A board game channel with a video every couple of Mondays.
The first Monday I do a Top 10 based around a different board game topic, a review-style vid, convention coverage or something else board game related.
On the third Monday I release a 'how to play' video which you can use as a rules refresher or as a rules overview rather than a rulebook replacement, they're pretty quick but very concise!
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I'm going to back it! It's a fun game that I've played a few times now. Love the theme and think it's quite immersive. Plus the artwork is beautiful. Cannot stress enough how easy it is to teach, and how intuitive play is for new people. If you've climbed, you need to rest. Then, you prepare, and around the circle you go. But there are interesting strats - tagging definitely one, which allow you to do your own thing and have a different game every time! Great review
Just bought this at the UKGE. A very simple game to play but heavy on theme. So will keep this in my brain 'warm down' pile for after a heavy session in something more complicated.
@@JestaThaRogue Thanks for the run through by the way. I have seen too many explanation vids often 10 times your length that don't give as much info. So congrats on the clear but (extremely ☺) concise explanation.
Similar sort of thing I guess. I remember through the desert feeling more anxious and tight. With me wanting to win areas and get next to the Oasis etc. This felt more free and easy going.
Tip for parking: Birmingham International railway station's multi-storey carpark can be prebooked for £12.50 per day (guarantees a space too), and is a lot closer walk to the NEC (via the footbridge) than the NEC's own carparks.
Also if you're staying at a local hotel without its own carpark, you can pay for a 3-day parking in that multistorey (for slight discount) and leave your car there for the whole expo including overnight, something you can't do (well, "is not allowed", not sure how they enforce it) at the NEC carparks.
Since you liked Robot Quest Arena but were turned off by the price you should check out Ascension Tactics and the upcoming Ascension Tactics Inferno. It's a deckbuilder with an area control and combat theme but you get to control a squad of 3-4 characters instead of just one. It's also way, way cheaper in part because it uses standees; usually available for 60$ CAD and I got my copy brand new for 40$ CAD. It also has solo and co-op modes so it's not strictly competitive like Robot Quest Arena.
Does the x-men resistance box contain both zombie and hero modes, or does it only have hero mode? I would like to get both modes for the cheapest possible price, but I can’t find a good description of what’s in each box.
At around 12 minutes info the video you mentioned that after boss combats players you reveal 1 boss Relic per player or 3 if solo, you're actually supposed reveal 1 per player +1 additional Relic. So in a 3 player game you reveal 4 boss relics.
Played Red and Wolf in Story book woods. Won in merely 5 turns. The chicken bone and Thorny vine combo is so broken with the wolf track mode. All you need to do is to walk/sprint. Leave the bone and thorn. End your turn, Wolf takes 3 damage for both tokens. Rinse and repeat. Do weak attack then dead. WTH this is my first game with red and wolf.
I can't figure out why anyone would want to add finishing touches. It deducts a point for each finishing touch piece you use, but there's no penalty for having unfinished puzzles anyway. Additionally, you can actually score points for the pieces you haven't used, so why take a point hit for using them for finishing touches anyway??? What am I missing...?
Been a while since I played it but can you take a points hit for finishing touches to gain more points to complete an unfinished puzzle? I guess it’s something to look at on a game to game basis.
Thank you for clear, straight thru rules. Just picked up the original printed version after couple of years so the video brought back the rules with out reading... my brain is getting lazy... we're all goin to be brain dead!
A great quick solo dice rolling game. Look's like the "for sale" version took it up a notch, I would say it is absolutely worth playing. Game can also be played together with another person as a co-op, you just need to have a good argument why your move would be better than the other persons.
Chronicles of Crime, Space Cadets, Startrek Panic, Debtzilla, Magic Maze, Now Boarding - and now I have to add Legendary Encounters series to my collection. Thanks for the reviews!
I think it was a missed opportunity to have a Scream game without hidden roles, being one of the players the killer. That's kinda the whole point of the movies, trying to guess who the killer is.
Deffo my overall racing game is Waddingtons Formula-1. Played it hundreds of times in my youth and I repurchased 12 years ago (rare). Clear runner up from the rest of the field is Win Place and Show from Avalon Hill. Offbeat pick that is a racing game is Hoity Toity where you can buy Johnny Weismuller's jockstrap. Racing game at its core.
