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A Fake Artist Goes to New York, Master Dater, Dastardly Dirigibles, Orléans: Invasion · Pick Up and Deliver

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to pick up and deliver the podcast where I
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  Speaker 1: pick up my audio recorders, I step off the train
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  Speaker 1: and deliver an episode do you while I walk home.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Brendan Riley. Well, good afternoon, listeners. It's a lovely
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  Speaker 1: day here in suburban Chicago. I'm strolling home from the
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  Speaker 1: train in the October sunny weather. It's a little warmer
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  Speaker 1: than I would expect for late October, but very pleasant.
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  Speaker 1: So today I thought I would talk to you about
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  Speaker 1: three games that I've tried recently and let you know
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  Speaker 1: what I thought of them.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, it's time for a board Game Espresso Triple
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  Speaker 2: Shot coffee up.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you knew to the podcast, the Board
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  Speaker 1: Game Espresso Triple Shot is a light review segment which
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  Speaker 1: I comment for on my first impressions of three games.
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  Speaker 2: I've tried recently.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time, I will also add in one
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  Speaker 1: other commentary on one other game. Like, for example, today
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about an expansion that I played recently.
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  Speaker 1: All let's get into it. So the first game I
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  Speaker 1: got to try is called A Fake Artist Goes to
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  Speaker 1: New York. This is by Juhn Sasaki and published by
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  Speaker 1: oinc Games. A Fake Artist Goes to New York made
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  Speaker 1: a big splash when it was published in twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 1: I remember hearing about it a lot in those first
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  Speaker 1: couple of years after it came out. It's been a
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  Speaker 1: perennial favorite from Oink Games, and it's a really clever
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  Speaker 1: mechanism built around a solid model, which is finding the
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  Speaker 1: one person who's deceptive. There are a number of different
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  Speaker 1: games that involve people being deceptive in one way or another.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite model of this game is Chameleon from Big
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  Speaker 1: Potato Games. I don't remember who the designer is on
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  Speaker 1: that one, but in Chameleon, you have a grid of
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  Speaker 1: words on the table, and everybody around the table knows
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  Speaker 1: which word is the secret word, but one person doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know the secret word, and their goal is to hide
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You also have this in Spyfall.
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  Speaker 1: You have a bunch of locations and people ask each
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  Speaker 1: other questions, and one person doesn't know.
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  Speaker 2: Which location they're at or what they're doing there.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly the thing, but Fake Artist Goes
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  Speaker 1: to New York might be the most pure version of this.
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  Speaker 1: In this game, a person whoever is in charge one
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  Speaker 1: person is like the leader.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to.
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  Speaker 1: Write a word on each of several different little whiteboard
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  Speaker 1: sheets and hand those out to the players. One of
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  Speaker 1: the players will get a whiteboard sheet which, instead of
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  Speaker 1: having the code word on it, just has an ex
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  Speaker 1: written on there, and then everybody gets a different colored pen.
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  Speaker 1: So the idea is you can always tell who drew
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  Speaker 1: what based on the color pen that they have. And
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  Speaker 1: then you get a tiny little pad of paper that
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  Speaker 1: you pass around. So, starting with the person to the
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  Speaker 1: left of the judge, each person is going to make
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  Speaker 1: a little line or a set of lines to contribute
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  Speaker 1: to the drawing of whatever it is that everyone's drawing.
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  Speaker 1: So it might be a giraffe, it could be a pizza,
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  Speaker 1: it could be I don't know whatever. The person who's
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  Speaker 1: in charge wrote the thing on the blow wayboard, and
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  Speaker 1: after the picture has gone around twice, everybody can look
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  Speaker 1: at the little lines and say who they think didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what was being drawn. Then the group votes if
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  Speaker 1: they find the person who didn't know, that person can
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  Speaker 1: steal the win by identifying the thing that they were drawing.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the fake artist goes to New York. I've explained
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  Speaker 1: the whole game to you. You could play it with you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a copy of blank slate and a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of different colored whiteboard markers, you could play it
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  Speaker 1: that way or any other number of drawing games.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying you should do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice to support the artists and designer, but that's
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  Speaker 1: the idea of Fake Artist goes to New York. The
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  Speaker 1: game might heart about often and finally got to play
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  Speaker 1: and it was worth it. I thought it was really fun.
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  Speaker 1: The components, as usual with only games, tiny but nice
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  Speaker 1: and they work just fine. So recommended if you get
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  Speaker 1: a chance. Excellent little party game. Fake Artist goes to
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  Speaker 1: New York.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: The next game I played is called Master Daver. This
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  Speaker 1: is from the Side nine and Happiness Crew and it
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  Speaker 1: is a straight up party game. It uses a judging
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  Speaker 1: model in which one player is the judge and everyone
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  Speaker 1: else is submitting to their whims and the judge awards points.
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  Speaker 2: The premise of the game is the player who's.
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  Speaker 1: The judge is a sexy single and they have a
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  Speaker 1: couple different criteria that they're looking for, and then the
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  Speaker 1: other players submit messed up characters with different heads and
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  Speaker 1: bodies and other traits that they then argue meet the criteria.
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  Speaker 2: It's a sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Halfway between straight up judge game like Apples to Apples
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  Speaker 1: and a pitch game like Snake Oil, kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of in between and frankly in line with.
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  Speaker 1: The kind of games that Cyanide and Happiness tends to make.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have.
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  Speaker 1: A whole lot more to say about this. If you
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  Speaker 1: think it sounds fun, yeah, it's probably fun. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it was cute, it was kind of silly. Probably not
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  Speaker 1: a game I would buy, although I think if I
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  Speaker 1: found it a good will I probably would get it
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  Speaker 1: because it's amusing. Maybe the kind of game it's fun
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  Speaker 1: to play every now and again, as it's silly and
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  Speaker 1: very light, easy to introduce to other people, and it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be fun pretty much every time until you're
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  Speaker 1: really familiar with the cards.
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  Speaker 2: So not a whole lot more to say.
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  Speaker 1: It fits the genre pretty solidly, and if you like
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  Speaker 1: that sort of game, I bet you'll like it. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't like this sort of game, this game is
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  Speaker 1: not going to change your mind. That's Master Dater came
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  Speaker 1: out in twenty twenty two. The designer is Jason Anarchy
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  Speaker 1: and from the Joking Hazard company, which is an arm
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  Speaker 1: of cyanide and happiness. All Right, that was quick, but
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  Speaker 1: not surprising. Next, I always like to talk about a
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  Speaker 1: game I've dusted off, or in this case, a game
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  Speaker 1: that I played an expansion for for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd like to talk about Orleon's Invasion. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe that I I've talked about this yeh on a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: If I had my apologies, you can see whether I'm
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  Speaker 1: a hypocrite. Go back and compare this mini review with
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  Speaker 1: that mini review and see if I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Consistent in what I have to say.
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  Speaker 1: So I've mentioned a number of times if you've listened
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  Speaker 1: to the podcast. Orleans is one of my favorite games.
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  Speaker 1: This is a Reiner Stockhausen game in which you are
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  Speaker 1: a medieval merchant trying to build up your influence by
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  Speaker 1: hiring valuable people for the Orleans area, completing beneficial deeds
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  Speaker 1: which help the community and gain you stature, as well
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  Speaker 1: as gaining points through a variety of other means. Orleans
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  Speaker 1: is an excellent game, with a good rhythm, interesting choices throughout,
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  Speaker 1: complex of different things you might pursue, and so on.
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  Speaker 1: I really like the game, and it's a game I
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  Speaker 1: would happily play over and over again, so much so
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  Speaker 1: that I have bought the expansions for the game.
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  Speaker 2: In their many varied forms.
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  Speaker 1: So I have a number of different expansions for Orleans
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  Speaker 1: that do a number of different things. I haven't played
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  Speaker 1: very many of these, though, because I don't break the
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  Speaker 1: game out.
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  Speaker 2: Enough to have a regular group of people who.
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  Speaker 1: Know the game well enough to play it in its
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  Speaker 1: advanced form. That said, I did have a friend over
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  Speaker 1: who had played it before, and so we decided to
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  Speaker 1: try the Orleans Invasion co op module. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: aren't familiar with the Orleans expansions, there are three expansion sets.
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  Speaker 1: There's Trade and Intrigue, There's Invasion, and then there's the Plague.
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  Speaker 1: They did also release a Orleans set called the Fifth
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  Speaker 1: Player Expansion, which adds enough tokens to be able to
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  Speaker 1: play five players in the game. If you buy the
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  Speaker 1: Orleans right now from Capstone, it has the fifth Player
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  Speaker 1: in it already, So the only reason you would need
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  Speaker 1: the Fifth Player Expansion is if you're somebody like me
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  Speaker 1: who had the original Tasty Minstrel edition. I did recently
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  Speaker 1: complete my collection of Orleons I have I found someone
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  Speaker 1: who had the Trade and Intrigue expansion and the fifth
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  Speaker 1: player expansion, and we didn't have a copy of Orleans
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  Speaker 1: for toggle. So in agreement with Rob who helps her
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  Speaker 1: on toggle, I spent forty dollars buying the copy of
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  Speaker 1: Orleans for Toggle and thirty dollars buying the expansions for myself,
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  Speaker 1: and there we go. That's the path by which I
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  Speaker 1: have Orleans. I bought the Invasion or the Invasion expansion
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  Speaker 1: some time ago when it was on sale after Tasty
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  Speaker 1: Menstro Games went on a business and before Capstone picked
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  Speaker 1: up the game, and I bought the Plague expansion at
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  Speaker 1: the Capstone booth at gen Con this year. So today
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  Speaker 1: I was trying the Invasion expansion, which, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: makes Orleans into a co op game.
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  Speaker 2: So the way that works.
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  Speaker 1: Is that normally in Orleans, you are not playing cooperatively.
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  Speaker 1: With this expansion, you play cooperatively by trying. You still
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  Speaker 1: are trying to accomplish a number of things, but now
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  Speaker 1: instead of trying to gain points to win the game,
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  Speaker 1: because you're working cooperatively, instead you're trying to get another
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  Speaker 1: resources and efficiencies to be able to accomplish a number
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  Speaker 1: of goals. There are like five different win mechanisms, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to accomplish like three of them in order
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  Speaker 1: to win. So as a group, you kind of conspire
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  Speaker 1: to do these different things.
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  Speaker 2: I don't recall exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It might be that you have to complete all five exactly,
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  Speaker 1: or it might not be three. I might not have
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  Speaker 1: the details correct in terms of the specifics of how
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  Speaker 1: you work together. But the main thing is you kind
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  Speaker 1: of have to balance between gaining efficiency by developing your
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  Speaker 1: own bag building engine and winning the game by expending
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  Speaker 1: some of your resources to accomplish the different goals set
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  Speaker 1: out in the cooperative game menu. The Invasion expansion was
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  Speaker 1: reasonably difficult, but not outrageously so. My player and I,
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  Speaker 1: the two of us who played together, I think did
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  Speaker 1: a good job in developing the strategies and talking it
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  Speaker 1: out with one another that we were able to complete
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  Speaker 1: the required choices either the last turn of the game
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  Speaker 1: or the second to last turn of the game. But
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't clear until we got to like turn I
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  Speaker 1: think there's twenty turns in the game, and we got
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  Speaker 1: to like turn seventeen or eighteen before.
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  Speaker 2: We were sure we'd be able to make it.
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  Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, because you're drawing tokens out of
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  Speaker 1: your bag. If you need to accomplish specific goals, then
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  Speaker 1: you have the bad luck to not draw the tiles
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  Speaker 1: that you need to complete those goals. Then you can
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  Speaker 1: just get absolutely screwed. So it's really something you have
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  Speaker 1: to work on mitigating the luck factor in some way
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  Speaker 1: so that I've been talking with the other people playing
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  Speaker 1: so that you can work together to accomplish your goals
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  Speaker 1: before the end. Just overall, it was a really good design.
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  Speaker 1: I really liked that expansion. Like I said, there's a
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  Speaker 1: bunch more that I haven't tried yet, So I've got
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  Speaker 1: lots of Orleons content.
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  Speaker 2: To explore and I'm looking forward to doing so.
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  Speaker 1: The Arleon's Invasion expansion is credit to de Rhiner Stockhouse,
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  Speaker 1: but also Inca and Marcus Brand, to designers with whom
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  Speaker 1: I or whose.
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  Speaker 2: Work I generally do enjoy quite a bit. So Orleon's Invasion.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, we have a amusing set collection game called Dastardly Dirigibles.
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  Speaker 1: Dastanly Diriduals was released in twenty sixteen and designed by
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  Speaker 1: Justin DeWitt.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: Dastard lyad Dirigibles is a game where you are drafting
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  Speaker 1: cards and adding them to your tableau in order to
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  Speaker 1: build an airship and gain points for the cards that
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  Speaker 1: you've selected. There's an element of rummy to it, where
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  Speaker 1: you're drawing cards and choosing to play cards, and you
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  Speaker 1: always have to be discarding them, as I recall, and
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  Speaker 1: there's a fair amount of take that where you're stealing
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  Speaker 1: things off other people's tableaus or discarding things that they
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  Speaker 1: need to get the most points. The way the game
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  Speaker 1: is set up, there are sort of suits of cards.
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  Speaker 1: There's several different cards with different designs of airships on them,
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  Speaker 1: and while you can build an airship up using designs
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  Speaker 1: from multiple different sets, you're going to get the fewest points.
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  Speaker 1: That way the game is really designed for you. Or
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  Speaker 1: you get the most points by having as consistent a
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  Speaker 1: set as possible. So I think the way, if I recall,
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  Speaker 1: the way it works is whichever set you have the
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  Speaker 1: most of, you get the set bonus for that group.
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  Speaker 1: So you want to have as many as possible of
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  Speaker 1: one set. This is a relatively easy game to play.
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  Speaker 1: It's not too complicated, and it's not too long. I
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  Speaker 1: think the full game was twenty minutes or half an hour. Well,
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  Speaker 1: within a nice filler kind of thing. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: it was a little bit of take that, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not such a strong game that the take that really
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  Speaker 1: matters that much, and the game is short enough that
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  Speaker 1: nobody really minds. All in all, it's fine. Probably not
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  Speaker 1: a game I'm going to play a ton, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's gone on the trade pile yet. So
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  Speaker 1: that's where we are with dastard Leader Rigials. That's also
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  Speaker 1: where we are with this episode of board Game Espresso.
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  Speaker 1: If you have things to share about what games you've
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  Speaker 1: been playing lately, I'd love to hear them. You can
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  Speaker 1: post them in the Board game Gig forum, board game
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  Speaker 1: or you can send me a message on board game
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  Speaker 1: Geek Wombat nine two nine is my user name there,
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  Speaker 1: or I would love to hear from you in any
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  Speaker 1: other method that you choose to reach out. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: joining me on my walk today. I hope your next
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  Speaker 1: walk this is pleasant as mine was.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Bye.
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