ameritrash vs euro games

"You may trade with wood or iron BUT NOT FISH" for sure sounds like such a legit board game rule

Ameritrash game: "haha what a silly and hyperbolic parody of games in that particular genre" Eurogame: "I... I think I've played that game"

Ameritrash: assumes you own additional materials which are not packaged in the game Eurogame: actively condescends to you if you don't know niche trivia

I happen to translate board game rulebooks. This is more accurate than you can imagine. Recently I translated a Euro game that included rules for Menopause and Xenophobia.

Ameritrash: play a 10 hour game to lose to a single die roll at the end Euro: play a 10 hour game that you lose in turn 1 because your opponent hate drafted the tile you need to complete a set during final scoring

"What happens when you have tie in Jamestown" "You then take the dice.... and place it at a 2 to represent the fact there are two winners

Jamestown components are actually from: Grand Austria Hotel (Game board, Hotel board and white die), Suburbia (tiles), Agicola Revised Edition 2016 (Pumpkin tokens, Wood - not timber - and Stone - not Iron - as well as the blue farmer token) and Wendake (Third board, the one with the British flag). Yes, I'm that nerd.

I like how no genre is given the edge in this exchange

Sounds like someone is afraid of the unrivaled THRILL of having to read the entire history of Europe to trade some fish and lumber for sheep

The single "wat" from the dice-lover just made it

War of the War is the average shooting phase for a single squad of Orks

Traditional Japanese games: You play using these oddly shaped pieces that are both beautifully ornamental and entirely illegible. This barely distinct piece can move in four directions unless it is beyond this line, after which it can move in 3 directions, then 1, and then it becomes Grand Diamond General Demonking and can move in three dimensions as it pleases. This is different for all pieces and you must memorize them all. If you gather two Ox 4 chips, a Summer Chrysanthemum and a 2, 6, 8 red dragon, you can call "Guh!" to double your Fupa. This is but one of 56 hands you can play for the East Wind, not counting the 3x56 other hand combinations that exist depending on what part of the compass you are sitting on at the table. If you Phon'd your Kengo in the second-to-last round, you can play as Fudo Myo'O the central wind and sit on top of the table.

Ameritrash: Flip a coin to choose who goes first. Eurogame: The player who most resembles a Tsar goes first.

I'm going to need to read that 800 page educational pamphlet to figure out why the university is generating pumpkins, aren't I?

As a Warhammer player, I appreciate the large quantities of dice being thrown at the board.

the second one is specifically a german board game. A british board game would be a highly intricate simulation of the war for north africa fought using 27 seperate boards, a 15 book long rule book detailing weapon profiles, logistics tables and the weather, and the game will last over 7 days.

As an avid board game player it hurts how accurate all of this is. The only thing missing is a Kickstarter Board Game with a million plastic minis.

Pretty accurate.

It has taken me multiple times of watching this to realize... I think ProZD actually says "After 19 real-time owls have passed" and that is such an incredibly subtle joke I love it so much.

‘There will no dice required for this pamphlet’ made me laugh more than I’d like to admit