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2013
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Description
Hot rain falls down upon a cold, rotting city. Here the Yugai, a species of militant humanoids, leave the survivors of the worlds they have ransacked and destroyed. It is a prison and a work camp, a place for those who lived through Yugai invasion to live out their remaining years as slaves. This is Gatorum, the City of Remnants.
In City of Remnants, players take on the roles of gang leaders, each one with unique qualities and motivations. Players will struggle to control the city, but only the winner can decide the city's future. Many paths to victory lie before you. Bid for gang members who provide a variety of shady skills. Get an edge with weapons and other sundries from the black market. Build districts that can provide you with advantages, production and income, but beware because a greedy opponent might sweep in and take over the work of your own hands.
City of Remnants combines strong resource management, auction, and conversion mechanisms with spatial tactics, assymetric player powers, area control and direct conflict. A variety of tools, different every game, are at your disposal to build up your gang and claim the city for yourself. But watch out for the Yugai police force, who will meddle with everyone's plans!
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Watch It Played Discussion at 0:39
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Pros
- Plano containers are useful for storing tokens and separating them.
Cons
none
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- Plano containers are something you need to consider
- it's really useful as I don't need to separate anything they're all right there
- these have a very low profile you see they're not very high but they have lots of separate storage area areas and you can actually pick up little plastic separators and move them around in the container so if you want to make a section wider or shorter you can sort of organize it based on the games
- this does like yabo says make it very easy to get the game out and have everything already separated and put on the table very very quickly
- I think these are a great solution too it's really something I need to do more of honestly
- this is this is a real problem in some games you have those large tiles
- maybe the rubber band might be the way to go
- now we've shown battle foam on the show before
- I think you'll see as war game becomes more and more popular you're going to find more of these kinds of products being made for people like us who are a little bit OCD about how we store our games
- you really see this a lot actually in these card games especially the collectible ones or the living card games where the cards that you can have and play with just continue to grow and grow and grow
- Go on Board Game Geek if you're curious you'll find lots of people who are creating these foam core inserts and they look really nice and they're very functional
- So this would be uh again you go on Board Game Geek I've seen them there
- so it really looks like it almost belongs with the game
- Very unique creative and you're definitely gonna get some stairs when you bring that out to the table
- that's a clever idea I hadn't thought of that
- go to your grocery store all kinds of Ziploc bags of different sizes and sometimes the perfect size is there that you need for a game
- that's something I hadn't thought of maybe a reason to have another child probably not
- now I don't really like the fact it says Saturday Friday Thursday Wednesday on here and all this written on the top but until terms of functionality it's fantastic
- So I'm glad you mentioned that gold is in sight video
- this may be sacrilegious to some but I have often stored whole games in Ziploc bags for ease of travel and thrown out the box all together
- well I gotta tip my hat to you Tonda because I'm not as relaxed and comfortable but my game's getting banged up like that but sometimes I wished I was
- there's something about well-used game cards and components that we all really like
- not everyone is as concerned as maybe I am and some of you with protecting their game pieces and they actually enjoy that
- listen to how far this obsession with protecting game components can go though
- these are not sleeves for cards these are sleeves for your sleeves for your cards
- so sometimes you get card sleeves and they have special Graphics or pictures on them and maybe you can't find those anymore and you want to protect the sleeves get sleeve protector protectors right there
- I never liked card sleeves so I don't use them I just make sure my Gamers have clean hands and respect the cards before playing
- what do you do when other players don't respect your game pieces maybe they got greasy fingers they're just being rough with them do you have examples of it how do you manage that how do you address it with them
- I want to thank all of you for your comments I read all of them obviously I can't respond to all of them or even feature them here but I want to try to feature more and more of you as time goes on
- we also have 13 video responses which I thoroughly enjoyed watching these seeing different people's different solutions for how they store their game pieces
- so that's what box insults are for agree game creators put a lot of thought in the Box inserts to help you organize your games and we should appreciate it
- and the more components the better the Box insert will be
- for extreme cases like this I like to build my own box inserts that's all just cardboard it took a lot of measuring but it saved me so much time during setup of a dungeon then
- I use these storage books if I go and do it yourself store as you can see they have a different inlay and they have that's the most important thing they have a customizable uh how you call them build hats
- um the cash money cash money the paper money that comes with it is horrible and I think everybody can agree on that so I've just put poker chips in here like most people do and I put it in this again like three to four dollar Plano box from Walmart everybody at Walmart thinks that I'm some crazy fisherman because I'm constantly buying tackle boxes and stuff but I've never fished in my life and I'd be horrible at it
- I forgot about my first ever obsessive board gaming storage solution which was to hold all of dominion up to before dark ages
- who wouldn't love a Ramekin of tiny little horses
- so it's pretty intense and I don't think many other people would have that type of storage box but it works for me I absolutely love it
- it came out of an errant comment of me saying man I really wish I had like a card catalog to keep track of all these things and next thing you know my wife goes crazy and Mrs talks gets me a card catalog
- Baggies of various sizes are a simple and accessible storage solution.
- Really Useful Boxes are a product line designed for game storage.
- GMT counter trays are specifically designed for organizing game counters and tokens.
- Hugo's Amazing Tape is useful for keeping cards together and preventing them from getting beat up.
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Watch It Played Discussion at 41:27 sentiment: positive
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Positive
Pros
- Enjoyed creating content for it
Cons
none
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Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Pap, you still haven't received your Tekkaido that you backed at a pretty high amount because you got your own character in the game.
- It's funny. We we talked about that at some point. Just like the humor, like the humor of doing something like a pep talks where I would talk about, you know, like some advice for particular games and it's something I like that. I like that. I love that idea of a pep talk.
- Rebel Mage here uh, left a message just said, "Pep, just want to say you're a great co-host for watching play. Keep up the good work."
- For me, it's probably going to be Star Realms. Star Realms is very high on here as well for me. Um, but I kind of want to skip that just because of how repeatable Star Realms is anyway. And I'm going to go to Sheriff of Nottingham.
- Uh, this is self- serving, but I would dress up as a Mounty and be my character from the Dead of Winter promo that's in the fundraiser.
- I'd want to find something I already look like and kind of like I wouldn't just go as my favorite character. I'd go as a character that I think I that I could that I could best look even kind of naturally almost, right?
- Yes, we talk about it somewhat frequently actually. Like, oh, we should probably cover some of the old older classics. Yeah, cuz there are still people today who pick up those games and and want to uh learn how to play them, right?
- Every game. But the one that always comes to mind for me is uh Pathfinder and any game that's kind of trying to do what the Pathfinder adventure card game is doing because in that game whenever you level up and complete missions, you get like draw a random item out of the box or do this or do that.
- Like Seall has something similar to that. They have an emnity thing. If you attack someone then they remember that other players remember that in in the game's mechanics and then that comes back to haunt you later or whatever.
- The whole idea of under Mountain is like it's constantly shifting and like it's the surroundings are changing. So every time you go down, things will be a little different anyway. So it' be really cool to make like a legacy style dungeon exploring thing around the end of that naturally.
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The Dice Tower Analysis at 5:18 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- I thought it was pretty nifty.
Cons
- It has been a while since I played it.
Thematic elements
- aliens taking over
- city
Comparison games
- Neon Gods
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — You're like a a group of gang resistance, but there's other gangs, and you want to be the best gangs.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And we always end at the the last one, The Road to Canterbury.
- If you like the Harry Potter theme.
- Cupcake Empire is a game I like a lot.
- I find it unique and interesting.
- So, the Valeria series has been up and down for me, but I thought Mar Graves was pretty interesting.
- This is one I considered getting back in the day if only because it's a war game but fantasy and from a war game company.
- It's good.
- What I like about this game is you're putting a card into the series and each round you're also going to activate one of these cards.
- So, that looks interesting.
- That is a lot of tan. Very Canterbury.
- my favorite here is probably Chomp actually, that little card game from All Play.
- I find that one to be pretty nifty.
- Are there ones that I should play that I haven't played there? Ones that I like and you're like you're crazy, etc.
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Discussion at 3:44 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Mechanics felt like a mess when combined
- Did not deliver on its promise
- Streamlined version (Neon Gods) was also not very good
Thematic elements
- Gang warfare
- City
Comparison games
- Neon Gods
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Mentioned as a promised but poorly integrated mechanic.
- Auctions/Bidding — Mentioned as mechanics included in the game.
- Deck Building — Mentioned as a mechanic included in the game.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it was raining I said to him we really need to solve this case and he agreed
- Detective a modern crime board game might be the most disappointing game I've played in a very very long time
- so what was billed to me is a fantastic detective just felt like busywork it felt like drudge work it felt like repetition
- the sitting was weird you like some elite crime unit but you're investigating a theft from 70 years ago
- this is an old game it's been out of print forever it's one of the Holy Grails of board game collecting
- it's just a mess of a game city remnants just doesn't deliver on its promise of being this intricate gang building area control game
- and it's got these wonderfully big taro sized cards that that look gorgeous
- and the second thing is one of the people of my regular group has rather poor eyesight and literally cannot play the game
- Between 2 cities love that game it's still one of my top twenty or so games in my collection I absolutely endorse and adore it
- Megaland is fine for what it is and that's an easily accessible short playtime push your luck game you can set up play and be done in 15 minutes
- and that is how you make money off board game media is buying games that 80% off and then selling them for $10
- just because there's a new edition doesn't mean that editions going to be better for you new doesn't mean better for everyone
- good games that are just ok they're just they're solid leave me in this weird space from like ok I've played that and that's about the level of engagement
- but the simple fact is this game takes up so much damn space it takes something that same space as six other games
- at some point a collection becomes unmanageable or unplayable
- there's a danger in this hobby of overloading yourself with cardboard
- I now have games that I've had for months that I haven't been able to get to yet simply because of the demands of a channel and work
- if you're looking to buy a game ask yourself am I actually going to be able to play this anytime in the future
- I mean I run a YouTube channel that reviews board games so I will eventually get through all the games I have and I will put them on the channel
- but I worry that for some people the gating is more important than they're having and that's kind of troubling to me
- it's okay to get rid of some games it's okay not to have everything in your collection it's okay for another friend of yours to own a game and for you to borrow it off them if you want to play
- there's literally no need to have a thousand unplayed board games sitting in your garage
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Watch It Played Review at 0:51 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Instructional video partnership helps support the show and introduce the game.
- Components include miniatures, tiles, tokens, dice, and cards.
- Board has different sides for different player counts.
- Development tiles have matching cards with special abilities.
- Black market cards add unique abilities to decks.
- Yu Guy control units add another layer of challenge beyond rival gangs.
- Miniatures are detailed for their size.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Gangs fighting for resources in captivity
- Harsh refugee worlds
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players develop parts of the game board by placing tiles, and when they control these tiles, they yield renown.
- bidding — Players recruit new gang members by trying to outbid and vie for control of them from other players.
- Combat — Gang members are used to do battle with other rival gangs.
- Deck Building — Players add new gang member cards to their deck during gameplay, giving them further unique abilities.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Now, normally in our series we take a game, we show you how to play it, and then over the following episodes, we'll actually play the game, and then between episodes invite you to play along with us, help us make gameplay decisions.
- Now, this video is going to be a little bit different because we're going to be partnering with Plaid Hat Games once again to produce an instructional video for one of their upcoming games.
- Now, the game in question is City of Remnants.
- And so, you'll win the game if you can become a gang leader to lead your gang to the highest level of prominence and renown.
- The spaces on the fringe of the board represent the slums or least desirable locations.
- And as you move to the center, the spaces become more valuable and riskier.
- Over the course of the game, you'll be able to develop parts of the game board, placing tiles on them.
- And when you control these tiles, they will yield you renown, which you need to win the game.
- There are also black market cards, which players will be able to buy to add to their deck during gameplay, giving that player further unique things that they can do on their turns.
- Will this be a game for you? Well, that's something you're going to have to decide.
- Until the next episode, everyone. Thanks for watching.
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Board to Death TV - Board Game Reviews Review at 0:23
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Array
- Array
- gangs, urban development, area control, resource management, faction rivalry
- Array
- A dystopian, post-disaster urban landscape where refugees form rival gangs to control districts within a galactic-occupied city ruled by an alien power
- Array
- Array
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- positive
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- game has a nice mix of mechanics from deck building to area control and city building allinone
- we really enjoyed this one at four players
- it's getting eight City districts out of 10
- has a nice art and good production quality
- City of remnants but once you play a few rounds you get the hang of it
- lots of player interactions from battles in the streets to bidding wars
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