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You can solve the problem of recognizing the figurines at a distance by replacing the the army units with little wooden blocks, colored to match their nation, of two sizes--one for regulars, and slightly larger size for elites. And wooden pawns for the leaders. For the characters, continue to use the figurines, and they'll stand out on the board.

You're big LotR fans but don't know that it's Éomer son of Éomund?

My most recent one was a TtR sized game that came with a cardboard insert, but it was just one space for bits that was like 3 inches wide in the middle of the box. So then after opening and sorting everything it wouldn't all fit in this tiny area, so I just removed the insert and put all of the stuff in loose, but now there is just so much extra space in the box it feels ridiculous!

You would love five tribes and obsession. 2 of my favorites

Love your videos!

Enjoyed the vid!! And although I can't speak on a shelf of shame for those kinds of games, I can relate with some of my video games. You find a good deal ......then it never gets popped in the drive! You guys are awesome! ❤

Shelf of Opportunity has two games and they have been there forever (2 weeks): Big Shot and Sardegna.

Did you mean there is no other way to get the Kickstarter version of Encyclopedia? Because it’s readily available via retail.

Just popping in to say that I’ve played Arcs, and it’s not (in my opinion) as exciting as everyone has played it up to be. The trick taking is very restrictive, and any long term plans you have are difficult to execute. Movement is highly restricted as well. Good concept but needs a bit more refinement to be fun to bring to the table regularly.

Love Sea Salt & Paper!

Vacation gamessss!!! See y'all and these games soon!!

I think having some pictures from the games would make the video a lot better

Definitely hope to snag myself a copy of Unconscious Mind and Bone Wars when they release. Fingers crossed.

Critter Kitchen, Fromage, and River Valley Glassworks were on my top 10 as well that I posted Tuesday.

I'm looking forward to the Yokohama reprint and Deep Shelf.

Ooh we ended up playing Castles of Burgundy again this week and included the vineyard expansion for the first time and quite liked it! Sail, Fit to Print, Verdant, and Wonderlands War are all ones we have enjoyed also, plus Blood on the Clocktower, but we don't own that one.

Best crowdfunding successes were Awkward Guests, Weather Machine and Dinogenics.

Love your channel!

I'm currently waiting on about 24 kickstarter fulfillments. Mostly reprints and/or expansions of proven games (Santorini, Planet Unknown, Thunder Road Vendetta, etc), with some new games in there as well. Couldn't help but notice the MEOW shirt, do you live in Missouri?

Glad to see you are back! I recently found the original "Survive" at a garage sale and I'm excited to try it!

Great list! Trekking the NP's is such a fun game. I actually haven't tried the others.

Love the list! Happy summer!

I just got the chance to try Summer Pavilion on BGA for the first time and quite enjoyed it. It has much more of a sense of not being able to get everything done and having to choose what to go for than the original. Also I have heard good things about Skate Summer and would probably love that Tony Hawk Pro Skater feeling!

Midwest? What part? State is close enough. I do not want to DOX you.

next, make top 10 crunchy small board game please. The smaller the better!

Concordia is pure gold. I have never won but Love to play.

I am going to propose tabletop hobbyist heresy by saying if one can be content and happy with a bunch of blindspots of games never played, that is success. I am to a place I need to strategically deploy blindsports so I can return to games I own. Without this it is a Dominions expansion problem in that, the more I add, the less I will get to both the new AND old. AND I play solo, so I have no excuse to get any game with a solo mode to the table.

I agree with Adam that Calico can be so frustrating and anxiety inducing because it seems nigh unto impossible to get the right pieces at the end. It's such a beautiful game though that I love it and play it anyway. I just played Verdant and love it even more than Calico because it is puzzly and beautiful and more flexible. I haven't played Fit to Print. Cascadia I love too, but rank it below Calico and Verdant because it's not as gorgeous, even though the art is beautiful. I guess I'm more into the aesthetic of the games and not how smoothly the game play goes.

Our family loves both Calico and Cascadia! While I haven’t played Verdant or Fit to Print yet (or Nocturne), I plan on getting them all soon!

Last comment: On Mars, The Gallerist, Kanban, and Lisboa are all by Lacerda and tend to share a similarish feel. They are very heavy, kinda fiddly, towards the longer end, and generally all about making the most out of very few turns in a game. If you want a heavy (4.5ish) euro he is the biggest name designer in the space and you have to try one. However, most people don't want that heavy...

I never counted before, but I've played 68 of the current top 100, 71 if you count playing 1 edition as playing both.

I get the impression Klemens Franz art does nothing for you guys, you passed on all the games (Agricola, Caverna, Le Havre, Grand Austria, Orlean...) specifically due to art except Clans of Caledonia and that one only for the meeples. Clans is a great game, it's in the vein of Terra Mystica with contracts. If you like worker placement, you have to at least try Agricola / Caverna / Lords of Waterdeep, they are 3 of the classics. Agricola is the granddaddy classic though. If you play it, Revised is the way to go. It's only rated lower cause the original was #1 on BGG for a while a decade ago and the Revised edition came out during the current flood of all new modern games and never got the mass appeal of the original. If the 2 had their ratings combined instead of split, Agricola would likely still be a top 10 game.

Mage Knight is a very acquired taste. It's not like a dungeon crawler. It's a deck builder where you use the cards to move around the map and kill monsters on it. Which I know sounds like a dungeon crawler, but it feels completely different. It's a near perfect information game, lots of rules, and ridiculously hard until you learn how to stack OP combos, so you will sit there for minutes APing to find the best possible solutions. The multiplayer mode is also virtually nonexistent, it's 2 of you playing solo on the same map, so double the time for almost no extra fun. I enjoy it as a solo puzzler, but hated it as a group game. It's called MK: The Board Game because MK was a minis game years ago.

I know you are "divided" on Arkham Card Game, but I'd urge you guys to give it a try, it's an amazing game. Get the core set and the first expansion (Dunwitch Legacy) and playing through those should give you a very good idea on how the game works, I believe you'd both like it, as you said it’s a great two players game.

I encourage you to watch the review for “El Grande” by “No Pun Intended”. It’s explained well, why the area majority game has remained in BGG’s top 100 for 30 years. Plenty of strategy and tough choices, but a straightforward rule set. NPI’s recommendation does say play it at 4 or 5 players.

Great content looking forward to more!

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I have yet to play war of the ring, but Rebellion is a great game even the base game is worth a few plays the expansion makes the combat flow much better.

Well, Gaia Project is my favourite game of all time since many years. And its not even close.

Dune Imperium is such an incredible game. I highly recommend you play it soon, and I agree that Uprising is the way to go.

A Feast for Odin is a blast at all player counts (even solo)! There are so many decisions and different cards that you can play this forever. I haven't heard about a deluxe edition and I wouldn't count on it. There is a new expansion in the making called AFfO - The Danes but it's taken years and no real information yet about any publishing date. New reprint will hit NA in April and if you want to grab it, be sure that the extra materials are in the box (should clearly state on the backside of the box). A new selection board for 1-2p and some extra islands will spice up the game even more. The Norwegians expansion adds more good stuff and upgrades the selection board even further, making the game even more exciting and tighter. But the main game still packs a lot of stuff and the new boards for 1-2p helps giving a better experience so there is no real need to grab the expension. Highly recommend!

Hi, just discovered your channel, so not sure on your tastes, but some comments based on the vid: - Terra Mystica does look drab, I put off trying it for 2 years due to that, but it's now my favorite game (tied with very similar Gaia Project and Age of Innovation). I heard you say you want some midgame luck, which might be a turnoff, the only randomness is in setup. It also is heavyish, but you have some games on your shelf behind you of equal weight, ex Terraforming Mars and you mentioned TI. I'll note, do NOT buy TM to play at 2p it's not good, get Gaia Project unless consistently playing 4p or 5p. -Nemesis is very hit or miss, it's much more an experience and atmosphere thing than a strategy game. Whether you like that sort of thing will determine if this seems great or boring. -Eclipse is not TI4, I dislike that they are always directly equated because they are both in space and use ships on hexes. Eclipse has ship customization, but no diplomacy mechanics, no action card equiv, and a more euro feel. Sure it's shorter, but it's not really the same type of game either. -TTA live is like an hour per person even once experienced. But it is a good civ builder if you don't mind the length. There's also a very good app to try it and play 20 min games vs a solid ai. -Dune Imperium is really good. It's euro style and completely different from the old Dune game.

You can play Through the Ages on BGA if you want to try it. Rebellion is a great game. So is War of the Ring. If you want to try Twilight Struggle, but want a shorter version, you can try Twilight Struggle Red Sea. But the rules are definitely written like wargame rules and not the typical euro game rules.

i tried terra mystica and it was so complex like the 1st move alone is very important you really need to calculate every move manage resources its a popular and a great game but i really dont like the art, though the new version Age of Innovation looks better i might get this one. After reading alot of things about Dune Uprising,i think Dune Imperium w/ rise of ix expansion is a better game just because its easier to teach thats my only reason why i wont buy uprising.

I played Nemesis lockdown 30 hours on steam and 5 games on live and i come to conclusion that is an horrible game, it is useless heavy, it is so random that one moment you are doing good and moments later you die (or kind of), it is slow and the fact that is a semi coop make it bad from the co-op side and from the non-co-op side. In the game you spend time wondering around and almost doing nothing except for 2 or 3 actions. I believe that if you want a similar vibe but in a game that is 100 times better then try Clank: catacombs, because is a better exploration game in every single aspect, it is chaotic and random yes but it is manageble and lasts half the time of nemesis Lockdown with more tension, expecially in the end when you try to leave the dungeon after someone else died or left. Try Nemesis on steam first before waste money and i get it that nemesis has miniatures and stuff but at the end of the days is just a clunky game that is too long and it feels long. On the other hand Dune Imperium is my favorite game and the most played on steam and live, it has a HIGH skill cap and if you try on steam against AI at the beginning it will be hard to win at the easiest level, now after 60 hours i delete AI at hard mode. In the summer there will be the rise of ix expansion for the digital version on steam but i love Dune imperium with or without expansions, the only negative side of dune imperium base game, for me, is that there are 6 card that tend to block the card market (2 drone, 2 warriors, 2 recruiters) because they are bad cards and nobody wants to buy them, so i suggest to remove this cards or implement a rule from immortality (the family nuke) that give every player the ability to remove all the cards in the market and replace it with 5 new cards once per game. Dune imperium is a masterpiece and at the begining i didn't even like the game until a reviewer on YT said something that changed my mind and that is that in dune imperium you can't plan everything because sooner or later your plans will be blocked by someone or something, so you have to be good at change your strategy (at least in the short term) to adapt and there are possible ways to do so, just depends on the player to find them. Sry about my english Cheers I didn't realize that the 2 games that i spoke highly are made by the same guy (Paul Dennen).... so maybe he knows how to develop a good game ;)

Great list. My intro into board gaming was ticket to ride London. It was small and quick, but gave the added decisions to the game. I then ventured into villainous and have not stopped collecting board games.

My wife doesn’t like to play this anymore because I always win 😂

Oceans evolution Dominant Species XD

Good video. Shows people can have lots of fun for cheap . That anyone can join , and won't be punished because they don't know the meta. Plus can take these on holiday as quick an easy.

Other simple titles that are great fun at different player counts: 1) Biblios (best at 3) 2) Can't Stop (kinda like Mountain Goats/ 3-4 players) 3) Ticket to Ride (best at 4) 4) Lost Cities (2 players only) 5) Azul (3/4 players) 6) For Sale (Great even at 6)