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February 21, 2022In Episode 213, Blue Peg Pink Peg offers up their Gaia Project Review as well as discussing their most recent board game plays.
The Pegs also discuss their recent plays, including:
- Boonlake - Capstone Games
- Ark Nova (Brief Mention) - Capstone Games
- Horrified: American Monsters - Ravensburger
- Black Sonata - Side Room Games
- Aftermath - Plaid Hat Games
- A deep dive Gaia Project review
- A look back at our Paris review in the ReRoll
Gaia Project Board Game
Gaia Project Rules Gist
In Gaia Project, you are a unique faction with individual player powers striving to peacefully colonize the Terra Mystica galaxy. During the game, you will colonize new planets, upgrade mines into better structures, and unite planets to form federations. In addition, you will need to research and discover new technologies to improve your skills. In the end, only the best developed faction will win. The game plays over six rounds that contain unique round scoring abilities. Each player has a faction board with all their bits (and there are a lot of bits), the research board that holds all of the different standard and advanced tech tiles, and the modular game board. A round consists of four phases (income, Gaia, action and clean-up). The heart of the game is during the action phase in which players choose one of the following actions: Build a Mine- this is the expansion part of the game where players are spending ore and credits to put mines onto new discovered planets, you can start a Gaia Project which is necessary if you want to colonize an a Transdim planet, Upgrade Existing Structures which is super important as your faction is advancing and learning new research and tech-unlocking these structures typically provide more income in the form of credits, power, resources and techs. Players can also form a Federation which is essentially connecting all of your structures together via placing satellites and gain you a super powerful federation token that provides resources but also necessary if you want to advance to the highest level of a research track. There are a ton of other actions like researching to move up on the research paths, moving your power around inside your bowls to charge them so you can spend them and then special actions, finally a player can pass. Oh wait, there are also a ton of free actions to do if you have the resources and also passive actions that can happen when other players build and upgrade adjacent to planets you have already mined. Do you expand near other factions to give you power or will you look for solitude to expand more deeply into the galaxy? Let’s head back to the studio to hear the pegs thoughts on Gaia Project.
00:00Banter
1:16 - New Cast Talk
3:17 - Best 2 player game is remolding a bathroom?
2:52 - Christina travels to San Diego, plays a co-op with a non-gaming colleague and determines that her 4yo niece is a cheater
14:42 - Rouse Family attending TantrumCon
17:10 - Oculus Talk
20:56 - Another good 2pl game is Dirty Dancing
24:25 - Put on your Big Boy Pants for a contest!27:07Plays
27:07 - Boonlake
35:03 - Ark Nova (Brief Mention)
37:34 - Horrified: American Monsters
45:48 - Black Sonata
54:55 - Aftermath1:06:24News
1:06:24 - Portal E-Magazine - Moloch Monthly from Portal
1:08:05 - Video Games becoming board games
1:13:31 - EARTH - coming to Kickstarter from Inside Up Games
1:17:24 - 85 Hours of playing DUNE
1:19:28 - Interesting RPG
1:22:31 - Yahtzee: SPAM1:25:33Board Game Review
1:25:33 - Gaia Project Rules Gist
1:28:34 – Gaia Project Review
1:50:46 – Gaia Project Ratings1:58:24ReRoll
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