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A little late to the party. This was a great video to watch. Nice little underrated and under the radar gem. It has a Dr. Knizia's design feel. It's simple with depth. I can imagine this being even better with 3 or 4 players.
Carole’s and Rob, you should give Raiders base game at 3 players another go. Much easier to understand the flow and still plays quick. I enjoy the game quite a bit, but once played a 5 player game with both expansions and it was a miserable experience. The expansions are good, but don’t think they are a necessity like many others do.
Nice playthrough, but it seems everybody gets the yellow flag restart procedure wrong. You're supposed to line everyone up (rule 9.6.1) BEFORE deciding if each car is going to go to the pits (rule 9.6.4).
We love Thunder Alley and are glad to get feedback. I recently read the rules again when I taught my kids this last month. I reread this section because it stood out as different than how we’ve done it. But no yellows showed up for that game. 🏁
Missed the show last night but should have plenty of games the next couple weeks to call in! Played Arcs and Sky Team on Wednesday and have a Sunday game day scheduled for next weekend!
@@BeansAndDicePodcast I know it’s an older vid, but sent it to my good buddy Grant “Pushing Cardboard” as an example of some great “live editing” - very cool
Yes, we liked it a lot. Wayne, Carlos and I (Rob) played it together for our first play and we all gave it high reviews. Looking forward to my next play.
We've never been to TGG so this was awesome to watch. Thanks for sharing! Hope they are able to do the flea market quarterly so we can make it to some.
I have a spotify playlist for ponzi scheme. Mostly hip hop music about money, wolf of wall street soundtrack, and that one song from Scarface's money counting scene.
Ponzi Scheme is getting a reprint in 2024 with a new company (Bright Eye Games) and new art. We shall see if i sell my old edition and get the new one.
Thanks for checking out Apiary! It sounds like you might have gotten a rule wrong - when a worker gets bumped you do have the option to retrieve that worker and have it available for use immediately. The landing zone is only an option, to effectively decline the benefit of the bump, if you were planning to retrieve anyway, so that you aren't denied an income by someone bumping your worker back to your active area.
Nice to listen too you guys talk about apiary. I don't know why but I think this is a solo game to buy for me. I'm in hospital and sick but getting better.
Wayne, the solo game thing is weird. I consider myself a solo gamer but also get games set up just to put them away. I think some games that aren’t designed solo feel weird to me once set up. I also don’t love operating AI opponents as it takes me out of the experience I want to have as the player. My go to solo games are Arkham LCG, Marvel LCG, Final Girl, Empires of the North.
Thanks for putting this together ahead of time! Much appreciated. Great list! I have the Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze, World Wonders, Ancient Knowledge, Cascadia Expansion, Everdell: Farshore, and Lost Ruins of Arnak expansion on my Christmas list.
I don’t think Castles can be overrun. And I believe you must keep a unit in a castle to score points from it. They aren’t retained like resource points.
Bows mostly would only wound. Guns would mostly only kill. They changed war forever, making range centric infantry a viable focus for army compositions. Also yes the reduced training time and cost were huge advantages.
