Champions of Midgard (plus expansions!) - Shut Up & Sit Down Review

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[@guyblin]

If your fights in the late game are a "foregone conclusion" it means you're taking too many warriors on one fight and should be spreading your warriors over more monsters. It's a game about how few warriors you can get away with taking. If you're going overkill in battles, it usually means you're going to lose to the players that are spreading their warriors more thinly.

[@Arviden]

Shaming is totally a legit viking tactic! From a random webpage:

[@pm71241]

I love the well thought out evaluations SU&SD makes. ... You really get information enough to put the game evaluation into a context of your own preferences.

[@xabulense]

Oh man! I conclusively and definitively disagree with your main issue. The reason being that in the late game if you have more resources/vikings you should be pushing and fighting more monsters than usual, because if you don't, someone else it's going to steal you the victory. I find the last rounds even more tense and tight. At least that's how it works in our table.

[@jenn5572]

Little did we know this was paul's swan song. Paul, what you have done for board game reviewing changed the industry. You were fair and balanced, even when it brought so much hate (i'm still feeling for you over here). Your terra mystica review is still my all time favorite- i still fall off the cough laughing. Best of everything to you for your future endeavors. You'll be missed. Magic bowls forever.

[@ichifish]

Brilliant review, as always. Thanks for all your hard work.

[@PyramidofGeezer]

There's a Game of Thrones 'Shame Bell' you can get for your phone, which me and my friends like to ring at each other when allocating blame. Glorious!

[@Cloudninexy]

I waited for this review since I was a part of your community, which was about 3-4 Months ago, and finally I can watch it!!

[@murul]

“Life is all about big trolls and bad rolls.” - the delivery of that one made me smile so wide ^^. You make that cocky wink work Paul, you sexy beast you.

[@Fieserhugo]

Fun to watch as always. Thanks Paul

[@somthingbrutal]

been playing a lot of memoir 44 thanks to your channel :]-----

[@SmoggySandwich]

Love you guys but just wanted to point out the audio was not your usual quality in this vid. There was an underlying sound of static during the whole video. Hopefully you can find out what the issue was!

[@Thesteadfast]

Awesome. Great timing! I've been mulling over this game!

[@BERTkingOFpie]

Great review but to my misfortune I wish you brought up the fact that you are playing a big box copy of the game that is only sold on the official website. Did some digging of my own after this video and decided to bite the bullet on the base game and the Valhalla expansion. Had a great time and it will see a lot of play over the years for a nice change of pace from my other worker placement game. However I noticed in your video you had slightly different components from me. It was only after googling why that I found out about the Jarl edition. Which not only is cheaper after the crazy $21USD international shipping then buying the game and it's 2 expansions together. But also has the component upgrades as well as some exclusive content to mix into the game and it's expansions. As a group that has shown a lot of great consumer advocacy in the past I am surprised you did not mention the official site as a side note in the video.

[@vulst3894]

Oh boy a new upload! Review Evolution Climate if you can, please.

[@vanbunk]

the thought of a viking union made me chuckle.

[@directassault1662]

I disagree with the "but" here because you are limited to 8 dice. So you don't keep getting more and more powerful...

[@Xn7000]

I feel like this game really needs to be played with the maximum number of players to retain it's tension. When you have the freedom to let resources build up and nearly every space isn't being taken every round then you end up with situations where players have full squads of warriors and all the resources they need to do everything. This just doesn't happen when you max out on the players because as long as multiple people don't hunt, then no spaces are generally allowed to build up resources save the adventure monsters. Resources remain limited to the point where the early game tension remains.

[@TashiMiss]

I love you guys, if you stop making board game review vids I will die

[@tyrionfiresworn]

So when do we start getting reference asparagus instead of pears