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Majestic 13 supports 1 to 2 players.

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Majestic 13 - Board Game

Video 8IHu3-XvLVM Tabletop Minions Discussion at 36:34 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

positive

Pros

Appeals to fans of UFO/alien conspiracy themes
Randomized missions for replayability

Cons

none

Thematic elements

Alien encounters
UFOs, X-Files, XCOM-like themes

Comparison games

Space Station Zero

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Randomized missions — The game uses randomized elements for its missions, similar to card-driven systems in other games, to ensure variety in gameplay.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

I think their current list building is trash in my opinion
why is it war cry can be just fine and be a fine game when you can take whatever the heck you want as long as it comes up to a thousand points you need a leader and then everybody else but like you can't do that in Kill team
The 2017 version is vastly superior
when I was very disappointed when the original uh necrom 2017 came out because it did not have rules for three-dimensional play and it was just designed to be played on that board that came in the box
I love the concept of necromunda I have no interest in playing it because it is so so super in-depth and also spread all over the place in multiple books
Kill team is not an intro game to 40K it is only easier to get into because the model count
people in general that struggle to wrap their head around the line of sight rules
if you're a company that big cool Min is pretty big and if you're going to have a big huge giant game found Kickstarter whatever you're going to do and then you're going to be like yeah but if you want it in Australia it's going to cost as much as the game costs to get it shipped there
The benefit to monopose is that you can make a more Dynamic sculpt you can make them doing something really cool but the problem is if you need six of them then it's six guys doing the exact same cool thing and then it becomes less cool
The new version of kill team is based off of war cry so that doesn't make any sense either
it's a cool game it's a very cool game
It's better than anything else The Games Workshop puts out easily as far as any kind of on like their app or any kind of jazz like that

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Video 8IHu3-XvLVM Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:54:18 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

Positive

Pros

Scenarios are randomized, contributing to replayability and freshness.

Cons

none

Thematic elements

Comparison games

Warcry

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Randomized Scenarios — The scenarios are designed to be somewhat randomized, similar to the card-based mission generation in Warcry, which helps keep the game fresh.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

I think their current list building is trash in my opinion
why is it war cry can be just fine and be a fine game when you can take whatever the heck you want as long as it comes up to a thousand points you need a leader and then everybody else but like you can't do that in Kill team
The 2017 version is vastly superior
when I was very disappointed when the original uh necrom 2017 came out because it did not have rules for three-dimensional play and it was just designed to be played on that board that came in the box
I love the concept of necromunda I have no interest in playing it because it is so so super in-depth and also spread all over the place in multiple books
Kill team is not an intro game to 40K it is only easier to get into because the model count
people in general that struggle to wrap their head around the line of sight rules
if you're a company that big cool Min is pretty big and if you're going to have a big huge giant game found Kickstarter whatever you're going to do and then you're going to be like yeah but if you want it in Australia it's going to cost as much as the game costs to get it shipped there
The benefit to monopose is that you can make a more Dynamic sculpt you can make them doing something really cool but the problem is if you need six of them then it's six guys doing the exact same cool thing and then it becomes less cool
The new version of kill team is based off of war cry so that doesn't make any sense either
it's a cool game it's a very cool game
It's better than anything else The Games Workshop puts out easily as far as any kind of on like their app or any kind of jazz like that

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Video F7n1sdQEiBA Tabletop Minions Discussion at 34:46 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

positive

Pros

Miniature agnostic ruleset.
Accessible play loop.
Card deck is a nice addition.
Smaller game size (5 miniatures per team) makes it easier to get into.
Can be played solo, co-op, or versus.

Cons

Cards are produced separately from the book, leading to potential extra shipping costs.
Some cards were initially missing from the deck.

Thematic elements

Alien Hunters
Asymmetrical (5 vs 1 monster)

Comparison games

Space Weirdos

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Campaign — The game has a campaign element where a clone might not be a perfect copy, adding a layer of consequence.
Squad-based — Players use a team of five miniatures, and if one dies, it can be replaced by a clone from a base pod.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

two books there's Mech Borg which is a role playing game and then there's steel somm I think is what it's called which is like a miniature game based off of The Forbidden somm engine and so I was just like well I don't want the RPG but I'll I'll buy the other one so yeah I in in theory I'll see it some towards sometime towards the end of the year
if you like eisenhorn I strongly suggest Bloodlines and the rest of the Warhammer crime line H um
I built and painted my scaven blood bow Team this week they were a lot of fun but yeah the age shows
the stormcast Eternal res sculpts are uninspired I mean I it's a lot more of the same really you know what I mean and the rules previewed of a weird board gamey vibe that doesn't really click
do you think that the price hikes and the lack of availability of models by GW is hurting lgs's more than GW itself
stores are going to have to eventually get to a point where if they just can't get too much GW stuff they're going to have to start thinking about diversifying and starting to do some uh games like you know start bringing in models from like War Games Atlantic start bringing in like Star grave models and frost grave models and things like that from Northstar
the reason I don't like plastic cement is because sometimes I have to go back and remove an arm or take the thing off of the base or something like that and if it's plastic cement it's really almost hard to do that because it actually is melting the plastic to the plastic
GW price hike hit the critical level for me players around here buying 3D printers even the very hardcore 40K players that frowned at me when I mentioned 3D printers are buying 3D printers
basically the only big company out there is GW I mean everybody else is you know like they're they're sitting on I think and this is admittedly it's a lot of the retail people but they've got like five or six thousand employees but again half of those well maybe not half almost half of those I think are are are retail employees so there's that but still even if you take half of those people out you've still got 2,000 employees let's say
GW is weird in that they are like I said before I was talking about how Distributors are like the kind of the middleman between the stores and the manufacturers and the Publishers GW is one of those companies that yeah you can buy it from Distributors and you'll pay normal distributor prices but if you buy it directly from GW then you get it for a slightly better price but you have to jump through a bunch of Hoops to become like approved to be able to buy it from their store
you know at some point maybe down the road we'll work with like a sculptor that we like and do like maybe some stls or something like that do like a partnership but I don't see us ever really selling plastic models that's really expensive and also very very timec consuming
the stormcast eternals had 40 just Heroes just individual heroes in that line so there were twice as many heroes in stormcast eternals than there were entire War Scrolls in the iron in the iron Jaws or whatever so yeah you know there there was way too many of those guys
I think it's twofold I think it's partially there's been some change in not leadership per se but change in uh people working there that are some of those folks are a little bit more interested in t in in in in tournament stuff like you go back 10 years GW did not give a crap about tournaments
when a company gets that big it's not good for the game company it may be good for the shareholders it may be good but it's not it's bad for the games and it's bad for the players just in general when the choices have to be made because somebody on a spreadsheet was able to point at it and go this will make the line go up that doesn't necessarily make a better game it makes a better product as far as bottom line it doesn't make a better game
GW always tries to make it sound like they're doing you a favor by raising prices by the amount that they are and not a little bit more pray I do not I've I've altered the deal pray I do not alter it further indeed
see the thing is the cards are produced separately from the it wouldn't matter if you were in Denmark or even here in the states the they're printed at two different facilities sadly uh that's one of the problems with the cards but there's nothing we can do about that
see that's not supposed to happen we paid a lot of money to get those things shipped out and it sucks that some places that it got to then also there was another fee that's I apologize about that

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Video F7n1sdQEiBA Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:45:10 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

Positive

Pros

Inexpensive rulebook
Flexible model requirements
Solo/Co-op options
Scalable squad size

Cons

Separate shipping costs for rules and cards
Cards printed at a different facility

Thematic elements

Squad-based alien hunters
Asymmetrical, frequently 5 on 1

Comparison games

none

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

asymmetrical combat — it's more of an asymmetrical game where you have like it's very frequently five on- one so but that one is a scary monster
Cloning/Resurrection — and if one of them dies it's okay because when you go back to the base Cas you have a pod with like a clone in it Now the Clone might not be a perfect copy you have for all on a chart to see how that's going to work
Squad based — you have a squad of um a team as they're called of um you know basically alien hunters so any kind of like military is kind of looking dudes or dudets will work just fine um you need five of them that's it you have a squad of or a team of five

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

two books there's Mech Borg which is a role playing game and then there's steel somm I think is what it's called which is like a miniature game based off of The Forbidden somm engine and so I was just like well I don't want the RPG but I'll I'll buy the other one so yeah I in in theory I'll see it some towards sometime towards the end of the year
if you like eisenhorn I strongly suggest Bloodlines and the rest of the Warhammer crime line H um
I built and painted my scaven blood bow Team this week they were a lot of fun but yeah the age shows
the stormcast Eternal res sculpts are uninspired I mean I it's a lot more of the same really you know what I mean and the rules previewed of a weird board gamey vibe that doesn't really click
do you think that the price hikes and the lack of availability of models by GW is hurting lgs's more than GW itself
stores are going to have to eventually get to a point where if they just can't get too much GW stuff they're going to have to start thinking about diversifying and starting to do some uh games like you know start bringing in models from like War Games Atlantic start bringing in like Star grave models and frost grave models and things like that from Northstar
the reason I don't like plastic cement is because sometimes I have to go back and remove an arm or take the thing off of the base or something like that and if it's plastic cement it's really almost hard to do that because it actually is melting the plastic to the plastic
GW price hike hit the critical level for me players around here buying 3D printers even the very hardcore 40K players that frowned at me when I mentioned 3D printers are buying 3D printers
basically the only big company out there is GW I mean everybody else is you know like they're they're sitting on I think and this is admittedly it's a lot of the retail people but they've got like five or six thousand employees but again half of those well maybe not half almost half of those I think are are are retail employees so there's that but still even if you take half of those people out you've still got 2,000 employees let's say
GW is weird in that they are like I said before I was talking about how Distributors are like the kind of the middleman between the stores and the manufacturers and the Publishers GW is one of those companies that yeah you can buy it from Distributors and you'll pay normal distributor prices but if you buy it directly from GW then you get it for a slightly better price but you have to jump through a bunch of Hoops to become like approved to be able to buy it from their store
you know at some point maybe down the road we'll work with like a sculptor that we like and do like maybe some stls or something like that do like a partnership but I don't see us ever really selling plastic models that's really expensive and also very very timec consuming
the stormcast eternals had 40 just Heroes just individual heroes in that line so there were twice as many heroes in stormcast eternals than there were entire War Scrolls in the iron in the iron Jaws or whatever so yeah you know there there was way too many of those guys
I think it's twofold I think it's partially there's been some change in not leadership per se but change in uh people working there that are some of those folks are a little bit more interested in t in in in in tournament stuff like you go back 10 years GW did not give a crap about tournaments
when a company gets that big it's not good for the game company it may be good for the shareholders it may be good but it's not it's bad for the games and it's bad for the players just in general when the choices have to be made because somebody on a spreadsheet was able to point at it and go this will make the line go up that doesn't necessarily make a better game it makes a better product as far as bottom line it doesn't make a better game
GW always tries to make it sound like they're doing you a favor by raising prices by the amount that they are and not a little bit more pray I do not I've I've altered the deal pray I do not alter it further indeed
see the thing is the cards are produced separately from the it wouldn't matter if you were in Denmark or even here in the states the they're printed at two different facilities sadly uh that's one of the problems with the cards but there's nothing we can do about that
see that's not supposed to happen we paid a lot of money to get those things shipped out and it sucks that some places that it got to then also there was another fee that's I apologize about that

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Video v0SsPk875Ns Tabletop Minions Discussion at 29:30 sentiment: neutral

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Overall sentiment (raw)

neutral

Pros

none

Cons

did not sell as well as hoped

Thematic elements

Comparison games

none

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Mechanics unknown.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

Friends don't let friends Buy HP printers
Wizards of the Coast would really rather that you just buy Magic by the case directly from them it seems
They've been making a lot of really bad decisions in my opinion and if they go to business I will laugh and point
I just don't understand why they don't want to do that
I mean the machines that do the saddle stitching are a real pain to maintain they have a tendency to break down a lot
The print books like the vast majority of people are buying the printed versions as opposed to just PDF only
I don't know what the fourth dimension is
I don't really pay attention to that stuff too much
Most new Morheim players I talk to seem happy to download the PDFs for free from broheim these days and when I mention paper Printing and hard copies they think I'm crazy
One odd thing about cyber punk red starter doesn't come with with gonks which I feel is like an essential mechanic
Monac is a great game and the minis for the main monsters are beautiful and fun as heck to pain
I attended a one-day charity Horus heresy event yesterday called Pride of the Legion a good day for a great cause but now I'm horse and this can be and need at least a day to recover
If you want some great plastic modern soldiers look at the April issue of War Games Illustrated with the free sprew of warlord games special ops Troopers
what's your favorite Warhammer mini does that mean which one that I own the most of because it's probably then going to be I don't know what they call them anymore they used to call them nurgle chaos Lord but nowadays he's that guy
I think I have like six or seven of them it's great for kid bashing
Does snarl not have a physical book to buy it doesn't
the machines that do the saddle stitching are a real pain to maintain they have a tendency to break down a lot so some years ago they got rid of Saddle Stitch
The newest Kill Team box set, 'Germination', is discussed.
It's been a minute since I've liked both sets of models in a kill Team box.
Kill team germination is coming this week can't wait

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Video v0SsPk875Ns Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:40:30

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Pros

none

Cons

none

Thematic elements

none

Comparison games

none

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Mechanics unknown.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

Friends don't let friends Buy HP printers
Wizards of the Coast would really rather that you just buy Magic by the case directly from them it seems
They've been making a lot of really bad decisions in my opinion and if they go to business I will laugh and point
I just don't understand why they don't want to do that
I mean the machines that do the saddle stitching are a real pain to maintain they have a tendency to break down a lot
The print books like the vast majority of people are buying the printed versions as opposed to just PDF only
I don't know what the fourth dimension is
I don't really pay attention to that stuff too much
Most new Morheim players I talk to seem happy to download the PDFs for free from broheim these days and when I mention paper Printing and hard copies they think I'm crazy
One odd thing about cyber punk red starter doesn't come with with gonks which I feel is like an essential mechanic
Monac is a great game and the minis for the main monsters are beautiful and fun as heck to pain
I attended a one-day charity Horus heresy event yesterday called Pride of the Legion a good day for a great cause but now I'm horse and this can be and need at least a day to recover
If you want some great plastic modern soldiers look at the April issue of War Games Illustrated with the free sprew of warlord games special ops Troopers
what's your favorite Warhammer mini does that mean which one that I own the most of because it's probably then going to be I don't know what they call them anymore they used to call them nurgle chaos Lord but nowadays he's that guy
I think I have like six or seven of them it's great for kid bashing
Does snarl not have a physical book to buy it doesn't
the machines that do the saddle stitching are a real pain to maintain they have a tendency to break down a lot so some years ago they got rid of Saddle Stitch
The newest Kill Team box set, 'Germination', is discussed.
It's been a minute since I've liked both sets of models in a kill Team box.
Kill team germination is coming this week can't wait

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Video IJBDW-UBdUw Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:28:40 sentiment: mixed

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Overall sentiment (raw)

mixed

Pros

Cool rule set
Cool layout

Cons

Did not sell well
UFO vibe is not common in miniature wargames

Thematic elements

UFO

Comparison games

none

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Mechanics unknown.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

The people who bought it really enjoyed it were like oh this is very cool and I like this and I'm very proud of the book as well because I think it's a cool rule set and I also think that the layout on it went very well took a long time but I really enjoyed the way that it came out
Majestic 13 did not sell all that well
Death Wizards has been out for a month and a couple of days and it has sold more copies than Majestic 13 has which came out 13 months ago
it's an indie game made by enemy spotted studios
so the games are shorter
it is a very highly tactical game
players must rely on their widths precise positioning and equipment to win forget about special rules rules in Army building in blackout it's all about raw tactics
we're kind of out cuz you talked about our our our game in your video recently and we are out of product now
kill team 3.0 better be good the whole obstruction line of sight has God awful
I would like them to change kill team drastically and make a third version and see how that works out I would kind of like them to go back to the old ways but I know I'm the only one who thinks that
Kingdom Death is a great example of a boutique game versus any that I've named so far
quar such a fantastic game love their minis
Fallout is the wild west of ips for me something I really can't bring myself to care about
it's the bombs dropped in 2077 which means that we like got to where we are now here in 2024 and then decided you know what's cool the 1950s let's go back to that and make thing and I'm like why did this happen
it's alternate history kind of Fallout is yes it's the future you know the bombs dropped in 2077 but the reason we got to that point was because the transistor was never invented so it that's that that's why things are different is because it's alternate history which never had clicked with me the entire time I've been playing those damn games
I am definitely interested in Fallout tactics
it was it was too board gamey for me frankly like that was the problem
I'm liking death Wizards a lot I'm currently working on building up some minis so I can play it nice

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Video EVlt0BQd9M8 Tabletop Minions Discussion at 15:44 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

positive

Pros

The layout is described as making the designer happy.
The game is considered fun and possibly the designer's favorite game.
Monsters are highly mobile.

Cons

Has sold the least number of copies compared to other games by the same designer.
Monster movement can be very high, potentially clearing the board quickly.

Thematic elements

UFOs and alien conspiracy theories
UFO/Alien Conspiracy

Comparison games

none

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

monster movement — Monsters are described as having 'insanely high' movement, allowing them to 'clear the board in any turn'. They are also supposed to be 'highly mobile' and 'generally kind of you know go quick quickly all over wherever they want'.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

The idea behind 3D printing is that I can go onto my minifactory and find a really weird specific interesting to me type of model that probably wouldn't sell well out in the real world if it was made in plastic
We're not constantly line goes up up because not only do we have no shareholders we have to make happy we also don't have to do this this isn't our day job
it's the more Choice um I don't really think it's actually about saving money
the point of the game is to try and crawl to the highest spot so there's a lot of rules for pushing people off of things and falling off of things and stuff like that and climbing and things like that
but they were a lot of fun to paint and they were very interesting and whatnot

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Video CVFgsxVhuk4 Tabletop Minions Discussion at 18:39

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Pros

none

Cons

none

Thematic elements

none

Comparison games

none

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Mechanics unknown.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

please explain painting Optical camouflage on spaceships I know rule of cool I don't know it just looked neat I guess that's the same thing
all the stls that you buy or whether you buy the stuff through uh only games like if you get them printed like if you don't have a printer yourself they can do print on demand as well with those with those same six figures basically it's a 50/50 split
it's literally you take off the little silicone kind of cover that goes over the whole nozzle thing so you don't burn yourself on it I guess you take that off you pop off the plastic thing there's a little clip little metal clip you uncp it and then you pull the nozzle out and the nozzle is magnetized so it doesn't like fall out as soon as you uncp it
I saw a thing on Facebook about a machine that you just dump all your old pla into and it'll melt it all down and then create a new pla spool which I'm like well that sounds like an awesome idea
I think they're that scared of 3D printing I think they don't want to do it
I don't think that's really that's not the point is to to beat Games Workshop
you create a game like Vince and I do or like fat dragon games does or like lots of different companies you create a game because you want to do it you're not out there to be like the best you're out there to put out a game that you enjoy and then hopefully people will pick up and enjoy as well

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Video SkIm9B3B_50 Tabletop Minions Discussion at 33:35 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

positive

Pros

Cloning mechanic simplifies army management
Based on the Majestic 12 conspiracy theory
Asymmetrical gameplay with players fighting larger monsters

Cons

Can be expensive ($19 plus shipping)

Thematic elements

aliens and conspiracy
conspiracy
X-Files/XCOM inspired

Comparison games

X-Files
XCOM

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Asymmetrical forces — Players use a team of five operatives against a single larger monster in many situations.
Cloning — Players always have a team of five operatives because they have clones of their characters available, even if a character 'dies'.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

it's so over complicated a lot of good ideas but terrible to play
the models look really good but um it's also not cheap I swear to God I saw the retail on it for that starter box was like 150 bucks
because you can now get a pretty decent looking print we can make more stuff like that
I used to play silent death back in the day which was a game made by a company called iron Crown Enterprises we used to play the heck out of that
it was definitely very kind of complicated as well but at the time being a younger person I enjoyed it quite a bit
I don't know if I'm not sure if Vince has played ship combat games I have
I use an iada uh Eclipse uh iada hpcs I think is the technical uh model name or whatever and I've always loved that thing it works great
why you wouldn't have Federation versus Klingon AR Romulan as the starter factions in any Star Trek game it makes no logical sense to me
so I was really hoping they were going to do something different with um with the new version and when they sent me like the copy and I was started reading the rules and stuff I was just like oh this is pretty much just the same
there's a zillion charts in that game
it was a little fiddly but not too fiddly
I do wonder if making Star Trek games fairly complicated is part of knowing Their audience as a trekky I can safely say we tend to like that kind of crunch and the complexity
I don't want to play too much crunch these days you know what I mean
CPS speed paint through the airbrush on the bottom terrain is the goat indeed
I made a video about how to make it so your airbrush never clogs again and I'm 98% sure I made that video
I have never had a clog in my airbrush in a decade at this point
hard to believe silent death was from the same company I mean probably different people obviously you know but yeah silent death sheets a bit like hero clicks whereas you take damage
the tabletop minions Awards will be coming out on Friday so less than a week away tabletop minions awards for 2024

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Overall sentiment (raw)

positive

Pros

Leans into X-Files and Majestic 12 conspiracy themes.
Asymmetrical skirmish gameplay with a team of five versus one monster.
Clone mechanic allows for reuse of models and removes permanent character loss.
Designed for miniatures agnostic play.

Cons

none

Thematic elements

Fighting aliens based on Majestic 12 conspiracy theory
Alien fighting

Comparison games

XCOM
X-Files

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

asymmetrical gameplay — Players control a team of five operatives against a single large monster or a small group of aliens.
Cloning — Players utilize clones of their operatives, allowing for repeated use of models even after they 'die'.
Skirmish — The game is a skirmish game.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

it's so over complicated a lot of good ideas but terrible to play
the models look really good but um it's also not cheap I swear to God I saw the retail on it for that starter box was like 150 bucks
because you can now get a pretty decent looking print we can make more stuff like that
I used to play silent death back in the day which was a game made by a company called iron Crown Enterprises we used to play the heck out of that
it was definitely very kind of complicated as well but at the time being a younger person I enjoyed it quite a bit
I don't know if I'm not sure if Vince has played ship combat games I have
I use an iada uh Eclipse uh iada hpcs I think is the technical uh model name or whatever and I've always loved that thing it works great
why you wouldn't have Federation versus Klingon AR Romulan as the starter factions in any Star Trek game it makes no logical sense to me
so I was really hoping they were going to do something different with um with the new version and when they sent me like the copy and I was started reading the rules and stuff I was just like oh this is pretty much just the same
there's a zillion charts in that game
it was a little fiddly but not too fiddly
I do wonder if making Star Trek games fairly complicated is part of knowing Their audience as a trekky I can safely say we tend to like that kind of crunch and the complexity
I don't want to play too much crunch these days you know what I mean
CPS speed paint through the airbrush on the bottom terrain is the goat indeed
I made a video about how to make it so your airbrush never clogs again and I'm 98% sure I made that video
I have never had a clog in my airbrush in a decade at this point
hard to believe silent death was from the same company I mean probably different people obviously you know but yeah silent death sheets a bit like hero clicks whereas you take damage
the tabletop minions Awards will be coming out on Friday so less than a week away tabletop minions awards for 2024

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I bought wargs this weekend because of your video made them sound cool well there you go that's pretty cool I hope you have a good time building them and painting them and then playing games with them
I swear they said we were going to get rid of this Daylight Saving Shenanigans and as everything else in the government nothing happened well nothing good at least
I don't mind it in the fall kind of I mean other than the fact all a sudden everything gets real dark and spooky all the time but that extra hour of sleep is sort of dope but yeah then you know in the spring they they steal it from you which is a bummer
I don't know what an ice NAD is but it sounds sounds sounds icy
To quote kitan from Batman the Brave and the Bold Ben Franklin was a fraud
I think there is too much weight on dice roll which removes maybe skill or for luck with the action success
The pain of wanting to play a game my area doesn't want to play it's real y'all I'm trying old world and Middle Earth
I'll be real Frank with you folks I haven't signed up to be in an event in a minute it's like cuz usually I'm there and I'm doing other stuff but I haven't taken a class or signed up for events or anything like that
I literally just want you to send it to me in a cardboard box and that I can recycle easily that's literally all I want I am unimpressed completely by packaging
the trick will be parking that bus
Harbinger of failure
I love when Amazon offers the minimalist packaging option for things usually a lot easier to get whatever I bought
the Virtual Boy was the Google stadia of its day
Companies will absolutely use the tariffs as an excuse to sneak in price increases in blame tariffs
I think that they're very much stuck in this situation where they're like things are going well somehow inexplicably and so let's continue doing it even though there may be some writing on the wall that reducing model count would maybe get more people into the hobby which could then end up being better
there's no benefit that's the problem with tech these days is that they're like trying to figure out how to it's like they learned how to do a thing and now they're trying to shoehorn it into stuff to make it a product
If I could get AI to clean the toilet that'd be great
I think machine learning AI where it's like doing a thing that saves you a whole bunch of time that's what I that's what I want more of that less of the other thing less of the the um what is it the um when you take somebody else's writing plagiarism less of the plagiarism machine and a little bit more of the saving me time machine that'd be great
the way that you roll can be kind of also modified depending as well and then that'll tell you basically you need a seven Up is basically the case in most situations but there can be modifications and tweaks and things like that
The the vending Hall was it was a nice space but it wasn't anywhere it was in like a kind of an odd spot and people weren't coming through much cuz they didn't sort of know where it was
The only benefit it seems like it's something that makes sense for gaming but for everything else yeah I don't want to do business with a VR helmet on my head
with dead zone I like painted up the the when I when dead zone 1 came out I painted up the enforcers and the plague and um it's now we're on dead zone version three and I still haven't played a game
I was just thinking about that game recently because I remember when there was like the kickstarter was like several years ago and I hadn't heard anything about it in a while and I was like I wonder if they ever like actually fulfilled or whatever
Cosmic frog World eaters from Dimension zero is a skirmish board game from Devious weasel games where you play as two mile tall extra planer frogs eating planets and fighting each other
I've only managed to play one trench Crusade game with a friend and I think that there is too much weight on dice roll which removes maybe skill or for luck with the action success
the person who's shooting at you gets to choose whether they want to use those blood markers the blood markers are not just like hey this is hit points they're almost like they're a little bit like marker lights like if you've ever played the TOA in 40K back in the day
it is a quick game you can definitely have somebody who can just get wiped out in one shot it just happens you know
Excessive packaging is bad.
VR makes me sick.
AI should be useful, not just a buzzword.
Companies should sell STLs.
Price increases are concerning.
um I wasn't wowed by cyber Punk either
any company not named Games Workshop needs to sell stls at this point or they're dead
the price per page for the type of books that we do is going up 76%
I don't use AI for artistic Creations I just don't even like the amount of power and energy that that takes personally
you think GW needs to rescale the amount of models in 40K especially with the focus on competitive events
it's unlikely that any of our titles would start losing money necessarily but we've been getting a certain amount of profit which pays for our ability to get artists and do all that kind of stuff that will dwindle drastically
I don't know it's a good question I'm glad I don't have to make the decisions over there

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HOAs are a blight on this country.
My first videos were shot on a Nikon D5100, which I had to trick into shooting, well, that's not true. I didn't have to trick it into shooting video. I had to trick it into kind of giving me manual control of how I shot video.
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This stuff looks like it came straight out of Dawn of War video game.
I used rattle can primer on my last metal minis. It's what I did with my old 40k minis as well.
The game itself can be very standalone. You can use whatever miniatures you want. It's very miniature agnostic.
The games play very quickly because it's um it's not about like, oh, I've got five wounds. It's like, oop, I got shot. That guy's out.
I'm leaving because 40k is constantly changing the rules or I'm leaving because it's too expensive.
Don't get into 40k unless it is the first year of their three-year cycle. That's probably a good piece of advice for sure. If you're going to get into 40k, do it when a new edition comes out. That's the best time, and it's still not a great time.
GW have been real weird about the way they've been dealing with stores lately.
It's a multi-billion dollar market cap company and you guys can't have a like a website backend for people to put their orders in. You got to use Google Docs. Are you crazy?
Space Station Zero is probably my second favorite if I had to choose. My first favorite probably being um Majestic 13.
It was definitely uh was a was a thing that we did a lot uh at the uh there when we lived over there on uh that place burned down.

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Positive

Pros

Designed for solo and co-op play
Features fewer models against one large alien opponent

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Not focused on large armies

Thematic elements

Sci-fi / Alien Invasion

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cooperative play — The game is designed with solo and co-op play in mind.
Solo Play — The game is designed with solo and co-op play in mind.

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Still just don't really like the newest edition of War Cry or sorry not War Cry, Killteam.
It seems like it's not about trying to kill the other guys. It seems like it's more about just like it doesn't seem like a war game.
There's also a lot of tokens to keep track of and stuff like that and that seems to get even worse in um Shatterpoint.
Infinity rules are free.
This is the essentials start here box and it's like 40 bucks and it comes with six models, three per side. It comes with six dice. Evidently, there's a ruler in there. There's card stock or cardboard chipboard like uh terrain, printed terrain. There's a card stock mat. Uh, there's cards. There's also the fancy book about how to get started and all that stuff. And uh, it just seems like it's a really good deal.
Just started playing Notorious, which is really easy solo RPG. Basically a Star Wars bounty hunter uh hunting targets on a planet based on Ronin.
Uh subscribe to Vince Venturella on YouTube. Vince Venturella and Sam Lens. Sam Lens artwork. I would definitely subscribe to both of them.

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OPR is the GURPS of wargaming.
40K rules as deep, I would call it artificially deep.
Star Wars Legion terrain is almost always the best.
OPR skirmish is a breath of fresh air compared to Kill Team.
The damned stuff is supposed to be out, but it's not out yet, unfortunately.

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OPR is the GURPS of wargaming.
40K rules as deep, I would call it artificially deep.
Star Wars Legion terrain is almost always the best.
OPR skirmish is a breath of fresh air compared to Kill Team.
The damned stuff is supposed to be out, but it's not out yet, unfortunately.

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X-COM meets X-Files

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XCOM
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I was never super into the video game, frankly. So, I'm not I don't have the nostalgia for it.
I'm also not really into army games, so like the scale of it, not the physical scale of the models, but how many models there are is also not really my thing.
I always love making lore for my miniatures in Trench Crusade. It's just so interesting making backstory for each of them.
I love the new GW Cog fort model, but is anyone going to make a squadron and buy four of them at $210 a piece?
The white ones are definitely the type that don't take rattle can.
Shatterpoint biggest problem wasn't really the game. I think it was the feeling of the neglect.
That walking building sure is cool. Assume I can buy it and it's not totally sold out already.
Metal minis, that's a tough one. I'm not good at those.
Sets one and two are grim dark, but three and four lean into the Wim dark. Oh, I like the word whim dark. That's fun.
I'm going to be working on these guys, which are um the naval raiders from uh Trench Crusade.
It's such a fun world to build inside.
I'm probably going to paint these guys up and then when the plastics come out, I'll probably just redo them.

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positive

Pros

Miniature agnostic.
Good for solo and co-op play.
Alien infiltration theme is engaging.

Cons

Wasn't everybody's cup of tea due to the UFO theme.
Selling was not as high as Death Wizards.

Thematic elements

Secret war against alien menace.
Alien Infiltration/Invasion

Comparison games

Death Wizards
Space Station Zero
Tanks for the Apocalypse
XCOM
X-Files

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AI Opponent — Features an AI opponent for solo and co-op play.
Miniature agnostic — Players can use their own miniatures for the game.

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This game was a real fight to the finish line.
I really enjoy the mini agnostic aspect of these games such a great idea.
We wanted to make it so that instead of having the game upload on like let say May 1st with trying to get it launched at you know May 24 or whatever we would like to upload the game before Adepticon so that we have plenty of space in there a lot more wiggle room.
The problem is also you can't make a book two more pages you can make a book four more pages at least in the system that we're using because if you think about it any given like if you're like oh just make the make the book one page longer well you can't just put one page into a book because what about the other side of the page that's technically two pages right.
We need to build an audience of people who are interested in tabletop gaming and of the type that you're interested in making games for and then eventually you can be like hey that was not our plan.
The Skirmish PVP mode in Death Wizards feels more thematically right than the last two games their strong points were definitely campaign mode this game is equally strong both ways.
You start out with seven rating worth of minions so you could go with with seven zombies if you wanted to or you could take a Revenant who's rating two and then five zombies or you know whatever however that combination is going that's basically how you do it.
If you have a good idea and then you're like doing something else and then you forget about it it's really annoying when you forget a good idea.

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team vs large alien — Players control a team of operatives fighting against a single large alien opponent.

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3D printing has really changed the way that the hobby is is is is accessible to people.
It's setting yourself up for failure to take a look at the super fancy stuff that you see, you know, from Golden Demon winners on, you know, Instagram or whatever and go, "That's what I want my first group of Space Marines to look like."
The idea that at some point in my life that Steve Jackson from Steve Jackson Games, who made all the games that I played in college, would email me and say, "Hey, thanks for talking about our game on your YouTube channel." like that was pretty crazy.
People will forgive bad video, but they won't forgive bad audio, especially in the hobby space...
Consistency is key.
You should only ever compare yourself to yourself in the past. You shouldn't compare yourself to stuff you see online or friends or anything like that. Compare yourself to yourself.
Licensing IPs to use in games can very frequently end in problems because every time you sell a model, you got to pay the licensor.
My biggest hope is definitely easier and safer 3D printing.
As far as fears for the future of of wargaming, it's probably AI. I just, you know, just I'm very anti-AI and I don't want that stuff kind of getting into our wargaming.
If you're interested, give it a try. It, like I said, doesn't cost anything, really.
In a word, sum up how you feel about 13 years of running this channel. Content.

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positive

Pros

strong visual design
fits with larger Snarling Badger line

Cons

expansion-driven growth can price out casual players

Thematic elements

demonology vs military forces
alternate WWII era with church and hell themes
campaign-focused with expansions and add-ons

Comparison games

Rain and Iron
Death Wizards
Space Station Zero

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Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game — narrative-driven missions
scenario-based play — narrative-driven missions
skirmish plus expansions — additional content via SnarL and add-ons

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"Space Station Zero was a blast to play."
"Rain and Iron just people did not buy that book."
"TMX is great."
"The Bamboo Lab A1 is about as plug-and-play as you get."
"Paralysis through overanalysis."

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