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This is the week in review, where we go over videos from the past week, what’s coming up today, and then shove in whatever form of something else that happens to make sense today.
TimeStamps:
0:00:00 – Introduction
0:00:45 – My Voice & Branching Timelines
News:
0:02:45 – Townsfolk Tussle Updates
0:03:20 – Dragon Prince Board Game
0:03:55 – Marvel United: X-Men
0:04:55 – Z-Man Cancelling Euro Classics Line
0:06:08 – Wild Assent Expansion & Reprint
0:07:00 – Asmodee becomes Distributor for Thundergryph, Starling and Fantasia Games
Week in Review
0:07:45 – What I’ve Played Last Week
0:12:50 – Reviews & Gameplay for Lost Ruins of Arnak, Skulls of Sedlec, Court of Miracles and Nidavellir
0:14:17 – Stellaris Infinite Legacy – Should You Back it?
0:15:40- To Back Or Not To Back
0:15:56- 10 Things Every Content Creator Should Be Doing
0:16:53 – Board Game Crowdfunding – What I Did & Didn’t Back – February 2021
0:17:32 – How To Get Board Games to The Table
0:18:37 – Deluxification in Board Games – Coins, Sleeves, Inserts & More!
0:19:42 – Coming Up Today – Reviews & Gameplay for Zombie Kidz, Santa Monica, Master Word & Arma
0:20:45 – Next Week Coming Up
News Links:
Townsfolk Tussle Updates – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/townsfolktussle/townsfolk-tussle/posts/3111079
Dragon Prince Board Game – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA0Ekercgys
Marvel United: X-Men – https://www.beastsofwar.com/board-games/cmon-marvel-united-x-men-coming-soon/
Z-Man Cancelling Euro Classics Line – https://www.zmangames.com/en/news/2021/3/15/ode-euro-classics/
Asmodee becomes Distributor for Thundergryph, Starling and Fantasia Game – https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/115674/asmodee-usa-distribute-games-thundergryph-fantasia
Wild Assent Expansion & Reprint – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1449412950/wild-assent-survive-the-arena-and-tame-the-wilds/posts/3127083
Video Links:
Lost Ruins of Arnak Playthrough – https://youtu.be/pfyllAAl81c
Skulls of Sedlec Review – https://youtu.be/Zoyorr39hn0
The Court of Miracles – https://youtu.be/k1f5DeD42QE
Nidavellir – Playthrough & Review – https://youtu.be/q3ZRZBpWWX8
Stellaris Infinite Legacy – Should You Back it? – https://youtu.be/3W2jMmunA00
To Back Or Not To Back – https://youtu.be/wQsWKaYY0GI
10 Things Every Content Creator Should Be Doing – https://youtu.be/TvFDnLaA0hc
What I Did & Didn’t Back – February 2021 – https://youtu.be/uYaB3jKKnZA
How To Get Board Games to The Table – https://youtu.be/9yeaDPaXewo
Deluxification in Board Games – Coins, Sleeves, Inserts & More! – https://youtu.be/6TQMA_nSgTU
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The time continuum in this season is all over the place! Eeeeeeeeeee! I love it 😀 Next we'll have future Alex unboxing Kickstarters from 2022 😉
Excited to see your review of Santa Monica. I picked it up because I had a 50% coupon for AEG and got a few of their games. We enjoyed it but I want to play it with more than just 2 to really figure out how much we like it.
Looking forward to the review on Arma! And glad to hear that you are feeling better 🙂
Sometimes, I expect more thought being put into opinions/statements than content creators apparently spend thinking about them. There are some very obvious reasons why an IP owner would want/require a KS to launch in a certain window (they planned on receiving their royalties payment in a certain financial quarter and synced this KS launch with the delivery of their new software release hoping to get an influx of new customers for said software release) and no obvious reasons (that I can think of) why the IP owner would care when the actual board games are delivered to backers. They would simply want a company they could trust to deliver a quality product to backers that lived up to their brand.
Thanks for working on the sofa!
I like this better than the couch, a more classy but still homelike. Have a good Sunday or Satusday night when you read this;)
Regarding Stellaris. I canceled my pledge. I''ve heard several people (including you) talk about Eclipse 2nd Edition so I checked it out and the quality differences of the campaign was striking. I really like many of the Stellaris mechanics but not enough at this point.
Any idea if we are going to be able to pick up previous Marvel United stuff in this KS?
Why do you have two copies of santorini?
So if Asmodee is the distributor of those companies does that mean those companies’ games will have the Asmodee MAPP now?
Can you please talk about cult followings and cult classics in regards to board gaming?
Thanks again. Have a delightful weekend. Playing games and other stuff you can do around the house. So the Q&A is not tomorrow but in 8 days that is? By the way, I am curious to your thoughts on Trails of Tucana.
Have you tried Yokohama? Would be interested to play this not that with Istanbul.
That post is total Bologna! Shut Up & Sit Down gave glowing reviews of ALL the reprints. The real problem was all of them were constantly out of stock EVERYWHERE! How rude of this guy to blame reviews and people who constantly talk about their deep love of Ra and Tigris and Euphrates! Some people.
I'd love to see you post some playthroughs of Zombicide and some more of your favorite boardgames on top of the newer ones. It could give you an opportunity to pull out Zombicide Invader too 😉
Z-Man games is full of crap. It has nothing to do with older games not selling, or that you have to be on Kickstarter, or whatever their whining was about.
It's that the market has changed, and people want games that are not only fun to play, but also have high production quality and look good.
If they were to do an updated, high-quality, new artwork, of these classic euro games, they would sell.
Hi Alex, kind of related to this week's news, a suggestion for one of your "Alex Talks Board Games" videos.
Are there too many board games being published / Is the number of games being published good or bad for the industry.
Another great week as always.
10:35 Istanbul, not Constantinople! Istanbul, not Constantinople!
12:46 Alex, how do you know when you played a game that you forgot to log? Do you just remember having played/playing it?
Alex, you have in the description that Lost Ruins of Arnak, Nidavellir, etc. playthroughs were coming up today – which was obviously last Saturday. Are you going to fix this?
So excited for Wild Assent since you reviewed it. Not sure why I've been sitting on backing late pledge Stormsunder for several months now (maybe the vampire theme is the big turnoff?) but I'll likely back both this year.