Gnomes are so hot right now. 🥵 😊

have you gone back and play the coop version of hardback?

My wife and I played this for the first time today and loved it. It's a surprisingly deep game. Very nice strategy decisions. Potential to have great engines built. A very happy purchase.

Love these run throughs!

Excellent to hear that you liked it. Ordered it too straight away. Good to see that fellow Hungarians pump out better and better games.

Great run-through! I really hope they change the color of that red/orange gnomes because before you differentiated them I just assumed there wss 2 types of gnomes. I see the shape being different but maybe make them blue or something.

Hey Amy and Maggie! Thank you for the run-through!

Make sure to check out their final thoughts on Hedge Mage in the description. We'd be happy to answer any questions about Hedge Mage in the comments or on the game's BGG page too!

I woukd put Isofarian Guard on the list. But might be too campaign oriented for some.

I'm disappointed that no-one pointed out that Joan of Arc was made/Maid of Orleans.

Great job mate...💙

I agree with you on Wyrmspan. I will pick Wingspan over Wyrmspan every time.

Does How to Save a World didn't make the cut or you don't have it here for another reason?

is Coffee ☕️ roaster bag builder? 😮 interesting topic🎉 Bag drawing saves table space and more travel friendly, and avoid the hassle of deck shuffling (I have a manual shuffler, what a pain)

I loved trying out the prototype. I cannot wait to get my own released version!!

Guild Academies sounds great, wondering if you've played Castellans of Valeria to be able to compare?

I kinda like that it's a complex kids game, there's room to grow into it, the more they play and understand the rules they can try to beat their previous scores.

wow your hair grows fast!

You mention that this is a trilogy, can you provide links to the previous 2 episodes? I can't find them.

So excited for this!

Agreed on Wingspan vs. Wyrmspan!

Ruel: Tom Vasel has talked about how much he loves his fly salt gun, so you’re in good company. He never had such an interesting story as to what he does with the salt, though.

For me it's Hyperborea. That game gets no respect!

Thanks for this. What’s the difference between the stock and the money? Is it that you cannot spend the stock?

Is the interaction in Wyrmspan on the same lvl as in Wingspan?

Resurgence is probably #1 for me.

Scholars of the south Tigris? Hegemony too.

but but... i already pledged for cyclades and my shelf won't be able to handle two hercules. it will buckle under the testoterone.

What if two people both put the same game as their #1s (coincidentally)?

Looks like a great game. Can't wait to pick it up. hope to play the capitalists and put the lazy masses to work and reward the employees that do a good job and make a difference in society..

Honestly quite liking how this is looking, definitely on the list to try next. Big fan of the OG "Castles of Mad King Ludwig" as well, so it just checks a lot of boxes, lol. Great runthrough! - G

No Altiplano!?

1:08:19 And a pickup-and-deliver game! 😉

Chris is hilarious. "Orleeens if you're nasty" 😂

50:36 Wow, Richard! Rebirth wasn’t even on my radar up to now, as a game I was interested in… But - with the way you just marketed it, you have gotten me very intrigued now!

To be clear, the Kickstarter version of Meeples & Monsters has the screen printed meeples, but I think the retail version only has plain meeples. It is a pretty fun game, though, and yes, some of the worker placement is putting the meeples at the walls of the city to "combat" the monsters there, but it's just a matter of comparing their total strength to the monster's. Also, I love bag builders, but I fully agree with the upgrade comment that bag building really needs some nice tokens. I absolutely hate cardboard tokens for bag builders. I played Quacks one time (a friend's copy) with the default cardboard before I ever knew that there were upgraded tokens for it, and about 2 minutes in, I said, "they really need to make some better tokens for this game." Afterwards, I looked it up (because I did actually like the game) and found out that they did have better tokens available. I never got the game, though, because I got Wonderland's War, and that game fully replaces Quacks for me, so I no longer feel the need to own it.

I want this to be my next board game purchase.

21:50 Can you run clean energy again when adding and upgrade?

Some really great bag builder games on this list

Rahdo, you never rated Jiangnan. What would you give it?

Rahdo, you never gave a rating to Jiangnan. What would you give it?

Is Clank! a bag-builder too? And if it isn't, why not?

29:00 you forgot to remove the most left card when Jenn attacked a one distance building and you attacked a 2 distance building

1:00:00 we are so excited for people to finally get to try out our game Effortless!! Thanks, Rahdo for checking it out!

No Life of the Amazonia?

Life of the Amazonia has some nice bag building and good luck mitigation to go with it. Shea did the runthrough.

Great list, thank you!

Posted this on the short edition as well, but here are all of my little stories! Here are all my little stories! Zvocharnir, Guardian of the Deep, Bridgemaster of the Great Chasm. Out of the three sub races of dwarves, the Zvorda are well known to be enigmas among their own people. They are so few and far between that they stand out in whatever mountain cities they choose to make their homes. Yet, even still, Zvocharnir stands alone. While most dwarves in their youth make the long journey up the stairs from where the Norglavanja (the fair ones) dwell, are greeted by the holy thul, and adopted into a bloodline, Zvocharnir stopped his journey short, and took up residence in a small shack just past the final bridge of the journey. He has never spoken his birthmother's true name, and therefore has never been recognized as part of a bloodline. Instead, he remains as the last guardian of the deep, forever both a fierce protector of the way below to the Norglavanja's hold and a gentle shepard to the young ones that make the great climb up to dwarven society. At a hulking 6.5 feet tall, the largest Zvorda on record, often rumoured to be more troll than dwarf, Zvocharnir has only left his post three times, when self-proclaimed great nations have tried to take Muspelheim and its precious resources for themselves. Suffice to say, not a single being has ever managed to set one foot past him if he did not wish for them to do so.

Here are all my little stories! Zvocharnir, Guardian of the Deep, Bridgemaster of the Great Chasm. Out of the three sub races of dwarves, the Zvorda are well known to be enigmas among their own people. They are so few and far between that they stand out in whatever mountain cities they choose to make their homes. Yet, even still, Zvocharnir stands alone. While most dwarves in their youth make the long journey up the stairs from where the Norglavanja (the fair ones) dwell, are greeted by the holy thul, and adopted into a bloodline, Zvocharnir stopped his journey short, and took up residence in a small shack just past the final bridge of the journey. He has never spoken his birthmother's true name, and therefore has never been recognized as part of a bloodline. Instead, he remains as the last guardian of the deep, forever both a fierce protector of the way below to the Norglavanja's hold and a gentle shepard to the young ones that make the great climb up to dwarven society. At a hulking 6.5 feet tall, the largest Zvorda on record, often rumoured to be more troll than dwarf, Zvocharnir has only left his post three times, when self-proclaimed great nations have tried to take Muspelheim and its precious resources for themselves. Suffice to say, not a single being has ever managed to set one foot past him if he did not wish for them to do so.