The box art for Feudum immediately made me think of Cones of Dunshire, then the description of playing it only amplified the feeling, then a quick google leading to a reddit discussion about the comparison and the initial rules explanation video confirmed this.
Heavy game week, yayyyy. Glad you kept Barrage, Kanban EV and Feudum. All favs of mine. Barrage is mean, I don't think there is any way around it but the expansion helps for those who want to stay out of the mud. I love Feudum but when we play it we do so a few times in a row, over a given amount of time. First time back is a bit of a slog but it's worth it for the second game and beyond. I'm not sure if I'd want to keep it to play once every few years but I'm not a collector either. Another week of awesome content, great job! Love the rambling!
So many good games! I wish I could play these big ones many times in a row to get them really under my skin, but that sadly won’t happen, at least not now! Too many games to keep or cull 🙃 Thank you for watching!
I absolutely agree! Sunniva and I just have a different level of where it becomes work. I don’t think I have played any game that would go into that category yet 😅
Yup but Kanban EV is the closest gaming thing to actual work, mean boss and tedious meetings and competition between employees included, yet it is an amazing, rewarding experience to play !
I’m with Sunniva. Barrage can be pretty brutal and the interaction can definitely leave players feeling bad when all their work gets undercut by someone else.
Omg I’m part of the video!!!! Sad face Sunniva culling barrage and feudum! Great discussion you guys, I learned Barrage the hard way, played with a guy who played dozens of times and he destroyed me and I hadn’t have time to recover, but I would really like to play more I can see it being such an awesome game, just have to get over that meanness, but also thematic that way! Feudum...a game I love but have to try so hard to table it! I’m driving to play with Mark the man himself which is one way I get to experience this beast I suppose...what a work of art though! Amazing selections and discussion!
Yes, you are part of the video 🤩 Thank you for talking about Feudum with me, so we got it to table! Hope you’ll get to play it soon! Say hi to Mark from me. We’ve never met, but I’m pretty sure he saw my review and liked it back when the game came out 😁
@@BoardGamingRamblings I remember your cannon of fun!!!! Yeah this game is almost a work of art to keep on shelve, unique game play and all! I have a feeling he will remember you! I can’t wait to learn his game again from the man!
Your video randomly showed up on my feed. I love the concept and the fast pace, but also in-depth when you get into an interesting discussion - great video!
@@BoardGamingRamblings I definitely will! I had about 300 games and just culled about 30% by selling to local people...feels like a big weight lifted and now I don't feel so bad for backing a few huge Kickstarter games coming next year :P
I really like Barrage - only a single play so far, which took quite a bit of time to figure it out, Emma my partner didn't really get it but she will after a few plays I am sure - great game. Kanban EV and Feudum are games for us to consider, in particular Kanban EV.
You guys are so cute together and your videos make me smile. Thanks for your time. While I've not played it, Feudum has to be one the prettiest board games I've had the pleasure to encounter. The art style reminds me of Dr. Seuss meets The Beatles Yellow Submarine movie and that's just magic.
Some interesting discussions again this week! I completely agree about the Journeyman expansion for Isle of Skye. It changes the style of the game and detracts from the reason people love it. I found the Druids expansion to be a much better fit for the game. With regard to Barrage, I can completely understand Sunniva's perspective. The person who taught me the game did not go easy on us in the first play. He built his dam just in front of mine, completely destroying my point and money opportunities that round. However, it is a game that shines more when you all understand what can be done. Once you can anticipate opportunities and threats, you're in a better position to either protect what you have or take advantage of opportunities. I enjoy the expansion (Leeghwater) for this one too. It adds a few more worker placement options, which seem to make the board competition less important.
Oh yeah, absolutely! So many games are like that, that when you get into it and see more of what can be done, the «randomness» and bad luck makes up less of the game. We played with Leeghwater now, I really liked it! Thank you for watching, and glad you enjoyed it! :D
We’ll see when we’re done! We will continue, and might even continue until we have zero unplayed games sometimes next year! We are thinking of a way to implement campaign games (7th continent, Tainted Grail++) as well, to really go through everything we have! People seems to agree with us that they rather us take it slow and have fun, but still push us, than stress and get burned out! :D
Love you guys! I was afraid you were both going to cull Feudum, which would have been sad since it is such an amazing game! I can understand the concerns about the movement in the guilds which can stagnate. However, I highly recommend more plays. It grows on you!
Ah ! Finally relieved, Kanban EV is safe and has secured its comfy spot on your Kallax! Not that I was overly worried, I trust your respective tastes more than mine... 😅 What a brain-melting week! Barrage + Kanban + Feudum that's a lot of rules to absorb... Respect.
It was great to play some bigger games, when we didn’t have time to play a lot of games! So many games to get through, haha! This is so much more time consuming than I would have ever guessed :P If we knew, we might not have started! Kanban EV was amazing! Cannot wait to play it more!
Always fun to see your update on keep or cull. Santorini is interesting, the one game I really want to like. But still have not fallen for it. But thats part of the charm😃
Another wonderful episode. I was keeping the fingers crossed Kanban EV would cull so I could pounce on it . :) But seriously a wonderful pile of games this week. Barrage with the expansion is one of my favorite games. Such a challenge! Thanks!
The times when Sunniva has begun the intros have made my wife and I go "Wait, what's going on?" (Don't stop switching it up, it's just mildly interesting how used to a specific thing you get) Also, obviously don't stop giving 'cull' to ones you think should be culled - the conflict is when you have the most interesting discussions. We have been in the process of examining our (much!) smaller collection and being honest about we feel about the games has been really valuable for working out what each of us both like / dislike.
Yeah, we try to switch it every second video we film, but we don’t always remember who was last, and videos get published out of order, so might not always be every second one, haha 😂 And yeah, the discussions are amazing, and what I love about filming these videos! So happy that you find value in the videos! Thank you so much!
@@BoardGamingRamblings Oh, yeah, we're always very glad when a new 'Keep or Cull' comes up. We ( to our great shame :) ) only ran across you a little while before you started that particular series.
Would love to see an extended discussion between you two on mean-mess and different games that you think have/do not have it. I’m a real marshmallow, and my partner likes to play “versus” games, so ones that suit us both are challenging to find!
This series is the series with one of the best reviews for the games on the internet, for me. Of course, less games per video, the better. Just great, thank you.
I really recommend playing Barrage with the expansion, it let's you be so much more creative and flexible than in the base game. In my game group we don't play Barrage without it :)
From this set I have Codenames: Duet. For Feudum it seems that you have to play it quite a bit to like it because it is so complex. If you only play it once or twice or have too long a stretch between plays then you probably won't like it just because of the large effort to learn and re-learn the game.
There is a special place in board game heaven for your appreciation of Feudum :-) I think it is a work of love, and unlike Gaia Project, which is so mainstream you can easily get again everywhere, I doubt that Feudum and its expansions are easily recoverable. Maybe it's one of the games that is like a small scruffy stray dog. It may not be the most fancy or favorite breed, but if it makes you happy and you adore it, just continue to give it a nice home. The couple of extra cubic centimeters of shelf space it requires is nothing compared to to the feeling you get, when you kicked it out because you did not have the time to play with it, but once you notice that you do miss that little fur ball after all, it's nowhere to be found... ... and of course it might then even rain heavily by that time... ... and it would be really cold and dark out there... ...and, anybody who now wants to suggest that this would just be an irrational personification of a dead object that is common to advanced stages of board game obsession, simply has no heart. No heart at all! :-)
@@BoardGamingRamblings Ah, but there is expensive artwork showing dogs playing poker... ;-) Actually I meant that not all games need to be perfect and the scruffy ones can still be adorable while mpossible to replace. So if they mean anything to you, think twice before getting rid of them.
All I have to say is whew! That was a close one. Barrage and Feudum are both very dear to my heart. We recently played Feudum twice in one weekend. The first play was very confrontational but the second one not so much. Both were a lot of fun. Barrage is just excellent brain burning fun. Lovers of heavy games should keep both.
Wasn’t that close! I wouldn’t have felt good about culling any of those! 😅 I want to play all our heavy games now, as it was so much fun to play heavies (new word?) again!
Great video. We only recently bought Santorini and really enjoy it a lot. I think for me, Barrage is way too heavy and interactive, so I am somewhat reluctant to even try it. But maybe I should
Absolutely love you guys! As I'm now assisting a designer in a soli variant for Feudum, I get a lot of great related content. I remember the "fun cannon" comment when you first played it. I will say, I can now teach it in 25 min.
I am absolutely serious when I say I’d love to know what your “script” is for teaching Feudum in 25 minutes. If you’re comfortable communicating with me, I’d really appreciate it.
@@tfpp1 I had exactly 5 min to teach my wife...she wants answers to "How do I earn VPs?" and "What are the main actions?" For everyone else, I have 20-25 minutes. I spend about 5 min on each of the following: the Guilds, each card, movement & monsters, each of the 5 goods, and upgrades.
@@josephpilkus1127 Ah, I see. I really appreciate you taking the time to reply. I’m taking your model to heart and thinking about how to teach it in the future. I imagine you can’t possibly cover every teeny tiny rule, right? You’re going over basics but only enough to play the game?
Oh yes, I also love the art of Feudum. A friend got an unplayed copy sitting on his shelf. Hope to get around to play it one day not too far from now. And I hoped you would say more about Santorini, because I always thought it was a childish copy of Torres. Seems like there is more to it?!
Hope you’ll get to play Feudum! It’s a beast, but a fun beast 🤩 I played Santorini before playing Torres, but I never knew they where compared before this video. I honestly do not see a lot of similarities other than them both have the plastic tower bits. Very different games in my opinion! 🥳
Great video guys!! Funny you guys talked about Troyes last time and now Barrage! Barrage is my favorite game of all time. Your discussion about it was great. I had the exact same debate with some friends. Haha. Feudum is another fantastic game and one I’ll ways keep on my shelf no matter how often I’d get to play.
The discussions are such a fun part of the series. Barrage is a top level game for me, especially with the expansion. I can only play it with some gaming friends though, as the board manipulation upsets some of my gaming friends.
Glad you are enjoying the discussions, Shawn! Yeah, playing these high interaction games, it’s a minimum that players are up for it, and that they know a bit of what’s coming for them, hehe!
If someone wants to see a little about the game, it is seriously not hard to pull it up on BGG (you can do it while watching the video). Trying to show the back of the box just doesn't feel organic (evidenced by the fact you have a hard time remembering) and it really doesn't accomplish much.
Hehe, yeah, I agree! Maybe I’ll make a poll to see what people think. I don’t mind showing the back when I remember, it’s almost gotten to the point of being a running gag :P
I personally LOVE when images of the game on the table are shown on the video. Granted I also understand that requires more editing. Either way, I don’t mind if they show-or choose not to show-the back of the box. 🙂
Santorini, great choice. It's a perfect game in my opinion. I've played 400+ games and i'm still playing matches i've never tried before. Excited to play another 400+ games.
As all games with loads of interaction, I personally wouldn’t get it for 2p only. Of course, if you don’t like the interaction, it’s easier to play it as a less ineteractive game with 2 players. The worker placement spaces are tighter with less players!
@@BoardGamingRamblings Thank you very much for your reply. I suspected this might be the case but wanted to know what you guys think. I play mainly with 2 so may pass on this one as I was looking for something with more interaction at a lower player count
Barrage is a game I want to love. A game I should love. But it just didn’t click for me. I would love to give it another go, but for now it has been culled.
Scott, if you have a chance to play it with the expansion give it a try. It might not change your mind but it does open up the game play and different strategies
Nice discussion about interaction. It's interesting because on the one hand it's true that the amount of blocking in Barrage is very high, but when I think of the kinds of interactive games that really excite me the type of interaction tends to be more interesting than just taking something before someone else can, which feels like the majority of interaction you get in Barrage. If that's the kind of interaction you like though then I can see why it's great. Probably all of the people comparing it to Brass got my expectations too high. I also think that once you know the game reasonably well the blocking becomes more deliberate. I do really dislike games where the interaction feels accidental. As far as Feudum goes, I love the way the guilds interact with the push/pull circular economy. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like that. But it frustrated me how unfocused the game felt, most of the board stuff felt pretty generic, I wish there was just enough there to facilitate the guild system and the guilds were the clear focus of the game. As is I don't think I need a copy of Feudum. But I'm one of those people who doesn't want more than 100 games. If I wanted 400 I think there would be room for Feudum, so I get it. And yeah, Kanban is a masterpiece. Maybe Vital's best.
I can see that! I do not see the comparison between Brass and Barrage....nothing alike in my mind! Yeah, I agree on Feudum! Not perfect for me either, but I just really dig it anyways :D KANBAN! ❤️
I really wanted to like Barrage. Not for me. But, I love the Core of it. The very almost Splotteresque way in which you can build and pull from one another. I really hope this gets a more distilled reimplementation at some point. I’d love a, not necessarily lighter, but streamlined version.
@@BoardGamingRamblings I think it would have been for me at one point, but tastes change. I’ve gone from loving heavier euros to seeing the appeal of simplicity (having a toddler may have fried some brain cells lol)
Feudum is amazing! The design is masterful. Resources are extremely tight and you want to do everything which is the mark of a well done action selection game. Try playing with Alter Ego and let the players build their own action deck. I think it will increase player engagement.
Yeah, I’d love to play with Alter Ego, but it was enough to just play the base game this time, hehe! Looking forward to play it again sometime in the future!
Love your takes on the games this week, specifically Barrage. I love your discussion on "mean interaction." What games have to much of this type of interaction for you? What are some exceptions?
I don’t like «take that» meanness, if that makes sense? I don’t like stealing of resources, or that you can destroy something I have built. Especially if I cannot do anything with it, or not see it coming.
Discovered your channel few days ago. You two are so cool! :) Also, since you had pandemic and viticulture in your overrated list (which I agree with), I'm slightly worried to play Everdell (which I recently bought) ans be underwhelmed by it ;)
Hey Mat! Welcome to the channel! So glad to have you here! We recently played Everdell again for Keep or Cull, and I enjoyed it more with some of the stuff from the new KS (prototype) kept it for now, to try to play a few expansions!
I agree, the expansion journeyman for Isle of Skye makes the game too heavy and too long. The expansion is not bad, but it is not what we want when we play a game of that kind (short, easy to explain,...). 😉
Kanban is amazing! My very best favourite game of all time (up to now at least). Only having the first stronghold edition (because space and price), I would really like to try the new edition to see what changed and to check those new modules. But kanban is the most close to perfection I feel in any board game. Isle of Skye is also a really interesting game but, contrary to you, I prefer to play it with the expansion. I have never play just base game, but I feel I woul think it is too simple (and this is weird because I actually also like a lot of simple straightforward games) PS: I have been forgetting to mention this. I have been missing for quite a bit your catch phrase at the end of the videos "if you want to do something that is not free". What happened to it?
Haha, thank you for mentioning the «patreon catch phrase» I’ll try to remember using it again! I just like to change it up, and I want to make the Patreons understand how much we appreciate them :D Thank you for the feedback! Also: KANBAN 😍
@@BoardGamingRamblings It always made me smile that one, that is why I started to miss it. After Kanban (bow to master Lacerda), are you going to play Vinhos at some point?
I share a lot of Sunnivas sentiment on Barrage and Feudum. Barrage is, to this day, the only game I've ever said "I don't ever want to play this again". I had such a terrible first play of it that I just don't want to go back. The game is so tight, scarce and punishing that I just don't get the hype around it. I get learning curves on games, specially on strategic heavy games; that said, I never had one bad experience playing all Lacerda titles, or Mindclash games, or Pfister games. It felt like Barrage gives you choices and then trips you up when you make the bad ones, and then getting back up is a struggle and you won't make it by the end of the game. True, I agree with the argument that I need to learn the game, play it a few times within a short amount of time, but I just don't see myself picking this game to suffer through it over playing something like Terra Mystica or Brass, or even Maracaibo or Lisboa. The thing that gets me is that on paper it should be a game that I really enjoy. So we got the expansion on a good price, got a nice insert and I'm going to give it a try again in the near future. Let's see how that goes. Feudum we just couldn't bring ourselves up to playing it. I read the rulebook on multiple ocasions with the intention of trying it out and I found it so convoluted that I feel it crushes under its own weight. For the effort to prepare for it and then the hours to play it I feel I can get 3 or 4 games played, ones I know I really enjoy. Ultimatelly, we decided on parting with it.
Life is too short to play games you don’t like! I agree on giving a game a couple of chances, but even games you thought might be a new favorite might end up being something you do not like! I enjoy the way Barrage is punishing, but I also understand that very many may hate it! Luckily, there are so many amazing games out there that we’ll all have infinite good games to play 🥳
@@BoardGamingRamblingsYes! I usually give games a few plays before making a decision to cull them, and when my mind is mostly made up I do a last one - usually with a bit of research (I see videos of people discussing it, a few minutes of gameplay) if I can spare the time. I really love board games, and it bums me out when something doesn't click for me, so I tend to give it a few goes. Like I said, to this day this is the only one that got this response out of me. And even that might change! But still looking for those cannons of "fun! fun! fun!" lol.
I personally like direct conflict games and I like multiplayer solitaire engine builders, but I am a bit cautious with Barrage now, havving seen your keep or cull. Because my traumatic experience is a person with a lot of experience bringing Caylus and mopping the floor with me. The combination of long term planning of an engine building game + direct conflict destroying your wonderfully layed out plans beeing destroyed is not for me.
Haha, we should have called it Keep or Keep! (In all seriousness, I’m super happy that we are culling as much as we are. Almost 90 games culled so far!)
That is a hard question! Per game will be low :P BG stats tells me that since I started logging plays (2016) I have 2989 plays of 934 games. That comes down to around 3 plays per game! :)
Lacerta surname is like a quality stamp on the box. I never was disappointed with his games :) Skye is a classic, great game! Feudum. I really like to play, but I hate to explain the rules... Few more words about Barrage: Being mean in Barrage is very small issue. Bigger issue is that, this game is very, very, very boring and it's long. Additional thing, people have tendency to overthink in each turn, which make game even more boring and longer. The whole design of components is horrible (e.g. colors of board or transformers mepels, what the heck !). Overall it's slightly over average 6/10. (I didn't play with expansion.)
Haha, I guess your boring is my amazing ;) I do not find Barrage boring in the slighest! Such a tight design, where every descision matters a lot! And yeah, I agree, Lacerda is (mostly) always amazing!
Barrage is one of the meanest interactive heavy euros out there. Especially with four wirh only the base game it is brutal. In my opinion it is fine to cull a game that is really good, but is not your taste. In my experience the game will just collect dust on your shelf. For example I don't really like Uwe Rosenburg games. I can objectively see that they are really good, but I just don't like them and I rather not play them.
I agree! That is the point of the keep or cull series as well. I want to look at the collection and see games I think are awesome (in their way) and that I’d like to play again. Sunniva has is a bit harder at that culling than I am, but I’m still very happy with how the culling is going so far! :D
@@BoardGamingRamblings I have recently been loving meanness/interaction in games. I have Barrage but have not played it yet, I wonder how the meanness compares to something like Caylus or El Grande?
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For real? Not showing the back of Barrage even though you realized you missed it? Come on guys! I thought you tried to do it because viewers (including me) asked for it. Care a bit. It IS silly, but it also means something. I challenge you to start every episode by showing all game backs you forgot to show in the previous episode. Are you game? Loved the "mean" discussion for Barrage. Looking forward to next episode, and some serious back-showing.
Hey Thorbjörn! Sorry you feel that way! Showing the back is something we will absolutely continue doing when we remember! If we forgot, there’s loads of places online to find more info on the game :) As for not caring enough. I wouldn’t spend hours every week on filming these, then hours on editing and then hours upon hours answering comments and interacting if I didn’t care! If I didn’t care, there would be no videos, let alone any backs of boxes 😄 Hope you’ll continue to enjoy the videos, and we will continue showing as many backs as we can 🤩
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@@BoardGamingRamblings I am sorry that I expressed myself in such a negative way. I really do think you care about both your viewers and what you do. I DO enjoy the show and keep coming back. Do it the way you want, it is your show and you do it well.
@@BoardGamingRamblings nope. too heavy for my taste. there's a limit when fun thinky puzzle becomes just a headache without any fun :D sweet spot for me is weight 3.2-3.79
@@BoardGamingRamblings of course, happy to support you guys. This series has been great and getting your insights into these games as well as why you might keep or cull them has given me a lot to think about with my collection.
@@sunnivavarjord That's it exactly! :) I do love your videos though, you are yet another examples that the board game community exists mostly of super friendly people and I really like that about the hobby.
Can I make a comment on the audio? I have to turn my TV up waaay higher than on anything else to get you guys to a good volume. Is there anything you can do about this? 😬
Hey Nik! That is super weird! I had to check if I had the same trouble, and no, I do not. I tried running it on my phone, my ipad and my tv, and the sound is at the same level as other YT videos. 😕 Is this the case for all our videos, or just this one? I’ve never had any trouble with the sound, especially after we got the mics and mixer we are using now!
@@BoardGamingRamblings It's for all of them, I watch them on my TV and I always need to put the volume up a lot higher compared to other CZcams videos, regular TV, and Netflix etc. It's perfectly clear, just a bit quiet and after noticing it for a few videos I thought I'd comment about it!
The box art for Feudum immediately made me think of Cones of Dunshire, then the description of playing it only amplified the feeling, then a quick google leading to a reddit discussion about the comparison and the initial rules explanation video confirmed this.
Hahahahaha 🤣 It does make it easy to compare them! I’m pretty sure Feudum is a lot better, and also easier! If not, I really want to play Dunshire 😉
Heavy game week, yayyyy.
Glad you kept Barrage, Kanban EV and Feudum. All favs of mine.
Barrage is mean, I don't think there is any way around it but the expansion helps for those who want to stay out of the mud. I love Feudum but when we play it we do so a few times in a row, over a given amount of time. First time back is a bit of a slog but it's worth it for the second game and beyond. I'm not sure if I'd want to keep it to play once every few years but I'm not a collector either.
Another week of awesome content, great job! Love the rambling!
So many good games! I wish I could play these big ones many times in a row to get them really under my skin, but that sadly won’t happen, at least not now! Too many games to keep or cull 🙃 Thank you for watching!
12th week tally, played 6 games.
Keep: 6
Cull: 0
Total: 177 Games
Keep: 95 (54%)
Cull: 82 (46%)
Thank you for the stats! :D You are quickly watching everything! :D
Spoiler alert 😑
Sorry about that! Spoilers everywhere in the comments :O
Totally agree with Sunniva. Complex games are great but a game should be more fun than work.
I absolutely agree! Sunniva and I just have a different level of where it becomes work. I don’t think I have played any game that would go into that category yet 😅
Yup but Kanban EV is the closest gaming thing to actual work, mean boss and tedious meetings and competition between employees included, yet it is an amazing, rewarding experience to play !
I really love this series, really fun stuff!
Thank you so much! That means a lot 🤩
I’m with Sunniva. Barrage can be pretty brutal and the interaction can definitely leave players feeling bad when all their work gets undercut by someone else.
I can absolutely see why you think that! It’s a brutal and punishing game!
Congrats to Barrage MASTER Sunniva!
She will be proud of this comment! Thank you 🥳
Thank you! 😎
Omg I’m part of the video!!!! Sad face Sunniva culling barrage and feudum! Great discussion you guys, I learned Barrage the hard way, played with a guy who played dozens of times and he destroyed me and I hadn’t have time to recover, but I would really like to play more I can see it being such an awesome game, just have to get over that meanness, but also thematic that way! Feudum...a game I love but have to try so hard to table it! I’m driving to play with Mark the man himself which is one way I get to experience this beast I suppose...what a work of art though! Amazing selections and discussion!
Yes, you are part of the video 🤩 Thank you for talking about Feudum with me, so we got it to table! Hope you’ll get to play it soon! Say hi to Mark from me. We’ve never met, but I’m pretty sure he saw my review and liked it back when the game came out 😁
@@BoardGamingRamblings I remember your cannon of fun!!!! Yeah this game is almost a work of art to keep on shelve, unique game play and all! I have a feeling he will remember you! I can’t wait to learn his game again from the man!
Your video randomly showed up on my feed. I love the concept and the fast pace, but also in-depth when you get into an interesting discussion - great video!
Hey Andrew! Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it 🤩 Hope you’ll continue enjoying the content 🥳
@@BoardGamingRamblings I definitely will! I had about 300 games and just culled about 30% by selling to local people...feels like a big weight lifted and now I don't feel so bad for backing a few huge Kickstarter games coming next year :P
Love the discussions you guys have on the games you "disagree" on and the train of thoughts.
Thank you! It’s my favorite part of recording these 🤩
I really like Barrage - only a single play so far, which took quite a bit of time to figure it out, Emma my partner didn't really get it but she will after a few plays I am sure - great game. Kanban EV and Feudum are games for us to consider, in particular Kanban EV.
You guys are so cute together and your videos make me smile. Thanks for your time.
While I've not played it, Feudum has to be one the prettiest board games I've had the pleasure to encounter. The art style reminds me of Dr. Seuss meets The Beatles Yellow Submarine movie and that's just magic.
Thank you so much! That means a lot! Thank you for your time as well :D It means so much that you are watching and interaction!
Some interesting discussions again this week! I completely agree about the Journeyman expansion for Isle of Skye. It changes the style of the game and detracts from the reason people love it. I found the Druids expansion to be a much better fit for the game.
With regard to Barrage, I can completely understand Sunniva's perspective. The person who taught me the game did not go easy on us in the first play. He built his dam just in front of mine, completely destroying my point and money opportunities that round. However, it is a game that shines more when you all understand what can be done. Once you can anticipate opportunities and threats, you're in a better position to either protect what you have or take advantage of opportunities. I enjoy the expansion (Leeghwater) for this one too. It adds a few more worker placement options, which seem to make the board competition less important.
Oh yeah, absolutely! So many games are like that, that when you get into it and see more of what can be done, the «randomness» and bad luck makes up less of the game. We played with Leeghwater now, I really liked it! Thank you for watching, and glad you enjoyed it! :D
Lol, I get happy when you both agree on the keep/cull. But when you disagree, it creates opportunity for very interesting discussions!
Yeah, I agree! I love these discussions! The only positive thing about playing few games, is we have more time to discuss them!
Keep em' coming! I will be sad next March when this ends? Love this series!
We’ll see when we’re done! We will continue, and might even continue until we have zero unplayed games sometimes next year! We are thinking of a way to implement campaign games (7th continent, Tainted Grail++) as well, to really go through everything we have! People seems to agree with us that they rather us take it slow and have fun, but still push us, than stress and get burned out! :D
Love you guys! I was afraid you were both going to cull Feudum, which would have been sad since it is such an amazing game! I can understand the concerns about the movement in the guilds which can stagnate. However, I highly recommend more plays. It grows on you!
Thank you for the kind words! Feudum is a very unique game to me, and I hope I’ll get the chance to play it more the next time we bring it out! :)
Ah ! Finally relieved, Kanban EV is safe and has secured its comfy spot on your Kallax! Not that I was overly worried, I trust your respective tastes more than mine... 😅
What a brain-melting week! Barrage + Kanban + Feudum that's a lot of rules to absorb... Respect.
It was great to play some bigger games, when we didn’t have time to play a lot of games! So many games to get through, haha! This is so much more time consuming than I would have ever guessed :P If we knew, we might not have started! Kanban EV was amazing! Cannot wait to play it more!
@@BoardGamingRamblings Really looking forward to playing Kanban EV.
It’s soooo gooood 🤩
I'm repeating myself, love this series! 🤔 I wonder what they are going to cull this week was my though at the beginning of the video... 😂
Always fun to see your update on keep or cull. Santorini is interesting, the one game I really want to like. But still have not fallen for it.
But thats part of the charm😃
Not all games are for everyone, hehe :D Thank you for watching!
Another wonderful episode. I was keeping the fingers crossed Kanban EV would cull so I could pounce on it . :) But seriously a wonderful pile of games this week. Barrage with the expansion is one of my favorite games. Such a challenge! Thanks!
Hehe, sorry that we kept it :P Thank you for watching! :D
The times when Sunniva has begun the intros have made my wife and I go "Wait, what's going on?" (Don't stop switching it up, it's just mildly interesting how used to a specific thing you get) Also, obviously don't stop giving 'cull' to ones you think should be culled - the conflict is when you have the most interesting discussions. We have been in the process of examining our (much!) smaller collection and being honest about we feel about the games has been really valuable for working out what each of us both like / dislike.
Yeah, we try to switch it every second video we film, but we don’t always remember who was last, and videos get published out of order, so might not always be every second one, haha 😂 And yeah, the discussions are amazing, and what I love about filming these videos! So happy that you find value in the videos! Thank you so much!
@@BoardGamingRamblings Oh, yeah, we're always very glad when a new 'Keep or Cull' comes up. We ( to our great shame :) ) only ran across you a little while before you started that particular series.
That makes me so happy to hear! Nothing makes me happier than people having fun watching the content :D
Wow!!!! Great! I love Feudum and Kanban!!!! I´m very happy that you´ll keep them all!
Thank you :D So much fun to play these heavy games!
Would love to see an extended discussion between you two on mean-mess and different games that you think have/do not have it. I’m a real marshmallow, and my partner likes to play “versus” games, so ones that suit us both are challenging to find!
This series is the series with one of the best reviews for the games on the internet, for me. Of course, less games per video, the better. Just great, thank you.
Thank you so much, Bob! That means a lot :D We’ll try to play less games in the future 😂 Thank you for being here!
@@BoardGamingRamblings noooo just make these videos either longer or with less games. 😊
I really recommend playing Barrage with the expansion, it let's you be so much more creative and flexible than in the base game. In my game group we don't play Barrage without it :)
Hey! We did play with the expansion this time,. I really enjoyed it :D
From this set I have Codenames: Duet. For Feudum it seems that you have to play it quite a bit to like it because it is so complex. If you only play it once or twice or have too long a stretch between plays then you probably won't like it just because of the large effort to learn and re-learn the game.
Yeah, I think that is the case with most heavy games, and especially Feudum because of all the little rules!
Yeah Journeyman is a big U-turn from what makes the base game so enjoyable. The Druids expansion is brilliant though.
Would love to try Druids! :D
There is a special place in board game heaven for your appreciation of Feudum :-)
I think it is a work of love, and unlike Gaia Project, which is so mainstream you can easily get again everywhere, I doubt that Feudum and its expansions are easily recoverable.
Maybe it's one of the games that is like a small scruffy stray dog. It may not be the most fancy or favorite breed, but if it makes you happy and you adore it, just continue to give it a nice home. The couple of extra cubic centimeters of shelf space it requires is nothing compared to to the feeling you get, when you kicked it out because you did not have the time to play with it, but once you notice that you do miss that little fur ball after all, it's nowhere to be found...
... and of course it might then even rain heavily by that time...
... and it would be really cold and dark out there...
...and, anybody who now wants to suggest that this would just be an irrational personification of a dead object that is common to advanced stages of board game obsession, simply has no heart.
No heart at all! :-)
Haha, I agree! Who needs a dog when you have Feudum? (That’s what you meant, right? 🙃) Also, dogs can’t play most games, so what are they for?
@@BoardGamingRamblings Ah, but there is expensive artwork showing dogs playing poker... ;-)
Actually I meant that not all games need to be perfect and the scruffy ones can still be adorable while mpossible to replace. So if they mean anything to you, think twice before getting rid of them.
@@BoardGamingRamblings Coming to think about it. One Feudum expansions has squirrels. Dogs and squirrels tend to be an issue ;-)
I love what you said! I was just being unfunny with the dog stuff, sorry 🤣
Thank you for taking time to make this great comment! It means a lot! 😄
Hello from Sweden, I just found you guys! You've got a new subscriber! :)
Hey Magnus! Welcome to the channel 🤩 Hope you’ll enjoy the content!
My copy of Feudum should be arriving in the mail today! I almost panicked when I thought you were culling it!
Hope you’ll love it! It’s a unique game for sure. Have you played before you bought it?
All I have to say is whew! That was a close one. Barrage and Feudum are both very dear to my heart. We recently played Feudum twice in one weekend. The first play was very confrontational but the second one not so much. Both were a lot of fun. Barrage is just excellent brain burning fun. Lovers of heavy games should keep both.
Wasn’t that close! I wouldn’t have felt good about culling any of those! 😅 I want to play all our heavy games now, as it was so much fun to play heavies (new word?) again!
Great video. We only recently bought Santorini and really enjoy it a lot. I think for me, Barrage is way too heavy and interactive, so I am somewhat reluctant to even try it. But maybe I should
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! Check out videos for Barrage! It is a lot, and has loads of interaction! Glad you are enjoying Santorini! :D
This is going to be a short episode.
Immediately followed by a 7 minute discussion on Barrage. :)
It always happens 🤪
Come for the ramblings... stay for the ramblings...
Absolutely love you guys! As I'm now assisting a designer in a soli variant for Feudum, I get a lot of great related content. I remember the "fun cannon" comment when you first played it. I will say, I can now teach it in 25 min.
I am absolutely serious when I say I’d love to know what your “script” is for teaching Feudum in 25 minutes. If you’re comfortable communicating with me, I’d really appreciate it.
@@tfpp1 I had exactly 5 min to teach my wife...she wants answers to "How do I earn VPs?" and "What are the main actions?" For everyone else, I have 20-25 minutes. I spend about 5 min on each of the following: the Guilds, each card, movement & monsters, each of the 5 goods, and upgrades.
@@josephpilkus1127 Upgrades??
@tfpp1 my apologies...upgrading the tokens ~ fort -> farm; farm -> town; town ->feudum
@@josephpilkus1127 Ah, I see. I really appreciate you taking the time to reply. I’m taking your model to heart and thinking about how to teach it in the future. I imagine you can’t possibly cover every teeny tiny rule, right? You’re going over basics but only enough to play the game?
Oh yes, I also love the art of Feudum. A friend got an unplayed copy sitting on his shelf. Hope to get around to play it one day not too far from now.
And I hoped you would say more about Santorini, because I always thought it was a childish copy of Torres. Seems like there is more to it?!
Hope you’ll get to play Feudum! It’s a beast, but a fun beast 🤩 I played Santorini before playing Torres, but I never knew they where compared before this video. I honestly do not see a lot of similarities other than them both have the plastic tower bits. Very different games in my opinion! 🥳
Great video guys!! Funny you guys talked about Troyes last time and now Barrage!
Barrage is my favorite game of all time. Your discussion about it was great. I had the exact same debate with some friends. Haha.
Feudum is another fantastic game and one I’ll ways keep on my shelf no matter how often I’d get to play.
Thank you for watching, as always, Corey! That means a lot :D I love the discussions that comes up in these videos!
The discussions are such a fun part of the series. Barrage is a top level game for me, especially with the expansion. I can only play it with some gaming friends though, as the board manipulation upsets some of my gaming friends.
Glad you are enjoying the discussions, Shawn! Yeah, playing these high interaction games, it’s a minimum that players are up for it, and that they know a bit of what’s coming for them, hehe!
another great one - love watching your opinions on all these games
Thank you! So happy that you are enjoying it :D
If someone wants to see a little about the game, it is seriously not hard to pull it up on BGG (you can do it while watching the video). Trying to show the back of the box just doesn't feel organic (evidenced by the fact you have a hard time remembering) and it really doesn't accomplish much.
Hehe, yeah, I agree! Maybe I’ll make a poll to see what people think. I don’t mind showing the back when I remember, it’s almost gotten to the point of being a running gag :P
I personally LOVE when images of the game on the table are shown on the video. Granted I also understand that requires more editing. Either way, I don’t mind if they show-or choose not to show-the back of the box. 🙂
Great video. The banter is terrific. I have heard Barrage is brutally mean. My wife and I might not make it through a gameplay of that.
Thank you so much! That means a lot to hear! Haha, then I think you should not play Barrage :P
Honestly surprised at keeping Santorini and Codenames, but they are very good lightweight games, which, in my opinion, every collection should have.
Santorini is superb 🤩
Santorini, great choice. It's a perfect game in my opinion. I've played 400+ games and i'm still playing matches i've never tried before. Excited to play another 400+ games.
Wow! 400 plays! That is wild 🤩 So awesome to hear you are enjoying the game that much!
I agree with Suniva. I haaate Barrage because it just too cut throating, too punishy. one of the few games I avoid playing
I can absolutely understand that! :D
Thanks for the video guys. I have been interested in Barrage for a while and would like to know if you had any comments on how it plays 2 players.
As all games with loads of interaction, I personally wouldn’t get it for 2p only. Of course, if you don’t like the interaction, it’s easier to play it as a less ineteractive game with 2 players. The worker placement spaces are tighter with less players!
@@BoardGamingRamblings Thank you very much for your reply. I suspected this might be the case but wanted to know what you guys think. I play mainly with 2 so may pass on this one as I was looking for something with more interaction at a lower player count
Good luck in your search :D So many good games to choose from!
Barrage is a game I want to love. A game I should love. But it just didn’t click for me. I would love to give it another go, but for now it has been culled.
I absolutely understand! It happens from time to time, that something we think we should love just doesn’t work. It always makes me sad!
Scott, if you have a chance to play it with the expansion give it a try. It might not change your mind but it does open up the game play and different strategies
I really agree on the expansion! Opens up the game, but still feels very tight!
Nice discussion about interaction. It's interesting because on the one hand it's true that the amount of blocking in Barrage is very high, but when I think of the kinds of interactive games that really excite me the type of interaction tends to be more interesting than just taking something before someone else can, which feels like the majority of interaction you get in Barrage. If that's the kind of interaction you like though then I can see why it's great. Probably all of the people comparing it to Brass got my expectations too high. I also think that once you know the game reasonably well the blocking becomes more deliberate. I do really dislike games where the interaction feels accidental.
As far as Feudum goes, I love the way the guilds interact with the push/pull circular economy. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like that. But it frustrated me how unfocused the game felt, most of the board stuff felt pretty generic, I wish there was just enough there to facilitate the guild system and the guilds were the clear focus of the game. As is I don't think I need a copy of Feudum. But I'm one of those people who doesn't want more than 100 games. If I wanted 400 I think there would be room for Feudum, so I get it.
And yeah, Kanban is a masterpiece. Maybe Vital's best.
I can see that! I do not see the comparison between Brass and Barrage....nothing alike in my mind! Yeah, I agree on Feudum! Not perfect for me either, but I just really dig it anyways :D KANBAN! ❤️
I really wanted to like Barrage. Not for me. But, I love the Core of it. The very almost Splotteresque way in which you can build and pull from one another. I really hope this gets a more distilled reimplementation at some point. I’d love a, not necessarily lighter, but streamlined version.
That makes a lot of sense! I really love Barrage, but I understand it’s not for everyone! 🥳
@@BoardGamingRamblings I think it would have been for me at one point, but tastes change. I’ve gone from loving heavier euros to seeing the appeal of simplicity (having a toddler may have fried some brain cells lol)
Codenames Duet is great with two teams. No down time.
That is cool! Maybe we’ll try that with four sometime!
Agreed, 2 teams of 2 Codenames Duet is a lot of fun!
Woohoo, it's another great day because of you!!
Thank you! Happy to bring joy to your day 🥳
Feudum is amazing! The design is masterful. Resources are extremely tight and you want to do everything which is the mark of a well done action selection game. Try playing with Alter Ego and let the players build their own action deck. I think it will increase player engagement.
Yeah, I’d love to play with Alter Ego, but it was enough to just play the base game this time, hehe! Looking forward to play it again sometime in the future!
Feudum is my #1 Shelf decoration, has never hit the table because I know it would shine at 4p and anything less is a disservice :(
Yeah, 4p is absolutely best! 3 is also good, but 4 is better!
Finally some good culls to choose from here :D
Haha, glad you feel that way!
Love your takes on the games this week, specifically Barrage. I love your discussion on "mean interaction." What games have to much of this type of interaction for you? What are some exceptions?
I really want to try Dominant Species, but I am worries I will not like it, so I won’t be buying a copy before trying it somewhere!
I don’t like «take that» meanness, if that makes sense? I don’t like stealing of resources, or that you can destroy something I have built. Especially if I cannot do anything with it, or not see it coming.
@@BoardGamingRamblings totally understand. Thanks for the clarification!
What song plays in the intro to your videos? Do you like ska music, or is it just something to help the transition?
just started a codenames duet campaign last week! fun but slightly anxiety inducing haha
Sounds awesome! And yeah, I can see that, haha! Hope you’ll have mostly fun!
Discovered your channel few days ago. You two are so cool! :) Also, since you had pandemic and viticulture in your overrated list (which I agree with), I'm slightly worried to play Everdell (which I recently bought) ans be underwhelmed by it ;)
Hey Mat! Welcome to the channel! So glad to have you here! We recently played Everdell again for Keep or Cull, and I enjoyed it more with some of the stuff from the new KS (prototype) kept it for now, to try to play a few expansions!
I agree, the expansion journeyman for Isle of Skye makes the game too heavy and too long. The expansion is not bad, but it is not what we want when we play a game of that kind (short, easy to explain,...). 😉
Yeah, it was nice, but added loads of things I didn’t need to add to the game!
Druids is an extra step to buy more tiles, doesn’t make it longer or more complex, after one play with a new player you can add this expansion.
Kanban is amazing! My very best favourite game of all time (up to now at least). Only having the first stronghold edition (because space and price), I would really like to try the new edition to see what changed and to check those new modules. But kanban is the most close to perfection I feel in any board game.
Isle of Skye is also a really interesting game but, contrary to you, I prefer to play it with the expansion. I have never play just base game, but I feel I woul think it is too simple (and this is weird because I actually also like a lot of simple straightforward games)
PS: I have been forgetting to mention this. I have been missing for quite a bit your catch phrase at the end of the videos "if you want to do something that is not free". What happened to it?
Haha, thank you for mentioning the «patreon catch phrase» I’ll try to remember using it again! I just like to change it up, and I want to make the Patreons understand how much we appreciate them :D Thank you for the feedback!
Also: KANBAN 😍
@@BoardGamingRamblings It always made me smile that one, that is why I started to miss it.
After Kanban (bow to master Lacerda), are you going to play Vinhos at some point?
Druids is supposed to be better for Isle of Skye than journeyman. Can't seem to get hold of it in the UK though!
Yeah, I haven't found it anywhere here yet!
@@BoardGamingRamblings I suspect it might be out of print. Certainly no shops have it in stock
No Sunniva, you cannot cull Gaia Project =P Feudum sounds like a game I would cull though.
Tell her like it is 🤣
Looking forward to the discussion when you've spent a whole month trying to lift a single curse in the 7th Continent 😉
It's time for the fun cannons!
I love fun cannons 🥳
In my head! 😆
Zombies everywhere 🥳
have you guys talked about root?
We have not yet! Still on the shelf to get played again!
Did I just notice Paul Grogan is one of your Patreon Supporters?!
Yes, that is correct! :) Paul is amazing!
Can you guys review the video games your playing?
We might talk about some video games in our live Q&A’s when people ask, but we have no plans to make any video game videos, sorry!
Do you have a link to buy tee shirts?
Very soon! 🤩
Have you guys noticed Tom Vasel is copying your extended hello intro.
Hahaha, I do not think that is the case :P But no, I hadn’t noticed either ;)
I share a lot of Sunnivas sentiment on Barrage and Feudum.
Barrage is, to this day, the only game I've ever said "I don't ever want to play this again". I had such a terrible first play of it that I just don't want to go back. The game is so tight, scarce and punishing that I just don't get the hype around it. I get learning curves on games, specially on strategic heavy games; that said, I never had one bad experience playing all Lacerda titles, or Mindclash games, or Pfister games. It felt like Barrage gives you choices and then trips you up when you make the bad ones, and then getting back up is a struggle and you won't make it by the end of the game. True, I agree with the argument that I need to learn the game, play it a few times within a short amount of time, but I just don't see myself picking this game to suffer through it over playing something like Terra Mystica or Brass, or even Maracaibo or Lisboa.
The thing that gets me is that on paper it should be a game that I really enjoy. So we got the expansion on a good price, got a nice insert and I'm going to give it a try again in the near future. Let's see how that goes.
Feudum we just couldn't bring ourselves up to playing it. I read the rulebook on multiple ocasions with the intention of trying it out and I found it so convoluted that I feel it crushes under its own weight. For the effort to prepare for it and then the hours to play it I feel I can get 3 or 4 games played, ones I know I really enjoy. Ultimatelly, we decided on parting with it.
Life is too short to play games you don’t like! I agree on giving a game a couple of chances, but even games you thought might be a new favorite might end up being something you do not like! I enjoy the way Barrage is punishing, but I also understand that very many may hate it! Luckily, there are so many amazing games out there that we’ll all have infinite good games to play 🥳
@@BoardGamingRamblingsYes! I usually give games a few plays before making a decision to cull them, and when my mind is mostly made up I do a last one - usually with a bit of research (I see videos of people discussing it, a few minutes of gameplay) if I can spare the time.
I really love board games, and it bums me out when something doesn't click for me, so I tend to give it a few goes. Like I said, to this day this is the only one that got this response out of me. And even that might change!
But still looking for those cannons of "fun! fun! fun!" lol.
Are you going to cull the original Kanban?
We’re not gonna keep both in the collection! Might give the old one to a friend or something, we haven’t decided 😊
I personally like direct conflict games and I like multiplayer solitaire engine builders, but I am a bit cautious with Barrage now, havving seen your keep or cull. Because my traumatic experience is a person with a lot of experience bringing Caylus and mopping the floor with me. The combination of long term planning of an engine building game + direct conflict destroying your wonderfully layed out plans beeing destroyed is not for me.
Great video. #teamCull lol 😆
Haha, we should have called it Keep or Keep! (In all seriousness, I’m super happy that we are culling as much as we are. Almost 90 games culled so far!)
@@BoardGamingRamblings You are doing great. Also when a game is good to great it is worth keeping
i want to buy Santorini but i backed Ragnarocks on KS
Sunniva this time with the hello into 😂
It’s the best :D
so on average, just an approximate number, how many plays per game do you have in your 600+ collection?(considering in the average only games played)
That is a hard question! Per game will be low :P BG stats tells me that since I started logging plays (2016) I have 2989 plays of 934 games. That comes down to around 3 plays per game! :)
@@BoardGamingRamblings wow thats a great number its like playing almost 2 games a day for 5 years!!!
Feudum is THE SHIT! Most people dont give it enough credit.
I really understand why it’s so divided! A hard one to teach and get to the table, but I really enjoy it!
Lacerta surname is like a quality stamp on the box. I never was disappointed with his games :)
Skye is a classic, great game!
Feudum. I really like to play, but I hate to explain the rules...
Few more words about Barrage:
Being mean in Barrage is very small issue. Bigger issue is that, this game is very, very, very boring and it's long.
Additional thing, people have tendency to overthink in each turn, which make game even more boring and longer.
The whole design of components is horrible (e.g. colors of board or transformers mepels, what the heck !).
Overall it's slightly over average 6/10. (I didn't play with expansion.)
Haha, I guess your boring is my amazing ;) I do not find Barrage boring in the slighest! Such a tight design, where every descision matters a lot! And yeah, I agree, Lacerda is (mostly) always amazing!
Barrage is one of the meanest interactive heavy euros out there. Especially with four wirh only the base game it is brutal. In my opinion it is fine to cull a game that is really good, but is not your taste. In my experience the game will just collect dust on your shelf. For example I don't really like Uwe Rosenburg games. I can objectively see that they are really good, but I just don't like them and I rather not play them.
I agree! That is the point of the keep or cull series as well. I want to look at the collection and see games I think are awesome (in their way) and that I’d like to play again. Sunniva has is a bit harder at that culling than I am, but I’m still very happy with how the culling is going so far! :D
Oh no the back of the Santorini not aligned with direction of the lid!?! Sacrilegious
Almost never, as I never look at the back of the boxes 😂
Great Keeps!
Thank you for watching, Sebastian! And yes, I agree 🤩
The culls weren’t very good though 😜
@@BoardGamingRamblings hahaha I guess they weren't
The meanness in Barrage is the reason that I decided not to buy it, so I sympathize.
I can absolutely understand that! It’s an interesting topic for sure!
@@BoardGamingRamblings I have recently been loving meanness/interaction in games. I have Barrage but have not played it yet, I wonder how the meanness compares to something like Caylus or El Grande?
For real? Not showing the back of Barrage even though you realized you missed it? Come on guys! I thought you tried to do it because viewers (including me) asked for it. Care a bit. It IS silly, but it also means something.
I challenge you to start every episode by showing all game backs you forgot to show in the previous episode. Are you game?
Loved the "mean" discussion for Barrage. Looking forward to next episode, and some serious back-showing.
Hey Thorbjörn! Sorry you feel that way! Showing the back is something we will absolutely continue doing when we remember! If we forgot, there’s loads of places online to find more info on the game :)
As for not caring enough. I wouldn’t spend hours every week on filming these, then hours on editing and then hours upon hours answering comments and interacting if I didn’t care! If I didn’t care, there would be no videos, let alone any backs of boxes 😄
Hope you’ll continue to enjoy the videos, and we will continue showing as many backs as we can 🤩
@@BoardGamingRamblings I am sorry that I expressed myself in such a negative way. I really do think you care about both your viewers and what you do. I DO enjoy the show and keep coming back. Do it the way you want, it is your show and you do it well.
first time a pile of games which I would all, yes ALL, cull. didn't have fun with any of them
Sad you didn’t like Kanban! Do you not tend to enjoy any Lacerda games?
@@BoardGamingRamblings nope. too heavy for my taste. there's a limit when fun thinky puzzle becomes just a headache without any fun :D
sweet spot for me is weight 3.2-3.79
Sounds awesome! It’s so good to know what you like, so you most often can get games that fit your likings and not be disappointed 😄
@@BoardGamingRamblings took me 300 different games to figure that out
Am I the Timothy who won a game?
I believe so, yes! 🥳 Thank you for being a Patron! 😁
@@BoardGamingRamblings of course, happy to support you guys. This series has been great and getting your insights into these games as well as why you might keep or cull them has given me a lot to think about with my collection.
Thank you so much! So glad you are finding value in it :D
@@BoardGamingRamblings if I'm the right Timothy, let me know what I need to do next.
I’ll send you an email, hopefully next week, might take a little while, as there is a lot of stuff going on right now 🙃
Guys, you do a great job, but please change your intro, it keeps reminding me of the C virus... ;)
Haha, sorry about that! Because of the word Cull, or something else we do? :P
@@BoardGamingRamblings haha I think the white sphere with the smaller red spheres around it just before our logo might be the problem ;)
@@sunnivavarjord That's it exactly! :) I do love your videos though, you are yet another examples that the board game community exists mostly of super friendly people and I really like that about the hobby.
Can I make a comment on the audio? I have to turn my TV up waaay higher than on anything else to get you guys to a good volume. Is there anything you can do about this? 😬
Hey Nik! That is super weird! I had to check if I had the same trouble, and no, I do not. I tried running it on my phone, my ipad and my tv, and the sound is at the same level as other YT videos. 😕 Is this the case for all our videos, or just this one? I’ve never had any trouble with the sound, especially after we got the mics and mixer we are using now!
@@BoardGamingRamblings It's for all of them, I watch them on my TV and I always need to put the volume up a lot higher compared to other CZcams videos, regular TV, and Netflix etc. It's perfectly clear, just a bit quiet and after noticing it for a few videos I thought I'd comment about it!
Hmm, that is super weird! I’ll look a bit more into it, but I cannot say that I have the same problem, which is super weird!
This is strange. Checked again on my ipad now, and the sound levels seems very much like the other videos I checked on...
@@BoardGamingRamblings Hm, ok, maybe my TV then! Thanks for checking :)