Wheel Tapping – An 18xx Podcast

Join Tony and Chris as they travel down the hometown favorite designed by David Hecht!

Join Chris and Tony as they discuss 18CZ by Lonny Orgler. This comes after a play with only 2 people so we also tend to focus our conversation on that topic.

Come join Tony and Chris as they Welcome John Harres to talk about how we print and play 18xx titles and maybe you can learn from our mistakes.  The full tool list is on our patreon page at www.patreon.com/wheeltapping

This month Chris and Tony go old school, and do a 2 person chow all about TransAmerica!

Join Tony, Chris, and Special guest Jac as we run down what makes 1849 a game we love to get to the table!

Join Chris, Tony, and Special Guest Nick Neylon to talk about Tony's design of 18LosAngeles!  Join us as we find out the ins and outs of what has quickly become a group favorite!

We cover one of the progenitors of the hobby with 1830.  We are joined by Tyler, of Dual Guage, who is a caretaker of an amazing library and has over 100 plays to his credit. 

Join Chris and Tony as they go Old Skool and break down this classic school night title designed by David Hecht.

This month we do a first! We revisit a previously covered title, 1822. But we have a very good reason as we were able to catch up with Simon Cutforth and chat with him about his design ideas behind one of our favorite titles.

Join Tony, Chris, and Nick as we discuss our favorite 5 and gloss over honorable mentions!

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This week Chris & Tony are joined by not one, but three guests! This was a panel put on at Camp Capstone this year and is our Coverage of the Iron Rail 1&2 with an announcement of Iron Rail 3!

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Well well well, here we are at Episode 11, this completes the first year! Woohoo! And what better way to close it out than with the most prolific designer in 18xx, David Hecht! We take a look at the very first title of his, 1826!

This month we get a very interesting man Lonny Orlger, the designer of 1824, to sit with us for our chat about the game. We learn some fun facts along the way!

This month Tony and I take a look at 1846: The Race for the Midwest. We also reached out to Tom Lehmann and asked if he wanted to join us for a conversation about this 18xx classic. Join us as we chat and talk about this very different style game and how ti came to be.

This month Tony and I take a look at 1882: Assiniboia coming from All Aboard Games! This is a special treat as we have the designer, Marc Voyer of the game on to discuss some of the decisions he made along the way.

This week we are joined by Ian of the Bankruptcy Club to talk about the most common methods for online 18xx play out there that we have experience in.  We also look ahead to a new system being put together by Toby Mao.

This week Tony and I take a look at 1880: China from O&O Games!  This is a real treat because we are joined by Ambie Valdes of The Dice Tower and Board Game Blitz.  Ambie is no stranger to us as we have had her on talking about our favorite 18xx in the past as well being on our show, Game All Nite.

This conversation is a little tough as 80 is so different, but I think you will see why we are so in love with it!

This week Tony and Chris are joined by a bitter rival Johnny Hollander to discuss 1889.  While this one may not see a lot of play around here any more, we take the time to dive deep on it!

This week Tony and I welcome Special Guest Mike Hutton, the designer of 1862, onto the show!  We hope you will enjoy getting to know a little bit about the process for the game itself!

This month we bring Tyler McLaughlin from Tony's previous show Dual Gauage on to discuss 18MEX.  This great 3-5 player game is seeing a reprint this year from All Aboard Games and maybe you might enjoy it!

This week Tony Fryer and Chris Whitpan talk all about 1822. It is a large game covering all of Great Britain. A truly new take on the genre, we find it interesting to talk about!

This week Tony Fryer and Chris Whitpan welcome Joshua Starr of Grand Trunk Games to discuss 1861!  We talk mostly about the core game and run through the categories like:This week Tony Fryer and Chris Whitpan welcome Joshua Starr of Grand Trunk Games to discuss 1861!  We talk mostly about the core game and run through the categories like:

Yellow Phase    The Stock Market

Green Phase    Trains and the Rush

Brown Phase    Shenanigans

Grey Phase All the Feels

Priority Deal Tony's Marker

Check out the kickstarter at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshuastarr/1861-russia-1867-canada

This week Tony Fryer and Chris Whitpan discuss all things to do with the forth coming 18Chesapeake by All Aboard Games.

We decided to start right out of the gate so there may be some issues as we evolve and develop, but there was no wasting this content!  Look for us every First Monday!