I believe, if you're really into the individual decks and play it on a very competitive level.... yes, I can see an appeal in it and I believe that tactical gameplay is a possibility. But tbh, in my case, I lacked the players to go that way. So it always ended up in causal plays like: "Look, I've got this fun game where you can pitch completely different characters against each other!" So, everyone played without any knowledge about the characters. Probably a second, or third time. But never enough to dive really deep into the possible mechanics. Im really glad for you and also a little bit envious that you managed to enjoy the game that way. :D Have fun ;)

I fully agree. I ve bought the base game and thought there could be better with .. i dunno, better maps ? better characters ? I felt there was something in it that could work way better. I bought bigfoot/robin which did not make the game any better. Then; because the thematic scope interested me i bought cobble & fog. I thought.. ok gothic characters that make sense (kinda.. sherlock meeting dracula is less farfetched than alice meeting king arthur... i know i know its the principle of the game...) the map seemed more interesting with secret passages in a manor. But still, the rocket did not take off... M advise : not a bad game for what it is. if you like the principle : go get cobble, you'll play it a couple of time and put it back on the shelter. whatever the characters and the map you end up running away getting cards and then getting closer to brawl.. that's it

I had a very similar experience with this game. Got caught up in the hype and kept buying into it, thinking I was missing something. Felt very let down in the end.

Never got to that point yet

@@BoardGameBollocks I think you take 2 damage for every card you cannot draw. So that can go fast. Its not like Munchkin which can drag on and on and on.

We’ve not got to the point where we’ve run out of cards. If we did the game would have dragged on for too long (it does that already sometimes). You only draw 1 card for manoeuvre and there’s 30 of them.

In what way could the thumbnails be better. If your going to criticise please help me improve 👍🏻

@@BoardGameBollocks So, some of it might just be taste, right? But when going through your channel, the newer thumbnails with the full blur background don't work as well in my eyes. For one, in the review videos, there is little consistency in the usage of titles on the thumbnail. Having a seperade space that indicates if it's a review, some space together with the logo, and using the free space to make the title of the game bolder could work. An since purple blur is dark already, the font doesn't need a black outline, I think it could work in bold white just as well. Having coloured logos that are dark themselves placed ontop of the dark blurry background makes it less readable. I'm thinking mostly of the cyclades playthrough here though. For placement and/or consistency of titles, I think you Top 100 videos work well, since they all follow one throughline. How you use title cards within the video works really well fore example, but the latest videos have their titles placed more chaotically. I really dig the asthetic of your videos, with you standing in front of this room full of games in an interesting lighting, everything behind you blurry, and when looking at some thumbnails, your video for risk, Eleven, champions of midgard or voices in my head work really well in that regard, they communicate the Feel of your videos clearly, but something like the Top 10 Auction/Bidding Board Games video present games in a really interesting way as well. So, if I had to summarize it, I'd say, for this newer design with the purple blurry background, find a way to have logo and "Review" placed somewhere in a consistent manner (like in the eleven thumbnail f.e.) and work more 3-dimensionally, with you and/or the boardgame more in focus and have the name / title not placed next to but boldly in front of or behind other objects in the frame. I am though not a youtuber, so just some thoughts I had. Sorry, was probably unasked for or inapropriate for me to even make this comment in the first place, but I realised that if youtube hadn't autoplayed your video for me and i got to see your amazing video aesthetic, I might have not wanted to click on it. Keep up the good work, I binged your review playlist while finalizing my masters thesis, so thanks a lot for entertaining me during my all-nighters!

@FakeDonut thanks for your thoughts mate

You don’t need cards to move.

How do you deal with player elimination in the 2v2?

@@BoardGameBollocks We use concedes liberally, the duo that lost a player decides if they want to continue. This game is the most popular in my group (I have about 50 games of 2v2 by now), and I saw a few epic 1v2 turn overs. That said, once the game is 2x1 it tends to be clear quite fast if it is time to concede. We even made a backyard 2v2 championship (with a trophy :) ). If you did not try 2x2 please do, it baffles me that 1v1 is the most played format. Cheers from Brazil.

@@BoardGameBollocks To finalize: the few times I got eliminated and we decided not to concede were not a big deal to me. They were rare, it never took long after I was eliminated (~15 minutes max) and I was still talking strategy with my mate during that time. If it is clear that the 1v2 turn over is not possible (~75% of the time) we just concede, no shame in it.

I’m done with marvel…it’s everywhere

Yup. Avoided Marvel, too.

the thing is, whatever the characters or their power, you ll end up with teh pretty same game.. running, refilling our hand with good cards, getting closer again and hit. If you compare with memoir'44, you have a zillion of possible strategies with even more basic cards and only three kinds of units. IMO, the idea was great, but it simply does not work (that well)

@@yannber you’re right, it adds very little other than “things I know”

Put me on speed dial mate

Been trying to offload my copy of DoA for years with no takers

@@BoardGameBollocks Why aren't you a fan?

Rules are too dense and fiddly. I’ve done a review of it so check it out

Sometimes the simplicity of a game makes it charming. Not every gamer wants to spend hours trying to learn a 3+ complexity rating game, and spend hours explaining rules every time playing with a new person. That's what I love about Unmatched. Quick setup, get in get out in half an hour.

i want a simple yet profound card driven battle game, with a minimalistic rulebook, go get memoir'44. I started my collection.. 44 years ago (coincidentce...), i played hardcore wargames, but for a so easy to learn easy to play ""warboard", this one is a pure gem (im sure there's a review on this channel of that absolute classic). You ll have tenth and tenth of games with the base game. It s not as if you need to buy expansion to have the real thing...

You can teach this game to an idiot in about 3 mins. It appeals to folk that couldn’t give a shit about board games. That’s its pull. It’s not for deep euro gamers. It’s designed to be stupid & light & quick.