1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,900 Welcome to Maple to me. People uniting players around 2 00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:05,800 the world. A 30-minute exploration of PJ 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,300 and Gareth ball. Game experiences from across 4 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:11,800 both sides of the Atlantic each episode, they share their 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,700 thoughts and opinions on the world of war games, including 6 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:20,900 their favorite themes games, hot topics and much, much more Hey 7 00:00:20,900 --> 00:00:27,300 everybody and welcome to episode 28 board games and focus. 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,900 We are going to talk about the top three board games. 9 00:00:30,900 --> 00:00:33,000 Not top three. The most recent, three board 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,300 games that have hit our tables. I'm PJ, I'm Gareth and we are 11 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:42,100 ready to begin. So Gareth how have you been? 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,400 I'll be well I'm definitely better. 13 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:47,700 Oh I the codes nearly gone. The cough is nearly gone. 14 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:52,600 Little bit little bit. Of cold, but we feel 100 times 15 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,900 better than last week. So have you been able to get 16 00:00:55,900 --> 00:00:58,000 some games? You do we how we pay some games? 17 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:01,200 In fact, this episode we're doing slightly earlier because 18 00:01:01,300 --> 00:01:03,700 we've got games night, which I forgot we had a podcast 19 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:07,800 recording fly. So I have dragged you away from 20 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,700 gencon the arrangements, which you have now succeeded? 21 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:15,400 Yep, you are a busy man and you were so busy, you don't have 22 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,700 time to schedule me. You just have to fit me in and 23 00:01:18,708 --> 00:01:22,800 little Bi weekly schedule. Don't miss the mishap of not 24 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:24,800 putting diary things in the diary. 25 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:27,200 Anyway, I'm looking forward to this because actually we have 26 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,800 gotten some games in the scream at least two or three times this 27 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,700 week which is far better. Ivan post on Instagram a few 28 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:36,200 times and that has surprise people silence. 29 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,400 Yeah, no, it was good. It was good to hear me out. 30 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:42,600 Check me out. So I've chosen well-chosen. 31 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:44,100 I've just looked through the last five games. 32 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:49,200 I've played and pic32 relatively new one older game. 33 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,200 Well wasn't to tell us the same thing. 34 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,200 We had our games weekend with our friends, this past weekend 35 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,600 so I was going to talk about three games at the table this 36 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,200 weekend. So okay, well the games I've 37 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:06,500 got, I've got Motor City which is a role of Rights from the 38 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:09,400 same guys. That did three sisters and Fleet 39 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,000 the dice game. So they met middle and bend 40 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,100 pitch pinchbeck on the talk about maglev, Metro making 41 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:19,700 trains with awesome components and thing lessons. 42 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,700 Which is a, which is a solo game from the button shy set a game. 43 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:29,700 So 18 games which has been played numerous times on my own 44 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:34,400 because it's so low. Nice, if you changed William, I 45 00:02:34,408 --> 00:02:37,100 got an opportunity to play Agricola All Creatures big and 46 00:02:37,100 --> 00:02:39,200 small love. It's the two-player by. 47 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,500 Yeah, man. That's really good. 48 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:46,000 I'm not a big fan of Agricola, but the two-player version is 49 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,100 just It really saying to me, and we got to play that Thursday 50 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:53,100 night, and that was pretty exciting. 51 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:57,300 And then we hit terraforming Mars yesterday, along with the 52 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:02,500 adventures of Robin Hood for the second time and that's going to 53 00:03:02,508 --> 00:03:05,100 be a fun one to talk about. Yeah. 54 00:03:05,100 --> 00:03:07,700 But who wants to go first? Why don't you? 55 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:10,400 Yeah, I want you to lead us off. Don, I'll just start with Motor 56 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,100 City which is, which is fresh in my mind because I only played it 57 00:03:14,100 --> 00:03:16,500 like an hour ago and I think we're likely to teach it 58 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:18,400 tonight. So let's see how I get on. 59 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:25,700 So I'm the role of Rights. Bye-bye, Ben and Matt, I 60 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:28,100 absolutely adore. So I was always a fan of Fleet, 61 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:31,900 the original card game that then turn into a roll and right, 62 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,600 which is that all of these games have two sheets, so it's two 63 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,800 feet. Lots and lots of combination, 64 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,100 optic opportunities, then they really Three Sisters, which was 65 00:03:42,100 --> 00:03:47,700 about growing crops. And then this one is I describe 66 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:52,500 it as its kanban by the telesur de but as a Rollin right? 67 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:56,100 So it is car production. Your testing cars, your 68 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:02,100 engineering, you're selling those cars through die 69 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:06,900 selection. So pull of dice, everyone is 70 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:08,900 ssss. Three players. 71 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:14,400 There's in seven dice, each player, that's right, 10, dice, 72 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,700 each player takes a turn Takes a dime and that die might be one 73 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:22,800 of four actions on the board and next person goes and then 74 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,900 there's one dice left over which is a pool dice everyone chooses 75 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:30,300 from but it's the in that amount of combinations. 76 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:33,800 I mean it is just like I love it, do this and that but there's 77 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,500 a combo in that doesn't have a combo. 78 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,400 I haven't I mean this is our third fourth game. 79 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,900 So you're trying to work out the you know, what's the efficiency? 80 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,100 Most schools are probably not very good. 81 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:49,800 But there's loads of ways to score, which I haven't found any 82 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:54,000 optimal party at four, but it's a fact that the two sheets, and 83 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,500 it's just everything connects, and I love a medium-weight 84 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,200 rolling, right? So that's been heating up table 85 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:08,000 aplenty, it plays 125, it's probably about 45 minutes, we 86 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,000 taught it to my youngest who is now 14 and they say 14 on the 87 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,500 box and she she had no issues playing that. 88 00:05:15,700 --> 00:05:17,700 And it's kind of Midway to two point, eight, nine. 89 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:21,200 So it's not, it's not a lightweight rolling, right for 90 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:25,100 the for the family, but anyone is may be played to the others 91 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:28,700 or maybe Hadrian's Wall. Kind of level of complexity. 92 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,800 It's a wonderful wonderful role in, right? 93 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,700 So I recommend all three of those from the series. 94 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,600 So, check those out. But if you're after the newest, 95 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:43,000 one, check out modus City, that's my first city. 96 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:45,800 That's awesome. It's all really good. 97 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,500 I think I did. You guys would like it. 98 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:48,800 I think. Yeah, I like it. 99 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,600 Yeah, that does sound. That sounds cool. 100 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,000 And it sounds like a nice addition to the collection of 101 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Rowland rate that we've accumulated beer has four years. 102 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:05,400 So yeah, so I want to talk about, buoys to player, Agricola 103 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:10,300 All Creatures big and small. We pick that up just a few weeks 104 00:06:10,300 --> 00:06:12,600 ago, while we were traveling in st. 105 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,200 Louis. And Man, it is so good. 106 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:18,300 So, let's be fair. The best thing about Agricola or 107 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:20,800 the little animals, the wooden animals. 108 00:06:20,900 --> 00:06:23,700 Yeah. And this game cuts out all the 109 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:27,400 food and the farmers, and the all the shenanigans and cuts 110 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,600 Agricola down to its base. What makes it so good and that 111 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:35,000 is the animals. A lot of replayability you have, 112 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,000 like, this whole bag of little tiles. 113 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:42,500 Although you're not, you know, tiles to lay in your farm that 114 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:45,200 represent special Buildings that you can build during the course 115 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,900 of the game. And there's so many of them, but 116 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:52,700 you only put Like A Tout a game. So there's tons of 117 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:54,700 replayability, you have three workers. 118 00:06:54,700 --> 00:06:58,500 Each of, you have three workers. There's the, you know, the 119 00:06:58,508 --> 00:07:01,600 shared board in the Middle With, You know, where you place your 120 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,700 workers to get your resources and of course, to get your 121 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:09,300 animals and that's really where the scoring is its buildings. 122 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:12,100 And it's having a certain number of animals. 123 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:17,000 There are four types of animals pigs, Sheep horses and cows. 124 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:22,700 And if you have three or less at the end of the game, you lose 125 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:28,300 three points per animal type. So you and I playing this game 126 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:32,900 where we both need to get a minimum of four of each of the 127 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:37,900 animals, right in our farms. And then it's a race to get them 128 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:42,800 to breed more and foremost is the multiplies. 129 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:45,500 Remember, I'm playing this game. And the longer you leave them 130 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:47,200 out. The more animals build up on the 131 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,200 piles, different animals. Yep. 132 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,800 And it's just that timing and it's in with a suplex pretty. 133 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:54,600 Yeah. If you don't get the time the 134 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,600 timing, right? You can really lose out on that 135 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,200 - Point. Yep. 136 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,800 It's really seamless and smooth but with two players and again 137 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,000 you get the best part of agricole is the animal. 138 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:11,900 So, yeah, you do have these cool wooden wood and coal and wheat 139 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,500 components. Those are the on You know, you 140 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:17,800 see, you don't have all the corn and the pumpkins in the items in 141 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,900 the big Agricola. You don't have to worry about 142 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:21,700 feeding. There's no flirting about to say 143 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:25,200 that no feeding hooray. Yep, this is getting the animals 144 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,300 in your farm as quickly as possible and you can be 145 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:30,800 penalized. You can expand your farm because 146 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,000 eventually, you run out of room for building. 147 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,100 So you need to expand. And there's an action for that, 148 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:41,100 but you can be penalized, if you don't fill are expansion. 149 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:43,700 So you've got your expanded the right time. 150 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:49,800 And build at the right time. So that's Agricola all animals. 151 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:53,700 All big and small. I think it's a yeah. 152 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,000 Oh, creatures. We cancel all creatures that we 153 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,300 can smoke. Kevin is Odell again. 154 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:03,600 Yeah. 1012 m y night and it just hit my table. 155 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:08,400 Yeah, I highly rate it. There's an expansion with more 156 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,400 tiles, but be honest, because you only see you've got the, 157 00:09:11,408 --> 00:09:13,800 obviously, the core, the core game tiles. 158 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,100 And then You mix a five or six hours. 159 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:18,900 Come out. Yep, it's very rare that you 160 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:21,900 even get through seen. The core Gentile was let alone a 161 00:09:21,908 --> 00:09:24,600 Bach another pack of other buildings. 162 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,700 But yeah, great to play a game. I'm pleased you played that so 163 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:32,400 yeah. Yeah, yeah definitely, lovely 164 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,500 game, you have a game, right? Yeah. 165 00:09:35,500 --> 00:09:36,200 Yeah. We have that. 166 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:40,700 And then so when we did our episode about our wives and 167 00:09:40,700 --> 00:09:43,900 their choices, I think Agricola wasn't Agricola on. 168 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:44,700 On. No. 169 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:46,900 No. It was on carries last now. 170 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:50,700 I must admit if I think if I had to carry about this game I think 171 00:09:50,700 --> 00:09:52,900 she would add it onto the list. I don't know what would have 172 00:09:52,908 --> 00:09:55,300 dropped out, but if he really enjoys this game because of that 173 00:09:55,300 --> 00:09:57,400 school player, it's right player. 174 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:04,000 And yeah, it gives you the quick killer fix or H without having 175 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,800 to All of the mass roulette table. 176 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,600 Yeah, I definitely recommend it if you're looking for a 177 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:12,900 two-player game. That's the way to go. 178 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:13,800 Yeah. Good choice. 179 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,400 So what's next for near do? We've got maglev, I've got 180 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,700 maglev Metro so this game came out in 2021. 181 00:10:23,900 --> 00:10:29,600 I first saw it at the UK games Expo that year and if you do, 182 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:34,700 it's basically a specific brain game and plays wonderful 183 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:38,800 players. 2.79 out of 5 so not overly complicated. 184 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:45,600 It's currently got two maps and it's a Manhattan and Berlin. 185 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,600 One side is slightly simpler. So Manhattan, it's better for 186 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:54,000 new players in the side is better for experienced players 187 00:10:54,100 --> 00:10:58,000 and and basically they are robots and passengers who you 188 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,600 need to ship around those two towns. 189 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,100 What's lovely about it is that the game starts you, maybe? 190 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:07,600 Three stations built every player's. 191 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,500 Got a set of clear tiles with a piece of track on it. 192 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,400 So you end up building and overlaying on each other's 193 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,700 tracks to Designed like a perfect Tube map. 194 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:22,700 So every game is unique, you can't leave a underground 195 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:25,200 station. More than two exits, you're 196 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,700 trying to plan your route. It's not like an 18, x X game. 197 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:34,000 This is A bit of network planning but also route 198 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,500 optimization. So the game starts with these 199 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:39,300 robots. So there's bronze silver and 200 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:42,800 gold on your player boards, you have actions. 201 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:45,900 So there's track building and there's pick up. 202 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:48,900 Passengers, drop off passengers, there's things like building 203 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:51,500 stations. If you haven't got a robot in 204 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:53,900 there, working for you, then you can take the action. 205 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,000 And if you have one man or one robot in the track, you can 206 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,400 place one track up to a maximum of four row. 207 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,100 Seen that section. So you can pick up a late for 208 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:05,100 tracks. But course, there's not enough 209 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:07,500 robots around for everybody. So you're trying sir, and you 210 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:11,900 can move robots and rebalance, but you can pick up with just 211 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:13,800 one robot. If you got four robots in that 212 00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:16,800 upgrade section, and you can pick up a fourth 44, passengers 213 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,800 as you build, there's different buildings. 214 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,600 Go down with different colors, patterns passages and then they 215 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,800 go into the bag and so you can pick up and refill different 216 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,900 kind of passengers and then you got scoring mechanics which 217 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:30,900 Oregon to but but it's really Good. 218 00:12:30,900 --> 00:12:32,500 It's pretty, it's pretty fast playing. 219 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,000 We play a say primarily with three, but every game is 220 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,100 different because you overlay in these. 221 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,400 These tiles. You got scoring cards that 222 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:46,600 obviously give you unique ways of scoring so you never quite 223 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,200 sure whether people are trying to collect sets or let's try and 224 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:53,300 seduce root navigation. It looks amazing on the table 225 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:56,600 because of this these this transparent well he's clear 226 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,400 tiles, hexagonal tiles with Ben's and and straight. 227 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:04,900 It and imminently, there's six more maps, which work, excited 228 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,100 I'm going to say 12 18 months ago, so they bring Mega robots 229 00:13:09,100 --> 00:13:12,300 and London comes to this to the table. 230 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:16,600 I think it's a map that sums on Mars that bring other mechanics. 231 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:21,200 So I cannot wait to see that but I say definitely check it out. 232 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,800 If you're after a train game that isn't super super geeky, it 233 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:29,800 looks uber-cool on the table and is not overly complex. 234 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,400 So blessed. A 2.79. 235 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,900 This is not a this is not a game that's going to take all night. 236 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,300 I'm saying, maybe 90 minutes. Maybe Max, it's a lovely game. 237 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:43,900 Maglev metro metro, a lot of that is mine. 238 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:46,200 Have you played? I haven't no. 239 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,700 It's we it's on the list. It's like we keep seeing it, you 240 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:53,100 know, just I find all the time. It's like there's so many games, 241 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:55,000 right? I think that's a dilemma in our 242 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,200 hobby. Ryan is like there's so many 243 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,600 games maglev Metro today. Well, two players as well. 244 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:04,400 That's the key. I love that. 245 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,200 I love that. That's awesome. 246 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:10,300 Maglev. Metro on the lookout for that. 247 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:14,000 Cool. Well, so you have some used. 248 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:19,200 Yeah, so yesterday we played terraforming Mars. 249 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:20,900 Good. I don't know. 250 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:22,700 It's terrifying. Monster classic now. 251 00:14:24,300 --> 00:14:29,400 I sewed, it it was all me. It's 2016 by Jacob. 252 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,900 Fricks Elias. This game is just so good. 253 00:14:33,300 --> 00:14:36,900 So I happen to know, a few other friends who because of the app 254 00:14:37,700 --> 00:14:40,700 on their phones or their tablets, they sold their copy as 255 00:14:40,700 --> 00:14:43,700 well because it's a great solo game. 256 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:49,300 I have the app and I play it so low, but we went all-in. 257 00:14:49,300 --> 00:14:52,900 We got the big box with the three-dimensional, hexes 258 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:57,200 everything. In fact, we went more all in my 259 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,900 wife, bought a new supreme mat that Is it fits everything 260 00:15:01,900 --> 00:15:03,600 turned? The turmoil expansion. 261 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,300 Venus the colonies. There's a place for everything 262 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:12,100 and it's that extra she bought on Etsy and it's an extra grippy 263 00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:17,300 surface which is so nice because I'm amazing the hexes on Mars 264 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:19,800 won't get knocked around which is great. 265 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:23,300 I've heard I've heard terraforming Mars kind of 266 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:26,000 described as an engine builder. I don't really know that that's 267 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,800 necessarily true, it's definitely Resource Management. 268 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,700 There's some hand management but Yeah. 269 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:36,700 I mean, there were no surprises. Here's the time. 270 00:15:36,700 --> 00:15:39,600 And this is what I tell everyone, okay, because I'm kind 271 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,200 of like the terraforming Mars champion. 272 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:45,900 This is like one game. I don't normally bribe because 273 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:47,200 I'm usually not that good at games. 274 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,100 In fact, you usually hear me tell you stories about how I 275 00:15:50,100 --> 00:15:53,900 lose. So I would say, since we bought 276 00:15:54,000 --> 00:16:00,000 terraforming Mars years ago, hundreds of Victories and I 277 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,000 think Wife's only beat me three. Maybe four surprises me. 278 00:16:04,100 --> 00:16:09,400 I thought this was Katie's game so it is her game in that, she 279 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,500 loves it. But here's the thing that I 280 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:20,100 learned early on cheat cards, you know that's exactly what she 281 00:16:20,100 --> 00:16:23,800 accused me of yesterday. She said, why do you why do your 282 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,400 greeneries only cost three plants but it costs the rest of 283 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,500 us ate, right? So the name of the game is 284 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:36,000 terraforming Mars, if you want to win, then terraform Mars in 285 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:41,600 the name, stop playing cards, stop wasting your money on cards 286 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,000 that you're hope to play in a round or two. 287 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,100 You know, because it because you know this anyone who hasn't 288 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:49,200 played it at the end of each round, which are called 289 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:54,200 Generations, you get four new cards to add to your hand each 290 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,300 card you want to. Keep you got to pay $3, that's 291 00:16:57,300 --> 00:16:59,000 expensive. Yeah, I know. 292 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:03,500 Need that money, right? Unless it's going to increase my 293 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:07,900 group, my plant production to build greeneries, or my money 294 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:11,000 production, or my heat to increase the temperature. 295 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:15,300 I don't care. So, I just discard them, and I 296 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:19,200 focus on heat greeneries and oceans. 297 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:22,700 And I terraform Mars, I always have the most greeneries on the 298 00:17:22,708 --> 00:17:24,800 planet. I always have the most 299 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,500 everything and I win. And that's why. 300 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:30,700 Because I just don't I don't Get bogged down in all the cards 301 00:17:30,700 --> 00:17:33,900 that do these cute fun things, then it's my problem. 302 00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:36,800 I always pay for the cards because I like, I like the whole 303 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:42,100 setup my my my I guess my table and we play with every expansion 304 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:45,300 but turmoil. So okay we played with Prelude, 305 00:17:45,300 --> 00:17:51,900 we played with the colonies we played with What's the other 306 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:53,400 one? Colonies. 307 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,800 Prelude, why am I I'm drawing a blank. 308 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:02,200 Anyway, so there was a there was kind of a theme that unfolded in 309 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,600 the course of the game. So I was, I had a card where I 310 00:18:04,608 --> 00:18:08,500 was creating microbes, so I was adding microbes to the card, so 311 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:11,800 I could take them off to increase the heat to compensate 312 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:16,800 for the fact that I was not producing a lot of heat, then my 313 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:21,000 friend Eric, he's got cards that are stealing microbes, Katie's 314 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,700 got a card that she's running a zoo and putting animals on it. 315 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:26,400 They are the one that's she's got another car. 316 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,200 We're she's developing bacteria. It was like there was all these 317 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:34,000 microbes, if you aren't making microbes, you were stealing 318 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:34,700 them. But no am. 319 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:37,600 Yeah. But that was terraforming. 320 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:42,900 Mars and so good. So good game but Saudi purely 321 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:45,200 because I haven't even played solo is, as you say that. 322 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,100 The app does that you're perfectly for you? 323 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,300 It does. But I do enjoy it. 324 00:18:49,300 --> 00:18:52,200 I do enjoy that game. So if anybody, you know, set up 325 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:54,700 laying it on sit down, it's not. I'm Auntie it. 326 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:56,400 Good game. Yeah. 327 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,200 No, it's really good and accommodates up to five. 328 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:02,800 So there's room at our table if you want to come play 329 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,600 terraforming Mars when we get to you we shall come and play it. 330 00:19:06,900 --> 00:19:08,200 Yep. So whoops. 331 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:12,300 What's your third and final game at some like last game is a game 332 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:17,100 called fishing lessons. It's a whole we can't win the 333 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:20,200 game. There is 18 cards in this game? 334 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:25,100 Oh, it's basis at the range of the wallet games by button shy 335 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:26,100 games. Yep. 336 00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:32,200 So spotless. Wheels and wagons. 337 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,700 We have now forgotten, but fishing lessons arrived about a 338 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:38,200 week and a half ago, a recent other recent Kickstarter. 339 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,100 How do I describe? Yeah, it's a solo 15 games. 340 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:49,600 So you lay out seven late cards, which facedown, and on those 341 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:54,900 cards a bit, I think to fish. So they might be a carport 342 00:19:54,900 --> 00:19:56,700 route, whatever. It was a other which fish they 343 00:19:56,700 --> 00:19:59,600 are. So they're laid out randomly and 344 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,100 then you choose. One family member from three 345 00:20:03,100 --> 00:20:05,100 cards, each family members, different sided, to help you 346 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:09,400 Grandpa, the grandson, the Mother-in-law you choose the 347 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,600 card, and you put it face down. The only thing that car does it 348 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:14,900 says, what is the unique winning condition? 349 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:20,500 So maybe the sun needs, three fish classes, C and two, fish 350 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:25,000 clusters T Carpenter out, they probably got meetings and then 351 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,700 you've got eight lesson cards in your hands. 352 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:30,800 So the game will end when you go to draw a lesson cards which you 353 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:34,800 you and you can't pick up. So it's limited each lesson 354 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,500 cards, you play to the right and then the you got three cards in 355 00:20:38,508 --> 00:20:42,800 your hand out of those eight and the lesson car basically where 356 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,000 you put your family member above the lake is there Bo so you 357 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,300 might move it. So there's you do two actions on 358 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:52,200 the card. It might be to move to the left 359 00:20:53,100 --> 00:20:56,000 and then you'll fish. And that might be flip the card 360 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,200 directly underneath. You fit the card to your left 361 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,800 foot, your cards are ripe and what you need to do. 362 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:04,500 Is move your boats left to right, you can leave the the 363 00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:07,600 last lesson either there, or the next card you play, you can swap 364 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,600 it over or you can basically position them anywhere left to 365 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,000 right at the last lesson cards, and then you have to activate 366 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:19,000 them all in order. So it's like an engine or chain 367 00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:23,100 of card, you're going to play and to win, you need to have 368 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:25,200 either. You need to have the three, the 369 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:30,600 three C's in a to tease. Face up on the board no more no 370 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,700 less any other car that hasn't got those letters on. 371 00:21:33,708 --> 00:21:37,500 It must be face down. So you're trying to push your 372 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:41,900 boat around, find the cards that need with the fish on it because 373 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:44,700 as you move, you end up flipping the cards face down that the 374 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:47,600 ones you want this nice little puzzly game. 375 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:53,500 The artwork is wonderful, the choices of where I put this card 376 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:56,100 and drive that engine. I think I've played about five 377 00:21:56,100 --> 00:21:59,700 times I've won once. And that's just part of that 378 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:03,600 just like, yes, I've so close but I run out of cards on the 379 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:07,100 last draw, which I guess is as frustrating as fishing. 380 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:11,000 All the fish were there, you knew where they were but were 381 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,200 they biting or whether flipping in this case? 382 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:20,300 No, they weren't one point. 35, out of 5, 10, 15 minute games. 383 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:22,600 It's always in what's now, become a work bag for the last 384 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:28,500 couple of weeks. 8 plus there's a couple of Expansion packs. 385 00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:33,200 It gives them more family members and the bigger fish, but 386 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,300 check it out, if you want a very quick solo game, and if you like 387 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:40,900 fishing, that is fishing lessons from button, should I? 388 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:44,700 So I can, I can take it that, when I come to see you, you're 389 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:48,700 going to teach me some fishing license weakened official 390 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:50,300 Essence. I have got fishing equipment in 391 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:53,400 my garage has not been used in about 15 years. 392 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,600 It's okay. I don't fish in real life 393 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:57,200 either. Yeah. 394 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,200 So, I haven't fished for a long time but I don't want a spot of 395 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,000 fishing, so that's fishing net aggressions. 396 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,600 You're gonna talk about Adventures of Robin Hood's. 397 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:13,300 Yes, 2021 by Michael Menzel. So, you know, we picked that up 398 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:16,700 what - 22 years ago now, it was during the height of the 399 00:23:16,700 --> 00:23:22,100 pandemic. It is a Cooperative scenario 400 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:27,400 driven storytelling campaign. It's just so brilliant. 401 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:31,800 Um, my wife and I played it when we were in lockdown, really 402 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,200 enjoyed it. But you know, it's been sitting 403 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,700 there on the shelf and we like you know what, it plays for 404 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 we've got we've got our two friends coming over, why don't 405 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,700 we give it a go and they really enjoyed it so you've played it. 406 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:47,000 Yes, yes. Yeah, maybe three plants, loved 407 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,500 it. Well then, as you know, right, 408 00:23:48,500 --> 00:23:51,200 you build that you put the map in front of you and it's, you 409 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:56,400 know, steroid forest and the castle and everything and you 410 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,200 play one of the four. Actors, right? 411 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,400 You play Robin Hood will Scarlet. 412 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:06,400 Maid Marian and Little John. And it will indicate it'll tell 413 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:12,200 you to flip over like these cardboard sheets that are not 414 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:13,500 molded. They're not built. 415 00:24:13,700 --> 00:24:17,000 What's the word I'm looking for their embedded in the board. 416 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,400 My set into the boat. Yeah. 417 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:21,400 And then you just flip them over at certain points in the game. 418 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:26,000 So if you're going to fight a guard, you know, you just you 419 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,300 have these cubes that you put in the bag. 420 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,900 Purple ones for the bad guys. White ones are good. 421 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:35,200 So depending On what equipment you have. 422 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:40,000 You through the course of the narrative, you pull the cubes 423 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,600 out of the bag, one at a time. And when you draw white one, 424 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:46,200 you've beaten the guard. And then you flip him over and 425 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,800 there's a bonus printed on the inset, right? 426 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:52,700 That's revealed. When you remove the night from 427 00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:54,600 the board and then turn him over. 428 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,800 It's really cool. Not only is that interesting. 429 00:24:58,900 --> 00:25:05,200 It's the story removes the game. I love how because you just have 430 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,200 that book, right? Yeah, there's nothing like it. 431 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,200 Give a bag. There's a disc of each, one of 432 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:11,900 your colors. And that's how you determine 433 00:25:11,900 --> 00:25:14,200 whose turn it. Is someone pulls the disc out, 434 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,100 green. Okay. 435 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:18,100 Well, whoever's green playing Robin Hood you move, and you 436 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:21,500 move because you have those wooden like if to medium length 437 00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:24,700 measuring measuring length, basically the tool of them 438 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:29,200 length and one long and if you don't use the long one, you're 439 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,300 basically saving strength. Yeah. 440 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:37,800 Add a white Cube to the bag. Which is good because you want 441 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:42,100 more white cubes in the bag. I should also good slows you 442 00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:43,700 down those. Yeah. 443 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:48,100 The, how far can he travel measuring wooden things. 444 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:49,600 Whatever you want to call them? I don't. 445 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:50,800 Yeah. But they're so good. 446 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,500 They're so good. And the story is great and the 447 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:59,000 fact that you can reset and play again, it's yeah, it's yeah. 448 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,400 Try not to any spoilers. It's the wonderful storytelling 449 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,400 game that. Definitely worth trying at least 450 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,900 once a place pretty quickly. You can like ever do a couple of 451 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:11,100 stories or you can we were think we're doing two squared into 452 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:13,800 stories at a time. Generally, we don't stop 453 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:18,200 dividing night, the four of us played the first three 454 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,100 chapagain. Yeah, and we did that in about 455 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:25,400 two, two and a half hours and then last night, after we were 456 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,900 done, playing terraforming, Mars, and other little games, we 457 00:26:29,908 --> 00:26:33,100 decided, Well, let's let's play the next chapter and that one 458 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:35,900 went Little longer but yeah, we're halfway through. 459 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:39,700 So, yeah, but that's the adventures of Robin Hood and 460 00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:45,600 you've gotta, if you haven't played, it's so different from 461 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,800 most games. And if, if you enjoy 462 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,700 story-driven campaigns, yeah, right. 463 00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:54,200 If that's not for you then, obviously. 464 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,400 Don't. Yeah, it's a really good story, 465 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,500 it unfolds naturally. It's, I don't know. 466 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:03,300 I just can't say anything more about it. 467 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:06,800 It's just so good. Definitely pick it up. 468 00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:10,000 I mean, the theme was the English, that's the medieval 469 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,300 castles, it's just a good piece of English folklore. 470 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,000 And there's an expansion, I believe this year, the 471 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,400 adventures of Robin Hood that Friar tuck in danger, but I 472 00:27:19,408 --> 00:27:21,900 don't know much about it, which is kind of awesome because Friar 473 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:24,900 Tuck who is like a key character in. 474 00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:28,600 The story is not featured at all in the game. 475 00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:31,300 So we're kind of excited to see Friar. 476 00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:33,000 Tuck be introduced. Yeah. 477 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,000 I was just looking on Board Game Geek the expansion for that and 478 00:27:37,008 --> 00:27:39,900 like, okay, okay, I'll be fine. Just open up. 479 00:27:39,900 --> 00:27:44,000 Looks like it had some new tasks little bit of so you can add it 480 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,200 and without having to, to play it through again. 481 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,300 But yeah, yeah. Yeah. 482 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:51,300 I agree. I open it all the game tonight A 483 00:27:51,300 --> 00:27:51,900 games. I love. 484 00:27:51,900 --> 00:27:54,300 Right? So we've done wealth to pick six 485 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:55,400 games. So neither of us. 486 00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:00,000 Knew you what we're going to bring to the table or solo game, 487 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,200 a two-player game as storytelling. 488 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:08,300 During games for everybody. Yeah, we really, yeah, check us 489 00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:09,800 out. One more twist lecture, without 490 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,200 communicating, or putting things that diary so that we didn't 491 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,700 miss me. We should do this more often. 492 00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:18,000 Yeah, not, we should stop planning and just just rock up 493 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,600 far, far easier. So, thank you all for listening. 494 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,000 We'll be back again, very, very soon with more episodes. 495 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,600 We've got a after last week's episode, we wingspan. 496 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,100 We had quite a few, quite a few requests for people to come and 497 00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:36,200 join us on, stay, on the sofa. But The podcast say anyone else 498 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,100 wants to join, do sending a message. 499 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:42,400 We are just planning out when our next special guests or maybe 500 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,600 two or three will share their audio with us. 501 00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:48,800 Yeah, we've not forgotten about you is just Garrison are getting 502 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,700 everything lined up and just do - yeah, that's all it is. 503 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,100 Okay with that? I Wish You A Farewell and thanks 504 00:28:57,100 --> 00:28:59,800 for listening. Thanks everyone for listening. 505 00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:02,400 Please Subscribe. And as always, we love to hear 506 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,000 your thoughts and ideas. So make sure to leave those in 507 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,000 the comments and don't forget, you can also chat with us both 508 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,500 on Instagram at meeple to me, people.