10 Board Games We Just Got ( Unboxing )
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We got new games into our collection. Are they good? We don't know. We haven't even opened them up, but I've keep running towards Lord of the Rings board games. This should be good.
Surprise. You and Lord of the Rings. Well, I have a unique social deduction game for only two people. Have you played a two-player social deduction game?
Now, that sounds interesting. Just like this sounds interesting. It's a cheese game, euro game. Everybody loves it. Will we? We have to figure that one out. But today, it's all about opening these bow biggies.
That's That's what it's a company of heroes. That's like two, three. It's a company. How many guys in a company?
So, what are we going to do? We're going to open these up, place them, set up them up so you see all the components and everything from the games, and then we try we'll try to figure out which ones will we like the most at the end of the month. Try to guess, right?
Company of Heroes is a board game version of a video game that I've played way, way, way back when. I don't remember how long ago, but exactly that long ago. So, oh oh no. So, it's a war game. And if I don't know if you know, but I really like war games. And let's get the shrink wrap off and try to get into the base game of this cuz Yiannis keeps uh Yiannis, this is a quick video. We don't have 2 hours for me to unbox everything, okay? Ah, there we go. Finally. What is this? War crate. Well, that's it? You got nothing else? Wow. Look at this. Will this make that terrain pop or what? Oh man, I think I'm going to paint this.
Wow. That's your best joke yet. Woo! Wow.
You won't be painting.
You You just watch me.
I have for 5 years. You're not going to paint anything.
I'm so going to paint. All right. Let us set it up that it does look a little bit better, and then we'll tell you how it goes, okay?
To best of our abilities we have set it up. It's definitely not correct, but it looked good good enough. Do you know how you play approximately?
Yeah, yeah. So, well, I read the our own overview. So, first thing you do is you will maneuver your units. Each player will get like a handful of command points. And so, for example, I could spend a command point to move these guys over here. Or I could spend a command point here to move this tank there. Well, it's not a tank, but you get the idea. Once you are done with the maneuvering, you will assign damage dice. I have no idea if there's damage dice. And then the defending player will roll defense dice. No idea if there's defense dice. If you kill something, you will get experience and victory points for those. And you also get victory points for controlling certain areas. And then you move to the supply phase where on the board you will check how many incoming resources you will get cuz things might change, you might control, might control less. And then you'll get those resources. And then you can either save those resources or spend them on new units, upgrading existing units, and so forth. And you continue doing this until one side wins.
I haven't played the video game, but this looks freaking epic. Like really good. Anyways, let's place this in the shelf. Let's save the game for us to play it. And then we will try to guess how good the rating will be for this game once we actually play it.
Yeah.
We're saving it to play a little later.
Yeah. There we go. All right. So, it's going to be the first and last place so far. Yeah.
But I think you can tell
Well, you're excited.
I'm so excited.
Do you think it's going to be good or you just excited for the theme and stuff? Cuz you have played the video game.
Yeah, I hope Well, it So, second edition. If it's not good, I don't think it get the second edition.
Let's take a new board and add the next game which is going to be all about some hobbitses. Can you pass me the There and back again, please?
There. I'm back again. There, back again. There,
every single time.
There, back again.
Okay, anyways, this is a roll and write game and feels like a cozy adventure board game for one to four players.
Yeah, it does look It also looks cozy. It's I think the friendliest Lord of the Rings universe cover I've ever seen.
Yeah. What you could get is this book and you travel through it to kind of live through the Hobbit book,
You actually get four of these. So, you and your three other Lord of the Rings nerds can enjoy this game.
All right. Okay. Then you travel through the map using these dice. For example, if you just uh roll this icon, you can draw in that. Can you do that?
Yes, of course. So, where do you want to start?
I don't know. You do it.
I'll do that here. Hop. Yeah, hop. There we go.
Cool. Now we have a path and we travel through it and we can collect a bunch of stuff along the way, resources and things that you can use them. Similar to this guy, yeah?
Yeah, it looks really similar, yet this has more story and resource management and stuff like that.
Yeah, yeah. And that's the game set up. You just take out these books, dice, markers, and well, you're set. You're good to go. I'm really, really excited to try it. Are you?
I am even more excited once you open it up cuz I really love the visuals here.
It's gorgeous. This game is freaking gorgeous. So, I wanted to get this a year back and the hype never went away, so I pulled the trigger and got it. So, uh we're definitely going to play it soon and going to talk about it. Well, for me it's obvious, for you probably the other way around, right?
Yes, of course. But you can place it above. It It's wrapped up there.
So, like this.
Yeah.
But to be honest, I'm I'm also really excited to try this, so
Conversion happening right now.
Let's go. Let's take next one and what game will you present, my friend, next?
I will present Dark Romance.
Ooh.
All right.
This is from the of Feed the Kraken, which is one of our all-time favorite games ever, and I think our top two deduction games.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'll be the punching manager, all right?
All right, let's go. All right, so nothing much here as well except cards, cards, few boards, boards right here, and tokens. The story of this game is that you arrive into a palace, and there's this
big ball, and I know I don't mean like a basketball. It's just an event where you, you know, dress up fancy and dance, right?
Wait, you know what a ball ball is, yes? Thank you.
Well, well, we have a lot of young viewers, so they might not. Anyways, and in this ball there is this dark and handsome stranger, and that stranger sweeps you up behind a curtain, and so your adventure begins. But, the catch is that that stranger might be a vampire. You might be a vampire.
Then it kind of works, right?
But, if the other player is a demon hunter, then you don't want to have a relationship with that person cuz well, they'll just kill you.
a vampire.
Yes, if you're the vampire, yeah.
[snorts]
So, basically, it's a dating game where you don't know the role of the other player.
Exactly, yeah. So, it's pretty much a life sim, yeah? You don't know how it's going to align eventually. You'll be playing these cards, which are activities that you could be doing together with that tall, dark stranger. So, I got to read this to you from the rule book. This game Wait, let me just start again. I know how to read. Shut up. This is a game of looking the other person person squarely in the eye and whispering, "Trust me." Cuz you got to trust that the other player wants to be together with you. I mean, inside the game. Outside, that's different. Uh that you have to handle differently. Well, I had to have some cringe moments. Is this enough for the whole video?
Uh more than plenty.
But beware, trusting each other can lead to sharing a moment of triumph, but also having your heart ripped out by a monster. And again, I'm talking about the game, not being married. Cuz it sounds similar, right? Well, you do pretty much always just play some cards and move some tokens around. But you have to role play. You have to kind of What is this? Mean teasing? And yeah, yeah, nice mustache. That's That's as mean as it gets for me. Anyway, so you have to role play the cards you're playing, otherwise it's not just It's not going to work.
Anything to add?
No, just really want to play it as soon as possible. But again, I think I have to choose the person I play with carefully. So, I'll play it with you.
Let's go.
Let's go. This is going to be super awkward. It's going to I am super excited to play it as as well, but I'll place it at number three. Cuz well, I mean, we got these games cuz we are super excited to play them all, right?
Yeah.
So, one, two, three, you know, right?
Yes.
Okay. Uh
We want to do the fourth game.
Let's continue the theme of gothic
Ooh.
dark board games. And this is a co-semi-cooperative game that just got me by the simple premise. There is a ghost in your mansion.
Okay.
And he might be good or bad. He's going to give you hints how to win the game, but you don't know if he's good or bad. Boop. Love the chunky wooden pieces. These look cool. Not sure where they go, but uh they do look cool. There's even some sort of like spoiler material, events cards, and things that we should not open, so we won't do that. We're in a mansion. We want to get out, but cannot. But there is some voice in your head telling you, "Hey, Mr. Yiannis, you can turn right. There will be keys there. Oh. to be great. Just do it." And you never know if these voices or these ghosts is the good guy or bad guy. Is he trying to kill you or not? So, you can trust it and try to go on those in the direction he's pointing you towards to or uh you know or not and die.
Yeah.
You know, it's just that simple premise. There's one good or bad guy who's helping you, but you know if he has good intentions.
I'm excited about this. This is a good collection of games.
It is. Right. Here's deduction game about my No, no, no. No, leave it. Leave it. It's fine. It's fine. I'm excited to play them all, actually.
Skales of Faith is from one of our favorite studios, I V Studio, and it's based off the big game, which is called Whale Fate.
Yep.
Right?
I think so.
It's definitely something faith and I think something whale. But this is like a two-player version of that. All right, off the bat, we can see that the production value is super high. We actually have played
What type of this?
Yeah. Uh sometime back and we featured it in our games of the month video sometime back.
So, the idea is to maneuver these gods are on the board. These gods?
Let's have those on the board. So, they score points, but the thing is you never should tell the other player which gods are yours, all right? So, you move all these gods, all of them around the board, uh and try to bluff. Hey, you know, pink is my god, so uh make sure he doesn't get any points.
could also match and both have the same god, and then we might be helping each other, but again, we don't know. So, generally what you will do on your turns is move these gods around and place them somewhere on the board or take them to hell, uh remove them from the board, uh and manipulating them in all sorts of ways, but you cannot be like really obvious which gods are you putting in the best positions. You have to bluff all the time, and uh it's really really great. So This is how you would rank these game. You after month you think this will be the best game out of all these.
But me personally?
Yeah.
No. I'd place this way lower. I think this is amazing but it's going to be a roll and write and I've played a few of those. Good looking, great looking. You go through a story but I don't think it's going to be like wow I've never seen roll and writes do that before. So I'd place this like on the same level as scales of fate and those above.
Let's let's finish let's finish the final order at the end of the video cuz
All right. A few more games coming up.
This is a board game that was a runner up to board game geek's best solo game of the year. So it's a great solo game. I have no no this. We haven't bought this this is actually our friend's copy. All right, but we're adding it to our collection as we will try it and know it's good.
And we might even give it back to him, right?
You never do that.
I said we might. I'm not again just like the painting stuff I'm not promising, okay?
So this is cool insert like a box. It's a cassette?
Yeah, it's a V8 old VHS tape.
VHS tape box. You will be playing one of these emperors of your choosing. For example, K Hadrian and really cool thing is that he because he's Hadrian he has some benefits about like building a wall and stuff, all right? And we might even give it back to him, right? You never do that. I said we might. I'm not again just like the painting stuff I'm not promising, okay? So this is cool insert like a box. It's a cassette? Yeah, it's a V8 old VHS tape. VHS tape box. You will be playing one of these emperors of your choosing. For example, K Hadrian and really cool thing is that he because he's Hadrian he has some benefits about like building a wall and stuff, all right?
Pronounce it like a boss.
And some farms and stuff. So you will basically create Rome. Definitely the components and stuff are great. Mostly it's cards it's cards it's a card game but I read the rules for this one and Uh, there's a lot of like icons and things so a lot a lot of things to learn. So, let's move it.
Let's Let's move it to the
shelf.
All right, my next game.
Well, before that I'll rank it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, really?
Yeah.
I do not care for this, to be honest.
And this I would I would place somewhere here.
You don't want to have some dark romance with me?
Nope.
Well, that breaks
Moving on.
Breaks my heart. Breaks my heart.
So, what you got, mister? I got
Baseball Highlights 2045.
Which should be one of the best sports games ever.
Bases loaded.
Yeah, well, that's what they say, right?
We like sports.
We like sports and we want to make a list of best sports board games at some point. So, we'll just got to play them all. So, there are cards. There are more cards. There are even more cards. And if you thought that's not enough, you get more cards. Well, if for some people that might not be enough, so you get 16 more cards. And then there's more cards, and just a little bit more cards. At the beginning of the game, each player gets their team of baseball players, their roster. And the game is divided into small mini games. Well, you will have cards in your hand and just play those cards and then resolve those cards. Play more cards, resolve cards. After such mini game, you will get new cards to add to your roster. But, if two cards go in, two cards must go out. And that's your team.
And you play next mini game. At the end of the last mini game, whoever has the most points wins. So, it's kind of like a deck building, but more like Challengers as a deck building game, if you know that one. Also, a lot of people say that it's very good solo. So, I guess we'll have to test that. I'll put it here. Cuz I'm excited to learn more about baseball and deck building solo play. And I kind of have played that one, so I think I know it's still good.
you play a game once and then it's gone forever from your life. Yes, but that's the best one here. Well, one of.
Let's get some Euro goodness into this place. Let's talk about Formaggio, which is the second game after Fromage.
Yes.
What about the Fromage?
I wonder what's the third game going to be called in series.
Fromaggio
Fromaggio control.
Fromaggio.
This is all about you making some cheese. And I love and the board is also cheese.
Oh.
And you don't mean it in a slang term like cool kids mean like it's bad, right?
No, no.
You mean cheese is good.
So this also I borrowed from a friend, that's why everything is sleeved. Uh so I did not buy this one, but it sounds very promising and maybe we will. First of all, you check if any of these little workers are facing you. For example, this guy is facing me now. I get him back and all the cheeses that he's made. Right?
Right. I guess right.
I guess. We're guessing a little bit.
And then you can use this board
place things on top of here to generate more stuff. Then the board rotates and now these actions are available to you. So obviously you're doing all of these things for cheese to get older and that means better.
Right. Delicious.
And gives that old you will give you victory points. But one of the biggest selling points is that this board game is generally simultaneous, right? It's a quite complex Euro game yet we all play at the same time so it takes only like 40 minutes or things.
What's up?
Uh for a second there it's I thought it said a lot. What's What is it today? I mean it's it's about Italia.
Nobody cares about
It's about Italia.
Italia.
Venezia.
Exactly.
Oh, there's a play mat.
Yeah, so we actually have a deluxe edition with a play mat and thingies. So uh
You're saying we have since you borrowed it and not going to give it back.
No, it's ours.
Got it.
I love it.
All right. Rank it, mister.
Uh hmm, a Euro game.
Right. is that the first one? Stop abusing Dark Romance. Where did it go? Where is it? I throw that. Let's throw that. Like this? Yeah, sure. All right, another war game. We start I started with a war game, going to finish it with a war game. Baltic Empires was actually on our most anticipated list for the year. So, here it is. It's finally arrived. It is a war game about our local region. Baltics.
Oh, no.
It's a lot of boards, but those counters are good looking. It's not that bad. There's only like one two three four, five sheets of uh Do you know how many were there in Here I Stand?
No.
Visually, they look good.
Not too many components, I think.
Yeah, it's not that much. So, there's some really good looking dice.
Yeah.
And there's a ton of wooden pieces.
Is this the best GMT production you've seen?
Uh it's definitely up there.
Yeah.
In this game, you're trying to achieve uh victory condition. It might be something that anybody can do or your own faction. And you're going to do that by collecting resources once you actually unpunch them. Then you're going to spend those resources to build units or buy these persona cards that were active in that time. None of us there. And then you're going to move those units around and just fight each other for controlling regions. So, this is an area control game with some economics there. You can make alliances, you can screw everyone over, and just have a good time, hopefully.
Fingers crossed.
All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. I'll place it here.
Sure.
Something's missing. There it is. That should be right here above everything. Towering above everything like the great game it is going to be.
This is my last game. Gwent is based on a board game that's inside of a video game.
Yes, Witcher 3 has Gwent inside, right? Did they have first and second Witcher? Well, I don't know if the first or second one did, but Witcher 3 definitely has Gwent inside of that video game.
In that board game you collect cards from a bunch of places and then can create your deck and then you fight with other players.
Yeah, and uh I thought it was just okay within that video game. There are cooler things to do. So, when they were like, "Well, we're going to create a board game around it." I was like, "Okay." There are one decks, two decks, three decks, four decks, five decks, one little carton holding your decks up so it feels like, "Oh, look at that box. It's full of stuff." But, I don't know. I mean, it's probably for sleeving. If you sleeve it, it's going to take more more space and now you can sleeve it and it's going to fit.
So, let's open these cards up and then I'm going to explain to you how the game goes.
Let's do that. So, what you're going to do before you start out the game, you either Well,
going to buy the game.
Yeah, you should probably.
Okay, and then?
Or maybe you shouldn't. We'll play it and then we'll let you know. But, you either take a pre-made deck or you can create your own. So, you can mix and match and create your own personal deck that you will use to fight against the other player, right? And to fight, you will play out these cards here in front of us and uh you basically it's a like a line battler, is it called line line battler?
Yeah.
So, you place units here and then attack the other player. You see how much pool points can you score basically on each of those lines. Uh but, the tricky part is that each of these characters will have points so they will be stronger and weaker, but also there's a lot of like powers that you can play out. For example, you can play out the card where all the melee characters only have one power and uh then the other player can play a noob card and cancel that. Um so, you know.
Nice.
So, it's just rock, paper, scissors.
First of all, this is a cow with a zero value, but it's ranged.
Yeah. It shoots milk.
That's what That's what I thought.
I don't know. Anyway, so it's from the video game. It has all the illustrations and everything. That's a big pitch for it. Could be cool, like creating that deck sounds interesting. I don't have really high hopes for it. It's going to probably be all right. So, let's place it.
Yes.
Yes, what which which is the bottom half for you?
Like at the bottom bottom?
Bottom bottom. Obviously, without What? What?
What was that? You don't think it's going to be good?
my guess would
We know this is
We know this is good. We know this is good. So, this is our threshold. Which one of these will be better than this?
This one.
This will be better than this?
Yes.
Okay, like this.
That's about it. Thank you.
Then Well, I think Company Heroes is going to be okay.
No, it's going to be better.
Better than this?
I don't know. Okay, just about below, like here. Okay.
No, no, but it's going to be It's going to be good, right?
Okay, so the first fourth spot.
Where is going to be like goodness ranking?
Presents?
Yeah, okay.
No, you can disagree. I'm allowing you to disagree this time.
All right, sure. This?
Yeah.
I think this is the correct ranking, Carrie.
Done.
Okay, done.
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