I'm looking forward to the massive amount of ritual and circumstance of the Nr. 100 that must've crept in at that point

Tier list time!

I feel like this is going to present a consistent problem going forward

@@tedsterrux The boys must reaaaally love el Dorado. Don't get me wrong, i like it too, but i would put Ra above it every day of the week 😁

need a kind of cyclical ranking like the alien language in Arrival

@@Jescribano1 Absolutely, but there's no world in which I would put El Dorado above Agricola either.

@@Jescribano1 I think it's a pretty easy sell that Ra is better than El Dorado but worse than Agricola, especially if we're considering things like innovation, staying power, etc. on a "greatness" spectrum. I'd definitely rank them this way myself and I think that would be the popular consensus overall

Not just how long ago you played something, but also just your mood for instance I love twilight imperium, but I am NOT starting a game of that at thursday night after a long day of work

The best way I've found is tier lists. You have to come at building the list with an explicit purpose and technique. I tend to think, how good it is for a general audience. Can I put this game/movie/anime down and have a good time with a lot of different people? The more niche something is, the lower the tier. But if it's really good for it's niche, it'll be at the top of that tier. That way if you can only get one thing and you want a crowd pleaser, S is the Safe option. Although, if you listen to the commentary, you might pick up on a lower-tier game and it'll fit your niche.

Stack ranking is always a terrible idea if you actually have to stand behind the ranking in any meaningful sense, yeah. I've been doing a stack ranking of movies I've watched in the past year and it's insane where some stuff ends up because you're really comparing apples to oranges.

Seriously! She brought this video to life!

Warrrrrrrbeast

She's hardly an addition, she's been on the podcast basically since it started :P

I agree! She is a great addition to the show, funny with really good remarks and opinions on the games discussed. I also love her contribution in the podcast and I hope to see her more often in videos!

Is a rulebook a component? 🤔

@@MrTombombodil In the general sense, I'd say yes, but some games incorporate the rulebooks themselves directly into the play

@@SocksAndPuppets nahh, every game has material aspects (components) and immaterial aspects (rules). Although chess isn't usually delivered with a rulebook it definitely has a set of rules that makes it chess and not checkers. The material aspect of the game can imply certain things (a knight looks different from a pawn or a rook so probably that has some purpose), but unless the material aspect forces you to use it some way, it doesn't matter if the rules are printed on the piece, they're still immaterial and have to be enforced by the players. In this way you cannot play chess with a checkers set (the checkers do not have enough material differentiation to reasonably chess with them), but there's nothing materially stopping you from playing checkers with chess pieces (although kinging pieces is difficult).

And NRB's play through a week ago too!

pure coincidence 😉

Heliopolis is so back!

ALIENS

Illegal board game discussion trusts must be busted!

Yeah she’s great. She consistently cracks Tom up on the pod as well.

NO! She’s driving me away from the podcast

They had an American version starting in the late 90s, and another more recently. I think it's pretty universal at this point.

They’ve actually reviewed it this past year! Seems really good.

... and in their review of Amun-Re, they specifically mentioned that they prefer Ra, although they thought Amun-Re was really good as well.

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Back to his roots

Quinns doesn't vibe with hard maths, and Knizia is nothing but hard maths.

@@imbw267 I hate Maths but love Dr K ! Quinns loved Ra in his review.

i was at the function and quinns actually threw his drink in reiner knizia's and stormed out, they hate each other

It does not. Boat only moves if you pull a Ra tile. Sorry!

@@dexdouglas gosh dang it, that is the third major rule to this game that I have gotten wrong. Might explain why my first experience with this game was so lackluster.

I feel like Tom is just complaining about the game being too good of a simulation of a collectables market. Half of the people are trying to make money, but the other half of the people are just trying to buy things they actually like, and that's what makes makes the those markets so speculative.

16:15 - only Tom has sun disks at this point, only he could've bid, and chose not to - then advanced the boat, and continued pulling tiles, so it's legal 16:52 - the final space is on the hourglass icon - at this point, the round(epoch) continues, until one more RA tile is drawn

Based on NRB's recent play I believe that you're supposed to discard the tiles if no one bids. I believe that they weren't doing that. I also believe that you're correct about the lack of a final bid... My guess is that these are house rules because tossing tiles feels wasteful.

In the first case: Technically an auction was started, but Tom is the only player that still has an token to bid with, therefore him deciding to pass ends the auction. When an auction is begun by a Ra tile, a bid does not have to be made, and if no bids are made, the tiles remain on the board. Second case: I don't think that he did move into the final space there, but the second to last one. Later on in the video you can see them play this rule correctly: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n9Oqm9ZmvN-5e4U.htmlsi=C1ZyAbxxtDvPC3S7&t=1379

@@JCPRuckus NRB played that rule incorrectly. Tiles are only cleared at the end of a no-bid auction if that auction was triggered by a full board

@JCPRuckus if the entire path is full, then an auction begins, and if nobody bids, then all the tiles are wiped from the game. If it’s just a normal auction where a Ra tile gets pulled and nobody bids, the tiles all stay where they are.

I love RA but it really depends on the group you're playing with. The best games are ones where everyone knows what they're doing and the bidding is really competitive and there's a lot more tough decisions. Then you have bigger highs and lows due to anxious choices and gambles that pay off or blow up in your face. Do I bluff an auction now and hope someone bids and have to buy if nobody takes the bait? Is it worth it for me? etc., Lighthearted play with new players or folks who aren't taking it as seriously is ok, it's fun in a different way but it's not as interesting in the long term. And yeah you're right, Agricola is really getting treated poorly.

@@brandonburrow8872 100%. I've had some great games of RA where everyone is like "Let's run it back right now!" and then I've had games where the tacit agreement was "Let's not play this again for a long long time". Whereas with Agricola, even if I have a bad game of it, I'm always interested to give it another go and try a new approach.