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Good video aside from some of the political commentary.

just played it last night for the first time and your video helped quite a bit, we loved it!

Arcs is not published by Wherlegig btw, it's by Leder Games

Pericles is hard to table. The Peloponesian Struggle is real :D

Solid quarter!

La Primogenita is another really creative and great Kim Kanger game from Legion you should check out (though not as complex as Dien Bien Phu)

I am not attracted to Hex & Counter games, usually because of the aesthetics of NATO symbology etc. Dien Bien Phu is likely to be my first one, one day..... but it scares me at the same time, ha! I think I'd also need a week to grok it. :)

A friend showed me Sea Salt & Paper last week, and it's fantastic! It's really a lot of fun, I am playing it on BGA now (and I managed to get 4 mermaids and insta-win! I was so excited!!). Definitely give it a try when you can!

This is one of my favorite CDGs of all time; great subject matter, tons of content in the box, unique systems. I should really play it more.

Really heartened to see this video and Joel's comments. This is coming back out and i've owned a copy for years, and always thought about the matter of who gets to tell the story with this game. This vids given me plenty to think about when it comes to how i present the review. Definitely going to mention the Tangata whenua at the start of the review. And, well, you may hear some of your thought echoed in my own comments when i get to the video. Cheers.

Nice summary of the game. If you do another scenario it might be useful to take a shot of the map at the end of each player's turn so we can kind of follow along with what you were doing/trying to do.

“Playing games with pieces like this…” so in other words, you’ve put the wooden blocks and giant plastic toys… ahem PIECES down and started playing REAL war games! 😅😉

This is one of the best board game rules explanations I have aver seen. And definitely the best one for war games. Congrats! I wish you had even more! 😂🎉 Levy and Campaign for example feels uncrackable for me 😅 pls help haha

Thanks a lot for that video! Really feel like I could start right away now.

My Dad wrote the screenplay to the film Land and Freedom

Bro, thank you so much for this video. I loved your rules explanation and reflection on what you’ve learned from it. I was super excited about this when I found it still sealed but in consignment at my FLGS. Then I read the rulebook…and set it up, read more of the rulebook, tried to read the solo rules which seem really different. Until you mentioned the lack of importance in the board I was still confused that I was missing something! Thanks man, I think I’ll give it a shot. I was tempted to give up, but the theme has really saved this mess of a game.

This game looks awesome. Great tutorial!

Thank you for that turorial! Got this game waiting on my shelf and it's soon gonna hit the table, and that vid helps a lot getting into the rules.

thanks for the video. the designer's original video honestly did not help with explaining what was happening

This is one that very recently caught my eye (just this past weekend, in fact!), so this is very timely. Questions for you: 1. Will you do a review of it? 2. How well do you think it scales with more players? Or to put it another way, do you think it works equally well at all player counts? 3. What are your thoughts on using the dice to track the prestige and tension levels? Do you think it works well, or would markers have been better? I feel like the dice take me out of the atmosphere of the game a bit, but I guess it's easier to use dice than to have a multitude of markers?

A very well organized and clear tutorial. I will definitely check your channel for future content. A minor note, it’s pronounced sub suh quent, rather than sub c quent.

Going to Gen Con this weekend and am so excited to pick it up! Thanks for making the video!

How many COIN games do you guys need? And by COIN I mean the system Volko invented. I feel like they are all very similar, with theme changes being the big differences. These must play very good multiplayer, because they are not very good solo.

Excellent video. Very informative and entertaining. I have been listening to wargames to go for quite some time. I always think it is done after no new episodes for a year or two. Glad to see it’s still going. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss Conquistador. I know it is a very one-sided view of history. Perhaps, it shine some light on how little the early colonizers thought of the indigenous people. It would allow you to put yourself in that mindset. Contrasting that mindset to a more even viewpoint could be educational and its own right.

It was great meeting you at the con!

Huge thank you for including Arete and for the kind words, Joe! We already talked but for the benefit of your viewers I’ll mention it is available on iPhone as well as iPad (and one purchase gets it on both)! PS Your hands don’t look a day over 35.

Glad you're trying Falling Sky! It's a good one, but definitely best at 4 players as there can be quite a bit of negotiation. I have Plains Indian Wars and tried it solo but the rules ambiguities in the rulebook were a bit annoying. I really want to try it at 2 or 4 players. I just got Port Arthur, beautiful board and counters. Will try it soon! Dien Bien Phu is one that really attracts me, thematically and aesthetically. I am not attracted to hex & counter at all, especially ones that abstract their counters with NATO symbology and such. But when I saw the counters for Dien Bien Phu, I decided I could definitely try that one. The length and complexity of it scared me off though. I know it's not *that* complex, but I haven't played anything like it before, so it feels like it's be a bit much for me. Anyway, I look forward to seeing your comments on it! I always enjoy your videos including these quarterly reviews, Joe. Looking forward to your next one!

Great video. Thanks for a dive into the rules. It helped clarify a few things I was confused about from the rulebook.

thank you for highlighting Klee and his work. really appreciate your channel and pushing the conversation around representation, tokenization and other pressing issues in our hobby.

This is terrific! Your video has just lowered the entry level for this game by a lot. Thank you. Hope to see some more of that (Pendragon maybe ;) ).

Watching this again for review after branching out into other COIN titles. Again great video I think it is an awesome teaching tool especially for new players to COIN. Would love to see more COIN videos with history lessons mixed in. Question: at 44:51 you redeployed troops to Santiago de Cuba , but there is neither Government control nor a base there. I don't think you can do that unless its Havana. and there are no Government controlled cities. Cuba Libre rulebook 6.4.2

Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful! Timestamps: 1:38 Overview 4:43 Rules - Units & Structures 7:11 Rules - Cities & Provinces 9:08 Rules - Majority & Control 10:50 Rules - Resources 11:23 Rules - Deccan Influence 13:12 Rules - Commands 19:17 Rules - Decrees 22:55 Setup 26:59 Round Structure 31:52 Rules - Attack 34:54 Rules - Mongol Invasion 38:11 Rules - Succession 39:12 Rules - Timurid Empire 40:36 Final Scoring

This is a fantastic vid, thank you

This is by far the best tutorial I have found for Cuba Libre. Very clear and comprehensive with the information presented in a logical order. Up there with Rodney Smith “Watch it played”. Thanks so much. New sub here.

Thanks for this great overview of the game 😊👍

20:31 Thanks for pointing that out. I found the wording in the Rules of Play and the Player's Aid a bit confusing with the use of the word "Then..." BTW do you play with the "Deception" chits?

13:00 Government bases have me a bit baffled. Do you have to have a Government base in a city to train? Are there conditions you can train in a city without a base? If so what is the purpose of having a base in a city and why does the Standard and Extended Scenarios have all or almost all cities with a Government base? "In any city and or countryside space with a base Government can place up to four of their cubes" - this makes it sound like you don't need a base in a city to place cubes

30:27 or 34:37 - just to add: Why would a first eligible player take the Op Only instead of the Event or Op + Special? To prevent another player from playing the Event. Great video thanks for posting. Of all the ones I've watched I think yours is the best I've seen.

Do you like it better this one or People Power?

Outstanding! Thanks very much for providing this tutorial -- our first game is tomorrow night!

Yay Mar! Great interview. Thanks Joe for shining light on Mar’s game & on Zenobia.

Thank you for your explanation. I never read a such bad written rules in my life. You saved this game.

Ou je peux l’acheter, j’ai cherché sur Amazon mais jai pas trouvé de résultat

COIN server represent! Thanks for the video and showing us around, joe, and I'm convinced that I'm going next year, I'll see you there!

Great interview ... thanks!

Nice... 😒

Ah man, I gotta go next year.

Glad I got to meet and play the 1714 game with you. A great con to be your first!

Thank you for the field report!

5:46 why does your hands look like 85 when yer voice sound like 27??😳😳