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Body of Evidence, The Palaces of Carrara, Warp’s Edge, Heroscape (revisited) · Pick Up and Deliver

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Speaker 1: Welcome to pick up and deliver it the podcast where
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Speaker 1: I pick up my audio recorder as I leave the
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Speaker 1: library and deliver an episode to you while I walk home.
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Speaker 1: I'm Brendan Riley. Well, good morning, listens. It's a lovely
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Speaker 1: day here in suburban Chicago. I'm recording on the same
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Speaker 1: Friday in which I recorded the last episode, just walking
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Speaker 1: home from the library instead of walking to the library.
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Speaker 1: That's great, So I thought today I would talk a
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Speaker 1: little bit about some games I had played recently. That's right,
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Speaker 1: it's a board game Espresso triple Shot. I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: if this is the next episode that I will post
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Speaker 1: or if there's going to be one more episode in between.
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Speaker 1: We'll see, but here we are for those of you
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Speaker 1: do the podcast. Board Game Espresso is a triple to
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Speaker 1: the boord Game Espresso Triple Shot is a coffee pun
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Speaker 1: built around the idea that I'm going to talk about
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Speaker 1: three games really quick, fired up or get you all
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Speaker 1: energized or something. The idea is these are games that
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Speaker 1: I've played once, maybe twice, and so it's a first
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Speaker 1: impression discussion. It's not a longer review. If you want
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Speaker 1: to hear some of my longer takes on games. You
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Speaker 1: can go to the website at rattoboxgames dot com and
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Speaker 1: look for episodes tagged Message from the Deep. Those are
1:22
Speaker 1: deep dive reviews where I talk about one game for
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Speaker 1: the full usually fifteen minutes, or sometimes it's two games
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Speaker 1: for the whole episode. In this case, I'm doing three
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Speaker 1: first impression reviews. So again, these are not games that
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Speaker 1: I've played a bunch of times. These are games I've
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Speaker 1: played once and I usually pick one more game that
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Speaker 1: I've sort of revisited to talk about. So to start off,
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about Body of Evidence colon Best
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Speaker 1: Served Cold. This was made in twenty twenty three and
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Speaker 1: it was published by the Mysterious Package Company. Now, this
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Speaker 1: is a mystery game where you're solving a mystery that
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Speaker 1: is sort of story based. Then you're looking at evidence,
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Speaker 1: in this case body of Evidence. The way it's phrased
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Speaker 1: body of Evidence co in Best Serve Cold. I believe
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Speaker 1: it's meant to be a series of games in which
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Speaker 1: you do this. As far as I know, this is
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Speaker 1: the only one they made. But then a Mysterious Package
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Speaker 1: Company is one of those games where you get something
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Speaker 1: in the mail instead of buying it a store, so
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Speaker 1: it is a different avenue of delivery. I got it
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Speaker 1: because a friend had it and they finished it and
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Speaker 1: turned it over to me. I'm happy to turn it
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Speaker 1: over to somebody else if they are interested. The premise
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Speaker 1: of Body of Evidence is that you are an investigator,
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Speaker 1: but you're like a crime scene investigator, so you get
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Speaker 1: all of the evidence, but you don't have any access
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Speaker 1: to witnesses. You do, however, have access to the corpse.
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Speaker 1: So the idea is that the game is played. I
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Speaker 1: think there are four stages, and in each stage you're
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Speaker 1: examining different pieces of evidence which come in these envelopes,
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Speaker 1: and then you're also looking at a different part of
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Speaker 1: the corpse, which is a sort of fold out pop
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Speaker 1: up book kind of. The unique thing about it is
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Speaker 1: that as you look at the corpse, you actually have
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Speaker 1: to cut into it like you're a surgeon or a coroner,
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Speaker 1: in order to see what's inside the different corpse pieces.
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Speaker 1: So if you're examining the head wound, you have to
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Speaker 1: actually cut out the headwound, and there's a layer that's
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Speaker 1: the skull, and you have to cut out the skull.
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Speaker 1: That's an example. I don't remember I should do that particularly,
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Speaker 1: but that's the sort of thing you have to do.
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Speaker 1: And then the game has a number of sort of
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Speaker 1: relatively simple puzzles that you solve once you've found the
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Speaker 1: evidence inside the body. So there's an element of playing
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Speaker 1: surgeon and then an element of puzzle solving, not unlike
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Speaker 1: something from Unlock or Exit, but on the simpler end
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Speaker 1: in terms of those puzzles. Now, in terms of the mystery,
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Speaker 1: this game was not hard at all. This mystery was
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Speaker 1: not hard in terms of enjoyment. It was pretty fun
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Speaker 1: because it is a really interesting way to interact with
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Speaker 1: the game. This sort of faux corpse autopsy business was
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Speaker 1: pretty interesting. So from enjoyment of perspective, pretty high. From
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Speaker 1: a mystery perspective, pretty simple. The other presentation of the
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Speaker 1: game is really good, very high quality box, nice layout,
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Speaker 1: really solid bits of evidence. You know, the different witness
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Speaker 1: reports all look like different witness reports, they all have
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Speaker 1: a little photographed clip to them they have. It's really
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Speaker 1: designed to feel like you've gotten access to a police file,
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Speaker 1: not just you're playing a game, and those elements worked
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Speaker 1: really well. There's a lot of stuff to read. This
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Speaker 1: is definitely a game of reading. Often the way we
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Speaker 1: would play each stage as we'd get out all the stuff,
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Speaker 1: and then we would just take where it was a
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Speaker 1: group of three of us playing, we would take twenty
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Speaker 1: or thirty minutes and just pass all of their reading
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Speaker 1: material around so everybody got a chance to read it.
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Speaker 1: It seemed like that was easier than reading it out loud.
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Speaker 1: And then we all discussed what we had found and
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Speaker 1: what some more ideas were, and then you would do
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Speaker 1: the autopsy portion, and generally the stuff you had found
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Speaker 1: in the reading material would help you understand the autopsy.
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Speaker 1: I was looking for authorship data to share here and
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Speaker 1: I couldn't find any, So the like I said, the
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Speaker 1: game was published in twenty twenty three by the Mysterious
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Speaker 1: Package Company. That's the entirety of the authoring language on
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Speaker 1: board game geek. So that's Body of Evidence Cold and
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Speaker 1: Best Serf Cold. It's called Best Serf Cold because the
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Speaker 1: murder case that you're trying to solve is a chef
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Speaker 1: who was killed in the walk in freezer at his restaurant.
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Speaker 1: There you go, or The second game I want to
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Speaker 1: talk about today is from twenty twelve. This is a
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Speaker 1: Keisling and creamer game called Palaces of Carrara. This was
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Speaker 1: on my shelf of opportunity and actually has been in
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Speaker 1: my top of the stack in previous months, but I
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Speaker 1: did not have it in the top attack this month.
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Speaker 1: It seems like bad planning on my part, but anyway,
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Speaker 1: I had an opportunity to get it played and I
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Speaker 1: did so. The art was by friends of voe Winkle,
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Speaker 1: and actually the copy we played is a German copy
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Speaker 1: of the game. It had a print out of the
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Speaker 1: English rules, and then I had the score. I had
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Speaker 1: put stickers on that said what the different points were.
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Speaker 1: We did not play with the advanced scoring, which would
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Speaker 1: have used these cards, and the cards don't have any
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Speaker 1: pays steps on them, so if I wanted to do that,
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Speaker 1: it would take a little bit more effort to get
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Speaker 1: those translated. Nonetheless, it was fully functional and relatively easy
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Speaker 1: to play. So let's get into it. So Palace is
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Speaker 1: a karara. You are building different town bits. There are
6:23
Speaker 1: squares with buildings on them, not unlike something like Alhambra,
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Speaker 1: but without the walls. And what you're doing is you're
6:30
Speaker 1: building those buildings in one of five cities. Each city
6:35
Speaker 1: scores a different way, but takes a different kind of
6:38
Speaker 1: thing to build there. So, for example, if you want
6:41
Speaker 1: to build in in the most expensive city, you can
6:43
Speaker 1: only build their using white bricks. If you want to
6:46
Speaker 1: build in the least expensive city, you can use white, yellow, red, blue,
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Speaker 1: or green or black bricks. There's six different colors. The
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Speaker 1: way you acquire on your turn, there's basically three actions.
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Speaker 1: One of your turns is to acquire bricks. Now, this
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Speaker 1: is maybe the most interesting gimmick of the game. There
7:02
Speaker 1: is a wheel on the board divided into six segments,
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Speaker 1: and in each segment the prices go down for the
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Speaker 1: different types of bricks. So in the first segment, white
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Speaker 1: bricks cost six money. In the sixth segment, white bricks
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Speaker 1: costs one money. Everything else is free, and they sort
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Speaker 1: of go down from there. So like yellow costs two
7:22
Speaker 1: costs one brick in the fifth segment and zero in
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Speaker 1: the sixth and so on. So as the grid turns,
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Speaker 1: the prices for the bricks go down. When you choose
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Speaker 1: to buy a brick, you turn the grid add more
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Speaker 1: bricks depending on how many are needed to get up
7:38
Speaker 1: to eleven total on the board, and then you can
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Speaker 1: buy from one of the avenues as many bricks as
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Speaker 1: you want, or one of the sections as many brix
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Speaker 1: as you want. So this is really interesting tension balancing
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Speaker 1: act almost i'll push your luck thing. Where do you
7:51
Speaker 1: buy bricks now at a more expensive price or do
7:54
Speaker 1: you wait and hope that on your next turn there's
7:55
Speaker 1: more bricks at a cheaper price. And when you buy
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Speaker 1: those bricks they go into a hidden area. Money is
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Speaker 1: also hidden, as are your scoring tokens. And then when
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Speaker 1: you go to buy buildings, you can buy them using
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Speaker 1: whichever bricks you want, but the bricks you buy them
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Speaker 1: with determine where you can build the building. So if
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Speaker 1: there's a building that let's say, let's cost three bricks.
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Speaker 1: Let's say there's a building that costs three bricks, if
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Speaker 1: you pay with one white brick and two yellow bricks,
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Speaker 1: you can build it in either in the second city
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Speaker 1: or any later. But the higher the cities are, the
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Speaker 1: more valuable the building will be. So there's an interesting
8:33
Speaker 1: element where the wider variety of bricks you build, the
8:36
Speaker 1: lower value the city is. That's part of what you're
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Speaker 1: doing you buying bricks building these elements. The elements come
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Speaker 1: out and there's different kinds of buildings and they have
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Speaker 1: diferent scoring. There's a whole thing, but the really interesting part.
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Speaker 1: So there's two interesting gimmicks. One is this wheel where
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Speaker 1: the bricks are always getting cheaper for other people. The
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Speaker 1: second element is the scoring that you get to choose
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Speaker 1: when it happens. The way the scoring works, each player
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Speaker 1: gets six scoring markers, and on their turn, instead of
9:02
Speaker 1: buying bricks or building building, you can use a scoring marker.
9:05
Speaker 1: When you use a scoring marker, you can either put
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Speaker 1: it in a city if you've built enough buildings in
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Speaker 1: that city, or you can put it on a building
9:13
Speaker 1: type on your playerboard. If you put it in a city,
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Speaker 1: then you score all the buildings that you have in
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Speaker 1: that city, and then no one else can use that
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Speaker 1: city to score. If you put it on your player board,
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Speaker 1: then you score all buildings of that type on your playerboard.
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Speaker 1: So the game has this mixed motivation to build buildings
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Speaker 1: of the same type so you'll be able to score
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Speaker 1: when you score on your playerboard, but also put buildings
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Speaker 1: in the same city so that you can snag a
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Speaker 1: city and build there. The thing is, if other people
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Speaker 1: have built in that city and snag it first, then
9:42
Speaker 1: you don't get to score there except by scoring your
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Speaker 1: buildings It's a really interesting balancing act to figure out
9:48
Speaker 1: how you're gonna get your points, because if you don't
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Speaker 1: score very much, if you wait until the end of
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Speaker 1: the game, you only get to score once per turn.
9:54
Speaker 1: If someone else triggers the end of the game, you
9:55
Speaker 1: might get one more turn or none. So you got
9:57
Speaker 1: to really think about it carefully. Ends when somebody has
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Speaker 1: when the game ends when either every building has been built,
10:05
Speaker 1: or if every player, if one player has scored at
10:09
Speaker 1: least four times, has built at least twenty points worth
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Speaker 1: of buildings and has at least six of these like
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Speaker 1: scoring objects they're called. If somebody has all three of
10:19
Speaker 1: those completed, they can declare the end of the game.
10:22
Speaker 1: Then we finished the round and the game is over
10:24
Speaker 1: any score points. I know, I'll explained like the whole game,
10:27
Speaker 1: but that was the whole game, and it was really good.
10:30
Speaker 1: It's definitely in the category of sort of musty, dusty
10:33
Speaker 1: old euro game. From a design perspective, it looks like
10:37
Speaker 1: a euro game from twenty twelve. It has you know,
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Speaker 1: it takes place in Europe, and it's about building buildings
10:44
Speaker 1: and managing your resources. It feels very stayed in its theme,
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Speaker 1: almost theamless but that set it's really good and or
10:54
Speaker 1: it's very good. I don't know if I want really
10:55
Speaker 1: it's very more than really it's good. I really enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: Definitely get to keep it, looking forward to playing it again.
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Speaker 1: It's in the same category of something like Patrician, which
11:04
Speaker 1: I talked about recently as a game we revisited as
11:07
Speaker 1: a game that has a lot going on and is
11:10
Speaker 1: worth your time and interest, but maybe as a game
11:15
Speaker 1: that has a lot going on and it is worth
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Speaker 1: your time and interest. Yeah. So that's Palace's Karara by
11:20
Speaker 1: Kramer and Keesling. I know that they just came out
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Speaker 1: with a new version of it. So if it sounds
11:24
Speaker 1: like something you're interested in, there's a version from twenty
11:26
Speaker 1: twenty two that looks updated. Actually was going to look
11:28
Speaker 1: at the rules online and see if I can retrofit
11:30
Speaker 1: my version to fit the new rules, because generally, if
11:33
Speaker 1: they've revised the game, it's probably better. That is Palace's
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Speaker 1: of Carrara from twenty twelve. Next up, we have a
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Speaker 1: game that I last played eight years ago and change
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Speaker 1: in my memory. I didn't play it, but then as
11:45
Speaker 1: I think about it, maybe we did. It was a
11:47
Speaker 1: game of hero Escape and a friend brought over, actually
11:51
Speaker 1: Rob Hey. Rob brought over a whole bunch of hero Escape.
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Speaker 1: But then we couldn't find the cards that allowed you
11:58
Speaker 1: to play with the characters, except I think we found
12:01
Speaker 1: a couple, and so I did record it as a play,
12:04
Speaker 1: or maybe I didn't play, Honestly, I don't remember. We
12:06
Speaker 1: did set it up. I do remember the general idea
12:09
Speaker 1: of it, and then last week we got to bust
12:11
Speaker 1: it out again. We played from the Heroescape Master set
12:16
Speaker 1: Rise of the Valkyrie from two thousand and four, designed
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Speaker 1: by Stephen Baker, Rob Davio and Craig van Ness, with
12:22
Speaker 1: art from the same Rob Davio of course gone on
12:25
Speaker 1: to fame and fortune as a designer at Hasbro and
12:30
Speaker 1: Avalon Hill, whose names he's widely credited with inventing the
12:35
Speaker 1: legacy genre. He created Risk Legacy and working with Matt Leacock,
12:40
Speaker 1: created the Pandemic Legacy series, and his name has been
12:43
Speaker 1: on a bunch of other sets like that. He's also
12:46
Speaker 1: one of the founders of Restoration Games, where they made
12:49
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of games, including one of their most
12:52
Speaker 1: popular or successful is the Unmatched series, which stems from
12:57
Speaker 1: Rob's design of Star Wars epic duels, which seem like
13:03
Speaker 1: they may have had a little bit of a foundation
13:05
Speaker 1: in hero Escape. It feels like you can see some
13:07
Speaker 1: of hero Escape in Unmatched, and they're very different games,
13:12
Speaker 1: but they do have this one conceived in common, which
13:15
Speaker 1: is cool figures from throughout different places fighting against one another.
13:23
Speaker 1: Hero Escape is a classic game in which you have
13:26
Speaker 1: a set of soldiers that fit a They have a
13:32
Speaker 1: point allocation sort of like a miniature's war game, and
13:36
Speaker 1: they have basic stats, movement, fighting, defense, and then they
13:41
Speaker 1: have usually some special powers. And the idea is that
13:44
Speaker 1: each player takes a certain number of points worth of
13:48
Speaker 1: characters and you pit them against one another. In this case,
13:53
Speaker 1: it's it was three of us, each taking a different
13:58
Speaker 1: set of to fighty soldiers. There were snake men, there
14:03
Speaker 1: were armored robots, there were I had like paratrooper military dudes.
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Speaker 1: All sorts of interesting elements that mixed together make for
14:16
Speaker 1: a really interesting battlefield. Hero Escape was also famous for
14:19
Speaker 1: coming with a whole bunch of plastic terrain that you
14:22
Speaker 1: would set out that creates different levels. It's all Hec's based,
14:27
Speaker 1: so you could make these little like hills and mountains
14:29
Speaker 1: and stuff, and that provided different kinds of advantages for
14:32
Speaker 1: different characters. And then it's a miniature's battle game that's
14:35
Speaker 1: relatively simple. You're moving in range, you're a rolling dice
14:38
Speaker 1: to shoot, rolling dice to defend. There's a lot of
14:40
Speaker 1: roll to resolve there. But ultimately it's a pretty fun
14:44
Speaker 1: light game. I had a good time with it. I
14:47
Speaker 1: think it would be one of those things that I
14:49
Speaker 1: definitely if people said, Hey, we're playing here Escape, do
14:51
Speaker 1: you want to come over and play? I'd say sure,
14:53
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm certainly not going to go out
14:55
Speaker 1: and buy any or buy the revamped hero Escape coming
14:59
Speaker 1: out from Hasbro and Renegier Games soon. But as a
15:04
Speaker 1: as a game system as a product, it was pretty fun.
15:07
Speaker 1: I can see how if you really got into it.
15:09
Speaker 1: There's all sorts of different kinds of hero Escape figures
15:12
Speaker 1: and you could have a variety of different units to
15:14
Speaker 1: choose from. You know, I did a fimiliar thing with
15:17
Speaker 1: Martin Wallace's Wildlands. I bought all the expansions, so I
15:19
Speaker 1: have a whole bunch of Wildland stuff that you can use,
15:22
Speaker 1: so you can it's a bunch of different bands you
15:24
Speaker 1: can have that are all relatively similar but have a
15:27
Speaker 1: little bit of their own unique stuff, and that makes
15:30
Speaker 1: for interesting tactical gameplay. From that perfective, hero Escape is
15:34
Speaker 1: pretty neat and kind of timeless. If you like that
15:37
Speaker 1: sort of high combat AMERI trashy kind of game, which
15:41
Speaker 1: I do. So if you get a chance to play
15:43
Speaker 1: classic hero Escape, I definitely recommend it. If somebody brought
15:46
Speaker 1: New hero Escape to game Night, I would certainly give
15:48
Speaker 1: it a try. And yeah, play some tactical miniatures games
15:52
Speaker 1: if you can. That's hero Escape all right. Finally, today
15:54
Speaker 1: I did get to try Warp's Edge. This is designed
15:57
Speaker 1: by Scott Olmes with art by Tyler Johnson. Was published
16:00
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Warps as just part of a line
16:03
Speaker 1: of games, I believe from Renegade games that are meant
16:06
Speaker 1: to be solo games, so they're specifically for one player.
16:12
Speaker 1: I got this by way of a friend who had
16:14
Speaker 1: it and was getting rid of it, and I said, yeah,
16:16
Speaker 1: I'll try that. I heard good things when it came out,
16:19
Speaker 1: and boy, I really liked it. The premises you are
16:23
Speaker 1: a ship on the edge of the galaxy and you
16:26
Speaker 1: are trying to get back home and you encounter a
16:29
Speaker 1: fleet of enemies. When you go in to fight them,
16:32
Speaker 1: you have a small arsenal, and when you inevitably lose,
16:37
Speaker 1: right before you lose the cyst, the ship's safety system
16:42
Speaker 1: kicks in, time travels you back to the beginning of
16:45
Speaker 1: the battle, and the idea is that each time you
16:48
Speaker 1: play the battle, you come in with more information so
16:50
Speaker 1: you're battery equipped so you can get farther. The way
16:53
Speaker 1: that works out in game terms is every time you
16:55
Speaker 1: defeat an enemy, you get to add tokens to your
16:57
Speaker 1: token bag, and the tokens are your actions, So each
17:00
Speaker 1: time you go through, the more enemies you kill, the
17:02
Speaker 1: more tokens you get in your token bag, the more
17:04
Speaker 1: resources you have for the next run. The gimmick is
17:07
Speaker 1: you only get to run through four times, so at
17:10
Speaker 1: the end of the fourth run, if you haven't beaten
17:12
Speaker 1: the mothership, you lose. The game has these special skill
17:15
Speaker 1: cards that you get that give you a unique bonus.
17:18
Speaker 1: It's got four different ships you can pilot, which each
17:21
Speaker 1: have their own strengths and weaknesses. There are I think
17:25
Speaker 1: six different motherships that you can fight, and each one
17:28
Speaker 1: has a slightly different collection of ships that are supporting them.
17:32
Speaker 1: I imagine these are going to feel like interesting nuances
17:35
Speaker 1: but relatively similar as you play. It's hard to say,
17:40
Speaker 1: but it was a really interesting play. I played twice.
17:43
Speaker 1: Each play took about an hour, and in the first
17:46
Speaker 1: play I had a really lucky set of skills that
17:50
Speaker 1: I was able to build and so the connections between
17:54
Speaker 1: them was very effective. In the second one, I had
17:58
Speaker 1: less optimum skills and I didn't do it quite as well.
18:01
Speaker 1: The first time through, I literally was one token away
18:04
Speaker 1: from winning the game that I just needed a couple
18:07
Speaker 1: more hits on the mother ship. So I needed one
18:09
Speaker 1: more round and I would win. But the way the
18:12
Speaker 1: game works is at the end of the round, you
18:13
Speaker 1: have to draw five tokens out of your bag. If
18:15
Speaker 1: you can't draw five tokens out of your bag, the
18:18
Speaker 1: round is over and you only get four rounds. And
18:21
Speaker 1: on my last play, the second to last turn, I
18:26
Speaker 1: killed an enemy and for a bonus I should have
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Speaker 1: gotten a three point attack token. However, I had already
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Speaker 1: collected all the three point attack tokens, and if you
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Speaker 1: can't get the reward that you're supposed to get, then
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Speaker 1: you don't get anything, and so I was not able
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Speaker 1: to take one more token and put it in my bag.
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Speaker 1: Thus I only had four tokens left to draw, and
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Speaker 1: I lost the game. However, the thing is, with those
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Speaker 1: tokens plus the ones I had left over from in
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Speaker 1: my hold, even if I only drew four, I had
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Speaker 1: enough to defeat the Big Bad But as I read
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Speaker 1: the rules, if you can't drop five, then your round
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Speaker 1: is over, and so I lost for lack of one token,
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Speaker 1: even though I should have gotten it. But that's one
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Speaker 1: of the interesting nuances the game is you want to
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Speaker 1: balance how you get the rewards so that you don't
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Speaker 1: miss out on any rewards, because each reward you get
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Speaker 1: is another token in your bag, which extends your ability
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Speaker 1: to play the game longer. All in Alipound Warp say
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Speaker 1: is really interesting. I'm looking forward to playing it some more.
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Speaker 1: The variety of ships there make it seem like it'll
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Speaker 1: be pretty good. There's a relatively quick setup, and while
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Speaker 1: it was luck determined with the drawing chips from a bag,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't quite as luck determinative as something like Super
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Speaker 1: Skill Pinball, which also felt feels very luck heavy. And
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Speaker 1: it's been a while since I played an Underfalling Sky,
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Speaker 1: so I can't really speak to how luck dependent that
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Speaker 1: one is. But all in all, I enjoyed warps Edge
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Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to trying it again in the future.
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Speaker 1: So that's Warped Edge from designer Scott Alms and publisher
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Speaker 1: Restor Renegade Games. Well that brings me to the end
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Speaker 1: of my episode today. I'm curious to hear what games
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Speaker 1: Well that's it for this time. Thanks for joining me.
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Speaker 1: I hope your next walked as as pleasant as mind was.
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Speaker 2: Bye bye.
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