Full Transcript for The 2nd Annual Christmas Extravaganza and Nova Roma

00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:05.870 There might be one person I got to get another gift for, but other than that, I mean feeling pretty good about it, looking forward to it. 00:05:06.701 --> 00:05:09.648 I've had a couple of missteps this past couple of weeks. 00:05:09.648 --> 00:05:19.733 When it came to Christmas shopping, I wasn't as maybe organized as the right word as in former years. 00:05:19.733 --> 00:05:24.908 I made several errors, several mistakes. 00:05:24.908 --> 00:05:32.250 While getting Christmas presents, I bought several gifts a few for you that well, frankly, you already had. 00:05:32.250 --> 00:05:39.509 I did one of those, and this is maybe this is the part about shopping online. 00:05:40.420 --> 00:05:46.692 I was shopping at a particular store online and I filled up my shopping cart. 00:05:46.692 --> 00:05:56.692 I wasn't sure what we're called like flavors whether it's a smell or taste, how many to get or what ones to put in my cart. 00:05:56.692 --> 00:05:58.935 I suppose you're not girly, so let's say they were candles. 00:05:58.935 --> 00:05:59.915 They're not. 00:05:59.915 --> 00:06:14.552 So I filled up my cart with all sorts of different smells, like vanilla to tea and a whole bunch of things, and as I go through my cart, I was going to take things out, decide, okay, I don't want this one, I want that. 00:06:14.552 --> 00:06:16.024 I did not do that. 00:06:16.024 --> 00:06:47.120 I pressed the purchase button and I had too many, too many things in there, and now I wound up with probably not quite triple the amount of things that I wanted, but certainly double the amount of items that I was going to buy my co-worker, and so I kind of made a few mistakes, a few errors in my Christmas shopping experience. 00:06:47.845 --> 00:06:52.088 See, normally you're on top of it I normally am Like you are on the ball. 00:06:53.170 --> 00:06:54.120 But I got everything in the mail. 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:56.810 I'm waiting on one thing to come in the mail. 00:06:56.810 --> 00:07:00.764 That was kind of a custom order type of thing, and that one is on the way. 00:07:00.764 --> 00:07:11.213 Should actually, I don't know if I was supposed to be here today, but that one is on the way, the one I was worried about for one of my brothers. 00:07:11.213 --> 00:07:12.959 Otherwise, everything was here. 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:16.100 I had things I bought at Etsy that came on time. 00:07:16.100 --> 00:07:18.495 So I am essentially done. 00:07:18.495 --> 00:07:19.120 It's just a lot of wrapping. 00:07:20.023 --> 00:07:24.065 That is my least favorite part, angie. 00:07:24.065 --> 00:07:26.079 You make it look easy. 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:29.067 I, on the other hand, am sweating. 00:07:29.269 --> 00:07:30.011 Yes, you were. 00:07:30.521 --> 00:07:32.067 And I was stressed out. 00:07:32.601 --> 00:07:39.791 I was doing some work in the kitchen when you were trying to wrap something in the other room and I heard your mom telling you to cut the paper. 00:07:39.791 --> 00:07:42.100 You're going to have too much paper, You're not going to have enough. 00:07:42.100 --> 00:07:46.791 And I was like you're like wrestling with a roll of paper or something. 00:07:46.791 --> 00:07:48.730 And then you're complaining about the tape. 00:07:49.939 --> 00:07:55.913 Yeah, because having somebody sit there and tell you exactly what you should be doing when you're already frustrated, you know that's the key. 00:07:55.913 --> 00:07:57.966 That's the key to helping somebody through something. 00:07:58.360 --> 00:07:59.846 You chose to wrap at that moment. 00:08:00.944 --> 00:08:02.475 It was either now or never. 00:08:02.495 --> 00:08:03.100 It's the way I look at it. 00:08:03.641 --> 00:08:04.646 Then or not at all. 00:08:04.646 --> 00:08:07.367 I have, I have. 00:08:07.367 --> 00:08:11.120 I had enough courage to do it at that point in time. 00:08:11.220 --> 00:08:14.809 I suppose I was out of the room and you're like, okay, she's over there. 00:08:14.990 --> 00:08:15.170 Yes. 00:08:15.170 --> 00:08:21.120 So next time no to self, next time grandma comes over to visit. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:25.120 Not a good time to wrap presents. 00:08:25.901 --> 00:08:38.826 Well, I decided to do a lot of things in bags this year so I wasn't going to be overwhelmed with wrapping, and bags aren't necessarily hugely, and we did go to five below to get bags, so it would be a little bit more economical. 00:08:38.826 --> 00:08:46.120 But once you're buying, you know if you go to start and pick up one bag, you're like, oh, that's no big deal, it's, you know, a couple of bucks. 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:55.388 When you buy a lot of bags at once, suddenly you realize when you're checking them out that that really adds up and maybe I should just wrapped everything instead. 00:08:55.388 --> 00:09:01.120 Since I've sitting here with a plethora of wrapping paper, I maybe should have just wrapped them instead. 00:09:01.883 --> 00:09:05.106 That's okay, although bags work easier. 00:09:05.106 --> 00:09:09.850 It's just quick you open it up, grab the tissue paper to throw it out and there's your present. 00:09:09.850 --> 00:09:12.846 So I see your point on why you did that this year. 00:09:13.207 --> 00:09:25.212 I did wrap, though I wrapped several things, it wasn't just it was like odd size things, and I tried to do our sons and bags, because sometimes he doesn't always like to open up his presents. 00:09:26.543 --> 00:09:30.365 I do believe there's still a present no I would finally get rid of the wrapped presents. 00:09:30.365 --> 00:09:31.346 We did, it took us a year. 00:09:31.346 --> 00:09:31.847 Good. 00:09:33.532 --> 00:09:34.522 Here's the thing it's going to. 00:09:34.522 --> 00:09:35.807 I don't want to knock on wood. 00:09:35.807 --> 00:09:38.408 I can't knock on wood right now because it'll bump everything. 00:09:38.408 --> 00:09:49.120 That this isn't the one year, because every once in a while it happens where he sits there

and he's like another present, Like he'll get through these so fast. 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:56.371 It's suddenly he'll like be waiting for something else to open up and some years it's like unwrap one present and he's gone. 00:09:56.371 --> 00:09:57.173 That's it. 00:09:57.355 --> 00:09:59.120 Yep and he is done with the Christmas. 00:09:59.863 --> 00:10:01.028 So it'll be interesting. 00:10:01.861 --> 00:10:05.149 But enough about Christmas wrapping presents and all that stuff. 00:10:05.149 --> 00:10:08.847 I'm sure that is engaging. 00:10:08.847 --> 00:10:10.051 I know it is. 00:10:10.500 --> 00:10:13.934 Everybody wants to know how I failed at Christmas shopping this year. 00:10:14.155 --> 00:10:14.376 It is. 00:10:14.376 --> 00:10:27.753 It is relatable though, so hopefully there's somebody else out there like giving you a high five, air high, virtual high five, and then I know that there's got to be a listener out there that sweats as much as I do in the wrapping presents. 00:10:28.139 --> 00:10:31.462 I just hope that some other people have better FedEx drivers than we do. 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:48.601 Christmas, christmas, christmas, christmas, christmas, christmas. 00:12:02.441 --> 00:12:03.705 Quiz time. 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:10.206 Oh yeah, angie, what do you think about that Christmas wishmite? 00:12:11.400 --> 00:12:12.163 Well, you know what? 00:12:12.163 --> 00:12:13.942 There's no pressure. 00:12:13.942 --> 00:12:18.120 None on you Three minutes song there, no pressure at all. 00:12:18.321 --> 00:12:25.120 No, no pressure on you, but plenty of pressure on me and, quite honestly, I'm ready for it. 00:12:25.442 --> 00:12:26.948 Well, you know I could have saved some money. 00:12:26.948 --> 00:12:33.120 If that's all you really wanted was to Max points, I would have dumbed this down and saved the money on your Christmas presents. 00:12:33.301 --> 00:12:35.087 Yeah, no, no, no, no dumbing it down. 00:12:35.087 --> 00:12:41.452 Make sure that if your quiz is dumbed down, raise that up brain level 10. 00:12:41.452 --> 00:12:45.811 I don't know how to put that, but Max, max, whatever, just make it harder. 00:12:46.461 --> 00:12:46.903 It's. 00:12:46.903 --> 00:12:52.102 It's not going to become real difficult, especially Well. 00:12:52.102 --> 00:12:53.668 You'll hear later. 00:12:53.668 --> 00:12:57.120 All righty, there is going to be a Max 20 points. 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:04.511 Each question is worth two points, but there will be a bonus five point question at the end. 00:13:07.236 --> 00:13:08.177 Say that one more time. 00:13:08.177 --> 00:13:12.120 Max points Already like I'm already stressed out here, this is like 20 points. 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:17.866 I've been waiting all year for this, angie, and just hold on, let me just soak it all in. 00:13:17.866 --> 00:13:19.365 Let me soak it all in. 00:13:19.365 --> 00:13:22.849 Started over a max of 20 points 20 points, okay. 00:13:23.311 --> 00:13:28.726 Each question is worth two,

okay, and there will be a five point bonus at the end. 00:13:31.004 --> 00:13:32.087 Now just to be clear. 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:34.024 Well, no see Max points 20. 00:13:34.024 --> 00:13:34.745 You get 20. 00:13:35.147 --> 00:13:35.868 That's Max points. 00:13:35.908 --> 00:13:36.408 Max points. 00:13:36.450 --> 00:13:37.672 And then there's the bonus points. 00:13:38.967 --> 00:13:43.100 That's like, my, that's like the 25, but if you get to 20, you've hit Max points. 00:13:43.100 --> 00:13:51.614 Oh if you hit, if you get the bonus, well then you're like super max, superior, already something. 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:52.179 I'm. 00:13:52.179 --> 00:13:54.605 I got a. 00:13:54.605 --> 00:14:02.149 There was like an extra gift tucked behind the Christmas tree that that Santa brought that nobody saw until the end. 00:14:02.149 --> 00:14:05.304 Yes, it's like my red rider BB gun. 00:14:05.365 --> 00:14:06.427 There you go, there you go. 00:14:06.427 --> 00:14:11.038 Yes, exactly, I'm ready. 00:14:12.211 --> 00:14:15.100 Whenever you are, I've, I'm done hyperventilating. 00:14:15.100 --> 00:14:24.658 My heart rate is now down to a normal point and I am now 100% focused on you and the quiz. 00:14:24.958 --> 00:14:25.100 Okay. 00:14:25.100 --> 00:14:43.971 The 1987 American comedy film, written, produced, directed by John Hughes, tells a tale of Neil, a high, strong marketing executive, and Dell, the good hearted salesman, become traveling companions when their flight is diverted. 00:14:43.971 --> 00:14:46.441 What is the name of the movie? 00:14:47.981 --> 00:14:54.089 Plains, trains and automobiles Good answer Go to Goldfish. 00:14:55.596 --> 00:14:57.883 Now, this is a dual question. 00:14:57.883 --> 00:14:59.125 Here Are there two answers. 00:14:59.125 --> 00:15:02.782 What are the names of Neil and Dell? 00:15:05.985 --> 00:15:06.855 Well, Neil and Dell. 00:15:07.716 --> 00:15:09.461 Yeah, no, what are the actors? 00:15:09.461 --> 00:15:13.041 Who are the actors who played Neil? 00:15:15.376 --> 00:15:15.818 And Dell. 00:15:16.019 --> 00:15:16.380 And Dell. 00:15:16.995 --> 00:15:24.780 Okay, dell was John Candy and Neil was oh my gosh, I know him. 00:15:24.780 --> 00:15:26.857 He's got gray hair. 00:15:26.857 --> 00:15:29.384 He looked like he was old when he was in his 20s. 00:15:29.384 --> 00:15:31.658 Oh, steve Martin. 00:15:31.658 --> 00:15:33.543 How did I not know that Like right away? 00:15:33.543 --> 00:15:34.426 Oh my goodness. 00:15:34.875 --> 00:15:36.578 Okay, all right, take a deep breath. 00:15:36.578 --> 00:15:37.601 Take a deep breath. 00:15:37.601 --> 00:15:46.178 Okay, what city are they going to Look at your face? 00:15:46.178 --> 00:15:49.404 Suddenly look at your face. 00:15:49.404 --> 00:15:51.227 You just drop off. 00:15:53.058 --> 00:15:53.922 Oh, wow. 00:15:54.504 --> 00:15:54.745 Okay. 00:15:55.638 --> 00:15:57.143 No quiz, no hints, nothing. 00:15:57.222 --> 00:15:57.703 No hints. 00:15:57.855 --> 00:15:58.658 No, no,

nothing. 00:16:00.576 --> 00:16:03.182 I mean, I thought you would get this because we just played a game. 00:16:05.918 --> 00:16:07.703 You think I was paying attention to that. 00:16:07.703 --> 00:16:12.960 I was just trying to figure out a slide, a shower curfew and ring across the table. 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:27.177 Oh my gosh, this is it folks, this is it I'm going to say a city in I hope I am right Chicago, you are right. 00:16:27.238 --> 00:16:28.321 You are right. 00:16:28.321 --> 00:16:32.320 You are at eight points, chris, you are at eight points. 00:16:34.096 --> 00:16:36.703 Oh, okay, I'm ready. 00:16:37.216 --> 00:16:38.798 Are you sure you need to take a minute? 00:16:39.861 --> 00:16:40.803 No, take a drink of water. 00:16:40.803 --> 00:16:42.086 I'm going to take a drink of water. 00:16:42.086 --> 00:16:49.065 Okay, all right, let's go. 00:16:49.894 --> 00:16:54.404 What does John Candy's character Dell sell? 00:18:04.017 --> 00:18:09.578 Well, shower curtain rings, okay, All right, wait, what am I on? 00:18:09.578 --> 00:18:10.521 What question am I on? 00:18:11.515 --> 00:18:12.860 I didn't know where you got 10 points. 00:18:12.860 --> 00:18:16.001 So then you must be on question, you must be like on the fifth one. 00:18:16.722 --> 00:18:17.143 Oh gosh. 00:18:17.163 --> 00:18:18.125 There's a second question. 00:18:18.125 --> 00:18:18.727 Had two parts. 00:18:19.535 --> 00:18:21.669 There are 10 more points to go, all right. 00:18:22.495 --> 00:18:24.461 Okay, the next one is a multiple choice. 00:18:25.535 --> 00:18:26.941 Oh, these are the ones I always mess up. 00:18:27.495 --> 00:18:34.983 Their plane was diverted to which Midwest city, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Detroit or Wichita? 00:18:40.379 --> 00:18:49.259 Oh, it's not Milwaukee, it's not Cleveland. 00:18:50.656 --> 00:18:54.497 Maybe it is Cleveland, oh gosh. 00:18:58.495 --> 00:19:07.682 This is not my answer, but I want to tell you my mind and I'm going to keep my eyes closed because I don't want to look at your face my mind keeps is shouting Wichita. 00:19:07.682 --> 00:19:20.437 But there is this part of my brain right on like I'm going to say it's the back left of my head that the word Cleveland is like no, you idiot, it is Cleveland. 00:19:20.437 --> 00:19:32.495 I really wish I watched that movie more or played attention to him. 00:19:32.495 --> 00:19:35.624 Played attention when we played. 00:19:36.595 --> 00:19:37.599 Second guess yourself. 00:19:39.917 --> 00:19:46.142 It's Cleveland, oh no, it's Wichita, you second guessed yourself. 00:19:46.998 --> 00:19:48.307 You second guessed yourself. 00:19:48.307 --> 00:19:55.021 Oh, chris, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I second guessed myself. 00:19:55.656 --> 00:19:59.121 I listened to that little voice, I listened to that little voice. 00:19:59.717 --> 00:20:03.420 Oh your gut, oh my God, I feel so bad. 00:20:03.420 --> 00:20:04.203 It's all right. 00:20:04.884 --> 00:20:07.542 It's fine, angie, it's okay. 00:20:07.662 -->

00:20:11.063 Okay, max points are 20, so you can make it up with the bonus. 00:20:11.063 --> 00:20:13.259 You can make it up with the bonus. 00:20:13.278 --> 00:20:14.502 You can make it up with the bonus. 00:20:14.502 --> 00:20:15.545 Use your bonus All right. 00:20:16.495 --> 00:20:18.963 Neil and Dell have to share a motel room. 00:20:18.963 --> 00:20:23.346 What one thing did not happen. 00:20:24.518 --> 00:20:24.739 Okay. 00:20:27.136 --> 00:20:37.963 Beer spilled, a burglar steals her cash, dell mistakenly takes Neil's credit card or the bed breaks. 00:20:44.419 --> 00:20:45.021 Beer spilled. 00:20:47.038 --> 00:20:49.064 Ooh, you can still make it up Is it, the bed breaking. 00:20:49.064 --> 00:20:49.826 The bed breaking. 00:20:50.167 --> 00:20:50.467 Okay. 00:20:51.137 --> 00:20:53.182 You still have a chance to make it up with that bonus. 00:20:53.483 --> 00:20:54.326 I do, I do. 00:20:55.516 --> 00:20:57.038 On the bus to St Louis. 00:20:57.038 --> 00:21:01.845 Dell raised cash by selling his shower curtain rings. 00:21:01.845 --> 00:21:02.666 As what? 00:21:04.368 --> 00:21:04.788 Earrings. 00:21:05.470 --> 00:21:06.171 There you go. 00:21:06.171 --> 00:21:08.943 You got that. 00:21:08.943 --> 00:21:12.475 So you have two, four, six, eight, 10. 00:21:12.475 --> 00:21:14.282 So you have 12 points. 00:21:14.282 --> 00:21:34.009 While driving, which did not happen the car starts on fire, dell drives in the wrong direction on the freeway, dell uses Neil's credit card to rent a car, or Dell hits a deer that gets stuck in the window. 00:21:35.097 --> 00:21:36.001 What's the second option? 00:21:37.256 --> 00:21:42.244 The second option is Dell uses Neil's credit card to rent a car. 00:21:46.250 --> 00:21:48.341 No, read them all one more time. 00:21:48.361 --> 00:21:50.518 Okay, dell drives in the wrong direction. 00:21:51.381 --> 00:21:52.264 That totally happened. 00:21:53.176 --> 00:22:02.309 Dell used Neil's credit card to rent the car, or Dell hits a deer that gets stuck in the window. 00:22:02.309 --> 00:22:04.599 Car starts on fire. 00:22:06.098 --> 00:22:07.041 Yeah, that was the first one. 00:22:07.295 --> 00:22:08.797 The first one is car starts on fire. 00:22:08.817 --> 00:22:09.679 Yeah, you forgot to tell me. 00:22:09.719 --> 00:22:10.340 I say that one. 00:22:10.600 --> 00:22:13.785 No, okay. 00:22:14.085 --> 00:22:14.987 Car starts on fire. 00:22:15.047 --> 00:22:16.148 Here's the craziest thing. 00:22:16.148 --> 00:22:30.223 Okay, right now, in my mind, the movie Tommy Boy and this movie are like they're meshing because one of them happened in the other movie. 00:22:30.223 --> 00:22:32.328 I knew it. 00:22:32.696 --> 00:22:33.076 Do you know what? 00:22:33.076 --> 00:22:41.387 To tell you the truth, when I was creating this quiz, I had to look up to see which one happened in what movie. 00:22:47.863 --> 00:23:01.407 I have to go with the car started on fire because I remember that in no that did happen in planes, trains and automobiles Did not happen. 00:23:01.407 --> 00:23:05.703 The deer happened and the deer did not happen in plane, trains and automobiles. 00:23:05.723 --> 00:23:06.745 You got it. 00:23:06.745 --> 00:23:16.640 You got it Because the car that started when it started on fire, del, had used Neil's credit card that there was going to have to take care of the fire damage. 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:18.264 Yep, all right. 00:23:18.264 --> 00:23:24.217 So you were up to 12 points, all right. 00:23:24.217 --> 00:23:37.938 What does Neil barter for his hotel room, his wedding ring, his watch, his cuff links, or his cashmere coat, his watch? 00:23:37.938 --> 00:23:42.484 All right, good job. 00:23:42.484 --> 00:23:44.426 Ding ding, ding, you're at 14 points. 00:23:46.068 --> 00:23:48.151 Okay, I'm at 14 points, I think. 00:23:48.151 --> 00:23:51.074 Yeah, that doesn't sound, right, that doesn't sound right, let me count again 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16. 00:23:51.094 --> 00:23:51.495 So you're at 16. 00:23:51.495 --> 00:24:01.229 Here's the five point bonus question. 00:24:01.229 --> 00:24:03.599 If you get it right, it takes you to 21. 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:10.382 Del attempts to barter his watch. 00:24:10.382 --> 00:24:14.000 What was the brand name of his watch? 00:24:15.884 --> 00:24:17.858 Okay, all right Angie. 00:24:17.858 --> 00:24:24.483 I have to think time period right. 00:24:24.684 --> 00:24:24.903 Yeah. 00:24:24.903 --> 00:24:30.082 So there's like, when you watch these, when you watch, no, it's not a Rolex, because then it wouldn't be funny. 00:24:30.896 --> 00:24:36.655 All right, so Rolex was probably like Niels. 00:24:37.196 --> 00:24:38.820 Niels is called a PJ. 00:24:39.021 --> 00:24:40.043 Oh, PJ Okay. 00:24:40.144 --> 00:24:40.565 Like that. 00:24:41.735 --> 00:24:47.721 You know, I'm going to say it, what I'm going to say, casio. 00:24:47.721 --> 00:24:51.371 That's it, that is it 21 points, you did it. 00:24:51.632 --> 00:25:13.396 21 points, you did it 21 points Wow. 00:25:26.264 --> 00:25:27.407 Hey, that feels good. 00:25:27.407 --> 00:25:30.695 All right, I got myself Max points. 00:25:31.416 --> 00:25:32.777 Moist flats and long luggy. 00:25:32.797 --> 00:25:55.417 Daddy, what love is master? 00:25:55.417 --> 00:25:55.859 Is that sweet? 00:25:55.859 --> 00:26:08.805 It's time for Captain, angie and Chris, talking of games you don't wanna miss. 00:26:08.805 --> 00:26:13.902 From the classics to the new, every game's a ride. 00:26:13.902 --> 00:26:17.180 With Angie, air-christ, we're in for life to life. 00:26:17.180 --> 00:26:21.085 Laughter and joy are sometimes a fight. 00:26:21.085 --> 00:26:24.907 Trying to stand and tell you what we play at night. 00:26:27.796 --> 00:26:33.397 All right, everybody, it is time for GackPan Games. 00:26:33.397 --> 00:26:36.105 Angie and Chris play at night. 00:26:36.105 --> 00:26:41.602 Angie, we've been playing, we well, let's be honest, we haven't got a lot of games in, we haven't. 00:26:41.602

--> 00:26:42.786 We've just been busy. 00:26:42.786 --> 00:26:50.447 We got a lot of stuff going on, but when we do get a chance to play, what have we been playing, especially this month? 00:26:50.876 --> 00:26:52.001 Well, I'm going to. 00:26:52.001 --> 00:26:54.755 We're not gonna talk about Nova Roma, that's the big one. 00:26:54.755 --> 00:26:59.315 So what I'm gonna concentrate is what we did the other night, and that was our Christmas games. 00:26:59.315 --> 00:27:05.259 So we didn't even get all of our Christmas games played, but we got several new ones and we got those played. 00:27:05.259 --> 00:27:10.305 So we played Family Vacation Scramble. 00:27:10.305 --> 00:27:13.735 Oh gosh what do you think of that game? 00:27:13.795 --> 00:27:16.725 That game is horrible. 00:27:17.037 --> 00:27:18.675 I think that was a game you actually wanted to quit. 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:21.148 I actually wanted to quit that game. 00:27:21.148 --> 00:27:21.570 It doesn't happen. 00:27:21.590 --> 00:27:23.557 I don't think there's everybody game you really wanted to quit. 00:27:23.557 --> 00:27:28.302 No you literally wanted to quit tell everybody what Family Vacation. 00:27:28.402 --> 00:27:30.935 First of all, where the heck did you even find that game? 00:27:31.357 --> 00:27:32.696 Kohl's, kohl's. 00:27:32.696 --> 00:27:33.178 But you know what? 00:27:33.178 --> 00:27:37.011 At TJ max they have that game and a whole bunch of other genre. 00:27:37.011 --> 00:27:43.112 Like they have an elf one, I think they have a spongebob one the same game, different like IP slapped on it. 00:27:43.473 --> 00:27:45.398 Yeah, like I'm assuming. 00:27:45.498 --> 00:27:46.762 I'm assuming it's. 00:27:46.762 --> 00:27:49.048 Yeah, it's one of those. 00:27:49.048 --> 00:27:55.005 You know it says strategy game on it, so I thought it was decent. 00:27:55.005 --> 00:28:00.535 It is Technically like a role in move game but you are collected, set collecting. 00:28:00.535 --> 00:28:12.713 So you're collecting different sets of the scenes in the in the game or scenes of the movie, and if you get like a set of three you can put your. 00:28:12.713 --> 00:28:27.903 You can Move so many spaces because the cards all have a space designation and maybe you get some cards you can move around the board and you can put one of your old tokens On the scene that the card is of. 00:28:27.903 --> 00:28:29.527 Yeah, it's really bad. 00:28:29.527 --> 00:28:32.804 We did not play the long game, we played the short game. 00:28:33.895 --> 00:28:36.963 It is bad thankfully it's bad and I didn't even want to. 00:28:36.963 --> 00:28:38.105 We didn't finish it. 00:28:38.105 --> 00:28:38.988 No, we did finish it. 00:28:39.656 --> 00:28:40.298 I wait yeah. 00:28:40.819 --> 00:28:44.326 I like, I sucked it up and I finished the game. 00:28:44.508 --> 00:28:44.708 Yeah. 00:28:46.037 --> 00:28:46.901 Oh, the short game. 00:28:46.961 --> 00:28:47.604 It was bad. 00:28:49.656 --> 00:28:50.619 It was bad that's just. 00:28:50.619 --> 00:29:09.897 It's one of those cash grab games for Christmas, and I'm yeah, I actually had a little bit of like I don't want to say hope, but I did hope that when we first, when you first, started setting it up, I was like this might actually be a game, there might be a little bit of game in it, but it was so bad. 00:29:09.897 --> 00:29:11.523 It was so bad. 00:29:11.523 --> 00:29:12.125 You the. 00:29:12.125 --> 00:29:14.601 Yeah, I didn't want to talk about it. 00:29:14.681 --> 00:29:18.299 Next, then we played Plains trains and automobiles. 00:29:18.299 --> 00:29:22.028 That's why I thought for sure you were going to get the witch talk question correctly. 00:29:22.028 --> 00:29:29.395 It was interesting when you would have got witch a talk from would have been the score or the round track. 00:29:29.475 --> 00:29:40.401 There's like a little round tracker where you move a bus forward and as you you win a game, you move it forward, and if you lose a game you round round. 00:29:40.401 --> 00:29:48.747 And then you well, they actually call them games, yeah you flip over the card and it's like a fiery bus, and if you get two of those, you lose. 00:29:49.977 --> 00:29:51.262 Um you're the bus and not a car. 00:29:51.262 --> 00:29:52.757 It's a car. 00:29:53.420 --> 00:29:59.425 It's a car, um, so yeah, you go through like three cities before you get to chicago. 00:29:59.425 --> 00:30:01.801 That one was interesting. 00:30:01.801 --> 00:30:10.300 The fact that there were different ways each Game around is play. 00:30:10.300 --> 00:30:13.488 You have different conditions, like what you were saying during the quiz. 00:30:13.488 --> 00:30:18.738 There was one that literally you have a hand of cards on the table and you can look. 00:30:18.738 --> 00:30:27.364 You have to spin a shower curtain Ring and for as long as it's spinning, you can look at your cards and that's all the time you have to do that. 00:30:27.364 --> 00:30:36.228 Now, I could not spin the ring and it wouldn't have been very long, but you actually, you actually the game may have been, but you were very good at spinning a shower curtain ring. 00:30:37.515 --> 00:30:41.046 That's one of those talents that I don't like to show off. 00:30:41.046 --> 00:30:46.166 But that game yes, that game made me have to show off my talents of spinning shower curtain. 00:30:46.535 --> 00:30:47.141 That was a cooperative game. 00:30:47.141 --> 00:30:48.333 That was a cooperative game. 00:30:48.333 --> 00:30:52.042 It was you know some limited communication on some of them. 00:30:52.042 --> 00:30:52.723 So there were a little. 00:30:52.723 --> 00:30:54.867 It was interesting not horrible. 00:30:54.867 --> 00:30:56.049 No, it wasn't horrible. 00:30:56.556 --> 00:30:59.477 I would say keep it, pack it away. 00:30:59.477 --> 00:31:01.022 Yeah, play it again next year. 00:31:01.062 --> 00:31:08.105 Yeah, exactly, then we played dice throne santa versus crampus. 00:31:09.257 -->

00:31:10.200 Always awesome. 00:31:11.896 --> 00:31:13.442 I was crampus this year. 00:31:13.442 --> 00:31:19.458 Mm-hmm, I don't like just the character of crampus, so there was something that took it away from me. 00:31:19.458 --> 00:31:23.146 But, um, did you win or I win? 00:31:23.326 --> 00:31:23.909 Santa won. 00:31:24.701 --> 00:31:28.626 Santa always wins, because I always play Santa and I usually win. 00:31:28.626 --> 00:31:32.726 Yep, santa, I think he's just like a workhorse. 00:31:32.726 --> 00:31:33.408 That's what I would say. 00:31:33.408 --> 00:31:35.673 He's just a workhorse, he's not overly complicated. 00:31:35.673 --> 00:31:45.867 Sometimes, when you add those like Krampus has got a special deck that you can, you know, use characters in, and that doesn't make him better. 00:31:45.867 --> 00:31:56.555 And then the final game Santa's Workshop, santa's Workshop. 00:31:56.555 --> 00:32:04.469 Now, let's be honest, we really did not get through the whole game, and it wasn't because it was a game that we quit out of like disgust or anything. 00:32:04.469 --> 00:32:05.832 It was our timing. 00:32:05.832 --> 00:32:16.589 We started, I started it like late at night, I started putting it together and saying, okay, I know how to play it, and we played it and then, literally, we had to go pick up our son from something. 00:32:16.589 --> 00:32:24.484 So it was not that we didn't finish it because it was a family vacation, or I should it, chris, is it a family vacation? 00:32:24.484 --> 00:32:25.687 Scramble to you? 00:32:25.928 --> 00:32:27.721 Absolutely not I. 00:32:27.721 --> 00:32:30.008 I enjoyed the little bit of chance that we had to play it. 00:32:30.008 --> 00:32:34.971 I wanted to get it back to the table before Christmas and play the game. 00:32:34.971 --> 00:32:36.061 I think it. 00:32:36.061 --> 00:32:38.326 It's a good. 00:32:38.326 --> 00:32:41.953 It's not hard by all means. 00:32:42.140 --> 00:32:45.809 We played the advanced version, but it is a good game. 00:32:45.809 --> 00:32:46.652 There's game to it. 00:32:46.652 --> 00:32:57.333 It's not a holiday knockoff game and I think it would be a decent game if they put a regular theme on it. 00:32:57.333 --> 00:33:01.409 Yeah, I think because of the theme, you're not going to get people play it all year long. 00:33:02.140 --> 00:33:09.672 And it's nice, like it's competitive, but it's also not cutthroat. 00:33:10.300 --> 00:33:13.650 It's nice If we were to have actually finished the game. 00:33:13.650 --> 00:33:14.634 There might have been more. 00:33:14.634 --> 00:33:17.626 I could maybe give a little bit more critique on the game. 00:33:17.626 --> 00:33:42.880 I think at one point, when I got to my last elf no, it wasn't elf, it was the helper, or whatever one of my last workers, I felt like there was nothing else for me to do except pick a toy, and probably not in the grand scheme of things, probably not bad To be forced to pick more toys because there's no limit. 00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:43.922 Those are the resources. 00:33:43.922 --> 00:33:49.272 No, it's the oh the cards, the cards, okay, the toy card. 00:33:50.360 --> 00:33:53.470 And I think in the grand scheme of things it's not a bad thing. 00:33:53.470 --> 00:34:04.710 But the way my mind works is whenever we play games like that I don't know if you ever notice, I guess we'll call it contract fulfillment I usually like to finish one before I get another. 00:34:05.051 --> 00:34:07.509 Yeah, with that one you can have what I say, five all at once. 00:34:07.509 --> 00:34:08.494 Yeah, you do. 00:34:08.494 --> 00:34:12.128 I was thinking of like Lord of RIT, but yeah, you usually have one sitting there in year. 00:34:12.309 --> 00:34:15.384 Yep, it's that one strategy of mine. 00:34:15.384 --> 00:34:16.407 It's the one. 00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:19.748 You never even thought about that until you said that, but that is true. 00:34:20.579 --> 00:34:21.262 So now my new. 00:34:21.262 --> 00:34:24.630 I guess I got to start thinking about New Year's resolutions. 00:34:24.630 --> 00:34:30.050 Maybe my New Year's resolution is to have a second strategy for all of our games. 00:34:31.445 --> 00:34:33.639 Well, that was going to be at the end of the show. 00:34:33.639 --> 00:34:35.965 I was going to ask you about your New Year's gaming resolution. 00:34:35.965 --> 00:34:40.293 But yeah, Okay, yeah maybe Maybe develop another strategy. 00:34:40.539 --> 00:34:41.925 Maybe develop another strategy. 00:34:41.965 --> 00:34:45.326 yes, but I did enjoy the game and I do definitely want to play it again. 00:34:45.387 --> 00:34:45.626 Was that? 00:34:45.626 --> 00:34:47.251 It Is that all we played? 00:34:47.579 --> 00:34:50.889 Probably not, but I was concentrating on those games. 00:34:51.402 --> 00:34:52.385 Oh, we played perfect. 00:34:52.579 --> 00:34:53.302 We were up at the nursery. 00:34:53.302 --> 00:34:54.326 We were at the nursery. 00:34:55.300 --> 00:34:56.686 Yeah, let's talk about that a little bit. 00:34:56.686 --> 00:34:57.824 What do you think about that game? 00:34:58.842 --> 00:35:01.304 Oh, that's interesting, it's interesting. 00:35:02.300 --> 00:35:03.505 So that's the perfect wave. 00:35:03.505 --> 00:35:10.773 I think the OP or the OP, however you pronounce it produced or published that game. 00:35:11.500 --> 00:35:11.949 Is it? 00:35:11.949 --> 00:35:13.041 I think so. 00:35:13.041 --> 00:35:15.070 I can't see the picture. 00:35:15.070 --> 00:35:18.094 I don't think I have it in the picture. 00:35:18.279 --> 00:35:21.543 No, but keep talking and I'll look it up If it's wrong. 00:35:21.543 --> 00:35:22.547 Future Crystal comes with it. 00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:24.802 It's an interesting game. 00:35:24.802 --> 00:35:28.972 I don't really know. 00:35:28.972 --> 00:35:33.490 I don't really think I can compare it to anything you have. 00:35:33.490 --> 00:35:43.851 It's going to look like, maybe only a timeline that's what it's going to look like and you're

trying to lay cards out, essentially sequentially. 00:35:43.851 --> 00:35:53.565 You need to go from lowest to highest with your cards, because those are going to represent you swimming out. 00:35:53.565 --> 00:36:07.045 Essentially, you're swimming out, paddling out on the surfboard, so you need to keep your cards in an order where you can go one, two, three, six, but you can only go up to 12. 00:36:07.045 --> 00:36:08.425 So you can repeat the number. 00:36:08.425 --> 00:36:15.952 You could go one, two, three, three, six, but you can never go one, two, three, two. 00:36:15.952 --> 00:36:20.710 So you have to try keeping ascending up in an order. 00:36:20.710 --> 00:36:32.761 And then you're also going to play trick cards above those, and so essentially, when you're surfing backwards, you're doing tricks and you're gaining different points. 00:36:32.761 --> 00:36:35.726 That way there are some end game goals. 00:36:35.726 --> 00:36:39.588 So it's got a little strategy to it. 00:36:40.819 --> 00:36:42.085 It wasn't difficult. 00:36:42.085 --> 00:36:44.085 I thought it was okay. 00:36:44.085 --> 00:36:46.079 It was interesting. 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:47.404 I'm glad we played it. 00:36:47.404 --> 00:36:50.079 I'm glad we didn't buy it first. 00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:53.710 It would have been one of those that I would have been disappointed had we bought it. 00:36:53.710 --> 00:36:57.025 I know, I think you saw it one time you said oh, I heard stuff. 00:36:57.025 --> 00:37:01.487 I heard about this game, so I'm glad that you didn't buy it. 00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:07.632 Me to okay is probably the best way to describe it. 00:37:07.980 --> 00:37:08.260 For us. 00:37:08.260 --> 00:37:10.648 I don't think there's enough game to it for me. 00:37:11.099 --> 00:37:16.010 Well, I don't even think there's enough fun in it for me, right? 00:37:16.010 --> 00:37:19.885 I would not say I did not, I did not have fun playing it. 00:37:21.040 --> 00:37:25.181 That's a good way to think about, because we can play really simple games and have fun with them. 00:37:27.139 --> 00:37:29.586 To me it felt like an activity in math. 00:37:29.586 --> 00:37:32.672 Yeah, I'm not there, not for me. 00:37:32.672 --> 00:37:34.842 Sorry, reiner Kinnitze, I know you're a big fan. 00:37:34.842 --> 00:37:43.784 However, math not my favorite thing if I just want to relax and play a game, and that's all I got to say about that. 00:37:43.784 --> 00:37:47.750 Oh, we busted out dungeon mayhem. 00:37:47.750 --> 00:37:52.590 We have not played that game and we haven't played that game probably since 2020. 00:37:52.590 --> 00:37:57.089 We played that at Bricks the restaurant. 00:37:57.089 --> 00:38:03.181 We're starting to get this reputation as the people who play games when they come in and eat. 00:38:03.181 --> 00:38:08.100 I don't want you guys to think that Angie and I go out often Wednesday night. 00:38:08.100 --> 00:38:17.385 Our son has youth group and we bring him there and then, instead of just going home, we go find somewhere to eat, and we don't do it every Wednesday night. 00:38:17.385 --> 00:38:18.608 That's kind of what we do, yeah. 00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:21.487 Now that gets expensive if we do it every night. 00:38:22.020 --> 00:38:27.492 But it's fun to watch, like the normal servers that work in those restaurants. 00:38:27.619 --> 00:38:29.746 Yeah, they stop and ask no, what is this game? 00:38:29.826 --> 00:38:30.348 What are you playing? 00:38:30.348 --> 00:38:34.996 How do? 00:38:35.096 --> 00:38:36.420 I play this oh. 00:38:55.446 --> 00:38:57.331 Oh, it's me Santa again. 00:38:57.331 --> 00:39:05.951 It's time for the review of Nova Roma, a masterful game crafted by the renowned Stan Kordonsky. 00:39:05.951 --> 00:39:16.467 In Nova Roma, strategy and foresight rule the day as you construct palaces, race chariots and vie for imperial favor. 00:39:16.467 --> 00:39:19.646 Will Nova Roma earn their seal of approval? 00:39:19.646 --> 00:39:22.346 Thank you, meeple chasers. 00:39:22.346 --> 00:39:39.085 As Chris and Angie reveal their thoughts in a review filled with surprises, insights and maybe a few laughs along the way, will this be a game to remember or a ghost of Christmas past? 00:39:41.067 --> 00:39:47.973 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh. 00:39:51.807 --> 00:39:55.587 Oh Okay, Chris, are you ready? 00:39:56.083 --> 00:39:57.339 Oh, angie, I am ready. 00:39:57.740 --> 00:40:03.431 All right, well, let's dig into Nova Roma by Stan Kordonsky. 00:40:03.431 --> 00:40:06.246 Artwork by the Micho. 00:40:06.567 --> 00:40:09.605 The Micho, not an Amicho and adjacent artist. 00:40:09.605 --> 00:40:12.498 No, actually the Micho like. 00:40:12.659 --> 00:40:13.623 Yes, yes. 00:40:14.379 --> 00:40:16.284 There might be another video. 00:40:16.284 --> 00:40:21.827 There might be a video somewhere out there on the internet where board game covers are getting rated. 00:40:21.827 --> 00:40:26.069 And yeah, You're going there. 00:40:26.069 --> 00:40:28.025 Oh, Angie, I'm going there. 00:40:28.025 --> 00:40:30.507 I'm not gonna say who or what. 00:40:30.940 --> 00:40:34.072 We won't say what, yeah, what channel what channel. 00:40:34.072 --> 00:40:37.725 Well known personality in the board game See now you're going way deep into this. 00:40:37.725 --> 00:40:38.208 Oh am I. 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:40.820 Yeah, like well, okay, sure, sure, sure. 00:40:40.820 --> 00:40:51.692 Yeah, there may have been a discussion of whether or not the Meech-O was a good representation of the Meech-O's artwork. 00:40:51.692 --> 00:40:53.244 I mean, I don't know how to put it. 00:40:53.244 --> 00:40:55.565 You had made a comment when we were watching that. 00:40:55.565 --> 00:41:04.128 I don't know what's more of an insult telling an artist that they don't like their artwork or telling them that they're a cheap copy of themselves. 00:41:04.128 --> 00:41:07.824 But I went there. 00:41:07.923 --> 00:41:09.203 Angie, Good you did.

00:41:09.203 --> 00:41:10.862 See, that's something. 00:41:10.862 --> 00:41:13.489 I would push the boundaries and you did it. 00:41:14.040 --> 00:41:15.244 Oh yes, I'm the rebel. 00:41:15.244 --> 00:41:17.665 This time, I'm the boundary pusher. 00:41:17.819 --> 00:41:23.264 Every once in a while I gotta push you out of your box, Off the chair, out of your box. 00:41:23.264 --> 00:41:24.629 All that good stuff. 00:41:24.759 --> 00:41:25.402 So Nova Roma. 00:41:25.402 --> 00:41:29.869 This was a game that fulfilled this year. 00:41:29.869 --> 00:41:31.463 It was a Kickstarter. 00:41:31.463 --> 00:41:41.364 Another, like you said, another Stan Kordonsky game published by Half a Kingdom Games, and it's. 00:41:41.364 --> 00:41:43.510 I can't tell you what it is yet. 00:41:43.579 --> 00:41:46.188 I can't tell you because we haven't done our review yet. 00:41:46.359 --> 00:41:48.454 Nova Roma is a. 00:41:48.454 --> 00:41:56.583 It is a power pack game and it's one of those games that's going to play over a series of five rounds. 00:41:56.583 --> 00:42:03.807 The winner gets the most points, obviously, and most of those points are gained at the end of the game. 00:42:03.807 --> 00:42:09.096 So it's one of those things that you're not going to really know who wins until you're at the end. 00:42:09.096 --> 00:42:10.643 It's one of those things you know. 00:42:10.643 --> 00:42:22.769 You're kind of looking at yourself and we've did that before when we looked at each other and said, oh, I think I got this one, and then you score all those points and you may have won or you may have lost, but you don't really know until the end of the game. 00:42:22.931 --> 00:42:24.961 Each person is going to get their own player board. 00:42:24.961 --> 00:42:27.346 They get a mosaic board. 00:42:27.346 --> 00:42:31.023 They're going to get three petitions. 00:42:31.023 --> 00:42:32.469 They get an artisan. 00:42:32.469 --> 00:42:35.923 You're going to get your starting money, depending on player count. 00:42:35.923 --> 00:42:43.668 You're going to get two cards and you're going to get three mosaic tiles and they're in a graduated order. 00:42:43.668 --> 00:42:46.121 There's a tier one, tier two and a tier three. 00:42:46.121 --> 00:42:48.906 The cards and the tiles can be. 00:42:48.906 --> 00:42:50.830 Now we always just do random. 00:42:50.830 --> 00:43:02.685 We just do random, but you can do a draft, sort of draft, with your mosaic tiles and we just do random, but those are very, very important and that's something you want to really keep your eye on. 00:43:02.685 --> 00:43:04.253 There are a couple extra steps. 00:43:04.454 --> 00:43:09.916 When a two-player game, we play two players, so there's always additional petitions. 00:43:09.916 --> 00:43:18.666 Two players are going to get, but you have a big main board and the focus of it is the forum in the center, which is a grid. 00:43:18.666 --> 00:43:23.179 There also are several different areas of the board. 00:43:23.179 --> 00:43:27.315 There is a hippo drum track, if that's what it's called. 00:43:27.315 --> 00:43:35.630 There is a black sea where you have a map that you have two ships to go around to score some points, and then there are some shipping cards that go with that. 00:43:35.630 --> 00:43:39.783 So those are two areas that have racing in the game. 00:43:39.783 --> 00:43:52.806 There is a building area where you can build cards, build zoning cards, contract cards, and then you also can put some blocks out for an area, majority area. 00:43:53.408 --> 00:44:00.847 In that part of the game you can buy some follower cards or one of the actions that you can take. 00:44:00.847 --> 00:44:04.563 There are state tiles that go on the production board. 00:44:04.563 --> 00:44:25.746 Your production board is part of your player board and that in itself is also a grid and you're going to work it, similar to the forum board where you're going to take your worker, whether it's your artisan or patrician, and you're going to place it on a space and then you get what's there, vertical or horizontal, during the forum. 00:44:25.746 --> 00:44:28.132 It's going to be the actions. 00:44:28.132 --> 00:44:31.616 That's how you can do your action selection on your production board. 00:44:31.616 --> 00:44:43.907 You're going to get whatever resources, whether it's money or the resources, what there's wheat, wine, a horse head. 00:44:43.947 --> 00:44:44.509 Yeah, the horses. 00:44:45.652 --> 00:44:48.737 Brick no, no, rock and wood. 00:44:48.737 --> 00:44:58.048 I think those are the and on your player board that is a resource track and I kind of like the resource track instead of just having a lot of resources. 00:44:58.048 --> 00:45:01.176 I kind of like that. 00:45:01.176 --> 00:45:13.679 And then you have a I always forget, I want to say victory track, but it's an influence track as well on your player boards and you can go up and down the influence track. 00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:26.059 You can spend the influence points to gain end game points on your mosaic board or you can just keep going up on the influence track and get points out. 00:45:26.059 --> 00:45:32.452 There are so many way and yeah, it is kind of you know what I'm gonna call you know, kind of point salad, but I love that type of game. 00:45:33.056 --> 00:45:44.639 Not saying what my feelings about this game whatsoever, but so then you're also, besides your player board, you have this little mosaic board which is so important to your gameplay. 00:45:44.639 --> 00:46:06.027 So, as I was saying, there's three levels to it and you're gonna think of that almost as tic-tac-toe, because on each level there are going to be three conditions on each level and as your levels go down like one, two, three they're going to be a little bit more complicated. 00:46:06.027 --> 00:46:19.889 For example, one of the bonuses could be three shipping cards, three building cards, and then you can put a token there, which

are the achievement tokens. 00:46:19.889 --> 00:46:21.561 Is that, yeah, their achievement tokens? 00:46:21.561 --> 00:46:23.606 And you can put those. 00:46:23.606 --> 00:46:30.250 Now, if you can make three in a row or three horizontally, you get extra points at the end of the game for those. 00:46:30.250 --> 00:46:39.853 So that's really a way to build up points and even if you can't do like the tic-tac-toe action, you still get points based on where you put those achievements. 00:46:39.853 --> 00:46:48.452 So if you gain achievement, if you get to this point where, okay, I've got three shipping cards, I'm gonna put my achievement marker on there. 00:46:48.855 --> 00:46:51.061 Really important, you do not want to skip that part. 00:46:51.061 --> 00:46:54.871 All these areas are important part of this game. 00:46:54.871 --> 00:46:57.329 You really can't ignore anything. 00:46:57.329 --> 00:47:01.487 Once again, not trying to give my review right now, just to tell you how you play it a little bit. 00:47:01.487 --> 00:47:07.426 So then, on your turn, you're gonna play place your patrician there in the form. 00:47:07.426 --> 00:47:15.152 You take your vertical action on your horizontal action you also have is he an emperor? 00:47:15.152 --> 00:47:15.853 Is that what he is? 00:47:15.853 --> 00:47:16.682 The Constantine? 00:47:17.023 --> 00:47:17.645 he's an emperor. 00:47:17.806 --> 00:47:26.192 He's on your forum board as well, and if he's in the same row or column you just kind of double up so your action is more powerful. 00:47:26.192 --> 00:47:29.027 So you have a lot of choices there were. 00:47:29.027 --> 00:47:30.329 You know how powerful. 00:47:30.329 --> 00:47:31.500 Which action do you want? 00:47:31.500 --> 00:47:33.525 Or do you want to take an action that's more powerful? 00:47:33.525 --> 00:47:43.956 So after, for a two player game, after your turns over, you're gonna put one your extras on there, kind of blocking off an area, which kind of is what it's. 00:47:43.956 --> 00:47:51.103 You know it's mimicking what would happen if you play in a larger player count game and then you go back and forth like that. 00:47:51.103 --> 00:47:58.996 At the end of your turn you always have the option then of putting one of your achievements on the mosaic board. 00:47:58.996 --> 00:48:01.626 Essentially that's how you play the game. 00:48:01.626 --> 00:48:03.011 Am I forgetting anything? 00:48:04.116 --> 00:48:06.166 no, I think you got everything really good on that. 00:48:06.166 --> 00:48:08.317 I guess I want to hop right into gameplay. 00:48:08.317 --> 00:48:10.808 All right, this game's got some really good gameplay. 00:48:10.808 --> 00:48:24.286 It lasts five rounds and I think in each, each of those rounds there is tension, and what I mean by that is, you know, the heart of the game is that the forum right. 00:48:24.708 --> 00:48:37.092 Like Angie said, you place the emperor based on there's two choices that you can there's emperor tiles, and

then the first player flips it over and chooses which space to put it on correct. 00:48:37.132 --> 00:48:39.445 The tile tells you there's two spaces you can put it on. 00:48:39.445 --> 00:48:40.808 First player picks that. 00:48:40.808 --> 00:48:43.911 So there's a little bit of tension there, at least for me. 00:48:43.911 --> 00:48:45.860 Okay, where is Angie gonna put it? 00:48:45.860 --> 00:48:47.605 Where are you gonna put this emperor token? 00:48:47.645 --> 00:49:18.627 that might determine where I'm gonna go on this round but yeah, it also blocks up a spot other than you know but it also takes up a spot, yeah, and then, once you think you know where you want to go, because essentially there are there's like three different competitions in this game that you have to try to manage and you have to choose whether or not you're going to go heavy in the hippodrome or if you're gonna focus on sailing this game or if you're gonna focus on construction. 00:49:18.627 --> 00:49:27.987 You can't do it all, but there's three competitions that you have to manage, because we've already established that I only have one strategy. 00:49:27.987 --> 00:49:38.681 My win-loss record let me put it this way, my win-loss record shows that one strategy does not work for this game. 00:49:38.681 --> 00:49:40.184 You have to. 00:49:40.184 --> 00:49:42.951 I think that, which I'm kind of hopping all over the place. 00:49:42.951 --> 00:49:46.608 But going back to the tension, there's a spot, you know. 00:49:46.648 --> 00:49:51.851 So Angie will place her, her worker, her patrician, on a sail action. 00:49:51.851 --> 00:49:55.342 Okay, now, that essentially blocks that sail action. 00:49:55.342 --> 00:50:01.321 Okay, well, now I think to myself I've got, I want to focus on sailing. 00:50:01.321 --> 00:50:09.724 So now I've got two other chances to put my worker, when it comes to my turn, into that sail action. 00:50:09.724 --> 00:50:14.192 But no, like Angie said, you then have to. 00:50:14.192 --> 00:50:23.451 The active player then has to take another colored worker to represent a higher player count and they place that worker. 00:50:23.451 --> 00:50:29.922 There has been plenty as times when we play that game that I am sitting there in my head going don't put it there, don't put it there, do you? 00:50:29.922 --> 00:50:30.484 Don't put it there? 00:50:30.826 --> 00:50:37.145 you know what I think only twice and I mean two times out of the complete game. 00:50:37.145 --> 00:50:39.810 Have I ever purposely blocked you off? 00:50:40.612 --> 00:50:41.221 but do you? 00:50:41.621 --> 00:50:45.958 but you, I think that, so that tension is self-inflicted for sure. 00:50:46.117 --> 00:50:48.545 I try to play it cool like I'm not gonna. 00:50:48.545 --> 00:50:52.020 I'm not gonna act like I don't want her to put it there. 00:50:52.020 --> 00:51:06.039 I don't know if my, if I'm that transparent that you know where I don't want you to put it, or not, like if I'm burning a hole

in the, in the game mat or the board of the spot that I don't want you to put your, your worker, in. 00:51:06.139 --> 00:51:09.815 That's why you have to be able to have a loose bobbin weave. 00:51:09.815 --> 00:51:13.469 Okay, if you put it here, I'm gonna go here well, I try that. 00:51:14.292 --> 00:51:23.237 I try that I'm able to change on the fly doesn't mean it affects anyway, but so I like that. 00:51:23.237 --> 00:51:29.418 I enjoy that part of the game which I think that adds to the replayability of the game as well. 00:51:29.418 --> 00:51:32.976 I think this game's got a very high replay value on a replay. 00:51:32.976 --> 00:51:33.659 I think it does. 00:51:34.141 --> 00:51:35.766 I love it you know. 00:51:35.967 --> 00:51:48.365 And then there's the in our last episode, when we said we weren't gonna talk too much about it, but since we're on, since we're on this forum, it's the petition action, I believe. 00:51:48.365 --> 00:51:54.203 Where you give up your influence, you have to spend influence. 00:51:54.203 --> 00:52:07.880 And I remember I totally thought I won our first game because of the tie and I thought it was oh, because I was the youngest, I totally won because youngest. 00:52:08.181 --> 00:52:12.250 Yes, no, because the youngest wins the tiebreaker. 00:52:12.250 --> 00:52:39.424 Yeah, but you pointed out to me that the first win condition when you go into the ties it's the influence is the influence level and I remember our first game I had my influence, I want to say, was either maxed out, yeah, and I said to you you are spending that influence on a not want to spend this influence because I don't want it to come back to bite me, but I did. 00:52:40.465 --> 00:52:41.007 I did it. 00:52:41.007 --> 00:52:54.721 I did it so I could take one of the seven actions, and it came back to get me at the end can also, you know, come back to get you. 00:52:54.762 --> 00:52:55.684 You're on the basic board. 00:52:55.684 --> 00:53:08.262 If you want to get, if you want to get an action some of their there's the action, some where you can put your achievement is like, okay, you need to be up to eight, but you're going to lose three of them. 00:53:08.262 --> 00:53:14.784 So that's one of the other things with the influence track that can you spend them? 00:53:14.784 --> 00:53:18.117 I think you can also spend them for other things, right? 00:53:18.117 --> 00:53:21.528 Yeah, I could tell you were like you did not want to spend that influence. 00:53:21.528 --> 00:53:22.982 You were so happy. 00:53:22.982 --> 00:53:25.195 I think you even said something when you got up to eight. 00:53:25.195 --> 00:53:32.643 You're like I hear yep, you were so proud you were pushing yourself up to the highest on the influence track. 00:53:32.643 --> 00:53:39.007 I think you were just gonna try to sit there you know, I think the forum is done really well. 00:53:40.652 --> 00:53:41.315 Really well. 00:53:41.315 --> 00:53:44.362 I think Stan Kordonsky is got he. 00:53:44.362 --> 00:53:46.808 He made a good decision to go that route. 00:53:46.808 --> 00:53:54.528 Good design, like like my opinion, stan, like good job, stan. 00:53:54.528 --> 00:53:59.565 Thank you, chris, whoever you are, but anyway I think that's cool. 00:53:59.565 --> 00:54:03.462 If you don't mind, angie, I'd like to talk about the like I mentioned before. 00:54:03.462 --> 00:54:05.152 There's three competitions going on. 00:54:05.152 --> 00:54:07.542 You're sailing on the Black Sea map. 00:54:07.542 --> 00:54:08.967 That's one competition. 00:54:08.967 --> 00:54:12.518 That is one that I like, the sailing. 00:54:12.518 --> 00:54:16.590 I, if you notice, sailing and constructing. 00:54:16.590 --> 00:54:18.036 Those are like what I do. 00:54:18.036 --> 00:54:21.322 I'm building up no aroma or I'm sailing. 00:54:21.322 --> 00:54:31.326 I don't do the hippodrome very much that might be because you get those. 00:54:31.867 --> 00:54:35.737 Okay, let me think about the chariot chariot tokens. 00:54:35.737 --> 00:54:46.955 So if you're up highest on that track at the end of the round you get these chariot tokens and they're each were three points, which doesn't seem like a lot. 00:54:46.955 --> 00:54:53.001 But if you're up there, you know that's, you know that could be, you know, depends how many you get. 00:54:53.001 --> 00:54:56.257 I mean, it does take you a while to like a two-player game. 00:54:56.257 --> 00:55:00.855 There's always that third quote, unquote third player that starts ahead of you. 00:55:00.855 --> 00:55:06.942 But once you get, you know far enough on that track and that's kind of one of the other end game. 00:55:06.942 --> 00:55:09.978 That's not a condition, but you only have five of those on there. 00:55:09.978 --> 00:55:23.096 So you know once you get down there that you're heading to the end of the game and and each when you flip over those chariot, it each has a different symbol relating to the hippodrome track, because there's three different tracks. 00:55:23.096 --> 00:55:27.235 So you have to make that decision which one am I gonna go up and stuff like that. 00:55:27.235 --> 00:55:29.502 That might be one of your fatal flaws. 00:55:29.583 --> 00:55:30.905 Yes, it could be. 00:55:30.905 --> 00:55:47.993 It absolutely probably is, because I think that's also the only way that you can get your those tokens that you put on the the achievement tokens. 00:55:48.494 --> 00:55:56.130 You need to go further up, but you have to make sure you have enough horses, because to go further up you have to have enough horse heads and the mosaic board. 00:55:56.170 --> 00:55:57.375 I think that that you know. 00:55:57.375 --> 00:56:04.380 Moving on to the mosaic board, I like how you compared it to tic-tac-toe, because it does kind of have that tic-tac-toe element right. 00:56:04.380 --> 00:56:10.170 But I'm still salty about the last game that we played but that's not the game's fault. 00:56:10.230 --> 00:56:22.471 It's not the

game's fault, it's me, it's totally me, 100% me, but I had some really hard to get achievements and I felt like there was so much going on that I couldn't. 00:56:22.471 --> 00:56:30.961 I could do the first row easily, but anything beyond that was like what I have to get six, I have to have six followers. 00:56:30.961 --> 00:56:39.224 Okay, here, holy cow and six, six followers and that mosaic board really has to dictate. 00:56:40.489 --> 00:56:43.277 You know how you said you love building, you love sailing. 00:56:43.277 --> 00:56:48.973 Your mosaic board has to dictate what you're doing in the game. 00:56:48.973 --> 00:56:57.751 So if your board does not have a lot of sailing on it, if it does not have a lot of building on it, that's where you need to kind of change your focus. 00:56:57.751 --> 00:57:11.833 You're building, you know your, your mosaic board might have a lot of hippodrome check, and now you're you're not looking at those cherry tokens, you're not looking at the end game race tokens and you're not looking at your mosaic board. 00:57:11.833 --> 00:57:19.212 Your mosaic board has to dictate what you do and not, oh, I love to build. 00:57:20.755 --> 00:57:26.510 You have to look at the mosaic board and that's why the mosaic board changes every time you play. 00:57:26.510 --> 00:57:28.286 That's where that repeal ability is. 00:57:28.286 --> 00:57:31.721 That mosaic board's gonna change, so it's gonna change your focus. 00:57:31.721 --> 00:57:33.022 It has to. 00:57:33.022 --> 00:57:39.333 You have to pay attention to that and you can't just be. 00:57:39.333 --> 00:57:50.001 You know I shouldn't be giving you the hint, because I win this game and, like our other games we play, I'm always certain I win the first game and I lose the rest. 00:57:50.001 --> 00:57:50.764 Well, guess what? 00:57:50.764 --> 00:57:58.954 I have not lost the rest of the games of this game, so I should not be giving you hints it sounds so simple, angie. 00:58:02.022 --> 00:58:04.929 I don't know if I actually thought of that last time I played. 00:58:04.929 --> 00:58:18.985 Well, every time we play Interesting, I might have to start winning, though We'll give you guys an update on that one. 00:58:18.985 --> 00:58:27.411 The fact that I haven't won this game does not Change my rating or my feelings on the game. 00:58:27.411 --> 00:58:29.699 Anything else you want to talk about on gameplay, angie? 00:58:30.101 --> 00:58:37.940 This game has got resource management, hand management, you're going to race, you're gonna have that area majority and you have worker placement. 00:58:37.940 --> 00:58:57.183 So these there's so much here combine in one game and I'm comparing it a little bit to endless winter and how that's got the Area where you take your worker placements and you go off and there is a terrain board and Monolith board. 00:58:57.183 --> 00:58:59.527 This is seamless. 00:58:59.527 --> 00:59:09.926 This or sometimes that may seem a little maybe disjointed, like you could drop the terrain board and you would Maybe affect anything this is seamless. 00:59:10.067 --> 00:59:13.233 This forum is your heart of the game. 00:59:13.233 --> 00:59:22.007 It is the heart of the game and everything off that you do with its building or sailing or production comes off that form and it is. 00:59:22.007 --> 00:59:25.712 It works all these things into it. 00:59:25.712 --> 00:59:35.174 You takes that worker placement and you're working off with the like said area control in the racing areas and it works so seamless. 00:59:35.174 --> 00:59:37.882 It is so Okay. 00:59:37.882 --> 00:59:42.125 I don't want to tell you if I like the game or not, but it's really he. 00:59:42.125 --> 00:59:48.119 I'm trying to do this, but not letting you know if I like this game or not. 00:59:49.284 --> 00:59:57.772 I think I know and I think it seamless is really the best way, because it doesn't seem like there's an area that, oh, if you drop it it wouldn't matter. 00:59:57.772 --> 01:00:05.333 It really is iterated really well and that's you know, I would stress to people. 01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:11.947 This is one of those games where I hate to say it this way, because it matters in all games, but it it matters. 01:00:11.947 --> 01:00:16.070 Yeah it matters because, yes, 100%. 01:00:16.070 --> 01:00:22.373 Before we move on to the rest of it, why don't you talk about your soul, your experience with the solo mode? 01:00:23.801 --> 01:00:32.405 It may be and I don't want to use the word simple, but it is a elegant solo experience. 01:00:32.405 --> 01:00:42.679 You take the emperor tiles, which you turn over on your first turn, for your average turn, and this is where you are deciding where to put the emperor. 01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:46.656 So when you're playing solo, you're going to use all the tiles. 01:00:46.656 --> 01:00:48.648 You're not going to just choose five, you're going to use all of them. 01:00:48.648 --> 01:00:55.197 And then you Do the same thing you turn over tile and decide where you're going to put the emperor. 01:00:55.197 --> 01:01:04.772 Based on that, the next tile on there is going to determine where your first Legionnaire goes. 01:01:04.772 --> 01:01:10.019 So now you have legionnaires that are going to Muck up your board and you don't know where they're going to go. 01:01:10.019 --> 01:01:12.498 So after every turn, you're putting a legionnaire out. 01:01:12.498 --> 01:01:14.793 So that's all you're doing. 01:01:14.793 --> 01:01:20.635 You're putting the legionnaires out there blocking area and you're playing your game. 01:01:20.635 --> 01:01:23.578 And you're playing your game, and so it's pretty quick. 01:01:25.628 --> 01:01:27.616 So it's pretty quick turns are very quick. 01:01:27.657 --> 01:01:28.179 Yeah, that my mistake. 01:01:28.179 --> 01:01:29.763 My mistake was. 01:01:29.804 --> 01:01:31.769 I never looked to see how the legionnaire scored points. 01:01:37.208 --> 01:01:44.652 So I didn't realize how many

points the legionnaire got at the end of the game and I didn't take into account. 01:01:44.652 --> 01:01:45.797 Okay, I'm going to do this. 01:01:45.797 --> 01:01:50.992 Legionnaire is going to grab points from Me not doing certain things. 01:01:50.992 --> 01:01:52.478 I mean, legionnaire, you really have to pay attention. 01:01:52.478 --> 01:02:00.179 I always recommend looking at the legionnaires and Really pay attention of how they're going to score points and having that in the back of your mind. 01:02:00.699 --> 01:02:08.146 The other thing here's my other tip you get the production board, you get a state tiles and you put them on your production board and you do this. 01:02:08.146 --> 01:02:16.199 You know, doesn't matter what mode you're playing in, and then these tiles are going to boost up your resources. 01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:27.152 So if you have an extra artist in there, you're going to boost upon any resources, but there are additional tiles, so it's money. 01:02:27.152 --> 01:02:28.377 There are these animal tiles. 01:02:28.377 --> 01:02:28.699 I don't know. 01:02:28.699 --> 01:02:38.196 I still Can't figure out really the animal tiles, unless these people had like zoos and they kept lions as pets. 01:02:38.356 --> 01:02:43.599 I don't know if they did, but there were animal tiles and my first game I ignore them completely. 01:02:43.599 --> 01:03:02.916 And then I looked down a little corner of the board and I realized you are going to get points based on how many Excuse me animal tiles you have on there and really it's like you max those points out after you get three animal tiles or three like there's a lion, I think that's worth two points. 01:03:02.916 --> 01:03:03.779 So if you can get, that's like nine points. 01:03:03.779 --> 01:03:07.679 And we weren't that far off on points. 01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:15.737 I think one of our games was maybe Nine points I got and then I had the first player marker, which is two points, and that's all I was. 01:03:15.737 --> 01:03:20.289 It was Looking at that. 01:03:20.289 --> 01:03:27.211 So I would not ignore those animals because they seem kind of worthless, because they don't get you anything. 01:03:27.232 --> 01:03:27.960 Yeah, I don't pick them. 01:03:27.960 --> 01:03:34.639 You just kind of like muck up not really muck up the board, but they're not going to give you an added resource at all. 01:03:34.639 --> 01:03:41.059 So it wasn't until I took them that I started to realize the benefit of them. 01:03:41.059 --> 01:03:44.210 And they are benefit like. 01:03:44.210 --> 01:03:50.751 You're going to be scraping for points at the end of the game, and I'm not mean scraping, but it's going to come down to these little things. 01:03:50.751 --> 01:03:51.943 Did I take those? 01:03:51.943 --> 01:03:54.139 Do I have the first player marker? 01:03:54.139 --> 01:03:56.885 That's two points. 01:03:56.885 --> 01:03:58.348 You think that really went madder. 01:03:58.348 --> 01:04:00.092 I know you

did something. 01:04:00.092 --> 01:04:02.763 You're like ah, first player token. 01:04:02.763 --> 01:04:08.386 I'm like that's two points, um, and then you're talking about what you're doing on mosaic board. 01:04:08.386 --> 01:04:11.152 Each thing you do with points is important in this game. 01:04:11.152 --> 01:04:12.784 So that was my other tip. 01:04:13.839 --> 01:04:15.025 Well, thank you for the tip. 01:04:15.025 --> 01:04:20.511 Well, we kind of touched on the artwork already and it's the mijo. 01:04:21.301 --> 01:04:23.347 Enough said, he's one of my favorite artists. 01:04:23.347 --> 01:04:24.550 He really is, I really like. 01:04:25.559 --> 01:04:28.951 I think in the iconography is very, I think it's easy to understand. 01:04:28.951 --> 01:04:37.627 Uh, there were a couple I think there's a couple follower cards where I had to say, okay, what is this card telling me? 01:04:37.929 --> 01:04:39.732 and then you have in the book that does say so. 01:04:40.379 --> 01:04:40.902 But the real. 01:04:40.902 --> 01:04:45.007 The rulebook is very clear and it explains things very well. 01:04:45.007 --> 01:04:50.045 And we've already discussed the replayability of the game. 01:04:50.045 --> 01:04:59.083 I think it's very high, so I guess the only thing that's left is Angie, do you like Nova Roma? 01:05:00.339 --> 01:05:00.800 How about you? 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:01.722 You go first. 01:05:01.722 --> 01:05:01.983 No. 01:05:02.344 --> 01:05:02.685 I'm not. 01:05:02.685 --> 01:05:04.168 You always make me go first. 01:05:04.168 --> 01:05:06.052 I refuse to go first this time. 01:05:06.859 --> 01:05:10.688 Okay, I like this game. 01:05:10.688 --> 01:05:12.682 I like this game. 01:05:12.682 --> 01:05:17.000 Not only would it be my game of the year, it would be even higher. 01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:21.859 I would give this game 10 plus. 01:05:21.859 --> 01:05:25.415 If I could go higher, I would like. 01:05:25.415 --> 01:05:29.719 I said this game is seamless, it has got Everything, and I don't like area control at all. 01:05:29.719 --> 01:05:36.012 But I can deal with this majority Because you have three different areas on there you're building. 01:05:36.012 --> 01:05:40.612 You're not just building in one zone, there's three different zones. 01:05:40.612 --> 01:05:42.779 So I love this game. 01:05:42.779 --> 01:05:45.663 This game In my mind. 01:05:45.663 --> 01:05:53.750 I really liked um, at this point, resurgence to me overtook endless winter, so I really liked. 01:05:54.092 --> 01:05:54.472 I agree. 01:05:55.779 --> 01:05:59.030 This top that this is unbelievable. 01:05:59.030 --> 01:06:02.268 I am in love with this game. 01:06:02.268 --> 01:06:06.670 I think it is by far his best game. 01:06:06.670 --> 01:06:13.324 I love it, so I would go 10 plus, and I haven't been dropping tens easy. 01:06:13.324 --> 01:06:17.433 Yeah, you don't, you don't, you don't I think the last 10 I gave was endless winter. 01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:30.922 I don't know I'd

have to go, look but to me, this is 10 plus plus, plus plus plus a 10 plus plus plus and game Game of the year. 01:06:30.922 --> 01:06:33.673 Is it, is it safe to call it game of the year? 01:06:33.693 --> 01:06:33.855 for you. 01:06:33.855 --> 01:06:36.079 This year it's my game of the year Holy cow. 01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:37.907 Easy hands down. 01:06:37.907 --> 01:06:42.868 I mean, we haven't okay, we still have a week or we have a couple weeks left, yeah, but I don't think there's anything that can top this. 01:06:43.780 --> 01:06:47.623 Are you sure that it's not just like the hotness no factor? 01:06:48.003 --> 01:06:49.168 No, because it has everything. 01:06:49.168 --> 01:06:54.661 It has it all and, like I said, it's combining it seamlessly. 01:06:54.661 --> 01:06:58.728 It is easy, my game of the year. 01:06:59.721 --> 01:07:00.724 Well, that's awesome, angie. 01:07:00.724 --> 01:07:11.505 I myself, I enjoy the game as well, and the fact that I have not won the game does not Change that fact. 01:07:11.505 --> 01:07:15.041 Okay, I just want to reiterate that I'm not a 10. 01:07:15.041 --> 01:07:16.344 It's not a 10 for me, though. 01:07:16.344 --> 01:07:17.507 It is not a 10. 01:07:17.507 --> 01:07:19.252 It's going to be about a 8.5. 01:07:19.252 --> 01:07:22.648 Oh it's gonna be about 8.5 8.5. 01:07:22.668 --> 01:07:23.070 It's a good. 01:07:24.461 --> 01:07:25.003 It, it is. 01:07:25.003 --> 01:07:27.280 It's a good score for me. 01:07:29.839 --> 01:07:30.824 Tried lightly, chris. 01:07:30.824 --> 01:07:37.967 Oh no, let's remember your research and stream no, no. 01:07:38.829 --> 01:07:42.643 I have nothing to complain about, there's just If I were to nitpick. 01:07:44.682 --> 01:07:50.009 Oh boy, oh boy, I think you use the wrong color, red. 01:07:50.009 --> 01:07:58.045 If I was designing the game, I would have used what's a made-up red. 01:08:00.626 --> 01:08:08.525 No, but if there was one thing, I can't even get it out now without you laughing, you're gonna judge me, angie. 01:08:08.525 --> 01:08:09.489 You're gonna judge me. 01:08:09.489 --> 01:08:17.948 You are gonna judge me so much when I say this no, I'm not even gonna bring it up, no, go ahead. 01:08:18.087 --> 01:08:19.592 This is your review. 01:08:19.592 --> 01:08:23.787 Come on, you justify your 8.5. 01:08:23.787 --> 01:08:26.796 Come on, you can do it I don't need to justify anything. 01:08:26.856 --> 01:08:27.859 It's an 8.5. 01:08:28.201 --> 01:08:29.182 We want to hear it. 01:08:29.182 --> 01:08:31.087 All the evil chasers right? 01:08:31.087 --> 01:08:33.353 Ken, you want to hear this, I know he does. 01:08:33.353 --> 01:08:36.664 Randall, you want to hear it? 01:08:39.199 --> 01:08:39.621 To me. 01:08:39.621 --> 01:08:43.588 If I were to rate gameplay wise, though would make it an 8.5 would be that hippodrome. 01:08:43.588 --> 01:08:45.894 That hippodrome is what I do not enjoy it. 01:08:45.894 --> 01:08:47.525 I don't, I don't enjoy it. 01:08:47.525 --> 01:08:51.270 Maybe my simple mind doesn't understand it. 01:08:52.140 --> 01:08:53.827 You raised straight down a track. 01:08:54.965 --> 01:08:56.029 There one of my gun. 01:08:56.029 --> 01:08:56.372 Do my turn. 01:08:58.381 --> 01:09:00.279 I'm gonna move my token. 01:09:00.279 --> 01:09:03.951 That might be too simple for you. 01:09:03.951 --> 01:09:04.994 What am I gonna do? 01:09:04.994 --> 01:09:06.460 Move my token to spaces. 01:09:06.460 --> 01:09:09.525 Maybe, oh wow. 01:09:09.525 --> 01:09:15.817 I just got 20 points at the end of the game because I wouldn't move my token, because the move seemed too simple for me to do. 01:09:15.817 --> 01:09:18.836 I'm not nitpicking on you at all. 01:09:18.836 --> 01:09:19.340 She stinks, angie. 01:09:19.340 --> 01:09:20.122 She stinks. 01:09:20.301 --> 01:09:25.073 Angie, you're not making me feel stupid or anything at this moment. 01:09:26.360 --> 01:09:27.284 I'm sorry. 01:09:29.641 --> 01:09:29.761 It's. 01:09:29.761 --> 01:09:31.488 It's 10, then it's 10. 01:09:31.488 --> 01:09:32.613 No, come on. 01:09:32.613 --> 01:09:34.244 No, it's 8.5. 01:09:34.244 --> 01:09:38.383 I think it's an 8.5, it's it's. 01:09:38.383 --> 01:09:52.707 You know, when I ask you if you want to play a game, you're going to say no, veroma, right, it's not a game that I'm going to say I want to play, I enjoy it, but it's not a 10 for me, it's an 8.5. 01:09:52.707 --> 01:10:02.296 And if I were to pick on the art, I think the art maybe, maybe brighter colors, I don't know whatever, just forget it. 01:10:02.296 --> 01:10:03.780 Just forget it. 01:10:03.780 --> 01:10:05.005 Angie, here I'm trying. 01:10:05.005 --> 01:10:06.780 You tell me now to overthink my review. 01:10:06.780 --> 01:10:08.860 Now I've completely under thunk my review. 01:10:10.416 --> 01:10:14.046 No, I don't like going on the hippodrome track Tampadrome. 01:10:14.046 --> 01:10:15.237 I hippodrome track. 01:10:15.237 --> 01:10:18.700 It's not exciting enough for me. 01:10:19.275 --> 01:10:21.103 People don't listen to us for reviews. 01:10:21.203 --> 01:10:24.019 Let me tell you, if anybody is listening, they don't really care. 01:10:24.755 --> 01:10:25.517 Anybody is listening to? 01:10:25.658 --> 01:10:27.002 us for actual information. 01:10:27.002 --> 01:10:27.624 No. 01:10:28.275 --> 01:10:33.815 If there is one person out there that actually bought a game on my recommendation for it, holy moly. 01:10:33.815 --> 01:10:37.583 I'll help you I will send you a free chasing meeple stickers. 01:10:37.583 --> 01:10:50.197 You just send us an email, chasingmeeples at yahoocom, and I would be happy to send you a free chasing meeple sticker, because don't listen to me, I'm just a guy. 01:10:53.075 --> 01:11:00.966 But you are a guy that somehow did not mistake the artwork for somebody lesser than the other one. 01:11:01.006 --> 01:11:01.627 Well, you know what? 01:11:01.867 --> 01:11:02.307 How about this? 01:11:02.307 --> 01:11:04.050 Give yourself a point

for that. 01:11:04.815 --> 01:11:13.045 All right, I'll take the point that I knew that the Meech-o did the artwork for a game and it wasn't like fake yeah. 01:11:15.708 --> 01:11:16.695 Oh, yeah, okay. 01:11:17.216 --> 01:11:23.244 So 8.5 for me, game of the year for you, angie. 01:11:23.244 --> 01:11:26.057 10 plus plus plus, would you say. 01:11:26.057 --> 01:11:28.186 This game goes to 11? 01:11:28.186 --> 01:11:28.186 . 01:11:29.311 --> 01:11:31.600 Oh, it could, it could, it would go past. 01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:33.603 If we went past, it would definitely go past. 01:11:33.603 --> 01:11:34.819 It would definitely go past in 11. 01:11:36.035 --> 01:11:37.059 Congratulations, stan Kordonski. 01:11:37.059 --> 01:11:42.182 You have officially heard everybody's. 01:11:42.182 --> 01:11:44.948 You've heard it here first, if you listen to anybody. 01:11:45.028 --> 01:11:48.521 Yeah, if anybody cares what I say, it is my game of the year. 01:11:48.521 --> 01:11:50.863 It is his best game to date. 01:11:51.035 --> 01:11:52.880 Well, I am giving it a. 01:11:52.880 --> 01:11:54.966 Um happened for some reason. 01:11:54.966 --> 01:11:56.761 I'm logged into your BGG account. 01:11:56.761 --> 01:12:01.865 I have literally just marked it down as 8.10 for you. 01:12:02.066 --> 01:12:02.587 Oh, thank you. 01:12:03.028 --> 01:12:03.548 You're welcome. 01:12:03.548 --> 01:12:05.233 It is now official. 01:12:05.233 --> 01:12:05.954 It is now official. 01:12:05.954 --> 01:12:09.044 It is now sealed, signed, sealed official. 01:12:09.595 --> 01:12:11.102 Anybody wants to look at that. 01:12:11.102 --> 01:12:13.517 I am Anna Pajama on BGG. 01:12:13.517 --> 01:12:28.278 What more can I say? 01:12:28.278 --> 01:12:29.783 What more can I say? 01:12:29.783 --> 01:12:41.506 We had an awesome, awesome Christmas extravaganza extravaganza, and I think a fitting end to it is this Nova Roma review. 01:12:41.947 --> 01:12:42.568 I think you're right. 01:12:43.577 --> 01:12:44.500 We did a decent job at it. 01:12:45.102 --> 01:12:45.684 I think you're right. 01:12:46.095 --> 01:12:51.717 We did a decent job explaining the game and how things work out, so I think this is a pretty, I think. 01:12:51.717 --> 01:12:55.646 I think a review is, at least you know, a seven. 01:12:56.287 --> 01:12:56.487 Okay. 01:12:57.075 --> 01:12:57.359 I think we did. 01:12:57.359 --> 01:12:58.273 I think we did a good review this time. 01:12:58.676 --> 01:13:00.341 I'm going to give us a solid six. 01:13:00.341 --> 01:13:02.440 It's better than the normal. 01:13:02.440 --> 01:13:03.660 I like this game. 01:13:03.660 --> 01:13:07.426 That's usually if you listen to this podcast. 01:13:07.426 --> 01:13:09.392 I've listened back this many a times. 01:13:09.392 --> 01:13:11.337 Yeah, it's pretty good Every time. 01:13:11.337 --> 01:13:14.164 I every time I bring up a game and you'll bring up a game. 01:13:14.575 --> 01:13:16.721 Yeah, I like that game, that's me. 01:13:16.761 --> 01:13:17.242 That's

Chris. 01:13:17.242 --> 01:13:18.003 That's Chris's review. 01:13:19.454 --> 01:13:22.322 You're prepared and I'm just sitting here going yeah, it's cool, it's cool, I like that. 01:13:22.322 --> 01:13:23.224 Yeah, I like that. 01:13:23.224 --> 01:13:26.883 I'm usually not as prepared as I am today. 01:13:26.883 --> 01:13:40.444 You know, the one time oh, I'm going to say this the one time I prepared, I over-prepared because you told me I went too long, so that's why I think I've never prepared before. 01:13:40.996 --> 01:13:42.338 Oh, is that are you talking about? 01:13:42.338 --> 01:13:44.222 When you did the endless winter thing? 01:13:44.222 --> 01:13:45.847 Yes, oh, yeah. 01:13:45.847 --> 01:13:51.384 You mean the 20 minute game like explanation that you did. 01:13:51.384 --> 01:13:53.948 Yeah, yet another board, angie. 01:13:53.948 --> 01:13:58.786 I remember that and like, literally you're just ch-ch-ch-ch and then you stop in the middle of it. 01:13:58.786 --> 01:14:00.559 Yet another board, angie. 01:14:02.555 --> 01:14:03.941 So I try not to overdo it. 01:14:05.359 --> 01:14:06.302 Well, I think you did good. 01:14:06.302 --> 01:14:07.921 I think you found a good balance today. 01:14:07.921 --> 01:14:13.527 Well, Angie, I think it's time to wrap up our Christmas extravaganza episode. 01:14:13.527 --> 01:14:14.856 Meeple chasers. 01:14:14.856 --> 01:14:20.224 I want to thank you for listening, Angie, is there anything that you want to say? 01:14:20.355 --> 01:14:27.009 I want to thank our loyal, loyal listeners all around the world. 01:14:27.009 --> 01:14:36.002 It's incredible that we do have people that listen to us from around the world, so thank you, thank you and Merry Christmas and happy holidays. 01:14:36.423 --> 01:14:47.064 Yeah, as we bring our Christmas extravaganza episode to a close, I want everybody to just remember that it's important to remember the true essence of this season. 01:14:47.064 --> 01:15:01.258 So Myths of Joy, of Gaming and the cheer of celebration, let's not forget the deeper meaning of Christmas it's a time of giving, of reflecting on our blessings and cherishing the moments we share with our loved ones. 01:15:01.258 --> 01:15:07.860 So when you gather around the board game table, it's all gathering gratitude and remember the reason for the season. 01:15:07.860 --> 01:15:15.298 I want to wish all of our listeners a Merry Christmas, filled with love, joy and the warmth of togetherness. 01:15:15.298 --> 01:15:22.578 Merry gaming, and may the spirit of this special season be with you and your family throughout the coming year. 01:15:24.998 --> 01:15:25.941 Oh that was nice. 01:15:26.262 --> 01:15:36.342 Thank you and, last but not least, say it with me, angie Keep chasing those meeples. 01:15:36.342 --> 01:15:37.536 You did. 01:15:37.536 --> 01:15:38.218 Say it with me. 01:15:38.218 --> 01:15:39.542 Say it with me. 01:15:39.722 --> 01:15:40.063 Okay. 01:15:41.176 --> 01:15:42.342 Geez, now we got to do this over. 01:15:42.342 --> 01:15:44.775 Last but not least, Angie. 01:15:45.235 --> 01:15:46.942 I'll watch the hand signals. 01:15:47.635 --> 01:15:50.865 And, last but not least, angie, keep chasing. 01:15:52.399 --> 01:15:54.524 I thought you were going to do the finger thing. 01:15:56.177 --> 01:15:57.180 Boy, we were so good. 01:15:57.180 --> 01:16:01.962 And last but not least, Angie, say it with me. 01:16:01.962 --> 01:16:06.365 Keep chasing those meeples, oh my goodness. 01:16:06.916 --> 01:16:18.378 And 308 of the Summit played at a Javi Park, but oh baby, it's ahh, wait a sec. 01:16:18.378 --> 01:16:37.990 Aah, ti, simply the best. 01:16:37.990 --> 01:16:41.764 We'll entertain you better than the rest. 01:16:41.764 --> 01:16:49.003 Oh, tracy Meeple's, we're here for you. 01:16:49.003 --> 01:16:54.407 We've gained some laughs and insights too. 01:16:54.407 --> 01:17:00.682 Oh yeah, tracy Meeple's, simply the best. 01:17:00.682 --> 01:17:03.119 The show is over. 01:17:03.119 --> 01:17:09.786 We've had our fun.