G.I. JOE: Operation Cobra - All-In Pledge unboxing with Ray
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Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the discriminating gamer. You know, an apple a day keeps the bullies away. Well, if you throw it hard enough. Today we're taking a look at G.I. Joe Operation Cobra and everything that came with it. Cody decided to go all in and gave it to me to unbox. I thought about doing them individually, but you know what? Some of these boxes, there's not a lot in them. Some of them are heavier. So, we're just going to do it all as one big giant video. So, you might want to hit pause, grab something to drink, hit the pit stop, and then come on back, and let's see what's on the inside.
All right, folks. Here we go. I hope you're ready because I sure am. Let's take a look at GI Joe Operation Cobra. Now, this is from OC Games and Licensed from Hasbro. Now, GI Joe's got a couple good games out there, but this one really did look good. And I'll tell you, I almost backed this one myself. I just just couldn't at the time, but I'm glad Cody did because I can't wait to see what's inside. Now, looks like we're going to get 35 or 39 35 millimeter PVC miniatures in this game. All right, we may not show every single one of them because like I said, there is a lot of boxes to go through. Looks like 1, two, three, four, six, seven more boxes after this one. Ages 14 and up, 90 to 150 minutes to play. You're looking at one to four players. Now, this is a cooperative tactical action game that can also be played solo. I mean, this game is right up my alley. This is a game that screams it really needs to be in my collection. Oh well, I'm just going to have to borrow Cody's, I guess.
But let's get this thing opened up. Let's see what's on the inside. And I'll tell you what, from everything I've seen of this game, oh, the artwork on this thing just looks amazing. I mean, look at that. That cover alone, just look at that. Oh, absolutely absolutely love it. I need to look and figure out who the u designer and the artist is on this one because man, it does. It looks really good. Now, see if we can get this box opened up and see what's on the inside. All right, [snorts] first thing we're going to get is a ginormous rule book. Oh my gosh, that thing is heavy. 50 pages, folks. That is a 50 page rule book. All right, more of that cover artwork right there. Now, let's see if we can move everything so we can kind of get this book in here. I don't know if you've guys seen this online. I haven't actually looked at it. I looked at just a little bit of this gameplay back when it was on Kickstarter and not much after that. Okay, we got our component list, clarification of terms, and let's see what we have. Cobra character sheets.
So, I don't know if this is going to be like a a really heavy game to learn. Um I I don't know. All I know is there is a lot of rules to this game. A lot of rules. Okay. All right. You got line of sight. I'm curious to see how line of sight works in this one. Looks like edgeto edge. You know, all these games are coming up with different ways of doing line to sight, too. And it gets confusing after a while. All right. Types of actions. All right. So far, the rule book doesn't really look that bad. Okay. Well, everything looks like it's kind of just played out there pretty good. There's just a lot to it. Pushing forward. Interesting. Definitely seek safety. [snorts] All right.
Cobra. Different Cobra orders. We got loadouts and equipment cards. Advanced rules. Stealth and hidden. See, man. I'm going through a bunch of stealth and hidden mechanic games right now. Oh, I'm gonna have to go look at this game again. Bummer. Oh, wait. Well, not bummer. I just This game does look really good. Lots of tokens. Okay. Icon, glossery, and reference. There is a lot going on for that. I've seen wars. All right. Your CAC, actions, and priorities. All the different tokens. And there's your back cover. All right. There's a lot there. Wow. Okay, tons of rules. Excuse me. Now, we got our campaign guide. Now, I did hear that this actually come with what, 10 campaigns. Looks like we're 30 pages just in the campaign guide. There's 12 different missions. Now, the maps in this thing, that was the one thing about this game that looked kind of interesting to me. I'm just going to put this one up here is the way they did the maps. It looked like there was a ton of tiles that you're kind of building.
Yeah. So, like you have all the different tiles and you got to piece them all together and build it. So, that looks like it's something that's just could take quite a while. But, you know, when you start looking at, you know, stealth and and Metal Gear and all those, they're kind of the same way. They have the tiles, but this, I think, is going to have a lot of more smaller tiles and different size tiles. All right, but yeah, other than that, looks like we're just going to have a bunch of different missions. Special rewards. Oh, wow. Okay. A lot of stuff going on. Containment breach. I mean, these maps, I'm curious to see how the uh how the tiles are laid out. We'll get to those here in a minute because man, I'll tell you, some of these maps, it could take an hour to build these things or more. I mean, that's like that number 12. That's a game in itself just trying to build this map. Oh my Cora. All right. Okay.
Now, we got our campaign uh record sheets for your mission names, your notes, and everything else. And there you go. And looks like more for your progress. Okay. Get that out of there now. Let's see. We have a ton of tiles that are all shrink wrapped together. We got a lot of these boards. Let's get this thing open up and let's get going. I'm probably not going to dillydally on too much of this one. And like I said, there might be quite a bit that I do skip. Um I normally try not to skip too much. We're going to see how it goes. Like I said, this is this one's going to be a nice nice long really long video. Well, you know what?
[clears throat]
It's going to take a while because I can't seem to get the plastic off of these things. Oh my gosh. Well, you know, when you got the dullest knife in existence. Okay, let's get this thing opened up now. [clears throat] Excuse me. Got one. A. See? Yep. So, how many? We have nine. Nine different boards. Okay, now let's take a look at them. So, there you go. There's one of the tiles. And these are thick, folks. These are nice chunky thick tiles. But just looking at this one, this board alone, just to give you an idea, this is what you're looking at for tiles. Okay, we're going to go and punch this one. All right, there you go. Everything punches easy. Not going to have a problem with that. Okay, get that out of here. But you're going to have a lot of this. You're going to have a lot of little tiny tiles. They're all going to have little reference numbers on them. Okay, but look at that flag right there in the middle. Okay, so you can find them by reference number. So, I'm curious if they have a way to uh group these tiles inside the box, okay? And kind of store them. So, but we're going to get that in a minute. So, there you go. I'll probably end up putting those back in there until we get everything done. So, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to show you the boards. We're going to flip them over. And that's what you're getting, folks. All right. If you pause, you should be able to see what's going on. Now, I have no idea what this is. Okay. Micro pack. All right. So, yeah, you should be able to pause and you can kind of see where all the lines are. You can tell which tiles are which.
You can tell which tokens are which. Okay. I'm just gonna just kind of get them out there for you so you can just kind of take a look at them. That way you can get an idea of what you are getting yourself into. All right. Just throw those in the box lit is the easiest place for me to put them. Okay. Got that side. Trying to keep that glare off. But man, these everything in this game is like super shiny. All right, got that one. Now, this is kind of cool looking here. See? Oh, that's just your Hasbro licensing. Interesting. I wonder what that square is for in the middle of it. I don't know. Probably just an extra space or something like that. Got these little micro sheets in there. Look like we're going to be building some uh token counters.
All right. Okay. And we got two more here. All right. Maybe a first player marker right there. Yeah, you see like a lot of just little zigzags, little square pits, different stuff like that. Oh, yeah. Looks like a car overturned. I tell you what, man. The tiles do look cool. All right. Then we're going to have looks like a bunch of different charact like your scientists, your people you might meet along the way. Okay. All right. And there you go. Okay. So, that is going to be it for those. Now, let's see what we have here. So, the first thing we're going to have is we're going to have a bunch of minis. Now, looks like we're going to have we're going to have a bunch of duplicates down here for these guys. But, let's go ahead and take a look at I'm assuming this is going to be some of our Joe's, some of our characters we're going to play. All right. And they look good. You know what? I I like I like the look of these. These are going to look good painted. Cody's been going on a painting spree lately, so who knows?
Maybe we're going to see the Cody Master do a little bit of painting. Okay. Very nice. Very nice. Okay, I do like them. All right, so that's a closeup of some of those. Let's look at some of our our generic baddies. And I'll I'll kind of put everything up here and kind of pan it in a little bit. Hopefully this is coming out okay and not super blurry. Sometimes my camera does that. It doesn't like to do the close-up stuff very well. All right. And then let's go with this one right here. Okay. Get that in there. I do them. I I I like them. I I like miniatures. I think they look good. Okay, but just kind of give you an idea. Here you go. All right, we'll just kind of get that up there. Take a look at him. This guy looks really good. I mean, the models I think the models look good.
Okay, the quality quality works perfect for me. All right, but there you go. Okay, that's what we're going to get on those miniatures. And we got oh my gosh, we got like what, eight boxes worth of miniatures that we still got to go through. Now, this is what I'm curious of. So, there's your bottom of your box. We have this bottom tray right here. And they didn't tape it on. Thank you. Okay. I'm guessing all the tiles and stuff are going to fit in that tray right there. And if they all fit in that tray, oh my gosh, I'm going to be so happy because then you can just kind of stack them all in there. Nice little neat organization skills that we'll need to come up with. But I like I'm okay with that. Now, I'm not going to take these out of the bag, but we have that one counter. Okay, I don't want to lose those. I'm good at dropping stuff. All right, now our standies for other miscellaneous stuff. And these look very common ones. All right, but as you can kind of see, it's going to have some Does it have any little grips in the middle? Actually, I do not see any little grips in that middle. Oh, look at that. So, we might be able to put them on and take them off. They might not be too bad. Okay. But with sies, I prefer that they fit in the box and you don't ever have to take them out. Now, there's a lot of dead space underneath this thing. So, I wish those were deeper so you can actually store more stuff inside there, but we don't always get what we want. Right now, we got our dice. Now, these dice Oh, these dice are nice.
These are I mean, they're they're weighty dice. They look like they're silk screen. It's not going to affect the balance too much when they cut into them. Oh, no. These I like these, folks. These These are good dice. These are good quality. Kudos to these guys on this. Oh, yeah. Okay. Very nice. Now, just kind of slide those right in there. And look at that. Right back in the box. All right. Now, what do we have over here? Okay. Oh, see now how deep this is. Why couldn't those just have been deep troughs? Okay. I think that would have been better. Oh, well, they didn't ask me. That's okay. Now, let's get these out. Let's take a look at all these. So, these are going to be our character cards. Now, let's take a look at Roadblock right here. Wow, that glares. Where's that glare coming from have to find that one? Okay, so we got Roadblock and on the back side, you're going to have his uh the other side. So, I don't I don't know the difference between the two sides at all. Okay. So, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to kind of flip through these.
All right. You can take a look at them and then I'm going to flip them over and I'm going to show you the other side. Got the Crocmaster. Okay, we got Viper, Techno Viper, The Bat, Zartan, and Firefly. All right. So, then if we flip them over now, we're going to be able to see what the backside of them is going to be, and you guys can do the comparisons. I'll let Whoop. Sorry, didn't mean to step in the camera. I'll let you guys do that. And there's Duke. And there's nothing to look at there. Okay. So, there you go. That is going to be those. Let me move I got one thing. Move out of my way. All right. Now, we're going to get looks like three different decks of cards. Okay. Or packs of cards. So, let's start off first.
Let's go through this guy right here. All right. Now, these are all going to be Looks like these are all equipment cards. All right, pause if you want to take a closer look at them. If I see any duplicates, like I said, I'm like, as normal, I'll just go ahead and uh try to scurry on through them, but it doesn't look like this is going to have any duplicates on them. Interesting. There's no pictures for the equipment. They just have just a bunch of just a bunch of text and icons. But hey, you save on artwork by that way. And technically, you don't have to have all the pictures on there. As long as you have the icons and the text, it's honestly it's really all you need. I mean, we all know what an AK-47 looks like.
All right, that's that guy. And then there's your sonic blast assault shotgun. The name alone on that says that somebody needs to go pick that thing up and use it. All right, now what do we have here? We have files. We have enemy files. Top secret. So it looks like so we got like Firefly and Zartan all the way up to Cobra Troops. It looks like we're going to have a deck for every one of our enemies. Now you can see who it is down here. All right. So I but looks like we got different ones for everyone. So I'm just going to kind of thumb through these so you can get an idea of what they're looking like. Okay. Pause on any one that you want to. You can read the name down here. Here's Viper. So you can read the names down there and you can figure out who they go to.
But normally I'll not quite go this fast, but we got a lot to do here, folks. We have a ton. All right, who we at now? We're at major major blood. All right, Dr. Mind Banner. There is a lot.
Wow, there is a ton. Okay, now here's the BAT, the BAT. Now, I'm not the big GI Joe guy that Cody is, so I have no idea what the BAT acronym stands for. I mean, I can come up with some names for it, but it's kind of a familyfriendly channel. Firefly. There we go. And not the serenity kind. There you go. All right. So, that's going to be all those. Let's put those back down in here. And now, what are we going to have? We're going to have Oh, that was enemy files equipment. Top secret. This is G.I. Joe files equipment. Okay. So, the first thing was enemy equipment. So, enemy equipment. They don't get artwork. G.I. Joe equipment. Well, they don't get artwork either. Okay. All right. Get him off of there. And this is what the GI Joe equipment is going to look like.
There you go. We got a morning light katana. We'll start off with that smoke bombs. All right. And like I said, give it a pause. You should be able to should be able to see what you need to see. All right. I usually keep my finger on that space bar just in case so I can do the pause and pause really really fast. Kevlar vest. Okay. What we got? Impact SMG. Wow. Okay. And there you go. All right. And that is going to be everything that is in the core box. Surprisingly, there's not as much inside this core box as I originally thought there might have been for this game. A lot of tiles. That's one of the main things. A lot of tiles, but you're going to get a lot of scenarios. And there is really still a ton of gameplay in this box just for just for what you get right here. Okay.
But all right. So, let's put these right back over here. Let's start grabbing everything. Now, I'm curious to how much of the other expansion stuff or whatnot we can actually fit inside of this box once everything's done. Okay, let's get these figures in here. Now, let's take our lid. All right, we have all of these tiles and we're going to put those in there. Um, we do have You know what? Just in case Cody wants it, you know, it's his game. I'm going to put it in there. All right. He purchased it. So, I'm going to I'm going to give him his little tile. And there we go. Okay. Now, that folks is the core game. That is what you're going to get if you were to get the core game. And this is this is a big box, too. Holy cra. This is a big box. Okay. So, now what we're going to do is push this out of the way and we're going to look at the stretch goals because I have no idea what the stretch goals were. I kind of followed the campaign a little bit, realized I wasn't going to be able to afford it at the time, and then I just kind of stopped watching it. Then Cody gave me every update on it now. Let's see what we have.
Okay, so stretch goals. What are we going to get? We're going to get submissions and extras. So, oh, hey, I I shouldn't I want to do this real fast right now, too. We're just going to put this right in the middle of the stretch goals. There is Oh, look at that. I don't even take it out. It's one sheet of paper. We did get this as well. Okay, now this is a exclusive mission. This is the silent interlude. So, all right. So, there you go. There is this guy. All right. And that's all you're getting is you just get that one page mission objectives and everything is good to go. Need to put him in the core box. Now, the stretch goal extra missions. All right. Oh my gosh, look at that. That was mission two. I missed mission one. Got our index right there. All right. Mission one, the media res. Wow, these maps. I can't wait to try I just want to build one of these maps just to see how long they take because look at that thing folks. Oh my gosh. Okay.
All right. Okay. There's mission three. So now these missions, man, they got a couple more pages to them. The fracken fiasco. Now this is the underground menace mission one. So it's almost like a couple different campaign type things. Okay, which is cool. And then mission three for escape and rescue. Ah, I'm thinking do these missions in order. All right. See, now here's a little list of all the tiles you need. I don't remember seeing that in the other ones. Maybe it was there, but I do like that. That way you just start looking for all your tiles and then come up here and figure how to rearrange them. All right, the road pig road pigs rampage. Yeah, boy. You mess up building one of these maps, too, and that could really affect you. smoke and mirrors. But I do like them. It does. It reminds me of one of the older games. What was like Doom?
I think it was the original Doom had a bunch of little tiny tiles, too. Okay. So, all this is going to have is just this. All right. So, we're going to start off right there because we're going to check out the little pup. Oh, look at that, man. You got a little dog miniature. I love the dog miniatures. Little wolf. Yeah. Yeah. Very very cool because you know those guys are gonna be going after Mr. Crocodile. Oh yeah, Mr. Snapping Crocodile. Yeah, he's cool looking. I like him. All right, let's take a let's take a close look at some of these miniatures here. All right, boy. He looks cool. I like him with that hammer. See, I honestly I can I can spend easily way too much time looking at miniatures because I really really like the minis. Okay, I used to spend a lot of time painting, too. But let's just go ahead and do this. So, we got a lot to do. All right. We just kind of want to go through them all.
Take a look at those little guys. You guys figure out who's who. Yeah. I mean, look a little Bray on that guy. I mean, the detail on these guys is actually really good. Okay. I do like it. Now, what are we going to get in here? What new people did they give us for the stretch goals? All right. So if you got the stretch goals now you could actually play as what is it? Bazooka Covergirl Spirit Stalker Falcon Retro Snake Eyes Shipwreck Flint Lawn Order. See to me that would be worth I mean this stretch goals box is awesome because you get I mean look how many more characters you're getting but you get to go up against Road Pig, Zarna and the Big Boa. Okay, now we'll look at the backside of all of these. But yeah, having all these extra characters, man. Oh, see, I mean, that's the stretch goal. It's always worth it.
Without this, you're only what, four? They got four characters in the box, plus when any you get in the different expansions. So, very cool. All right, now let's get these down in here. So, and if you guys have played this game, any of you played it yet, let me know, man. I want your opinions on this game. Okay. All right. one little pack of cards. Let's see what we have inside of here. All right, I'm thinking we're going to have a couple different decks. We're going to be able to add to a lot of our a lot of our stuff. So, we'll we'll see about splitting these up and so we know what we're going up against. Okay, so we know we're going to have the enemy files. Okay, we definitely know that for sure, right? Um and then what where's the backside? Oh, see there's no backside on that one right there. All right. So, there's enemy files for your equipment. Here's your regular Joe equipment.
And this is going to be Oh, wow. Some different character cards for all the different characters. So, we'll go through those. It looks like their names gonna be on the bottom of those as well. All right. So, here we go. Okay. Let's take a look at them. So, we got Road Pig. Okay. Look at all his stuff first.
And like I said, as normal, Speedy Gonzalez through it. Push two. Yeah. So, they do have some different stuff in there. All right. See, these cards got a little bit little bit more on them. So, interesting. Okay. So, now we're going to have our Joe Files equipment. Actually, let's go. Let's stay with these guys. So, we have this Fiona card. All right. And there's the front and there's the back of Fiona. Okay. Okay. And then we're going to have all these equipment cards for them. Big bow is iron fish. And then throw anything. All right. Put those down in there. All right. Now, our Joe equipment. Okay. Our Joe files. Let's What do we got here? Okay.
Looks like there was a lot of stretch goals that were met on this one. Now, we're going to have all these different character cards. So, let's kind of flip these back over and look at the name down the bottom. So you can take a look at them like your old bazooka. We got Covergirl Spirit. Yep. He's got to have that tomahawk. Stalker 40 millimeter grenade launcher. Oh yeah. Falcon Green Beret 9 millimeter sidearm. Don't mess with them. The retro snake eyes. Got his katanas there. Yeah. Double comma. Very nice. We got shipwreck.
Poly helps and a fishing hook. Yeah. That's awesome. Lawn order. And then Flint. This should be the last one here. And there's Flint's last card. Okay. So, there you go. That is your stretch goals. Okay. So that's going to be the main game plus your stretch goals. So if that's all you bought, if all you did is backed it for the base game and got your stretch goals box, that's what you got. Okay, got those. Now, I don't remember what all of the different levels were. H I'm going to move some stuff where I can actually reach it. I don't remember what all the different levels were, but that was probably just like an entry level. Now, let's take a look at what else we're gonna have. We got Dreadnox Chaos and Mayhem expansion. Okay, take a look at the back. You can see what we got.
Everything is basically going to be the same as far as player count and whatnot. I can't imagine it being any different. Um, but you got your contents you can take a look at really fast. Give you a quick idea of your miniatures. Looks like we're getting about a dozen miniatures in this one. These ones here are stunning. Stunning miniatures. All right. Okay. Let's get him opened up now for the side. All right. Now, what do we got? We have the expansion dossier. All right. Let's see what's going to come inside this. How to play this expansion. I am excited to try try all these new expansions and everything else. Man, there are so many different game plays right here. And then you're going to have missions for this one. Oh, yeah.
Look at that. We got two. Man, if you got three missions in every single one of these expansions, that is so much content. All right. And there you go. Very cool. Looks like we're going to get uh some token boards. See if we can open this one up. We'll probably get some more tile maps, maybe. Okay, I don't think we're going to need all this plastic anymore. So, yes, looks like we're going to get a couple more map pieces, but we're going to get looks like some debris tokens. Okay, back side of that one. Okay, I'm not going to do punch test on all these because I already did. So, there we go on him with those tokens. A little more debris. All right. Oh, there's the backside. Yeah, very nice. That's cool. I like I like the artwork in that. Okay, now this guy wants to slide all over the place. Now, this one's actually interesting because they actually have this cover to hold the miniatures in place. That's a little on the unique side. So, let's just go ahead and take a little quick look at that. You we're times just going to town on this thing.
So, we're just going to kind of We're cheating on the miniatures at this point. We all know what the quality is. We're just looking to see what's in there. Okay, the quality of these is good. Okay, actually the quality to me is I'm gonna say it's great. Everything I've seen in this game so far just screams quality. I mean, everything's really nice. All right, so I'm going show you what we have. So, we're going to have our character files for all of our enemies. We're going to have our enemy equipment. Um, we got Beach Head and Outback. All right, I'm just going to go just like this and you guys can just pause. I just want you to see what's going to be in here. [snorts] All right, I'll tell you what. Can't wait to get this one to the table. Okay, here's our range Viper.
And if you play once with the base game and then once with each one of these expansions, man, that alone's a ton of plays because you got to we got to play all these expansions individually because we got to review just the expansions, right? Oo yeah, Cody and I are going to have some fun with these. Okay, at his expense, of course. All right, get that back in there. Nothing wrong with that, right folks? Look like our token's going to be able to drop down in there. Hopefully the map pieces are going to fit in the in the main box. That's my thing is, man, once we get playing all this other stuff is what can we put in the main box. All right, so we got Outback, got your beach head now. All right. Now, here's Buzzer, Ripper, and Range Viper. There's AGR. What is that? Or aggravation level. All right.
And there's the backside for, of course, Outback and Beach Head. All right. Very nice. Okay. Let's put these back in here. I don't know if Cody wants them back in here or not, but I'm just going to, you know, the problem with these, they fold them so tight that they don't like to always go back in there easy. Let's just say that. Okay. Get in there. Okay. Bag close. Thank you. All right. And there you go. All right. Yeah. So, we showed you all the miniatures. Let's go ahead and get this put back in place. Now, that's interesting. Okay. There we go. So, it's all down flat. Let's get this put down on there. All right. We're going to get our two boards. And then we're going to get our mission booklet and our our rules booklet. There you go. Okay. That folks, Dreadnox Chaos Expansion. Man, I hope I had half that on the screen. I just realized everything was sliding down towards me.
Now, our Deep Waters expansion. H interesting. Okay, Deep Water expansion. Of course, we're going to get some more figures. Looks like Lady Jane Hawk. All right. And let's see what we have. I'm expecting more of the same. I'm expecting each one of these boxes to look basically like that other one with the content inside. Probably going to get about the same amount of content per box. That's going to be my guess. All right, let's get him off the side. But let's take a look at these missions. Okay, now deep water components. How to play this expansion. We got deep water terrain standing in deep water. Okay, so that's going to definitely be new. All right, changing depths. What was this? Firefly. Firefly doesn't play danger token. Cool. So, they actually have rules in here for other characters, too. They're look like they're in kind of the base. That's nice. I like that. All right, getting close to the water.
Got the collapse Atlantic City. Some special rules. Time to get wet. Oh yeah, time to go scuba diving. There we go. Okay, so we got that rule book. Now, what do we have for our boards in here? Oh, and here they actually got a little punch out drop down where you can actually put some of your tiles because this one looks like it actually has some bigger tiles to it as well. Okay, put those there. Yeah. So, you're going to have just your got your of course your long tiles, your small the water. Man, that water looks super cool. I really like the look of those water towels. All right, another one of those. Yeah, see these actually have these bigger tiles which will fit probably right there. All right, there you go. Look at that. Another little one of those sideways Cobra bikes.
Okay, got your speedboat. Very nice. All right, little coral action. See, I bet if we take this, look at that. They're just going to just plop right inside of there, which would be really nice. So, because they're not going to fit in the core box because the core box didn't have room for the bigger tiles like that from what I remember seeing. now. Oh, there we go. We're going to get one more blue dice. Okay, that could probably easily go in the core, but looks like honestly, you know, they put them in these bags, and I think they do it for shipping reasons, but you know, it's going right there, right? And that's where it's going to live. We're just going to put it there. Now, let's take our bag of these. And the fact they kind of slide out of here is kind of a reason I like to put them back in the bag, too. So that way they're not just flying loose in here all over the place and whatnot.
There's a pain to get back in there. Okay. So, we got Lady Jane. Got Storm Shadow. There's Hawk. All right. And there you go. There's Copperhead. And there's Cobra Eel that we're going up against in the backside of Lady Jane, Storm Shadow, and then Hawk. There you go. Okay. So, that's going to be those. Now, show those back down in here. get him back in their little place right in that little tiny slot. Now, this one doesn't have quite as many cards in it. But that's all right. So, let's look and see what we have. Now, I'm not even show you the backside of these cards because we know how to look at the cards by now, right? All the information right on the bottom. All right, we got Hawk and his stuff, Storm Shadow.
Okay. And then Lady Jane. I, you know, the fact that these are just all text and icons. I'm actually, it's growing on me. I'm actually kind of liking it. You know, the pictures are always nice. All right. Here's Copperhead. Pictures are always nice, but really this is all you need. So, put it on the small cards. You don't have to worry about Cobra Heel. You don't have to worry about, you know, your artist or anything else. But there you go. Okay. All right. And that is going to be this. Oh, hey. You know what? We didn't look at our miniatures. Oh, let's look at our miniatures. Oh, you know what? I gota I got to pull this guy out because look at that guy is in scuba gear. Yeah, he's awesome. Okay, I do love that. But I just wanted you to get an idea of what these miniatures are looking like. I hope this is coming across. Okay, for me it looks like I can see them.
Okay, but all right, there we go. Now, drop this back down in there.
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Okay, so this is going to plop down. Remember, all the tokens are going to go in this main little spot right here when everything's done. So, it definitely saves space. And there you go. Okay, deep water expansions. Put him off the side. Grab this one. Now, these boxes, too. I just want you to realize these are a little bit smaller. We have three of these smaller boxes. These are the same size as stretch goals. And then we have three of these ones. These ones are a little bit bigger, but they feel like they have less components in them. Don't ask me. But we're gonna enter the ninjas. So, this is probably the one that I'm one of the most excited about. Okay. All right. So, let's get this guy opened up. Look at that artwork right there while I'm throwing this away because we do like the artwork in this game. I do. I love the artwork in this game.
All right. Now, enter the ninjas. The expansion dossier. What do we have? All right. As always, introduction expansion, how to play it. We got some new tokens. Every one of these introduces something new, which is really cool. We got poison tokens. Very nice. Some new game symbols. All right. And let's get into those missions. So, we got a couple of them. We got duel. Feel like I missed a page right there. I did. Wow. Those two pages don't want to come apart. Uh, there's m the web of falsehoods. There we go. Special rules tiles. Very cool. I like it. Like it. Now, see if we can get this guy opened up. This one we're only going to have two boards in this one. Looks like we're going to get some more of these big tiles. You can tell by that, right?
Okay. Yeah. See, I like Oh, I love the look of that. That looks really cool. Here's your poison tokens. There's your backside of your poison tokens. Looks like they're dual purpose. That Jeep's a little uh have a little problems. All right, there we go on that guy. It's almost easier if I just do it that way, isn't it? Okay, and there's the back side of that one. Now, let's get this guy out. See what we have. And who's gonna come inside this one? Looks like we got Jinx. I saw that right off the top. Okay, now we got Jinx, we got Quick Kick. Well, I tell you what, you start intermixing all these all this stuff, you have so many characters to play. It is ridiculous.
Absolutely ridiculous. Okay. And there you go. So, that's going to be your characters. All right. And unfortunately, we got to try to put these things back in this bag. Oh, I'm gonna learn to hate these bags by the time this is all done. All right, there we go. Okay, now just a spot for a couple different cards. See if we get this guy opened up.
All right, we're almost halfway done. Okay, actually I think we're over halfway done. All right, we got Quick Kick. All right, let's take a look at his stuff. Jinx. All right, GI Joe. This is going to be just our regular equipment. So, we got just some regular equipment. Okay. And this will be Cobra equipment. All right. And what do we have? Oh, here. Storm Shadow
Cobra. Cobra Red Ninja. All right. And the last two on him. And there you go. Okay. So, that's going to be those cards. Now, let's see if we This guy popped off. And let's take a look at these figures. All right. Very nice. Yeah. See, look at those. They They look good. Okay. I do I do like the look of the miniatures. All the miniatures in this game, boy, they had some great sculpt sculptors for these. I do like them. Okay, so let's get that in there. Plop these in. Plop our rule book in. And there we go. Okay.
All right, that is three of the six expansions now. All right, some of these aren't too bad. So, Legion of Cobra expansion. The Legion of Cobra expansion I thought was just kind of like just some more more Cobra bad guys you're going to go up against. All right. And a nice big giant box. The shelf space this game is going to take up is going to be huge. Going to take up like three ka shelves at least. But you know I got some Sean games to do the same thing. Now what are we going to get inside here? Okay, let's get that lid off. These all just keep sliding out, don't they? They just never stay in place. Okay, so let's get this opened up.
All right, so we got the retro Crobat Trooper. Oh, hey, missed one. The snowpent and the Televiper. There you go. And nothing on the back side. But again, shove them back in this little bag. You know what's going to be funny? I'm going to give this back to Cody. He's going to say, "Yeah, you didn't have to put them back in the bag." That's okay. I do it just because. Now, let's get these little little pack of cards opened up. Like I said, this is a bigger box than the other ones, and it has less components. We're going to take this thing out. We're going to make sure there's nothing underneath it because, you know, that would be funny if uh there was stuff underneath there, and I forgot to show you. All right. How to use expansion. Re these cards first.
There you go. Legion of Cobra. Okay, we got card three, four. Swap the equivalents. Oh, okay. So, you're using these in place of others. I got you. I see how this this works. Very nice. All right. So, we're going to get some equipment here. Personal objective. All right. Now, who do we got here? We got the Retro Cro Cobra Trooper. Okay. Snow Serpent.
And then the Televiper and his last card. Okay. And there you go. Now, let's take a look at all these miniatures really fast. Okay. Like I said, I'm cheating doing this. Sorry, guys. But all we're doing is we're just adding these three baddies in in place of the original baddies. So it's just going to give us some more bad guys to go up against. All right, but as you can see, nothing up my sleeve. Presto. All right, let's put this back together. And there we go. Okay, you know, I do like expansions like this. Just give us kind of give us an alternative to the main bad guys that we're fighting. Just a little bit of a change. Very nice.
Now, Cobra's finest expansion. I'm noticing these Cobra boxes are bigger than the Joe boxes. What's up with that? Okay, I guess that's how they tell the difference, whether it's a Cobra box or a Joe box. The Joe's, it's a, you know, a lot into a small package, but the Cobras, they kind of kind of spread out a little bit. All right, let's see now. Operation Cobra, Cobra's finest expansion. What are we going to get? The Baroness. Yeah, we're just going to get uh just more bad guys. Is that what it is? Okay. Oh, we're also going to get Joe's. We're going to get uh Gung-Ho and Rock and Roll. Okay. Ah. Okay. Let's get this guy opened up. Getting down there, folks. We're getting to the end. All right. Expansion dossier. Let's take a look at it. So, how to use this expansion? How are we going to incorporate it? Okay. Rules for new status and effects. Got some new game tokens.
Man, I'll tell you what, they should have come with a all-in-one rule book. That was what they really needed. Otherwise, you have to keep bouncing through all the different rule books. All right, now let's look at these missions. Double cross wararmongers home. Okay. Deceived by a cobra. And then Cobra's finest. Oh man, look at those tiles. See, and this is one I know we looked at looked earlier, but Oh, yeah. Here we go. There's a list of all the different tiles right there. Go find all those and go figure out where they're going to go. Desperate boarding. All right. And there we go. Okay. Now, let's look at our boards.
Let's see if we can get this guy opened up. Yeah, definitely going to get some more bigger towels here. It's one of the things I've noticed. They don't have these bigger tiles in the core that I remember seeing, but boy, they do have them in all these expansions, don't they? Okay. So, all right. Yeah, dropped those on somebody. Now, these are a little different shape. They got a little cutout on them. Very cool. Very nice from a little light coming in from the outside window. And you got to have a window view, right? I mean, even bad guys have to have a window view. Very cool little satellites. That almost looks like it needs to be different direction. All right. These are funky looking on these ones.
All right. All your different new tokens. I like how it looks like the tokens are all doublesided. Use one side that way whichever one you need. I like it when they do that because it actually cuts back on the number of tokens that you get in the game. Okay. You just kind of have them grouped together and you just have them in a pile. Having them, you know, the same image on both sides is nice, but man, when you got as many tokens as what this game does, that double-sided tokens is so much better. Okay, so there's gungho. All right. And there's rocking a roll. Oh, yeah. And what we going to go up against? Baroness, Destro, Crimson Guard, and then the Iron Grenadier.
Now, backside of Gungho and the backside of Rock and Rollola. There you go. All right, these back in. See, you don't use these very often because these bags split down the side. So, I'm only doing this for Cody. You realize that, right? Only doing this for Cody. All right, just because he's such a such a good guy. Oh, okay. Let's get these guys opened up. Now, who we gonna have? We got cards for Gung-Ho. We'll start off with him. Okay, we got Rock and Roll.
Okay, T1. All right. And then we got our Cobra cards and Baroness. We got Destro.
Okay. Crimson Guard. Woo. Man, I'm having a hard I've gone through so many cards, having a hard time holding on to them now. Okay. And then we got the Iron Grenadier. And there you go. Okay. And that's going to be all those. Now, let's go ahead and get this thing off. Let's take a look at these miniatures. All right. As you can see, we got all of our main baddies on those top two rows right there. And then here is going to be Gung-Ho and them. Okay, very nice. Okay, those miniatures look good as well. All right, so let's get this put back into place. I know, I know I'm cheating, folks. I'm cheating by only showing you part of them. Oh, wait a minute. We got the lid on there. I'm not digging them all out, but I also don't want to be here for two hours either because once I start pulling those miniatures out, it's my OCD. Once I pull one out, I gotta pull almost all of them out. I barely skated by with the first box by only doing part of them. All right, what was this? Cobra's Revenge and Expansion. Now, just so you know, this is the last box.
I hope you're still with me. Okay, maybe by now you guys have skipped it to the very end and you're just looking for that ending joke. The [clears throat] ending joke is after all this, I'm probably not gonna have an ending joke. Might be too tired. There you go. Nah, [snorts] I'm never too tired for you guys. Okay, here we go. Last box. What do we got? We got our expansion dossier on this one. Slide him over a little bit. Got our index. Make sure we can see everything. Get it up there. How to play How to play this campaign. The Cobra campaign. See, that's the cool thing about these. These are little campaigns. These little free mission campaigns. I love them. Okay, you got the characters that come with them, but do you have to play with those characters? I think not. New token, Cobra Points token. Got your campaign record sheet. Operation element.
Oh yeah. Hiring volunteers. Cool. Mission failure. Seized mine. All right. The master plan disrupted. Oh, I think I missed another page again. Oh, yeah. Operation Jailbreak. Oh, those are some, excuse me, some tight areas right there. Very nice. Okay, now we got a skirmish mode. Building the battlefield. Wow. Okay. Very nice. Kind of. This one does seem a little bit different. So that explains why. Okay. Got new game symbols. Back in Cobra's Labor. Labor. Back in Cobra's layer. Jeez. A throne for Cobra. All right.
And there you go. And that's going to be all of that one. All right. See what our new boards are. Well, I'll tell you what though, man. Folks, you're getting a lot of maps. You You are getting a ton of maps with this game. You can if you want to build your own missions. Wow. The sky's is the limit for what you guys have. Holy crud. All right. There you go. Yeah. See, look at that. That is That is really cool looking tile. Boy, you're just going after Cobra's area there, aren't you? Man, he's just Boy, he's just so full of himself. Look at those statues of Cobras all over the place, man. just advertise where you're at, right? Okay. Take a look at that board. Oh, that's that's cool looking. This dotted red dot. This must be like blocks line of sight. No passing. Can't move through. It's going to be my theory on that. Very interesting.
All right. Okay. Get that out of there. Let's see. What are we going to have here now? These are a little bit different color. I wonder if they're like for if you're doing the mission campaign compared to something else. I don't know. But let's find out. Let's go through all of them. Okay, we got Major Blood. Got the Crocmaster, Dr. Mind Bender, Cobra Commander, Zartan, Firefly, Baroness, Destro, Storm Shadow, Tomax, and Zam, Serpent, Buzzer, Ripper, and Copperhead. And then we're gonna get we got Roadblock, Scarlet, Snake Eyes, Duke, the GI Joe Enforcer. Very nice. Oh, the operative and serpenter. Okay, now on the back sides of these, let's see what we got. Whoa. Let's just like throw them around, right? Okay.
Major Blood. Hold on. Okay. And our Crackmaster. So, this looks like this box actually is gonna offer Can't keep these cards in my hand. They're slick. This box is gonna offer some stuff that the other ones don't have. All right. Now, let's make sure we're not missing anything. And there you go. Okay. So, definitely got a lot more stuff in this one. This one's going to do stuff just a little bit different. Okay. It looks like it has that little campaign thing going on and whatnot. So, that is cool. Very nice. So, by the time you got done playing all that other stuff, you got this one. All right. Now, we got a few more cards. Let's get these things opened up. Let's see what we have.
Okay. Oh, come on. Cards, open up. Me and these little plastic things in these cards is just horrible. Now, looks like we're going to have these going to be our Cobra equipment cards. Yes, they are. All right. Katana sword. Yeah. All right. Now, these are Joe cards. Mus. Very nice. All right. Now, here we go. Snake eyes. Duke.
There's roadblock Scarlet. All right. GI Joe Enforcer.
GI Joe operative. All right. Just a couple more here. All right. Now, we're going to have looks like our some more Cobra stuff. There's probably Cobra more Cobra equip equipment. This deck in this hand has just gotten too thick. Okay, I got to set it down. I can't even hold the cards anymore. All right, there we go. And then we're going to get Serpentur and his last two cards. All right. And there you go. And that is all the pile of cards we're going to get. Drop those down into here. Now, take this box. Let's pop this off. Okay, we're gonna look at this one. Oh, yeah. Look at that, folks. That is so cool.
That That is super cool. I like that one. All right, so here we go. All right, there you go. There's going to be your main group baddies that you're going to get. Come down here. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Very nice. I like them. They all look really good. Okay, I've got Man, I'll tell you what, there there is I've got no problems with anything I've ever seen in anything in this game. This game just looks absolutely amazing. Absolutely amazing. I'm actually kicking myself for not backing myself at this point in time. All right. Whoa, folks. There you go. Okay, that was Cobra's Revenge. That was Cobra's finest. That was the Legions of Cobra expansion. All right, get all that Cobra stuff out of there because we want to look at Enter the Ninjas expansion. Okay, for the Joe's, the deep water for the Joe's. And then we got the Dreadnox, okay, as well. And then of course we have our stretch goals box, which has a lot more Joe's to play.
Oh my gosh. But there you go. Right there. That is G.I. Joe Operative Cobra. This is the main game. Wow, folks. That is a ton of content. That is a lot of stuff. Tell you what, let's head up top. Let's close this out. All right, folks. There you go. That is a lot of G.I. Joe content. Oh my gosh, it is amazing how much is in this box. And it looks phenomenal. Miniatures all look great. Every one of these expansions has got a minimum of three missions that you're going to be able to go on. And on top of that, you can take other Joe characters from other expansions or the stretch goal box, the main box, and you can run them through those if you wanted to, I'm pretty sure. Which means you're looking at what? 12 missions here. Three per box. So it's going to be what? 3699. That's gonna be 18. You're looking at 31 plus stretch goals missions. Ah, I'm not even going to do the math because my brain's already exploded from unboxing all this stuff. But the game looks really good. It almost looks like a lifestyle type of a game because there's so much gameplay intermixing everything.
If if you're playing the core game and you decide you don't want to play the same batty, you open up one of the other boxes, you grab the baddies from there, you can merge them in. Looks really good. Absolutely cannot wait to give this one a play. This thing just looks amazing. Well, thank you once again for joining us today. As always, we please ask you like this video on YouTube, Board Game Geek, Facebook, or even on X. Please leave us a comment on any one of those platforms, and we'll get to those comments just as soon as we can. And also folks, if you like the videos we do here, if you have not done so already, we humbly ask you to click on that subscription button and even click on that bell and be notified when we drop new videos. And also, if you like the videos I do here, I also post videos over my own channel. Over there, I'll do some playthroughs, unboxings, and reviews. Just a bunch of stuff out of my personal collection. We'll leave a link to my channel down in the details below. You know, I was just looking at my ceiling. Not sure it's the best ceiling in the world, but it's definitely up there.
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