Chasing Resurgence: An Insightful Discussion on Stan Kordonskiy's Post-Apocalyptic Euro Game

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It's time for another episode of the wildly popular podcast Chasing Meeples.
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On today's episode of Chris and Angie mention a game designer, who believe it or not?
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has never done.
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Angie a dirty And then get ready for a review of Resurgence a post-apocalyptic strategy game published by Haffigian Games and designed by the masterminds in Khorramski.
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Without further ado, the banter starts now.
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Hello everyone, this is the Chasing Meeples podcast.
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I am your host, chris, and, as always, i am with my lovely co-host, angie.
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Say hello, angie, hello, hello, all right, hey.
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Well, today is the day.
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I've been super excited, looking forward to this.
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We are going to be reviewing the latest masterpiece, and I say masterpiece.
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Well, aren't you giving it away a little bit?
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Giving it away.
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Oh yes, sorry.
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We're reviewing Resurgence, a game designed by just a guy, just a guy by the name of Stan Kordonsky.
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Come on, how is it?
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How can you not get excited about that, angie?
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You know what This may be foreshadowing my feelings about the game.
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However, it is Stan Kordonsky.
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You're very enthusiastic.
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I'm not used to it and I don't usually match the enthusiasm.
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I usually like the opposite.
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Yeah, you are.
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You're usually the opposite.
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You're like over there, ready to jump out of your socks.
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Over there, stan, it's Stan Kordonsky.
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Yes, yes, he's a.
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I don't want to give away my review.
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How about that?
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Okay.
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I do not want to give it up.
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Fair enough.
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Fair enough, i give in-depth reviews.
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I am so in-depth, i'm so deep.
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I have got three pages of notes here.
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Okay, well, i'm going to keep my mouth shut because there is something I know it's going to come up during the review, but I'm not going to say a word.
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I'm not going to say a word.
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I'm going to wait till the review.
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Okay, oh yeah.
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Oh yeah, there's feelings I can tell right now you are holding back Stan.
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I don't want to say you know that.
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Again, i'm going to foreshadow my review.
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However, he is one of my favorite game designers.
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Yes, yes, i can.
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I know that.
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I really enjoy his games, but I know you hold a grudge.
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You've got a grudge against this man.
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I do not hold a grudge.
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Oh, you've given up, you've given up, you finally let go.
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No, I don't like area control.
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I still don't like area control and I will never like area control.
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Am I holding a grudge because he put area control in this winter?
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No, I'm not holding a grudge.
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If he is a game designer, he can put whatever mechanic in he would like to, just as I potentially think that Phil Walker-Harty made a mistake with my shelfie but we'll get into that later.
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Yeah, we already kind of touched on that, but again, phil, phil it is.
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We still haven't gotten an email from you chasing meples at yahoocom.
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Angie, i see those bags under your eyes.
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Thank you Well.
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Thank you for, oh, thank you, Okay, I appreciate that one Well those are the lack of sleep bags, because you still don't know how to score the colors in myself.
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Yes, that's why I don't get sleep at night.
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Yes, that is it, and it causes what can?
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what causes all the wrinkles?
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Can I blame that?
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Who can I blame that on?
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Well, area control, that's it, That's it.
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Yeah, so stressed That on standing area control in in um endless winter, okay, and the fact that well, Well then, my smile lines all shum fill up, so Oh yes.
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He's yet to do me a dirty, so Can we even say that on our podcast?
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Why not Do me a dirty?
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My mind is now going somewhere else.
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That's the same.
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It's the same.
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I know it is I don't know.
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Well, we're going to keep it.
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Oh me a dirty.
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It's the same.
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I know it is.
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I know the kids use it.
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Okay, i'm not really sure how they use it.
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Kids use it even better.
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I'm not really sure how they use it.
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I have a tic-tac.
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I don't have to make a tic-tac, i'm just a.
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Shem, don't do a hand to your dirty.
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I don't know what that means.
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Maybe I should have said a solid, a solid, no doing you a solid means.
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He's done you a favor.
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He has not done me a dirty.
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We're going to go with that.
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I don't know what that means Oh my God, that's going to be the somebody that says Yes.
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Oh, there goes my hope of ever receiving a review copy of any game.
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I'm going to play games.
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All hope is lost.
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Oh God, I love this, All right.
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And here I thought I had no reason to laugh.
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Turn on the mics, put on the headphones.
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Magic happened.
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All right, angie.
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So you wanted to mention something about Raccoon restaurant.
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Raccoon restaurant, which we had talked about previously.
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We had done a preview video for their Kickstarter.
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I just want to let everybody know their Kickstarter has gone live.
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It will be live for another 22 days on Kickstarter.
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The basic they no longer have the early bird available, but they have their basic pledge is $15 for the game with access to the pledge manager and stretch goals, so that's a pretty reasonable price.
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So right now they have a quarter of what they're asking.
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They have $1,000 out of $4,000.
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Not bad.
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Not bad, So I would encourage anybody that thinks that it might be interesting and how about anybody that would like to see the preview video?
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if you don't want to go over to our page, head over to Kickstarter and check it out.
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Yeah, yeah Cool, that's good to know.
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So, at the time of this recording, how many days again?
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I'm sorry.
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It will be over on July 17th.
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Okay, so you have until July 17th.
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So if you're listening to this after July 17th, sorry, sorry.
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You missed out, But you know it was interesting.
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There is.
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I mean, obviously the most of pledges are on that basic level, But there was a retail in there.
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Oh, that's neat.
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That's 10 games for $110.
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So that's cool.
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So it's going to end up in somebody's game star.
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So that's cool Yeah that is cool.
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Still little disappointed that a stretch goal is not a sand timer.
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Yes.
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The same, all right.
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What else?
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Well, what else is?
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there is going to be an event, a brand new and out, you know, i want to say like annual event, but it's not.
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it's going to take place once a month in True Rivers, wisconsin.
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So if anybody is from Northeast Wisconsin, anywhere in Wisconsin, true Rivers is going to have their first toy and comic book show next Sunday, july 2.
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They're going to have me some cosplay, they're going to have food, they're going to have all sorts of vendors there.
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Chasing Meeples will be there with some use gently use board games.
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So that's awesome, If you guys aren't yeah, that's awesome.
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Yeah, we're going to be there, we're going to be there.
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Heroes Venture Arcade is a retro gaming arcade into Rivers.
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They have one room with all just retro games air hockey, that type of thing And then they have a coin up.
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big front area is now all coin up all those times that you would see, like Dave and Buster's, those kind of games.
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They have an adult room which I think they have gambling machines.
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Oh, wow.
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So a lot of stuff that they've.
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he's really built up there.
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There's actually a skate parking back, So he's going to be throwing that and he's actually bringing his retro arcade games to PhoenixCon.
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PhoenixCon, july 13th through the 16th at the Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton, wisconsin.
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Again, we are going to be there chasing Meeples.
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We're not going to be doing anything as far as organized, we're just going to be in attendance.
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So if anybody wants to hit us up there and play some games with us, we'll probably be the only ones wearing chasing Meeples merchandise, and that's how you can tell who we are.
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However, angie, why don't you tell us a little bit more about PhoenixCon?
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It is primarily an RPG con.
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Ernie Gary Geikax Jr is always in attendance.
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He's one of the guests of honor, one of the guests of honor, that's the right word for it And he's there running games, and so there's a giant, there's okay, there's.
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There's a nice size vendor hall Board game wise.
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There's usually two or three board game stores there that have merchandise for sale.
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Just a lot of different.
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We found some very interesting things The last year we were there, but he is expanding it.
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They always do have a game library, but he is expanding it.
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The organizer.
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I believe his name is Cosmo.
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Joe, yes, he is expanding that.
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There's going to be retro arcade games there.
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There's going to be some sort of tournament.
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He is also, and if anybody wanted to run a game you could absolutely do that.
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I think now that opportunity is probably closed, but they are having some people run games like of.
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I want to name that game.
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I want to name that game.
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It is Lords of Waterdeep.
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Oh couple other games are somebody doing?
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search you go, and so there are people running some board games there, so that hopefully that will expand even further into the future, because that would be neat.
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They're not doing any mini painting this year, okay, but he always does a VIP dinner the Royal dinner music and stuff like that, so I would definitely check out their Facebook page.
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Yeah, phoenix con.
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It is the second time It's, so it's Phoenix con two, i think they're calling it.
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Last year was their first year.
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Angie and I got a chance to check it out.
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I really enjoyed myself there, so I was looking forward to it.
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This year I would love to get together and do some sort of organized dice thrown tournament, but of course we dragged our feet too much and we're not going to be able to do that this year.
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But stay tuned.
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Maybe Phoenix con three will be able to hit you guys up with some sort of organized dice thrown, or maybe Angie and I will be raining doing something organized.
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At the very least, maybe we'll have a table with chasing meeples merchandise or stuff from our Etsy store, chasing meeples co, where you can get really cool shirts, stickers if you love this podcast and some other cool gaming related merchandise.
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And if somebody knows that they're going, definitely send us a message on Facebook, Instagram or an email, because then we would know that you're going and that we could always meet up.
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Yeah that would be awesome.
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We'll be bringing some games of ours as well.
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In our nice big giant backpack game bag.
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So again, yeah, that's July 13 through the 16th.
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I'm not sure what days we're going to go.
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I would love to go every day, but I'm not sure if we're going to be able to make that happen.
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So, figure, if it's what is it?
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Thursday through Sunday?
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Thursday is open for people with the VIP tickets.
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So we'll be there Friday at least Friday or Saturday, for sure.
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But Angie, angie hit the nail on the head.
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If you plan on going, shoot us an email or comment or whatever you got to do, just try to get ahold of us.
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You can talk to us on Instagram too.
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We're pretty responsive to comments, messages, whatever you want to call it on Instagram.
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So, for sure, i want to talk a little bit more about that toy and comic show.
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So Angie mentioned that we are going to be there And what we're gonna do is we're gonna sell some of our gently used games.
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The time has come, ladies and gentlemen.
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It has come.
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Meeple Chasers.
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It is.
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So.
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Do you have anything that you see up here somewhere that you think you could definitely say cull?
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I mean, i think you know we going back and forth, we could say maybe and then hold off on that, but is there something that you say, oh yeah.
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Oh, i'm looking at pretty much that whole top shelf Catacombs.
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That was cool Little dexterity game but it's lived its life and it is now time to go to a new home.
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Definitely that Funco board game that we have there.
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We've got a lot of expansions for that.
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Well, definitely.
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we have like four copies of vinyl and just different music genres, And you said those are standing alone games, right?
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So there's definitely you know, at least one or two of those.
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I could go And they're still in shrink.
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Well, you can think COVID and quarantine for that.
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I went all in.
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I didn't really understand how this whole I thought everything was an expansion that you had to have And I really wanted that 80s And I really wanted that.
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Heavy metal one So.
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I just went all in on it.
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So that's what happens when you're quarantine in a bedroom by yourself with nothing but YouTube and, well, the ability to spend money.
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So you're like literally have six.
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We have six stand alone vinyl games, so all different genres, but they are good games, so definitely you know.
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I think that would be a good one to bring.
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Yeah, there's a couple of them in there.
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I will not.
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Will not call Discover Lands on Nile.
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That game is staying in our collection because I will.
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I'm taking that game on again.
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I'm telling you what sucks nothing.
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I am taking that game on.
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I will win.
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I will discover the land unknown.
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Are we gonna go?
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We're gonna call Arkham Horror If we decide to do that.
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I would have to straight all the cards.
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I would try to get it back into the original.
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Something, maybe, maybe not, i mean, i don't know.
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That one might be difficult, just within the next game Next week, to straighten everything out.
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Top Gun strategy game.
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Love the volleyball aspect of it.
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The actual air combat, yeah, that could probably go conflicted.
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We have that D&D essentials.
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I don't know if you wanna keep that Yeah.
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I don't know.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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We got a lot of.
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We've got Horizons of Spirit Island down here.
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Yeah, that could probably get cold.
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That, could you know, has area control, My favorite mechanic.
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I mean, I have dark seas which could go, which is still in shrink.
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Floor plan the Winchester house.
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Yeah, that turned out to be a bust.
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That was.
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Yeah, you were so excited when you bought that.
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Do you want to play patchwork?
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Yes.
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You too?
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Yes, I thought that was a for sure.
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Well, that okay.
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Do I ever wanna play patchwork?
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No, never, i don't wanna, you don't?
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wanna get rid of it because it is like a thorn right.
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It's not scar.
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It is.
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It's not scar.
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What was that movie?
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It was the movie Cars 3, where Mator's got these dents.
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He won't pull up because it's got a memory attached to it.
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That's it.
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Patchwork is your memory of your least favorite game ever.
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Yes, So there's three games that we're gonna we're gonna figuratively call my Mator Dents.
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Okay, my Mator Dents.
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There we go, there we go.
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My Mator Dents is Discover Lands Unknown.
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Someday that dent will be pulled out.
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Okay, Patchwork if you've been listening to this podcast, you know how I feel about it.
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And then number three is probably Galaxy Trucker.
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I know there's a lot of people out there that love that game, but again, maybe it's just me and maybe I just suck, because I do suck at a lot of games and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
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I hate to lose but I suck.
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So it's kind of weird.
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It's a weird dynamic there.
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But Galaxy Trucker is like the space version of Patchwork.
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For me, That game is like.
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Let me paint you a picture I'm a Galaxy Trucker, I'm in space.
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I spent all this money, all this time, this energy, this effort designing the greatest spaceship ever.
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I go on my mission, my first christening flight into the broad unknown, the vastness of space.
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I didn't put a freaking laser on the back or an engine or something on the back of the thing.
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Defend shield or something.
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Defend shield and boom.
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Now I'm floating in space.
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I'm dead, I'm dying, I'm cold because I couldn't even make a quilt to save my life.
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My socks were wet, and my socks were wet.
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You're chilled from the inside out.
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And nobody could hear me scream because I was in space.
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Yeah, that's right.
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So that is, those are my three meter dents.
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Okay.
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Not gonna call those games.
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We're gonna keep them, because someday I'm gonna take a dent popper thing and pop that dent right out Dent popper thing.
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I don't know what the term is, but Well, what games do you see on that shelf?
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I think that Game of Thrones game will go to.
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Well, the top shelf definitely.
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So far, you've pretty much nailed it on the head.
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But let me take a spinner out.
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A lot of that's your call, because they're games that you bought on a whim, like the boldest, and Well, those were, those were digging dent.
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Yeah, Yeah, those are the ones.
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I don't know.
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Starship Captains, I don't know.
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We shouldn't You know?
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I'm thinking You don't get rid of Starship Captains, Okay?
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We're not getting rid of that one.
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Yet You're not ready for that.
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No, i'm thinking Pandemic North America.
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We can get rid of.
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Sure, we could probably get rid of beer and bread.
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That's funny.
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I know there's at least one person listening out there who just cheered out loud, audibly.
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That's funny.
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Yeah, and I'm sure we'll have it all figured out before July 2nd.
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Into Rivers, wisconsin.
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You never said the location, you just said it's into Rivers, you never said Washington State, i'm sure what's it called again.
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Heroes Venture Retro Arcade.
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Okay, if you're coming in from the lake, if you go to Wall, if you see Walgreens, you've gone too far, so turn around.
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I don't know what to say.
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This is Wisconsin.
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This is how we give directions.
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Exactly.
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Take a right at the.
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It's a more quick trip on the other side of the street.
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Oh, do you know where Fatso's is?
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It's like across from Fatso's.
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Yep, and if you may get the pick and save.
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oh, you went too far.
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turn around, go back over the bridge and go back where Jim and Jones You know where Evans used to be.
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Yeah, you know where that.
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It's in the building where that tight shop was.
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Yeah, yeah, evans, holy cow.
00:22:01.605 --> 00:22:09.505
Angie refuses Straight up, refuses to name this segment, she just wants to call it.
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Hey, what did we play?
00:22:11.645 --> 00:22:11.826
No.
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So, You never named your segment.
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It is named Stuff That Chris Finds Interesting, and lately I have not.
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I'm lying.
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There's a lot of stuff going on in the board gaming world, but I'm just not feeling that about it, so Okay, so I named mine Stuff That Chris Finds Interesting.
00:22:35.612 --> 00:22:43.608
You, on the other hand, hate that name And I'm assuming, since I'm not changing my name, you're not gonna name yours.
00:22:43.940 --> 00:22:50.826
Well, actually I wasn't gonna talk about the games we played until you just brought it up, so Okay, well, I'm gonna talk about them Okay.
00:22:50.826 --> 00:22:52.224
Let's talk about Neovill.
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Oh, oh, you pulled that one out, the first one out.
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Whoa, i'm out of the gates swinging Like there wasn't exactly Like there wasn't a reason for that.
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Did I just do you a dirty?
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Oh, you did.
00:23:06.346 --> 00:23:10.205
I don't know how that, but you know what It's fair play.
00:23:10.205 --> 00:23:13.485
Turn around is fair play, because who taught that game?
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I don't know what you're talking about.
00:23:16.660 --> 00:23:18.727
Who read the rules to me and taught that game?
00:23:19.580 --> 00:23:21.936
Yeah, the one who knows how to play the game me.
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The one who doesn't read the rule book and is.
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What are you talking about?
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I read the rule book.
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You don't listen when I talk.
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See, here's the deal.
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Yes, yes I did, but you were not clear.
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Aboloni, you were not clear.
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Angie, I am.
00:23:39.025 --> 00:23:41.184
Okay, okay When you say grid.
00:23:41.184 --> 00:23:43.932
Oh, when you say grid, you had a burning in your mind.
00:23:43.932 --> 00:23:46.545
Have you ever seen a piece of paper, grid paper?
00:23:46.545 --> 00:23:47.278
Well, all the time.
00:23:47.278 --> 00:23:54.355
I look at it at work all the time Okay so there's lots of ways to make shapes on a grid.
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You don't necessarily have to make it a square grid.
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Yeah.
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And that's what you needed to do with Neovill.
00:24:04.630 --> 00:24:12.974
Now I was doing four by four, but my four by four were not exactly a square.
00:24:14.980 --> 00:24:16.305
Yeah, but that's not what you got hung up on.
00:24:17.080 --> 00:24:18.605
Well, it was bad.
00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:21.469
You got hung up on how to play All the play.
00:24:21.740 --> 00:24:23.347
Yeah, because you weren't clear on that.
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Oh my.
00:24:24.628 --> 00:24:26.320
God, No you weren't clear on that.
00:24:26.320 --> 00:24:30.375
I need to start recording everything so we can have flashback sequences every time you call.
00:24:30.375 --> 00:24:31.240
You weren't clear on that.
00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:34.974
Angie, i am the clearest rules teacher there is No no, i Yeah right.
00:24:34.994 --> 00:24:45.186
No, you did No, you did say that at one point you did say that the Was it a vehicle?
00:24:46.371 --> 00:24:46.592
Yes.
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It had to be in the same role, like the patrol and the.
00:24:50.300 --> 00:24:53.852
When I thought so it was my mistake.
00:24:54.454 --> 00:24:55.016
But it had to be.
00:24:55.016 --> 00:24:55.959
We'll say that again.
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No, it was my misunderstanding That it had to be in the same column or row.
00:25:03.691 --> 00:25:31.360
Yeah, which is what I said I had it only in the row, so I was not looking at the number of parks in the column, because I had to have You had to have at least four parks or recreations, i think, in a column or row And I wasn't completely paying attention to that.
00:25:32.663 --> 00:25:46.553
And well, once, to me the devastation is once I realized that I wasn't creating the square grid as in King Domino, that type of grid pattern.
00:25:46.553 --> 00:26:00.360
I had to start moving tiles And when I was moving tiles, it was just messing up the towns, the neighborhoods I was building, and that was devastating to me Because I came up with some good neighborhoods.
00:26:00.360 --> 00:26:03.650
So I ended up with like five points.
00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:06.946
You did, that was your path.
00:26:08.663 --> 00:26:15.148
I had really good neighborhoods that I had to literally break up And I just at that point just kind of said whatever?
00:26:15.300 --> 00:26:18.226
And I threw You did say whatever and throw.
00:26:18.581 --> 00:26:22.788
I just threw the tiles to make the pattern, just to get back in the five by five that way.
00:26:22.788 --> 00:26:28.185
So no, that was my error, even though you weren't clear on it.
00:26:28.185 --> 00:26:31.666
It was my error And at that point I kind of just gave up.
00:26:31.666 --> 00:26:33.551
I just gave up.
00:26:33.800 --> 00:26:38.870
No, i don't think I've ever seen you that disheartened during a game ever.
00:26:38.870 --> 00:26:41.248
If that's what I look like, I am so sorry.
00:26:41.248 --> 00:26:46.507
I am so sorry Because I know I get there a lot.
00:26:46.688 --> 00:26:47.509
So that was the first part.
00:26:47.509 --> 00:26:51.307
We did play it after that And I did enjoy my second play of it.
00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:53.823
Yeah, so Neovill.
00:26:53.823 --> 00:27:02.026
For those that are wondering what we're talking about, it's a game designed by Phil Walker Harding Where, basically, you're an architect.
00:27:02.026 --> 00:27:08.489
The theme is you're an architect to build a city And you are making like an eco habit.
00:27:08.489 --> 00:27:16.584
You're making a city that is a combination of human habitation and the natural world, so you're trying to make it all.
00:27:17.340 --> 00:27:18.003
Cinergistic.
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Cinergistic.
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That's good.
00:27:19.448 --> 00:27:32.188
And you build your skyscrapers in a four by four grid and your skyscrapers are worth a certain amount of harmony points at the end of the game, based on their value and the district size.
00:27:32.188 --> 00:27:34.748
So there's certain ways that you can score.
00:27:35.081 --> 00:27:48.250
Yeah, you have to have your district either the same or more squares than your tower, and the towers range from like five to 12.
00:27:48.250 --> 00:27:59.528
You have to know if you place a tower there, if you place like an eight or a 10 there, you have to be able to expand that one neighborhood at least that many squares.
00:27:59.528 --> 00:28:03.185
So that's where I was losing the points when I was breaking up my neighborhoods.
00:28:03.647 --> 00:28:03.807
Yep.
00:28:05.801 --> 00:28:06.644
Minus points.
00:28:08.528 --> 00:28:14.949
Yep, and before we move on to the next game, i just want to say Angie, i take teaching games very seriously.
00:28:14.949 --> 00:28:20.488
So we may have joked on Favor Game Friday and said I don't teach and I got out.
00:28:20.488 --> 00:28:23.384
Ha ha, it's a character, it's what I do.
00:28:23.384 --> 00:28:26.970
It's like Chris magnified by a hundred right.
00:28:28.501 --> 00:28:39.505
But when I leave you with these parting words of wisdom, before we move on Yeah, parting words until we leave this studio and go downstairs.
00:28:39.766 --> 00:28:42.227
Yeah, And then I teach a game and you go.
00:28:42.227 --> 00:28:45.431
You're right, chris really does take this seriously.
00:28:45.733 --> 00:28:49.053
You used to Give me your parting words and then I'm going to have parting words.
00:28:49.335 --> 00:28:49.980
Here are my parts.
00:28:49.980 --> 00:28:51.526
I used to take teaching seriously.
00:28:52.163 --> 00:29:00.644
You used to do the teach, You used to watch a video, read rule blocks, have everything prepared and now it's kind of like, okay, have the game set up.
00:29:00.644 --> 00:29:01.126
what do I do?
00:29:01.661 --> 00:29:02.063
Ha ha.
00:29:02.063 --> 00:29:06.469
yeah, I'm doing it to help you become better at what you do.
00:29:08.225 --> 00:29:08.406
Oh, oh.
00:29:08.667 --> 00:29:08.848
See.
00:29:09.280 --> 00:29:14.310
Oh, that's so good You're being supportive in my endeavor to be.
00:29:15.585 --> 00:29:16.067
Oh, thank you.
00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:18.167
You're setting me up for success.
00:29:18.367 --> 00:29:20.685
I am See how that works.
00:29:20.685 --> 00:29:30.733
So If the student has not learned, then the teacher did not teach.
00:29:30.733 --> 00:29:34.848
Those are my parting words.
00:29:35.800 --> 00:29:37.566
So if I suck at it, I can blame you.
00:29:38.280 --> 00:29:39.484
But don't turn that back on me.
00:29:39.484 --> 00:29:42.103
Okay, because those were words of wisdom.
00:29:42.103 --> 00:29:48.030
Finally, we got a chance to play Sierra West.
00:29:48.800 --> 00:29:49.322
We did.
00:29:50.040 --> 00:29:51.767
That's been on our shelf for a long time.
00:29:52.080 --> 00:29:53.867
That's been a long time.
00:29:53.867 --> 00:29:57.591
I'm glad we finally got a chance to play.
00:29:57.591 --> 00:30:07.351
I just felt good because that's one I always wanted to play and it's been sitting there, so I'm glad It's like a couple other ones I always wanted to get to and they're just sitting.
00:30:07.351 --> 00:30:10.288
I'm glad we got that one and I enjoyed that one.
00:30:10.620 --> 00:30:16.477
If it wasn't for Brandon from the All aboard gamer YouTube channel.
00:30:16.477 --> 00:30:19.666
He had an interview, live interview with Johnny Pack.
00:30:19.666 --> 00:30:24.668
I think that was the catalyst to get it off of our shelf right.
00:30:24.688 --> 00:30:30.708
Yes, yes, something very interesting about the game that he had.
00:30:30.708 --> 00:30:45.413
He created the game and it was originally a relatively short game and then the people at the publishing company wanted more to it And that's probably why he added all the other modules, because you can play the game.
00:30:45.413 --> 00:30:58.067
There's like three other modules to it and are different ways you can add and change up the game, so I'd be interested to know the one that we played, if that was the original or which one was the Apple one.
00:30:58.268 --> 00:31:01.744
Yeah Yeah, so that was fun.
00:31:01.744 --> 00:31:09.613
We also got a chance to play Spies and Lies, a Stratigo game.
00:31:10.421 --> 00:31:13.487
Oh, that was the time that we got to play games out in the porch.
00:31:13.567 --> 00:31:14.629
Yeah, that was fun.
00:31:14.629 --> 00:31:15.971
Yeah, That was fun.
00:31:15.971 --> 00:31:17.413
I love playing games outside.
00:31:17.882 --> 00:31:18.283
I do too.
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:21.045
My perfect world would be to have an RV.
00:31:21.045 --> 00:31:23.511
You know this, i'm just telling the listeners.
00:31:23.511 --> 00:31:25.484
My perfect world would have an RV.
00:31:25.484 --> 00:31:30.267
Just have games on that sucker.
00:31:30.267 --> 00:31:37.351
Go on a road trip and just drive camp game.
00:31:37.351 --> 00:31:40.605
see the sights, it would be so fun.
00:31:40.605 --> 00:31:46.152
So if anybody's got a RV they want to donate to the Chasing Meeples RV fund?
00:31:46.152 --> 00:31:50.991
Hit me up, thor Axis.
00:31:51.360 --> 00:31:54.625
I would like to go to different game stores around the country in an RV.
00:31:54.625 --> 00:31:56.288
Oh my God It would be amazing, it would be interesting.
00:31:56.729 --> 00:31:58.311
Oh my God, game stores and four game cafes.
00:31:58.351 --> 00:32:02.403
That would be an interesting story We could record at different game stores all around the country.
00:32:02.424 --> 00:32:04.288
Yeah, yeah, that would be so cool.
00:32:04.288 --> 00:32:05.672
Gabe would love it.
00:32:05.672 --> 00:32:08.488
You just get out in that vehicle and just drive.
00:32:08.708 --> 00:32:08.909
Yep.
00:32:11.185 --> 00:32:18.769
Oh, you're so cool, All right, And no, I'm not looking for anybody to give me a free RV, but I would not turn it down.
00:32:18.769 --> 00:32:25.190
So we did play Spies and Lies Stratigo Outside.
00:32:25.190 --> 00:32:32.128
I thought I taught that one pretty well, but you could not get the hang of it assigning your cars.
00:32:32.148 --> 00:32:33.170
You know that was crazy.
00:32:33.170 --> 00:32:34.812
Do you know why I was crazy, Why I won?
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.586
Moving on to the next game we talked about.
00:32:42.620 --> 00:32:46.048
I think that burns you the most is when I don't get the game and then I win.
00:32:48.460 --> 00:32:52.209
I forgot what game we were even talking about Monolith.
00:32:53.091 --> 00:32:53.632
Monolith.
00:32:54.504 --> 00:32:55.470
You were horrible at that.
00:32:55.470 --> 00:32:57.447
Just saying I didn't think so.
00:32:57.447 --> 00:33:00.166
No you did not do good.
00:33:00.166 --> 00:33:01.450
You didn't do good at all.
00:33:01.450 --> 00:33:02.926
I smoked you.
00:33:03.741 --> 00:33:06.490
Well, you won, but it doesn't mean I wasn't good at it.
00:33:07.081 --> 00:33:08.966
No, no, you were not good at that game.
00:33:10.169 --> 00:33:10.711
I had some.
00:33:10.711 --> 00:33:12.130
What are you talking about?
00:33:12.130 --> 00:33:14.524
I had, i had some.
00:33:14.524 --> 00:33:18.532
I had sides built and I had.
00:33:21.064 --> 00:33:22.348
No, I'm standing by my guns.
00:33:22.348 --> 00:33:25.950
Tell me you're not good at that game.
00:33:25.950 --> 00:33:27.627
I don't even know where that came from.
00:33:28.861 --> 00:33:38.585
I mean I lost, but it's not like a new bill, that I didn't know what I was doing, i was okay.
00:33:39.500 --> 00:33:41.969
I've never just told anybody they're not good at a game.
00:33:41.969 --> 00:33:43.784
It didn't feel good, but it was funny.
00:33:47.180 --> 00:33:49.368
How next time try doing it when it's accurate.
00:33:50.764 --> 00:33:51.948
No, it was totally accurate.
00:33:52.401 --> 00:33:56.589
It's not Nope.
00:33:56.589 --> 00:33:59.326
What's the name?
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next game on the list I'm done.
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The next game on our list is Fistful of Meeples.
00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:11.181
I enjoyed the game.
00:34:11.181 --> 00:34:12.362
It's another Johnny Pack game.
00:34:12.362 --> 00:34:12.983
I enjoyed it.
00:34:13.483 --> 00:34:17.128
It was good Angie got that for me for Father's Day Yeah and you sucked at that game.
00:34:17.148 --> 00:34:17.990
What are you talking about?
00:34:17.990 --> 00:34:18.530
I won.
00:34:18.530 --> 00:34:20.815
I won because I built, Yeah you won.
00:34:20.815 --> 00:34:22.965
I built the whole city practically.
00:34:22.965 --> 00:34:26.449
You only had two buildings built and I had like an entire side of the street.
00:34:26.889 --> 00:34:28.121
Yeah, you're right, you won.
00:34:28.121 --> 00:34:28.623
And.
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I was all like happy Father's Day, Chris.
00:34:30.389 --> 00:34:31.992
No, I thought that game was really good.
00:34:31.992 --> 00:34:33.019
See, I loved Mancala.
00:34:33.019 --> 00:34:35.166
I used to play Mancala like years ago.
00:34:35.900 --> 00:34:53.867
I didn't even say what Angie always says, that I say Back in the day used to play Mancala a ton and Othello I think Othello is a good game to do, by the way, but so that's so that I think you know what I'm going to tell you.
00:34:53.867 --> 00:35:07.273
I think that Fistful of Meeples replaces five tribes for me when it comes to scratching that Mancala itch.
00:35:09.722 --> 00:35:12.588
Oh, how horrible of you to say that.
00:35:13.028 --> 00:35:13.530
Horrible.
00:35:14.311 --> 00:35:15.112
Horrible.
00:35:15.112 --> 00:35:18.367
Why It's not the same game at all.
00:35:19.481 --> 00:35:22.670
But it's more Mancala isque than five tribes.
00:35:22.670 --> 00:35:28.269
I just said well, replaces the Mancala itch.
00:35:28.269 --> 00:35:31.145
I didn't say it replaces five tribes.
00:35:31.145 --> 00:35:40.904
It doesn't make five, it's not a five tribes killer, but I think I would like I would play, i would enjoy that more than five tribes, if I just want to get them on college.
00:35:41.728 --> 00:35:43.425
Okay, i didn't know you ever had them on college.
00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:45.004
Well, i get that itch every now and then.
00:35:45.004 --> 00:35:52.607
Yeah, yeah, i get that Mancala itch, especially when we're walking through the store, like during Christmas season or whatever.
00:35:52.607 --> 00:35:58.599
You see all those like gift things and they always have the wooden Mancala for $5.
00:35:58.619 --> 00:36:00.244
Better take care of that itch then.
00:36:04.185 --> 00:36:06.811
Are you doing me a dirty online now, or are you on here online?
00:36:06.811 --> 00:36:08.521
What do you mean?
00:36:08.521 --> 00:36:09.362
take care of that itch.
00:36:09.463 --> 00:36:11.906
I mean, i don't know, i just said that Yeah.
00:36:12.208 --> 00:36:12.768
Yeah, okay.
00:36:12.788 --> 00:36:14.931
Whatever, in my head it was clever.
00:36:14.931 --> 00:36:21.607
In my head it was clever Well coming out of your mouth.
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it wasn't.
00:36:22.088 --> 00:36:30.056
Oh God, I got a quarter in me today, All right.
00:36:31.340 --> 00:36:32.983
Who shoved a nickel up your butt.
00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:41.867
Sobek sobek two players.
00:36:42.819 --> 00:36:47.771
I smoked you the first time and you were so devastated at that game You said it was broken.
00:36:47.771 --> 00:36:48.862
How do you feel about?
00:36:49.023 --> 00:36:49.746
subsequent plays.
00:36:49.866 --> 00:36:50.489
Yes, that's it.
00:36:50.839 --> 00:36:51.522
I like the game now.
00:36:51.522 --> 00:36:52.840
It's not.
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:54.226
It's not broken.
00:36:54.226 --> 00:36:59.251
I'm just going to say that it was the player and I need you to apologize to Bruno.
00:36:59.251 --> 00:37:01.947
Well, Bruno, I'm really sorry that Angie can't teach your games.
00:37:03.340 --> 00:37:05.422
Holy shit, i can't believe.
00:37:05.422 --> 00:37:14.804
You said that I can teach your games, bruno, chris just did me a dirty.
00:37:14.804 --> 00:37:18.284
I have breaking news for you, chris.
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Breaking news.
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I have named that segment.
00:37:22.085 --> 00:37:25.842
It's Gackpan.
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Gackpan.
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Gackpan.
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Okay, break it down.
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No, I want you to figure it out.
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Gackpan.
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Gackpan.
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It'll be next week's Meeple quiz.
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You can think about it for a week Gackpan All right Gackpan it is.
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All right, do you know what time it is right now?
00:37:57.989 --> 00:37:58.830
For Schmackpan.
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Schmackpan It is quiz time, all right, and it yes, it does have follows with the theme.
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The theme of this episode.
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Yes.
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Hold on, i'm just writing Gackpan G-A-C-E-A-N.
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G-A-C-E-A-N.
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Yeah, yeah, okay, this game, yves.
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Angie and Chris played at night.
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See, you got it.
00:38:40.385 --> 00:38:43.204
Really Yeah, that's what it was, yeah.
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I wrote it in my hand and everything.
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Okay, Are you?
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are you ready?
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Put your thinking cap on.
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It is quiz time.
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All right.
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Cue the music.
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This is rule replacement.
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Now, i was going to do an example but I didn't, so I'm going to read a rule.
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That rule is going to have keywords replaced with terms of springtime gardening or flowers, as in move one tulip, that would be move one cube.
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That's an example.
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Game following yes, Okay.
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So you have to come up with the game.
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So you don't have to come up with the actual rule, just the name of the game that it came from.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Max points Max points.
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Let's do five each one.
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Okay, so then it would be 25 points.
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All right, because it follows the theme.
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So you know what our theme is today.
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Resurgence.
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Apocalypse, apocalypse, apocalypse.
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I like that theme.
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Okay, so the first rule is weed pickers, or weed a picker.
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Here it is Remove one picker cube from the garden you are in, placing it in the plant supply next to the board.
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If this picker color has been plucked, remove all cubes of that color from the garden you are in.
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I made this easier because it was more difficult.
00:40:33.481 --> 00:40:35.808
Yeah, because this is really easy right now.
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I'm taking out like when you read that to me.
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I'm trying to like remove picker plucker.
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Picker garden slant.
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So keywords are No, no, you don't Oh.
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Okay, no, the game is pandemic.
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I have pandemic legacy, but I will accept pandemic Okay, next question.
00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:05.902
That was tough.
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Next one I'm calling Plantina Lily.
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What did you call the other one?
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Weed a pickers, so it was treated disease.
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Weed a pickers Yeah.
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Treat a disease.
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It was the name of the rule.
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And you changed it to weed a pickers.
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Yeah, okay.
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So I'm changing the word treat and then disease to weed a pickers.
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Yeah, okay, whatever Okay.
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Okay, I won't read what I entitled.
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Yeah, don't do that.
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That's going to throw me completely off.
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Okay, okay, here we go.
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I thought they were clever but okay, they're clever.
00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:52.528
But treated a disease, weed a pickers.
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So I'm moving the word treat and adding the word weed, and then removing the word disease and adding the word pickers.
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Yes, I understand that.
00:42:04.007 --> 00:42:04.761
I thought it was clever.
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Okay, The next one, Chris.
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the next one On your turn.
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you take one of your available lilies and place them in a space in your garden.
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You cannot place a lily on a space that already contains a lily, nor a space from one of the petals in the room trap.
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I don't even want to ask this What did you name this rule?
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Plantina lily.
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So you change the word placing with planting and a lily is a worker.
00:42:46.350 --> 00:42:56.444
Close, close, yeah, essentially The word isn't worker.
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I'm lost.
00:42:59.690 --> 00:43:06.560
I'll redo the rule Placing a dweller On your turn.
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You take one of your available dwellers and place them on a space in the vault.
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Oh, and not place them.
00:43:12.900 --> 00:43:14.673
Yeah, okay, this one, yeah.
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Fallout shelter.
00:43:15.777 --> 00:43:18.313
Yeah, okay, the next one.
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This one you better get.
00:43:22.012 --> 00:43:22.494
Oh great.
00:43:23.530 --> 00:43:26.157
This one, because this is the one that started off in my head.
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Spend one rose petal to take your rose thorn into your hand.
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The rose thorn may be junked to gain an extra rose petal.
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When you junk the rose thorn, return it to your play area instead of pruning it.
00:43:44.802 --> 00:43:51.681
You may keep the rose thorn in your hand across multiple pansies.
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Well, this is 50 for a state.
00:43:54.453 --> 00:43:58.993
No, because you're junking a card.
00:43:58.993 --> 00:44:02.458
Is it Radlands?
00:44:02.478 --> 00:44:04.821
Water, water, it's the water.
00:44:05.322 --> 00:44:08.606
It's the water That makes sense, Yeah water silo.
00:44:08.626 --> 00:44:10.088
Okay, the next one.
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Because in Radlands you do the same thing You can, or in 51st state you do the same thing You can, like I think.
00:44:18.542 --> 00:44:19.067
I don't know.
00:44:19.449 --> 00:44:20.694
Yeah, you can get rid of cards.
00:44:21.309 --> 00:44:23.618
And get it for the resources instead of using it as a card.
00:44:23.618 --> 00:44:24.894
So that's the way I heard that.
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There are two ways you can fertilize a location in your garden Lilac.
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Choose a card from your glove and discard a number of petals equal to its pollen value.
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Put the card in front of you, then smile and say something nice to your opponents.
00:44:44.417 --> 00:45:05.996
New flower bed cards are placed next to your daisy board according to their category Petunia locations are built in the top row, geranium locations are built in the middle row And mom locations are built in the bottom row 51st state.
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That's 51st state, got it.
00:45:07.900 --> 00:45:08.922
Build a location.
00:45:09.001 --> 00:45:09.242
Yep.
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Last one Multiple tulip cards may be planted at the same time.
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Your first tulip will be your bouquet, who represents the leader of your garden.
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:39.482
You'll be able to gain new tulip cards by placing your token into a dandelion or iris room with the pick a tulip icon and paying the associated resource cost.
00:45:39.482 --> 00:45:46.972
You can also gain a tulip for free when you complete a row of three seedlings for the first time.
00:45:46.972 --> 00:45:57.177
Remember, when you gain a tulip card, you immediately add the corresponding flower token from your supply into your greenhouse.
00:45:57.177 --> 00:46:07.138
However, if you do not have any more tokens left in your supply, you may still prune that card, skipping the planting the token in your greenhouse.
00:46:08.549 --> 00:46:09.672
I have absolutely.
00:46:09.672 --> 00:46:10.032
no.
00:46:10.032 --> 00:46:23.875
I'm going to say just because I know how your mind works It's endless winter because Stan Kordonsky is the designer of resurgence, Am I correct?
00:46:24.589 --> 00:46:31.014
Stan Kordonsky is the designer of resurgence and also that game, step three worker actions.
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Multiple survivor cards may be activated at the same time.
00:46:35.158 --> 00:46:38.937
Your first survivor card will be your hero who represents the?
00:46:38.937 --> 00:46:40.161
leader of your faction.
00:46:40.369 --> 00:46:47.250
Okay, i didn't want to go with resurgence in the meeple quiz, but come on, angie, what Dirty.
00:46:47.250 --> 00:46:50.237
Doing me a dirty.
00:46:50.237 --> 00:46:51.060
Are you serious?
00:46:51.329 --> 00:46:53.673
I thought it would have been too obvious for me to say that I thought that was a gimme.
00:46:53.693 --> 00:47:00.042
Well, I was going to say that Ugh, ugh, ugh, so bad, i'm so bad.
00:47:00.042 --> 00:47:03.837
Oh well, angie, i just want to say that was a very good quiz.
00:47:03.837 --> 00:47:14.681
However, please explain to me how gardening and springtime ties into the theme of how it's, they don't, but okay, i.
00:47:14.681 --> 00:47:16.143
Because that's what's throwing me off.
00:47:16.243 --> 00:47:17.685
Okay, i'll tell you what.
00:47:17.685 --> 00:47:23.780
I got some inspiration from that game from Nicholas Murphy on.
00:47:23.780 --> 00:47:36.139
This Game is Broken When he does this and he does it much more complicated because I originally had it he changes every word to banana, so it would literally be remove one banana cube from your gut.
00:47:36.139 --> 00:47:38.670
I mean it would have been banana, it would have been banana.
00:47:38.670 --> 00:47:43.252
When you take your banana, you take one of your bananas from your available bananas and place them in a.
00:47:43.252 --> 00:47:47.737
So if I use the same word, i thought it'd be too confusing.
00:47:47.777 --> 00:47:48.400
I don't think so.
00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:58.357
No, i think when you're hanging out saying, take a peach and pluck it from the tree, and pluck it from the plicker and pluck it, the pluckety-pluckety weedie Well see the words like we're also action.
00:47:58.589 --> 00:48:04.594
Like I said, weed was actually the word treat, so it was the same verbage.
00:48:04.594 --> 00:48:12.558
You know using that and a noun here, and I think there's only one time I did not do that the correct way.
00:48:12.558 --> 00:48:13.320
I thought that would help.
00:48:14.231 --> 00:48:16.719
No, I think the way you did it was a little bit more confusing for me.
00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:18.155
I think banana would have been a good way.
00:48:18.289 --> 00:48:20.980
You could have just changed the pineapple and it could have been legally distinct.
00:48:20.980 --> 00:48:27.018
It could have been So pineapple, but it wouldn't get sued from Nick Moore.
00:48:27.018 --> 00:48:27.900
Yeah, okay.
00:48:29.061 --> 00:48:33.779
All right, So 10 out of 25.
00:48:33.779 --> 00:48:35.753
I got to take it, Angie.
00:48:36.389 --> 00:48:37.132
You have to take it.
00:48:40.833 --> 00:48:42.355
Shall, we play a game.
00:48:46.609 --> 00:48:51.638
Let's play global thermo nuclear war.
00:48:51.638 --> 00:48:58.650
Fun Whips.
00:48:58.650 --> 00:48:59.373
I do.
00:48:59.373 --> 00:49:04.376
You want, i'll be the Russians.
00:49:04.376 --> 00:49:18.585
It is time for us to venture into post apocalyptic Russia.
00:49:18.585 --> 00:49:33.862
We're, we're taking that trip, we're going in and we are going to be talking about resurgence, a fascinating game from none other than Stan Stanislav Kordonsky.
00:49:33.862 --> 00:49:43.760
Before we start, though, angie, much like Gakpan, i came up with a fancy anagram too.
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:52.670
So, for those of you that have been listening to our podcast for a while, we do rate everything on.
00:49:52.670 --> 00:49:59.320
Pretty much when we talk about a game, we do a review of a game, we talk about certain, i guess, criteria or certain categories.
00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:06.893
Those are mechanics, art, theme, replayability, components, and then we rounded out with what we rate the game.
00:50:06.893 --> 00:50:18.012
So, because I want it to be a little bit creative, i decided that we should, and Angie doesn't know anything about this.
00:50:18.012 --> 00:50:27.480
We're going to have a chase scale, so each letter is going to represent a key aspect of the gaming experience.
00:50:28.309 --> 00:50:29.272
So you just made this up.
00:50:29.795 --> 00:50:30.798
Totally 100 percent.
00:50:31.270 --> 00:50:34.980
So you're going to have to maybe have to walk me through it.
00:50:34.980 --> 00:50:39.336
So now I have to reorder my Oh yeah, walking.
00:50:39.609 --> 00:50:40.913
I'm walking you through right now.
00:50:40.973 --> 00:50:41.295
Yeah.
00:50:41.455 --> 00:50:41.976
All right.
00:50:41.976 --> 00:50:46.077
So, if you can imagine the word chase, because we are chasing mebos after all.
00:50:46.598 --> 00:50:46.779
Yeah.
00:50:47.891 --> 00:50:48.453
And here we go.
00:50:48.453 --> 00:50:58.152
So C is going to stand for components, h is going to stand for heart, or, like the theme of the game.
00:50:58.152 --> 00:51:04.040
A is for artwork and S is for strategy.
00:51:04.040 --> 00:51:10.072
That's where we could talk about game mechanics and E is for entertainment.
00:51:10.072 --> 00:51:15.062
So we talk about replayability and overall fun of the game.
00:51:15.062 --> 00:51:17.335
You got it.
00:51:17.797 --> 00:51:18.157
Got it.
00:51:18.458 --> 00:51:23.116
All right, let's start chasing into resurgence.
00:51:23.116 --> 00:51:27.356
So we're going to start with C components.
00:51:27.356 --> 00:51:33.121
So I think it brings to the table a well crafted game.
00:51:33.121 --> 00:51:45.376
I think you know for half a kingdom games, his own stands only on publishing company as their first, first game.
00:51:45.376 --> 00:51:47.561
they did a good job with the components.
00:51:47.561 --> 00:51:58.442
It wasn't that expensive of a game to buy yet I think, the components being really nice screen printed tokens and you know there's good.
00:51:58.442 --> 00:52:02.675
The player board isn't like a like flimsy paper.
00:52:02.675 --> 00:52:04.179
the compound.
00:52:04.900 --> 00:52:06.103
Yeah, it's a thick.
00:52:06.349 --> 00:52:07.293
It's a thicker cardboard.
00:52:07.293 --> 00:52:10.277
I think everything was designed really well.
00:52:10.277 --> 00:52:11.895
I think I touched on just about everything.
00:52:11.895 --> 00:52:17.040
Is there anything that jumps out of your mind about components and functionality?
00:52:17.060 --> 00:52:20.958
about components It does, because I thought you were going to touch on it and you totally missed on it.
00:52:20.958 --> 00:52:31.516
The reference sheet is actually the back of the screen, the player screen, where you are essentially, with the player screen you are covering.
00:52:31.536 --> 00:52:32.219
That's your play rate.
00:52:32.219 --> 00:52:34.141
Yeah, that's your play rate.
00:52:34.161 --> 00:52:49.880
Yeah, you use the player screen to cover up your personal position board, your leadership track, and you're using the screen to cover up that, and the back of the screen is your player aid.
00:52:49.880 --> 00:52:52.016
So it's right there in front of you.
00:52:52.016 --> 00:52:54.315
It's not another card that you have to search for.
00:52:54.315 --> 00:52:55.958
So I like that.
00:52:56.379 --> 00:52:56.560
Yeah.
00:52:57.429 --> 00:52:59.094
Otherwise, everything else I agree with you on.
00:52:59.094 --> 00:53:03.096
That was my only addition to that.
00:53:05.766 --> 00:53:05.846
Okay.
00:53:05.846 --> 00:53:13.257
So let's talk a little bit moving on to the H in chasing, and that is the heart of resurgence.
00:53:13.257 --> 00:53:16.458
So the heart of resurgence again would be the theme.
00:53:16.458 --> 00:53:30.779
So when you think about this game, it is a worker placement game, it's a bag builder And at the heart of it it's a Euro game at its purest.
00:53:30.779 --> 00:53:34.873
And the theme?
00:53:34.873 --> 00:53:40.503
it takes place in the bleak ruins of Moscow and it manages to pull you in.
00:53:40.503 --> 00:53:41.750
It pulls me in.
00:53:41.750 --> 00:53:44.799
You do feel a sense of struggle.
00:53:44.799 --> 00:53:47.117
So resources is they're scarce in this game.
00:53:47.117 --> 00:53:48.635
It's kind of hard to come by resources.
00:53:48.635 --> 00:53:53.902
It gives you that tangible feeling that it, for me at least, right.
00:53:53.902 --> 00:53:55.252
Does that make sense?
00:53:55.252 --> 00:54:10.020
Yeah Right, you have to complete missions, you have to recruit survivors, figure out a way to build your base, and I think all of that is weaved well into the theme.
00:54:10.020 --> 00:54:10.932
What do you think?
00:54:12.250 --> 00:54:14.596
I am not a fan of this theme.
00:54:14.596 --> 00:54:34.078
I think the theme is there, but I don't think it's there a lot, which for me is good, because I can then concentrate on the Euro mechanics of the game And I don't have to worry so much about everything else.
00:54:34.078 --> 00:54:41.443
I think we're talking themes, so I can leave my next comment for when we get to mechanics.
00:54:41.443 --> 00:54:47.362
But, like I said, i don't like the theme and it is good.
00:54:47.362 --> 00:54:58.460
He uses it good with the compound boards And maybe all your workers that you're pulling from the bag.
00:54:58.460 --> 00:55:00.123
There are three different types of workers.
00:55:00.123 --> 00:55:08.661
There's your hero, there are your basic workers that have the little Russia furry hat on there, and then you have Your laborers.
00:55:09.061 --> 00:55:23.141
Your laborers, and then you have some specialists, and they are worth different points, different value, and so then you're fighting on the leadership track and I don't know, and I think you would.
00:55:23.141 --> 00:55:27.321
I think that way that you do have competing personalities.
00:55:27.321 --> 00:55:34.079
If you are in a small society like that, so you would probably have some of these people competing for leadership.
00:55:34.079 --> 00:55:43.278
So you know, in that way I think it's got a good theme, but it's not one that smacks me so hard in the face that I can't concentrate on how to play.
00:55:43.569 --> 00:55:46.710
Now for me, I think it's there, Like I think we'll talk a little.
00:55:46.710 --> 00:55:48.395
I'll talk a little bit more about that when we get to art.
00:55:48.395 --> 00:55:50.795
I think it's good.
00:55:50.795 --> 00:56:00.222
There are certain things that I think maybe could have been stronger in the theme.
00:56:00.222 --> 00:56:12.641
Like I think if you're going to put mutants in the game, I can talk about that in mechanics as well, but I think the mutants, they're just there.
00:56:13.109 --> 00:56:17.952
There's a crossover there, so Yeah, they're just there.
00:56:17.952 --> 00:56:19.876
Right How they're used.
00:56:19.876 --> 00:56:21.319
Now, that's mechanic-wise Yeah.
00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:40.344
Yeah, but I mean, theme-wise makes sense to have mutants roaming the streets, but I just I feel like they don't provide the same intimidation as I originally thought they would when it comes to the game.
00:56:40.344 --> 00:56:47.076
So and I can explain a little bit more of that later You want to move on to artwork now, wherever?
00:56:47.076 --> 00:56:52.639
Okay, i'm going to talk about the A in Chase and that is artwork.
00:56:52.639 --> 00:57:01.333
So, like I said, i was immediately struck by how well the artwork captured the cold, harsh reality of that Moscow.
00:57:01.333 --> 00:57:03.797
The board, how it's just ruined.
00:57:03.797 --> 00:57:10.596
But I get the feeling I know this is taking place in Moscow.
00:57:10.596 --> 00:57:11.737
Does that make sense to you?
00:57:12.210 --> 00:57:13.214
I understand what you say.
00:57:13.789 --> 00:57:22.724
And I've never seen Moscow in person, but I can tell, and it just has, that There's enough Moscow in it where I can go.
00:57:22.724 --> 00:57:23.489
Hey, this is Moscow.
00:57:23.489 --> 00:57:24.875
I don't know how I'm saying this.
00:57:24.875 --> 00:57:25.717
Do you know what I mean?
00:57:25.717 --> 00:57:29.397
Like it doesn't look like a generic rubbley city.
00:57:30.018 --> 00:57:30.379
Okay.
00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:32.132
Okay, the first player marker.
00:57:32.132 --> 00:57:39.308
if you look at it closely you can see in the art in the screen printing on it that it's actually like broken building.
00:57:39.308 --> 00:57:40.554
It's painted though.
00:57:40.710 --> 00:57:42.234
So I mean it would be broken apart.
00:57:42.275 --> 00:57:48.440
yeah, Yeah, but if you look at the artwork, there's holes drawn into the Okay, at the top of the.
00:57:49.210 --> 00:57:51.516
I never bothered to look that closely at it.
00:57:51.536 --> 00:57:53.159
Yeah, i was looking, okay.
00:57:53.159 --> 00:57:58.260
The other thing that I really like about it is when you look Like the artwork is, it's unique.
00:57:58.260 --> 00:58:17.097
So when you look just at the back of this player screen, right, so this is what you see, this is the first player marker here, and if you look at the first player marker, these broken parts here are actually on that, but it just gives you a sense of action here.
00:58:17.097 --> 00:58:26.538
Right, and I don't know, it's like a comic book style artwork.
00:58:26.538 --> 00:58:45.742
But at the same point, when you're looking at the cards so your survivor cards and your hero cards, they have that And I don't know how to explain it other than Soviet era propaganda poster artwork.
00:58:46.789 --> 00:58:48.355
That's a good description of it.
00:58:48.514 --> 00:58:50.219
You know, and it's very.
00:58:50.650 --> 00:59:05.096
I was gonna say World War II art poster, but yeah, yeah, yeah, what you would see up in the red square hanging when you see, maybe, the leader banner hanging down from the Berlin wall, you know Yeah.
00:59:06.770 --> 00:59:07.192
I don't know.
00:59:07.192 --> 00:59:14.083
It would be interesting if you look into the thought of time period.
00:59:14.083 --> 00:59:18.090
If I look at the clothing on these people, I'm thinking 80s.
00:59:18.090 --> 00:59:20.632
right, Thinking 80s 80s.
00:59:20.632 --> 00:59:23.292
Yeah, i'm thinking 80s 80s Yeah.
00:59:23.292 --> 00:59:26.733
Maybe not, maybe 60s, 50s, what are you thinking?
00:59:26.733 --> 00:59:29.694
I'm thinking 80s.
00:59:31.155 --> 00:59:33.304
This was much before the 80, okay.
00:59:36.115 --> 00:59:41.764
Okay, so like It's like time froze, you know kind of like video game fallout.
00:59:42.266 --> 00:59:47.500
Yeah you know, I see I don't think a follow in the 80s I was no follow was in the 50s.
00:59:47.740 --> 00:59:55.143
Yeah, 50s, ish, alternative 50s, but I think like I Don't know, i just like I really love the artwork in this game.
00:59:55.143 --> 00:59:56.864
What do you think I?
00:59:57.975 --> 00:59:58.536
Like their work.
00:59:58.536 --> 01:00:00.141
Yeah, I like the card art.
01:00:00.141 --> 01:00:08.817
Like I said, it looks like Yeah, World War two era Artwork.
01:00:10.056 --> 01:00:10.356
Cool.
01:00:10.356 --> 01:00:12.882
Now, moving on to the next letter, is s.
01:00:12.882 --> 01:00:14.366
So we're talking strategy.
01:00:14.366 --> 01:00:16.942
This is where we can talk about the mechanics.
01:00:16.942 --> 01:00:19.186
That's where I would like to talk about the mechanics.
01:00:19.186 --> 01:00:21.804
I think there's a lot of strategy in the game.
01:00:21.804 --> 01:00:30.719
I Think the blend of bag building, hidden work, replacement and resource management Gives you a depth of gameplay.
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:34.416
That is sad if that that that's complex, okay.
01:00:34.416 --> 01:00:48.750
However, i really wish For it to be a Bag builder, that there was more of a push your luck element why I?
01:00:50.056 --> 01:00:55.641
Don't know so necessarily bag building but not okay So then you're thinking quacks of quenlinburg.
01:00:55.721 --> 01:01:00.217
Yeah, i'm thinking quacks of quenlinburg, exactly right, so there isn't.
01:01:00.217 --> 01:01:05.878
How can I put it this way when I, when I, you're literally just using the?
01:01:05.878 --> 01:01:06.981
it could have been.
01:01:06.981 --> 01:01:21.411
If you're gonna go bag builder, there should be some sort of I Guess feedback loop of I don't know how to put it, but instead it's you okay.
01:01:21.411 --> 01:01:21.771
Okay, how can I?
01:01:21.771 --> 01:01:22.454
how can I explain this?
01:01:22.454 --> 01:01:36.637
You draw four people on your turn, yeah, unless you are moving up on your compound, and then it becomes five, yeah, so the only thing that the bag really does is it you're literally just pulling people out of a bag and And that's it.
01:01:36.657 --> 01:01:38.182
Yeah, but you don't know you're gonna get right.
01:01:38.182 --> 01:01:41.212
That's where the luck comes in.
01:01:41.292 --> 01:01:44.454
I get that, but there's no luck Mitigation and that's where the luck comes in.
01:01:44.775 --> 01:01:47.447
I get that, but there's no luck mitigation in the game either.
01:01:47.889 --> 01:01:48.673
Why would there have to be?
01:01:48.673 --> 01:01:50.137
well, it's not a big case.
01:01:50.137 --> 01:01:51.721
You know bad How you have.
01:01:51.760 --> 01:01:52.782
You ever okay?
01:01:52.782 --> 01:01:54.807
Okay, going back to what I'm trying to say, right?
01:01:54.807 --> 01:01:59.626
So I've never had a moment where I pull out of the bag.
01:01:59.626 --> 01:02:01.815
Oh yeah, I got my ranger.
01:02:01.815 --> 01:02:03.079
I never had that.
01:02:03.079 --> 01:02:06.434
Oh, I got my ranger moment you have when I get my my hero.
01:02:06.434 --> 01:02:11.848
You get your, your leader right, yeah, but because he can do things.
01:02:11.888 --> 01:02:13.833
Other people can't he.
01:02:15.195 --> 01:02:19.840
Can do everything, yeah, you know when.
01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:23.835
Even when you get your ranger and you get your other people, they get additional benefits.
01:02:23.835 --> 01:02:39.762
So if you're gonna go to The one where you collect admission and get a bullet, you need a certain worker for that the guy with a But he looks like somebody that has that old Leather helmet that's your ranger.
01:02:40.003 --> 01:02:42.754
Okay, yeah, you need him to do that, to go to that spot.
01:02:42.754 --> 01:02:45.362
There are people that you need the scientists.
01:02:45.362 --> 01:02:53.681
If you want to get extra oils, if you really need oil that time, then you're gonna put your scientists in the.
01:02:53.681 --> 01:02:54.324
I think that's a.
01:02:54.324 --> 01:02:59.065
That's one of the blue spots, so I I find that they're.
01:02:59.065 --> 01:03:01.152
You know that those people are.
01:03:01.152 --> 01:03:02.275
I get that, aha.
01:03:03.176 --> 01:03:03.677
Oh, you do.
01:03:03.918 --> 01:03:09.458
Yeah, i don't think there needs to be any luck in it, because I don't think It's a luck based game.
01:03:09.458 --> 01:03:12.467
Normally, euro games are not, so I'm not expecting that.
01:03:12.467 --> 01:03:17.223
So I'm not expecting that you need to mitigate because a lot of deck builders you don't mitigate.
01:03:17.784 --> 01:03:24.944
Yeah, exactly, exactly, but you do mitigate your luck in the deck builder.
01:03:25.004 --> 01:03:25.766
There's a way to I.
01:03:27.739 --> 01:03:38.027
Don't know, maybe I'm wrong Yeah maybe I'm wrong on that, but I Don't have that aha moment when I, when I pull out, like that's okay like I think you could.
01:03:38.027 --> 01:03:38.627
You could have.
01:03:38.627 --> 01:03:44.865
You can actually get a bad pull and your whole round sucks.
01:03:44.865 --> 01:03:47.420
Yeah, and there's only six rounds in the game.
01:03:47.420 --> 01:03:53.379
Yeah, and there's no way to again Euro based game.
01:03:53.379 --> 01:03:57.534
There isn't a lot of luck in Euro games.
01:03:57.895 --> 01:04:01.882
Well, it's also you knowing what to do with the people you do get.
01:04:01.882 --> 01:04:09.454
Because if you're just gonna get that basic worker, where are you gonna put him to get the most value out of him?
01:04:09.454 --> 01:04:19.048
If you want to get, if you need certain resources, you're gonna stick him in your compound and that's where you could spend an oil to get two bullets.
01:04:19.048 --> 01:04:33.887
That's a good action, but that's something you would stick that worker to do because, unless you're further up in the higher Levels of your compound, you don't really need to use your specialist.
01:04:33.887 --> 01:04:41.827
So I Think it's what you, the strategy is, where you use your people.
01:04:42.996 --> 01:04:53.846
Oh, absolutely gonna do on your turn well, not only that, there's I Don't want to say there's a lot of ways to get points in this game, but there's a lot of different ways you can play the game.
01:04:53.846 --> 01:04:57.278
Yeah, all the times that we've played the game, i've tried a different strategy.
01:04:57.559 --> 01:05:01.297
So if I my last one sucked, You know.
01:05:01.437 --> 01:05:03.896
So There's the.
01:05:03.896 --> 01:05:07.946
Do you want to take the time to invest time in building your compound?
01:05:07.946 --> 01:05:15.754
Oh, there's benefits to that, but I think the more time you spend on that, the less time you're gonna have to complete missions.
01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:17.835
And that's what you get with a Euro game.
01:05:17.835 --> 01:05:18.936
There's a lot to do.
01:05:18.936 --> 01:05:29.565
You have to make that decision and I think that's a good sign of a good Euro game Making those decisions, having to be that thinkiness.
01:05:29.565 --> 01:05:40.882
If it's Only do one thing, if okay, every game, i'm gonna do this, then you don't get that replay ability, then you don't get the Thinkiness, and that is what I mean.
01:05:40.882 --> 01:05:46.723
If you just want to slap some cards out of roll some dice and get your lucky play dice, so that's a different type of game.
01:05:46.723 --> 01:05:51.099
Quacks, a quidlinberg, you pull things from a big, but if you blow up, you blow up.
01:05:51.099 --> 01:05:58.894
Those are different types of games and I would play resurgence because I want that Euro game feel And that's what I get with this.
01:05:58.894 --> 01:06:13.282
I don't see theme in it, but I definitely get that Euro game feel from all those mechanics and I'll stop so adamantly screaming like that because you didn't think I like this game, stan Kordonski, i think you did good job.
01:06:18.135 --> 01:06:20.279
Stan Kordonski, didn't think you liked this game.
01:06:20.279 --> 01:06:22.945
I have a feeling you've been talking to him, or what.
01:06:23.507 --> 01:06:26.882
Well, you know, i'm in that half-king thing.
01:06:28.516 --> 01:06:28.757
What.
01:06:29.695 --> 01:06:30.438
He's got a group.
01:06:30.599 --> 01:06:32.706
Yeah, i'm in that group too, well you know.
01:06:32.827 --> 01:06:34.733
I might get a thumbs up here in there Oh.
01:06:34.994 --> 01:06:37.039
Oh, that's good.
01:06:37.039 --> 01:06:44.158
Um, am I missing anything?
01:06:44.158 --> 01:06:49.219
because there is something I want to talk about, but I want you to give your opportunity to talk about stuff As well.
01:06:49.701 --> 01:06:52.514
Well, okay, and this is where I was gonna bring in the mechanics.
01:06:52.514 --> 01:06:54.539
I don't know if I should save it to the very end.
01:06:54.539 --> 01:07:07.205
But, yes, the mutants and I and I appreciate the fact that the mutants just essentially Take up it you make, takes resources away from you.
01:07:07.205 --> 01:07:20.724
But in the last night's game and this is when you have multiple cards, you maybe get different things on your cards, and we have one of our events There was a mutant in our compound, so it wasn't just pay a research, you know the breach he.
01:07:20.724 --> 01:07:24.949
He literally took up your spot as a spot you wanted to go to.
01:07:25.009 --> 01:07:28.022
So that was but it wasn't mutant, it was you took.
01:07:28.022 --> 01:07:31.641
Oh, you put a survivor there to survivor, You pull somebody out of your bag to do it.
01:07:31.742 --> 01:07:35.817
But but the idea was the mute the event was Yeah, I'm gonna put a mutant in there.
01:07:35.897 --> 01:07:36.599
Yeah, you should have.
01:07:36.599 --> 01:07:40.547
But essentially your person is probably they're repairing the damage at the mutant.
01:07:41.054 --> 01:07:41.355
Okay.
01:07:41.355 --> 01:07:54.103
So what I wanted to my point was going to be the fact is a solo game the mutants will punish you depending on Your actions that you get.
01:07:54.103 --> 01:08:07.221
So there are times that the mutant will If you don't pay certain resources, like here under this whole pilot one, you may pay to ammo or medicine, or the mutant gets three VP.
01:08:07.221 --> 01:08:15.321
So there are things in the solo game that you really, in the leadership boards, you need really need to make careful.
01:08:15.321 --> 01:08:19.528
I Mean there's really not that type of mitigation with those.
01:08:19.528 --> 01:08:31.948
But you do get the opportunity to say I'll pay my ammo, but I'm like I need my ammo for other things, or my health for other things, but it is that mute gives you that negative effect that you would expect In the solo experience.
01:08:32.391 --> 01:08:49.412
Okay, so I'm yeah, so I didn't play the solo side, i just played at the two, so that makes me feel good that the mutants are a little bit more punishing In the solo game could he have integrated that maybe.
01:08:49.412 --> 01:08:52.350
Maybe you know that could be it so I really liked.
01:08:52.350 --> 01:08:56.582
So I really liked that event card that we had.
01:08:56.582 --> 01:08:58.185
That you just explained.
01:08:58.244 --> 01:08:58.546
Okay.
01:08:58.605 --> 01:08:59.186
Yeah, okay.
01:08:59.186 --> 01:09:10.605
So when I first Thought about this game, when I backed it, when I looked at it, i Thought the mutants would play a little bit more sure right Yeah.
01:09:10.605 --> 01:09:25.007
Now, essentially when you're playing a two-player game and a three-player in a floor player game, you draw from the mutant deck, you put your mutant tokens in the certain regions that they're in And when you go there, you just have to give up one resource.
01:09:25.997 --> 01:09:28.454
Pretty much the same as if you were in the same spot.
01:09:28.454 --> 01:09:36.746
I'd give you the resource, or I have to give, give it up, you have to give up a resource so that way, it's not really much different right.
01:09:37.676 --> 01:09:41.024
So I was just kind of like when we first play the game.
01:09:41.024 --> 01:09:42.668
I was just like that's it.
01:09:42.668 --> 01:09:50.619
Yeah, i Guess in my mind I was thinking more of that Fallout shelter game.
01:09:50.981 --> 01:09:51.262
Yeah.
01:09:52.356 --> 01:09:57.288
Where you have all these events that happen in your compound and you have to figure out a way to stop it.
01:09:58.176 --> 01:10:01.525
Yeah, yeah, right again different type of game.
01:10:01.525 --> 01:10:12.005
Yes, Yes, but I understand that they they're probably different things He could have done with those mutants to make it more punishing right, and I'm hoping I mean this game I don't want.
01:10:12.876 --> 01:10:18.318
So as we're going through this, talking about this game, it, it makes it sound like there's I'm disappointed in the game Because I'm really not.
01:10:18.318 --> 01:10:20.768
I'm not, i'm just being critical.
01:10:21.511 --> 01:10:22.535
I really like the game.
01:10:22.735 --> 01:10:28.528
That's okay, i enjoy playing the game and and it's definitely a keeper right It's on my shelf.
01:10:28.528 --> 01:10:32.224
It's on my shelf of post-apocalyptic games.
01:10:32.224 --> 01:10:33.067
Right, it's a keeper.
01:10:33.067 --> 01:10:40.065
Maybe there's I really hope there's.
01:10:40.849 --> 01:10:49.189
There's expansions in the world, it's a little module in the box that we could be playing with we could try that, yeah, there's yeah, and I did look at it.
01:10:49.189 --> 01:10:55.015
So there, yeah, there is a factor in there that might that will make it a little bit more.
01:10:55.015 --> 01:10:58.881
So, yeah, there definitely could be an expansion coming.
01:10:58.881 --> 01:11:03.390
That will definitely make that a little bit more punishing, if that's what you want.
01:11:06.199 --> 01:11:11.625
That's a punishing, just just Relevant, and that's the relevant with the solo.
01:11:11.725 --> 01:11:15.155
so that was when we were thinking about I was thinking about that, i.
01:11:15.155 --> 01:11:20.905
that's why I Acquainted myself with that, this rollo.
01:11:20.905 --> 01:11:27.097
I Reacquainted myself with this solo Rules, rules, yeah.
01:11:27.097 --> 01:11:30.280
the solo act, the mutant actions, that's what they're called Yeah.
01:11:36.672 --> 01:11:38.777
Good, can we move on?
01:11:39.298 --> 01:11:42.025
We can All right, i'm sorry, i actually talked that time.
01:11:42.409 --> 01:11:42.994
No, you're good.
01:11:42.994 --> 01:11:44.025
You should talk more.
01:11:44.025 --> 01:11:46.614
That was a good conversation.
01:11:46.614 --> 01:11:48.270
Angie, you know very good thoughts.
01:11:48.270 --> 01:11:59.092
Now let's move on to the last letter in Chase, and that's E, or entertainment, or replayability, however you want to call it, but that doesn't start with E.
01:11:59.092 --> 01:12:02.535
So what do you think?
01:12:02.535 --> 01:12:06.230
Like I said earlier, you're asking you.
01:12:06.230 --> 01:12:08.630
I'm asking you, but I'll start off.
01:12:08.771 --> 01:12:09.453
Okay, you start off.
01:12:10.025 --> 01:12:14.289
So, like I said during Mechanic the discussion, there's different routes to victory.
01:12:14.289 --> 01:12:25.085
You can take a different play style every time you play until you find one that fits for you Right Now.
01:12:25.085 --> 01:12:30.779
Depending on who you play it with, you might have to adjust your Oh, absolutely.
01:12:30.779 --> 01:12:32.390
You know you might have to adjust it.
01:12:32.390 --> 01:12:39.271
You know, if I wish we had more people to play with, maybe we bring it with us to PhoenixCon, That's an idea.
01:12:39.271 --> 01:12:42.552
Get some people in on there and see how it works at a higher level.
01:12:42.753 --> 01:12:42.993
Yeah.
01:12:44.185 --> 01:12:57.575
However, you know, like I think the the fact that there's different ways to play it those end game directive cards, the missions.
01:12:57.575 --> 01:13:03.596
I think there is a lot of replayability in this game.
01:13:03.596 --> 01:13:24.273
What I really like and I should have maybe talked about this in the Mechanic side of things is you can pull off some pretty cool combos in that game, depending on who your hero is and who the other recruits are.
01:13:24.313 --> 01:13:25.396
That you have Specialists, yep.
01:13:25.536 --> 01:13:26.759
The specialists that you have.
01:13:27.421 --> 01:13:30.570
I mean, you could That was my flaw, i was not playing them.
01:13:31.373 --> 01:13:31.533
Yep.
01:13:31.533 --> 01:13:44.025
So you know I mentioned scarcity of resources, but if you play your people right and you build up your compound or your people, your resistance, whatever you want to call it.
01:13:44.667 --> 01:13:46.512
Yeah, when you buy your heroes, your camp.
01:13:46.532 --> 01:13:47.034
Your camp.
01:13:47.034 --> 01:13:59.794
You could set yourself up for a good combo if you go with your hero here and then you get an extra resource and then another resource for this, and then maybe you fulfill a mission and then you'll get another resource.
01:13:59.794 --> 01:14:02.091
So you could potentially have a big turn.
01:14:02.452 --> 01:14:02.652
Yeah.
01:14:02.813 --> 01:14:12.233
And I think that's neat And that's one thing that I see the potential there, but I haven't been able to pull off a cool combo.
01:14:12.233 --> 01:14:13.315
Does that make sense?
01:14:13.315 --> 01:14:14.276
Yeah Right.
01:14:14.457 --> 01:14:18.493
Yeah, so you can fulfill a mission the same turn that you get it.
01:14:18.493 --> 01:14:23.731
But you can, you know, gain those resources and I have not been able to play.
01:14:23.731 --> 01:14:42.392
I really wanted to play my hero in the right zone, and when to get the extra Mine was like get extra bread when I played it in that battle section, and when I was getting my hero I was needing him in other areas, so that one I didn't get.
01:14:42.392 --> 01:14:44.811
So I wasn't able to do that.
01:14:44.811 --> 01:14:49.025
I was never able to utilize my survivors.
01:14:49.025 --> 01:14:54.872
So another time I play, i could concentrate on that and making sure I got them in the right spot.
01:14:54.872 --> 01:14:59.132
But that, once again, is part of the thinkiness and the strategy behind it.
01:14:59.132 --> 01:15:02.533
Boom, i'm going to end up giving it a higher score than I intended.
01:15:05.816 --> 01:15:10.734
Well, if you think about the last couple of times we played, I did one strategy where I did get a lot of.
01:15:10.734 --> 01:15:13.333
I did recruit a lot of people.
01:15:13.333 --> 01:15:15.716
Yeah, I had a lot of people right.
01:15:15.716 --> 01:15:16.059
Yeah.
01:15:16.059 --> 01:15:21.132
And then there was another time where I went, okay, I'm going to build up my compound.
01:15:21.132 --> 01:15:33.590
Yesterday's strategy was apparently how to suck, but what I was shooting for yesterday was just Instead of getting.
01:15:33.590 --> 01:15:41.279
I did a lot of the moves where you just pick your person.
01:15:41.279 --> 01:15:43.083
Does that make sense?
01:15:43.083 --> 01:15:44.005
What is the one?
01:15:44.871 --> 01:15:47.025
Yeah, the one on the bottom where you get workers.
01:15:47.747 --> 01:15:50.996
Yeah, where you just take a worker and it's not tied to a specialist.
01:15:51.588 --> 01:15:54.025
Yeah, yeah, it's just your basic action with the guy with the fur hat.
01:15:54.507 --> 01:15:56.573
So my first thought was okay, i'm going to.
01:15:56.573 --> 01:15:59.220
I literally had this planned out.
01:15:59.300 --> 01:16:00.025
It was to build a bag.
01:16:00.767 --> 01:16:02.694
Yep, build the bag, Yep.
01:16:02.694 --> 01:16:05.429
So I was going to go in this order It was.
01:16:05.429 --> 01:16:06.136
I have my workers.
01:16:06.136 --> 01:16:08.508
Then the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to get my.
01:16:08.508 --> 01:16:16.914
We're calling them scientists, but they're actually academics, Are you sure?
01:16:16.914 --> 01:16:17.836
I think they're academics?
01:16:17.836 --> 01:16:20.009
Oh, We get our academics.
01:16:20.009 --> 01:16:27.530
And then so I was going to get There's two academic spots or two worker placement spots that an academic can go to.
01:16:28.246 --> 01:16:36.088
So I was like all right, i'm going to get two academics, and then there was two spots on the board and then I was going to be.
01:16:36.088 --> 01:16:39.542
Now I'm going to get my construction workers.
01:16:39.542 --> 01:16:45.316
Okay, and by the time I got to that point, the game was like half done.
01:16:45.877 --> 01:16:46.137
Yeah.
01:16:46.358 --> 01:16:46.518
Right.
01:16:46.518 --> 01:16:52.923
And then I'm looking at the leadership track and I'm like, oh crap, i'm sucking on this, yeah.
01:16:52.923 --> 01:16:56.610
And then I'm looking at the missions and I'm like, oh, i only got two missions done.
01:16:56.610 --> 01:17:12.813
Okay, this is not a good strategy, but I stuck with it to the end, yeah, and I only ended up with like 35 points, right, but I was just trying to Sure, you know.
01:17:12.913 --> 01:17:18.393
Sure, and I don't know, Well, I pushed my compound up all the way up there.
01:17:18.453 --> 01:17:18.935
Yeah, you did.
01:17:19.045 --> 01:17:38.753
And I realized I wasn't fulfilling enough missions then because I was trying to save all my resources and save everything like that to push my compound And it gave me extra points and maybe You know that last turn is when I pushed it up there, so I didn't need that extra worker at the time.
01:17:38.753 --> 01:17:41.231
That would What it gave me, so I was working on that.
01:17:41.231 --> 01:17:51.295
So far then I wasn't doing as many missions as I normally do, so I think that's where I missed out on a lot of points.
01:17:53.358 --> 01:17:57.015
Yeah, but Yeah, I don't disagree with you at all.
01:17:57.015 --> 01:18:02.025
It was cool to see that you got your compound built all the way up to the top level.
01:18:02.025 --> 01:18:16.005
I mean, that's not a, that's a lot of points just for that, but Yeah, so it was interesting to see how we both did poorly yesterday.
01:18:16.887 --> 01:18:17.748
Yeah, absolutely.
01:18:18.770 --> 01:18:22.637
So What do you think?
01:18:22.637 --> 01:18:24.811
What are you thinking about replayability?
01:18:26.173 --> 01:18:28.025
I like it because of the variability of the cards.
01:18:28.025 --> 01:18:30.113
I think it really makes it.
01:18:30.113 --> 01:18:33.360
And will I stick to a?
01:18:33.360 --> 01:18:39.025
I don't know what kind of strategy I would use, but it's one of those.
01:18:39.025 --> 01:18:47.025
It's like I like to try to do everything and I know I can't, but I have a really hard time not sticking to everything.
01:18:47.025 --> 01:18:55.904
So it's going to be one of those, i don't know, because I like getting all the way up, but I don't think it gave me that benefit.
01:18:55.904 --> 01:19:03.985
So it's going to be interesting playing the next time, but I really I think there's a lot of replayability.
01:19:03.985 --> 01:19:06.025
It's not one of those that I said.
01:19:06.025 --> 01:19:15.025
You know, we pulled it off the shelf not just because we want to review it, but because we wanted to play it, and I think that's a sign of a good game.
01:19:15.025 --> 01:19:19.660
And even though that I don't care for the theme, i still wanted to play it.
01:19:20.925 --> 01:19:26.155
Yeah, you've also said the sign of a good game is one that you think about when you're done playing it.
01:19:26.517 --> 01:19:26.677
Yep.
01:19:27.326 --> 01:19:30.953
And I think about that game a lot, so cool.
01:19:30.953 --> 01:19:36.595
All right, let's move on to the moment of truth.
01:19:36.595 --> 01:19:41.436
Okay, do you want me to give you my summary?
01:19:42.239 --> 01:19:43.222
You, have a summary.
01:19:43.483 --> 01:19:44.025
And my score.
01:19:44.326 --> 01:19:46.614
Well, I don't have a summary, so you might as well go ahead.
01:19:46.614 --> 01:19:48.932
I wasn't going to say too much.
01:19:49.927 --> 01:19:50.891
Oh, okay, that's all right.
01:19:50.891 --> 01:19:52.787
Okay.
01:19:52.787 --> 01:20:01.952
so, like I said, i may have been nitpicky in this, but when it's all said and done, this is a solid 10 out of 10 for me.
01:20:02.273 --> 01:20:05.195
Whoa, it is Whoa.
01:20:05.216 --> 01:20:08.000
It is, it is 100%.
01:20:08.000 --> 01:20:13.262
Whoa, so I think about okay, so the theme that sucks me in right away.
01:20:13.643 --> 01:20:13.985
Yeah, it does.
01:20:14.686 --> 01:20:16.251
Already has an advantage.
01:20:16.271 --> 01:20:18.997
It has okay, Because of the theme right, Yep.
01:20:20.829 --> 01:20:28.025
And as far as a Euro game goes, I think it's a Euro game at its purest.
01:20:28.025 --> 01:20:31.333
It's a pure, just straight up.
01:20:32.416 --> 01:20:32.877
Euro game.
01:20:34.248 --> 01:20:37.737
And I think Stan shines with that.
01:20:37.737 --> 01:20:39.690
He shines with that stuff.
01:20:39.871 --> 01:20:40.092
Yes.
01:20:41.025 --> 01:20:45.336
You know, the artwork for me conveys its theme effortlessly.
01:20:45.336 --> 01:21:02.847
It brings me in, it sucks me in And again it's a masterpiece, a masterpiece from Stan Kordansky, it's a masterpiece from Stanislav Kordansky And Stan Stan.
01:21:02.847 --> 01:21:17.135
If you are listening, you know I've already said it, you're undoubtedly one of my favorite designers And you nailed it with this one.
01:21:17.135 --> 01:21:19.791
Really looking forward to Nova Roma.
01:21:19.791 --> 01:21:22.829
Angie, would you rate this game?
01:21:26.105 --> 01:21:28.231
I would rate it in 8.25.
01:21:28.231 --> 01:21:29.716
Okay, it's a good game.
01:21:29.716 --> 01:21:33.494
It's definitely the Euro game that I'd want to pull.
01:21:33.494 --> 01:21:45.316
I am really looking forward to Nova Roma because and Brandon had mentioned you were going to get that flavor of this game with a different theme.
01:21:45.316 --> 01:21:54.018
So I think that might suck me in even more, because I do love he does a great worker placement.
01:21:54.018 --> 01:22:14.025
So I would like to see it with a different theme, although I would definitely always play this even though it's got this theme, because, like I said, i see enough where I can look past it.
01:22:14.025 --> 01:22:23.740
It's just to me it's not oozing apocalypse to a point that I can't get past it.
01:22:23.740 --> 01:22:37.255
If it had zombies running around then I probably would have a difficult time with it, but I like the mutants are there, but they don't get in my way of playing.
01:22:39.065 --> 01:22:41.311
That said, what you talked about playing with more people.
01:22:41.311 --> 01:22:52.865
I think anytime we play like worker placement games, it's got to feel different with more people, because the boards aren't as congested right now And that's almost.
01:22:52.865 --> 01:23:05.025
I think it would give you that almost area control mechanic that I don't like.
01:23:05.025 --> 01:23:08.773
But this way, when they are taking up spots, you're giving up a resource.
01:23:08.773 --> 01:23:10.377
You have to then balance Do I want there?
01:23:10.377 --> 01:23:12.490
See, it's a strategy.
01:23:12.490 --> 01:23:16.471
It's the thinkiness this game gives me, so I really do.
01:23:16.471 --> 01:23:18.712
It's a solid 8.25.
01:23:19.226 --> 01:23:26.355
And I think another reason why it would be a 10 for me is now again, we've only played it with two people, but I can't imagine it being any different with three or four people.
01:23:26.375 --> 01:23:26.976
It would be tighter.
01:23:29.377 --> 01:23:31.025
I think you're going to be using your resources more.
01:23:31.025 --> 01:23:36.953
You're not going to be able to get your toast all the way up to your resource tracker top of your resource tracker or your bread.
01:23:37.226 --> 01:23:39.932
Like I said, those resources aren't easy to get.
01:23:40.856 --> 01:23:55.979
Yes, but I think when I say it's a Euro game at its purest, it is, and what I like about it is it's not a Euro game that you're going to have a big time investment into.
01:23:55.979 --> 01:23:59.914
I think it's short, but it scratches that.
01:24:00.476 --> 01:24:00.817
It does.
01:24:02.088 --> 01:24:02.569
It's got a good.
01:24:02.569 --> 01:24:11.518
You know I'm thinking 45 minutes, right, at least 45 with two people probably looking at maybe an hour hour and 15 with a higher player count.
01:24:11.518 --> 01:24:21.968
You could probably get more than one playthrough in this in a game night if you played with a group, if your game was digging it and you wanted to do it again, or if not.
01:24:21.968 --> 01:24:23.070
It gives you a good.
01:24:23.070 --> 01:24:26.255
It gives you an opportunity to get more than one game into your game night.
01:24:26.436 --> 01:24:27.436
Yeah, right, yeah.
01:24:29.125 --> 01:24:29.968
But still scratch that Euro game itch.
01:24:31.152 --> 01:24:33.369
Exactly, it's not ARC Nova long.
01:24:34.092 --> 01:24:34.333
Right.
01:24:35.326 --> 01:24:36.729
For me Mars long.
01:24:36.769 --> 01:24:40.838
Yep Agreed, so yeah, cool.
01:24:40.838 --> 01:24:44.633
What did you think about the chase scale, angie?
01:24:45.274 --> 01:24:46.477
It was delightful.
01:24:46.658 --> 01:24:50.673
Yeah, is it a keeper or is it just a back to the drawing board?
01:24:50.834 --> 01:24:51.877
No, no, no, it's cute.
01:24:51.877 --> 01:24:57.591
It's cute, It's individual, it's unique, So that's fine.
01:24:57.811 --> 01:24:59.215
Okay, well, i guess we're keeping it.
01:24:59.215 --> 01:25:03.077
We're keeping it, we're going to keep chase and Gackpan.
01:25:03.077 --> 01:25:03.820
Gackpan.
01:25:04.483 --> 01:25:04.985
Gackpan.
01:25:04.985 --> 01:25:06.533
All right, Angie.
01:25:09.747 --> 01:25:11.994
I guess that wraps up this episode.
01:25:11.994 --> 01:25:14.975
That was our review of resurgence.
01:25:14.975 --> 01:25:21.005
A post apocalyptic masterpiece by the one and only Stan Kordonsky.
01:25:21.005 --> 01:25:24.515
I don't know if anybody calls him this, but we could just call him the Don.
01:25:24.515 --> 01:25:31.338
I don't know if that's a thing or not, but I don't know.
01:25:32.185 --> 01:25:34.935
Stan, we have our socials.
01:25:34.935 --> 01:25:39.377
We're on our email, chasing meeples at yahoocom, and you know what?
01:25:39.377 --> 01:25:42.025
You're local, you're from Wisconsin.
01:25:42.025 --> 01:25:47.938
If you'd like to head up to Appleton, wisconsin, we will be at Phoenixcom.
01:25:47.938 --> 01:25:49.650
We'd love to play a game with you there.
01:25:51.025 --> 01:25:56.025
July 13th through the 16th at the Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton, wisconsin.
01:25:56.025 --> 01:25:59.774
We'll bring resurgence and we'll get us a table.
01:25:59.774 --> 01:26:05.412
Anyway, that would be pretty sweet, actually, that would be actually really awesome.
01:26:05.412 --> 01:26:12.025
But yes, so I don't know what we have planned in the works for next episode.
01:26:12.025 --> 01:26:15.673
Angie, do you have any thoughts on what we're going to be talking about next time?
01:26:16.496 --> 01:26:16.576
No.
01:26:17.767 --> 01:26:18.048
All right.
01:26:18.048 --> 01:26:19.774
Well then, I guess it is the mystery.
01:26:19.774 --> 01:26:21.852
It's going to be a mystery.
01:26:21.852 --> 01:26:30.538
I don't want anybody listening to this podcast, any of our meekle chasers, to lose sleep over what our next episode is going to be about, it'll be good.
01:26:30.597 --> 01:26:32.005
No matter what it is, it'll be good.
01:26:32.266 --> 01:26:33.250
It will be good.
01:26:33.250 --> 01:26:37.365
All right, and Phil Phil Walker, harding Phil Angie.
01:26:37.365 --> 01:26:39.573
Still, she needs to get some beauty sleep.
01:26:39.573 --> 01:26:41.631
Oh yeah, i'm so low.
01:26:46.007 --> 01:26:46.950
I need to sleep.
01:26:46.950 --> 01:26:56.807
I just need to know that you need to score your highest contiguous group and not every group of teal.
01:26:58.748 --> 01:27:06.478
Oh God, all right, i promise next time I'm going to behave and I'll be nicer, although this is some good stuff.
01:27:06.478 --> 01:27:08.128
All right, everybody.
01:27:08.128 --> 01:27:09.012
thanks for listening.
01:27:09.012 --> 01:27:10.791
Keep chasing those meeples.
01:27:11.052 --> 01:27:11.453
Bye.
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01:27:36.530 --> 01:27:40.355
Yeah, i just got done listening to your review of resurgence.
01:27:40.355 --> 01:27:47.891
I know you really tried hard on this one, but what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.
01:27:47.891 --> 01:27:55.109
At no point in your rambling, incoherent review were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
01:27:55.109 --> 01:28:01.296
No one who tuned in is now dumber for having listened to it, just like you bombed Angie's quiz.
01:28:01.296 --> 01:28:04.963
I award you no points And may God have mercy on your soul.
01:28:04.963 --> 01:28:06.841
Talk to you later, man.