Hello everybody and welcome to the 136th 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 Quentin 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, wait, oh no, I'm Ava Fox 4. We got that. And I pay to be a little

bit high energy. Sorry about that. Hope he keeps 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. So today we are talking about Anno 1800, a Martin Wallace

game about colonialism and making little cubes, go into the right places and kind of

like destroying your brain slowly. And we're going to be talking about stroganoff, 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 stroganoff, yes, you do kill many animals, but then you also

write a song about it. Oh, yes, yes. Definitely a significantly less emphasized portion of the

game. But we'll get into that. I feel like we should have some bit of color or flavor

before we go into the sting. What do you two think? No, I feel like that was all a bit

too much and we need something to kind of like ease it down. I was really shouty. I don't

know where that goes. No, it was good. It was good energy. They feel like the place that

the sting will go will be just fine. This is not a top. No, hey, Tom. Why don't you tell

us I'm just unhinging my jaw. Tom Brewster, can you talk to us just a little bit about

Anno 1800 by Martin Wallace? I can tell you all about Anno 1800, the board game by Martin

Wallace. Because we've been playing a couple games of this recently at different player

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