Galaxy Trucker: Do What?! Exp

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Real-Time — Original game is real-time, but an expansion offers a turn-based option.
• Resource Management — Introduced in the expansion.
• ship building — Players build spaceships.
• tile laying — Players lay tiles to construct their ships.

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• Zombie Princess is brutal. Like, it's just brutal.
• The horde is coming. You just gotta do your best to try and survive.
• It's another one of those train games where you're building routes and delivering goods.
• The economic engine in this game is really satisfying.
• Lost Ruins of Arnak is just gorgeous.
• It's a really interesting mix of worker placement and deck-building.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Modular Board — Introduces new modules, possibly building on existing ship parts.
• Set Collection — Implied by collecting VIP crew with associated bonuses.

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• I did not enjoy my first play of Echoes of Time.
• this is a light tableau building card game.
• Flow... it looks gorgeous.
• Covenant. Number two on my most anticipated list.
• Vlaada Chvátil. Do you know what the last game that Vlaada designed was? ... He's not actually designed a new game and had a new game published for almost 10 years.
• It's called Severton.
• I have spent the last 15 years of my life telling everybody that Talisman is such a bad game... And with the fifth edition, I've had to sort of eat my words on that.
• There just isn't enough time to play all of the games.
• IR from Osprey Games. Children of the Sun. Yeah. It is really good.
• Druids of Adora, new Stefan Feld game from Alea
• There may be some Essen live streams while we're there.
• I have written to the publisher to ask for a potential review copy, yeah, but to be fair, I only emailed them yesterday.
• Covenant. I completely forgot that was a thing. Started looking at the pictures and and thinking, yeah, I'm down for that.
• The The Void Voynich Puzzle. Voynich Yeah. Don't forget go to bed reading the Wikipedia articles about the Voynich manuscript.
• Saboteur is the other one which I did know. I saw it on your shelf uh today earlier, but I didn't know much about it. But now you've explained what it is, I'm kind of getting that um like Enid Blyton vibe from it. Yeah. what was it called? The Famous Five. Famous Five. Famous Five. Of that kind of stuff. Yeah. And weirdly, I'm interested. All right. And I've looked at the pictures of that, so yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Saboteur is good.
• I'll be demoing, but I'm demoing um uh Revenant um I think twice on the Saturday from 12:00 till 4:00.
• Trickerion with the Arcane Arts expansion. I think that's my schedule.
• Now, the one game that I am going to be looking at is there's a new game that Mighty Boards have just announced recently called Gods. All right. Which is designed by David Thompson, Trevor Benjamin, and is right up my alley.
• And they said, "Well, at least come round and have a look at it." And I'm like, "Yeah, I'll come round and have a look at it." But I've already agreed that I'm going to be doing content on that.
• I find it really weird and unusual that and and everybody else does this. I'm the odd one, but all of all of these content creators go to Essen, they go to Gen Con, and they have meetings with publishers where they sit down and they make deals about payment and what videos they're going to Right. That's the worst place to have a meeting.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• expansion content — additional rules and content expanding base game

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• Galaxy Trucker is a perennial favorite. I've loved this game series for years.
• This is one of the coolest like for an anime lover like me and a manga lover, this is one of the most well-done kind of theme-to-game mechanics thing I've seen.
• So, I'm keeping it probably to cull it,
• Galaxy Trucker with expansions, that is definitely a keep to finish out September.
• I think this one is great.
• I love how they kind of do different stories in little bite-sized chunks.
• The riff on KDM, Kingdom Death Monster's combat system, is really well done.
• I enjoyed the core mechanics of this one pretty well, but the balance felt off.
• I thought this one was pretty fun.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Deck Building (Negative) — if you want to add more cards to your decks, you can, but these cards are horrifyingly bad cards. Black holes, which if you don't have enough engine power, destroy two for every engine power you're underneath. Fleets that come from all sides and blow you up. Meteor showers, which will hit an entire row or column. Uh phantom asteroids, which are fine unless you shoot at them, in which case they're terrible. Plagues, which can ruin stuff inside of the ship. Asteroid attacks.
• missions — The first module that's in here are the VIP passengers that come in different colors... You can also play with this mission manual. This mission, you can pick which mission you want to use, although there is a deck of cards if you want to randomly pick one and they'll also tell you if they use any special components.
• Special Components (Cargo) — For example, there is heavy cargo, which will subtract from your movement, but it's also harder for it to get destroyed. On the opposite, there are these things here, explosive cargo. If these get blown up, they blow up everything next to it. Fragile cargo. If anything next to them gets blown up, they get destroyed. Radioactive, which can't be next to other radioactive cargo.
• Super Event Cards — Now, the super event cards are only used when specific missions are there. So, you'll play a mission and be like, you're going to be using a super event card.
• VIP Passengers — Everyone gets a VIP cabin. Although it's not really a VIP cabin, there's just a cabin that you start with, so you have a cabin and it might be used for the VIP or it might not. See, each VIP, and you're going to play with one of each color. So there'll always be one yellow, one red, and one blue.

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• Galaxy Trucker is a very fun game, but it's also a punishing game in many ways.
• You build your ship and then it gets blown up and you laugh at it.
• This one feels like a little bit more work. It makes the game not as cool.

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