Monthly Update - Dice | Wargaming & Board Games Channel Update | Oct 2026

0:00 Hey everybody, I'm Zilla Blitz and welcome to the monthly update for October 2026. This is the video where I go through the games that I've played in the previous month, things that are new and in the house. We have a wargaming deeps, deep thoughts conversation, and we talk about some random other items that are relevant to historical board gaming. Now, this video is sponsored by Noble Knight Games. They're board game retailer that ships all across the planet, and they have a fantastic collection of new and used war games. They also buy used war games. So, if you're looking to clear out some shelves before the holiday season, they might be a good one to get in touch with. They make it super easy to do that. The other thing I want to mention that I'm finding more and more helpful with places like Noble Knight is they have free shipping options. So, $149 or more gets you free shipping in the continental US, which I'm finding more and more you'll see, you know, sites and publishers that will have sales, but when you add in their shipping charges, it's actually still pretty expensive cuz shipping is getting expensive. So, I am finding that $149 free shipping option from Noble Knight Games to be extremely helpful, especially if you wait for a little while and package together two or three games that you would want. Now, I know if you're living overseas, yes, free shipping doesn't count. I get it. If you're in Australia or Europe, shipping is super expensive. So, I understand this is a relevant comment to a particular subset of the channel audience, but if you are in the continental US, I'm finding it's super helpful. Now, if you uh are interested, there are links to Noble Knight Games down below. And if you do use one of those links, uh thanks very much as it does help out the channel. And thank you to everyone who has uh been doing that.

1:31 I've got a couple of things to show from Noble Knight Games and New in the House. Uh thanks to people who have been doing that. So, and before we stop talking about Noble Knight Games, a reminder that we will be giving away our $100 store gift certificate to Noble Knight Games for everybody who entered into the drawing from the upcoming War Games video earlier in the month. So, stick around for that. If you entered into the contest, we'll pick our winner at the end of this video. Before we jump into games played in the month of September, I do want to talk about a little bit of a just a life situation that is impacting things on the channel to a certain degree. Um, and the the main point, the reason it connects to games I played is that this is looking back on September, this was the fewest amount of hours, the fewest amount of games I felt like I played in probably 2 years. It was just a very low month of getting stuff on the table. And the main reason is um work is really kind of expanding.

2:23 It's gotten really busy for for a number of reasons. Uh and it's eating up more. Usually I have about an hour or two I think per workday I can devote to the channel and devote to playing games and making videos and then a chunk of time on the weekends and I'm losing that time during the work week which is creating all kinds of stresses and pressures pressures on getting board games to the table. The other thing is too, it's a difference after an 8 hour day of work compared to a 10-hour day of work having the energy to think about heavy board games. I'm not sure if you're like me, but I need brain space to play some of the deeper war games that we like to play as a hobby. And when you're getting to it 2 hours later after an extra two hours of work, uh sometimes there's just not the the energy there that there would be if I were getting to it a couple of hours earlier. I'm working on a solution. I don't want to belabor the point. working on a solution and hopeful to have some kind of a resolution with um work stuff in the course of the next month or so and I'll keep you up to date. But for the the short-term future here, it might be more of a maintenance mode in terms of my war game hobby and video creation. Normally I try to create between 10 and videos 10 to 15 videos per week. My guess is it's going to be more like 5 to 10 for the month of October, but we'll see. And I I'm hopefully that I can I'm hopefully I can solve the problem from a number of angles. But with that said, let's jump in and talk about games that I did play because there still was a fairly large amount, more than I thought. I'll talk a little bit about that aspect of it when we get going. Chinese War started out the month with we have a first Saturday historical board game club now in the Twin Cities that meets the first Saturday of the month and gets together.

3:54 We had about 11 people there this time. So, we're growing. This is the second meeting. And uh I got in a game of China's War, which was of course the coinbased game, the coin game from GMT set in China. Japan conflict 1930s uh right at the cusp of World War II starting. This was really fun. It was fantastic. I got a chance to play the Japanese faction. I made some fundamental mistakes with how they operate, but I really like this as a coin game. It just feels feels it's got all the elements of a good coin game. A lot of different challenging factions, different ways to play. And as usual, the first time I play a coin game like this, I end up leaving like, "Oh, okay. Now I think I understand how I might want to play my faction." I still don't have a good idea how the other factions are playing. I mean, I see what they're trying to do. But I feel like that's one of the fun things with coin games is they are inherently deep because you're learning the rules, how to play, which if you know other coin games is usually pretty straightforward. But understanding how to play your faction well is step one. And then understanding how the other factions are being played and how you might play those well and how you might stop those other factions is the other element of a game. And then you have a whole card deck that you're trying to figure out and grapple with as you're trying to learn the game as well with all the events that can sometimes be fairly de dramatic in a coin game. So that is one of the reasons why I like coin games. I think they're they're relatively straightforward in terms of knowing how to play. They're very deep, I think, in terms of learning how to play well and understanding what you're trying to do and how to make that happen in game format. So, as always, I really enjoy uh chi coin games. China's War was

5:27 no exception. I do really want to at some time spend like five, six, seven games on one particular coin game to really try to get to know it well. I don't feel like I'm there with any of most of the coin games I've played so far. I had a chance to play once or twice. So, uh it would be nice to be able to dig into one really to some great depth. Now, I mentioned that work has been fairly pressing, which has left some days a little bit light on the brain cell side by the time I get around to some opportunities to play games, especially during the weekdays. So, I've drifted a lot. I mentioned this in the game of the month last month, but drifted a lot to a combination of Zombide second edition on Board Game Arena and Dawn of the Dead, which is the physical version that I caught I bought and I've got it set up on one of my gaming tables here. I've played this probably the most of any game over the course of the month. I'm finding that uh crushing zombies, the rule set's not very complicated. So, crushing zombies has been uh quite a bit of fun. And I'm finding the tactical combat and the decision-making in the games uh extremely interesting. So, I'm liking that. I also move forward with the Senuicon career. I was going to do a three mission miniseries with that and I finished that. That was really good. I want to play more in that one. This one I'm cautiously optimistic. This might be my favorite one of these solitire submarine series. Um, I in particular I like it because it adds some different elements like submarines, suicide torpedoes, and then you have scout craft on the submarines and the way the historical events fold in. It feels like it's just got a lot of pieces that enhance the gameplay a little bit beyond

6:57 my previous favorite, which is the hunters. But I haven't really made up my mind yet. I want to play a little bit more of Senuicon before I make a final decision. But it's up there. It's one of my favorites in the submarine series. So, if you haven't checked it out yet and you like games like The Hunters and Silent Victory, uh you might want to check that one out. Couple of uh PC board game that I've spent quite a bit of time with in September was Mr. President, another GMT game. This is the the digital version that's on Steam of this game. Um I bought the original copy of the board game and then when I heard there were a number of there was going to be a second edition following up soon on it, I ended up selling off my first copy of Mr. president and then the digital version came out and I haven't really picked up the physical version yet. I really like the digital version. I It's one of those games where I think I would probably prefer the digital version because of the way it manages the game and you can set it up in 10 seconds. It looks like a it's a fairly sprawling board game that would take a while to set up and it would take time to manage the cascading effects in the game. Whereas in the PC game, the engine handles all of that for you and you can really concentrate. you can maximize your time on the game play. And like I mentioned, when things are really busy, being able to jump right into a game is a huge plus compared to a board game that might take a half an hour to set up. So, I've really been enjoying Mr.

8:12 President on Steam. That one's been a lot of fun. Also on Steam, I've been playing some Frontier Path of Shadows. That's interesting. I want to get deeper into it. I got a good chunk into it, the pre-release version, and then I ran into a couple of bugs pre-release version, which is to be expected. So, I wanted to actually start over knowing what I knew with that. I just haven't got a chance to do that. But I've been enjoying that one quite a bit too. Four other games that I want to mention about that. Normally I wouldn't talk about these as games I played, right? Because and and I'll explain why. Um so I'm going to talk about The Far Seas, Assault Red Horizon, Dawn of the Zeds, another zombies game that looks really good. And then Early Threatens Washington. Now, normally I wouldn't mention these games because instead of getting through like two or three games of each one of these games, I'm playing the solitire, basically learning how to play them, playing the solitire. Instead of getting through two or three games of each one of these, which is normally where I would mention it in games I played in the month, where I got past that initial learning game, I really only got into or through the learning game with these.

9:07 So, they're very much still works in progress that I normally wouldn't normally wouldn't talk about as something I played. But because this month was relatively sparse in terms of games played, uh, these are the four that again, I'm really excited about the Far Seas. I like the soliter mode with this very creative game about German cruisers at the outbreak of World War World War I. A lot of hidden ideas, deceptive strategies, uh, hunting down these German ships and you're outnumbered as the Germans with the British all around. It's it's a really cool concept and I'm looking forward to playing more on that one. I also did a look at the new version of Assault Red Horizon that's on the Game Fountain crowdfunding right now and that that I got through like halfway through a learning game to refresh myself with that one. I'm like, okay, I got to kind of make the video and stuff. So, I haven't been able to continue that yet, but I'm hoping to play more of that one.

9:52 That's a fun system. And playing with a new version is really, really fun. And then Dawn of the Zeds. I played quite a good bit as I was looking at that game, but I really got through like two or three. I didn't really dig into the strategy that much. I really liked what I saw and I really liked everything I was getting into, but I need to play it more. And so, given that zombies seem to be a theme bouncing around in my head, I think that may be one that I'll be digging into more in the month of October. But, um, I have been enjoying the gameplay that I've seen of that one. so far. And then lastly, the blind Lastly, the blind sword series early threatens Washington. This looks like a very modest I mean, it's a very manageable number of counters. It's got some unique rules, you know, for the whole river crossing and fords and bridges and stuff like that, but they're not overbearing. And so, I think this one actually might be a good introduction to the Blind Sword series as well. And it's such an interesting battle with the Confederate forces trying to get across the river to try to threaten Washington and the outnumbered Union forces trying to prevent that from happening. So, historically, it's just it's a really interesting story, and I'm really liking how they've built the game here. But again, I'm in the learning game, kind of playing it through it once, and now it's really time to kind of fire for effect and to play these more. Now, I've dabbled with some other games over the course of the month of September, but those are the ones that uh that kind of made it to this level, and I'm hoping, fingers crossed, I can get back to my normal level of board gaming in the month of October. As always in the monthly update, I'd like to take a moment to thank people who are supporting the channel in various ways, whether they are YouTube memberships or leaving comments on videos or liking videos or subscribing to the channel.

11:19 And also, of course, our our paid Patreon members. We have six new Patreon members this past month. TK Botnet, Christopher, Paul O'Conor, Chris Sakin or Sikin, I'm not quite sure how you would pronounce that one. And then Arthur Grant. Thank you much for Thank you very much for joining up and supporting the channel. And thank you as always to the Patreon members that have been there for a long time. We also have a Patreon Discord for paid Patreon members. I'm really enjoying my time there as well. So, thank you to everybody who does things uh large and small for the channel. It's greatly appreciated. And with that, let's slide right over now to new and in the house. This is where I take a look at games and other things that have arrived over the course of the past month. Be they things I've picked up on my own or review copies that have arrived as well. Let's start out with a couple from VUA Simulations. One that I am very much looking forward to, 30 Years of Misery.

12:05 This is a game from uh designed by Brian Asva simulations of course covering the 30 years wars from 1618 to 1648. Now Brian Asv just did uh completed Baltic Empires for GMT games and I just actually got back like about 20 minutes ago from playing Baltic Empires for a second time today. I really like that game. So I'm very interested to see how 30 Years of Miseries played too. He played also designed the Napoleon game for Vuka Simulations about a year or so ago too. and everything that I think he designs has a fresh interesting take and they're especially good at multiplayer, so four players or greater. So, I'm very much looking forward to 30 Years of Misery. I've picked up a number of games in a PC game too on the 30 Years War. So, it feels like someone's nudging me in a direction to learn about that battle. Sticking with Vuka Simulations, we also have Modern Tactics Afghanistan.

12:55 This is the British expansion for the Modern Tactics Afghanistan game from Vuka Simulations. And if you're not familiar with this, there's a little bit of a story behind it. So, the system design is by Shane Logan. This is an offshoot of Old School Tactical, which is published by Flying Pig Games, which is another one of these tactical games that tries to aim at that mid ground between playability and simulation, right? So, realism, simulation, playability, gameplay types of things, trying to hit that sweet spot right in the middle. Um, Old School Tactical is one of my favorite tactical systems. Modern Tactics is an awesome offshoot of that one, too. So, if you liked Modern Tactics, this gives you more scenarios and lets you incorporate the British forces into your gameplay. Also, now shipping and just arrived is Armed Conflict. This is the first game from Bohome Games. I call this one Tactics 2 on steroids. So, you have as many as six different uh symmetrical factions.

13:50 You've got a a fictional map that you're playing on. In the full version, now the prototype that I had earlier only had a map on one side. Now, we have two map faces. Um, the final production pieces look great. This is a really interesting product. And again, uh, first game from Bohome Games plays very It's It's got a lot of interesting gameplay in this one. I've got a couple of videos up. I'll put links to those uh, down below. But it's fun to see this one go from prototype all the way through its crowdfunding, get successfully backed, and now it's shipping to all the backers and should be available for purchase as well very shortly, if not already. Also in the house, this just arrived a couple of days ago. One that I am very much excited for because, you know, for some reason I like submarines in games and I like solitire games and this has a lot of submarines and it's a solitire game. Steel Wolves. This is the deluxe edition from Compass Games which includes the original expansion, the uh German fleet boats. This a bunch of people had posted a picture of this and a bunch of people are asking say, "Oh, can we take charge of a submarine? You know, is it a single submarine simulation?" This is not I I think every Yubot from this is from 1939 to 1943. So it doesn't encompass the last fatal two years of the Yubot campaign. It it kind of reaches their pinnacle and then that's where the game ends. But I believe every Yubot produced in the war is in the game. So it's more of a a a strategic operational level simulation of submarine warfare in the Atlantic Ocean than it is a tactical simulation of an individual submarine hunting ships. Although there are patrol actions and patrol uh engagements within this game, this is a magnificent

15:21 achievement to make something so big and so massive and still make it so playable. And it is also, of course, the brother or sister game, however you'd like to look at it, to uh Silent War, which is also has a new deluxe vision out version out from Compass Games about a year or so ago. So very much looking forward to exploring this one. It looks beautiful, magnificent production. Gameplay is fantastic, too. So, if you like solitire games and you like sub submarine games and you like games soliter games that are a larger scale than just tactical engagements, this might be one you want to check out. Steel Wolves. I'm very looking forward very much looking forward to it and I will be creating some content for this one too. Speaking of 30 Years War, I was thinking, what was the other game that I picked up about the 30 Years War? This one's it. Um, Quis Reio, this is from GMT Games. I missed the P500 on this one, but Noble Knight Games had it and I had some store credit. Thanks to the people who um have been using the links down below to buy stuff from Noble Light Games. So, thank you to everybody who did that. I used some tour credit to get this one. Uh this is a game. So, this is a little story. Uh I was watching Yustagard's channel. I'm not quite sure how you pronounce it. I'm I haven't actually heard it pronounced his YouTube channel where he was doing a playthrough of this. Someone said, "You should check it out. It looks interesting." I did and then the next thing I know this was in my cart in Noble Knight Games. So, it was a really good playthrough. Um it looks fascinating for a number of reasons. one, I'm really interested in how the game models combat without front lines. So, basically, you have large armies marching around the landscape and and it's a hexagon grid game, too. So, I'm very curious how the rules enforce that type of warfare because often I think that's one of the harder things to

16:51 simulate in wargaming. So, very much looking forward to checking out this one again. It's just arrived a couple of days ago as well. And uh because I needed free shipping and I like siege games. So, Decision Games: Siege of Constantinople came in the same shipment. So, putting the two of these together got me that free shipping thing that I was talking about earlier. Um, this is a remake of a much older game, uh, but it includes a naval combat, includes a lot of extra optional rules. They've really polished it up and of course brought the production up to modern standards. I really enjoy Siege warfare games, and I think this one with some modifications will end up playing pretty well at Solitaire. So, very much looking forward to checking out Siege of Constantinople. If people have it and you've tried it, I'd be curious to hear how you're enjoying it. And second to last, but not least, this is another one that just arrived a little while ago. I when I get really busy at work, sometimes I use stress relief with shopping. No, I can't be the only person that does that, right? Field Commander Robert E. Lee. This is a solitire game.

17:49 Uh, I hadn't really known very much about this one, but I was looking at some videos, some information on it, and it looks really interesting. This is from DVG Games. Um, you play you take over Confederate forces in World War and not World of War, the American Civil War and fight through a number of engagements with Robert E. Lee. It looks like fascinating gameplay with a very interesting solitire system. And most people said this one works better than Nimtt's Commander, which I had looked at originally, but it didn't it it didn't quite grab me the right way. Was a little bit I didn't think I I'm not sure I would have liked that one despite liking the theme of that one. But I'm very curious to check this one out to see how it plays. And lastly, some dice. I'll come back to these in a while, but some Chessix 12 meter meter dice. I'm gonna the one of our wargaming deep thoughts that's not really so deep is about dice in games. So, I'll be back for those. And that's it. Oh, nope.

18:35 Wait, wait, one more thing. So, I put up a video about Midway a little while ago, a couple weeks ago on the channel. This one actually just arrived, literally half an hour before I made this game. I made this video now. So, I put up a video about Midway, and then for whatever reason, YouTube has been pushing out the old Avalon Hill top 10 games video that I put up about a year or so ago. Um, and so a ton of people have been watching that in the past week and commenting on it, and so many people commented about two games that I never had the chance to play. One was uh Jutland, Utland, Yutland. How do I Why do I not know how to pronounce that? Anyway, you get the idea. So, that one I'm looking at, this is not this though. But the other game that keeps coming up in people's comments on that Avalon Hill video, top 10, Flattop now. Okay, so there's a I've been reluctant to get it. One, it's out of print and it's fairly expensive, right? So that's that's one thing. Uh the second thing is it looks like a game that takes a long time and you need more than one play. It doesn't work very well solitire and it works, I think, really well in groups of like four or so with each people taking a contingent of it.

19:41 So, I always thought, well, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get it to the table, right? Because 10, 12, 15 hour game or something like that with two, even with two players can be really hard for me to take up that much table space for that long a solitire. But the game system looks really, really interesting. And I'm very interested for a number of reasons in carrier combat in World War II from just a game design perspective. So, I thought, well, I don't want to spend that much money for it. But I found a really good deal on eBay for an unpunched copy. So, I picked up Flattop. And I think I'm I'm I don't know if I'll ever really be able to play this one as intended with more than one person on a table. But, I do think it would be really fun to set it up, get it going, and explore it solitaire just to see how the game mechanics work and see if there are some ways to make it work as a solitaire engagement. But so many people said this one in Yutland were their favorite games that so there we are again. I say when I get a little bit busy sometimes I get a little stressed out and sometimes it's probably not healthy, right? I probably shouldn't be sharing this but anyway that we ended up with flat top. So that one just arrived about a half an hour ago. So there is everything new and in the house for the month of September and a little bit dribbling over here into the early days of October and it's that time again for Wargaming Deep Thoughts. So, um, this one surprised me. I'm looking forward to our true topics here. These are more half topics, I think, than a full topic.

21:07 This one surprised me a lot. It came up from a con comment from someone on the Patreon Discord who asked, "Do you match the dice in your war games with the belligerance?" So, in other words, if you were rolling for Japanese forces, you would roll a red dice. Rolling for, you know, German World War II forces, you would roll a gray dice. You know, US Navy, maybe a blue dye or something like that. And I thought, well, I've actually started to a certain degree to do that using red dice in the Senuicon game that I did, but like who would do that, right? And then so a bunch of people in the Patreon discord said, "Yo, yeah, I I do that. I do that." I'm like, "Really? I didn't think I thought that was just me being somewhat crazy by switching to the red dice in Senuicon." So, uh, I put a poll up on the channel here recently and, uh, when playing boards, this is the result. Before, before I show it, guess what you think the results are.

22:01 Okay, so we had, uh, 714 people replied to this. Usually, there's about a thousand, so it's a little bit on the lighter side, but I guess it's only been up two weeks, so it usually takes about a month to get to a,000 responses. Um, but maybe 300 people just looked at it and said, "You people are crazy." Anyway, the question was, "When playing board war games, do you choose the dice color to match your belligerance?" The answer is either yes or no. Before I show the results, pause the video, take a look, guess what you think it is. If you haven't seen it already, here's our answers. 61% of you of us, I guess I should put me in it, too, because yeah, that's I just got a bunch of dice. Uh, said yes, that you actually changed the dice colors for the belligerents. Now, to be fair, some games come with those, right? Like you might get a game that has, you know, a Civil War game that has blue and gray dice, right? So, it's like, well, okay, that's pretty obvious what you're going to do in that one, but I had no idea that 60% three out of five war gamers match your dice with your uh the games themselves. Now, what I will do to that then that actually opened up I I put some people have been talking about on the discord and I I think on the on this poll too as well, you know, it spawns other things. People say, you know, they swap out the dice because they don't like the big dice that come with the game or cheaper dice, so they put in better dice and all these things and what kind of dice do you get? And then people started talking about role- playinging dice. And I've seen Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons role players that have dice galore. I mean, buckets of dice. It's like, wow, that's a lot of dice. Um, I don't know if I'll ever go that far. I don't think so. But I do really like the idea of switching

23:31 out the dice for the color of the belligerent. And to be fair, okay, when I'm playing a game, when I'm making a video of a game, there's a lot of stuff going in my head. Shots of the angle, the rules, talking while I'm playing, playing the game. And if you're playing a two-handed game and you're playing both sides, two-sided game, and you're playing both sides, it's sometimes easy with all that stuff going on in your head to kind of forget exactly where you were in the turn order. You have to kind of pause and say, "Wait a second. Okay, who was attacking?" Right? And so I actually swap out the dice or try to use different dice so that I can remember exactly without even thinking about it who was doing what. So that was one reason why I was doing it or starting to do it, but I had no idea that it was such a thing. So, I'm curious if you're watching this and hadn't been part of the poll, you know, why do you do that? What other dice things do you do? Do you swap out dice because they're unlucky? Do you bring a number of dice or do you just take the die that comes with the game? Because that is something I will do. If I have a bad roll, a run of rolls with dice, I will switch out for a good one. Or if one's been really bad for a while, sometimes somebody else is rolling it, sometimes I'll switch into that one, figuring that there's the good rolls are still in it. All of this stuff, by the way, makes absolute, it's empirically databased, proven uh dice rolling strategies, of course. Right. But anyway, so that one surprised me a lot.

24:52 I'm curious what people might think about that as you see that. Let's shift on now to our sec second topic, though, which was also a surprising one for me. I put these polls up, right? And I I think, well, I think what I know what the answer is going to be, and then people just constantly surprise me with the answers here. So, here was the question. um excluding digital versions like those on Vassel or Board Game Arena or Tabletop Simulator, etc. How many different board games or war games do you think you play each month? And there were four answers. One was one to two games each month, one was three to five games each month, one was six to 10 games each month, and one was I play more than 10 different games each month. Guess what you'd think the respondents were? What the responses were? So, one to two games, three to five games, 6 to 10, or more than 10 different games each month. This one surprised me, too. I thought it was going to be different than it was. Here are the answers.

25:48 70% of viewers say they play one to two different games each month. I I assumed in 24% play play three to five, only 4% play six to 10, only 2% play 10 or more in a month. And I I I guess I I I thought it would be much higher, but you know, to be fair, with war games, right, if you're going to play a war game, you will probably dig a lot deeper. You'll probably spend a lot more time on it. And you, you know, if you're busy with life, one to two war games, learning the war game, playing it, enjoying it, getting past your first learning game, getting into the game. I guess that makes it sense. I can e makes sense. I can easily see why it takes that long or people get through less games than I thought. And I think because I have the YouTube channel, I make a lot of videos about games. I'm constantly playing games. So mine, I think even the last month where I said I didn't play that many, you know, I think it's fair to say that I played six to 10 different games last month. Um, in most months I think I play more than 10 each month. So I always guess I was surprised, but I guess maybe because of what I'm doing, my experience is a little bit different.

26:51 But I'm curious, how many do you play each month? Down in the comments, how many do you play each month? And why do you play that number? Is that a number that's out of choice or out of you you just haven't got more time to be able to play more than that or you like to really focus on one or two games? Play them a number of times. Play them deeply. Or maybe I know there's a lot of people out there that just play one or two games. They don't have many. They don't want many. They have two games that they like and they just play those two games. And again, there's no right or wrong way to do this with with dice or with games or whatever. Please have fun, right? Don't feel like you have to do something because you're in a minority or anything like that or whatever. The rule is to have fun. That's really what we want to concentrate on. But I'm curious uh what are your your idiosyncrasies with dice and how many different games do you play each month? And if you want to expand on your answers, I'm curious to read them.

27:37 So there we have a couple of Wargaming Deep mini thoughts for this month. And with that, we've come to almost the end of our monthly update, but we have one very important thing left to do, which is to pick the winner of our $100 uh giveaway to Noble Knight Games. This will be in store credit to Noble Knight Games. We had a question uh as a form to fill out that had three questions about the upcoming War Games video about a month ago, three weeks ago that went up on the channel and we had a number of people that have entered into that. So, I'm going to pick a rent winner at random. Then we are going to check to make sure that this person has the correct answers and then we will see if they are the ultimate winner. Here we go. Good luck to everybody. We have Rich Spilkey. Let's check to see if Rich has all the answers correct. I'm happy to say that Rich went three for three and he is the winner of a $100 store credit to Noble Knight Games. Rich, I'll be reaching out to you at the email you provided in the form entry. Thank you to everybody who played. There will be another Noble Knight giveaway in the next edition of upcoming War Games. So, be sure to pay attention to that to see if you uh if you would like to enter into this next drawing. Thanks everybody for watching this edition of monthly update. If you enjoyed this video and want to see another video on the channel, I just created a retrospective video where I talked about why how Midway, the old game from Avalon Hill, got me started on board wargaming so long ago and why I'm still going today.

28:57 Thanks everybody for watching. Have a great day.