games. It was designed by Pepe Macba and published in 2023. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play m...

When bP was asked about an episode title, she was clearly focused on penguins: Purple Penguins, Penguin Pals, Purple Penguin Pals ... yeah, we don't know either. Then Paxton just said there's nothing funnier than watching penguins walk at 5x speed. Basically they weren't help at all. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember...

"It doesn't take a lot of elephants to have a scary amount of elephant on the battlefield." This week, Eric and Kiwi bring Commands & Colors: Ancients to the table and recreate the first battle of the Bagradas River between Rome and Carthage. The game was published by GMT Games in 2006 and designed by Richard Borg. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  firstturntab...

It's another double game episodes with bP and Kiwi. This time around we're playing Timeline by Frederic Henry and published in 2012 by Asmodee. We follow that up with Trailblazers published in 2023 by Bitewing Games and designed by Ryan Courtney.  Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at  firstturntabletop@gmail.com . Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Unt...

This week, Eric, Kiwi, and Alexei got the opportunity to learn Exit Vector from Vector Tridens LLC set to go to Kickstarter in mid-2023. The designers Jerick Black, Marc Daigler, and Matt Davis joined us to teach us the game and then run us through a scenario. The game can be played stand alone or added as a module to an ongoing RPG campaign. Find out how it goes! Post your comments to Twitter/Ins...

When I was. A young man. My father. Took me into the city. To see Kiwi and bP play two games this week. An episode harkening back to the double game episodes that we used to publish many moons ago. They are playing Pixel Tactics Deluxe by D. Brad Talon Jr and published in 2015 by Level 99 Games and Parade which was designed by Naoki Homma and published by ZMan Games in 2007. Post your comments to...