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Many thanks Cody for your honesty, as always 👍👍. I know you are a great fan of "Legendary Marvel" and I'm very happy to hear you saying that this expansion is not so bad, but is not so good too. Some other people would have say that it is a fantastic one just to have followers and because they are paid to say so. Many thanks again 😀

Glad to hear it. When you had me over for dinner, I could see right through her.

A lot of commenters speculate on the pronunciation, well checking it in a dictionary it says it's jest. Don't people use dictionaries any more?

this is my dream board game. this is good clean politics, right in this game, not what we have in real life. I would like to have request a future expansion where you can simulate many types of governments like democracies, autocracy, totalitarian, fascism, feudalism, empires, monarchies, puppet states, etc.

2029=2099

First up the game looks gorgeous. I have only played Fire In The Lake coin game. I loved it. If the could play solitaire I would be in. There are other I would love to play.

Looks so fun

Rules note: Cyber-Mod on villains is based off of cards they’ve placed in the ESCAPE pile, not the current players victory pile.

Great video Cody. Did not expect your reaction. Will definitely ponder this one. Cheers!

Thanks for the review, Cody! This was the final push I needed to put the game on my "must have" list!

Which Marvel superhero cosplays as a cute animal and has an eye patch ? ... ... ... ... Nick Furry

A great short documentary on how the British shout down the U-boats, quite funny in some parts. czcams.com/video/fVet82IUAqQ/video.html

Is there a solo game for the war of the Spanish succession?

It's pronunced "Gest".

Will you be reviewing the new version of Unhappy King Charles (2024) in the near future? One of things on wishlist is a English Civil War boardgame but not sure which one to buy.

I think the boardgame title comes from the 15th century ballad, 'A Gest of Robyn Hode'. The earliest tales of Robin Hood mentions his origins was from Yorkshire (being a proud Yorkshire man i do like to mischievously mention his Yorkshire origins when i visit Nottingham)😅

I received the Game this week as well here in Germany and I have to say this game is absolutely beautiful and has very good rules explanation, example of play and playbook with a lot of visuals. I really think that GMT sets here a new standard of how to make learning medium complex wargames fun again 😂 Sorry for being a bit satirical here, but I played a lot of overproduced Kickstarter/Gamefound wargames in recent years and a lot of them were really novel and good (with some tweaks), but had just terrible rules explanations and were not enough playtested in my opinion. Reading through the rules of GMT games most often reminds me of how good games can be play tested and how good the rules explanations can be. I admit in the past reading through the rules of some of the more complex GMT games like Empire of the Sun was more like reading a scientific paper and less fun, but on the one hand these games are very complex and the rules had to be so extensive to capture all the possible rule misunderstandings and on the other hand GMT really improved their rulebooks or had more luck with the rule describing skills of their game designers (I am not talking about rule design here, just the skill of how to present the rules). I have no inside knowledge, so I assume that GMT really helps the devs to improve the readability of their rulebooks and I appreciate it. Congratulations to all people involved in creating this amazing game!

Man, this would've been great as a 4 player team game. I have yet to find an entry point to COIN an hoped it could've been RobinHood. But My collection is full of 2p games already :-(

I usually let figure out english speaker to decrypt their own language but I see gest comes from middle (old) french geste, like jest so that's a good excuse :-D

If Fred would bring this to boardgamearena I would probably faint!

Well, this made my day. So I guess the next game I design needs to be Dune themed 🤣

A Locksleysmith.

I'm 99% sure it's "Jest", but I've been 99% sure about many things and have been wrong about all of them. "Sherwood Struggle" it is, then. What was the medieval equivalent of nuclear annihilation?

00:35 man i hate it so much when people try to roll their dice on my board and fuck the pieces up like that

What did Robin Hood say when asked whether or not he would share the last available single bed with Maid Marian up in the forest tree house ? .. .. .... ... ... He Sherwood.

Wow, sounds really good. I'm a COIN mega-fan, but hadn't looked closely at this one because of it's non-historical nature, I prefer historical-based games. This review and others have made me regret my earlier ambivalence, and I am eagerly awaiting the delivery of my copy (which I ordered regardless, because it's GMT and it's COIN or COIN-adjacent so how could I not?). :D Thanks for the great review!

I had to look up "Gest" (a tale of adventure). Years of reading and seeing medieval stories, I'm surprised I'd never heard it used.

I was waiting for this review. Thanks.

Wow, that was an early review. Didn't even know the game was out. So glad you liked it. I've been waiting for it for a long time. Thanks for the review.

Post WW2 end credits 😂

As a solo gamer, Enemy Action: Kharkov would easily be my #1

Fun list! I have the old AH Russian Campaign, on my bucket list to get to the table! Love your videos, definitely going to try your history site soon!

Avalon Hill's "Patton's Best" used that same idea of keeping the tank centered and moving the enemy around as it moved/turned. I think it was the first to come up with that idea, but I could see it also being used in a sci-fi setting and other ways.

How does it compare with The Hunters and Uboat Leader?

It burns when you go because you have unlicensed fire arms.

Great list sir.

Thanks for doing this video! I didn’t think I would like this game because I could care less about GI Joe. However, I found this game so much fun I bought two of them. Your dad jokes are off the hook.

My favorites are EastFront 2 from Columbia Game, Streets of Stalingrad by L2 Design Turning point Stalingrad by Avalon Hill Red Barricade for Advance Squad Leader also bt Avalon Hill And Panzerguppe Guderian by SPI I heard good things about Storm Over Stalingrad but have not played it yet.

just bougth the core set didnt play it yet...... but now i want the extra exclusive stretch goals pieces ..i hope i can get them

Great video, makes it plain I have not shopped in a long time for board games especially wargames. I bet most of these titles require me to layout some serious coin too. I want to give a shout out to Mike Lambo, maker of great solitaire titles at Wargame Vault, inexpensive and still quite good.

If you lived in the DFW area I would totally meet up and ensure that when you did some of these reviews, you could proudly say you played them two player

I love your list and your videos in general. This one was worth waiting till then end.

My son came to the end of his 4th year in college, but he didn’t want to go to the ceremony or receive his diploma as he likes to procrastinate?! He was a Stalin-Grad 😅

Interesting list - very glad to see The Russian Campaign still doing it

Great list Cody. I was a little surprised not to see one of: Conflict of Heroes Awakening The Bear, Old School Tactical Vol 1, or Heroes of The Bitter Harvest on there somewhere. Still, a great mix of the new and the old, hex and counter, and "other". :)

An interesting list. Does the old Ambush and the more recent Fields Of Fire rate for you?

Hey Cody, you really need to try Quartermaster General: East Front. I am surprised it is not on your list. I would put it at the top. Also, Heroes of Stalingrad from Devil Pig Games.

Great list, thanks

Interesting list, thanks. I have played SPI's 1976 'War in the East'. Though they are too heavy really, I am still keen to get 'Jaws of Victory' and 'Stalingrad '42' to the table. I have a better chance with 'Race to Moscow' (definately the most original of your list). Avalon Hill 'Squad Leader' still shines.

Do you think this is a good set to mix with others or is it a stand alone