Cult of the Old - 7 Wonders

Welcome to the latest episode of Cult of the Old!

Each episode your hosts Iain McAllister, Matt Thrower, and Nate Owens are going to turn back the clock to look at games that are at least 10 years old. They’ll give their own critical impressions, tell you about the history of the game and its impact, and what relevance these games still have in the modern hobby landscape. 

From time to time a game comes along that captures the zeitgeist. A title that stands like a colossus above the rest of the releases that year, offering a veritable garden of delights to players. Just the sort of game we like to talk about on Cult of the Old. 7 Wonders was such a game, taking the civilisation game and boiling it down to a simpler drafting mechanism. Designed by Antoine Bauza, published by Repos Productions, with art from Dimitri Chappuis, Miguel Coimbra, Etienne Hebinger, and Cyril Nouvel.

 

Show Links

Below are links to the games and anything else that the team mention during the course of the cast.  We will be linking to BGG for games, designers, artists, and publishers as that is a good place to start for raw information about the game in question.

 

Games Mentioned

 

Magic : The Gathering

Fairy Tale

Mare Nostrum

Innovation

Mottainai

RA

Civilisation, Frances Tresham version

Villagers

Civilisation: New Dawn

Catan

Wingspan

Werewolf

Dominion

Tortuga 1667

Sushi Go/ Party

7 Wonders Duel

Carta Impera Victoria

Netrunner

Project Nisei/ Null Signal

Res Arcana

Millennium  Blades

   

Other Mentions

 

Serge Laget passing

Wizards of the Coast controversy

Team Links

 

Websites you can find the cast on

There Will Be Games

The Cult of the Old

 

Iain

The Giant Brain

Twitter 

 

Matt

Twitter

 

Nate 

Twitter

 

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