Guild Academies of Valeria Review, A heavier stand alone board game in the Valeria Universe

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Train the next generation of heroes in Guild Academies of Valeria, a stand alone game set in the Valeria universe that’s heavier than most of the other games in the series. In Guild Academies of Valeria you recruit students and professors and expand your campus. Your goal is to educate and level up your students, then send them off to complete quests, while also trying to sway the whims of The Council. 🔸 This review is one segment of Episode 247 of The Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, Managing the Mess. Watch that here: https://youtu.be/d3qya9A66Do?si=5IaWdJZTguLyGfA8 🔸 Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/tabletopbellhop?sub_confirmation=1 🔸 Join Our Patreon! Support everything we do and get access to cool bonus content over at: https://www.patreon.com/tabletopbellhop Disclosure: big thanks to Daily Magic Games for hooking us up with a review copy of this great eurogame. As a thanks to you, our fans, you can use BELLHOP to save 5% off anything you buy directly from them. ******************** 🛎️ Timestamps: 00:00 INFO ON GUILD ACADEMIES OF VALERIA 01:18 COMPONENT QUALITY IN GUILD ACADEMIES 01:48 GUILD ACADEMIES OF VALERIA OVERVIEW OF PLAY 05:47 OUR THOUGHTS ON GUILD ACADEMIES OF VALERIA 14:37 WHO SHOULD PICK UP GUILD ACADEMIES OF VALERIA 17:21 CLOSING AND WHERE TO FIND MORE ******************** 🛎️ From the Publisher: You and your fellow Headmasters are trying to build out your academies, recruit the best students, hire talented guildmasters, and influence important council ministers. Only select graduates can be tasked to fulfill quests ordered by the King, while the so-so graduates are sent to the capital city to make their own way. Guild Academies uses action selection, dice drafting, and dice manipulation (Students), tile drafting, resource management and engine building (Academies), contract fulfillment (Quests), and a unique system where players choose which game aspects they want to score (Council Ministers) to bring a new aspect of the Valeria Universe to life. ******************** 🛎️ Head over to the Tabletop Bellhop website where you'll find more tabletop gaming content, including gaming and game night advice, reviews, and more: https://tabletopbellhop.com 🛎️ Check out Moe's written review of Guild Academies of Valeria for an even more detailed look at this Valeria game: https://tabletopbellhop.com/game-reviews/guild-academies-of-valeria-review/ 🛎️ BUY IT: Pick up Guild Academies of Valeria on Amazon (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/43PQ6bo 🛎️ FIND US EVERYWHERE: 🔸The Tabletop Bellhop Discord: https://discord.tabletopbellhop.com 🔸Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/tabletopbellhop.com 🔸Dice.camp: https://dice.camp/@TabletopBellhop/ 🔸Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tabletopbellhop/ 🔸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletopbellhop/ 🔸Twitch: https://twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop