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EPISODE · May 6, 2026 · 1H 46M

Episode 10: The Beauty of Card-Driven Games, with Uli from Spielworxx

from Kickin' It Creative · host Candice Harris

In this episode, I kick it with Uli Blennemann (owner of Spielworxx) for a lovely chat about card-driven games (CDGs) –why they're awesome and which ones we dig most – and we also discuss a few games we've played recently and found memorable. Cheers!00:00:00 Introduction00:01:30 LeiriaCon00:04:55 "moving house", heading to the UK for PunchedCon, GMT Weekend at the Warehouse00:11:48 new KIC podcast theme music?!00:15:49 Fresh Plays00:16:03 The Old King's Crown00:21:14 Age of Galaxy (Second Edition)00:35:32 Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars (Toy Battle, Dogs of War)00:42:41 Space Empires 4X00:59:00 The Beauty of CDGs01:07:50 Imperial Elegy + Big Multiplayer CDGs (Successors, Here I Stand, Virgin Queen)01:30:20 Uli's '5 CDGs for Doomsday' (Empire of the Sun, Pursuit of Glory, Weimar, Imperial Elegy, HiS, VQ)01:33:14 Candice's '5 CDGs for Doomsday' (Imperial Elegy, Land & Freedom, Founding Fathers, Wir sind das Volk!, Twilight Struggle (25th Anniversary Hall of Fame edition), Dual Powers)01:39:00 CDGs we want to try (Common Sense, Europe in Turmoil, Lenin's Legacy, Iron Storm)01:46:07 Hubris: Twilight of the Hellenistic World01:48:11 Sign-offThanks so much for listening and for your support! For more content crafted by Candice, visit kickinitcreative.comWe've got official merch now! Be one of the first to rock the first run of KIC swag!

In this episode, I kick it with Uli Blennemann (owner of Spielworxx) for a lovely chat about card-driven games (CDGs) –why they're awesome and which ones we dig most – and we also discuss a few games we've played recently and found memorable. Cheers! 00:00:00 Introduction00:01:30 LeiriaCon00:04:55 "moving house", heading to the UK for PunchedCon, GMT Weekend at the Warehouse00:11:48 new KIC podcast theme music?!00:15:49 Fresh Plays00:16:03 The Old King's Crown00:21:14 Age of Galaxy (Second Ed...

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