Steamwatchers All In - Unboxing & Rambling

hey i'm alex radcliffe from board game co and it's time for another unboxing and rambling this time of steam watchers and if you're new here unboxing and rambling is a serious thing if you're looking for uh information about steam watchers it's a blah blah area control game with blah area control and steam vents and steam events and stuff and maybe we'll maybe we'll talk about it a bit more but first of all top shot coffee shot and by the way this mug has never been so apropos you see this over here kickstarter you know what doesn't even say six months late uh where does it go in four months in six months in 18 months and at what price for the shipping that is an entirely different question and yes these are intentionally upside down it would give me a hernia to see that so i thought it'd be funny to do it to yourselves but let's go ahead and get on into this we got steam watches we got our expansions we got the the spark of hope the peace with wolves and the fuel for war all sound excellent and then of course we have the base game this like i said already is an unboxing and rambling i forgot for a second i actually want the coffee so it's always fun trying to time these unboxings to well my my schedule because i only have a coffee twice a day most of the time sometimes i go more from that but most of the time i have a coffee twice a day which means if i want to do an unboxing it has to be timed around that that coffee because i want it i want the coffee as part of the unboxing it adds to the uh oh yeah it's coffee i don't really know that's coffee a fun fact i started getting there's a seltzer that i enjoy uh bubbly bubbly i think it's pronounced or i think it's pronounced probably it's b-u-b-b-l-e i believe and that spelt sir they just came out with a caffeine version of the seltzer i haven't tried i tried it once with a flavor that i didn't enjoy but i still want to try it with other flavors so we'll see i mean i like caffeine i like seltzer i'm not yet sold on the combination of the two poor people thinking they're coming for steam watchers information so let's talk with steam watchers because i will talk about steam watches a bit not necessarily in the way you might think but i'll talk about it to some degree and let's get this box top off put that over there because that's nice and pretty looking and we got what we got here let's go through this so stuff let's start with the ice logs what in the world is the ice logs oh this is the making of the steam watcher world the manrow the something the the rhinestone the catabotions this is just basically a lot of like flavor text and stuff flavor text maybe i'll do something for jesse let's see i'll i'll do something for jesse for quack glow the steam watchers rule devised by mark laguard and developed in tandem with his friend gregory albert originally had a very medieval feel all technology had to spare between the ice this is not flavor text this is history we'll move on from there so we have the steam watchers this is the rule book oh boy oh boy they're gonna get flack for this and by flack i mean like this rule book i don't know if you see how well you see this but this rule book over here this is is the wrong shape for a rule book someone sat there and said hey let's make an interesting different shape for a rule book and and they went with it it's not the worst thing that i could possibly imagine but it's also a different and very different rule book we have set up we have that let's go here from this one setup is done we have game sequence on page eight this is my usual thing i like checking how many pages a rulebook is it looks like it is fairly graphics it's graphics medium not graphics heavy which means it's not the hardest to get through and then over here we have what is that that's rounds steam watching rounds still part of the rounds part let's go ahead page eight page eight clan descriptions set up is this extra stuff what is this i can't really tell exactly where the end of the game stuff is end of the game rounds polluted special rules i'm not entirely sure exactly what's going on here we have endgame and victory over here oh scenarios you must choose a scenario so enables are able more flexibility and maybe these are scenarios or this is steam watching 101 the tutorial followed by other scenarios so it looks like we're talking about pages 8 to 16 on graphics medium that's only eight pages that is not bad looks like we have some examples we have a full page of common example over here that is not bad as far as things go and then king of average will be very happy that he's having a positive impact on the board game world i mean he already was having a positive impact on the game four game world this is just more of it we have the index the index from mythic games on a on a game so because cause because in disc is our thing speaking of what's just today i watched uh tom vassell talk about how forget indexes i mean not forget indexes but in addition to indexes he wants to see we're going to take this stuff out over here he wants to see whoa okay lots of trades let's go through this he wants people to give basically a breakdown of how to set up your game how to put it away all that stuff especially if you backed it on kickstarter okay these trays are not ending why aren't these trays ending oh dear lord these trays are not ending oh dear lord okay i'm just just gonna stack this up to my chin over here toss out this piece of cardboard over there and that's what we got over here okay also not the firmest plastic so let's go ahead and get into this that's going to go down there and then we're going to kind of just make this all work these trays will come down like so we'll rearrange my coffee we still got my knife out and so let's talk about steam watchers steamwatches is a game that i did not back and then i did because it was a game that it's one of those you know how i get i get a very common request i get on this channel is a top 10 list of games i wish i had backed and i haven't done one of those videos because there's generally not 10 that i wish i had backed most of the time if i didn't back the game there's a reason for it and then sadly most of the time thanks to late pleasures most of the time i want to back a game i get to the opportunity to do so and so i've slowly kept the list i've slowly whenever i thought of one it's like oh you know that one i wish i had backed something inevitably happened such that the list has never exceeded 10 games it's always been like four or five games because things get added and taken off either a pledge manager opens up and suddenly i can get it or in the case of let's say nemesis nemesis was a game i regretted not backing but then they had nemesis lockdown so i kind of got it do i still put on the video do i not if i need to get to 10 i guess i will so we have our double layer player boards we have the ron let's go ahead and show you this because the art here is beautiful this by the way some of the thickest double layered stuff i've seen before and every faction does have a degree of asymmetry to it so you are dealing with actual differences in the factions uh this is obviously going to be compared to contrasted with dei the gameplay wall different they both have area control and they both came out at the same time at kickstarter and they both have tiny miniatures like they both they're bucking the trend of like you know the 32 millimeter or 28 millimeter miniatures and they're going with tiny in cbnc little miniatures and both of them have a winter theme as well so there's enough comparisons if they actually have anything similar in terms of gameplay i'll probably do a playlist not that video on this we shall see let's go ahead and open this degree of plastic here but these are nice by the way these player boards solid quality over there so why didn't i back steam watches by the way fun fact both steam watchers and dei i laid back i did not back either them on both of them i had self-control i maintained my composure and i said i don't need these games and then i um i don't want to talk about it but anyways well actually not true so here's what happened actually i'll tell you what happened it's actually not that it's actually interesting enough so we have the board here let's go through the board then we'll go through the punch boards so what happened with dei we have stickers not a fan of stickers not sure why they exist i'll find out soon enough but stickers so dei what i had the opportunity before the pledge manager closed i was doing a video on why i didn't back it or whatnot and i had the opportunity from lucas magnus studios to basically try the game on tts and so i i did because i figured you know what if i'm doing a video on it at this point because when i was originally on kickstarter i think i had just started doing content creation when i was using kickstarter uh same for you know steam watches c-muscles was after i think i think steam watchers was after either way they're both around the start of my kickstarter on my youtube uh content creation stuff this board won't open and let's go ahead whoa that board is this board is way too big let's go ahead and move some stuff around okay and it's not actually too big it's it's just right but it's also too big for the camera so i don't know what you can see here it looks like you can just see let's zoom out a bit for a second we'll go ahead and zoom out that's going to be the steam watches board over here that's pretty cool now i'm not actually going to put my mug down because that would bother me too whenever people have seen my mug on camera whenever people see my my mug sitting on game pieces is almost always a prototype for prototypes that are not final games i'm willing to do it but for actual games i like them too much so dei i had opportunities to try dei and i went ahead and did so and i really enjoyed dei and so i late backed it and then sadly because self-control i was like well if i was wrong of a dei then maybe i'm wrong with steam watches as well and this by the way this is decent nice i mean i don't really overly go into it the cardboard is good it's not too thin not too thick i have comments in the past in destinies in particular i commented on the the thick chunkiness of the the cardboard and this is not that level but it's also not too thin it's just right then we have these player boards we're going to have i assume someone here will have some tokens to to clip these boards together to make little spinning things spinning things is the technical term otherwise known as dials i guess probably dials we have our mythic games piece over here this i'm assuming is garbage and this is another thing tom also talked about he's like if there's a piece that doesn't need to be there if there's a piece that is not part of the game and can be thrown out print it with a garbage can symbol on it and i completely agree i'm 99 sure this is garbage but maybe it isn't so we're gonna go ahead and put it right back there and and reluctantly worry about it later okay what else we got we got more tokens more punch boards more dials and some pieces that are probably not garbage but the one with the mythic games logo probably is garbage but maybe not maybe mythic games are starting to incorporate their logo into their games i don't know maybe who's to say so what do we got that's the base box we haven't even talked about expansions we kind of talked about why i didn't back them nobody talked about why i did back and we didn't talk about why i didn't back then we'll get to that in a second so how to do this we'll put this down over here like so we'll put this down over here and then we'll bring the box up to the table so i can as i go through things put them back in the box and let's go ahead and go through them so factions miniatures all these things i'll be putting stuff up for the camera because because miniatures what do we have here we got nice little tokens let me show you these are actually interesting let me see if i can find a player board a faction board for this faction it's probably the biggest looking one right do we have a base looking one am i in any way confident here well i gotta look for the motorcycles let's look for the motorcycles there we go okay see the next part is i look for the miniature here i look for the matching miniature there and that's gonna be our our faction so go ahead and open these we're not gonna open maybe we'll open everything on we'll see i like being here i like talking so we have these these over here these are small and itty bitty the quality is excellent i mean this should be no surprise mythic games is i don't want to say the first but one of the first kickstarter companies that went ahead and made tiny miniatures they did that with uh with joan of arc and so let's go ahead and see what we have here we got more miniatures over here probably should keep the plastic bags but if this is their tray then do i need the plastic bags i'm not confident at all i'm not confident does this go on top can we put this in here in a way that works it doesn't doesn't seem like it nope nope nope c dose nobody else is not a term at all let's put this back over here let's put this over here and let's go ahead and open these so after i backed dei i went ahead and backed steam watchers i looked at the campaign again i didn't instantly back i looked at the campaign i double checked it i looked at all the updates i i hemmed i had and then i went ahead and backed it which i mean no regrets right now with it in front of me but after i play it who knows maybe there will be regrets because you see every time i see an area control game it's my genre it's my jam i mean as much as i like these miniature heavy games these motorcycles are cool these are the ice flea raiders let's go ahead and show you them so we go ahead and show you these over here that's going to be our little motorcycle just a little bit of a little motorcycle with the little skids you can see the skids look look at that okay we got a few of these motorcycles over here let's see the ice float raiders darters they're called darters darters treat all ice flares with one or more free careers contract spaces as being under contract with the free fleet if i knew more about how this game would play that would sound really really cool karina's associate no we got bolidar this is basically soldiers we have the queen's associate doing initial setup place your karina's associate token in an iceball area it does not take up a contract space that's good i was worried it's gonna take up a contract space this token functions like a contract except that it has never moved or removed and requires no upkeep i was also worried about upkeep this is good i'm happy they have me covered here we got these things over here which look like some sort of machine of some sort okay now by the way if what it's worth my ignorance is is definitely present but at the same time i did actually watch like two full gameplay videos from man vs meeple and beasts of war i want to say i think this beast of war before backing it so it's not like i completely back things without having any idea what's going on it's just that there's a lot of games and then i forget because there's so many games now these guys it looks like they're all the same sculpt so i'll just show you one of them they are tiny but the quality the detail is up there similar to well destiny's let's see if we can get over here look at that look at that now actually something i wondered about because i'm not confident that's not folk there we go okay yeah something i wondered about because i didn't hear it officially said but i assume the miniatures from destinies were done by mythic i assume that because i know they were originally going to be um well it's really associated with mythic and time of legends and they very much look like the same tokens from from there i have no idea i'm assuming the punch boards will add tokens here i don't know you know what let me check let me check on behalf of tom whether it says something in the rule book about how these are actually stored so we got over here we got over here nothing nothing nada nope nope nada zip zilch nothing nothing let's go ahead to the end maybe it's in the end parts nope nope poor tom hoping that maybe somewhere they would have us back but nothing nothing in the rulebook about how to actually store this stuff just lots of boxes oh well okay that's gonna be box number one box number one goes back in the box and we're gonna go ahead and put that that goes like so ow uh oh oh i got a little uh cut on my plastic that's why i hurt cool didn't didn't cut fortunately because my skin is oh so sensitive let's go ahead and look at tribe number two let's go ahead and do this like so try number two it looks like it has green thingies green thingies are cool we have the limestone so uh yeah i went ahead and backed this one like i'm saying uh why did i not back them in the first place so the reason i didn't back them in the first place is because area control both these games dei and and and steam watchers look at these these are cool vehicles i'm telling you and all the unix units are unique all the unix are unique unique too but look at this look at this tank that's a cool tank i mean like this quality is excellent the size is tiny but i don't mind i don't mind tiny size it's a question of how good the game is but i know jokes ensue i know i know okay let's not let's not focus now let's move on so these look like they're the exact same these buildings are the same type of building so no change there just a different color i will not bother showing you them when they're a different color but we'll go ahead and show you some more miniatures from these and why did i not back these games because as tempted as i am by area control as tempted as i am by the genre look at these adorable people look at these adorable snow people essentially as i am by the genre they're also competing against some real heavy hitters some real heavy hitters we have some of my favorite games area control games we have blood rage we have cycloties we have chemet we have inish we have chaos in the old world we have well we have some more joining we have followed the mountain king now joining the group but father king is borders though it's it's a little more pure control it's a little more akin to la grande but speaking of which we have all grande but it does have some combat we'll see let's talk about criker this iotan it's massive whenever it's an attacks its strength is boosted by one you see i don't even have to know anything about the game for that sound like a reasonable thing so that is faction number two done i'm making progress here only got way too many boxes left to go so let's look at this one this one it looks like it's giving us whoa what in the world is this giving one this is him giving us some weird stuff we don't have a machine we have like flyers we have the kadam kadabatians i don't know by the way who else thinks i never actually followed this enough to know but who else thinks that the the guy in the steam watchers video they had a video for steam watchers and and so mythic is interesting mythic puts out videos for their kickstarter campaigns and some of them are absolute that's not true all of them are absolutely incredible but some of them are completely useless okay let me let me explain so they're all very very well done they have a great animation great stuff going on in the videos very intriguing but then in the case of hell and in the case of steam watchers the videos told me nothing about how the game played they're just a cool video which is great but spending a lot of money on a cool video doesn't do it for me it might do it for you which is great you're the one spending the money on it well you being mythic in this case i might do it for you in which case actually good for mythic because that's that's great but i don't care about a cool video i care about videos that show me some idea of how the game plays i don't know how the game plays that's why i'm here right i'm gonna back your game even if i forget you know seven months later but at some point i actually cure okay these these miniatures are not as cool they look a little it's interesting the sculpts and these are interesting almost looks like they didn't get the head proportions exactly right now i vaguely recall that was an issue on joan of arc as well so it looks like the head is a drop too large for the body you won't notice it while playing but then we have these er er ernie's something like that these little like kind of like these fairy fliers are their tanks instead so a little different a little larger either way and their ability wings of death an eren only army on a forced march may pass through an area occupied by enemy units without triggering combat again don't you know much about the game that's flexibility that gives you some tactical choices that other players do not have i like them go ahead and the snow coaster the calabashians treat mountain areas as plain areas that's good i was worried about those mountain areas but that's good they can kind of hover over them or fly around the board or something that makes it sound i know like i'm talking about we got purple purple's next so in the case of hell their trailer didn't tell me how the game plays their own conglomerate in the case of steam watchers now trailer did not tell me how the game plays in the case of ricebusters and in the well in the case of what's the game behind me super fantasy brawl behind my head in the case of superman's raw the trailer did give me a better idea of how the game plays i didn't love the animation of the trailer quite as much didn't hype me up as much it was good it was very good but it wasn't on the level as two other trailers was not on the level of their racquetbuster trailer and their rainbow six trailer mythic games rackbuster and rainbow six are arguably the two best board game trailers i have ever seen they are simultaneously informative entertaining you can't stop watching them and they give you a good idea of the gameplay that's gonna be the informative part of what i just said and so right uh six siege six siege is the one that just dropped well today for me which gives you an idea of when this video was filmed a six siege drop today for me and it it it looks cool now i've played it so i know it's cool but it looks cool and rockbusters never have i been so hyped for a game from the trailer alone so we have the skybreaker the sky breaker over here let's go ahead and show you that okay that's cool it's a little anti-aircraft gun hence the name sky breaker he realizes while he's talking suppressing fire sky breakers may provide support at a range of up to two areas through mountains or planes see that's helpful then we got these guys with their is that that's not a mustache it's a face mask oh this is leo oh this is leo okay which brings me to my point when i said this is leo what do i mean by that so in the trailer focus in the trailer i'm talking to the camera not me i'm very focused uh in the trailer for steam watchers there was a character on the top of a mountain shooting a gauze grenade who looks a bit like this guy over here but in the trailer kind of looked like leo from mr games i don't know that's my imagination i don't know if 14 000 other people have commented on it i don't really know that's the reason i'm having this conversation with you but i was like that looks like leo not that i have a problem with it i mean if you ever watched uh what's his name uh james hudson threw himself into bloodborne he claims he claims it wasn't intentional he claims and his claim is interesting he points to a viking he said the vikings said he wanted the guy to look like a guy from the show vikings and there actually is oval out there so it's a reasonable and believable story but it's james hudson so you know who knows anyways that is all of that let's continue going through this so why did i not back these games back to my situation because that's interesting i've noticed that the factions have a variable number of these don't know more what's going on but they have a variable number of these that's already intriguing okay more asymmetry the more extreme the better one or two abilities is cool but not as cool oh wow we got toxic strains over here this this faction bag has an extra set of tokens okay toxic strains which are going to be these over here looks like little mole molds or something i don't know well it's a toxic strain that's what it is the toxic strains are going to be doing phase four doing the steam subsides phase we all know that any other clan that controls areas containing a toxic farm increased their incubation level by one wow i was worried about my incubation levels okay so we have these sewers these people look like they are like these people look like they're from scythe almost like they're they're very interesting machine like automatons i don't know what they are they're like it's interesting to describe them they look like almost like robots but but with personality and just neurotoxins when you attack with one or more sowers before allocating algal fuel your opponent converts one pure algal fill to contraband alcohol and increases their incubation level by one there's a lot of terms going on here i'm gonna have to i'm gonna figure out this game quickly because i wanna get to the table quickly by the way so although it's gonna have to wait because we're gonna we're still coming back to that we're still circling around the main pointer just like a little drain the water's slowly closing in i love these unique sculpts they are fun so what am i talking about i listed a bunch of error control games i also listed all the mountain king and i did not talk about but if you've been paying attention i did talk about fall of the mountain king okay fall of the mountain king where did i talk about it not father matthew king um lords of helles what did i talk about tell us oh do my chronicle the drunkard unboxing that's right so i talked about lords of helles lords of helles is a game is this another thing underneath this that's interesting a little cardboard piece okay either way and we got two more factions here two more factions before we move on to other stuff and components so lords of palace is a game that doing my unboxing across general i talked to that one and i think it's more apropos more relevant here had i known this was showing up i would have saved this for this video but i played lord of lords of hells for the first time recently and really really enjoyed it and need to get it played more in fact before i play steam watches i want to get another player two of lords of helsin both so i can review it and also to to lock in the game a big thing i i've talked about it here and i don't talk about it enough a big thing i'm a fan of is locking in plays when you play a game for the first time you want to get in two or three or four even four plays if you can manage it of that game before you move on to the next one not before but you know in a reasonable time frame before you forget about it because it locks in those memories those rules playing it once and then playing it again six months later that's gonna require a full refresh of the rules playing it three times and then playing it six months later you'll need a quick skim at most look at these characters they look they look pretty cool where's my with my paper here we go these people with those helmets i like them okay we are the high glimmer apostles and his name is the cantor okay so he's basically a singer doesn't look like a singer he looks like he's gonna he looks like an emperor's guard is my guy taking your head off if i can get the focus there we go see the problem with these small miniatures they don't focus quite the way i'd want to and then we have these idols so we have cantors and idols this is a very religious sector over here so why are they calling them idols you think they'd you know call it i don't know a temple maybe or go with the jewish rep call it a synagogue you know you can work with things but either way these are the idols i guess because they're worshiping them they're idols but you don't call you only call maybe i'm wrong here don't you only call things idols no i don't know either way convert religious when you attack with one of my idols and win the comet place a base soldier from your clan supply in the combat area or an adjacent area under your control so you didn't kill one of them you kind of converted one of them i can work with them anyways back to lords of palace so speaking about these games and my issues around them uh area control wallet is one of my favorite genres and most of my i would say the biggest portion of games in my top 20 that share a common theme will be area control that said it also means that every other game is fighting against those games there are many many games that i love uh and this might be a bit of a spoiler for an upcoming review new nation really enjoy it not sticking around uh dwellings valdeville really enjoyed it not sticking around there and to be fair lots of people i've seen both incredibly positive reviews of ruination and of dwellings of elder veil both from the dice tower from other channels and everything else so it's sometimes just personal preference but nonetheless personal preference or not those games are not sticking around for me because area control is a hotly contested genre so as much as i am tempted by every area control game i see that looks interesting i also just don't believe that they will continuously be that good they have to stop being good at a certain point right and again i just listed some that that weren't for me uh cry havoc great game not sticking around nexus ops great game not sticking around i can list dozens of air control games that weren't for me scythe amazing game not sticking around got these people over here the western alliance over here so the western alliance over there that look at that little guy over there okay and we have the jeep urban gorilla when you attack with one or more jeeps gain one extra strength for each building present in your attacked area and that is going to be the last of the basic factions over here before we go ahead and move on to whatever is in these two things which look like well stuff we got cards let's go ahead and open some cards and yes area control arrow control is interesting it's tempting but it also doesn't hold up for every time and so i saw these these games i saw dei i saw steam watches and i was like i will have self-control i don't need more area control games that are less likely to live up to the hype and so i passed them until i played dei and i was like oh i really enjoyed that game and so that caused me to reevaluate steam watchers which i don't know if i'll enjoy i'll let you know as we go also speaking of which we also have what's the new one i just got what's the new i just got from go on board titans another one titans i got because sam healey talked a lot about titans now at the time we talked about steam watchers i don't believe sam healey is with uh mythic at the time steam watches was was done that said one of the reasons i got steam watchers was both the gameplays the theme lots of cool cards sir and then reading some forum posts of people who claim they were friends with sam he who said he really likes the game and talked a lot talked very positively about it and so i was like well i don't know if it's true or not but i'll go ahead and give it a shot so we got these weird bubbles maybe they're steam maybe it's water who knows they're cool i like the texture of them little baubles bubbles whatever we're gonna have some more of them over here slightly different we'll get to that in a second we have these over here which look like um well are they all the same are they different they look like they're all the same looks like some buildings just some some plastic buildings the plastic material on these doesn't feel as nice feels more um mass market than kickstarter just different plastic types or materials that's going to be this box over here i'm going to go ahead and toss this on whichever way it came on and then we're gonna go ahead and dump this into our main box which is just full just full of nine different trays okay we got this here here are our dials to connect those well dials here's some red little plastic of things intriguing we got some more of those bubbles these are slightly different it looks like these are just different materials very intriguing okay and then i'm gonna find some green thingies so got some red and green dials and then the thing i want to focus on which is whatever these are because these look nice and hefty so what are these so we got these which are this looks like mountain like aircraft guns some sort of gun defense system so you see these over here just a whole whole bag full of these they look fun i want to control them i want to control all of them so i can shoot your guys more than you shoot my guys okay so yeah lords of house solid game fall of mounting solid game i i have to go i'm now intrigued now i want to go through all my area control games because it kind of seems like i like cthulhu wars is interesting i don't think that one's sticking around i also have glorantha god's war i need to play that and see if it's better or worse than cthulhu wars if it's better then it might stick around if it's worse it's obviously not sticking around if i'm on the fence about uh through the wars then i'm certainly on the fence about a game that would be worse thank you through the wars i should say i would not be on the fence okay let's go ahead and put some of this stuff back in the box and then we'll get to the expansions that's going to go over here this is going to go over here like so that doesn't seem like it fits anymore what did i do wrong what did i do wrong we'll figure it out later this is not my problem right now okay and then we got the box top going back on like so we'll figure out the details of how to get that all to stick soon enough oh so this box is white by the way fun fact a white box or a white shirt as i once realized can oh we got this forgot that can sometimes mess with the camera and throw the whatever terms that our camera related terms off so i once wore a white shirt in the video and the whole camera the whole film was way too dark and i didn't realize until after it was done apparently you can't wear white shirts and videos watch i'll do it again watch ready white box watch how dark the camera gets okay as soon as i put this like this it kind of darkens no yeah you see i'm a little darker now because it's focusing on the white box and if i move it i should lighten up in a second you see see it's interesting right weird stuff just automatic aperture i think aperture is the way i'm looking for anyways we got that we got this and these are all provided different gameplay stuff including like a train like it's an interesting uh little cargo train or one of these i remember see i'm something uh gameplay-wise i have to look into it and read the rules and get it all prepped to the table this and titans all need to hit the table the too many area control games worst case scenario oh rubric i forgot about rurik river's also up there i'm gonna have to go to a list of all my area control i'm curious if there's more now what it's worth to be fair with the exception of kickstarters that look tempting and catch my attention most of the time the the area control games i'm getting are well vetted there are games that looked interesting for a reason and the general audience have said hey that game is good that's like until i started doing content creation i only really well and kickstarter i would only really get games that the general audience had vetted as being good now it's a bit more risk associated it means i'm playing more mediocre games not only meteor fans but i'm definitely playing more mediocre games mediocre being a good game that isn't great it's just the nature of taking on projects that less people have the chance to uh oh we got a bunch of miniatures let's just go through all these these look like some sort of leader miniatures it should be fun just one and they got the green dude these these are like a little larger you know your typical 32 millimeter miniature although almost like it's like half bust half miniature very intriguing in the way it's done they haven't played dogs of war it has that kind of feel to it you see how they're kind of on a weird pedestal i like the general sculpts i'm just i'm not sure how i feel i guess it makes sense because if they're not playing at some sort of monster then having them as a regular unit on the battlefield next to your tiny miniatures would throw off the look and feel right by throwing it on a bust you're effectively saying hey this is you know not a miniature not a size-wise represented unit and you abstract it a bit more which could make sense either way solid sculpts as usual mythic in general does some top-notch work in fact mythic uh six seeds six sheets six seeds six siege has some of the best miniatures i have ever seen in a game and from a theme that doesn't even interest me which is particularly impressive so this is a very big this is a very big box for what we just saw here i guess it looks prettier on the shelf if you have them all the same size i guess still feels like a bit like a waste now the real question and also after like talking about mythic games here is the first play do i go base game alone or do i do i go with more stuff what's going to be my best experience because that first experience by the way is incredibly key if i don't have a good first experience i am not going back for the expansions now i have a decent first experience but not great then you start messing around you start adding things uh like you go back to like dwellings of elderly for instance splunksville the barrel is one where i played it and my first game was good my second game was better and my third game and fourth game were back to being just good again so like i had one really good game and then a bunch of mediocre games not media did good but again in the genre of control good is not good enough ooh these are cool do these even hooked together they hook together oh my gosh okay they kind of hook together i don't know if they're together they may or may not hook together i don't know anymore now i can't tell okay this looks like it's supposed to hook like so okay great that one hooked nicely i mean like you can see how it pulls a bit but does it pull properly see it doesn't feel like they're going in properly i don't want to sit here and push them too much on camera they kind of go but you see that happens let's see if we can push just a drop harder to get this in there oh that that went in nicely okay just to give it a little bit of force not a lot and the particular connection pieces are chunky enough that i'm not particularly worried about it okay you see you can hold them like so but yeah i'm not gonna mess around with it too much you can mess with it but overall the actual skulls themselves very cool again this goes back to the supply train aspect of things like i taught i talked look at the little radar on the tower look at that it's very cool very cool very exciting stuff and again are they all unique let's see are they all unique nope they're not all unique in fact they are all the same so i'm not going to bother showing you each and every single one because they're all the same honestly so that's interesting that is interesting i would say now first of all they have plenty of unique skulls here i would say for the amount of uniqueness that mythic chose to bring to the table here i think i would have gone the extra nine yards i think i would have made these skulls unique as well now that's an extra sculpting cost an extra cost involved in each of those not taken out lightly but with a game that has everything well not true the buildings aren't unique either fine they get a pass my thing is just like once you're going you know eight yards go the whole nine but they didn't go to eight yards they went seven yards so at that point jumping to nine is a different story that analogy should make sense to someone someone out there okay and this one has cards it looks like none of these boxes needed to be the size none of these boxes i mean are you kidding me none of these boxes needed to be the size they are um like the largest of these the largest of these which is this one over here the largest could still have been half the size and been totally fine uh we're dealing with shipping shortages right now shipping uh freight delays all that i had a video go up at some point i don't know when at some point is for you but i had a video go up already on this uh oh i think this is from this box we have a video up already on the concept of the shipping shortages and there we go perfect excellent and that means that having larger boxes they're going to try to compress things more and more because that however much it mattered before it matters five times as much now with all the shipping costs and expenditures and all that lastly we have our playmat box and let's go ahead and open this let's try not to cut a plane that's always a good sign right okay i have cut things before it's rare that i have violated game materials before but it has happened and we got our game map and we have our box and this okay it's triangle box of the game at it could be worse let's go ahead and put these on the floor let's go ahead and put the knife off to the edge the that can also go on the floor ah all good i just want to have space for this on the table this is a beautiful beautiful map by the way i don't like game well that's not true i like game i just don't like storing them but this this is something that i absolutely want on my table let's zoom it out for that for you again just a little bit of zoom out one last time on this board over here oh look at this this this is very pretty my wife would probably kill me if she touched this she does not like the texture of these things i'm okay with it cool this has been your uh unboxing of steam watches steam watches another area control game in a long line of air control games that i historically tend to like more of them than i dislike that i think i'd have to do some actual numbers i probably will at some point i'm very excited about this one uh like i said i did watch gameplay videos i did look into the whole you know the sam healy like it or not sam he was opinion matters to me a lot especially the genre of every control because his number one game of all time is blood rage and for a very very very long time blood rage was my number one game of all time as well and i am i'm excited i'm excited to get this one to the table i'm excited to play this i'm excited to play more lords of helles i'm excited to play dei i'm excited for basically all the games that i'm playing and that's that's basically it i will see you soon in this six siege video the six siege kickstarter which is on june 22nd i assume this unboxing is going up before then we shall see but either way until next time i'm alex radley from board game co and i hope you have a good one i have no idea where this is going okay we have to let's do this okay let's go ahead and do this like so yeah it works it's all good okay now let's look a little bit my problem with playmats is the storage aspect like i like the play mat a lot this is a beautiful play mat and i have to like kind of just shake it down a bit to make it even and now i have to go figure out where this is going cuz cuz play matt it's pretty no regrets i'll see ya

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