Richard Berg

Used copies can be found online in the $1,000 range.

Richard Berg, the designer, who acknowledged never having finished playing the game himself, died in 2019.

Mr. Tegel and Mr. Purcell have no experience with podcasts when they started their journey, but decided to document their effort because if we have people following along, there's too much shame if we back out, Mr. Purcell said.

They devoted 15 episodes just to learning the rules, then 70 more to playing a six-turn practice game.

The designer.

Richard Berg is the designer of this game, not Richard Borg, who did the Memoir 44 and Commands in Color series.

So let me just tell you a little bit about these guys that are doing this.

I don't know their names.

That's one full year.

The game is crazy.

Richard Berg, the designer admitted, in 1979 or after that, that he had never finished his own game.

But here is where it really gets insane.

Y bueno, eh, yo ya dije que, que-- creo que, creo que en la reseña dije que no me había gustado demasiado.

Fue un juego que me apetecía probar y que los juegos de Richard Berg siempre me gustan y me engañan y, y me los compro, pero luego son demasiado matemáticos, demasiado...

No, no me acaban de llenar.

Para jugar a Key Market prefiero se-- jugar a Keyflower, que es un juego que sí que está en mi colección y que es un eterno que siempre está.

The game itself has been out of print for years, and its publisher went out of business some time ago.

The game's designer, Richard Berg, who admitted he'd never finished the game, died in twenty nineteen.

So Richard and Andrew will be pretty much on their own when they begin playing the game for real later this month.

But they'll have plenty of time to learn the game while they play, as Andrew explains.

They're on diverse topics, of course, and they're designed by various designers.

This particular one was Richard Berg, and I had picked this up some years ago.

This was finally my chance to play it, and I got into it, and I set it up, and I started playing it a couple turns, and I had already figured out from reading the rules that this is...

An earlier or adapted, I guess maybe adapted version of Men of Iron systems.

This is deliberately an extremely simple system.

Like, I know in playing it, this will be way too simple for some folks.

I was just saying a little while ago how those Richard Berg, Men of Iron type game, not for me.

I don't really enjoy it.

He and I would go have coffee like once a month before he passed away a few years ago.

And his name is Richard Berg.

And that was one of his earlier game designs from the late 70s.

So is this the one where there are several YouTube videos where they're going through the quote-unquote turn segment? Oh, yeah.