1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,840 Welcome to Meeple to Meeple uniting players around the 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,600 world, a 30 minute exploration of PJ and Gareth's four-game 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,480 experiences from across both sides of the Atlantic. 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,720 Each episode, they share their thoughts and opinions on the 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,280 World of War games, including their favorite themes, games, 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,640 hot topics, and much, much more. Merry Christmas everyone, and 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:26,720 welcome to Episode 63, Jingle Bells. 8 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,760 Jingle Bells, Jingle All the Way, and we are going to talk 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,960 about games that we've recently played and what we're going to 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,680 play this upcoming Christmas weekend. 11 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,680 As always, I'm. PJ I'm Gareth. 12 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:41,160 And we are so happy to be with you. 13 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,360 It's been a few weeks off. Gareth, how are you? 14 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:45,960 It's. Like an early Christmas holiday, 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,440 didn't we? Hi, I know. 16 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,680 And and and now we're back before Christmas with It's like 17 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:52,320 a countdown to Christmas, I mean. 18 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,520 Countdown to Christmas. If you're listening this week, 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:55,840 it's only a few days to go. That's. 20 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,920 Right. Until Santa arrives with his 21 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:04,920 sleigh, hopefully bringing all our listeners all the games they 22 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:10,640 could possibly not need. But unfortunately, I've been a 23 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,760 bad boy and Santa will not be bringing me any games this year. 24 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:19,280 Why I was I did not watch my PS and QS this year. 25 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,640 PJ. Yeah, I know. 26 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,200 Luckily I have a wife who's also a gamer and we just bought a 27 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,600 bunch of games and just kind of put a bow on them and put them 28 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,360 under the tree. And that's what we're playing 29 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:33,840 Christmas. Weekend. 30 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,560 Yeah, I must admit I kind of just went shopping online and 31 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,880 bought some games I needed and went Happy Christmas. 32 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,600 But anyway, I thought we should just. 33 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:43,480 I mean, we haven't talked. We just do like what we're up 34 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,560 to. What's hitting the games table 35 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,520 kind of show so? I want to tell you what 36 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,400 happened, what hit my table yesterday? 37 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,080 Go. And it totally fits this theme. 38 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:58,920 So yesterday our gaming group got back together and we visited 39 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,200 an outpost to the far north Frost Haven. 40 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:05,320 Oh, how long has that been? Was that? 41 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,360 That's been a couple, actually, a couple of months, because 42 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,720 life's been in the way. I think it was before Halloween 43 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,040 that our group played Frost Haven. 44 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:15,800 But here's the beauty, here's the twist. 45 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:22,920 We played Christmas Frost Haven. OK, is that oh, this is of some 46 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,400 DJ? Yes, so. 47 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,960 House Rule. Well, I mean, not really a house 48 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:28,560 rule. OK. 49 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:33,280 So we took the crocheted Santa hats that my wife from Nemesis. 50 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,720 From Nemesis from last year. Yeah, yeah. 51 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,760 And we put them on our miniatures and we went to Frost 52 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,600 Haven and all the scenarios our characters were wearing Santa 53 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,960 hats. We tried to wrap the scarf but 54 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,240 the scarf was too long, like my miniature was completely wrapped 55 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:54,000 in a scarf. But this is warm, yeah? 56 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,760 But the Algox looks amazing because he's already he already 57 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,960 looks like he looks like Snow Miser, right? 58 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,560 For those of you who know here without Santa Claus, the you 59 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,360 know what is it? Rankin and Bass from the 70s. 60 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:12,080 Heat Miser and Snow Miser. He looks like Snow Miser and you 61 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,320 put a Santa had on him, just really cute. 62 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,560 We played two really intense scenarios and it was really cool 63 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,640 and I think we were successful because the spirit of Christmas 64 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,520 is so. That's how far through you, how 65 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,880 is that? Man, we. 66 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,400 Even even dented it, it's still just a. 67 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,800 So I don't know, different people judge their progress in 68 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:38,320 Frost Haven differently. Yeah, we're about 25 or 26 69 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:47,240 scenarios completed and we have six of the 18 characters left to 70 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,240 unlock. So it's 25 to 30%, let's say 71 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,840 maybe? Yeah, but we only get together 72 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,840 typically every other Saturday when we play. 73 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,040 And so you got a. Goodyear. 74 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,200 Yeah. Oh, we've got longer than that, 75 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:02,240 maybe. So. 76 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,880 So yeah, Christmas Frost Haven was yesterday, so that was fun. 77 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,160 How about you? Would you hit what you've been 78 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,240 playing recently? Oh, where do we start? 79 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,800 I only played this once, but I really enjoyed it was Raising 80 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:22,520 Robots, which was Raising Robots, which is a Kickstarter 81 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,720 that shipped, I think maybe even shipped early. 82 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:31,160 It's see a mixture of so it's got a bit of wingspan feel to it 83 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:36,800 and other good space engine, an engine builder tableau up to six 84 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:38,880 players, everyone plays at the same time. 85 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,400 You're going to play a board a bit like Wingspan which is why I 86 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,480 think about it and you're like an inventor trying to build 87 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,400 robots and as you add the robots to your boards they basically 88 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,920 build your engine. When you go through an action 89 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,120 you can trigger everything. All the robots help you. 90 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,280 So your resource gathering it's got a clever mechanic that you 91 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:01,040 get these two energy cards to begin the game. 92 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,400 They might have four energy or two energy and sometimes you add 93 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,360 energy cubes to the the overall board and then you add up your 94 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,440 energy and then that's how much you can use to activate. 95 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:16,800 But there's I think there's five different actions but you can 96 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,680 obviously only do two of them a turn unless other people power 97 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:20,920 it up and you can use their power. 98 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,640 So it's just kind of like what are they going to do, what am I 99 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,640 going to do in a two player game? 100 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,480 There's a there's the third player, which I've got to say 101 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,040 works really well, Low Admin. Really. 102 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,360 Really good two player I thought. 103 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:35,920 Wasn't sure Oh no there's a third. 104 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,760 There's a third player bolt on but but it was easy and it 105 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,440 worked really well. So yeah we played last night for 106 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:45,680 the first time. I'm itching the player a game 107 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,160 about 3.25 production is amazing. 108 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,760 The art is fantastic and you know I love an engine it's on a 109 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:54,840 tablet builder so it's just ticking the boxes. 110 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:59,560 So yeah that that's that's, that's very recent. 111 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,720 Worth checking out. I think it's going to be popular 112 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,000 for next year. So that's that's kind of our 113 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,920 recent plays and keeping with the theme of this episode, a 114 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,400 countdown to Christmas. So we want to talk about just a 115 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,040 few games that we're going to play this week leading up to and 116 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,080 really the highlight, at least for me, is this weekend, the 117 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:25,000 Christmas weekend, the 22nd to the 25th, maybe beyond, but 118 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,840 definitely over Christmas weekend is what are we going to 119 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:29,880 play and what's going to hit your table? 120 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:31,720 Do you have anything planned that you're definitely going to 121 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:36,000 play? And say definitely want to play, 122 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,360 need to play. So if anybody is on Board Game 123 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,080 Geek every year they do a Secret Santa, which is like one of my 124 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:44,560 favorite parts of Board Game Geek. 125 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,160 So I was very lucky this year to somebody. 126 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,720 Send me the Ticket A Ride. Legacy Legend. 127 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,080 No. Happy days. 128 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:57,520 So I'm going to try and play my way through that this week. 129 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,760 So I'm trying to get Carrie and our youngest, so I don't think 130 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,240 we're going to get 5 players all the time. 131 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,720 So I'm just going to go for the family and play my way through 132 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,800 it. I hear really good reviews, so I 133 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:14,160 hear some not so good views on the game, but I think we're kind 134 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,120 of medium fans of ticket to rides. 135 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,640 Like we like a good game. I think the way it starts small 136 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:24,040 and builds, so that's Ticket to Ride and then the other game 137 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,720 that I don't know when we're going to get this in, but it's 138 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,800 become the tradition is we need a game of Twilight Imperium. 139 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:34,200 Oh yeah, the dates are loose because everyone's so busy with 140 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,920 work. I am now on holiday for two 141 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,040 weeks so I have time to play games. 142 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,760 So anyone in the Southampton crew, anybody else wants to hang 143 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,320 out, just shout. Yeah, So what I'm hearing is you 144 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,000 have time to come and visit. Me. 145 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:53,040 Time to not fly to America, but maybe we could get a gaming 146 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:54,960 online. We do. 147 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,800 We need to do that. Have you got all the new Rolling 148 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,440 Realms packs? All of them, OK, just. 149 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,280 They just. Came in, even opened them, so 150 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:03,880 maybe we should work through some of. 151 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,680 Those I opened to look at them. But I haven't. 152 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:07,840 I haven't. Played them yet? 153 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,640 We can definitely do that. Yeah, we we've got some other 154 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:14,680 friends in the UK that maybe we can get a bigger. 155 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:16,760 We could do a rolling realms right. 156 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,360 I've just not in that down to plan and what have you got 157 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,920 planned for Christmas? So we also, my wife and I picked 158 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,080 up Ticket to Ride Legacy. Oh yeah, we bought it. 159 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,800 And rather than wrap it, we put a bow on it, put it under the 160 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,440 tree. We might try to start playing it 161 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:35,320 this Christmas. Weekend two player or you can 162 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,440 play it, yeah. No, we're just playing two 163 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,159 player because our group has Frost Haven and that's a big 164 00:08:40,159 --> 00:08:42,120 campaign. We don't want to take away from 165 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,440 that And so we're just going to play take it to Ride Legacy and 166 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,040 see what's what. Although the other one is we did 167 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:54,240 pick up after listening to you news about this game for so long 168 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,400 and I was salivating at trying to find a copy of it and that is 169 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,800 Darwin's journey. Oh, and we bought it. 170 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:07,800 We bought it in November at a game store in Bloomington, IN 171 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,000 and we got the expansion as well. 172 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:11,920 Or. Finance. 173 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,120 Yes, OK, put it under the tree and we might, we might give that 174 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:17,840 a go this this time of the weekend. 175 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:22,720 It just sounds amazing. Yeah, we played it last week. 176 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,600 It was last Friday again. It's so good. 177 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:32,440 It's we went back to the the the base game which to me is the 178 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,240 lighter version OK if you're really going to play it. 179 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,480 The I think the full game is with Firelands. 180 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,080 OK. It feels that that that was the 181 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,440 IT but it's there's so much going on they scaled it back 182 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,800 into what is the core box but. I think we're going to try just 183 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,960 the core get well because we've never played it. 184 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,160 Just. But you're like a pro gamer. 185 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:53,120 You're funny. Easy. 186 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,520 All right, You give me more credit than I deserve, I. 187 00:09:58,560 --> 00:09:59,400 Think. No, seriously, no. 188 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:00,840 Start. Start with the base game. 189 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:02,640 Start with the base game. And then go all the way. 190 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:04,840 Yeah, yeah. The base game is Yeah. 191 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,560 If no one, no one has tried out Darwin's journey. 192 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,560 It's a bit of a beast to teach. Yep. 193 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,640 But it just sings, flies along. It's so well connected. 194 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,760 Oh, you can't do anything perfect. 195 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,640 Game and then I guess the immediately the week, the week 196 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,400 of Christmas. So the 25th between Christmas 197 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,120 and New Year's we're going to be in Ohio visiting the in laws. 198 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,880 We've arranged to drive down to Cincinnati which is not far. 199 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:34,600 We're going to meet with our friend Ben. 200 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,600 It's games with Ben on Instagram and we're going to meet up with 201 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,280 him at the Capstone games store. So they were brick and mortar 202 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:44,480 store. They're based out of Cincinnati 203 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:47,400 and hopefully we'll get in a game with him and it will 204 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,720 probably be something from Capstone, maybe Arc Nova, which 205 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:52,360 would be. Great. 206 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,640 He played Arc Nova camp, not a campaign, A tournament at Gen. 207 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,280 Con this year. I think he got knocked out in 208 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,400 the first or the second round, but we'll try to play some Arc 209 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,880 Nova with the Marine worlds. And that would be nice. 210 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,440 That would be cool. So that's kind of, that's kind 211 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,200 of our immediate Christmas plans. 212 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,960 Right now I've just got. Anything else, just just. 213 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,680 Back a lot of games over the last month and we haven't, we 214 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:19,080 haven't seen our gaming group. I think for two months. 215 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,800 Work's been really heavy. I mean away every week. 216 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:27,320 So there's a pile of games in Shrink before Christmas that I 217 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,200 need to work through. And then there's the whatever 218 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,240 people decide to, you know, add to the collection over 219 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:34,600 Christmas. Absolutely. 220 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:36,960 What are the games we've been playing? 221 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:42,240 Oh, I tell you my favorite. Flip and write. 222 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:43,760 You know, flip and write, roll and write. 223 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,200 This year is Flip Town. Flip. 224 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:53,800 Town Town so you're a cowboy. In the West it's like you know 225 00:11:53,800 --> 00:12:00,280 in the Wild West you it's you've got a standard deck of cards and 226 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:04,880 then some nice player boards and plays across 3 rounds, 5 turns 227 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:09,360 per round. So 1515, I guess overall turns. 228 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:14,200 Each round you flip over three playing cards and then one of 229 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,720 the cards it is where well, so when the suits, you'll choose to 230 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,480 send you to one of the four locations, maybe to the mine or 231 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:26,520 to the trail or to go and rob chickens and hold up trains or 232 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,520 you're going to visit a town and then the other cards is a 233 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,080 numbered. So you might use that number to 234 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,840 decide whether it's a chicken, whether you're going to go down 235 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,960 the mine, and the remaining cards you write down into your 236 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,640 hands at the end of the first round. 237 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,600 There's five cards to build, like a Texas Holdem kind of 238 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,760 hand, but it it has this element of the teacher. 239 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:52,000 You go, wow, this is overwhelming because there's 13 240 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,640 locations in town. They're all unique, but actually 241 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,040 as soon as you start playing people just settle in. 242 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:02,440 There's obviously the more things you do at robbing, the 243 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,520 more sheriff badges you get, Sheriff wanted posters you get. 244 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,040 She has a bit of mitigation to make sure you don't get caught 245 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:10,200 by the sheriff at the end of the rounds. 246 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:11,960 Right. But I'm looking, I'm looking at 247 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:13,160 this right now. So you've got like a little 248 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,440 player board in front of you that's dry erase, Is that 249 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:16,800 correct? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's really 250 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,840 nice. High production is a Kickstarter 251 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,560 that that I just went. I mean, I do like the world. 252 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:23,040 W Sub, you know? W Legends. 253 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,160 I've always been a fan of, you know, Western films and I 254 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:30,280 thought, now this looks good and I have to say I am those 255 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,400 Kickstarters. I was like, now this one has 256 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,400 been an absolute. That's that one I got right. 257 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:37,400 I love it. So check it out. 258 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,160 Yeah, I think you can buy it from their website. 259 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,200 I don't think it's not in retail in the UK yet anyway. 260 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,320 But Flip Town, if you're a fan and roll and write, flip and 261 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,560 write games, there's it might be a bit late for Christmas 262 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:51,560 stocking time, but it's, it's a lovely, lovely game. 263 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:57,600 Anything else you've been, you've been recently 14? 264 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:02,760 Looking forward to no I pretty much what I've named is what 265 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:04,840 we're ready to, We're ready to tackle. 266 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:09,480 We've got 233 games in our collection. 267 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:17,400 We've played 94.6%. That is, that is. 268 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,640 I'm sure I've got some. And we've we've picked up a lot 269 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,760 of new games. Maple Valley and Diced Veggies 270 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:30,640 just came in. Oh, I got a text from John Try 271 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,960 win Games when he was at Essen, a game called Captains of the 272 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,280 Gulf. It's about the Gulf of Mexico. 273 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,960 It's set from in in my home, my home state of Louisiana, where 274 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,800 you're you're going in the Gulf of Mexico to get fish, shrimp 275 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:50,040 and crabs and oysters. And so I picked up a used copy. 276 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,640 Geekway had a used game sale in Saint Louis. 277 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,720 I picked up a copy real cheap, played that. 278 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,040 That was interesting. And then we got a copy of 279 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,200 Empire's End that we demoed at Gen. 280 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,040 Con. So yeah, our collection grew, 281 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,920 and yet we've managed to. It's incredible. 282 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:13,000 Honestly, I think if I play 95% of my games every single year, I 283 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,840 feel really good about that and as long as we keep that pace. 284 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:18,480 We. Should be. 285 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:21,040 It's. Oh dear. 286 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:25,760 Yeah, yeah, what? I'm on, but because more games 287 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:32,240 have arrived we're on 2020%. It might. 288 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,880 I mean, I've seen you say we, we went to see Nick Ball Game 289 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,000 Review UK, yeah. I saw you were. 290 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,440 There last last weekend so we were just comparing stats and 291 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:46,520 this has been a pretty unless we have a Christmas miracle and I 292 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,880 play about 120 games, this is not going to be the worst on 293 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,320 record, but certainly since COVID. 294 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,680 So we've. Played the least, but then I 295 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:57,720 take the year into account, it's been a busy one. 296 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:06,280 So what I need to do and is take my entire vacation, 180 hours or 297 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,680 whatever it is, 110 hours, and come visit you. 298 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:11,840 So if you're going to put me up and you're going to feed me, 299 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:13,800 we're going to play. All these games we're just going 300 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,000 to go through games we've where's, what's the unplayed 301 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,640 pile where? That's at 80. 302 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:19,760 Yep. You give me free food and 303 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,880 lodging, I'll come see you stay with. 304 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,880 You baked beans on toast. I don't know. 305 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,880 Sure, OK. No idea what you just signed up 306 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,560 for. That's a low, that's a low cost 307 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:31,240 meal. Thanks. 308 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,680 It feeds you every day. Yeah. 309 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:39,520 So yeah, that that's what I'm hearing is that we have to come 310 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:41,000 and stay. With you and I need help. 311 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:42,480 I need help. You do. 312 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:47,160 You do so. OK, that's. 313 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,080 Great. So I think, I think we should, I 314 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,240 think we'll, so I think we're going to take next week off now 315 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:52,760 help me. Yeah, Christmas and we'll be 316 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,720 back just New Year's Eve, I think is the plan and we're 317 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,640 going to talk about the games we've got through at Christmas 318 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:02,560 and then we'll get back into normal rhythm. 319 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:07,079 We've got we've got a design publisher due the first week of 320 00:17:07,079 --> 00:17:09,839 January, as long as all the dates line up. 321 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,760 An. Imminent Kickstarter we should 322 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,480 be talking to. That's correct. 323 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,760 Otherwise, I think we should just wish each other had Merry 324 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,480 Christmas. Yeah, Happy Christmas. 325 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,079 And our listeners, thank you for listening. 326 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:23,440 It's been. A. 327 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,160 Thank you so much. It's been a brilliant year for 328 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,080 for growth. Thanks for all the comments, 329 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,920 thanks for the encouragement and I hope everyone enjoys 330 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,080 Christmas. You get all the gifts you wanted 331 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:37,960 and you have time, your friends and family. 332 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,360 Absolutely. Play some games. 333 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,640 Happy Christmas and get those games played all right. 334 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:46,160 Happy Christmas, mate. Thanks everyone for listening. 335 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:48,840 Please subscribe. 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