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Casual Friday - 10 Greatest Area Control Games of All Time

August 21, 2020 Jack Eddy
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I sit down with my good friend & Platypus Con manager John Foster to talk through our respective top 5 area control games while we explore what the mechanic even is in the first place. 

Timestamps (SPOILER WARNING) 

04:25 - John's 5 - Diplomacy by Email 

05:36 - Jack's 5 - Kemet 

07:23 - John's 4 - Plague Inc. 

09:11 - Jack's 4 - Blood Rage 

11:44 - John's 3 - Tyrants of the Underpants 

13:47 - Jack's 3 - Ethnos 

17:31 - John's 2 - Battle for Rokugan

22:31 - Jack's 2 - Root 

26:30 - Audience Pick - Chaos in the old world 

28:10 - Audience Pick - Inis 

30:17 - Audience Pick - El Grande 

31:01 - Audience Pick - Cthulhu Wars 

32:01 - John's # 1 - Cthulhu Wars 

35:48 - Jack's # 1 - Game of Thrones 2nd Edition 

You can find Matt Halowell's Cthulhu Wars review and all kinds of other stuff here: https://thematiccircle.wordpress.com. Thank you to everyone who responded on twitter. 
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