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Category Archives: Embassy Cast

Embassy Cast Episode 13 – The Voyages of Marco Polo and Spiel 2015

July 17, 2015by aaronlime 1 Comment

It’s been two and a bit months and we hope you’ve been well. We certainly have been aside from coughing up bits of our lungs over the winter, but you […]

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Embassy Cast Episode 12 – Special Guests Grace & Rui

May 26, 2015by aaronlime 1 Comment

You may think “But CBE, it looks like you’re just getting your friends who you board game with on your show as guests” but you’d be absolutely 100% correct because that […]

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Embassy Cast Episode 11 – Special Guests Bruce & Jocie

May 5, 2015by aaronlime 1 Comment

We are all about the most important people in board gaming – the players! Wait, Sony may have something to say about that. But we really do mean it, though. […]

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Embassy Cast Episode 10 – The Embassy Cast is BACK! Episode 10 – Mental Health, Catchup

April 12, 2015by aaronlime Leave a comment

After a long hiatus, Episode 10 is up on Dropbox! Spoiler alert (but not really), Tim’s been unwell, for lack, of better terms, but we discuss it for fifteen minutes […]

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Embassy Cast Episode 09 – New Games, Ambassadorship

January 27, 2015by aaronlime Leave a comment

Our first recording of 2015 was juuuust before a little gig we threw called TimCon as part of the Cardboard Embassy Summer of Board Games… but that’s for another day. […]

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Embassy Cast Episode 08 – Special Guest Aaron, MeepleCon

December 24, 2014by aaronlime Leave a comment

This episode, we’re joined by the auspicious Aaron from the Action Points Podcast who kindly syndicate our show on their website. Aaron’s a fellow Melbournian and board game lover who […]

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Embassy Cast Episode 07 – Special Guest Sally, PAX Australia

November 20, 2014by aaronlime Leave a comment

Our very first special guest Sally joins us to talk about her experiences with board games, some favourites and some great commentary to go with it. Sally’s a regular in […]

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Embassy Cast: Episode 06 – Spiel 2014, Out of Print Games, Five Tribes & Panamax

November 12, 2014by aaronlime Leave a comment

It seems like only yesterday that we were all up late (here in Australia) watching the live feeds from Essen Spiel 2014, but after a more surprising event than we […]

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Embassy Cast: Episode 05 – Rules

October 13, 2014by aaronlime Leave a comment

This is actually three weeks old, originally recorded on September 14th, however Tim’s PC just happened to die at that point plus his ma was in hospital and if that […]

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Introducing the Embassy Cast

September 4, 2014by aaronlime 1 Comment

2014 has been a very exciting time for us here at the Action Points Podcast. After a year of podcasting and finding our feet, this year we started reaching out […]

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Embassy Cast: Episode 04 – Minutes

September 4, 2014by aaronlime 1 Comment

We’ve been playing a lot of interesting games of late and wanted to discuss them, so instead of a feature topic, we’ve discussed a few of them with a bit […]

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Embassy Cast: Episode 03 – Australian Games

September 4, 2014by aaronlime 1 Comment

After a lovely email from Hammond and a bit of a think about our funny accents, we put together a bit of a list of Australian board games and designers. Super […]

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Embassy Cast: Episode 02 – Penalties

September 4, 2014by aaronlime 1 Comment

We decided to record another episode after all, this time talking about the semi-controversial mechanic of copping penalties in board games, sometimes known as the dreaded Feeding Phase. Have a […]

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Embassy Cast: Episode 01 – People’s Choice Awards

September 4, 2014by aaronlime 1 Comment

Listen to us briefly introduce ourselves & then discuss the People’s Choice Awards we selected and posted on Instagram (search for #CBEPeoplesChoice). We’re intentionally unpolished and conversational, as we strongly […]

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