[Music] [Music] hey folks welcome back to another review with your trly Sam Healey and today is not really kind of a a review it's more of an informational video for you guys uh what actually happened was a guy at our last cool stuff meeting up in Hollywood uh asked if I would do a memoir 44 buying guide now I've videoed the mess out of memoir 44 there's a lot of videos that I've done uh for Memoir 44 so you can go check all those out and I've uh tried to be as comprehens comprehensive as I
can uh uh with uh that game is one of my favorite games uh of all time uh but I've never actually done a buying guide as it were because quite frankly I think that you need to uh um I guess simply just make your own decision on what you should and should not buy but I'll go ahead and weigh in because quite frankly a fell asked me for it I thought it would be useful um after a little bit of delineation about it so here it goes now the first thing that you actually need to
take into account is um what part of uh that whole genre are you more interested in because there are different theaters uh to think about there's a Pacific Theater and there's also a European theater basically generally speaking um within the European theater I'm throwing in the Mediterranean theater so uh you have those two sides of the world where this conflict was taking place so you have to kind of ask yourself what are you more interested in are you more interested in uh the battling that was going on in the Pacific or are you more interested
in what the battling that was going on in the European continent and the African North African continents uh so uh that's the first question you got to go through if Pacific Theater is your action then it's kind of a no-brainer the uh terrain pack and the Pacific Theater are probably where you need to go first it'll give you the most bang for your buck out of your one base set that I'm assuming you've already purchased um that's kind of a given uh if you're going to get in with mmir you need to buy at least
a base set uh so I'm assuming that uh you have at least one base set uh to go from um what the terrain pack in the Pacific realm uh Pacific Theater expansion will do is uh it'll give you uh first of all brand new Army uh with the Japanese um army and then you'll also have uh other kinds of troops for the US troops you'll have Marines and you'll go into all that kind of stuff as well the terrain pack basically gives you you a uh more scenarios that you'll be able to play through and
uh it gives you a whole mess of terrain tiles so you probably won't need to worry about not having the correct terrain uh after having bought the terrain pack so there's a lot of good positives about going with the p Pacific Theater because first of all um if you want the Aesthetics to be there you don't need to buy another board the board that comes in the base set is all you will need to get your full use out of the uh Pacific Theater expansion so if Pacific Theater is the way that you're interested that's
easy terrain pack uh Pacific Theater slam done but if the European theater is more of your your style then um there are more options available to you and a little bit more thought needs to be put into it uh what I would probably go with first is the winter desert board um expansion that came out it has it's a two-sided board that has a uh winterland cape on one and on the other side it has a desert landscape and the reason I say that is because if you go with the Eastern front or the Mediterranean
theater you'll need one of those two different sides to get the full aesthetic feel yeah you could put um you know winter terrain on a otherwise green board um that always bugged me though and if it bugs you then you're going to want to buy that winter desert board so I'd go that route uh definitely and then if you're more interested in the northern African theater uh and the battles that went on there Commonwealth troops uh having a little bit of the Italians in there as well then you'll want to go with the Mediterranean theater
but if you're more interested in uh more um centralized I guess you could say the European conflict battles there uh entering in the Russian troops as well you'll want to go with the uh Eastern Front expansion now they're kind of uh give and take here because uh they all kind of Mel together a little bit so take your time with with it um if you want to go with um you know if you're you know maybe you're leaning towards you want more Commonwealth troops go with the Mediterranean theater first maybe you want the Russian troops
go with the Eastern front first but I think either one of those two theater expansions you'll want to get the winter desert board map at the very least then on top of that you also have a winter Wars expansion that came out uh a little bit after all these other guys did so there's more uh scenario more uh winter terrain all of that kind of stuff in the winter Wars pack scenario so uh there's that now at that point you'll want to reassess do I have everything that I want or do I want to go
further down the rabbit hole and if you want to go further down the rabbit hole if you have not yet already done so you might want to think about purchasing a second core set of memoir 44 and the reason I say that is because after you've bought the winter Wars the Mediterranean theater Eastern front and the Pacific Theater if you've already bought all those really the only the the next step is the overlord expansions and and uh for a lot of those scenarios you'll need two base boards there are a number of different battle maps
that were um put out there was tigers in the snow hedro hell um there was also disaster at Dee and the sword of Stalingrad I probably mispronounce some of those words in there but um sound them out you should be able to find them uh those battle maps are Overlord sized battle maps and so you won't need two base sets uh or two base boards um in that uh to if you buy those battl map series but for any of the other ones you'll probably need them uh the two base board so you'll probably need
to do some introspective digging there and see if you really want to uh buy that second set if you do buy the second set um the only real thing that you'll need out of the uh Operation Overlord packed are the cards that are are huge cool thing that come in that but the counters that come in it won't be necessary because you'll have most if not all of the uh troops that you'll need for any of those Overlord scenarios um so there's that if you want to continue going further um um the equipment pack is
is definitely out there and then those battle map series that I mentioned are are definitely things that you should look at the equipment pack is a really cool thing definitely a luxury because uh most of the things that come in the equipment pack are plastic models uh that represent tokens that have come in other sets so the equipment pack is there kind of towards the tail end because it is definitely a luxury item it's not necessary however none of this is really necessary so uh take take that into account so um that's kind of my
ideas uh on what you should should not buy and when you should and should not buy it uh again that along with about 25 cents might get you a cup of coffee somewhere so it's really not worth much it's just kind of my thoughts on the issue take it for what it's worth but uh hopefully you have been enjoying and will continue enjoy Memoir 44 as much as I have see you on the flip side folks thanks so much for watching The Dice Tower videos find more great videos and reviews as well as our top
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