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Great review there. I love the 3M games. They were very cool and had some great games. How can you go wrong with Sid Sackson?

I love this game

Just get better. Cheers from Brazil.

Thank you so much for showcasing the basic version of Zoo vadis. Seems like all the influencers got the upgraded version from Bitewing and it is hard to find out what the differences are when all the videos have the deluxe pieces.

It depends though. Part of the joy of root for example is the cute animal theme that hides the vicious, murderous even terrorist actions the players are simulating. It wouldn't work the same if it were realistic. It would be more like a GMT game, which is fine but doesn't cover the same audiences necessarily. I for example love Root but can't stand GMT games.

Bro, get the shrink off that copy of Genoa! It's such a great game!

Hi, thanks for the video. I wanted to know if the old manual mentions that after scoring the huts/monks they disappear from the board. In the new version they don't mention it and every time I've played it I've left the monks that have already been scored on the board. But watching Zen Garcia's video I get the impression that they all have to be removed!

Hi, have you ever played Mundus Novus? I recommend that one. I had a bad knee/nerve problem on March and I know it's not easy to fix a knee. Hope you get better soon! Keep doing physio every day.

Niche channel i like it

Hi, by board got borken abit, if i want to glue it , can i use the same glue?

All the best with recovery Darryl! Enjoy your summer as well!

Good choice. Thanks for sharing. I love your How to Play and is it a Gem? videos. Family first.

Good recovery and enjoy the summer, we will still be here when youre back!

Wish you a speed recovery and Enjoy your summer!

have a great summer! i just got a copy of Taluva and played it once so far, I really enjoyed it 😁 looking forward to the coverage

A “real” CZcamsr would have turned this life/channel update into a 45-minute short film. 😂 Glad to hear things are going well and enjoy the break.

Someone suggested a mailbag episode. Feel free to send some questions my way! If I get enough, I'll do just that.

Maybe a mailbag Q&A ep would be an easy vid if you feel up to it - or not. 😜 Glad to hear your recovery is going smoothly!

A very wholesome announcement. Thank you. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

Wishing you a good recovery and remember: don’t hurry , be happy !

Hope everything goes well! Teaching a teen to drive, ugh. 😂

I agree with the fantasy-fication point.

Damn, never seen this channel, sub ! A game reviewer with a calm and thoughtful demeanor, what a gem !

Wow just discovered your channel and subscribed. Being a 51 year old board gamer I love to find these older gems and so few are focused on these classics and are only focused on what’s new. I checked your video list and don’t see a TOP 10 - I’d love to know your best of the best of these older games! 😁

Hey Darryl! I recently acquired the older Kosmos edition, the plastic seems so be getting sticky, any board game know how expertise on how to remove the stickiness? Looking forward to playing and thanks for the coverage of the game!

I got the new Allplay edition with the upgrades. I do like using the wooden camels, but the wooden leaders are almost unusable, so I use a mix of wooden camels and plastic leaders. I prefer the plastic oasis miniature to the wooden one as well. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm hoping that if I hole punch the baggies (or use larger baggies) that it will eliminate the lid lift.

according to Efka from No Pun Included you absolutely CAN fit everything back into the box without lid lift, if you know how to pack the game away properly

I saw the production by Allplay at Dice Tower West back in March and couldn't stop shaking my head - and now it shakes again with your video: box crammed with unneeded expansions; replacing the iconic camels with hollow ones - a far cry from the originally promised wooden camels; weird scaling of the camel to board size; weirdly folder board with a misprinted - after how many previous editions?! While I'm happy the game is back in circulation, I think this edition clutters a previously elegant game. Sheesh! At DTW, we went to the library and checked out the FF version. Thank you and enjoy!

Strongly prefer the FFG version, so much so that I got rid of my Allplay copy despite the graphical improvements and extra variety. Going for the smallest box, but the largest components to the point where it won’t fit back into the box still baffles me.

For a brief moment I had a Z-man Edition and Allplay edition and I preferred the Z-man edition. The camels were much better ;). And the Allplay edition has a misprint on the board regarding the waterhole (one is missing).

That is the odd game that looks worse as you put more pieces out. A lot of older games look very bland at first but are a sea of primary colors by the end. This just looks so difficult to discern what is going on.

It's pathetic to see board game makers cave in to people who are so fragile that the mere sight of something rooted in actual history causes them to screech. Sigh.

I am so happy I have my original 10 year edition, not censored by the vile culture warriors.

Yet another disappointing production from Alea, unfit for such a great game. This printing is better, but I have the previous one without text in the buildings, and Alea just washed their hands of it. Will not be buying from them again.

I love the way Alea does their rulebooks. The sidebars are so helpful. I also love the colored boxes on the "insert" of Alea games. They don't really do anything, but they really make a nice backdrop.

Love this game! Chaotic back-stabby area control that plays in under an hour. I also like the steam punk art in the 2nd edition.

So... any board game that is a good alternative to Fae/clans? I like the mechanics but it seems like a bulky game for what it is

What to do when I have a lot or even all of trump cards? Sooner or later i will have goten five tricks with the trump suit and then have to lead with trump. Doesn't that mean that if I have all or almost all the trumps I defenetely get negative points? I think that this is a fundamental flaw of the game. A solution would be to be the saboteur and only get 4 negative points, IF no one else takes the saboteur before me. What would you do?

Great game for a Board Gems. I have heard of Klunker, but didn’t really know anything about it. I do have a copy of that 7-player Bohnanza, so it might be worth a try!

Thanks again for this video !! I saw behind you Kaigan and El Caballero... Do you considere those games as gems ?? Thank yo2 !!!

Bohnanza is good because, among other reasons, it teaches an actual real world valuable skill - negotiation. Attentive players can actually learn what it means to be in an advantageous position and how to leverage it. The downside to Bohnanza and other strongly player-balanced games (Modern Art, Zoo Vadis) is that basically every instance of the we games that I've ever played has been thrown (or made random) by an inattentive or less-caring player. As a result, these types of games have largely fallen out of my personal taste in favor of ones that provide a little more individual impact over the one's personal outcome. I would still try Klunker, though!

I see your somewhat familiar with trick taking games per your shelf :P. Any chance you'd do a video on a few of your favorites?

We have a group we play a lot of bohnanza with..I guess I need to drag this off the shelf and give it a go.. thanks

Board game we have played the most, old art. Gonna buy new style, nice saturation! but - coniferous trees were realistic unlike deciduous trees in mammoth times, now it looks like there are 25 degrees Celsius - tygers should have been kept red for clarity - great that hunter monument of ultimate power is gone, yes it was OP, made animals not interesting until it was placed - compared to classic Carcassonne roads, rivers here give you animals and fish, so game is more balanced, new version of hunters looks even more sensitive this way... but it's still not enough! I wish there was more animal power on weaker piles, so lakes wouldn't be better 80% of the time! Two mammoths instead of one on that pile of sadness where there is nothing else, for example *Some rules I made as a strategy enthusiast* 1. Everytime you get a piece you can't immediately score points with, you can send it to 'exposed public inventory' (exventory) and take another. Everyone can take pieces from there instead of standard move. At the end you must take from there. When someone points out there is way for you to score immediately you must play that card and you're not allowed to physically attack them. Player who has to build bigger alone is losing too much. Especially in games of many players it's about taking equal power in every small forest and river where fight for dominance is not worth it. This way players score the most per turn - and it's usually not your strategic fault when it's your turn and you can't do it. Therefore... 2. Player who owns the largest closed forest or river of the game and had no pawn intruders can keep their pawn laying down there and they have points one more time at the end - all river systems with no intruders also give owner doubled points at the end. When someone closes greater or equal forest or river, doesn't matter if with intruders, you don't get any second points. Your sad pawn goes back to your inventory. 3. You can't place river hut in the forest... but... this idea is too good: Forest hut: you can place one on forest card and immediately connect it to forest where you have at least one pawn. You take hut back when forest is closed, but you can't place forest hut when you're closing this forest. Each hut gives you half the power of pawn! This ruins overpowered forest cooperation and brings whole new decision on the table: river system dominance at the expense of forest power. 4. Great option is also to give some of these 3:33 to each player and use them as tokens of tribal demand: when other player is placing piece you want, you use up one token and piece is yours for next turn and they take another. Before that, player sooner on turn, if there is any, can decide to demand card instead. If they don't wanna claim it for themselves, you ask everyone (in order you choose) if they wanna disagree and use up their token to burn your demand. It's great mechanic because you want to use tokens in your critical moments but sometimes it's better to keep them to stop others, you want the most out of it but not waste it in conflict with someone else while 3rd side(s) manage to use it... makes game more exciting for plenty of reasons: - winning players will be stopped more likely than losing - makes it easier to get rare piece you need to don't get stuck, or to block/connect in conflict with less caring opponent - luck of taking better cards and bonus pieces becomes less important cos it can be stolen or drain you of tokens - makes more favorable to avoid major conflict due to which others use up their tokens and get nothing from them... That's usually still the best way to victory for how overpowered dominance over main pasture is. However, if you play tournament of many games counted together, demand tokens & lone builder bonuses add new winning strategies and importance of changing them according to situation. Uninvolved player can help the strong one on plain or river system to estabilish dominance and take away points from others involved, while building their own stuff. Strategy to steal wealth won't be that thoughtless decision, and it's a little safer to do what you want and achieve ice age success that way. Oh, did you just read this all? I doubt it! :)

Will you cover the newest version now? Or just talk about if it fixes some issues?

Would love to hear your thoughts about "World without end" as well. Great Video ❤

Does anyone knows where I can find this game?. It seems impossible to find, even a second hand.

Brilliant video! Really well explained. Thanks !

These games are excellent for three players.