Were you planning on attending HeavyCon 8, but were suddenly waylaid by inter-dimensional adventurers, desperately requiring your help to find the Lost Artifact of Borthax? No worries! That's a perfectly valid excuse.

The rest of you lot, though? Shame. SHAME.

To offer some proper motivation for you to attend next year, here are Edward and Martin the Elder with a recap of all the good times that were had, and some Ask the Elephant questions sprinkled in for good measure.

According to experts, all eight (YES, EIGHT) planets are likely to line up within 1 degree every 13.4 trillion years. Given that our solar system only formed around 4.6 billion years ago, this has probably never happened. Given that our sun has about another 5 billion years of life left in it, it'll also probably never happen.

Similarly, the perfect game night has roughly the same odds. So, let's all close our eyes and imagine what it would be like if everything in your life aligned, and you were finally able to get that game to the table, with the people you've always wanted to play it with, and your own little spacetime-bending bubble to play it in. (It's OK if you tear up just a little at the thought.)

We also talk about the games we've been playing lately in much more cosmically mundane times. Enjoy the show!

• In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943-1944
• Ora et Labora
• Knarr
• Forbidden Stars
• Solo RPGs (Courier - Repacked Edition, Home, Eleventh Beast)
• Kohle & Kolonie
• Sykes-Picot

Timestamps:

00:00 - If Everything Was Perfect

34:27 - What Are We Playing?

Another week, another rummaging through Davis' closet for another mix of Roundtable Replays. This week, we've got discussions from Swedish nation-builder Pax Penning, brewery-builder Bier Pioniere, Bolshevik railway-builder Age of Steam's Stalinist Russia map, and Capitalist hotel-builder Acquire.

As a bonus treat, we have Local Really Interesting Guy Joe Huber in the studio during the Acquire session to charm us with tales of the inimitable Sid Sackson, who you may know as the designer of the family game from a parallel universe, Acquire. (The "whooshing" sound you hear is the time it takes for Joe to play an entire game of Acquire.)

Games Discussed:

• 02:06 - Pax Penning
• 19:22 - Bier Pioniere
• 38:11 - Age of Steam: Stalinist Russia
• 56:11 - Acquire (w/ Joe Huber)