Let's Play CONDOTTIERE

## ★ ADAM'S CHALKBOARD ★

**Let's Play CONDOTTIERE** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*I wonder how many boys Ken will kill today?*"
―Sullivan
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "scegliere le tue battaglie".
* Laurie's on a hot streak - he's Danny the Champion of the World, but Adam promises this game he'll be the pheasant.
* Tilly's still the youngest player, for some reason. She doesn't want it, neither do the rest of them, but them's the rules.
* Ah good. Accents again.
* Adam's a professional host doncha know.
* Singalonga NRB: 'Mussolini' 'Little drummer boy' 'Dominic Allen has a bishop in his hand' 'Here comes the men' 'Boy for sale' 'Too many Brookes'
* Dom's choosing actual violence from the off.
* Laurie and Dom are playing out their own medieval fight scene in the background of the negotiations.
* Ken's the first to pass - he's actually playing strategically again. He's sending out a single man to die alone.
* Tilly: "No, I do not know what I'm doing. It was chance, pure chance."
* Sulivan's army is small but mental.
* Dom gets nerfed, that won't be forgotten. And again. Ah.
* Ken is still sending out a single boy to be killed.
* Dom is accidentally revealing all his powerful cards. Sullivan is accidentally throwing away his cards.
* We're chanting for boys.
* Dom: "As long as I can let them fight each other, when the time is right I'll simply crush them! Crush them!" World Dom-ination on the cards again.
* Here comes the men! All dressed as boys!
* Tilly: "I'm going to hasten the end because ... I need a wee."
* Adam: "Boom boom boom" Sullivan: "I want you in my room. Let's spend the night together, together in my room." Tilly: "Has that ever worked?" Sulivan: "Yes."
* Ah Laurie's doing his thing again. Can he summarise his approach succinctly? "The war that people weren't ready for was the war of sitting back and watching other people do war until they can't do any more war anymore and they're very tired and you can just walk in with lots of boys and win the war." So - no, he can't.
* Ken has a fresh new batch of boys. That's horrifying.
* Adam: "Dom, the idea of you with God on your side is purely terrifying."
* Tilly: "I did fuck myself slightly". Actually, it was Dom. He never hesitates to get his bishop out.
* Adam: "Dom is a pocket dictator in training."
* Adam and Sullivan are saving up for a final glorious battle.
* Adam: "Get your own personality Beau Brown!"
* Laurie's in and out like the hokey cokey.
* Ken and Dom are going to split the rest of Italy. It's a fragile alliance.
* We're exploring the sunk cost fallacy.
* Time to coerce Sullivan again.
* Tilly's second victory has filled her with confidence. BGC history would suggest she's cruising to a comfortable last place now.
* Tilly is bishoping the man she loves.
* Dom: "I'll stop killing people if you just surrender!"
* We've evolved into a pretty tense head-to-head at this point - between the power crazed despot and the professional poker player.
* Sullivan ended up with an army of scarecrows.
* Dom was perhaps, inevitable. Adam: "Of course you won the military game, you bloody Napoleon." Plus Dom hates Sullivan.

## Talking Heads

Talking heads are available this episode.

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Adam.
* Chalkboard is updated with a loss.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.

1. ↑ It means 'choosing your own battles'. Thank you to Luigi on the NRB Patreon Discord for the proper spellings and translation.