Hello everybody and welcome to the 136 shut up and sit down podcast, a podcast about board games we like, board games we might not like, board games

we want to talk to you about. I'm joined today by Mr. Quinton Smith. Hello, but what's your

name? Who are you? No, I'm doing Tom first. Who's Tom? Hello, I'm Tom and I'm here, but tell me,

Ava, what is your way? Oh, no! I'm Ava, Foxford.

We got that. And I appear to be

a little bit high energy. Sorry about that.

I hope we could keep that up, because we might

need it. Well, you are going to need high energy

to talk about these two games, aren't we? Because they're

both pretty grim. Before we started

recording, we were just discussing that they're both grim

in different ways. Indeed. So today we are talking about Anno 1800, a Martin Wallace game about colonialism

and making little cubes, going to the right places, and kind of like destroying your brain

slowly. And we're going to be talking about Strugganoff a game about going

hunting and just killing lots and lots of animals in a very specific order.

I mean, don't forget that in Strugganoff, yes, you do kill many animals but then you also

write a song about it.

Oh, yes, yes yes that's definitely a significantly

less emphasized portion of the game. Uh yeah we'll get into that I feel like we should have some bit of

like color or flavor before we go into the sting what do you two think? I don't know I feel like that was all a bit

too much and we need something to kind of like ease it down I was really shouting I don't know where that came no it was good it was good. I feel like that was all a bit too much and we need something to kind of like ease it down. I was really shouting. I don't know where that came.

No, it was good. It was good energy. I feel like the place that the sting will go will be just fine.

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