Nucleum - Is it Radioactive or Toxic Waste?

It's taken a while, but we've finally have enough plays under our belts to review Nucleum. Better late that never?

Nucleum was designed by Simone Luciani and Dávid Turczi, and published in 2024 by Board and Dice. It's a 1-4 player, heavyweight, route building, action selection, tech tree, Euro engine builder with asymmetric player abilities and multiple pathways to accumulate victory points. Sound like a lot? Yeah, we thought so, too. We played this pretty early on, pretty much as soon as it was delivered, but we had to get more plays before we could give it an honest review. Was it Great? Watch to find out our thoughts, impressions, pros, cons, value, rating, and more!

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00:00 - Start
00:20 - What are we talking about
00:29 - Why Watch?
00:45 - Designer / Publisher
01:14 - Theme
02:03 - Mechanics
03:36 - Player Count / Teach Time
05:01 - Turn Overview
07:43 - Summary
08:31 - Pro Toph
09:11 - Expanding on Pro
09:43 - Brad Pro
10:42 - Toph Pro
11:47 - Marker 13
11:48 - Brad Pro
12:21 - Toph Pro
14:02 - Toph Misc Pros
15:31 - Further Discussion
17:07 - Cons
18:34 - Toph Rebuttal
19:28 - We like Board and Dice
20:29 - Toph Con
21:58 - Toph Con
23:09 - Brad Con
24:51 - Toph Expanding
25:22 - Brad Con
27:01 - Toph Rebuttal
28:39 - How Games Trigger Ending
29:32 - Con Misc
29:48 - Weight Rating
31:23 - Value Rating
33:11 - BGG Rating
34:21 - Toph BGG Rating
36:24 - Who is this for?
38:23 - What do you think?
39:14 - Recommend Board and Dice Games