TURN 1 - Player Count
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the Whose Turn is It Anyway podcast returns to the UK Games Expo this year we're running a live episode on Friday
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the 30th from 12 to 1 where we want to meet our listeners we want you to come and join in on the show get involved or
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just come and participate bring your lunch and rest your feet for a while we hope to see you there and hope you have an amazing UK Games Expo
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[Music]
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welcome to Whose Turn Is It Anyway your board gaming podcast where we talk about board games tabletop and more board game
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cardboard stuff today is our third birthday everyone
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woo and tradition is tradition because we are going to do another board game
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battleground this time it's the Infernal 2024 edition round one fight here we go
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sound effects are are included for free you're welcome so if you can't already tell we have Dan hello sucking on his
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tea sucking on my tea everyone can always tell when Dan's here there we go i like to make an entrance he does and
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the other voice is Curly hello oh and his lovely wife Becky hi and Tambo
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returns hello to the dojo
TURN 2 - 3 Years Old!!!
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[Music]
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so yeah this is our birthday episode so for those that have not listened to our birthday episodes come and check them out we've done two already but we're 3
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years old guys how mad's that it's mad three people mental mad i can't believe
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we're out of nappies now we are it's amazing isn't it we are literally in pull-ups we are we're in P mommy wow i'm
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a big board game now she loves cherries from a jar she ate them that's my girl it's my baby oh god
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so anyway I was wondering where that was going i was like that's not the nappy advert I know cherries that was Who was
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that baby something baby Bjorn was it i just know huggies was it Huggies they're there for aren't they yes yeah this is
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going Don't know what you're talking about frame of reference over here 1990s TV adverts check the uh the the fathers
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on the podcast just me and dad um so we're three we've been doing this uh a good few years now still loving it still
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enjoying it and uh yeah I love this episode this is like a little highlight for me it's a fun It's a fun way of
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having like a little sort of retro look over the last year isn't it yeah I like that and we get to play a game whilst recording and that's just fun because we
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like to dick each other over playing this game any way that we can kind of Yeah get one over on the other way
NEWS - Come and see us live at the UK Games Expo 2025
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absolutely absolutely so before we kind of get into it I just want to do some news um so this year at the UK Games
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Expo 2025 just like last year we did a a live episode um so on the Friday we did uh
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yeah basically we rocked up we put on a bit of a show and uh we recorded a live episode with a live audience and I'm not
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going to lie last year it was pretty nerve-wracking right i think terrifying but amazing it was like is anyone going
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to turn up and they did and we had we really actually did yeah we had a pretty much a room full and um again if you're
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listening and you turned up man we thank you so much for doing that we love you we love you um but we're going to do it
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again um so yeah we we I wouldn't say we're prepared for it right now but not
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not yet we've got ideas but yeah we'll get there we've got ideas we've got some good things in the in the chamber so
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this year our live episode is actually on Friday the 30th of May uh it's at 12
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till 1:00 p.m so prime slot prime slot right in the lunch hour so you can bring
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your lunch so you're going to have to eat anyway so you might as well get some food and come along we are up against
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I'm not going to lie we are up against you know a lesser well-known YouTube channel Shut Up and Sit Down don't know
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if you heard of them yeah they they do have their show at the same time so we are up against that what happens if if
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some members of the podcast would actually quite like to go and watch just shut up and sit down are we then they'll be shunned and never allowed that's why
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I'm not coming because I'll be there that's the reason dad's not coming no no but the way I look at it is shut up and
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sit down probably has a uh a room of 100 200 people not everyone's going to be
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able to go so come come and see us there's no room you know where you can find absolutely we don't mind being sloppy seconds do we guys we don't used
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to it we're used to it so no we're there we can't wait to put on the show wait a minute you just call him i was looking
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at Dan actually he looked right at me when he said it yeah he looked right at me but no we can't wait to do it it's
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It's always fun to chat with the um the audience and and our listeners that turn up it's just great to hang out and just
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say hi and uh do all that cool stuff so if you're coming we'd love to see you if not don't don't worry about it it's fine
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we won't cry we're only three i I can't be there because I I wasn't trusted this time now after the last time because you
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know put an audience in front of me and I'm just chaos it's fine it's fine he's you're just
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very very busy just wind him up and off he goes yes it's all good anyway so that was a little bit of news um so just like
A look back at our favourite moments from last year
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on our other birthday episodes we like to kind of do a little retrospective on the last year so obviously our last
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recording year not 2024 even though most of our last recording year was in 24 um
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what our kind of highlights are so has anyone got a highlight they want to just throw into the pot
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my favorite episode was the episode where and if I was prepared I'd have the number of it but I'm not um where we did
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the um imagine like your best board game day and where it was and all the rest of it come game with me come game with me
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come with me i loved that t put such a lot of effort in and I just loved it oh that was JP's not my day no on your day
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like oh my day oh yes like the food you had was themed for the build it was brilliant i loved that episode it was
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probably one of the most fun records we've done it was so logistical wasn't it yeah like we had to go out the room
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go back in the room go back out the room again yeah so for those that haven't listened to it do listen to it because
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it's it's one of probably the the finer edits I've I've done personally cuz it was a bastard to pull together because
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we kind of had the come D with me uh experience of putting on the game day we listened to this grand adventure design
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of this is what I'm going to do and it's going to be this and then basically the others just slagged it off yeah
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um but we did it in secret so actually none of us knew what we'd said or scored
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just like the show that's it the first time we heard that back was actually listening to the episode when it came out it's with everyone else there i
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think that was quite exciting actually as Becky mentioned it was actually my highlight of the year as well cuz my highlight was the same then my highlight
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was sitting there when Rob was reading out the scores and Rob goes "Who scored me a seven or something?" And it was me and I'm just
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going Rob yeah it was funny when I edited that and I was like I knew it was
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Tambo i knew it stiff him but yeah now that was fun and any other moments
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well my personal one was running the um convention last year in the uh Devon board game weekend um yeah absolutely
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loved it at the Fox and Hounds really good um even organizing it was pretty good fun with Matt and the team and you
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know everyone helping support me do it my lovely wife who helped with the quiz and just generally ordering stuff and
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things we needed so yeah it was just a real highlight to kind of not only be there but also actually run it like even
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on the day I was running around helping people out it was just good fun in general um and just to plug it a little
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bit I am also running the one in October october 17th through 19th um the dates
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aren't officially out yet but they will be by the time this one airs um yeah October 17th through 19th next year
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we're looking forward to running another one yeah if people don't know we we sponsor this event and we kind of
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co-sponsor it with Devon and Dice podcast so Joel and team and we tend to
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organize the latter one in the year right i say we you yeah yeah and and a
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very good job you've done with it cuz last year I could only attend the day due to parental duties and I wish I
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could have been there for the whole weekend but yeah everyone said they had such a cracking time so you know kudos to everyone who who got involved but
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yeah it's really nice that we we get to to sponsor an event which is something new for us i don't want to load the car
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again with all our games because that was like a game in itself it was like how many more games can you fit in a car Tetris kind of game so board game
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library did you say next year 2026 no this year this year yeah did I say next year you said next year okay well I mean
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later on this year no worries although we'll probably do it in October 2026 if
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it's next year I could probably put it in my diary now so I know what it is dan I'm used to you just being I'm busy just
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just busy just block October it'll be fine the whole The whole month all of it the whole month yeah don't work when
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you're describing it you sound like you sound like Dan Absy after year one of the board game marathon year one yeah now now not so
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much yeah no i got tired i got tired we might you know we might do our own
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convention one day oh that that would be that'd be great i think that's that's our little goal i think um that's
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something that's been in my mind i don't know why I'm just suddenly talking about this right now but I am s it um but I
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think by sponsoring these events it's given us some experience in how to do it
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how to run it how to organize it how to promote it and do all these kind of things so yeah what's lovely about it is
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Matt the Fox and Hounds is actually really keen to kind of like say he said "Well if you want to do something bigger at some point just use this as
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practice." You know he's really on board with it he doesn't mind at all he's just helpful to Yeah yeah he's just grateful to get some help so yeah and anything to
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kind of contribute to the Southwest um hobby gaming scene is is a bonus you know we've got we're lucky that we have
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access to some great conventions just locally and to you know to add to that
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great who doesn't want another ball game weekend let's face it they're awesome we love them um Dan favorite moment do you
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know what i I can't pinpoint one specifically but there's been many of
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times where I've been on an episode with Adrian and Adrian and I have had lots of detailed kind of like almost
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philosophical conversations about indepth information regarding board game
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mechanics and I've just really enjoyed the conversation cuz there's not often that you get to have those kind of conversations or those chats because
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you're busy in the moment or in the game so when you get to sort of step away and actually think about it for a moment it's actually quite quite fulfilling to
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have an in-depth chat with somebody else about something you're passionate about
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don't often goes without at all sounds intellectual for you it does it does doesn't it yeah we can be every now and
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then yeah you can i'm just talking about that i don't know if you've heard the bloopers right love you too you've heard
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the Lovey Dad yeah hear the Yeah the bloopers it's just complete tosh yeah yeah it's just complete it's just noise
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it's just noise the fact we still release them and maybe get away with it is good isn't it we do it for ourselves
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let's not kid ourselves how many listeners do we get on that compared with a normal one well the bloopers uh
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I've always wondered it's a bit lower but it's not significantly lower it still does all right as an episode yeah
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they they do trail they're not as uh sexy so but it maybe that depends on
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what we're doing i suppose we need to up our anteers it's not just nine it's not just nine downloads which is just us
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it's more i think the problem is a lot of the time it's too sexy yeah it gets a bit Yeah it gets we need to turn down
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the [ __ ] drops just not as many [ __ ] drops in there yeah especially without you know with only a skirt on and no
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knickers down but now the thing is with that there are there are the stuff that doesn't make it
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into the bloopers and that's the stuff that no one hears we do get just nine downloads for that cuz it's Yeah it's
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just for us it's just for us um by moment you probably know what mine is what do you think mine is oh that's put
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me under a lot of pressure i don't I know okay go for it i think it's it's
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having a little interview with David Turtzy oh look at his little face it is
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bless him it is that that episode was probably a bit of a goal when we started
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it was like a pipe dream i'll be honest like it we kind of started this thing
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very amateurish still probably a little bit amateur-ish but thinking wouldn't it be great if we could get an interview
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with David Turtzy and didn't you think yeah whatever mate just just chill out and we're there and we we did it and we
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got him and me and Curly sat down and geeked out about Star Trek for an hour with him and yeah it was mad it was a
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mad episode i loved it i mean literally yeah so much energy that David has and brings to everything he does and those
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that have met him will know exactly what I mean but he's such a lovely chap lovely heart gives a lot of his time and
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and an effort and energy and the fact that he just sat down with us for an evening and we just chatted about his
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stuff and games he's just so bouncy i I love how bouncy his is his energy is so
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um you can't be grumpy like if you were if you were like in a bad mood and then you had a chat with him you'd be
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uplifted you would you'd be like "Whoa what's Whoa." But you'd be uplifted then um so no that for me was uh was great
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cuz it felt like Yes and it's probably similar to you Becky you said last year around Min and Elwin right when you did
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yeah yeah absolutely just that kind of thing like those people are actually talking to us oh and it's just it and it
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it just it's really humbling but it's also really nice that you realize these are just regular people that have got
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ideas and and they're just super super brainy and successful and done amazing but it's really nice to see the other
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side of of that kind of you know not that kind of person but that that kind of profession or that kind of level of
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of of people it was just so lovely it was kind of an element of pride I think so when that episode released I was
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quite proud of that one i was like "Yeah that made me feel good." This is talking about being proud i think this is a
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really good point i haven't spoken to the other guys about this so feel free to cut this out if you don't like it but I think we are all just so super
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thankful to you JP because without you doing all this stuff oh don't Let's be
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honest would we be here now cuz I don't think we were we were all really keen about it but you're the one that puts
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the blood sweat and tears and the time and the effort and the project management and I just want to say a big
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thanks from all of us because you're the one that makes it work so thanks mate yeah thanks thanks i promised myself I
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wouldn't cry and he does the [ __ ] art on the cards for this Battle on it i need to remember that i
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still pull that out to look at if I'm feeling a bit sad i just love it i just love it i can get involved in this
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conversation i've already complimented you once you have what was that i don't even remember can you remember what we did like a It wasn't a a conscious thing
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did you both have your trousers down or was it just just regular i don't remember what it was for but it was weird well I stick my stand by my
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comment yeah not the trousers it was about your It was about your work was it it was only an offhand comment but it
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was just something about you being professional and hardworking or something you just looked at me i don't
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know just it just done a dump on the floor or something it was like really confused it was alien mate say because
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normally from you we know that your love language has taken the piss out of people we know we all know that right
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but when you actually get sincere it's just weird mental note no sincerity no please don't
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compliment me any further um right i think it's time to put on the ghee and
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get down to the uh to the old fighting dojo right let's do it my black belt is
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already on let's do it let's let's let's open up i'm going to be a bit more like E Honda or something if that's all right
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e Honda you can do what you want just wear some pants basically i don't know who that is it's the sumo sumo okay i'm
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going to go Eddie Gordo cuz I can't sit still yeah where in that one she had the cool hair okay I'll be Yeah you can
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you're dirty bastard oh here we go i've got the outfit for you at home love it's funny because all of those that you know
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me are like she's not John Lee she's killing herself but anyway let's enter
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the battleground
TURN 3 - Boardgame Battleground - 2024 Inferno Edition
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[Music]
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[Applause] [Music]
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so we're here for our third board game battleground where we pick the best
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played games from last year and we basically pitch them together in a
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celebrity death match style top trumps battle it's the best way to describe this so other games are available other
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games are available but we've completely ripped this one off tweaked the mechanics and uh and see if it works so
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if you've listened to our previous episodes you know exactly what's coming up so apologies but if you haven't
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listened basically we've all put in five of our favorite games played last year
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and some of us have shared overlap there's nine of us on the pod and we've ended up with 30 in the roster so we got
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30 games going into the battleground and only one will survive Highlander style
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so expect who won last year who won the game that won last year and is basically
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returning as Victor is is the Eol faithful you bet your ass it is terraforming Mars yes sad yeah baby so
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it might be time for that to die it might retain its crowning glory we'll see i could accept it as long as Too
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Many Bones doesn't win yeah but I didn't put that in this year did you not shock
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horror did you play it much last year played it a bit but I didn't put it in and there's reasons and I might explain
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it if and when or maybe it doesn't come up who knows it It's in there it is in
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there yeah it's in there but I didn't do it well so so you've gone from it being in there to not being in there to being in there no but I didn't do it is the
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You didn't do it there you go put it in either we'll see we'll see controversial we'll see so basically we've got a deck
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of cards in front of us that's been cut and uh the rules are um so instead of us
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all kind of playing our own decks cuz that gets really complicated and we want to make this as audio friendly as
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possible we're kind of navigating these uh these decks between us as we go so we
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have an attacker and we have a defender right trust us that we'll figure out who does what it's really boring doesn't
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really matter but we kind of make it fair and basically the attacker will reveal the card they'll explain what the
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card is maybe we'll talk about the game a little bit and why we chose it if any of us are here and uh they'll pick a
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stat we have five stats we have weight so closest game to midweight 3.0 on BG
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all the stats are pretty much BG friendly to make my life easier so we've got weight we've got um BGG ranking so
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where it ranks in the top board games of all time we've got the user rating i.e from 0 to 10 um and we've got the year
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it was published the oldest um being the best there and we've got the value of base game only excluding shipping maybe
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depends if I've got my data correct but so we're going base so we've tweaked a few of the rules from previous years um
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and not massively but we tweaked them basically because you know we're trying to balance this game that's wildly
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stupid and uh yeah bit bit of fun really so we'll add the attacker they'll reveal
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the card they reveal the stat the defender will do the same reveal the card talk about the game reveal the stat
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we'll see which one wins whatever wins goes into the next round so we'll have five rounds until there is only one left
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now in the rare occasion we get a stat that draws we do a counterattack and you
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might get a sound effect there in post um so if we pick a stat and it's the
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same we do a counterattack then the defender gets to name a stat to reply back to the attacker we could then take
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that one out understood boss it's I don't know if it might have happened last year once i think it did yeah but
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it rarely happens first year it didn't happen at all and we were primed for sound boards and everything it just
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didn't happen but there we go so that's the rules that's what we're going to do i mean Curley is going to uh start us
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off as the attacker and Becky sitting next to him will be the defender so I'm going to hand over to sound effects Dan
ROUND 1
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to introduce round one round one right so the first game revealed on the
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attacker deck is going to be here to slay um I've got no idea what that game is T so I'm going to ask you to uh
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explain did you put it in did I put it in did I well Chrissy does he didn't put it in chrissy did both of you it says
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Tambo and Chris oh we both might have signed up for it then right um it's basically um a quick fun battle game
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where you got to defeat the monsters in the middle um and you can just stitch each other up basically stop other
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people put roll manipulations on other people's dice and reminded me of Munchkin when you were describing it
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last time yeah yeah yeah it's really good fun um you just stick each other
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over basically and you got the old monsters little creatures look like Pokémon
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i've never heard of I wanted to get in the convention once first cuz but we just need to get round to it so only you can play it in 10 minutes depending who
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play how many players you have i'm going to play to win mate but you know if I knock out a favorite I'm not going to be happy okay fine yeah good i'm happy
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here's the point i didn't actually mention this like depending on who's the attacker and whether they give a crap about the card may depend whether they
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actually pick the best stat or not so we have a tank game you don't really know what this is so I I haven't played this
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yet but you would like it and I would say you would you would enjoy it it's just I don't want to knock out like TM or something or Art Nova because Pick
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your stat pick your stat stat pick your stat cody come on all right i'll play to win i'm not going to be happy about it
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though so we'll go for value oh that will be strong cuz it's a cheap box so
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value is £18 i have in my hand Star Trek
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Captain's Check oh god his face is Oh you get You are
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such a get this is a game voted by both JP and Rob and I think we all know by
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now who designed it the lovely Mr tootszie um so I and Nigel nigel but
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Nigel But yes indeed so I don't know a lot about the game because I haven't played it but um I'm sure there are
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going to be people that want to talk about it in three sentences it's amazing
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the best Star Trek game you could ever play it's Imperium the system Imperium but with
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Star Trek it's all you need to know it's It's probably my favorite game played of last year and I've got a little tear in
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me eye the fact that I know this is out yeah so I mean it's pretty good value for the amount of love this game has got
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but I'm afraid the value is 46 I'm not happy i'm surprised it's as much as that know that so I'm afraid here to
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slay has beaten Star Trek Captain Chair i think you'd prefer Captain Chair than
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too late now it's a bit too late but I'm I'm quite happy i I'm perfectly aware of that mate
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hello darkness i'm afraid that's how that goes and this is the game this is what
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happens at board game battleground things your favorite games just get crushed for no reason other than Cody
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trying to win where is your copy of of Captain's Chair right now it's in my game room do we need to take it out and
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burn i was just checking i had to do that for real sorry expect a phone call from David Tersia at
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some point soon he's going to be furious round one round one game one it's out he
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got slayed should we just check oh it got slayed they got slayed
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burn right next game next game right so um this game is not one I can comment
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about i've not played it um and I'll be honest I'm probably going to tank it so just to give you some advice um it is a
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game put forward by Davey and it is Shackleton base so oh you played it yeah
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I've played it you played it once you played it with us here what was in it what happened on the
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moon the crater in the moon space and you had the corporations you got three corporations fantastic game was he there
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yeah average average average yeah i remember you were like what's the one what's the one I haven't played yet seti
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that's what I'm thinking of yeah it's always those two that I get mixed up with before I played Shackleton but I I thought Shackleton was fantastic great
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can't get a copy of it now i thought I thought it was good but I don't it was not like when I've just recently played
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Oh Andromeda Edge andromeda's Edge yeah so comparing the two and it was like "Oh my god Andromeda's Edge is much more up
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my street shall we say?" Not the same sort of game though are they no no not at all really but they came out at similar times similarish themes and yeah
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it's just much more my thing i didn't think it was bad it was good but but you're going to tank it so I'm going to tank it fair enough so sorry Davey so
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yeah so um do you want to give a bit of an idea of what it's about yeah it's just a it's kind of a heavy mid to heavy
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um ura game set in a moon's crater of Shackleton and uh you're putting domes
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on there you have three corporations that are mixed out of seven into the game which really adds a lot of variety
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and you can yeah interact with a corpse um to do different kind of miniame
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mechanisms that are introduced and yeah basically you're building your society on the moon and getting money and
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credits and doing euro things but it's it's got a really cool um kind of
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mechanic in how the workers can circle the crater and how you activate rows and columns within the middle and yeah it's
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good fun Now I'm talking about it I want to play it again it's MV in space basically i got to be honest your picture actually reminded me of it so
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I'm like "Oh yeah I have played that." Pretty good that was one of the one of your beautiful pictures mate i can't get a copy of it anywhere you're not nope
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completely sold it everywhere waiting for a reprint there you go what are you picking i think we're going to go for age
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wow that's So that would be 2024 literally last year and release last
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year okay okay t so we got space versus space oh what is it arcs oh
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it's about to be a tie yes correct it is it is a tie and this is chosen by JP we
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talked about arcs lots it's a space battle kind of What's the card mechanic
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in it it's kind of like pseudo trick taking trick but it's not but it is to get your actions yeah to follow and um
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you just pick on the winner basically and then and then try and then anyone can win it's a really good fun really
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really good game space shaving is what I'm going to call it cuz that's literally what it is that's a great way to put it space shing i like the art on
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it as well JP it's like just like the token ships again one of my early drawings i had a lot of effort into it
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yeah so we've got What's the What's the age 2024 so we've got a counter attack
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so that means t you get to pick another stat to fight back on i actually don't
27:26
care between these two to be honest i want arcs to win but I don't know that one at all the one C's got skeleton base
27:31
so I'm going to go with rating okay and it's the highest rating right
27:36
yes so 8.1 8.1
27:43
this is the first double counter double counter we've ever had sudden death
27:48
oh my god it It's going back and forth i actually now I might try and win because I don't particularly like arcs either um
27:55
n I don't like dogs but it's average um so I'm going to try and win but the the ones I've got left are not very good
28:01
either um arcs now I think it's going to be a bit cheaper than that uh this is going to be pretty close
28:09
so I think I'm just going to have to I think this is my best chances rank ooh um highest lowest highest highest as in
28:17
a one is the best okay so I suppose it's the lowest number so my one isn't good
28:22
mate i'm probably going to lose this but I think I've got less chance with everything else it would be a 20078
28:30
oh Jesus yeah 133 oh wow there you go you're going to win that's battleground
28:36
i blame all of you that's number one to be honest I had a mind fight is the lowest value isn't it to win so I could have thought that i should have done
28:41
that i don't mind yeah i keep forgetting it's all good i want base is going in the bin in the trash
28:48
the moon shame that's a shame so here we go ah very nice i want this one to win
28:55
minos dawn of the bronze you can explain this one better than I can but quickly if you
29:01
like yeah I've done an episode about this or or at least uh been a significant part of it but yeah we'll go through it quickly um Minos basically
29:09
you are um yeah you're in in charge or you're vying to be the leader of Cre um
29:16
and you are it's going to be a VP collection game basically but you can do that various different ways but what I
29:22
love about the game is is the core of it comes from you it's a dice selection game but the dice that you pick to go in
29:29
there you get a bonus for having higher dice and by making matches to get a bonus right we won't get into what they
29:35
are you'll get there but also you get a bonus of the numbers being uh lower and then the actions you take are better so
29:43
it's always a little bit of a do I go for the higher number to get the collection or do I go for the lower number to have better actions
29:50
then when you do said actions you do it in the order of 6 5 4 3 2 1 so you've
29:55
got to make sure that you do it not only the action so for an example if you've
30:00
put um draw cards and you've put a one on it cuz you want to play lo uh you want to draw loads of cards well that's
30:06
all well and good but now the one to play cards you've put on four because you weren't that bothered by it you now
30:12
you're drawing cards after you play them so you might not so it's weird you've got to kind of get it in the right order as well so there's so much to think
30:18
about and then and essentially then you're doing the actions to not control
30:24
because it's not really a military game but like you're out on a board and you're kind like building buildings and you know having presence in different
30:30
areas so it's just a really really really clever game that I really love i
30:35
need to play it it's my favorite it's probably my favorite game in this year and I imagine it's got my name next and
30:40
my name ah we I've always liked you picking mate so I am actually going to
30:46
go Wait I'm gonna go 0.73 so be a 3.73 yeah okay okay and the card
30:54
I've got lord of the Rings Jewel for Middle Earth
31:01
oh oh so I don't know who's going to win because I don't know how near that is to zero to to three
31:08
are the Are the Is the Is the horse and the people farting in this in this image show Becky let me see this image is is
31:14
ridiculous that's quality that is a farting horse no it's not a horse it has got a nasal
31:20
is it oh is it a Naz i know what it's called jp's artwork on
31:25
these cards honestly this should be a game in itself it's brilliant the hobbits are definitely farting their way
31:31
from the Naz when is this game going to get a retail release your game me not
31:36
well I could be asked to massproduce it by hand nice by hand by hand wait
31:43
0.94 yes Tambo wins and Lord of the Rings
31:49
Jewel for Middle Earth suffers a terrible fate this is such a shame it's
31:55
such a great such a great game so simple and yes all right it's Lord of the Rings
32:01
skin but it it could be about anything whatsoever but it's such a good simple
32:06
quick obvious game is that one by Repos yeah yeah it looks it looks like I'd probably enjoy it seven Wonders Duel but
32:13
/ Lord of the Rings it is good does that mean that the actual game did you say closest to three yeah so that would be
32:20
uh Are you telling me that's 3.94 it's one Oh that's minus 2 there we are that
32:28
makes more sense i was going to say are you telling me it's more complicated than Minos cuz we're going to have an
32:33
argument it's further away from the middle no I get it no I get it it's just I missed
32:38
the minus let me look at the farting Nazgll it looks like a camel without a hump
32:45
that was one of the later ones I read if you're interested card 24 yeah he'd
32:50
given up drawing Nazol by this point it there's a man with a stick or something oh I love it have you got the card like
32:56
he's got a really really It's got like a a smiling emoji next to his anus
33:03
that's That's uh That's Frodo's ring yeah yeah exactly nice yeah
33:09
anyway next game okay we have Castles of Burgundy well this will be an Adrian
33:14
Express oh yeah 100% that's Adrian yeah was anybody else is it just Adrian it's
33:20
just Adrian yeah I thought so you liked it i didn't it's good you like it D yeah yeah I thought it was really good but I
33:26
don't think it makes my top five for the year stand the test of time very good i'm not too bothered about this one so
33:31
we don't need to explain Castles of Bergen everyone Everyone knows Castlesburg what you picking you're not too bothered you're going to tank it
33:36
stiff nice they're all quite I'm going to go
33:42
with year 2011 so I've got Cloudspire well that's lost
33:50
yeah it's gone um which is mine and Davey's pick and actually this is going
33:55
back to what I said about Too Many Bones i put this in instead because this has had a little reassurgence
34:00
in in the gaming for for good reason i've spoke about it on the pod but you've picked year yeah yeah this is
34:06
2019 so yeah to be fair Castles is a strong card it's its weight is pretty
34:12
much bang on 3.0 right it's not far from it it's rank is probably going to be very high it's rating's probably high
34:19
the year it's an older game and the value is good if you go for standard edition not silly special edition it's a
34:26
bit tough one to beat i think one looking at the stats castle of Burgundy win castles of Burgundy it's not going
34:32
to It's not It's going to be tough to knock that out yeah so Tambo still is attacker he's on a reign of terror so
34:38
yeah what's next mate twilight Imperium steady now steady now twilight Imperium
34:44
come on T you've got this mate steady now it's in every year it's in every year
34:49
um I like this game but it's in every year and it's never won yet has it and it should I think cuz it's got special
34:54
place in close yeah it's got really special close before yeah um okay we
34:59
don't need to explain it because everyone should know what Twilight Pion is so I'm going to go with rank which is five it's pretty strong out the gate
35:06
five oh what a shame i've lost um no so I've got Smartphone Inc which I know
35:13
nothing about and I hope it loses that's another Adrian is it Adrian's one one of his favorite games i've played it it's
35:18
actually It's quite a good game it's um economicy um the way you do your action selection
35:25
with kind of overlapping tiles yeah it's like a puzzle at the bottom isn't it your phone quite interesting how it
35:31
works i'd like to play it again actually making like a fine wine that one yeah but which one would I want to keep in is
35:37
definitely Ti so I'm not sure you like it cuz it's got a puzzle at the bottom that's how many actions you get sounds
35:42
good see you later smartphoneing
35:47
what's it so what what was it rank rank five so rank is 432 byebye byebye unlucky Adrian time goes
35:57
through i don't mean to keep winning boys i'm just No I'm pleased with that one yeah I want I like Twilight so it
36:02
should go through here we go next match up next one robert Patson's my favorite
36:07
team Edward twilight he said he liked Twilight okay so I've never played a secret identity
36:15
another Adrian one I believe adrian again yeah Adrian's hanging all his games at the moment i am going to go
36:23
with I don't care much about this one so I'm just going to go with rank 2766 i don't know it okay yeah I don't
36:31
know it's a party game where you could be a famous person that's all I know
36:36
about it because I've seen it being played but I don't quite know that sounds like I'd like that more above this one i think you've played it cuz a
36:44
brought it to your birthday you have to make someone guess something by the little symbols you pick no that's why I was thinking it's not that one that's
36:50
concept yeah that was good i played that one that's not a game that's an activity okay so the game I've got is The Witcher
36:56
Old World that's by Rob Dog geralt and Chrissy P yeah so I mean I'm fighting on
37:02
the side of Geralt here but I don't think we're going to be good are we ranked 2766
37:09
oh I've kicked your ass then too sorry 340 yeah I don't I don't I would like that one to win anyway oh well there we
37:15
go well we're all happy then geralt lives the Witcher old world is through to the next one toss a coin to your
37:20
Witcher wind's howling so by secret identity sorry Adrian but we know nothing about it well it will stay
37:27
secret it's like you've been waiting months for an opportunity for that to come out windsling which uh the old
37:33
world as we say Rob Rob it's Rob's game in the group um it's it's quite quite
37:39
cool game where you go around fighting monsters you'll learn about them you'll trail them you'll fight them and uh it's
37:46
got a nice card chaining combat mechanism in it where you can kind of play a card and then link certain cards
37:52
based on on colored tags that are on there so it works quite nicely i actually prefer it co-op so I've played
37:58
the Wild Hunt variation of the game and it's fully co-op and in my opinion is so much better because the competitive is
38:05
fun until you get to the point where it's like and I win and story's over
38:10
it's done so it's quite nice to have uh a co-op version of it so I like it good yeah the only complaint I had about that
38:16
game is a long time between turns in a four player i think I did it at um the 24-hour board game marathon yeah and oh
38:24
my god I was about ready to fall asleep it was just way too long especially cuz we were learning it it was literally
38:30
about 25 minutes between turns jeez two player co-op my god because then one of
38:35
you is doing a like reading the narrative on the cart of the player so you're always involved both so you just
38:41
do it two player it works nice there you go cool nice okay so I'm fighting
38:48
with coffee traders which is a game put in by Dan i put that in you did i did
38:55
put that in there's lots of pictures now JP are coffee beans triangular shaped or is that not meant to be a picture of
39:01
coffee bean no if you look further down the artwork there is a coffee beans there that's because coffee beans are
39:06
tokens that go onto these little spreadsheets and that's all I've seen of the ball cuz I've never played it
39:12
spreadsheet it's like a spreadsheet with different regions maybe I want this game to win then do you want me to explain
39:17
the game yeah I'd love to so it's about running your own 1950s style coffee plantation which
39:24
sounds really dull but the but it's it's not it's great it's good fun
39:29
um and you're trying to generate coffee in these plantations um that have to be
39:34
equipped with workers and then when you finally produce coffee you're kind of then shipping them out to
39:41
to potential buyers basically um and the artwork is very plain but the component
39:48
quality is gorgeous it's been out for a little while now um but it definitely gets to my table um you know at least
39:54
once or twice a year um it is quite heavy it's quite full on it does look like a spreadsheet when you look when
40:00
you're playing it but it is actually really really good do you play as characters in the game like but you there are the plantations are based on
40:07
plantations around the world to add a little bit of theme i thought you'd have a character like you know first name
40:13
Maxwell Maxwell Maxwell House no there's a coffee gag in there as a coffee who are you playing as dad Ken Kill playing
40:20
as Keill Cafe Mellow Birds so it sounds good so I'd like to sort of champion it
40:27
but the stats are a bit difficult so as Dan said it is quite tricky mhm the
40:33
rank's quite low which is a shame rating's only 7.7 and it is quite a new
40:38
game 2021 it's also quite expensive it is oh Dan I don't really know what to pick
40:43
here um I'll go for year 2021 okay and the card
40:49
I've got Terraforming Mars i'm fine with that i'm fine with that we
40:57
both put this card in so that's fine so I think probably Terraforming Mars would have lost if I'd have gone for weight
41:03
you should have gone for weight but I'm glad Terraforming Mars won so I don't care about coffee traders in coffee traders we don't need to explain TM do
41:09
we do we cruise in the name of the game i've never mentioned it so I think we better have a big long discussion about
41:16
it at risk of being you know the terraforming Mars podcast
41:21
let's not explain it you mean you're not backing the Turf in Mars role playing game that's on currently on Kickstarter no it's pointless that's literally the
41:29
only game they've made that I haven't backed so far yeah I I thought as much so um so um yeah the year is obviously
41:35
2016 so it's it's 9 years old um and rightly so it should be going in through
41:41
the next round don't get me wrong I love Terraforming Mars but I don't want to see it win a second time same and I like
41:47
coffee traders but if I had to pick them together it would be TM every time you weren't loving it the first three rounds
41:52
the other day when we played it it ended up all right yeah it did end up all right all right
41:57
to be fair to him he wasn't having a proper salt he was like really pissed off with how that game started yeah this
42:03
didn't go well what's going on [ __ ] right right i won so you did you ready
42:08
mhm my card is Oh I have mixed emotions about this game
42:14
worms one of Becky's one oh god he's got to be triggered worms worms span is um
42:21
one of the billions of games the artwork's
42:28
great the artwork that's that is the noise that dragons make that's that's a wyvern it's
42:35
a It's a Wyvern not to be confused with the Yird from Play-Doh why
42:42
what's on the side of the lollipop um there are what how many how many span
42:48
games are there that should be a Sorry it's out of my system now um how
42:55
many worms how many span games are there three now um some would say too many um but apparently Fins span is really good
43:01
um but it actually is yeah it actually is yeah I've not played it yet but um Worms Span is Wingspan but with dragons
43:08
enough said so we need to know um so the stat um that I I mean I would always play
43:16
Wingspan over Worms Span in my honest truth i like them both but I'm more
43:21
financially invested in Wingspan speaking out your ass so I because of that reason I'm going to pick uh year
43:28
2024 oh you're a naughty boy controversial
43:33
controversial so I have got Nucleium which is Dan's choice yes Dan i knew it
43:40
so Nucleium is That's a tie 2022 it's quite a heavy 2023 heavy Euro game set
43:47
in like a alternate history where you build train tracks and you basically ship energy around and power up
43:53
buildings and basically like brass and barrage and it's like mix brass on crack yeah i love it that's why you put it in
44:00
right absolutely so yeah uh what was it year 2023 yes then Nucleon wins so next
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match up starting with
44:16
Arnova tank this little tank it tank it tank it not my game so Art Nova is
44:25
another one that gets talked about a lot on this podcast what's it about zoos
44:31
terraforming miles zoos terraforming zoos that's pretty much it but no it's a good it is a good game you got I gota
44:38
recognize that it is a good game and I'd actually play it anytime we rag on it a lot because it just gets a lot so we
44:45
just rag on it cuz we play it a lot you play a lot it's your couple's game isn't it pretty much our couple's game yeah that's cute so actually put in by
44:51
yourself both of you um a nice throw up a little my mouth i know a lot of mine
44:57
haven't come out yet well maybe two of them have one got killed straight away and I'm deeply frustrated by that so I
45:05
I'm going to go wait 0.78 so we have got Andromeda's Edge oh put in by me yeah
45:14
put in by you so you I've played it i love it but you've played it more so you give the description yeah it's Dwellings
45:21
of Elder 2.0 basically and uh it's kind of um worker placement where you put
45:28
your ships out so your ships are like workers and it's kind of got like a snake vibe to it so the first worker you
45:34
put down limits where you put the next workers so you've got to kind of plan where you're going it's got quite a nice
45:41
um battling system in there that's very quick very easy it's not something you see in any Euro games cuz you do fight
45:47
each other but you can you know heavily mitigate what's going to happen and you
45:53
can actually make it so that if even if you lose fights it's worth it so you can actually come out of losing fights
45:59
better off which I quite like so you can engineer it in certain ways and it's just a fun stupid game like you pick uh
46:06
factions i think one of my favorite factions are the geloid technobls is a
46:11
faction that is an amazing name and it's probably one of my favorite factions in the game and uh it's just yeah you enter
46:18
into it it's like it's just fun it's just a fun mad game is it long no not if
46:24
you get on with it no no no two to 2 and 1 half hours 3 hours it's not too bad but yeah so weight wise I don't know
46:32
where it sits actually plus 0 83 oh I'm joking 0.71
46:41
oh it just pips it then no's gone see I think I think Art No is a lot more
46:46
difficult than the double maybe I just get on a bed with Nova is heavier slightly i can't believe it no Art Nova
46:54
is considered a reasonably heavy game for one that's thematics leans towards the casual it's fiddly until you know it
47:01
i think I I don't feel good about it but because it's gone against one of my own
47:06
I feel better i got to be I love Art Nova but I do love Andromeda i do it's not a bad game i prefer Art Nova but Art
47:13
Nova is one that has done very well historically in the pod so you know did you know they were doing a spin-off no
47:20
yes yeah i don't remember the name of it but they are doing a spin-off in the Arnova universe it's sanctuary yes and
47:26
it's smaller light yeah i don't think you put tiles down no you don't put cards down i think it's all tile based i
47:33
think it somebody else was describing it as like my little ar Nova yeah mias
47:38
still doing it right who's defender becky uh I don't know but I think I won didn't I no you
47:45
didn't no no i had a dark conversation i won jp give it up i've looked but it doesn't matter cuz I'm not deciding
47:52
all right so my game is Endeavor Deep Sea oh I like this um so weirdly enough
47:59
this is the one that I think Davey Is this Davey's game uh I don't think Davey It's Davey's game yeah yeah they didn't
48:05
play so he didn't put it in but it was Davey's game cuz I was due to play it and then they hadn't sent the cards
48:11
along with it so I've learned it haven't played it though so I watched a video and and you know had a little look
48:17
around and make sure I knew all the rules and then never actually played it so um it looked quite good fun don't know much more than that um yeah the the
48:24
idea of Endeavor Deep Sea is basically you are kind of exploring down into the ocean with a submarine and you get
48:30
various you open up various uh worker placement spots and stuff like that and you can go up the different tracks to
48:35
make your actions better and stuff like that yeah I don't know a lot about it apart from the fact that um people seem
48:41
to really like it and it looked like it was going to be pretty good fun so um relatively positive but yeah don't know
48:47
a lot about it who put it in there so it was Rob was it rob absolutely adored that game played it full board game yeah
48:55
I played with Rob cuz I'm actually I'm not ambivalent to it but I'm mildly positively disposed towards it i'm not
49:02
going to tank it in the hope that it's not one of mine that I want to actually knock out so I'm going to go for one that I'm think is almost certain to win
49:09
with is wait 0.14
49:16
okay the game I have is Imperium Horizons do not have the game never
49:21
played the game don't know anything about the game jp what's the game uh Captain's Chair 1.0 yes Captain's
49:28
Chair 1.0 now it's basically a Civilization deck building game very unique system in the fact that you start
49:35
as a barbarian state and you move all the way to an empire state and I adore
49:40
it and I have everything for it and uh but wait a minute the picture here you've got what looks to be a cigarette
49:46
rolling case and a card that says the card back and a card that says kill on it smoking kills is that what you're
49:52
trying to No it's a sword okay sure sure that's the message
49:58
what's the synopsis so what was your So your weight was 0.14 and this is 0.76 it's a heavier
50:06
board or 96 either way you've lost it yeah imperium Imperium is not known for its lightness no um but it's Yeah I'll
50:15
have a little cry again for a card game it's quite weighty but I crashed the content of it pretty well yeah either way it's going in the bin it's going in
50:21
the bin shame again sorry David i'm happy with that result
50:27
yeah right am I defending right yep yeah t this is actually one of yours mate
50:32
okay was it but it's one that I'm very positively go on then great Western Trail correct great Western Trail New
50:39
Zealand which is a game I'm a big fan of um the original game I really like but New Zealand's pipped it for me there's
50:46
just it's just Great Western Trail with with Bells on just like it makes everything better about the game it's
50:52
just more balanced isn't it yeah and also like there's different strategies which a base game doesn't have like um
50:58
you know the the um shearing shearing thank you is the word I was looking for yeah the shearing just adds another way
51:04
of winning that isn't always the same so yeah um yeah love the game i won't say too much about it we probably talked
51:11
about it before but great western trail but in New Zealand with sheep basically that's much better yeah yeah much better
51:17
and um yeah cuz I'm positively disposed towards it definitely got a sheet that say bar yeah this is a quality picture
51:24
this is my favorite one this is why I said to draw the net just draw a sheep i like the way the sheep by the way is looking at me like I try and pronounce
51:31
it but like it's co how would you ketish i would say so it's like looking looking
51:36
at me like oh do you fancy a bit i know that i know it it's Nala from the Lion King yes exactly yeah yeah and it's
51:43
saying what the hell just happened look at this picture and tell me you're
51:49
not aroused okay yeah right i'm halfway done for me
51:58
lovely petro no thank you um so I really like this game so I'm going to try and get it to win there's two that is really
52:04
good on but I don't know which one to go for so I'm going to go for rating but it's close 8.6
52:11
strong very strong okay oh no oh no oh no oh okay so anacrony a
52:22
but you're okay I think I think well depend which would you either way either way anacrony is my favorite game of all
52:27
time so I'm always going to plug for that one but I do love great western do we describe Anacrony we've done it so
52:33
many times in the podcast have we have we yeah I've literally just catched on the podcast listen to it and everyone's
52:38
mentioned our acrony last three episodes I've listened to time travel worker placement enough said that's why I want to play um this is done by Dan obviously
52:45
you put this yeah rating 8.1 yeah Yep oh no I've knocked out anacrony this is
52:53
very upsetting you get I'm not very happy about that i am i do love Great
52:58
Western Trail but Anacrony is literally number one have you played it yeah I played it not a long time i haven't
53:03
played for ages but we got a game coming up now cuz I two yeah it's the last time I played i love it i I love Amazing
53:10
surprised you loved it after the pumping I gave you that's right it's okay i've learned to love
53:15
games when I get beaten curry it's fine oh shots fired nice all right
53:21
so my game is Ticket to Ride oh Becky's
53:27
submission i do really like this game it's really good fun but still in case
53:33
it's was going to knock out somewhere i've just bought the deluxe trains don't you worry they are very nice but don't
53:39
you dare i love Ticket to Ride but never never played i keep You know it's
53:44
actually a good card so I don't any obvious ones it's cheap it's good
53:50
you're going to go for weight when you go to the cupboard and all you find in the bottom of the part of the crisp packet is ready salted that's where
53:57
that's where ticket to ride lies you enjoy ready salted but it's not the one you always That is not fair that's not
54:02
fair i still like it that's when I run out of friends and I go to the bottom of the bag there's bottom wow oh the
54:10
leftover packet anyway you went for what i'm overweight which is which is minus
54:16
1.18 that's That's quite far away from three isn't it yeah that's quite far away it
54:22
is to be fair the rest of the card's very good you can have words with you okay this
54:27
card I I mean I've only seen this game in its existence i've never played it
54:32
and I definitely didn't put it in the list uh Rob Davey Adrian and Chrissy P
54:38
will put this in the list and it's Primal The Awakening the picture Absolutely bollocks
54:46
that's a scary gargoyle it looks like one of the gargles from Gremlins on the side of the building uh it looks
54:52
horrendous um but the weight is plus uh 0.82 okay takes the biscuit yeah i wish
54:59
I had tank ticket a ride now but I was worried it was going to be one of the ones I wanted primal gets through let's
55:04
do it i love I love this artwork this is great
55:10
and I can tell that you spent a lot of time on this um so you didn't put this game in as as you said Chrissy Ped it
55:19
did too many Bones it is i didn't put it in and it still got in did you spend an hour doing the artwork on this one JP
55:25
we've got different It looks great it looks great i look at the artwork right now it does look It's quite cool um
55:31
thanks value 130 well I knew it wouldn't get far um I've
55:39
got a card that's voted by Curly Rob Dave and Chris P yeah baby so that is Slay the Spire
55:46
and actually I'm happy this is getting through cuz I own this as well it's very good it's very good it's value is £86 so
55:54
still on the high end but it is such a lot of fun and I agree it surpasses the
56:00
the actual digital game in many ways so love it i'm not I'm not I'm not angry
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i'm not angry so I think we got two matches left right so I have EOS Island
56:12
of Angels we talked about this recently on the pod didn't we because you've just got this yes yes so this snuck in snuck
56:20
in um so I you know I'm kind of nah about it cuz I've never played it no
56:27
yeah so I'm kind of in I think you'd like it it's pirates you got to love it so yeah you're going you're going around
56:32
like an island trying to kind of awaken angels awaken angels that give you
56:38
bonusy type stuff to fight sea creatures pick up and deliver or
56:43
No already sold it kind of no no is it the mechanic is it pick up and deliver mechanic no it's like a worker placement
56:48
mechanic okay you work You put your you put Yeah you do pick up and put your work onto your board to do your certain
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actions okay it's good it's good fun but I also don't care um you like you you
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you would like it JP i don't know what that is T that's that's the thing so I'm I am going to just go rank 45,500
57:10
wow that's not where it should be that game that's why yeah but still
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okay i don't blame him i didn't rank it that's just where it is it's your fault mate okay so the game I have in my hot
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little hand is Merchants Cove which is one of the games that I suggested so I'm
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really glad that this has won cuz it rank is 914 again I think it deserves higher than that but I would cuz I'm the
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one that put the game in really good kind of trying to use what might come in a
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minute to determine what you do there's little colors there's little meeples it's good it's a good game and you get
57:48
asymmetric abilities so you can be a different kind of version of a similar thing each time which is really nice
57:54
it's proper asymmetry isn't it as well basically yeah but it work but it still works really well it was fun actually i
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play i like that one as much as EOS actually so I'm happy with that i own both this one won at 900 boarding yeah
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it's fine i've already got three of my games anyway so last round one match up becky take us
58:11
home for the end of round one okay so the game I've got in my hand I don't care about really i've heard about it
58:18
his aliens in it not bothered seti okay very popular by a lot of people this one
58:23
was nominated by Davey good how do I feel about it it's good
58:28
it's good yeah this is good really good very clever you've never played yeah but a lot of my games have been out so I
58:33
don't I'm not I'm not invested year 2024 it's literally going for a
58:40
year last year i'm so glad you did that rank cuz I like SETI and I have no idea what White Castle cuz I've never played
58:45
it oh I love White Castle yeah yeah but um yeah it's Adrian and Dan so yeah you do quick description Dan cuz I've never
58:51
played White Castle white Castle is um a game about is it feudal Japan it's like
58:58
going back and not knowing what on earth is going on in my opinion you played it to taught it to you yeah it's like it's
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have a game where you've got nine turns and that's all you've got make make stuff with nine turns there are dice
59:12
manipulation action selection worker placement it's a tiny box game with a
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lot of meat in it good it's very good is it one of those games where you want a couple more rounds just because you get
59:22
your kind of agent going but you want those two extra rounds at the end you don't get them you don't get them okay fair enough um so yeah 2023
59:32
oh so White Castle just takes it yeah it's older darn it that's
59:39
disappointing with White Castle i know I don't like it
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set is better in my opinion but hey that's them's the break as is White Castle yeah I like to play White Castle
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here that's the longest round because we're explaining games right so now now we're going to get into the next round
59:56
where we just get on with it so yeah it's quick fire we'll get through it and uh we're there so Dan introduce round
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two round two fight we're in round two we've
ROUND 2
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uh we've cut the deck we've got um seven matchups and we got a wild card cuz
1:00:16
that's 15 cards baby so what happens at the end is whatever wins the last match up will go against the blind wild card
1:00:22
don't worry about it we've worked it out so T I think you're continuing as attack user take us up for round two let's get
1:00:29
straight onto it let's do this okay ah I got here to slay it's back again back
1:00:34
again is it going to slay yeah I want it to slay i want to keep going with it and I'm going to go with value again £18
1:00:40
well that's hard to beat hey it's tough well it's lost so that's not happening
1:00:46
arcs value £40 done arcs is out done
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arcs is done arcs in the bin here to slay goes through to round three next
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one the Witcher old world okay it's early in the round it could be
1:01:05
anything could be one of your favorites it could be it could be something you hate oh god could be Arnova oh wait
1:01:13
let's just do rank it's always a fun one let's do rank 340 i've got 95 and it is
1:01:19
White Castle so White Castle wins oh nice there we go i've got Castles of
1:01:26
Burgundy ooh it's hard to tank it's going to be tough this is going to be tough yeah
1:01:32
it's mean it's strong on all pretty much stats so I'm going to try and make this
1:01:38
fair right but I like castles i won't say it's my favorite i know there's one that this
1:01:44
one card will win on well I'm going to go rating which is 8.1
1:01:52
so I've got one of my favorite games and my nomination Twilight Imperium
1:01:58
and that is a rating of 8.6 there you go and I didn't even think of that when I was looking at rank where it would have
1:02:03
won as well so actually it was a good matchup for this yeah it be on a couple
1:02:08
good contender twilight Imperium it is nice so I have got Endeavor Deep Sea and
1:02:15
I think at this level I think we're going to have to tank it a little bit m um it's a good game but I suspect that
1:02:22
there's going to be other games I want to do better down Periscope so I'm going to go ahead and choose Year It was May
1:02:29
2024 up Periscope yes fire the nuclear weapons
1:02:39
i'm glad you're entering sorry fantastic i had to get that out it's It's like being really there with Matt Bry oh I
1:02:46
[ __ ] love that man so much well I'm really glad you went for that what was the one you went for year wasn't it so I
1:02:51
have in my hot little hand terraforming Mars baby year 2016 oh for the love of
1:02:58
God victory we have I am going to enter a new rule next year no the reigning
1:03:05
champion no no not overruled
1:03:11
i'm outnumbered please dear four of you want it to win yeah but yeah but Mars
1:03:17
needs terraform you don't get it it needs it it's been terform no no no no no no no no but every time you have to
1:03:24
do it again no okay oh oh it's one of my games so I
1:03:30
think we'll go for Oh I think I know the stat I'm going to go for here so I have in my hand Merchants Cove i'm going to
1:03:36
go for weight 27 if only you could see Tambbo's face
1:03:42
great Western Trail News never mind it's weight at 0.9 for having a stupid [ __ ]
1:03:48
insert turned it into lamb shots what's with the insert is that the one though with the insert I ate or maybe it's just
1:03:55
the regular Great Western Trail standard edition oh okay well I take it all back then i'm sure you know the New Zealand
1:04:02
version's got a much fluffier woolly insert now but the other one can just absolutely
1:04:08
start they get cowboy hats which is amazing well it's no pirate though is it come on i know cowboy or pirate i know
1:04:15
where I'm going cowboy that's fair enough cowboy it's a proper lamb shanker giggity giggity
1:04:23
okay so as the attacker I have got Slay the Spire i'm in two minds about this it's great
1:04:30
keep it yes but the amount of time I've seen it on your screen I feel like I've played it myself i have never played
1:04:35
this game on the table on Steam i would like to to keep it in though because I
1:04:42
do want to try playing the game because it's got such love not just from my husband but from everybody else as well
1:04:47
i think you'd like it though so I'm going to go wait 0.07 that's a strong start beat that baby
1:04:55
i'm not going to andromeda's edge weight plus 0.71
1:05:02
yeah you can't have them all go through so I'm all right with that no edge spirals okay last card then no I don't
1:05:09
care about this at all it's not the last it's the Panorama of course of course so so I'm fighting against two then really
1:05:16
aren't I potentially do I want it to win or do I want it flop
1:05:22
it's nucleium well we obviously need this one in so I
1:05:28
don't really know what's going to be a good stack cuz it's only 46 quid weight's pretty high
1:05:34
though i'm going to go rating 8.2 two for a medium thing that cuz I think all these games have rate were rated pretty
1:05:41
well so 8.2 8.2 Yeah my stat is 8.6 oh
1:05:46
and is Primal the awakening primal gets through so we're fighting against this
1:05:52
one oh yeah and then we have the wild card so what happens is the winner then
1:05:57
fights the wild card and uh I've got to repick a stat basically um so if you if
1:06:03
you were clever JP you'd know exactly which card this is i'm not though i do this every year paying attention either i can't remember and I should just by
1:06:10
elimination know what that card is so I think in this case I'm actually going to
1:06:18
again primal's apparently very good i know which card it is um but I'm going to go value i'm going to go 114 some
1:06:24
tankerness oh I think everyone's going to be happy with your decision this is Minos and the value is 38 English pounds
1:06:31
nice work of course it is i would say if you can pick it up for £38 flipping well well in I not pay £38 for my coffee and
1:06:40
if people are moaning about the stats write to I don't care.com
1:06:45
whatever they're they're correct as of a date in the past and things may have changed but who cares yeah JP doesn't
1:06:52
give a [ __ ] don't information correct as of 2025 205 there we go that's round
1:06:59
twoe and now we go on to round three round three v so round three we're going
ROUND 3
1:07:07
to get into the business end of this competition now yeah we're getting close um one of my f well probably my favorite
1:07:13
game of the year along with Slay the Spire so um I've got my not again so it
1:07:18
is literally after a shuffling so I really want this one to win of course you do
1:07:24
but unfortunately it's not a very good card in this cuz it's new new ones tend
1:07:29
to be weak £38 looking pretty cheap to me yeah I think it's going to have to be value £38 well done mate good you win it
1:07:37
i got Merchants Cove so if I 59 quid I rather minus wins i like both games but I think I'll minus win i don't think
1:07:44
minus has got much chance going forward with it looking at this cardless pirates come on minotaurs
1:07:51
the Becky sulking um right we're getting to the business end now yeah um and this
1:07:57
is a game that I definitely want to see go through terraform me of course of course of
1:08:03
course i don't want I'm going to pick the best out of me i don't want the TI card i've not looked at it i don't want
1:08:09
the TI card in my hand i've got a few in here that the the thing is with Terraforming Mars the card is good
1:08:16
overall but it's not great in any one stat so all of them are a risk
1:08:23
wait really yes i like H okay we'll go with Yeah age is pretty good yeah we'll
1:08:29
go with weight 27 Twilight Imperium um you said
1:08:34
wait plus 1.33 okay I'm sad and happy at the same time yeah bye-bye TI bye-bye TI
1:08:41
you Makes sense you take too long you You do take too long i've sort of I like
1:08:48
this card now i want it to win it's here to slay cuz it's it's just it's got the winner stat hasn't it the underdog in it
1:08:53
value 18 i'm doing it value 18 pounds i'm doing it again this value is very strong it's 29 pounds but it's White
1:09:00
Castle good white Castle here's a sle has fallen
1:09:05
over into the mud bye-bye White Castle that just means so here to slay is going to be against Terraform Mars what have I
1:09:11
done wild card he got the wild card wild card yep wild card wild card it's going against the wild card and [ __ ] man value
1:09:16
18 is this a winner card it's a winning card curly is not going to be happy oh value 86 slay the spire has been slayed
1:09:24
of course it is you died here to slay the spire
1:09:30
filth you're going to you're going to pay for that one on the way home well if everyone wants to keep here to slay in
1:09:35
it could actually win if people wanted to stay in but it's only me and you Beck i think he wants to keep it in but yeah let's get into round four Dan round four
ROUND 4
1:09:43
fight so we're at the start of round four and because we've had three go into the
1:09:49
semifinals we need to make this a bit more fair and balanced so we've offered a lifeline oo lifeline to one of the
1:09:57
defeated heroes out of our roster you look nothing like Chris Har i
1:10:06
[Laughter] know we don't want to give it
1:10:12
my My stepdad used to do those impressions it takes me back yeah yeah uh anyway so we got we got our lifeline
1:10:19
it's been shuffled in it can be any one of the ones that has got defeated we're giving it a little second chance who
1:10:25
knows what's going on right Dan i'm attacking first match here we
1:10:31
go okay I have Minos in my hand minus
1:10:38
we We want this card in don't we really i've not played it yet but it does sound
1:10:44
like it'd be up my stream it's well deserved to be where it is yeah respect
1:10:50
it value 38 i have the resurrected card
1:10:57
his value is £63 what do you think it is no I'm not playing that game we'll be here all night uh it's the Witcher uh
1:11:05
Geralt in his bath he's been in too long and he's gone all wrinkly no he hasn't it's gone all wrinkly and that is
1:11:14
that so there we go minos is through to the final minos is through minos is
1:11:19
through which leaves two left which we know is terraforming Mars and we know it's here to slay now who has who and
1:11:26
who's going to do what so I'm the attacker you are
1:11:31
i have here to slay [Music] uh year 2020
1:11:38
well it's closed at 2016 you know should have gone value yeah TM's still in it
1:11:44
good word Dan i think they both got one name on it oh Cly all right round four's
FINAL ROUND
1:11:49
done and we're now we're going to get to the final round then final round fight so we have the final round where we all
1:11:57
vote on a stat of the two cards whoever gets the majority vote
1:12:03
that's the stat gets picked whichever one wins wins the the board game battleground of our third year so I'm
1:12:09
gonna start with you Curly and we'll go clockwise back to me so what stat are you voting for um
1:12:18
let's go for value i think we should just go right ranking because that's
1:12:24
objectively better game right uh I'm going to go value ranking oh JP gets to
1:12:31
decide h um all right we'll go rank him well I'm afraid well I've got minus
1:12:38
2,845 but give it a year and that will be much
1:12:43
higher yeah Terraforming Mars is a seven terraforming Mars second year reigning champion second year reigning champ i'm
1:12:51
a little disappointed i'm not going to lie yeah but it's just a solid game and terraforming mars needs terraforming a
1:12:58
lot it does it does it needs a lot i think when you looked at any single stat
1:13:04
terraforming Mars beat Minos unfortunately so it didn't it didn't even stand a chance it's even one pound
1:13:09
cheaper don't even touch the side it's one pound cheaper so I think but yeah give it give it a little while and I
1:13:15
reckon Minos will rock up that a the rating and the rank i really think it
1:13:20
will tm as a as a game is important to our gaming group if we're going to be honest and serious about it we've played
1:13:26
the [ __ ] out of it uh for a long time a whole kax and a half is terraforming marin yeah we literally played on Sunday
1:13:33
didn't we not long back so you know it wins again like I say I might have to
1:13:39
introduce a no returning champions role for next year um and or future years uh
1:13:45
that we do this just to keep it a little bit because I think you know minus it would have been nice for Minos to take
1:13:50
it i think I think it's a it's a strong second place it got there though didn't it yeah and it and who know here to slay
1:13:57
right here to slay where did he get third place third place I wouldn't have predicted
1:14:03
that i know it's controversial but I probably would have accepted Terraforming Mars losing to Minos i I
1:14:09
really think it's exceptional game and it would have been nice to have a new champion that is that is controversial
1:14:14
yeah it's not saying it's a bad game it's just I like to see a difference you know just cuz you didn't let too many
1:14:20
bones win last year so just the truth i'm just saying but no there we go that's the end of the game guys
Post Fight Analysis
1:14:28
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1:14:35
any any debrief and highlights for you well I'm sad that all my games went out
1:14:40
pretty quick apart from mine Merchants Cove and yeah I I could see the sadness in your little face when Captain's Chair
1:14:46
went out first round that was the highlight of mine that was very sad i wasn't the big game no that was really sad cuz you have spent time with that
1:14:53
game i have spent a lot of time it has become my I think it's now second most played game in my collection of ever wow
1:15:01
wow um you know it's going to take being too many bones yeah yeah too many bones 85 plays um which is not bad going
1:15:08
considering the game takes forever um Captain's Chair is probably nearly
1:15:14
mid30s high30s by now and I've still it's not that old and I still want to keep going
1:15:21
back to it i've got the solo missions to do and um yeah I've got loads of stuff to to kind of play with that game but
1:15:28
yeah that going out round one match one was gutting i'm not going to lie i was
1:15:33
like I was hoping to just get into the flow of the game before I accepted that i I knew it would probably get to the
1:15:38
top but yeah I'm the same with Anacrony cuz you know it's it's getting on now
1:15:43
it's getting on a bit it is but it's still still amazing oldie but goody it is an oldie but just like me it's a
1:15:51
staple isn't it anacrony um it's Yeah it's just fun love it great game but
1:15:58
there we go any other highlights oh it's good mine all my cars are quite
1:16:03
high so I'm happy the artwork was happy yeah the artwork's a highlight mate as always yeah always yeah it is what it is
1:16:11
the artwork is what it is the horny sheep's the best one the horny sheep definitely yeah that's got to go on
1:16:16
socials we'll do that we'll do that um so there we go that is our board game battleground i you know I just want to
TURN 4 - The Final Turn
1:16:22
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1:18:05
turn is it it's ours it's our turn it's our turn
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