Game Info
Year
2023
Players
2-4
Age
10+
Playtime
40 min
Collection
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Description
Next-level dexterity game with a floating two-level board and catapult launcher where Animal Clans and Iron Force teams flick mechs
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Ryan and Bethany Board Game Reviews Discussion at 0:37
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none
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none
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dexterity flicking — A dexterity flicking game with a catapult.
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Quotes (from this video)
- As the first game of Strong Tower 2026. We are playing ice school uh with my youngest daughter and uh I crushed it.
- Nope. Uh she crushed me. Absolutely demolish me. 7 to 17.
- We actually only own the Christmas edition, so it's fun to play the original. And um I lost. I lost pretty handedly.
- This is, you know, this is a 437 people attendees. So on the smaller side of conventions, definitely what we call like a playing game convention.
- The library was incredible. Yeah. Tons of open tables for gaming. Um it felt more spacious even though it had higher numbers here too.
- My highlight was just playing playing games with friends after hours.
- All events that we ran were sold out events with even some of them with waiting lists and stuff. So that was cool to see that uh it was just fun to play games with everybody that we saw.
- Strong Tower Gaming Convention was a huge success for us and I think for the organizers as well. So it was a blast.
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Ryan and Bethany Board Game Reviews Unboxing at 0:09 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Catapult is a fun element.
- Excitement expressed for the game.
- The game is part of the 'Ice School franchise'.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Catapult — A catapult is featured and used for launching components.
- Dice Rolling — The game involves rolling dice, though the method of rolling them is unusual.
- Flicking — The action of flicking dice is mentioned.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- hi everybody I'm Ruth on Ryan Bethy
- board game reviews I'm taking over this episode for
- today um we have iron Forest today and I'm so glad to be playing it again
- This just became my new favorite game
- goodbye adios you guys thanks for watching our Shenanigans as always we appreciate it over here
- if you follow this link you're going to find a playlist we've hand selected handcrafted just for you
- if you check over here this is a video that YouTube thinks you might like so you can check that out if you want as well
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Board Gaming Ramblings Analysis at 3:57 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- So much fun
- Frustrating but fun
- Lots of different missions
- Takes Icecool to the next level
Cons
- Frustrating when plans don't work
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Icecool
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Catapult — A catapult is used to launch pieces, adding a unique element to the flicking.
- Flicking — The core mechanic involves flicking pieces, similar to Icecool.
- team play — The game is played in teams, often 2v2, with various missions to complete.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Time is weird because it goes very quickly and also slowly at the same time.
- It was so fun. And it was so frustrating when you try you have a plan and you don't do the thing that you're trying to do, but it was very very fun.
- I'm basically decided that I was going to surprise you with relearning the rules and getting that back to the table so that you didn't have fun with it is kind of sad.
- My biggest surprise for real is Stevens. Uh because I like uh Roll & Costa, the designers. We played games from them before a lot of them that we really liked, but Stevens was like something else and I just keep getting uh what you call it? Like uh impressed by their skills of making games.
- I would rather play Via Nebula if I'm playing like a pick up and deliver like gateway game.
- It's a distilled campaign experience. Every like the the combat has been like 45 minutes. There's only like these called combat scenes because you're going to have only like three or four rounds. It's not like oh this combat might last three hours. It's made to be more bite sized.
- It's just like it is plain fun. It is one of those games where I just have fun while I play it. It gives me that feeling of I am having fun.
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Board Gaming Ramblings Other at 21:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Awesome and so fun
- Super good game
- 10 different missions that feel unique
- Blast to play
- Felt cool when things happened
Cons
- Pretty expensive
- Can miss a lot when flicking
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
- Ice Cool
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Catapult — it has a catapult
- Dice Launching — launching dice
- Dice Rolling — you're trying to roll dice
- Flicking — the first one is Ice Cool basically flicking through doors and falling through holes and getting the little clips
- team play — you could play on free-for-all but we only played a team versus so far
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Quotes (from this video)
- hello everyone this is sonan and this is Johannes and you're watching board gaming rambling and welcome back to keep or C the show where we play all the games and decide if we want to keep them in the collection or call them from the collection
- a cold game doesn't mean a bad game because we don't have space for all the games and we don't have space for good games
- it's Iron Forest the new game from the people who did Ice cool
- it's awesome it's so fun it's a lot of fun we played it and it was fun we played it more it was fun I it is a super good game
- it is not often you see like a two story board game
- it was just a blast fing around these things and it felt you felt really cool when you made things happen and it's not a very easy thing to flick things around you're also going to miss a lot and car a lot
- stamp swap from stal marst
- a fun game but not one that we are going to keep
- I think for me I think I'm going to have to go with iron Forest as the best because it was just like so much fun of a game
- I'm going to be boring and say the same thing but I like all of these games are poison games yes we are lucky to be able to play mostly fun games
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Board Gaming Ramblings Analysis at 25:14 sentiment: positive
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Positive
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none
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none
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Congratulations to all the nominees and spectacular and to you for watching this award video Woo we will see you in 2025 bye
- The spoiler alert he has designed set Tea Garden Galileo galile and the designer is obviously then toas holck a designer just like came out of nowhere got so much hype this year and I will say even though like we have ranked those games we like all three of those games like two of them better than the last one but this is a designer I am looking forward to see more games from
- We are going to be bringing you the nominations and the winner for the best card game of 2024 and the nominees are Star Wars unlimited cortis an misos and 5050
- Lone wolves yay and lone wolves was one of my favorite small box games of the year so I am so glad it made the list
- If you like a High degree of uh interaction that head-to-head kind of style game this is I think my all-time favorite two-player trick game
- Congratulations Agonia for winning best narrative campaign game for 2024 in these rambling Awards
- Harmonies congratulations to Harmony is one of the most played games from this last year with the People's Choice as well over at the dice Towers uh game of the year uh so this is one that is very impressive so kudos to harmonies the winner of this year's abstract Game of the Year
- Tranquility the ascent yes congratulations indeed we have played that game do you remember we were we were building the the the oh my goodness I love that game oh there we go I love that game it's a deserved win I'm sorry I don't hate co-op games anymore it's an amazing game it's beautiful on the table if you haven't played it check it out it won fair and square this is a great game
- The winner is flip seven
- To the winner is iron Forest congratulations
- Most Innovative game is War Stories Occupied France designed by David Neil and David Thompson art by Mara and published by Osprey games congratulations to all the nominees but of course congratulations to War Stories Occupied friends
- we have made a big list of awards that we are giving away to different games
- this is all of the awards we have made a big list of awards that we are giving away to different games
- we want to highlight these amazing games that gives our or all so much joy
- I focus on cozy games welcoming games family games card games um also solo games as well
- Winner for the category of the most Innovative game is War Stories Occupied France
- that was amazing I really enjoyed that I hope you did too
- please go check all those amazing people out because they make really good content
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The Dice Tower Preview at 2:06 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Did okay
- Ranked 6,987 on BoardGameGeek (not terribly bad)
- Kind of a cool theme
Cons
- Not planning to reprint due to difficulty making it
- People did not necessarily want an upgraded Ice Cool
- Doesn't have the mass appeal the other one did
Thematic elements
- Sequel to Ice Cool with a second level, shooting stuff up, flicking things, and using a catapult.
Comparison games
- Ice Cool
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Catapult — A catapult was used in the game.
- Flicking — Players were flicking things in the game.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- First of all today, we have Kaboola.
- This is a really wonky game.
- Next is Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game.
- Next, we have Iron Forest.
- Then, we have Earth.
- Rumors and Legends.
- A Howl Rulers of Yucatán.
- Dinosauria the micro game.
- Tiwanaqu, the exclusive deluxe edition of Tiwanaqu.
- Hamlet, the village building game.
- Western Legends the Big Box.
- This was a bad project.
- Then we have Literati.
- And then finally today we're taking a look at the Lost Code Reboot.
- My favorite of today, very easily, is Earth.
- all the games I talked about today were delivered, which is a nice change of pace for this show.
- I'm going to try to bring this back in rotation more often.
- Then we have Literati. Literati here from Gap Closer Games. This is a game a cooperative game in which you're fighting against the Literati, the people who don't want folks to read.
- So it's kind of in the middle on BoardGameGeek rankings, but I think it's a very solid game. As you can see I gave it an eight. I enjoy this one.
- And then finally today we're taking a look at the Lost Code Reboot. So the Lost Code Reboot was a remake as we can see here of Think Straight with an eight at the end of it. Uh the Lost Code did not do particularly well here $35,000. This is from Mojito.
- I've given The Lost Code an 8.5, but I think I would have given it even higher rating, but there was still a few production issues. They always seem to have a few production issues.
- I think it's a really solid deduction game.
- My favorite of today, very easily, is Earth. What a fantastic game
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