Bonfire Playthrough and Review

[@2532robh1]

You guys always have all the best games right away!!! Love you guys!!!

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

We do our best :D Quite a few big titles we’re waiting on now, so it does look like it will be a good end of the year! (when it comes to new games at least)

[@johnrochester1419]

Love the video. I'll have to pick up this game. You too are awesome. 50:26 he looks into the camera, "but you can feel that if you want to." Haha. She says, "Thank you, I wasn't finished." Haha.

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

Haha, glad you enjoyed it! :) The game is great!

[@fiamh]

Thanks for the summary, helpful to not just have the playthrough but your take on it.

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

Thank you, Oliver :D We try to make short reviews at the end, so you can both get the feeling of the game for yourself, and also hear what we thought! Glad we could be of help!

[@shortydancer]

37:15 i think you guys got the end game trigger wrong. Sunniva should have taken the stack once there were 7 novices, then at the end of her NEXT turn, she passes the token around. So you guys should have ended the round, then start the 5 round countdown

[@billturner]

Another great review and discussion! I get a good feel of the game from your play through. I may not get this right away, but I'm definitely putting it on my "sometime" want list.

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

Thank you Bill :D Glad it gave you the info you needed!

[@mrcoaster1]

Love Bonfire, and it was good to go back and watch your playthrough from a few months ago. My wife and I experience some of the same things when we're playing - "That was a terrible move. Why did I do that?" Always fun watching you both talk up and play through games.

[@eastontyson8953]

instablaster.

[@seth7447]

Another fun Feld game I’m learning this weekend. I think there can not be more than any one color on a space in the high council per page 11( I missed it…you had the specialists that allows that…very nice). Resources seem hard to get at times. I’m excited to play again and close the gaps in my thinking. Some iconology to learn. The top camera view makes it easy to see as you play, thank you!

[@mobileuploads3623]

Another great video. Thank you.

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

Thank you so much! :D

[@pincao]

Thanks for doing this. I value your opinions. Very helpful.

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

Thank you, Paul :D Glad you liked it! Sad we won’t see you this year, but fingers crossed that 2021 will be a bit better!

[@soloshock9519]

Being delivered tomorrow morning and this has maxed the excitement meter!! Special ability activated! 😂 👍

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

Have fun 🥳

[@Norrygan]

Hey guys! Awesome job! About the gnomes, I think you can't put the same color like red did 21:00 , even neutral color. And only use 4 spots each (1 color per player/neutral gnome).

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

Hey! It’s correct that you cannot use the same gnome ability multiple times, but I had a specialist that said I could do it! If there is only four spaces, then yes, I did a major rules mistake there! I’ll check it up! Thanks for the heads up! :D Glad you liked the video!

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

I checked the rules, and I could not find anything about max 4 spaces. It only says to put it where there are no gnome of the same color. So that is the rule I can ignore with my specialist :)

[@Norrygan]

@@BoardGamingRamblings You're absolutely right! I didn't realize you got specialist # 24! By the way, I love your videos, I always watch you guys!

[@Norrygan]

@@BoardGamingRamblings In fact, there is nothing talking about 4 spaces, I was wrong.

[@Nain1982]

hey fellows! thanks for this video. I'm always eager about any new Feld game, but I'm on the fence on this one! Like Johannes mentioned, I also think that the player tableau management, with the puzzle of allocating the tiles to get more actions, and the matching of colors to get even more is brilliant! pretty cool idea. That is probably my favorite thing in the game and the multiple ways to score with the guardians, bonfires, etc. However, I am not really keen on the part of having to move to get tasks, etc. In a way, even if this is not pick up & deliver, it reminds me of oracle of delphi. Also, not a big fan of the theme, but I do like how it looks. I know you guys didn't like it, but I'm pretty certain of wanting to get Tuscany and Kokopelli, this one still not fully grasped! Hope I do end up liking it more. Great video!

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

That makes total sense! For us, this is a winner, but we still like you even though it might not be for you, haha! Just backed Kokopelli on KS today, so I'm excited for that!

[@Nain1982]

@@BoardGamingRamblings hahaha if it makes you like me again, then I should admit I could not help myself and bought it :) I can't help myself and buying all 3 (also backed Kokopelli and waiting for tuscany to be available). Any hopes Carnegie is sent to you? really eager to know more about that game (it can't be all Felds ;) but actually it can ) .

[@Oaklestat]

Just got a chance to pick this up. So exciting.

[@RedEyedGhost1]

Feld is far from an "instant buy" designer for me, but this one has me very excited. Your review did nothing to temper that!

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

The game is great! I’d play it today if I could! :D

[@bushibayushi]

guys when you grab a task as an extra action after moving a boat, you still need to pay the red tile!

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

Hey! If we forgot to do that one time, I’m sorry, but we do it when playing the game :) (Haven’t seen this since editing, so I cannot say if we forgot, but probably we did, or else you comment wouldn’t excist 😂) Thanks for watching!

[@harleygrattan2851]

Very entertaining, I found this game very challenging 😥 but I did enjoy it

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

Thank you! Yeah, I agree! It's challenging, especially the first few times! For me, it got a bit easier (not easy, easier :P) after a few plays, and I had more of a feeling what I was trying to do, and could plan more!

[@boja70]

And still I think: ok, it’s a good feld. But is it still competing with the real good new designers like pfister and daniele tascini ? I still have doubts. So is it enjoyable enough for the heavier gamers ?

[@sunnivavarjord]

Short answer: yes from me!

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

I agree with Sunniva! Feld's best games are no worse than any of our other favorite designers best ones!

[@squalledd]

41:01 I think she accidentally made illegal moves. If I understand the rule correctly, she could only take the top or bottom tiles. But when she confused, she take the bottom tiles, cancel it, and wrongly put it on Top (not bottom). Then she decided to take “the bottom tiles” which actually is the second bottom tiles that she supposedly couldn’t take. But great video playthrough!

[@Mokkel73]

3:36 ❤️

[@andrewboyd105]

Looks neat.

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

It absolutely is 🥳

[@harleygrattan2851]

I played this yesterday and I found it hard to get resources

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

I agree! I think it gets easier with more plays, as you can make more of your strategy around how to get the resources you need for that strategy!

[@shatnershairpiece]

This is a case where bad or non existent theme kills my interest.

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

That makes sense! We don’t care about theme most of the time, so we don’t care! We do like a good theme, but it’s not important for us at all! Wouldn’t like Feld if we cared about those thingd 😂

[@stevensum2011]

So it this better than forum tranjuim

[@BoardGamingRamblings]

Yeah, I would say so!