#280 - The Firefighters of the Rainforest

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Leisure, Games

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Three kinds of wood, all alike in dignity. Except one of them is on fire, and one of them has a lot of toothy rodents in it. I’m really straining to find some way of making a kind of beaver ratatouille joke, but it’s not coming naturally. ‘Beavertouille, he only does Dams this time?’. I don’t know. Get out of my restaurant.

Timestamps:

01:52 - Hutan: Life in the Rainforest
12:50 - Flash Point: Legacy of Flame
32:27 - Timber Town

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the very shut up and sit down podcast.
0:14.5	The podcast all about board games, board games and the people who love board games.
0:18.6	My name is Matt Lees and I'm joined by Tom Brewster.
0:20.9	Me. That's right. It's you. Tom Brewster. Despite everything, you're still Tom Brewster. Yeah. And, uh, me. Today we're going to be talking about three board games. I wouldn't say three games both are like indignity, but no, there are two games that have dignity and one that does not have dignity. Oh, that's a little mean.
0:38.5	I don't know. I think that's about like the baseline level of niceness really for me.
0:44.1	But we'll come back to that shortly.
0:45.4	So we're going to be talking about Houtam, a board game of arranging flowers which turn into trees, which turn into animals.
0:53.1	The Circle of Life. We're going to be talking about
0:56.0	Flashpoint Legacy of Flame and we're going to be talking about Timber Town. Timber Town,
1:03.4	which I always call beaver builders. Yeah. To be fair, they probably would have called it
1:07.4	beaver builders. There's probably already loads of games called beaver builders. I think that we have done this podcast in a different order i think we should have done what i think we should have done hutan first right that's like the the the the woods being established yeah then timber town the woods get cut down and it turned into little log cabins and then flashpoint Legacy of Flame. A legacy of flame.
1:27.7	Those poor little beavers in their houses. I don't think that the bevers deserve to be subjected to fires. No. In the same way, I don't think most gamers should be subjected to Flashpoint legacy of flame. That's a hot take. It is, it is. And we'll come back to that shortly. First of all, though, please, Thomas, would you like to
1:25.2	do us a little sting and then tell us
1:27.3	about QTAM? Yeah, let me just go and find
1:29.2	the... It is, and we'll come back to that shortly. First of all, though, please, Thomas, would you like to do us a little sting and then tell us about Qatan? Yeah, let me just go and find the sting button. Where's the button? Oh, shit. Here it is. First up on this podcast, we're going to talk about Hutan, Life in the Rainforest. This is designed by Asga Harding Granaryud. Daniel Skilled Pedersen with art by Vincent Dutrate, published by Sidekick Games.
2:03.8	And if any of those names sound familiar, this is the dynamic trio that brought you
2:10.2	heat pedal to the metal.
2:12.2	Yep.
2:12.7	And now leaves pedal to the jungle.
2:15.7	I don't know.
2:16.6	It's warm in the jungle.
2:18.3	Yeah, heat.
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