Board Game Reviews Ep #68: A GAME OF THRONES: THE BOARD GAME (2ND EDITION) 

"The Game of Thrones Board Game is a game for 3-6 players" I see. Six can play at that game.

So you’re saying it starts off really strong but peters out in the back half. Sounds like Game of Thrones to me.

Why is it not simply called “the Board Game of Thrones”?

You definitely should try out the Feast For Crows expansion. It reduces player count to 4, introduces Arryn as a playable house, and adds a new win condition that helps shorten most games down by a lot.

What me and my friends have started doing is draw secret roles with the Baratheons as the king and with every other house being either a rebel or loyalist. It makes the game significantly more diplomatic like I think it should be. We say loyalists win if kings landing isn’t taken by a rebel and the opposite for rebels, with the winning side being placed 1st to 3rd based on their castle count. We mainly did it since the added diplomacy stops the dominant strategies for certain houses that were forming (*ahem, Greyjoys*). It also helps with the late game like you were saying as at that point (unless someone is really manipulating everyone) everyone knows the roles of everyone else and it becomes like a war council to try and take/protect kings landing with how the board has been formed. Which can become really exciting as everything unfolds in the last attempt to take it simultaneously with people desperately trying to take last minute castles so they can place above their allies.

Bro why did I never know you did these? I love playing board games with friends but they get boring when you’re playing the same one every time. I’m boutta watch these for some inspiration for what game to buy next. Great series idea! 👍🏻

You think the game is long now? Try the mother of dragons expansion. It makes it 8 players and makes the game last like twice as long. I love the game btw

My friends would play this in college! We would “send ravens” to each other by secretly texting and it added a layer of espionage.

Love this game but man backstabbing can be rough but very thematic! Lol

Last month me and my friends had a 'party' where we did nothing but play board games for 24 hours. We played a lot of games but this one was probably my favorite

BUT HOW MANY PLAYERS CAN PLAY THIS GAME?!?! We must know

I've had this for like a year, I love it BUT it's hard to get people together

*6 can play at that game*

That looks like an impressively large dining table. A camping foldout aint gonna deal?

We’ve lost years to this game.

anyone else think that was a giant roach in the thumb nail? :)

This is the game to play when you want to spend 6 hours and hate all the other players when your done

It took almost 10 minutes to explain the first part of any given turn... I'm not against complicated games, but this ain't for me.

I use to actually collect board games 2 years ago and i have quite the collection. This kinda makes me wanna get back into it again..

I've played this game for years with friends and somehow we missed the pillaging rule. It gets very competitive and is fun with the right play group.

this board game is missing nudity for the full effect.

I absolutely adore this game. Well at least when I’m winning. If you don’t dominate in the beginning, things feel like a slog fest later on but it’s a good game. And they should really boost Greyjoy and nerf stark in 3rd ed if they release one

My friends and I usually play without a time limit and win condition.. we just roleplay and try to dominate all of westeros through alliances and forcing other players to become vassals.. record is 42 hours. Love it!

Fun game, requires some actual brain cells. Which I don’t have.

This one always was a downer to play for me. Battle for Rokugan always struck me as doing all of what I liked from this but better and quicker.

These videos are really valuable. This one for instance tells me that this game is not for me

Have you played Diplomacy? It seems to be what this is based on-none of the thematic elements, but also no randomness so the game is ALL the negotiating and back stabbery (plus, because there’s no randomness it’s easy to see who’s going to win and call it before it gets boring).

I played it like a total war game, ignoring most of the original rules, making my own, and with my bro, we made it that you have 3 houses in control

My buddies and I used to play this game a ton. Good times.

These are awesome. Loving the content!!

If you want a game that feels like Game of Thrones, but MUCH lighter and shorter (12 large-type pages vs 28 small-type pages), check out A War of Whispers! It's not licensed, but personally I prefer original game worlds anyway.

#1) Thanks for making this! #2) I've heard that the expansion, Mother of Dragons, makes both the game strengths AND weaknesses more extreme. Any chance you'd take a look at that, too?

Still showing his board games!

I have no blood so I'm taking yours fl4k is da best and u too proZD

Ok, I am sure you know this but Chihayafuru is halfway out on it's third season! This is not a drill

It’s a show and a board game and possibly a genre of a website

Quality content

Me watching this as if I'm ever going to gather 3 to 6 games to play this. One can dream.

AS OF FEBRUARY 18th 2020 in the USA, PARTS SERVICE FOR ALL ASMODEE NORTH AMERICA (ANA) GAMES MUST BE DONE AT THE POINT OF PURCHASE - ANA WILL NO LONGER HANDLE ANY DAMAGED/MISSING PARTS REQUESTS FOR THEIR GAMES. I don't know when you filmed your review, but does this change in policy effect your review on whether their games are worthy of purchase? Would you give them as gifts knowing you need to provide proof or purchase at the original purchase location? Would you buy on the "used" market a New In Shrink game from the company? Would you buy at a discount from a convention NIS copies of the game that have no store to handle parts requests? Does it influence the value of their games in your eyes at all? How does it make you feel about their Legacy games, where you can't check if all the components are present and complete before starting play? (I'd love to see you make a video on the policy change and what you think about it.) Anecdotally, I should note that the games seem to be going down in quality. I only recently discovered when I finally chose on to play my Pandemic 10th Anniversary edition game on a special occasion that the $100 COLLECTORS EDITION HAD A MISPRINTED BOARD! Their solution? No board reprint, we will give you a sticker. I was going through and checking all my other games more carefully and discovered a missing card in Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger and malformed dice in Pandemic: The Cure (a birthday gift with no gift receipt). I was still checking other games to make a series of requests when the policy change happened. I now have a damaged game, an incomplete game, and a defective collector's edition with no support with the company. I was going to use my tax refund to get 2 Mansions of Madness Expansions, 1 Arkham Horror expansion, 2 Agricola Revised expansions, and the Family edition of Agricola. I was also interested in Fallout now that it has a cooperative game expansion coming out, and wanted to get Welcome to Newdale. All of these in the USA are under ANA brands, and thus have no manufacture parts support. They don't believe in the quality of their games and aren't willing to stand behind them - so that is 9 products I won't be buying from them now. I am considering selling out all ANA era games from my collection to purge them and reduce the impulse to buy their products anymore. To me this is a _big_ change that puts an undue burden on FLGS for support, game stores that they screwed over by making bigger releases Target exclusives. So my opinion is pretty clear of the company - I'm curious if you have an leanings one way or another. (I know you aren't mainly a board gaming channel, but you are by default one of the bigger board gaming channels due to your subscriber base.)

Let me guess, every game starts super fun but becomes an awful mess as it progresses?

This is like “Diplomacy” but with more stuff layered on

Please review the dark souls board game, looks really interesting

ONE MORE UNTIL EPISODE 69 HERE WE GO

“You play it because you wanna be a fucker” insta sub (lies... I was already subbed)

(gently sobbing) I just wanted to collect Cool Cow Hat Archibald!!??

Next episode will be Nice

Please do one for Cosmic Encounter! It's by Fantasy Flight, the same company as this game.

Prozd: *explains all the rules* Me: take 7 strongholds and win, got it.

Hey

Some of the tokens are cheese

Meme Can Meme At That Meme!

You should try every hot pocket

Looks like a "GoT: Risk"

10 can play at that game

Just found out you voiced fl4k in borderlands 3

A Board of Games: The Throne Game

I fucking love this game huge fan

Can you do cardfight vanguard

3 to 6, can play at that game.

What my playgroup does is giving some IRL advantage depending on the results(like if we order pizza, how much each one pays depends on the ranking at the end), so that second and last place aren't the same. That way the diplomacy and backstabbing can keep happening until the end, since not everyone is necessarily against each other. Whoever's in the lead can convince third place to settle for second instead of trying to pull a win, and stuff like that. And that makes some endgame backstabbing actually surprising, instead of everyone obviously trying everything they can to reach the seven castles by the end. Also stakes are fun.

Only one more...one more episode...

YO!

Only og gamers would understand

I like this.

Is this officially sanctioned?

can't wait for the next episode of board game reviews

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Poopy farts

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Hi

Mustard?

Targaryen op

There’s no boobs or prostitutes though?

This board game is honestly pretty bad (not as bad as the last season though). Dune offers the superior backstabbing experience, so get that instead.

3-6 can play at this game

2 can play at that game......

Sup boi

Last time I was this early, pickles still came in boxes.

Yay nobody can comment FiRsT

I'm kinda early

It's a Dead Franchise. Let it die.

10th

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3-6 can play at that game