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Lost Ruins of Arnak - 3p playthrough
A quick random playthrough of Arnak to get into the WSBG mood. I talk through what I'm thinking as we play and I'm happy to hear your thoughts in the comments!
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Lost Ruins of Arnak Commentary - 2024Finals World Boardgaming Championships
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My strategic commentary breakdown of the Lost Ruins of Arnak final at the 2024 WBC held in Seven Springs, PA. Chris, Mike, Nick, and Ricky explore the wild beyond. Link to Fire Two: czcams.com/video/-1XmV6JPBfU/video.html #lostruinsofarnak #strategy #boardgames
Path of Civilization - Learn along with me! Live 3p
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My friend recommended this gamer popcorn civ game to me, so we're trying it out! Join me in exploring how to git gud at one of the new hot games.
WBC 2024 - Event Report & What's It Like?
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Commentary on my not very well shot video vlog of attending the WBC. Join along to learn more about this wonderful convention!
Scheduling WBC 2024 (World Boardgaming Championships)
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Yet another silly video - come along with me on the journey while I plot out my gaming schedule for an amazing convention with a dense schedule. If you're interested in attending WBC (near Pittsburgh), head over to boardgamers.org or shoot me a message. If you're interested in attending the WSBG (in Vegas), head to their website: www.wsbgvegas.com/?ref=Nickofthehennings@gmail.com
Scythe Strategic Commentary - Modular Board and Bidding
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A pair of in person, 5p Scythe games using the modular board and the bidding variant that subtracts from your final score. This is my first time attempting to do any kind of physical recording at my house - please give me your feedback good and bad to see if I should keep making this kind of content in the future! 0:00 Game 1 01:07:32 Game 2
The WSBG 2024 Tier List - 16 games Ranked
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Ranking variance types and preparation styles for each of the 16 WSBG games. All opinions are opinions! If you're interested in attending the WSBG (in Vegas), head to their website: www.wsbgvegas.com/?ref=Nickofthehennings@gmail.com If you're interested in attending WBC (near Pittsburgh), head over to boardgamers.org or shoot me a message. #boardgames #competitive #boardgaming
Terraforming Mars 3p- UNMI saves the red planet ; Live playthrough Grand semifinal
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A live play 3p of Terraforming Mars as part of a monthly tournament series I participate in. #boardgames #terraformingmars #strategy #playthrough
Board Game Strategy: Statistics in GWT and Arnak
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This is a broader board game strategy video that is secretly a math class. I talk about the various probabilities of events happening and how that should influence your decision, and where to be wary of your intuition. I use Great Western Trail to discuss card drawing probability and Lost Ruins of Arnak to discuss expected value. Coming to WSBG for the first time? Consider putting me as your re...
Earth - Live 2p arena playthrough
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A "live" 2p game of Earth! Also a few quick life updates. I talk through what I'm thinking as we play and I'm happy to hear your thoughts in the comments!
Terraforming Mars Solo - Live playthrough; Standard Credicor Things
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My first crack at playing a solo game of Terraforming Mars in a race against the clock! Can you spot the error I made while I'm making it? Can you spot other ones I didn't even notice? Can you beat my score? #solo #boardgames #terraformingmars #strategy #playthrough
Castles of Burgundy Commentary - 2023 Finals World Series of Boardgaming
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My strategic commentary breakdown of the CoB ring final at the 2023 World Series of Board Gaming held in Las Vegas. Angela, Jim, and Shaw complete beautiful castle villas. This is not the original commentary for the game and I am not associated with WSBG in any fashion except as a consumer. This video was made with WSBG's permission. #castlesofburgundy #strategy #boardgames #wsbg
Terraforming Mars Commentary - 2023 Finals World Series of Boardgaming
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My strategic commentary breakdown of the Mars ring final at the 2023 World Series of Board Gaming held in Las Vegas. Jacopo, Levi, Nick, and Nicholas battle for Martian economic dominance. This is not the original commentary for the game and I am not associated with WSBG in any fashion except as a consumer. This video was made with WSBG's permission. #terraformingmars #strategy #boardgames #wsbg
Ark Nova - Live 4p playthrough; Ice Cream Shop Shenanigans
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A "live" 4p game of Ark Nova with friends! I talk through what I'm thinking as we play and I'm happy to hear your thoughts in the comments!
Ra Commentary - 2023 Grand Semifinals World Series of Boardgaming
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My strategic commentary breakdown of the Ra grand semifinal at the 2023 World Series of Board Gaming held in Las Vegas. Andrew, PJ, Bryant, and Levi pay homage to the sungod. This is not the original commentary for the game and I am not associated with WSBG in any fashion except as a consumer. This video was made with WSBG's permission. #ra #strategy #boardgames #wsbg
Ra Commentary - 2023 Finals World Series of Boardgaming
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Ra Commentary - 2023 Finals World Series of Boardgaming
Wingspan Commentary - 2023 Finals World Series of Boardgaming
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Wingspan Commentary - 2023 Finals World Series of Boardgaming
Ark Nova Jukka Training Program - Strategy Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Players
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Ark Nova Jukka Training Program - Strategy Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Players
Great Western Trail - Live playthrough; Middle of the Road Cowboys
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Great Western Trail - Live playthrough; Middle of the Road Cowboys
Dune Imperium Strategic Commentary - WSBG Grand Semi Final '23
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Dune Imperium Strategic Commentary - WSBG Grand Semi Final '23
Board Game Strategy: Cooperating in Non-cooperative games
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Board Game Strategy: Cooperating in Non-cooperative games
Deathwalker Class Guide for Frosthaven
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Deathwalker Class Guide for Frosthaven
Bannerspear Class Guide for Frosthaven
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Bannerspear Class Guide for Frosthaven
Dune Imperium Commentary - 2023 Finals World Series of Boardgaming
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Dune Imperium Commentary - 2023 Finals World Series of Boardgaming
Ark Nova - Three late night games in a row!
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Ark Nova - Three late night games in a row!
Ark Nova - Live playthrough; Cards into the Harbor
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Ark Nova - Live playthrough; Cards into the Harbor
Ark Nova '23 Final Reflections - Winning Philosophy and Tilt
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Ark Nova '23 Final Reflections - Winning Philosophy and Tilt
Dune Imperium vs Opponents; Leto the Spice Flow
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Dune Imperium vs Opponents; Leto the Spice Flow
Right on time! This is exactly the kind of video I was hoping to find - one that dives deep into decision-making. I understand the three main strategies (guards, temple, cards), but I haven't found any videos that explain how to effectively utilize all three strategies depending on the situation. This kind of knowledge can only be gained through personal practice (which isn't always available) or by watching let's plays with commentary from skilled players.
@@MudroZvon welcome to the channel! More of these to come :)
I would love to see your resources that you/the other players own. Can you screenrecord so that we can see it in future videos?
@@Zoadje ah yes, apologies. That's what I get for doing this too abruptly :b
The side bar is a little cut off. You cannot see the resources.
@@torbendonzelmann4515 yes indeed, my mistake!
With leaders are they pretty balanced or some harder or easier?? Wouldn't want to.play against you 😄 specially when you beat John gets games and Anastasia
@@walterscase359 I haven't played the newest expansion but I think the leaders are relatively well balanced. It's not perfect of course and I think the mystic is pretty challenging compared to the more straightforward captain
Honestly, I’m really confused about your strategy. I’ve played a lot of Arnak and I would insta-snap that lantern and easily pick up 4-5 guardians on turn 3 against you and just snowball really hard. You don’t even go for the free guardian so maybe I could even get 6. Exploration tokens are the GOAT and you under-value them so hard! If you are the one exploring (especially if everyone else just go to your revealed locations) you easily reach the top of the research track as well!
4-5 guardians by turn 3? I don't really see how you can make enough resources to accomplish that and also move up the research track. I'm not sure where you think I'm undervaluing compasses either as my first assistant gives compasses and by game end I acquired 5 idols. Would love to see a game you played (are you on bga?) and compare!
@@phoenicksgaming sadly no, when playing with characters I usually get around 95-115 points 3 players if that counts! When I score high it’s because of bow and arrows though! That card is an instant pickup for me (so is steam boat/automobile) and the other players usually don’t go out of their way to get it as soon as it pops out! In this game though, I didn’t see it so lantern would be an instant grab for me and therefore I imagine a scenario where I only get 4 guardians. To answer your question I want to relay my game plan (see below) and give you some tips: 1. Don’t think about getting tier 2 sites until turn 4! All the cheap guardians are on 1 sites 2. Don’t waste worker actions! Use them to explore instead WHENEVER POSSIBLE! No exceptions, the idols are great and we want as many guardians as possible. Going to a campsite after turn 1 is an immediate red flag so you should aim to explore twice turn 2. 3. The 2 compass location is BY FAR the best 1st worker action (especially on snake temple that doesn’t have compass rewards. It will let us explore now and hopefully leave us with a token for round 2. 4. Don’t waste compasses on dumb stuff. Avoid artefacts (if they aren’t amazing and you have a lot of compasses) until turn 4, and avoid paths on research that cost compasses. 5. Use your idol for the guardian and not for compasses! I’ve never ended up in a situation where I couldn’t use my idol to defeat my guardian. The compass convertion rate is low for idols so avoid using it on that, look for compass idols though! 6. Tablets seem to be massively overrated in your group! They don’t do anything until you have artefacts except maybe protect you against the owl guardian if you don’t get tablets from the 1 site! Capitalize on this and let the other players worry about them. 7. I just talked down on tablets but the only items you should get other than exploration token items are pigeon and that one item (if leaders) that is like BaA but for tablets. Card draw items and assistant items can also be good since they can net you more compasses. Other items just clog up your deck, and give the other players opportunities to instantly buy ”good” items. Only buy them if the other players are broke or if you have no other options, fishing rod can be good for this too! 8. Instantly buy any compass-item you see (that nets two preferably) you need a minimum of one to be able to pull off the game plan I have below! For my game plan, it’s always as follows : (the success rates are estimations) Turn 1: (success: 33/25 leaders/no leaders) Get a guardian Get an item (preferably one that give compasses) Get an assistant The goals are listed in priority order! I always manage at least 2 if I don’t get completely screwed Turn 2: Get 1 more guardian (success: 100) Get an/another assistant (%: 100) Get 1 more item (%: 80) Get 1 more guardian (%: 70) Get 1 more item (%: 30) Get the final assistant (%: 10) Turn 3: Get 1 more guardian (%: 100) Get the final assistant (if I haven’t) (%: 90) Get gold assistant (%: 90) Get 1 more item (%: 80) Get 1 more guardian (%: 25, very hard if other players go for guardians, easier on lizard temple) Thin fear Prep next turn if 2 guardians were impossible (for a top explore) Turn 4: Explore top + kill guardian (%: 100, if prepped, 60 otherwise) Get 1st or 2nd gold assistant (%: 100) Prepare for explore next turn if available, otherwise aim for research and artefacts Turn 5: Reach top of research track (%: 100) Get final gold assistant (if it didn’t happen already) (%: 90) Buy point heavy artefacts and items Reach top of research track with book (%: 75) Get gold temple tile (nearly impossible without leaders if you got 5 guardians, otherwise 40%) Get any temple tile (%: 90) WIN (%: 90) Using this strategy it’s almost impossible to lose since exploring gives so many idols and guardians. The other players can’t keep up in guardians if they don’t catch on to this strat (which mine seemingly haven’t done yet). The only way you lose is if someone gets op item/artefact RNG and you get jack all! In this game though, it would have been free real estate to nab 5 guardians which would be impossible in a non-lizard temple 4 player game in my group! I hope this helped, and I hope your realize I didn’t write all of this just to brag! GL. In case you were wondering, I’ve played about 20 arnak games and never ONCE gotten less than 4 guardians (I did play with leaders every time we were more than 3 people though!), and I’ve never been able to get more than 6 guardians (which I only ever did on lizard temple) since my players realized quite quickly how OP guardians are! NEVER leave a guardian
Fist is one that out of this logic😂
@@bambanglasmono1902 he's the reason I asked myself about this flow!
Woah, there is a "Wave of Anguish: level 8 shackles card and a "Wave of Anguish" level X Deathwalker card!? I've never seen two X-haven cards have the same name! WEIRD. How did they let that happen?
@@armatey007 tons of anguish to be had!
I finally finished watching through this video, I love these vlogs! It was already very nostalgic to watch through the WBC venue even though this was my first year of it, really unique experience. I also loved all the detail and stories you captured from your games, looking forward to something similar from WSBG. p.s. I think your camera work was fine, I didn't have a problem with it at any point really.
@@Mundungu thanks for all the positive comments! I absolutely plan to do a wsbg one given the positivity. I'll see you there :)
Did Blue make a critical error at 4:37 by putting a Cowboy from Foresight 2 instead of Builder? Or was it the best decision? Because I think this kind of forced Nick to commit to Cowboys, next building cow market (2a) and then hiring double cowboy at 7:55 as his only viable choice as Yellow had just taken the only builder available. I believe this was a bad result for Blue, now two Cowboy players contesting each other VS Yellow's uncontested Builder + 4/4/4 (10b) + amazing 1st Station Master tile giving 2 points per building --> Yellow stomped this game. And at 4:37 I think Yellow had a good lead anyway with the Green hand tax building at desert (drought) with 2 hazards in desert plus one in Foresight 1. But if Blue placed a Builder at that moment, then Nick would be able to instead hire a Builder and an engineer from the job market and maybe play Builder/Engineer hybrid? This would be an excellent result for Blue. But I don't really understand this hybrid strategy (haven't tried it myself yet) so was it perhaps unviable for Nick this game? And Blue knew Nick wouldn't go for that so they want more Cowboys in the market for both of them? As it looks like a "good" Cowboys game with both building available - cow market (2a) and cow shuffler (4b). Another factor is could the cow market support two Cowboys players? To me it looks ok but not great for that (you can see it at 6:16). I've only watched this video once through but would be keen to hear others' thoughts on this specific play at 4:37. I'm fairly new to GWT and want to learn :D tl;dr - If you were Blue at Foresight 2 at 4:37, would you put the Cowboy like they did, or put the Builder instead?
@MostVictoryPoints interesting! Yeah I like this line. Usually leaving 2 builders open is bad but encouraging opponents to bump into each other's strategies is great. Doing 1 cowboy and 1 builder is also viable - usually cows is a cheap strategy and slowing down builder is worth being able to build the level 2 building early (and cowboys like both level 2 buildings).
Pls more Videos. I like the way you play and comment with strategy. Greatings from Germany.
@@vitali.brikmann thank you! I'll keep at it :)
Thanks for the video, it was very fun to see it overall. I hope in the future you could make a "So you want to go to WBC as a newbie" video for people that have never been there but would like to. Both how to select your games, but also practical things (it seems that you took food/sandwiches instead of getting food, and also driving/parking, etc).
@@yannisguerra great idea for a video!
Regarding the Stone Key ... the first expansion does bump the cost up to 4 compasses (from 3), possibly to nerf the card, but also because one of the new research tracks includes a spot for a shared-by-all artifact with a cost of exactly 3 compasses (which cannot involve SK).
@@Coyotek4 that's a good change
22:05 Key point about Sunkeeper is that it has a good supply of big move cards 26:45 I think the way to play that correctly is to persuade your whole group to start new characters with you at level 1. Maybe there's a thing where you are partnered with tanky/controller characters and really like the wound -retaliate looks like a trap. Alternatively maybe "Move 2 + Attack 1" is a nice looking bottom (you could enhance) you can burn for 2xp and a hit in the final room. 32:40 Surely you don't play without Stamina Potions! 50:00 Code-Geminate + Rapid-Fire + Plague-Dispersal + Missile looks tempting but that's a lot of investment to lay down some poison 1:04:40 Prevent Wounds seems designed for spinning blades (which you'd want to switch in and out of -retreating and letting it advance- not just stay in) but I can well imagine you'd have enough healing not to be bothered about wounds just coming in from enemies.
@@Timlagor I actually do play without them - I think they did a great job making many of the new potions exciting!
I'm pretty good at this sort of game but I come to these videos to save myself some thinking at the start and make sure I don't make any really foolish mistakes and/or mistakes that you just don't see until you get into play. I like complex but found Geminate to be complex without (enough) payoff. Equipment discussion is something I particularly look for since the game is at my friend's house and there's a lot to choose from later on.
@Timlagor yeah these complex guys are a beast! Equipment discussion is a good point but it is very spoiler heavy and admittedly I'd need to do more testing in general to give great advice there
The 'plane crash' site (2 compasses OR free item) can be awesome in round 1 if you can pick up a 3- or 4-coin item (aeroplane, precision compass, binoculars, dog, automobile, steam boat), but it's rather poor in round 3 or later; you either settle for less value (2 compasses) or you get an item that you'll likely use just once. You're probably right that I should have upgraded my compass assistant over my arrowhead assistant, but flipping the 'plane crash' site (I was hoping for an arrowhead) set me back.
@@Coyotek4 yeah it's a rough flip in the mid game
With the remorseless deep top effect you also should be careful. Because if you wounded and baned an enemy, the wound damage would be doubled, not the bane damage.
Hope to see you at WSBG!. Thanks for sharing your insights. Did you finish deciding the games you are playing?
@yannisguerra indeed! Gwt, this, earth, mars. How about you?
Good luck at WSBG!
@Coyotek4 thanks Mike!
Awesome video, thanks for sharing your strategic thoughts! Currently prepping for WSBG, I just learned the rules and now I get the game and some of the strategy. I had one big issue though.. I really wanted to see what the other players were doing, but couldn’t! It’d be awesome if you showed the top part and/or the bottom right, as both sections display all player actions.
@@MostVictoryPoints thanks for watching and for the feedback! Always a tough choice on where to put my head....
Honestly, I more often than not play shackles as retaliate character. I have the perk that gives me 5 to my max hp, so I have a beefy hp pool, run into a group of enemies, load up retaliate and then heal next turn. Even better if you have the card in play that when you take damage, you can deal damage to someone else. I had one scenario where I set up retaliate 5 at range and ALMOST got my "deal 40 damage in one round" mastery. I ended up doing 30 damage just through retaliate. It was nuts. "the benefit of guaranteed damage is finishing enemies off." I respectfully disagree. I think the benefit of guaranteed damage is getting around shield and retaliate.
@@WolfmanXD that is truly impressive! And I dont think we disagree - those are two different great benefits of direct damage!
I played this through level 9 and I was the ranged heavy hitter of our 3-player team.Always doing 4-7 damage attacks every round, attacking twice if you counted bottom shadow-based damage. Optimized myself for cursing and I dropped 4-6 curses per rest cycle. I always played to create and use shadows fast to attack big. Start with making dark to charge attacks, to kill and make shadows, then alternate making dark and making shadows. The only problems I had were scenarios with few enemies, then harder to make shadows.
@armatey007 interesting! Glad to hear the class worked so consistently for you
Heh, I built a spread sheet around this as well, I included long vs short rest, stamina pots and potential cards left in hand if resting early. I didn't use it much but it was a fun little excel exercise :).
@@Henni_more yeah mostly your intuition here serves but agreed it was fun
Do they start with standard rules? Like +1 in everything or corporate rules at 0?
@@20052143 prelude draft and corporate rules
why is buying one cow at the start bad when playing a cowboy strategy? Do you not want to buy as many cows as possible when playing that strategy?
@marerlevin2494 so, ideally I'm making those cow purchases after I've bought cowboys for those sweet sweet discounts. Feels bad to pay full price today when I can pay half tomorrow
@@phoenicksgaming alright, that does of course make sense. I am completely new to the game (only played twice so far) and really enjoy your strategy and tactics analysis of the game!
@@marerlevin2494 thanks for watching! Its one of my all time favorites
Thank you for your great videos! Did you ever try 'Beyond the sun"? I think you might like it as well, strategic, but mostly tactical game with a large techtree and light area-control mechanics.
Thanks for the video run down, was fun. Congrats on all your success, your continued excellence and competitiveness in the consul race does make me a bit jealous or rather drives me to keep improving. It was fun playing and tying you in Five Tribes, glad that was at least the one friendly tie of the week for you :P I also appreciated our talk before the Egizia heat, your no hesitation response to go play Santa Fe Rails after having a 1st/2nd was largely what I figured, but I appreciated it nonetheless. (and indeed, I still made Egizia SF, but then also made Santa Fe rails advancement rounds, and got 2nd overall there) Also continued thanks for putting in the time to GM and be on the board. Finally, I think this may have been the first year I actually played your dad in something, and as expected he's sharp. Hopefully next time I run in to him at the Diplomacy table I can work with him, instead of fearing how he's ruining my alliance's position!
@ranior6359 oh man I'm so glad you played vs him. He's a great player. And I'm glad greeding heats worked out too! How'd you like going hard for it this year? Will you try again next year?
@@phoenicksgaming I'll likely do so, as I have for several years. For awhile already I've pretty aggressively scheduled myself to advance in many SF. The prior difference is I used to be more likely to prioritize three heats and locking in advancement--partially because I didn't have the breadth of WBC games to pick from so I didn't have solid backup options, and partially because I thought that's what I should do. I'm now convinced in the max greed from you and AJ and having more experience, and indeed this year I made more advancement rounds than ever. My new issue, and what I'm working on a bit, is I think peak AJ and you consistently, have more strong events--I'm solid in a lot of stuff, but a lot of what I play has a meaningful luck edge, or has very strong fields. I'm aiming to master a few more games. With all that said, I also had such a blast playing Diplomacy this year, and so part of me is tempted to more prioritize a few fun or new events, even if they maybe don't max laurels (although Diplomacy this year did great on laurels, it's still a bit of a mess for the schedule a lot of the time). Ultimately I don't know what year I'll stop basically tournament gaming all day though. On that front, I think I'm like you. I'll find some way to be playing a tournament I'm interested almost always. So I'll at least consistently be giving myself a shot, even if it's maybe not purely maximized.
@@ranior6359 makes sense! I do think that playing games you enjoy greatly improves sustainability and oftentimes performance so that seems correct to me
I used item 143 with this class and it was amazing. I almost always played encased punch bottom. I also did get preserved fury that I would bring back with a major stamina potion. I lasted for a long time!
@Henni_more there's some pretty great little combos with this class - thanks for sharing!
I predict that this game finds its way to WBC in either 2025 or 2026.
@@Coyotek4 that'd be cool, though simultaneous action games aren't usually ideal for tournament play
Wonderful video, Nick! You seem like a such a pleasant dude.
@@jankogo wow thank you for the double compliment! Just made my Monday:) thanks for watching
This was even better than reading a BGG Geeklist of a WBC recap, thanks for doing this! Also, I got to play a game of Boxcars with your mom this year and had a great time. She let two of my kids pet and play with her dog and it made their day :)
@lukeheinz2735 haha that's rad I'll be sure to let her know! And thanks for the kind words I'm glad this was a fun format. Comments like this get me to do these kinds of videos again
Gamer popcorn sounds good! Gotta try this out
@@NoGeist tracks and points and points and tracks :)
Fun to hear about all your games! More importantly @2:30 your mom's dog is the unexpected star of the video 😃
If you'd like any Arnak scores, I have all of them.
@@Coyotek4 I remembered the most important one!
I'd say for the situation you brought up about the room deleting itself: At the end of the day, this is a game and if something silly like that with no rulings for or against your tokens, i would have simply just placed the shadows somewhere in the new room. In a group setting, i would have easily allowed something like that because it just isn't fun for the game to shaft you like that, especially without any sort of ruling.
@@jonlucich2854 I think you're right and that would have been the best call for sure
Love that you're sharing more about WBC to the world!! Great playing and chatting with you :)
@AJPianoMusic chatting with you was a highlight of the week! Doesn't make for good internet content but thanks for the great convo
@@phoenicksgaming aww thanks! 😊
This was a great watch - the 'strategy vlog' format is a really good mix of fun & competition. Now onto get that arnak ring in vegas! 🤠
@bicyclops420 thanks for the positive comment and glad you enjoyed! Off to the great golden lands of Arnak :)
I’ve solved many puzzle books ,but haven’t heard about this one… Where I can buy it?
@igorkomkov9572 this is from a boardgame, frosthaven. It's not really a standalone
What a great video, thank you! I've watched quite a few of your Frosthaven videos (have I commented on one yet??) I'm watching lots of Frosthaven stuff getting ready for when me and our kids get it - probably December-ish. We are finishing up JOTL now and, per Cephalofair's recommendation, we are going to do FH next instead of waiting on GH 2.0. All that being said, I'm letting my kids pick their classes first when we get FH. RIght now they are leaning toward: Banner Spear, Drifter and Blink Blade. Our daughter who's thinking Blink Blade may want to do Deathwalker. Personally I'm thinking Geminate (because I love playing hard stuff everyone hates) or Deathwalker, or Boneshaper. The more I read and watch the more I'm leaning to Boneshaper in PART because I'd be able to help our Banner Spear set up attacks. Deathwalker just sounds cool though... the theme and all... and yes, I've seen your video on them not being that great. I think it should be called, "Shadow Walker" btw. Anyway, thanks again!! This is probably the most helpful video on Boneshaper I've seen simply because of the first part alone. The whole video was great but the first was really helpful!
@innocentgreen1338 thanks for the kind comment! Very cool that you play with your kids- that sounds lovely. Geminate is a whacky class so good luck if you give that a shot!
As the person who got crushed even worse than you (I'm Lethargic Socket on BGA 👋🏻) I'm both mortified and delighted that someone I just played tonight recognized me from having watched this!
Ha! That's amazing- it's a much smaller world than we think
Nice to see some Ark play. Rarely watch 4 P games. I thought your ELO was like 500 at least ( I know it is just a number, but anyway).
@@jankogo I hit 500 at some point but dropped quite a lot when playing 2p, which is clearly a weakness of mine
@@phoenicksgaming I know the feeling. I have been around 300-400 a while now. I almost exclusively play 2P. Sometimes you just have a loosing streak.
I’ve played this class a few times and respectfully disagree with a lot of your card choices. This class is really meant to not finish scenarios. It has multiple abilities/cards that say “when you exhaust,” and getting negative conditions isn’t that difficult. I’m full condition build, and absolutely own with him. Allowing him to blast the first half of a scenario really can change the tone for the second half.
@@Kaskiaski interesting! What player count do you play at?
In the German version the puzzle is harder, because there is no 1 letter word to start with and there are more than one form of the. But I started with the first 4 letters you started with. And I used some German patterns like c is only in ch or sch. And so on.
@@markusjagering7449 oof, sorry to hear that. Well done!
And in the German version not all letters are used in this puzzle. J and y are missing.
One of my favourite games and loved seeing and hearing what high level play looks like. Found this channel thorough listening to the "Where are they now" episode of Friendly Ties and it's exactly the CZcams content I've been trying to find (commentary and advice on high level play). Really appreciate all the work you're putting in to make this content Nick!
@dblane1989 welcome to the channel! So happy you found it :)
you could've placed your camera right over the commentator's camera, so we could see your tableau. also would mean that you didn't need to shift your camera around. apart from that, great commentary!
@hansimgluck7672 true! With games like GWT there's just so much space to cover and it can be tough to pick the most important things to become visible to players. Usually the Tableau is pretty dull unless you're playing engineers which is why I landed on this (admittedly flawed) solution. Thanks for watching!
I'm pretty sure Michael's play to abundance at 3:14:04 is illegal as his special pawn is down on the evolution action. That means that he can only place his orange pawns below it on domination, or he has to recall.
@dblane1989 I'd have to double check the rules but I think you might be right! Long days make for clumsy errors. Incredible catch
@@phoenicksgaming I only spotted it because you'd drawn attention to the mistake of using his special pawn to go on evolution the turn before instead of one of his ordinary pawns! Of course, if he'd just played his orange pawn the turn before and then his special pawn on abundance it would all have been fine so I don't think it's a big deal!
I ALSO chose Ark Nova as my team game because I expect the field to be so big. Fight!
@@randybuehler let's gooooooooo 😄
w8 u couldn't use Death Spiral and Slipping into Darkness on the same turn could you? Permanents need a turn inbetween to be used.
We were talking to Chris about how WBC handles some of the "similar" games, like the different GWT games. It sounds like it varies by game/GM. Do you know (as an all-powerful board member) how the different GWT versions are handled (Base, New Zealand, and Argentina), and how they handle Wingspan/Wyrmspan?
@HexStarDragon GWT, by GM fiat, has some rounds that play non base game. In something like 18xx the players get to vote. I suspect wingspan will be only wingspan and that wyrmspan should be voted in as a separate event as it seems unique enough, but an ambitious gm may try to do a hybrid format like what they do for gwt. In general, all these games have a "default game" that becomes the tiebreaker in any tough decision points.
I think GWT and New Zealand should be separate events to spread the enjoyment around. I've been advised to give up any hope of that, as people say the convention leadership would not allow it. But I think any policy can be eventually changed if one works hard enough at it 🙂
@@PatrickoftheIsles Don't forget Argentina!
🎵 🎵 🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎵 🎵 🎵
What about the great get-stupefied-and-play-jackbox-games tournament that occurs every night at the big house?
@@myrpok off schedule content only impacts my sleep schedule xD