Hello everybody and welcome to the 1001, shut up and sit down podcast live from Pax Unplugged in Philadelphia.

Give yourself a round of applause, everybody.

We are back in the city of Brotherly Love and, oh brother, have we got some lovely games for you?

First up today, we're going to talk about a little old game that came out just 20 years ago.

This is a photograph on the screen.

You can see now, for those of you listening at home,

it's me wearing a delightful turtleneck sweater,

losing my mind in the corner of a hotel on the edge of Philadelphia.

People often think that we don't like really complicated Euro games.

They're like, oh, shut up and sit down like simple games.

Every time we fly halfway around the world, we always crack out some of the most complicated things we can play to play whilst jet lagged.

Why?

I don't know why.

It's just the only time we have like eight hours.

What should we do?

Let's play a Hellscape.

So what we've got here, this is Roads and Boats from fantastic Netherlands publisher Splotter,

who you may well know for Food Chain Magnate, one Mr. Splotters in the audience.

No, so Roads and Boats was one of the first Splotter games.

We were lucky enough to play bus as well this trip, which we'll be talking about later.

I'm stalling because how on earth do you describe roads and boats?

I mean, I think the key thing to look at here is about that it's minor detail on the image,

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