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Was playing Clocktower with Holly like a week after Moonrakers aired, and I can tell you, the grudge is real 😂 we were all having a great time thinking about Adams impending doom. Glad to see it finally pay off 😂😂
I’m sure someone has suggested but I feel we need a win counter for everyone. Maybe a digital one at the end of the game for how many wins on NRB total or for the year. (Maybe this can help prove how good Laurie is even more😂)
Glad to see some Power Ranger level color coordination so we can tell which person is playing which pieces. (Holly and Sully with green and blue shirts, respectively, and Adam and Laurie with yellow and red hair, respectively.)
It's surprisingly harsh that losing the opening roll means you go last on placing meeples every round, and on placing your boats, and there have already been three tiles lost and three creature rolls before you even take your first turn. I was totally expecting either some kind of back and forth alternation of clockwise-counterclockwise, or else whoever placed last went first. But nope, just a big advantage for rolling high and a big disadvantage for being to the right of whoever rolled high. Very cool game otherwise, and a great video as always!
I fucking love this group, and this is quickly becoming a favorite of my board game channels as it focuses on the social aspect of gaming. I’ve bought both Blood on the Clocktower and Cosmic Encounter because of this channel, and I can’t wait to see more.
I remember playing a version of this game back in the 80s. The island was composed of plastic pieces. 1 Grey Central Mountain Peak, which is the last part to sink. 6 Grey Mountains, surrounding the cetral peak. 12 Green Lowlands, surronding the mountains. 18 Yellow Beach, surrounging the lowlands. The creatures were, Green Sea Monsters. Orange Octopusses. Black Shark Fins. Each player controlled 12 coloured wooden pawns, to represent their tribesmen. Unlike in this game the tribesmen were all of equal value, so it was all about who could get the most survivors to an island. First time I played, I managed to get all my tribe to safety, by loading them into boats with pawns from other tribes. The boat moves more often, and others are less likely to attack. Also because I looked like I was relying on others to help save my tribe, I was a less obvious target. If one person got full control of a boat, then every one else targeted that boat. When 3 players are targeting 1 boat, it disappears fast, bu when 3 players are protecting 1 boat, it survives a long enough to reach an island. About half way through, one of my mates noted that I'd already got half my tribe to safety, 3 more were in boats that had already reached the outer islands, just waiting to off load, and my last 3 were in boats, each with pawns from 2 other tribes. My next turn, the 3 at the outer islands went ashore, and no-one was able to attack the remaining boats without killing off one of their pawns, so my last 3 guys helped in saving a few others. Afterall, as the dominant tribe, I need slaves to help me prosper in my new life. Thanks for taking me back to my youth guys.
Absolutely love all your vids. If I could make one suggestion, it would be to have a colored post it note or something in front of the player that matches their meeple. That way you know at a glance who's the green player or blue player, etc.
Yeah. Adam, pretty sure bringing up House Rules, the series where you just keep beating Sully and getting him drunk isn't the kind of bonding moment you think it is.
Well. In Adams defense there is a certain efficiency. If you know you're going to be burning bridges over the course of the year, you might as well set them on fire immediately.
Man, no bet and Adam is immediately dunked on again. God, I love this channel. Happy to see Adam taking the initiative here, if everyone's gonna target you, might as well give them a reason to! This is gonna be another great year for BGC.
It's been so long since I've played this game that this is going to be very fun to watch Edit: I misremembered the game, this isn't the game I played but I'm still excited to watch it.
I am surprised Smash Up hasn't hit BGC yet. Maybe for Laurie's birthday? And it could start a trend of "birthday bring a game" videos maybe? If people are up for it either scheduled for or additional to regular BGC videos. Could even lead to the debut of Luke Owen either playing King of Tokyo again or bringing out King of New York.
Isn't Smash Up 2 player? The only 2p ones I remember other than House Rules has been during Lord of the Board, so maybe then? Edit - never mind, it goes up to 4. Maybe I just read it is best at 2? So maybe still one for Lord of the Board?
...so. It's the first week of the semester. My classes are filled with people who do not understand mathematics. Who have managed to get into college but make mistakes when counting single digit numbers. Who consumed thirty minutes of my life trying to understand that the line drawn on a piece of paper between 7 and 9 passed through 8. And so I come to youtube to watch a board game or two and get away from the mathematically illiterate. Laurie: Triangles are weak shapes. Right, that tears it. Time to break out the correction hammer, warpaint, and lozenges.
Fun stuff as always and the legacy grudge only grows in dark power, but I’ll be honest: my biggest reaction was for the “coming next week” reveal. Literally gasped and did a double-take. Cannot wait to see the gang play next week.
54:38 Now since wind in the willows is one of my favourite books, I do have to mention that the weasels are not nice characters, they drive out mole and ratty , who are guarding Mr.Toads home while he’s in prison and invade it. They are THE main antagonists of the book, they are also described as the untrustworthy inhabitants of the wild woods and can therefore be interpreted to be the source of the weird noises and eyes Mole sees when he gets frightened in there. Now that all being said Adam was probably thinking about the Otter which is a good character in the books.
Last Year Adam played to determine if he would play Monopoly and We ALL lost. I say this year, you guys beat the hell out of Adam and hit him hard any and every chance you can.
I was just thinking about how a possible Legacy Game of it could work, but a quick search reveals that Cosmic Encounter has an expansion called Cosmic Odyssey that has a new campaign mode? That's neat!
I love this game but I don't play with this level of aggression with the kids. I was hoping to see it on the channel someday and it's exactly as expected. Excellent! Fun fact: the french title for this game is just "The Island" (in English)
My gaming group can get a bit on the hyper-competitive side, so mean games like this aren't always my favorite to play. But hot damn if it isn't fun to watch a mean game cause these four to absolutely implode in saltiness 😂
We used to own this game when I was little. Our version had big chunky 3D pieces of island. It didn't have the nice looking board though. It made for a cool playground to play with as a kid, too.
I have, and play, the earlier version of this game. I like the extra strategy of the meeples having values and scores each. But I love some of the mechanics of the earlier game - and especially the spinner instead of the dice. I think I'll be getting a copy of this game to add to the collection.
After seeing the Pokémon theme being broken up by Sully's coughing, now I want best of the month videos with all the best bits similar to the Best of Wrestletalk ones.
I belive it 2nd or 3rd print. Original game was plastic tiles and had rings of terain hight thus sand were out edges forest mountain then tip top capital. Also each space held 3 meeples max but they were like tiny aphrodite statues.
Don't know if any of the cast read these, but nice funny story here: Had a dream the other night, I was in a FPS scenario. Looked down my sights and saw one of the other team, it was Adam. I shot him twice in the chest and once in the head and he looked very surprised as he went down. The dream flickers around a bit and goes to the end scene. Adam and an older woman from my team are the only ones left, and they're walking along together (he's not apparently wounded, hooray for non-logical dream continuity), talking. I can't hear the words, but she's chastising him for starting this fight. Then she hits him with a taser and says "and that was the dumbest way I've ever heard of for trying to join a band."
The only thing i would change to this game, rules-wise, is either make all the meeples have one point or have them randomized around the board ie the players dont know where theyre putting their 6s. I feel like if u get screwed over in the early game and lose your 6, it's almost impossible to claw your way back.
Before watching, calling it, Adam has a secret plan to team up with Laurie. He's joining forces with the Dark Lord of Board Games in order to win. Is it worth it Adam, is it worth not playing Monopoly? Correct answer, yes, absolutely yes.
Laurie won the most, yes. But when the heat was on, when it was one on one, the QUEEN rose to the top. Long live Brooke the Brave and True, Queen of NRB's BGC, and long may she reeeeeeeeiiiiiiigggnnnnnnnn!
