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0:00 Elden Rings exclusive things and a lot of things being rebuilt I'm Matthew this is what it played and welcome to the board game news perhaps it was only a matter of time but with bloodborne games Dark Souls board games available plethora of other video games being analogized steam forged have announced that Elder ring the board game will be coming to Kickstarter at some time in the near future according to icv2 Elder ring the board game will support up to four players who have all become tarnished and as such are required to make their way through the lands between which as in the video game is really just a bad place to be also it's weird it's a world of Decay and rot with a Grandeur that one stirred is just all around unpleasant you tarnished Gamers will encounter locations characters and of course enemies from the Elder ring video game fighting ground battles in a dice free combat system which I'll be honest did pique my interest and of course the game will be packed full of steam forged famous Miniatures if this board game adaptation of Elder ring can anywhere close to the global Powerhouse that Elder ring proved to be I think a lot of people are going to be going back to the lands between fighting for their life sometime soon I'm interested to know how much of the video games narrative is duplicated added two even expounded on but we will

1:30 know soon another thing we'll know soon is who the sponsor who made this video possible is this episode was made possible in part by a wave 9 of the World of Tanks Miniatures game from gale force 9. bring the online game of tactically tussling tanks to your tabletop with the World of Tanks Miniatures game and easy to learn quick to play game where players take command of a unit of Tanks seeking to destroy their opponents and secure Victory every set of models for World of Tanks comes fully assembled painted and battle-ready and wave 9 is no exception introducing four powerful new opponents the German jagatar is a one tank Army which sounds wonderfully efficient all this tank needs is a clear line of sight and a Target the British Archer is a unique way to bring a lot of Firepower to the table for a low cost the Soviet su-85 is a highly mobile tank destroyer great at sniping enemies from the back of the battlefield and the American M18 Hellcat is an aggressive tank destroyer that's up for any Challenge on the battlefield whether it's enemy tanks harsh terrain or challenging calculus problems waves one through eight are available now and pre-order wave 9 by following the link in this video's description thanks the latest iteration of pandemic has been announced by z-man games and following on from the World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King the next IP based game will be Star Wars the Clone Wars we

3:01 are told to prepare to Traverse the Galaxy where iconic Jedi Heroes utilize The Familiar gameplay mechanisms of the pandemic series but this time planets Under Siege populate the game board as players take on the role of Jedi traveling from Battle to battle teaming up and fighting off the separatist threat but battle droids attack on site in a planet invaded by too many or four under a blockade hindering Jedi for liberating it from the enemy or accomplishing their missions but not only that the players have to work together to confront the onslaught of droids by moving into their spaces and engaging them in combat using Dice and Squad cast to deal damage and push back the threat ever since playing the very long title of World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King which is based on IP that I have no particular fondness of or affinity for I am sold on these new versions of the game rather than Lich King is my favorite pandemic so you know maybe there's finally the Star Wars game for me and I'm very excited to try this version out and if they come out with the Stargate and or a Star Wars version of pandemic I'm gonna lose my mind Star Wars the Clone Wars will play one to five players and should be out this month dwarf romantic was the peaceful tile Lane video game that caught us board gamers off guard last year with this addictive gameplay and just calming an idyllic style it really looked and felt like a board game and I remember saying at the time that there was no way that this game wouldn't be picked up for

4:33 a board game version and I along with many others was right as Dorp romantic the board game is available at Essen from Pegasus Spiel Rippling Rivers rustling forests and wheat Fields swaying gently in the wind the video game from the small developer Studio interactive Woody is fantastic an indoor romantic the board game up to six players will work together to lay hexagonal tiles to create a beautiful landscape and try to fulfill the orders of the population while at the same time trying to lay as long a train and River as possible placements also take into account the flags that provide points in enclosed areas and the better the players manage to do this the more points they can earn and at the end of a replayable campaign interesting the points earned can be used to unlock new tiles that are hidden initially in locked boxes that pose new additional tasks for the players and make it possible to raise the high score higher Ticket to Ride Northern Lights has been announced a new Standalone game in The Ticket to Ride series for release in Scandinavia only what why I want this well they did say the same thing about Nordic countries which got a general release and I remember there being an uproar about a ticket about Poland which also got a general release because people including me I'm people wouldn't stop going on about it Northern Lights is designed for two to five players and introduces various End Game bonus cards of which four of the 11 are selected every game so there are

6:04 games where for example the longest route gives extra points but in other games you'll score points for using the least amount of trains the map depicts Finland Sweden Norway and Denmark along with some other neighboring countries and cities and includes some classic game features such as port cities and ferries I love Nordic countries it might be my favorite in the series so I'm hoping to see this get a wide release at some point in the future the one to five player rebuilding Seattle has been announced by wizkids or after the Great Fire of 1889 has burned down most of the downtown City you are the city players tasked with rebuilding it and as such we'll have to manage economic resources to improve neighborhoods erect new buildings iconic landmarks and of course address the needs of an ever-growing population to make Seattle better than ever Seattle peaked between the years of 1993 and 2004 but that was because Frasier was my favorite TV show as a child which I imagine explains like 70 of my personality each round in the game your population grows and you can either build a new building expand it into a new suburb activate an event or build a landmark before earning profit based on your neighborhood's Commerce there's a shared Market board where you'll be looking to find the polyomino shapes that both fit your grid and your strategy there are city-wide events and you can even enact laws to give yourself the advantage and I have to play this game it really has a lot of the buttons I like so I'm excited for its release currently scheduled for January catch-up games have announced

7:36 the one to six player after us for release in February where it's the year 2083 and humankind died out decades ago leaving behind mere vestiges of his time on Earth Nature has reclaimed the land and the Apes have quickly been evolving gathering in tribes and are beginning to master human items and as such as the leader of one of these tribes you need to guide it towards collective in intelligence after us is said to be a deck building and Resource Management Game featuring a combo system which sounds good to me I like combos starting only with tamarinds you'll combine your cars each turn to collect resources and gather victory points as well as attracting new Apes into your tribe from powerful gorillas resourceful orangutans versatile chimpanzees and wise mandrels I really wanted to highlight a series of games on Kickstarter at the moment called the peg Pastime board games of ancient Egypt because it looks so interesting to me new Venture games specialized in casual ball and card games and then they launched a series of successful Kickstarter campaigns to put together a collection of historic strategy games from all around the world called the peg pastimes of which there are now at least 40 in this series they make a lot of games and what I like is that they highlight and resurrect games from history as is the case with the latest paid pastimes Kickstarter which features sell it housing jackals Tab mihan and asev and honestly I really feel like the project and Company come

9:07 from a love and revenance for the history and story of the games that got us to where we are today so you can check out the kickstarter now as it enters the last couple of days yellow and Yangtze the sister game to the classic konitzia Masterpiece I said it Tigris and Euphrates is being reprinted and reborn as Huang coming from Phalanx games and is set to crowdfund next year in Huang players build civilizations through tile placement players are given five different leaders a governor Soldier farmer Trader and Artisans and the leaders are used to collect victory points are the same categories however your score at the end of the game is the number of points in your weakest category yellow and angsty is one of my favorite games of all time and this new edition will have both a standard and Deluxe pledge option as well as three expansions the first of which is the Royal Palace which adds new game elements as well as as the deluxe option which will come with five sets of leader Minis that will be anthropomorphic representations of animals from the Chinese zodiac the dragon goat rabbit rat and tiger to replace the leader tiles to the standard version of the game and that's the news but for all the games releasing right now at Essen continue on to find chassis Mega list of over 40 games he's excited about and I'll see you over there hmm