TURN 1 - Player Count

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welcome to whose turn is it Anyway your board gaming podcast where we talk about pensions no board games really not
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pensions um I'm Bor yeah about financial planning and uh yeah this is what we
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love can we do a pension episode we should should yeah yeah we should um no we're here with a special expansion pack
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episode where it's our second birthday guys streamers balloons all of that
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stuff yeah can you believe we're we're two years old that's crazy it's mad isn't it that's crazy are we still in
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nappies nappies yeah because we're two we're toddlers we're the toddlers of the
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podcast game aren't we but no yeah 2 years old and uh for those that kind of followed along um we did our birthday
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episode obviously last year which is our first one and the whole theme of this really is the basically the Celebrity
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Death Match of board games the board game Battleground so this is where we kind of pitch all of our favorite played games
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of of last year and we put them head to-head so that's what we're going to be doing again got some new players though
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on the podcast in terms of this episode Dan hi yeah hello mate yeah feel of
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voice over coming on board game Battleground you can do the voiceovers cuz that's kind of what you I I have
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been known to do a few yeah yes so when we do all the rounds intro we're counting on you send it over yeah um
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Tambo hello yes I'm new to this you're new to this you're excited to do this one though yeah I'm really excited yeah
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I love the last episode we did this last year like good I wasn't on it so who wants to do the the top trumps of uh
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games play it's just great fun to do great fun great idea cool Becky hi everyone back again back again returning
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from last year y so it's any me and you that are the veterans here yeah we're the you know we've got history we got we
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have got history lots of History I remember Lords
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of Water Deep uh conversation happening last year and you were very uh peed off about yeah and I believe it was was it
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Davey that tanked Zuli it was filth still never forgiven him for that yeah
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yeah you and Chris prar as well yeah the designer of zul like why did you do this
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well yeah I was fighting for you Chris it's fair so curly we got you here as
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our first time battle grounder you're right my love hey bringing the Southwest
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massive yeah here we are we're ready to to kind of get our fight on but um before we kind of get into it I just
A memento for our good friend Kris
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want to say uh a little momento to last year because last year um we had uh a
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bit of sad news that we introduced our first uh Birthday Episode to because our
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uh good friend Chris uh who's part of our podcast sadly passed away and this this episode is quite special uh to us
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all because it was was his last recording that he did with us on this format um so I just kind of wanted to
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give a little nod to Chris cuz he he was good fun in that episode and it just always you know brings back some really
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good memories of just having a laugh trying to get uh him trying to get exploding kittens to number one um and I
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nearly I nearly thought should we try and get exploding kittens in the mix um but I just thought someone would tank it
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there's no just going to get rid of it in the thing but no I just wanted a little mention to to Chris cuz just a a
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nice little no there so let's get on with the

TURN 2 - Our favourite moments of our 2nd year of podcasting

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episode so before we get into the arena and Pitch these games against each other I thought we'd do a little retrospective
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about our second year of podcasting and just kind of go around the table and kind of talk about our favorite memories
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of our second year so I mean who's got one that's currently burn to the oh Becky stepped on right to the go on so
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getting Min and elwin to talk to us the creators that sounds really
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creepy please talk to us please but they just felt like such I don't know
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celebrities is not quite the right word because I don't respect celebrities but getting someone so influential and big
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in the board game Community to spend their precious time talking into little old us I just was and still am blown
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away by that and they were just so nice yeah just lovely and speaking to them was a real pleasure and it just felt
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really fun so I will always be excited by the thought of that it's a great it's
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a great example you're right and and this was a special one for you back cuz normally with the the guest episodes you
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do all the work I'm the one that that's that's like knocking on the doors go can we can we talk to you can we do this and
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and you to be fair you took the lead on that one and and you did a a fantastic job um because it's a lot of work that
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goes into it as you know know when you you know you've got to De the the approaching the scheduling the um the
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the structuring you have to prepare for it you can't have people you know board game designers turn up and then kind of
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wing it you kind of need to at least you know put some prep in so know you did did an awesome job and I I really
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enjoyed it um and hopefully we have more to come ooh Secrets um but yeah we'll
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see good nice anyone else um I just was dance here my favorite one of my favorites was the 24-hour ball gaming
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episode where we all that was fun that yeah a good fun nicknames V to there and everyone had a nickname didn't they
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that did they yeah the sheep of the group Tambo Yeah Yeah Chris ninja fry
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yeah Chris yeah there was that chis CH Chris the ninja yeah yeah it was just
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nice to have all together and it a live stream as well wasn't it it's a bit different and it was just great fun playing W wolf and you I thought I was a
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good really good fun episode yeah yeah it was uh a bit of a laugh that one um I think doing the the live is always it's
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always a bit of a different animal isn't it I mean you know Dan having having done stuff like that before many a time
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but I think obviously with us all on the episode was it was quite chaotic but it was good I think that's what made it fun
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all yeah it was it was good laugh wasn't it I like that episode in general as well because we we kind of took the
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Snippets from the the 24 hours so you know hour one from arriving full of energy and Life to to the uh the 24th
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hour going I don't know how I'm going to do this I'll never forget your face yeah never yeah the moment my soul where you
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your soul had left your body it was gone um and I I don't I think you probably
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took between two and 3 days to get it back it took a while didn't it you did yeah well it did for me when I used to
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do it I used to do the 24 hours it's not a slog because you're doing it for a great charity but it's it's a long time
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but it is fun it's fun it's rewarding um but asleep it's always the best a little
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nap yeah yeah recuperate cool go on in Dan what's yours my because I've not
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actually not been on the pop that long but my favorite one was probably before
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I joined was but was um ukge when we all got together obiously I
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was there in the ball game marathon capacity we had such a good laugh and such a good time together at ukg I'm
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hoping that this this year although it's a little bit different we're not we're not sleeping together not we're not sleeping together but um we are
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hopefully going to get together and do the similar thing but I'll have more of my of my Marathon team with with us yeah
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so I'm hoping it'll just be the same if not bigger um but it was such a great great time and you guys welcom me with
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opening arms and it was fantastic I loved it awesome it I I think I'm sharing the room with Rob this year he's
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got a lot to live up to yeah I mean he's bold with glasses like me yeah but he's nothing like he's not mean no no you
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were like JP I'd like to get some sleep now it's at least 5 11 and and what that
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with the first night because we went up on the Thursday what time do we go to bed about 2: a.m. 2 a.m. we were like two excited school boys just honestly
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watching videos it was just that sounds really seed it I mean it was actually both selector
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videos it was I think your neighbors your neighboring hotel rooms were really appreciate the fact that you with Rob
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this year to be honest cuz although I didn't witness it I saw you the rest of the weekend and you P were a bloody
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nightmar I can only imagine like your little school boys like laughing away doing impressions to yourselves we
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trigger each other we do absolutely trigger each other yeah so no I I agree a great time that was fantastic and uh
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we we we like that with with lots of people though I think we we generally are quite welcoming I would say um
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unless we hate you um but now generally we we just like people to come and have a bit of a laugh so that's that's what
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it's all about yeah that's one of the reasons why I love this hobby yeah is that you know everyone is so approachable and welcoming and and you
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know you could you could know no one and just go oh do you want you want to play game yeah I'm like yeah great and then you you meet new people it's great cool
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cool good memory curly yeah have you got one well actually this says something a
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little bit about my personality so uh yeah I've got a bit of a dry sense of humor and I like taking a Mickey out
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people and I'm you know bit ma in some ways um but my memory my favorite memory
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is an episode I did with Dan hello where me and you one of the f one of the First
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episodes you did in your first player s yeah and we had a right old laugh and we came out of it after an hour and all I
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saw was JP's little face hanging by the door and it just made me nearly cry with laughter cuz JP wasn't in the episode
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and he was so sad cuz he could hear all the from the living room he was
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just and you could tell he was gutted being involved in it that was a good episode A good episode big fomo big fomo
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big fomo there watching I think it was Ted lasso at the time or something like that and I love Ted lasso it's a great
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program but I think on that night I was like I want to be with them guys so much fun and I'm I'm that sounds awful I'm
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stuck with watching this with my wife it's not the case sorry sh it's not the case but um yeah what was the episode
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you remember I can't remember it must have been either my first or second stint but I remember that it was just
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laugh a minute remember it took like like near 3 hours to record the thing
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like like no don't know I didn't edit no U yeah I know it took a while but it was a really good laugh of an episode as
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well I remember that and then J be like like what are you guys up to oh we're having a blast mate never M
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we were in his house yeah exactly what Fantasy Versus sight was that one it might have been that one it was me I was
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in the first one I think yeah it was a damn good laugh anyway yeah seeing your little face afterwards just was a little
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cherry on the cake I felt like the kid at school that didn't get picked for the team yeah and you know and it's like M
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can I can I play well well we had to break it up for a while cuz I think you were involved in nearly every episode for the first year and a half so you
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know it's true I do have to have a break every now and then it's quite nice when you do you're sad because you want to be
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part of it yeah I I just love it though I just I genuinely love doing the episodes I love I love this because we
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get to have a chat and I still like two years in still not bored of it whatsoever I said this last year I never
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get like to a point in the day going oh I've got a podcast tonight I actually I
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get really energized for it because it's just such a good laugh um and it's good to do yeah nice choice mate nice choice
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you get um how about you JP what's your best memory this year I for me it's
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going to be Essen personally and the and it's the whole experience of it and I
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think hanging out with with you guys uh the guys that went um and just experienced that for the first time for
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me I've always wanted to try uh Essen and see what it's about and obviously it's a it's a bit more on this I'd say
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serious end of the the hobby because it's like well the new hotness comes out and getting to to kind of Meet the
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Publishers but I think that the moment that the doors open on day one and then chip Theory games was literally not even
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10 yards away from the entrance I was like see you straight to chip Theory managed to BL ourselves on a demo for
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about three three hours for for Elder squirrels great I was just like Pig and poo like this is amazing and then we got
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to meet um Gilly um Josh welgus who's uh
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funny enough his name's on this box of cloudspire that this microphone is literally propped on um but he's like
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the the main marketing guy for for chip Fury and we had a really good chat with him and I watch like the live streams
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that they do and he's always on there so it's just kind of like you say celebrity uh beex but it's that kind of moment
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going oh my God this is amazing but also the fact that they kind of threw us a
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bit of a solid on um the Elder squrs campaign and they linked the the Essen
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episode um on their updates which went out to thousands of thousands of people
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and and it did really well for us our essn episode is still is is our topped most listened episode considering it
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only came out what four months ago yeah it's I was really proud of it I'm really
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proud of like the trip the the content we put out and the the engagements we
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made I just yeah fantastic that trip for me I mean yes all those things were great but I will still just look back
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and just crack up to myself the the singing in the car on the way there is
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something I'll never experience I'm gutted I missed that b never mind the ESS and trip just the singing in the car
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Dan you would have loved it you would have hated it curly is just so happy he wasn't there he canot I'm really glad I
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didn't go yeah screw you guys we end up gaming
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in the end didn't we we end up G I don't remember been glad not wasn't there yeah yeah it was nonstop though wasn't it it
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was I don't think cly you would have liked it if I'm honest no I think you would have liked some parts of going to Germany and those things but I don't
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think you'd have liked the convention I I would have thought especially like what 12 hours in the car were you n as
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well it was 11 by the way I love them to bits but I I don't like karaoke and I
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could just imagine JP and Becky just excuse me it wasn't just us Adrian was
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singing along as well I'll have you know I like to see that yeah we we had uh an hour of like Euro
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pop the Euro pop hour that was that was a that came at a good time we needed a bit of a pck me up it came in I'll be
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honest I still ask um Spotify to play Get Low when I'm feeling a little bit
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low I think you know what what will sort me out it would just take me back to being in the back of that your
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multi-person vehicle multi-person seat car thing just listening to you3 for
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however many there were of you singing that song and I will never I will never not laugh at that yeah that's Get Low by
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Little John and the side boys just for people that need to know um but yeah that was just one of those like weird
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moments of being in the car the song dropped at the right time I can't remember exactly where we were but we were in the Netherlands somewhere I
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think and uh no in Belgium um and it just came on was in a bit of traffic to
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the window it to the W it was hilarious I I still will love that forever yeah
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and that's what those those trips kind of create I know these little moments and memories so yeah Essen great fun
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great fun well there we go little trip down memory lane two years old should we got our fight on let's do it

TURN 3 - Boardgame Battleground - 2023 Combo Edition

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so we're here for the second annual board game Battleground which is the 2023 combo Edition the reason why it's
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the 2023 Edition is because these are going to be our favorite games played of
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last year and not this year because we did this year we're recording in February it's not really got going yet
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as it so we kind of like to do our favorite games played and and not do it right at the end of the year and do it
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kind of the beginning of next year so we can kind of uh do it in our style so a lot of um
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channels and podcasts will kind of go through what their favorite games are top 10 but we just we like to mix it up
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and play a little game so for those that kind of followed along last year you'll know exactly what the format is uh for
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those that don't and you're new to our board game Battleground episode we have got uh basically a bunch of cards that I
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have handdrawn again not as good artwork this year I'm going to add better last year um and we've all picked we all
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nominate five games that we find or we have found the most enjoyable to play so they don't need to have come out last
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year they're just ones that we've enjoyed playing ni so you might find some oldies in there some new ones and a
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bit of a mix so we've all nominated five um and there's nine of us in the Pod and
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some of us have nominated uh the same game and we've ended up with a nice round number of 40 games which I thought
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was amazing because it makes the maths on this so much easier so basically it's top trumps we got the 40 cards we got
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going to kind of pitch them against each other and we're using the same stats as last year um but we're changing the the
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kind of priority and waiting of of those so first stat we're going to use is weight so that's the the weight of the
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game as per board game geek all these stats are off Board Game Geek because it's a statr platform we don't have to
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worry about it we can just use the the figures um but this year we're going for midweight is the best so the closest to
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three will be the uh the winning stat and we've marked the cards with like plus and minus the differ refence to to
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three um so we thought that would be a good good thing to do this year um board
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game uh Geeks rank uh in their top you know whatever million games uh ranked of
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all time so we're going to go with that obviously the the lowest number wins as number one is the highest uh ball game
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Geeks rating so the user rating which will go from No Doubt 1.0 to
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10.0 uh age will be the the oldest is best um and and we've got the pound sign
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value of the game and I've kind of included expansions on this this time we've gone for cheapest as best last
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year we did most expensive because I was trying to convince everybody that Bard games are assets and you know the more
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expensive the better they are same the argument for sh yeah convincing everyone or trying to convince yourself and
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myself yeah and myself but we've gone the other way this year Asing what are the bargains what's cheapest and maybe
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what doesn't have the expansion blo right so we've gone that way so yeah that's that's the stats that we're
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going to use all of the cards that we've got have all got the the names nominated by from each member of the podcast so we
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we can obviously see who's put the game in and whether we want the game to do well or not which is the the little
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backstabbin which Tambo will appreciate yeah you love it love it sheep of the
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group I'm sing too many bones this year well too many bones was our 2022
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winner and it had some controversy because it's my it's my favorite game
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everyone says I rigged it and they didn't and if you listen to the episode you'll find there's like three
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opportunities of getting rid of Bones and it and it kicked them out the park so but I was encouraged to change the uh
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the rules so so that's what I've done because I'm I'm a good sport if it won
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for a second year running that just wouldn't be any good would it it'd be great because that means that regardless
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of the rules it's still winning right well we'll have to agree to disagree on that one yeah and I like to any bone so
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you know yeah you you helped get it through to be fair on that episode so it's kind of your fault as well so we're
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going to get into round one so we're going have five rounds um the first round we're going to go through all of the cards is going to be the longest
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round we will explain some of the games as as they come up uh the attacker versus The Defender and uh yeah I think
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we should get into it sounds good Dan leaders in round one fight thanks mate

Round 1 - 40 Games Enter...

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so just going to give a little Shuffle bit of ASMR yeah bit bit of ASMR and
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[ __ ] it up yes we give a little Shuffle and we're going to have two decks we're going to have the attacker deck and the defender deck who wants to
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go as the attacker me me right C's going to be the attacker thank you turned
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intoy grer I did a bit didn't I hey I know the answer no Ron no I'm not an
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owl what that's what she says that's what she says is it I'm not an owl
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she does right so curly you have the attacker deck and Becky cuz you're sitting clockwise from curly you can
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have the defender deck so first game up what we got curlyy well I'm just going
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to say I am fighting the defense for Adrian today adrien's choice and it is
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one that I do appreciate so I'm going to try and get this one through because I don't know what's on the other side and
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I don't want to know for now but it is vulture
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world I'm glad I'm against this one so bring it on so vulture world is uh say
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I've really enjoyed lately actually we we've it's very similar to vulture which is a m wine making game um worker
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placement Euro classic pretty quick which is actually a little bit of a novelty in its space and really good fun
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um yeah let's be playing with the hike to I I do think a lot of those games really are four players where The Sweet
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Spot is out but anyway Vint culture world just introduces a campaign element to it um where you're all Co-op which is
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fantastic little um tweak to the game changes loads of stuff like you know you can trade with each other and you're
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actually talking across the board like what are you going to do because I don't want to take your space and it just changes the dynamic entirely and um yeah
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gave a really nice twist to a game that I thought was kind of I was fairly done
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with so yeah so I'm really I'm I'm championing this one a little bit although that might be a favorite of
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mine which I'm pretty upset about well I want this one to win so I hope that's not a favorite of mine it's going to be weight plus
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0.9 wow so that's a strong Contender very close to Midway so I have
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a card also championed by Adrian so Adrian's going to come out well in this whatever happens this is the game
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castles of burgundy okay that might be quite close so I haven't played this game so I can't tell anybody about it
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yeah yeah C very quickly it's also kind of known as castles of beige because it's a it's a very midwe
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dry Euro and I've actually played it now I didn't like last year this card was in
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the mix and I hadn't played it and I played it and I thought it was fantastic so it's a very very kind of you roll two
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dice you use the dice to to basically buy tiles or or slot them in and you can
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mitigate those dice by spending workers it's just quick it's fast and he's got
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the special edition which is produced by awaken Realms which is beautiful and uh
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yeah it's it's it's a great game so one of his favorites maybe maybe his
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favorite so when you say it's a real midwe I mean you you couldn't be more midweight this actually has the highest
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top Trump of the stat so I'm sorry vtic culture world you're going down don't be
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too happy bet so yeah no I'm really sad about that um I mean I love stone m games but that one well I'm not going to
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go on my rant about it again uh the weight of this is not Point not one away from the three so actually the winning I
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don't think vulture probably maybe value would have been a lot less but apart from that so castles and burgundy going
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through baby can't say I really care either way on that one fair enough I mean yeah
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thanks for that take right so there we go all right next one attacking now yeah
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cuz you cuz you won I won okay so you attack okay so I have drawn the game
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Game of Thrones I haven't played this one but I've seen you it's brutal I've seen you all play it
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for thousand thousand years I mean it's uh it's like Risk but we stab each other I mean on crack yeah like if if you play
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with people that you are friends you might not be friends at the end of it that's that's the game what I love about
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it is the mechanic where you flip over like I love that mechanic in game yeah you do the planning phase and you put
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down your orders and then you all find out together what everyone's done so sometimes you could be like you're going
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left and you're going right and like and you just screw it up in the middle like someone attacks you and you w expecting
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it and yeah but it's all too late to do a lot about most of the time nor they flip over and then then it's like quiet
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and then they all flip over and everyone looks for like about S 3 to 5 seconds and you go oh yeah yeah oh yeah I see
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what you're doing yeah yeah yeah and then if you got the pow to you just chicken [ __ ] and just change the token I
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don't want to it's bit like that you all seem to love it when you play it forever um so
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this one was nominated by Davey I'm going to go for age so it's 13 years
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old it's a class it's a good strong St on that strong on that one go on then I
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very quickly I'm surprised Dave's nominated it we he's got history I mean curly knows he's got history with this
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game where he hates it so I think maybe the last time he played it which was obviously last year he must have had a
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good time he must have yeah well as you just say just to clarify the history is Davey started attacking me and attacked
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me like twice and lost both times and he got cross and then just repeatedly attacked me for the whole game and he
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attacked me I think it was 14 or 15 times lost every single battle you know
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even my like most of the time I was beating him anyway but then card draw got him a couple of times and and he had
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a bit of a meltdown by the end of it and by the end of it and now he remembers it he REM he remembers that I was picking
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on him because I kept beating him every time but he attacked me literally every single time oh do you remember that game
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of thron games where you just kept flipping like Davey it was you you
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times we came equal last cuz of you I love that game cuz I won because basically you two are fighting I was a
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tars I great I I I dispute that we were not fighting David was attacking me yes
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you defending furiously defending anyway sorry guys go what got
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what you got right so you're going against Star Wars rebellion oh and this is nominated by me and
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Chris P yeah strong game I love this game this is It's just so close to Star
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Wars um so it's just a huge I a One V one you can't play it 2v2 we never do do
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no prob so one's the Empire one's the rebellion and it's just so thematical to
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Star Wars this spot on I love this game is it older than 13 uh no you win oh
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that's sad that's sad it's eight oh it's only eight years old pretty old though but
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yeah that the Death Star was crashed yeah so Game of Thrones goes
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through Becky sorry I didn't J up I like Game of Thrones though so I'm happy i' have been sad at either going out there
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to be honest okay again I haven't played this game so I'm I'm going on a little
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bit of a theme is it desent Legends of the dark oh yeah Tambo you can do this
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one yeah I mean it's a 3D printed off an app it's a dungeon caller isn't it yeah
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yeah I've played it a few times I think that's the version we're playing isn't it just to two desens the picture makes sense now because there's a little
28:00
tablet with a little home button I can see that JP's drawn like a little grid on and a little Stickman minig with a
28:06
with a sword yeah it's good M my favorite part this game is it's a 3D map the map looks fantastic when it's all
28:11
built and it's not gimmicky which you think is going to be it actually serves to the scenarios so the 3D element
28:18
really kind of brings it to life so it's like traps where platforms will fall down you go in yeah so it's very clever
28:25
yeah very very Rob's Rob's favorite yeah so Rob is the one that's um that's championing this so descent Legends of
28:30
the dark so what do you think about it Becky I don't really have an opion on it so I'm just going to try and win because
28:36
that's why I try looking okay 3D up it looks lovely I'm going to go then
28:42
for wait not. 28 away from our middle number of three Dan what have you got so
28:50
I have got one of yours oh no uhoh warning warning War mine's probably
28:56
going to be medium weight then so maybe maybe mine might be better than .28 go
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so I I'm looking at the drawing and it looks like a bunch of pack dots from
29:07
Pac-Man okay yeah I have no idea you're so artistic it's not the game is ticket to
29:13
ride a now if you haven't if you haven't played ticket to a ride and you're listening to this podcast what's what's
29:21
going on I haven't played it are you joking what what being serious I'm I'm
29:27
100% we need to rectify this back this is crazy um because I've never played ticket to right not because I'm like
29:33
snobby about it I just never had an opportunity to play are you snobby about it no not at all not at all I actually
29:38
like to play it this is we're going change that this weekend my friend we're doing it we're on it it's a great game
29:44
it's amazing a great game um however the weight I believe is not on your side uh
29:50
it's minus 1.17 damn it a train is a come to a h
29:56
train is is gone broke broke is a strong card though that's gone because Ticket to Ride is the top Trump of age yeah AG
30:03
is 20 so if I have known you were holding that one down I'd have gone for the age of descend to the do which is only three years old so I never mind
30:10
Ticket to Ride success the buffet cart had moldy sandwiches I put this one in
30:16
and I've sold my copy but the reason why I've sold my copy is I I can't get it to the table uh and it's hegemony yeah um
30:25
and I do I do like this game a lot um what is it what is
30:31
it basically it's just a bunch of a bunch of wood and and and and stuff and just move it around the board that's
30:37
good isn't it totally it's basically politics in a nutshell yeah uh where you
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have four opposing factions the working class uh the middle class um the state
30:51
and the capitalists are all fighting together to try and um be the best they can for a a falling Nation
30:58
uh which doesn't sound like it's amazing when you say when you sort of spell it out like that but it really is very very
31:04
good it's AIT little bit Cutthroat in places but and it's also as asymmetric so um if you're into asymmetric games
31:10
then it's definitely one you should give it give a try um it is good and it's very very clever how it all forms
31:16
together heavy as well very it's weird how you you end up role playing it as well so if you're like the working class
31:23
and you just suddenly like know you got to protect the people gots I want you a farmers cap for when you played it I
31:29
will do next time although you sold it sold it I'd really love to play a game where D don't get the rules M shots
31:36
fired I'd like I'd like to play it where I had a chance it was a small rules goof
31:41
it was so small it was small any why why am I the capitalist and no one ever
31:47
wants to buy my stuff capitalist not making any money yeah not well it's great what are you going for then mate
31:53
let's go for BGG rating okay which is
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8.5 that's tough so this in my hand is one of my cards oh not happy so this is
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Imperium Classics oh so I I absolutely adore this game you've had a hard on for
32:13
it for about I have um ever since I played it about three months ago I have to pick well is it Classics or Legends
32:20
and obviously I can't pick Horizons because that is this year um so I went for Classics CU that was the first one I
32:25
played and it's basically a deck builder designed by um Nigel bookle and David
32:30
tury the design is a void fall so you can imagine how complex and uh kind of
32:36
heavy this game is so it we haven't got another episode but without same void have we it might be that exists in this
32:42
deck as well so we'll say I think it might it might it might do it might be someone's favorite play game might so
32:47
anyway Imperium Classics you went for rating right yes 7.7 so imperian Classics sorry man it's
32:55
in the bin I put this one in um it looks like on your art your artwork I like the the the the the T-Rex
33:04
arms what Big Bird it's like a little triangles again I was in a rush
33:10
perseverance episode one and two I put this in um cuz it is all kinds of
33:16
awesome it's like it's like Jurassic Park but better in a box I love it and
33:21
it's heavy and it's um tells the story of a cruise ship crashing into an island
33:27
and there is no way to get home so the uh these new inhabitants of this island
33:33
now have to colonize it uh however they share the island with a bunch of dinos
33:38
um three and four was obviously uh was kickstarted last year uh which I backed
33:44
and I cannot wait to see on the table next year I think it's next year a while away yeah so in another two years time
33:51
we might four yes uh but for now one and two let's pick a stat
33:58
um oh these are all a bit tricky here on the stats I think um I'm going to I'm going to have
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to have a gamble on this one and I'm going to pick BGG rating at
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7.8 okay so I've got one of tambos boom and it is Beast oh and Beast
34:19
um is a really good game thoroughly enjoyed my a couple of plays of it it's a uh one of you plays as the Beast and
34:25
the other up to four players play as Hunter um and it's a hidden enemy game where
34:31
basically the the Beast is going around trying to complete their missions which is usually either I think killed people
34:38
but I might be wrong that but it it's also like killed the BS and and the other little figures on the map without
34:43
kind of and that kind of makes you go out there and you eat them and then well everyone knows where you are now and then you're trying to run away from
34:48
there and lead people in different directions asymmetric Hunter Powers really good fun uh bit of a laugh sort
34:55
of um the the only small complaint I have and T I'm looking at you when I say this the only small complaint I have is
35:01
I do think the Beast is probably a little bit too powerful yeah it's quite yeah yeah I I think probably it's maybe
35:09
if they bring out an expansion needs to be moved a little bit back in favor of oners but yeah apart from that absolute brilliant game reminds me a little bit
35:15
of Dracula um Fury of Dracula which is also another excellent game that that I would put there with it I think um I
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thought if you've got one you probably wouldn't want both but maybe they're different enough so they're both really
35:28
good lers of White Chapel another one that falls in that reer repper um but
35:33
yes anyway cut out the middleman unfortunately tampo God sake 7. four that's not that's close 7.6 the
35:41
Beast has been SN Beast has been found and been killed yeah there we go oh no
35:47
oh no oh a few people voted for this one so this I I think this is probably the
35:54
game that I've played the most last year I I've played it so much um and I love
36:00
it and it's tapestry tapestry Stone meire games Civilization in a box that
36:07
doesn't play like a Civ game at all um the theme doesn't come across very
36:12
strong but the mechanics are absolutely solid uh some people say it's too random I disagree I think it's great love the
36:19
randomness of it I I do as well actually I think it's fantastic game and um I I never get tired of playing it um let's
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see what value we're going to pick here cuz I don't want this one to go out so
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I'm going definitely pick weight um at minus
36:37
0.07 I put this in so did curing so did Becky y really good game I really enjoyed playing tapestry what's happened
36:45
so Dani you're playing against yourself because the card I've got in my hand is Frost
36:51
Punk favorite game nominated by
36:58
and um again I haven't played this one so I've got a bit of a being that you're new to frost Punk and its amazingness
37:05
yeah tell everyone what Frost Punk's all about Frost Punk very briefly is like getting kicked in the ball repeatedly
37:12
and it's great um I don't think I want to play FR it's a co-op game where you
37:18
are trying to survive this permafrost and this is massive generator that's like kind of stuck in the middle of the
37:24
board and you're trying to basically get resources is to keep this generator burning to produce enough heat to the
37:31
surrounded buildings which are like your work and placement spots in order for you to just bloody survive and just when
37:36
you think you've got things under control Things fall out of control so it's like the the ultimate seesaw game
37:43
I've just trying to balance everything and it's amazing so what was your stat down what did you say uh waight mine is
37:49
0.07 I think you might know you you've won I'm afraid with weight um from frost
37:55
Punk of 1.3 it's not white boy it's not that's a sad day is it is a
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sad day let's all salute the the survivors of of the um I can hear I can hear the death bell going off
38:12
repeatedly so tapestry so I'm still I'm still in you are okay let's do this so
38:18
the game I have in my hand is furnace um furnace is a light engine
38:28
building game isn't it really furnace it's best way to describe furnace isn't it engine building resource conversion
38:33
with an auction mechanic at that yeah yeah I enjoyed the play I had you play the mini marathon didn't you yeah really
38:40
good it's one of those games you look at and go yeah I'll be a bit of fun and then you play it for an hour and go oh my God my head hurts a little bit and
38:46
it's like just enough grit in there and interest yeah I really enjoyed I like it but not enough to go let's put it
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through who's who's championed it uh Adrian Adrian one of Adrian okay sorry
38:58
Adrian he's got a few in there are you tanking it tank tank tank tank tank tank tank [Laughter]
39:05
tank age four okay so what we got then Tambo okay
39:11
so I have got Eclipse second Dawn and is a curly pick of course this is an space
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exploration game which is very cool by the way I didn't like my last experience on it but it was cool yeah you got
39:25
picked I spread out I spread out too fast and and I was doing really amazingly everyone hated that so they killed me
39:32
basically s up really simply you were playing there the planter that's what they do but you did it too much and we
39:37
got jealous yes yes but it was it's great fun great fun okay so we have a draw oh counter
39:45
attack counter attack H wow this is the first counter attack we've ever had I
39:51
don't know if I is so it's like so my C I'm going to go with rating BGG rating 8.5 I for that that's a strong strong
39:59
score from the users i' have gone for that for sure what we got for furnace 7.4 it's been thrown in the Fire come on
40:05
son so furnace is in in the fire and Eclipse second Dawn gets it second
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Dawn boom baby I have now been finally taken off my mantle piece he been
40:17
dethroned as the ATT dethroned okay so this is Becky and Chrissy P voted for this game and it's
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Septima come on yeah we like Septima Becky if you like um so it's a kind of
40:30
Choose Your Action witch game the witches are walking around the map
40:35
collecting things trying to heal the sick be really nice to people you got these pesky little witch Hunters who
40:41
come along and and try and foil their plans you're trying to not look suspicious and copy other people's actions but sometimes you benefit from
40:48
that so youve got to kind of play it carefully mhm beautiful artwork my first
40:53
my first mine Clash game that's proper a proper ast's great don't get me wrong I liked
40:59
that but it's not a real I felt like a real gamer when I bought Septima and I was very happy about that you did that
41:05
you was the S and you went I've leveled up I did I felt like I felt like it's a yeah
41:11
it's a proper I know it's not as complex as a lot the M Clash so I'm not fooling myself into thinking I'm you know it's
41:17
not light either no it's not it's not the mine Clash play series so it's you know it's not it's definitely it's definitely a good a higher end Midway
41:23
have you played the shap shape shifters we still haven't done that we need to do that don't we
41:28
anyway pick a good one quite I know I'm going to go with
41:35
weight .58 so I have the card the White Castle
41:41
so I played the White Castle I you like burgers yeah I yeah Burgers um I had the
41:48
the I had a play of the White Castle literally at the four board gaming event which I talked about what it is but very
41:53
briefly it's uh it is a very mid weighty game um so you probably see where this is
41:59
going uh and the box is quite small for what it is and there's a lot of game in there and you get nine actions in the
42:05
game and you got to make the most of your nine actions and it's about action efficiency and it's really good it's
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really good and it's a 0.03 I'm wait bargain yeah 29 quid for White Castle
42:19
you get a lot of game for 29 pound a great production value good on you de games yeah keep doing what you're doing
42:25
absolutely right me to attack now right I have War of the Ring yeah which
42:31
apparently is a game that someone likes a little bit oh you might have gaed it's Curley one of his favorite games War of
42:37
the ring go on Curley what is it War of the Ring it's it's actually the most similar to risk I would say but with
42:44
bells and whistles on so set in the obviously the Lord of the Rings franchise you are one of you plays his
42:49
order and the other one plays us uh you know Sauron and you've got um San and all the different easterlings and all
42:56
those kind of things and um basically speaking what I really like about the game is there's two ways of winning
43:02
there's either you conquer with your armies of which it's significantly easier to do if you're the good guys um
43:10
because they've got smaller armies they have to take less or you get the ring to Mount Doom and pop it in there without
43:16
um pop it in yeah it's kind and it is kind of asymmetric because um the idea
43:21
behind the game is the the uh you know saurons forces are all trying to corrupt Frodo before he get gets to Mount Doom
43:29
and also if you just go down a different route of just trying to take as many fortresses as you can so um but yeah
43:34
what I like about it is just kind of a a little bit of a dice game mixed in with you can get more Dice and like you've
43:40
got cards to move forces so it's kind of a mixture of a bunch of different things that just come together to make a very
43:45
clever a really really good well out uh makes you think about it like what could
43:50
I done better and yeah just one of my favorite games of all time now I'm worried because I don't think many of my
43:57
cards have come out yet okay so now I'm thinking so now you're going to tank my favorite game no I'm not going to tank
44:04
it but I'm not going to go for this best stat so that's not tanking cuz I could go get too many bones you're in
44:11
trouble too many B I'm WIP my BM with that card no you can't see any of the
44:19
stats it's just Brown thanks uh now I'm actually going to go it's a strong it's a strong stat I'm going to go for a
44:25
strong stat but there are it's a strong card or round actually yeah um I'm going to go for BGG rating which is 8.5 so
44:33
good strong I'm not I'm not tanking tank that is not tanking um but I'm I'm
44:38
generally worried what what he's got what is it I'm sad about this what is it
44:43
it's my second favorite game I feel less bad um you you well you
44:50
don't when you find out what the game is oh it's not an acony is it an acony is my favorite game it's an
44:56
AC I put an acony in his uh and uh can we go back in time and oh nice I like
45:02
that very good very good um I like your little David tury player a worker because David tury's face is on is on he
45:08
on one of them and why is he sad he's got sad face because he's about to be killed an acony is time travel by mine
45:15
clash games um with such a unique time traveling mechanic in it set in a future
45:20
where uh an asteroid is going to destroy the world uh and you have to give
45:26
yourself resources through a Time Loop to try and get your civilization or your ideology of people uh away Che evacuate
45:35
it's awesome it truly is amazing um however the stat that you have picked uh
45:42
was it 8. what 8.5 yeah this is 8.1 so anacron unfortunately has had too
45:49
many paradoxes and an anomaly has I'm actually really sad I'm sad about that
45:55
man I'm I'm sad there we go okay so I have got the next
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card and this one has been championed by Rob and it's burn cycle which is another
46:07
chip Theory games stealth robots uh it's like a an office crawler not a Dungeon
46:13
Crawler it's an office crawler and you send robots into offices uh of these
46:18
evil corporations and they've got a kind of hide around Dodge the guards bit like metal gear solid gear but without the
46:25
snake that's the theme tune I definitely play when I play it I I really like burn
46:32
cycle it's a bit quirky um but yeah I quite enjoy it but I have to be in the mood for it so
46:38
anyway so do I want to go for it or not oh god um its value is quite High chip
46:45
Theory so that's probably not a good one I am going to go for you know what again
46:52
tactically I'm going to go for Age Two Age Two counter attack yeah so I've got
46:59
frost Haven okay which is the obviously the sequel to Gloom Haven um yeah just
47:05
briefly absolutely love the game it's a it's a Dungeon Crawler but instead of doing like a normal move use cards
47:11
combination of two cards to you know move around the map do attacks and you level up your characters over a long period of time um absolutely brilliant
47:19
game people love the campaign here um but it's probably too big a setup for me personally um but yeah it's a brilant
47:27
well out game and and yeah I loved Gloom Haven Frost Haven that went that a little bit too far for me but Champion
47:33
by Chrissy P who is absolutely obsessed with it and he's who I sold my copy too so Happy Days glad we're both happy with
47:39
that trans you got your money back pretty much and then he's happy yeah and he's still playing it yeah so win win is
47:45
it exactly kind of got it though uh that it's drawn because now you're on the offensive and I'm on the we'll see what
47:51
you come up with I think to be honest I'm going to have to go with a try and win with frost on this one Fair because
47:58
I've not said I've not played burn cycle primarily um and this one um has a has a
48:04
top tier ranking so I know I'm going to win this one so it's btg rating 8.9 let
48:10
me check if I win oh no I don't so in the bin burn cycle goes and
48:16
frost Haven takes the the biscuit
48:21
oh are you right not really so um yeah the ne the next one is
48:30
um a game that I really don't want to see go through so whatever you've got you're okay too many
48:37
bones um well there's one easy way to tank it I know so and it's what I'm going for you're going so yeah too many
48:44
bones we're not going to say too much about it I do really like the game but I don't want it to win two years in a row
48:49
what's it about Curly it's about no it's about gear loocks and uh yeah you I
48:55
don't know JP you describe it it's your game your love I'm not going to people no I've described this game to you do
49:00
you want us to leave the room half an hour you explain I'll just say two words episode four right now move on yeah okay
49:07
fine so yeah too many bones so because I don't want it winning twice I'm going to say a value
49:13
838 which is ridiculous who who put the cheapest game as the highest light stat
49:21
that's stupid absolutely 838 that's J JP didn't have
49:27
he just looked at his receipts do you own all it little bit a little bit that is is crazy that
49:36
is crazy I know don't say it out loud again cuz it's like Beetle Juice if you you keep saying it then something
49:43
bad's going to happen if you say it three times it's another expansion when you logically look at when you logically
49:49
look at that it's obscene and stupid isn't it but it's an investment it's not
49:54
um but I I love it and and it got to a point where you you've bought the base
50:00
game which is what 10 whatever quid and you go buy a few Gear loocks 30 quid a
50:05
pop or maybe 25 30 quid a pop and then before you know it you're like oh well I'm already 400 down you might as and
50:12
then another expansion comes you're invested you're like you just in you're buying it and before you know it it's
50:18
nearly a grand and it's just it's mad have you used it all yeah so then you then you got your money's worth I mean
50:24
my my logged plays of of the game are what 85 plays yeah I was going to say
50:30
how many of those are Solo most really yeah you got your money's worth you know
50:35
it does get played um and I'm going to have a little cry I know it's lost so
50:40
value 838 and it's got to be the highest you're definitely going to have a cry because I've got far away and its value
50:46
is £18 right so so well I can't talk about far away Adrian um nominated this
50:52
game I don't even know what your picture is it looks like Scrabble T but little
50:57
sybl yeah and and sorry Adrian because you're not here to actually explain this game but I know Dave's played it and he
51:03
really enjoyed it as well so it's got a nice um Whimsical kind of theme uh and
51:10
you kind of lay these cards out but then you activate them in the reverse order or something like it's quite puzzly uh
51:16
but that's all I can say cuz none of us have played it well the main thing I would say is you could afford to buy approximately about 45 copies for
51:23
the goodth open a far away shop a web shop
51:29
so too many bones is gone I think a lot of people a lot of people in the PO are probably happy about that but I'm not
51:34
I've Got The Witcher old world nominated by Rob and Tambo so sorry Tambo I don't
51:42
know and I can't even decide whether I tank this or not well a good tank to
51:48
MCO I mean I'm I'm geared to favor this because of
51:54
Geral I suppose yeah he's got a cloak on that's my sh you've got a weakness for
52:00
cloaks I Pirates and cloak H do you own a cloak I
52:05
should constantly laid
52:13
outs death by snoo snoo cloaks Pirates or a bits of yeah
52:22
nautical 0 '90s nautical I love bit of nautical Stripes
52:29
I'm all about the stripes Anyway come what you for the Witcher old world the
52:36
r you want be a
52:42
s z bran again I mean I want Tambo to win this so and he's looking I don't
52:50
know can't much I can't really read his face I'm going to go for weight 0.15 I mean that's a winning that's a
52:56
winning thing but I've got a feeling I'm looking at tambo's face but it doesn't matter cuz I like this game as well okay so I voted for this H Mar remastered
53:03
just nice yes I vote for this as well as the JP CU we had a great from playing this it's some good one-onone matches
53:10
yeah although the last game I had on salty about this one yeah this is going to wipe the floor for this cuz this is
53:15
this is 0.07 in weight oh very good I tried to win for you t that's all I've got know I'm happy this this my I'm
53:22
happy hopo has cut down that Rob going to be sad cuz Rob is in love the witch I only played it once I've played hopo a
53:28
lot more so yeah I'm to be fair they're both good yeah different reasons I like both but hopo definitely takes it for me
53:35
sorry Geral okay so I have now drawn nucleum I've never played this as JP
53:42
have to take this yeah nucleum is Simone liani and David tz's brainchild it's
53:47
kind of compared to Brass Birmingham or lashier and barrage elements of of that
53:54
but it's it's really lat track in alternate history Bavaria or and
54:00
basically connect things up power up nuclear stations and and generate power to buildings I mean I've probably not
54:06
sold it but that's kind of what you're doing you buy it yeah I've got it yeah but mechanically it's it's good fun um
54:13
and the way it works it's uh it's juicy surprised voted by Rob yeah he we're
54:18
surprised he enjoyed it um we played it at gcon didn't we yeah and he went I really love that and he's with thing
54:25
about Rober the he's going on a little adventure of heavier games is you know we we played void fall last night with
54:32
him oh I yeah oh how'd you go taught him the co-op yeah uh which was a lot and I
54:37
was tired and but yeah he got on well with it he said he really enjoyed it so who is this person I think it's when we
54:44
played Septima in Essen and we just both felt like big boy Gamers and we got all excited I think it has been since then
54:50
yeah you're right there a little Catalyst a little change a little glint in his eye that I think the games I not played this
54:57
game look cool but I'm not a bother I might tank it just keep yeah I got one or two in
55:03
never mind I might want to keep it in the next round so I'm going to go with age oh a high start then yes one year
55:09
old what have you got tiny epic dinosaurs get in another one away um it is one of
55:17
yours um I if I had to put those two up against each other it would be nucleum for me and I've not played it but I love
55:25
brass massive fan of brass while tiny epic dinosaurs or any of the tiny epic
55:30
series sadly I haven't played as much as is it gangin games that make make them
55:36
yeah they they they sponsor the ball game Maron though um so thank you to them but um I have um not played any of
55:43
them um age four okay you knew it one as soon as you said the name y so there we go nucleum
55:51
is gone nucleum falls into the toxic wastelands of both those games actually
55:57
tiny epic dinos was a bit of a surprise win for me really enjoyed that next up
56:03
is a game that I've not played but seen played uh is by Adrian and it's
56:08
smartphone Inc I've played this I haven't play you played it t i play it yeah it's quite a lightish weight um
56:19
action selection it's quite unique and you've kind of got like a phone um with
56:24
the tiles on like the apps and then you got this other um kind of phone tablet
56:30
thing and you overlay them to to create the the series of actions that you're going to do and resources you're going
56:36
to get and it's the tesselating of that is quite interesting um actually this plays really quick doesn't it yeah it
56:42
did was really and you're trying to basically make phones and sell them across the world which quite unique doesn't sound very good to
56:48
me puzzle yeah you heard the word tesselating um like a puzzle you're like
56:53
NOP I'm out I haven't played it but I I've seen it saw it um being played when
56:58
it was first released I was at an event of um Paul Grogan and um table was playing it there it look quite
57:04
interesting but I've never played it um let's pick a random stat and go with BGG
57:10
rank 404 okay so I have civilization the board game 2010 Edition which is uh
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nominated by aair curly over here this unfortunately it won't be that
57:24
this is a cracking game it's a fiddly game because it's quite old uh 14 years
57:32
old I might add but it's probably the truest civilization experience that you can get on the board game and I always
57:40
enjoy playing it but you need the time for it yeah it's a good four to five hour game yeah it's fantastic and you
57:46
went for what rank yeah and what was yours 404 Civ wins 261 wow I'm shocked
57:53
awesome all these are the best that cuz that is a cracking game play great I've
58:00
played it for years I sold my cop I couldn't get it to the table but it is very good I don't care for
58:06
it not played I just picked it up I've not played it and I just it's just too long I'm not interested for that long
58:12
but your first C game was what tapestry yeah I mean tapestry is not a Sif game although it's labeled as but
58:18
civilization is different I think that's what put me off tapestry for ages before I was convinced to play it I could have
58:25
told you in the light hex tiles boring move on it's not even hex the squares oh
58:31
they are even less interested then that wasn't even that interested I couldn't tell the
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shapes I have kapow nominated by Tambo MH never played
58:42
it what is Kow it's a two One V one BCE dice battle game hidden dice battle game
58:48
so you have your boards in front of you so you while you doce all hidden and then you reveal all your different Combos and then you you either level up
58:54
power up your character or you just fight or you defend it's very very very fun yeah I've always liked it it's very
59:00
quick really easy artwork's great artwork's great it's really comically comic book style isn't it yeah now how
59:07
many of yours have got through Tambo quite a few yeah that's what I thought so I think we need to to to bring it
59:13
down actually not very many I think yeah yeah so I'm actually going to go for BGG rating of 7.5 wellow I'm glad
59:20
you did that because this is I believe the one that I've seen nominated the most it's got four nominations four
59:27
nomin what is it four nominations that it is Art Nova Marine World art
59:33
NOA the game hat T hates this game me Rob Davey and Becky I've all voted for
59:40
this one so yeah but top top three game for me absolutely love it um won't say too much about it we've spoken about it
59:47
before but a Zoom game with expansion that focuses on marine animals and yeah
59:52
makes it a lot more inter terraforming Nova yeah baby love it um but yeah your choice was BG
59:59
rating yes this one is 8.5 a very solid High rating so I think that one sorry T
1:00:05
it didn't feel good I'm hope I get that but you uh you got a lot in the winning pile so it's purely tactical my friend
1:00:12
kapow would beat KN NOA I'd have been I would loved it that would have been T would have 202 oh Kap beat
1:00:22
KN okay so um I have a nomination by my
1:00:27
good self actually but it is a popular one at the table actually apart from Becky I can guess what it is oh aart
1:00:33
from Becky yeah okay including you oh Twilight
1:00:40
Imperial which addition curly fourth fourth edition you in the other Edition
1:00:45
I play Third yeah do you remember you bought the third one and heard two weeks later they announced the fourth and he
1:00:51
was GED I was like I can't have this I got to have the fourth it will be mine oh yes it will be mine um so obviously I
1:00:59
definitely want to see this one go through Twilight Imperium uh the fourth edition has had a massive bump up for me
1:01:05
lately it was one that I was getting a little bit second and tired of not because it's not a awesome game but just
1:01:11
the amount of time it takes and just the way the game plays and it takes over a full day um and I just found that
1:01:18
Eclipse was taking its spot a little bit um but the four player is 10 times
1:01:24
better in my opinion it fixes all the got you get two strategy cards you know
1:01:29
um for me um just to give people if you haven't played it a really brief description it's for me the
1:01:36
quintessential 4X um space game event yes space offer
1:01:41
in a box yeah and it's super good I mean it was that amazing that they reckon it
1:01:46
saved um fancy flly you know they were really struggling back in the day this is their fourth edition this is one of
1:01:52
their first games they ever made if not the first and literally kept the company going through some uh teething problems
1:01:59
in it they were pedaling it in the halls of Gen Con I think they weren't even in the Halls they were literally on the outside corridors literally just
1:02:06
hustling trying to sell copies of first edition which when you look at it now you go back and look at the
1:02:11
pictures but you know it's great mechanics were probably still solid though right which is why well yeah no
1:02:16
doubt I don't think mechanically it's probably changed massively but the uh the production of it now is is amazing
1:02:22
but anyway so yeah really want to see this one go through one you got control so I'm going to pick one that I know is
1:02:29
going to win because the only one that beats it is already over there so I'm going to go for BD rank which is number
1:02:34
five and I know number four is sat right there so therefore it's going to win I'd have absolutely loved it if this game
1:02:41
would have beaten that game because I've got in my hand so Clover nominated by Adrian and that
1:02:46
would have just been so beautiful because I couldn't care less about TI not going to lie I just couldn't care
1:02:53
less about have you seen it I did some of the artwork for our wall and TI was one of the ones that Curly nominated so
1:02:58
I've looked at the Box extensively and R it through many varying different kind of filters and
1:03:05
things so and it's it always looked crap to me what it is just not Becky's game
1:03:11
it's just not her a big lion with a stupid thing on his head dare em of her
1:03:18
car the annoying the annoying thing is I know they're called the M because I have to type the bloody thing when I do the
1:03:24
transcripts I know about the stupid game I of H of hakan you going have to do it again I know I can see myself now say
1:03:32
going bloody H type it in so I'd have loved it if so CL beaten it but of course it didn't it's got speci in my
1:03:38
heart BGG rank 343rd so I'm sorry so Clover and if
1:03:44
anyone doesn't know what so Clover is it's a sort of word association trying to get your teammates
1:03:50
on the same sort of wavelength as you you randomly are assigned four card you
1:03:55
put them in a a group and then you have to link the two words that are on each face of a square and they could be
1:04:01
complete desperate words that do not make any sense and you've got to make them make sense yeah it's good for them
1:04:06
but I do like it Bas on the basically the space lines have pissed all over the Clover we could probably do a whole
1:04:13
episode on TI oh yeah I'm surprised we haven't I'm surprised we haven't actually it is so good so the next one
1:04:19
is one that's only been nominated by one but it's still one of my top three favorite games but I just had a higher
1:04:26
priority to put in there this year and it is terraform me m um so I'm definitely not going to try
1:04:32
and tank this one uh terraform Mars nominated by Becky um again one of my top three games one we play very
1:04:38
recently still absolutely love it um not going to talk too much about because I think we've had whole episodes on that
1:04:43
one so just going to move straight on and again with my Insider knowledge I
1:04:49
know that the BGG rank is unbeatable cuz I have number six here and there's four and five just been out so
1:04:56
broke the system last last year we just played for a bit of a laugh but now you're you're getting really into this
1:05:01
and tactically working stats out I'm tactically working stats out two of my favorite games of all time fair enough
1:05:07
that's that's in the spirit of the game yeah wouldn't have you any other way mate Hal ni that is mine played this
1:05:13
it's good fun it's gone yeah it's definitely gone um game is about growing vegetables and Farms isn't it that's the
1:05:19
one you need the building at the top isn't yeah it's about um 20th century crop rotation that's it uh they're all
1:05:26
about growing crops ons every one of his rotat say it like that I just think of
1:05:32
the episode of the it game Lord the the game that they say about
1:05:38
they reviewing in that episode is ports of Essen sounds like like an U game it's
1:05:43
it's I I really enjoy Hal I actually really like it solo um I like playing it
1:05:49
with multiplayer but solo is really good fun as well and I just love love it mechanically because of the card play and you can like the cards you get you
1:05:56
play anytime it's like there's no rules of when you're playing it's like just play them when you want like all right then and I'll do all these combo things
1:06:02
it's good fun yeah the car combo cool and yeah it's it's just very clever I quite like it um so you kind of won it's
1:06:09
two 259 yeah kind of smashed it kind of smashed it in the part there we go bye
1:06:16
Hal K an extremely popular choice this one JP Dave and Dan can you guess which
1:06:22
one which one would be nominated by JP Dave and Dan vo void is correct um I mean I could
1:06:31
talk about it but it's not one of my I loved it but it's not one of my favorites do you guys want to talk about it or have you talked about it enough we
1:06:37
talk about it to death didn't we yeah boy fall that's it don't need to talk about it space game 4ex but with a
1:06:45
massive slab of Euro mine Clash mine Clash Euro goodness mine Clash does forx that's pretty much what you need to know
1:06:52
it's fantastic um I'm tempted to tank it just but I'm not I'm not going I'm a little
1:06:59
bit worried because it might be a really good game that I love as that one but I'm going to I'm not going to tank it
1:07:04
because it is a very good game um so I'm going to go for BGG
1:07:09
rating 8.6 sorry Davey I wanted to try this
1:07:15
game old king's crown old king's crown I don't know that much about it so you're probably better
1:07:21
off yeah I've played it a few times T you played it once as well did yeah it's all Kings Crown card based uh kind of
1:07:29
battle kind of game where you play as a faction um and it you know has lots of
1:07:35
key words on there I've played this this then happens and you have these like uh six regions which are kind of covered
1:07:41
across three sections of the board and you're playing cards face down into each of those regions to kind of get control
1:07:47
and power and uh I enjoyed it um but I don't think the game's particularly for
1:07:53
me if I'm being honest so I'm quite glad that it's basically fallen over I love
1:08:00
your pictures of vo4 by the way it's that's brilliant yeah that is
1:08:06
brilliant you're going to have to include that as part of like the episode kind you're have to do that one I'm
1:08:11
going to tag David tury and go check this out that's a really good include that next time the rating of Old Kings
1:08:17
Crown is 7.8 yeah there we go I mean the better game one in my opinion so there
1:08:23
we go I've got a game I haven't played again what a surprise it says on here
1:08:29
age of innovation swamp donkeys I mean the swamp donkeys isn't the the name of the game no no but I'm just wondering
1:08:36
what the hell that is is that a donkey look I had a thick sharp here in about two second is that his leg or is
1:08:43
no it's his leg it's his leg fine it it doesn't matter but yeah age of innovation just think Terror mystica but
1:08:49
the evolution of Terror mystica which is a very kind of uied wood Woody build
1:08:56
lots of buildings get a lot of resources do lots of stuff and the reason why swamp donkeys is on the card is Agent of
1:09:03
a has um kind of a unique thing where you pick your color which will be one of the swamps or mountains or deserts or
1:09:10
whatever and then you overlay the faction on top of the board so you end up this combination of swamp dwarfs or
1:09:16
or Mountain something and yeah so I just I don't know I put swamp donkeys for
1:09:23
there we go what are you going for thinking about the fact that I don't know that all my games have come out
1:09:28
yeah so I don't think I we should remember shouldn't we but it's really difficult when you say yeah yeah so I'm
1:09:35
going to say BGG rank of
1:09:40
267 she's trying to tank it I'm trying to sorry Davey so Davey's nominated that one yeah I have one of my favorite games
1:09:48
in front of me which is lizb and I'm pleased because last year this got killed early by by uh one of
1:09:56
your favorites I can't remember but I remember being like salty about it wasn't even there by the way no you
1:10:02
weren't oh I like how your little SW donke got a little ass he's actually got a little booty yeah look at that he has
1:10:07
got a little booty I tell you there's Detail no expensive no absolutely um so
1:10:13
rank right what was it BGG rank 267 yeah lizb 56 oh sorry D donkeys so lisbo V
1:10:21
V's luras um one of his older games freaking love it uh basically player
1:10:27
card draw a card so there we go love it final card of round one is lost ruins of
1:10:33
arac oo come on Lost ruins so we were talking about Min and elwin the designers are lost ruins of arac earlier
1:10:41
so I feel like I've got to really push this one through otherwise I just feel like I'm doing them a disservice and
1:10:46
this an absolutely epic game it's a great game it's a great game um not knowing what the other card is I'm going
1:10:52
to go with BGG rank 28 which will be quite
1:10:58
High yeah what have you gotten mate wild s Andy I don't know one played it so but chrisy PE voted for this one um yeah
1:11:05
you've won it's 2351 just that's a smidge just a smid
1:11:13
what is while a really great game so it's a kind of plateau building game you have a a board out similar to maybe a
1:11:20
chess board in kind of sort of square um sort of appearance and nice kind of mix
1:11:27
of grassland and mountains and plains that kind of thing and your job as the
1:11:32
game player is a wildlife photographer so you have got certain commissions from magazines saying I want a picture of all
1:11:39
in a row a hippo so your job is as a wildlife photographer being commissioned
1:11:45
by people to get a picture curate a picture of a I don't a lion a hyena uh a
1:11:52
crocodile all in a row for example or a giraffe in the trees a whatever in the
1:11:58
whatever so you've got to kind of move the pieces around the board and take pictures it's really beautiful game and
1:12:04
the meeples are absolutely glorious nice it's a really good game and Chrissy
1:12:09
really enjoyed it yeah obviously I mean he put it in didn't he so yeah sorry
1:12:14
Chris yeah lost ruins had uh I mean I would absolutely go for L day week but
1:12:20
it's a really good game World Serengeti is a really good game would recommend it there we go that's round one done round
1:12:25
one's always the longest cuz we're explaining the games yeah so now we're going to move into round two right so

Round 2 - 20 Games Return...

1:12:33
round two I'm just going to give the winners a little Shuffle so now we have 20 cards in the mix and now we don't
1:12:39
have to explain the games cuz you already know what's in this de we can just get down of business now see I'm really worried now cuz a few of mine got
1:12:45
through this is where it gets T and I'm like I've got one of mine here I really want to see do well but I don't want to knock out one of my absolute favorites
1:12:52
this is like what happens in the Battleground stays in the Battleground go for it I yeah um right so I've got
1:12:57
War of the Ring again so looking forward to this one um oh God what am I going to go for okay oh no that
1:13:05
one see I'm a little bit torn guys BG rating 8.5 is quite high it's a high
1:13:11
stat but also age 13 I feel like that's really high strong stat um I kind of
1:13:18
feel there's probably only a couple higher than both of them I'm going to go with
1:13:26
age 13 it's a good job you did in my hand I've got frost Haven with an age of
1:13:31
two so if you'd have gone BGG rating it's actually got a BGG rating of 8.9 so
1:13:37
you come on come on sorry Frost Haven you're gone we the ring
1:13:42
baby people be upset with that by the way because people love Frost Haven but you know I don't care boom yeah you sold
1:13:48
it yeah it's gone it's gone it's gone it's gone oh it's another one of my choices y
1:13:54
watch cuz it's one of mine and I've got the top sted in its group so I can tell
1:13:59
you now it's already through Ark Nova Marine World bggg rank number four baby
1:14:06
that um I've got tapestry oh I love tapestry mind never mindo T's ready itching to
1:14:14
get no I'm so happy I won that card just for the listeners tber hates
1:14:19
AR over right okay so I've Got Game of Thrones
1:14:25
which is one of my favorites but I kind of feel like there's a few of mine left yet so I'm
1:14:30
not going to I might mini tank it mini tank go for an average that I do I do
1:14:37
really like Game of Thrones though but I'm going to go for bdg rating 7.5 terraforming Mars come on BGG rating 8.4
1:14:46
yay yes terraforming ter that plan once again
1:14:53
okay attacking Eclipse second Dawn which what do you feel about Eclipse I like
1:14:59
Eclipse not played second edition i' played first edition a while back you would love it I I would love it yeah I
1:15:04
played it a long time ago so I need to play again ready stop persuading him you would love it D I know I know I would
1:15:09
love it I know I would love it btg rating 8.5 strong I got the White Castle oh but
1:15:16
it's rating is 8.0 oh come on White Castle goes in the bin and
1:15:23
Eclipse goes for it third da yeah nice see what you did there clever is it
1:15:28
that's clever okay attacking again here it comes tiny epic dinosaurs goam put
1:15:36
ite not so sure about this one because I'm not a great little work you there I
1:15:42
know I know he's sat next to me I'm sorry T but there are other games in that deck that need to go through so I'm
1:15:48
I feel that I'm going to have to probably tank it um let's try though it might not BGG rank 994
1:15:56
I've got castles of burgundy BG rank 16 so castles of burgundy flies through
1:16:02
absolutely tiny epic dinosaurs is extinct so I've got lost Runes of ARX so
1:16:08
clearly this is going through I'm going to go weight
1:16:14
.9 very close to midweight mhm marus no .07 and wait really wow that's like have
1:16:24
won in the last round I'm so You' let them you let everyone down you've let yourself down Min and elwin you've let
1:16:31
them down I love both games just as much as each other on that so just throw H ma in the no no it's mine M lost ruins I'm
1:16:39
sorry I am sad to see lost R ago but I like hop marus KOB better for me even
1:16:45
though they're not even remotely comparable games it's me attacking is Right LZ
1:16:53
boa I love it I like the game so um it I'm just trying to find what stat to use
1:16:58
I'm going to go BGG rating 8.2 Twilight Imperium four oh that's got to be higher
1:17:04
than 8.2 is it you think it's higher than 8.2 thought it was it is BGG rating
1:17:12
8 point pul of dramatic effect
1:17:17
six yes it's okay that the best that would
1:17:23
said I mean age was quite because we changed the rules the value is high it's quite
1:17:29
weighty um so I'm surprised it even got in the second
1:17:35
M ready yeah civilization 2010 come on
1:17:41
okay I do like this game I do like it a lot um so I think I'm going to go with a
1:17:47
what I hope to be a safe bet and go for age yeah at 14 you do win M but you also
1:17:56
get rid of void fall no come on which has an age of one
1:18:02
one no the void the void born have taken it I'm proud of you Dan oh I'd rather
1:18:08
void for go through but there we go it is what it is okay here we go descent
1:18:13
Legends of the dark put in by Rob um I I've not played this version
1:18:19
I've played desent 2.0 to death um I've not played this one let's go with
1:18:25
with see I'm not overly massively fussed on it sorry R um age
1:18:32
three you win age one from hemony oh
1:18:38
that's one your own game my own game You' killed your own own game Rob he's got through got through right last card
1:18:45
of round two okay last part of the round this has got to stay in perseverance
1:18:51
episode one and two come on oh what to go for a winning stat I know but they're all
1:18:57
pretty tough on this on this card you mean it's a rubbish card it's not great not great with this this all set for
1:19:03
2023 Edition BG rating 7.8 you've only just won oh this is far
1:19:11
away BGG rating 7.6 oh yes that's the strong card that far away as well so
1:19:19
sorry Adrian G the dinosaurs have picked it I'm really happy about that you're probably undeservedly so like that is
1:19:25
your that is your limit perseverance I think I think you've gone as far as you can get in this game there we go that is
1:19:31
round two done a lot quicker and now it's we're at the business end of the Battleground it's getting serious it's
1:19:37
getting tense who's going to win who knows let's see what happens but now it's time for round three fight so we

Round 3 - Quarter Finals - 10 Games Line Up...

1:19:46
have our 10 we have our 10 cards for round three and I can't remember what's
1:19:52
in this deck I do this I can't remember what went through I know a few of them
1:19:57
went out obviously if T gets AR over he's tanking it it's happening exactly let he will tank AR let's see have it to
1:20:05
go right Dan on the offensive at the beginning of round three okay I'm not
1:20:10
overly too fussed about this one but here we go castles of burgundy sorry Adrian than it um it's more likely I'm
1:20:16
going to be tanking it let's try a value of
1:20:22
130 cuz it's special edition y if this you just you just knock out
1:20:28
have you won Eclipse second Dawn 200 quid well done well done well
1:20:34
done a this one one cast and burgundy has stayed strong isn't it he'll be very
1:20:40
pleased about that I have terraforming Mars oh oh he's not going to care about
1:20:45
this I like I really like terraforming Mars but I don't think I like it as much as you no one likes it as much as it
1:20:53
and I think it's time for its rain to end who he now I got to be honest good
1:21:02
luck nice yeah this I think this is about as low as status I'm surprised
1:21:07
this one made it as far as I've going to tank it and I'm going to go for Value 261 328 baby I told it's
1:21:16
an awful car civilization 2010 so like maybe I was a little bit worried about
1:21:21
weight that was the only one I wasn't sure no you still worth 303 out of print
1:21:27
you do not even know how much I pay for that that game it's probably a good I mean you could question the stats on
1:21:32
because that's the only thing that didn't come from board game game was the value right I had to do some research on board game prices Board Game Geek Forum
1:21:40
of some stuff get massively out of print the expansions as well if you disagree
1:21:46
with the price I don't care I don't I agree with that feel feel
1:21:53
free not to put your opinion I have H marus
1:21:58
remastered I really want this one to to go for really I'm going to go for its trusty stat of weight
1:22:05
0.07 You've Won Curly's very sad sitting here in his Lord of the Rings t-shirt
1:22:10
we've got War of the ring with a the weight of 1.21 over the three you
1:22:16
disgust me that escalated quickly half plow
1:22:23
let's cut it down perseverance episode one and two I think
1:22:28
this might be the end of the road steady now I know I like it tough to pick a St tough card tough card it's not a strong
1:22:34
card no Christ um I mean it rank is absolutely ridiculous the value is not
1:22:41
great it's not very old and I'm going to go I'm going to have to go with rating I think
1:22:49
7.8 oh unlucky descent Legends of the dark waiting 8.0 yeah be 8.0 it it
1:22:57
lasted longer than I thought on we got mate we going to see that one all the way he's got flipping AR no in he go t
1:23:06
AR no no I can tell by his face gone I
1:23:12
might just go age three Twilight Imperium age
1:23:18
seven I'd rather see T it's fine winning St on that T you had a
1:23:25
winning stat cuz I saw he doesn't like the game I know he did I would find I find TI difficult to
1:23:32
rank in my own personal opinion I have a SE a separate special folder for it because of the emotional stress that
1:23:39
causes me however I love it I've seen I've seen you break you have yeah you have it makes it makes me a different
1:23:44
person that game uh but I love it we have five cards left we're now going into round four fight so we just just

Round 4 - Semi Finals - 5 Games Left...

1:23:53
for everyone's benefit that's listening we have five cards in in round four um we have H marus remastered which is mine
1:24:01
and Tambo submission Twilight Imperium fourth edition which is your submission curly descent Legends of the dark which
1:24:08
is robs terraforming Mars which is Becky and castles of burgundy which is Adrian so good Mi actually yeah good mixs I
1:24:14
think notable mentions of Davey and Chris P and anyone else that has been
1:24:20
knocked out and you you've been knocked out knocked out so yeah Dan P the or had
1:24:26
the games knocked out so yeah you don't care anymore it's okay it's okay it's do you want me to sit
1:24:32
outside no but that means you're quite dangerous now oh yeah you got you've got some power that's going on
1:24:38
right so shuffling these up because there's five of us on the podcast and we've got five cards we thought we're
1:24:45
just going to literally Shuffle this deck up and then hand everybody a card and the the whoever is last attacker can
1:24:52
nominate anybody to to pick and we'll just keep going until it's done little bit of a Twist nice for for the new year
1:25:00
so let's do it why not curly that's your card Becky that's your card Tambo that is your card Daniel your and that is my
1:25:08
card which we probably all got the different cards that we don't want I'm happy with so who was attacking last
1:25:13
that was me you won yes so Tambo who are you picking out of us to challenge who
1:25:19
do you want to knock out who do you want to knock out son who don't want to knock out and you obviously don't know what we've
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I'm not actually B about this game want to than it to then I like the other
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games it's the only one game I haven't played and I don't know if I don't like I just never played it so is it cast of burgundy can't say can I yeah you can
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cast of burgundy oh okay okay so I will go I'll make it fair to Adrian I'll go
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an average stat I won't go the best BGG rating 8.1
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Cy okay so you have picked a good one to one that I know you want to see go through terraforming Mars and
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8.4 nice choice T so we got terraforming Mars making its way towards the upper
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echelons Twilight Imperium 4 and I'm going to go with BGG rating to
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beex what's your BGG rating 8.6 you have beaten hoppler Mar
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remas damn it by W 8.1 I was going to say um nice so sorry jles now sorry
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because we got the odd card now Dan's obviously won with the last card have to battle my card we run out of cards yeah
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cuz that's maths maths maths so you're battling the last one that I'm holding down yeah here we go so Twilight
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Imperium four against your last car juls I'm going to go with that very strong
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BGG rating once again of 8.6 yeah I've got Rob's descent Legends of the dart
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which only has 8.0 so that literally goes in the lucky Rob I'm well happy
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with that top two boys not going to lie that is a good top two so can we just decide that terraforming Mars wins no
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yep lovely I'll go I don't the podcast finishes here for me I've decided to
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Miles win so cool cool so that leaves two cards into the final final round

Round 5 - The Final - 1v1 Death Match

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right so this I love it so this is literally two cards we have Twilight
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Imperium fourth edition and we have terraform Mars at the top spots so we
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have two cards that we've said and what we're going to do is just literally go around the table we have to nominate a
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stat the the one that has the most votes on the stat is the one we're going to go in and Pitch those two cards against
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each other now we've got some insight now haven't played the game so we already probably know which one you want
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to win but if it's me I can't remember them so so it might be a bit wild so Dan
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you can kick off proceedings of what stat are you going to vote for to help either get Twilight Imperium
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or terraforming Mars through the through the winner I love both of those games that's
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really tricky I can feel the the eyes from from Beck
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burning through my soul yeah go with your heart man it's got to be BGG
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ring it's got to be BG ring okay interesting I'm going to
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go course got T is it I I'm going to go uh
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age I'm surprised how you say that because I think terraforming Mars has got that one it might have and I just
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might be bad at this it has just yeah oh well and that's what yeah well I'm I'm
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going to vote for terraform M so I think age as well I was going to vot for terraforming Mars by kind of chipping in
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weight in that mix but yeah maybe but terraforming Mars with expansions is quite weighty I would agree I just join
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on the bandwagon with you guys then good age but we might be wrong I think wait ter is better wait I'm
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wait do matter so we got three with age right so we're it's close we don't
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know who's won right no it's it's exciting I generally thought it was one way but maybe I I thought Terra Mars was
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right has being 7 years old versus four years of Twilight Imperium but I could be wrong are we ready yeah age is what
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we're going with suspense music I hope I haven't the wrong oh JP's face it's
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close it's close Twilight Imperium has an age of seven but terraform Mars has
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an agent eight get so T TM takes the crown is the winner get of the board
1:29:48
game Battleground 2023 combo Edition we would have been less [ __ ] wouldn't it have won on what's
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these stats it would have won on weight it would it's rank I should have
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gone rank yeah rank's five on TI rank is six on terraform Mar who wins the most
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stats so ti4 has three winning stats TM has two yeah it's still the better game
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it's fine but either way you would have put it yeah close close very close close game there we go that go TM so we're
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just going to go and have a little debrief do a bit of post fight analysis so we'll be back in a [Music]

TURN 4 - Post Fight Analysis

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sec so we're back what do we all feel terraforming Mars I mean Becky this is one new Champion you're like microbes
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for days yeah you like you like where I was last year we basking in the glory of
1:30:45
too many bones which you killed curly you killed
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it to be fair actually terraforming miles is one of the few games we all like yeah Love It In fairness we I do
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I'm not sad that it won at all it's it's a strong game um I'd always play it yeah
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and the fact that we played it I don't know million times and we still play it is a testament to it really and you wouldn't say that about TI would you you
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wouldn't say I'd always play it you'd be like it's true get my you know get my in the zone for that it's quite interesting
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that TI and terraforming Mars maybe not Terri for Mars cuz that has probably been strong all the way around but that
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those the two that got to the top quite a surprise to me I didn't think TI would ABS get to the final I don't know why
1:31:30
but I have to be in the mood to play it I have to be in the mood uh and if I get in that mood and then then it's then
1:31:36
it's organizing it because of how long it takes and getting the players and then setting it up and then going
1:31:42
through all that rig roll but it is worth it once you do it it is worth it once I've played it and I've got my little itch I'm done for 6 months if not
1:31:50
if not longer I've not played it for a while now um but it's a special place for me I love it but TM though it hits a
1:31:58
bit of a sweet spot with the with the way that you got the top tramps made out as well because it's popular it's kind
1:32:04
of old it's got its own little cult crew you know so the fact that it's what number five or number six on BGG ranking
1:32:11
means that it was yeah number three in our overall cards and the 8.6 rating was
1:32:17
like number two or really high up really high up over just want to say Curly's played this once he's seen the card one
1:32:23
time time and yet he already knows that why you win games and this is what's
1:32:29
annoying how you be able to go at me for impressive but irritating so you've already you already know you already
1:32:36
know the ranks of the cards and yeah I'm going to say what everyone else said last year I think the rules are broken
1:32:42
and I think we need to change them this is what I got literally
1:32:48
Bowsers bloody Bowsers what you talk about the ones are the most words in the game that
1:32:54
that that game will win but anyway look it's a bit of fun and the idea is that we we take our our kind of top games of
1:33:01
last year that we really enjoy playing so they're going to be some Staples in there year and year and year um but then
1:33:06
there's some new ones that come in um so yeah hopefully you all enjoyed that it's a good laugh for us we love playing this
1:33:13
game and uh um and we'll no doubt be back again for our birthday Shenanigans next year for 2024 Edition anything else
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to to add I just love your artwork on it mate great you're wel that's one alone
1:33:25
the artwork I think we got to bring that back next year I know we talked about getting Becky to do it who you know
1:33:30
who's got all the the bits and Bobs to make a really good fist of it got the time and everything else but I think JP
1:33:36
that was that was some special going in there really enjoyed it I think as the years go on that it gets crapper because
1:33:43
I rush it more if if if it was good then it wouldn't be as funny your radioactive hippo was the highlight yeah yeah yeah
1:33:49
we'll we'll put a picture of that on social STI via the toxic Wasteland yeah and I won't tag the publisher in cuz
1:33:56
they might want to untag themselves from from it so so there we go we're going to wrap up uh say thank you all for

TURN 5 - The Final Turn

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