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We loved Iberian Gauge because of the tactile nature of swapping monies back and forth though weren’t a fan of the paper money so always sub for poker chips. We often engage in purposeful sabotage of each other’s company by purchasing one stock and tanking the company by trying to build to dead ends to not get the town and city increase. We have enjoyed some classic nights with this game! Great review as I haven’t played the other two.
Thanks for the comparison video on these 3 games. I was just trying to figure out which to get, so I appreciated your thoughts. Ultimately got Irish Gauge because it seemed the right fit for me to try and get people into these sorts of train games. Hope to be able to get it to the table soon with one of my groups. Keep up the good work!
Hope you enjoy! I think once people start playing they pick it up quick enough, even if the ramifications of their actions are maybe a bit unclear. Luckily it's quick enough you can jump back in after!
I love train themed games, and especially the network building aspect of it. I have a variety of Ticket to Ride (TTR), standalone games and expansions. I’ve been looking for similar but different games like TTR, and recently found On the Underground, New York/Paris maps. I have only played it a few times and really enjoy it. I’ve also purchases Free Ride, although reviews about the map say it’s flawed to easily identify cities and there locations. I haven’t unboxed Free Ride yet. How did I miss this franchise of games? I must try at least one…despite your excellent comparison and analysis, it’s still a difficult choice. I appreciate how you also shared the actual set up time. Very helpful!
great comparsion guys.i have irish gauge love it becouse is easy to tech and fun.taht turn order really puts me off that ride the rails.iberian sounds interesting maybe i will buy it.nice new channel subbed.
Nice job. I've enjoyed Jon Gets Games' reviews of rail games and it's good to hear your perspective as well. The only one I've gotten to date is Trans-Siberian Railroad, which is quite good.
Thank you for the explanation of all 3 games! I was wondering what made each of them different (I knew they couldn’t all be exactly the same game, because otherwise that would defeat the purpose of having the others :- !)
It’s interesting how different friend groups will play games totally differently! In my experience Iberian Gauge was a lot more savage than Irish Gauge. We had players buying shares in companies where one player already had multiple shares just so that they could build roads to nowhere and deplete the shared money for that company. With no way to pay money into the company to build with (once all shares have been bought) this can be catastrophic and completely tank certainly companies leaving the player with multiple shares to lose a lot of money😂 Definitely still a fun game but seems to play out quite differently to how you described it. Awesome video once again! I always enjoy watching your reviews☺️
Thanks for the kind words! Great to hear you had so much fun with Iberian! Your group sounds fun, I love the idea of offensive share buying. We have a little of that, but not to the same extent....our games are usually a careful dance of cooperation while trying to subtly get the edge over the other players rather than outright hostility.
I‘ve Sold my copy of Ride the Rails, same points of critique as you and I just Never see myself picking Ride the Rails over the other two. It hurts a little having the gap in the Collection but it’s fine. Iberian Gauge is my favorite and whenever I show it to people, they really like it. Iron clays are a must though. Have you ever played an 18XX game? Highly recommend 😁
Yea, we still have it, but really hard to choose it over the other two like you say. Thankfully the box is thin! I prefer Irish Gauge, but I do love Iberian and the weird collaborative-competitive nature of it. No, far as we've gone are the Iron Rails/Age of Steam, but we'd be interested to try one! Any particular recommendations?
Great video, you two! Yeah, I’m incredibly happy with Irish and Iberian Gauge and it sounds like my misgivings about Ride the Rails is mostly in line with your comments, so I think I’ll leave spot #2 vacant in my Iron Rails series. I don’t know why, but games having expansions is just a general boost to how much I want to play them, so it’s hard for me to shake the fact that there _are_ other maps to get for RtR… but of course if the game that runs them all isn’t to my liking, that’s a pretty silly reason to buy into it. Also I just may need to get myself some Iron Clays at some point… are you owners off the 100 or 200 set?
Thanks again! Yeah that seems the sensible choice in our opinion…maybe give it a go at a board game cafe if you have the chance but as we said in the video, the two you have are the strongest in our opinion 👍🏻
I love Ride the Rails, but I do see where your criticisms of it are coming from. If you're willing to try the expansion maps, my recommendation would be Australia. Because Blue starts in Melbourne and Red in Sydney, it's no longer quite so arbitrary which colour the first player chooses, and there's a strong incentive to try to invest in both. Canada on the other side didn't seem as interesting, but I've only tried it once.
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We loved Iberian Gauge because of the tactile nature of swapping monies back and forth though weren’t a fan of the paper money so always sub for poker chips.
We often engage in purposeful sabotage of each other’s company by purchasing one stock and tanking the company by trying to build to dead ends to not get the town and city increase.
We have enjoyed some classic nights with this game! Great review as I haven’t played the other two.
We love all that too! Hope you get to try out the others.
Can't you lease track to another company...perhaps one you have a majority holding in?
Can't you lease track to another company...perhaps one you have a majority holding in?
Thanks for the comparison video on these 3 games. I was just trying to figure out which to get, so I appreciated your thoughts. Ultimately got Irish Gauge because it seemed the right fit for me to try and get people into these sorts of train games. Hope to be able to get it to the table soon with one of my groups. Keep up the good work!
Hope you enjoy! I think once people start playing they pick it up quick enough, even if the ramifications of their actions are maybe a bit unclear. Luckily it's quick enough you can jump back in after!
I love train themed games, and especially the network building aspect of it. I have a variety of Ticket to Ride (TTR), standalone games and expansions. I’ve been looking for similar but different games like TTR, and recently found On the Underground, New York/Paris maps. I have only played it a few times and really enjoy it. I’ve also purchases Free Ride, although reviews about the map say it’s flawed to easily identify cities and there locations. I haven’t unboxed Free Ride yet. How did I miss this franchise of games? I must try at least one…despite your excellent comparison and analysis, it’s still a difficult choice. I appreciate how you also shared the actual set up time. Very helpful!
These are still my favourite train games. So much punch in such a short time.
great comparsion guys.i have irish gauge love it becouse is easy to tech and fun.taht turn order really puts me off that ride the rails.iberian sounds interesting maybe i will buy it.nice new channel subbed.
Thanks for the support! Glad it helped you :)...and to see another fan of Irish Gauge!
Nice job. I've enjoyed Jon Gets Games' reviews of rail games and it's good to hear your perspective as well. The only one I've gotten to date is Trans-Siberian Railroad, which is quite good.
I'd quite like to try Ultimate Railroads when that comes out, as Russian Railroads sounds like the kind of brutal game we'd love.
Another game in a similar vein is Westward Rails
Iberian Gauge can definitely be mean. You can buy a share in a company and spend all of that companies money building tracks to nowhere. LOL.
Thank you for the explanation of all 3 games! I was wondering what made each of them different (I knew they couldn’t all be exactly the same game, because otherwise that would defeat the purpose of having the others :- !)
Glad it helped!
It’s interesting how different friend groups will play games totally differently! In my experience Iberian Gauge was a lot more savage than Irish Gauge. We had players buying shares in companies where one player already had multiple shares just so that they could build roads to nowhere and deplete the shared money for that company. With no way to pay money into the company to build with (once all shares have been bought) this can be catastrophic and completely tank certainly companies leaving the player with multiple shares to lose a lot of money😂 Definitely still a fun game but seems to play out quite differently to how you described it. Awesome video once again! I always enjoy watching your reviews☺️
Thanks for the kind words! Great to hear you had so much fun with Iberian! Your group sounds fun, I love the idea of offensive share buying. We have a little of that, but not to the same extent....our games are usually a careful dance of cooperation while trying to subtly get the edge over the other players rather than outright hostility.
I‘ve Sold my copy of Ride the Rails, same points of critique as you and I just Never see myself picking Ride the Rails over the other two. It hurts a little having the gap in the Collection but it’s fine. Iberian Gauge is my favorite and whenever I show it to people, they really like it.
Iron clays are a must though. Have you ever played an 18XX game? Highly recommend 😁
Yea, we still have it, but really hard to choose it over the other two like you say. Thankfully the box is thin! I prefer Irish Gauge, but I do love Iberian and the weird collaborative-competitive nature of it.
No, far as we've gone are the Iron Rails/Age of Steam, but we'd be interested to try one! Any particular recommendations?
Out of Irish gauge and Iberian gauge, which (if any) would you recommend for a 3 player group?
I think they are about the same - personally Irish Gauge is always the more "fun" one to us, but there isn't much in it.
Great video, you two! Yeah, I’m incredibly happy with Irish and Iberian Gauge and it sounds like my misgivings about Ride the Rails is mostly in line with your comments, so I think I’ll leave spot #2 vacant in my Iron Rails series. I don’t know why, but games having expansions is just a general boost to how much I want to play them, so it’s hard for me to shake the fact that there _are_ other maps to get for RtR… but of course if the game that runs them all isn’t to my liking, that’s a pretty silly reason to buy into it.
Also I just may need to get myself some Iron Clays at some point… are you owners off the 100 or 200 set?
Thanks again! Yeah that seems the sensible choice in our opinion…maybe give it a go at a board game cafe if you have the chance but as we said in the video, the two you have are the strongest in our opinion 👍🏻
Nice and well-explained video :D . Sound is a bit iffy, which is a shame considering the valuable imput you both bring!
Thank you! Yea, one of the microphones went a bit funny for the Irish Gauge segment, sadly.
Thanks for the video. It’s good to hear about these games. Have you guys played Airlines Europe? It sounds related to these.
No we haven't but we'll look into it!
I love Ride the Rails, but I do see where your criticisms of it are coming from. If you're willing to try the expansion maps, my recommendation would be Australia. Because Blue starts in Melbourne and Red in Sydney, it's no longer quite so arbitrary which colour the first player chooses, and there's a strong incentive to try to invest in both. Canada on the other side didn't seem as interesting, but I've only tried it once.
Thanks for the tip! I think there are also European maps so I'd be interested to see how they shake things up.
@@BoardOfItReviews France and Germany, two different maps again
For the resons you mentioned, I think 4p is the worst player count for Ride the Rails. I prefer 3p or 5p.
GREAT VIDEO!
Thank you!
@@BoardOfItReviews Farrel, can u please write top 5 favourite games ever? Didnt find video about it
How is Ride the Rails the second game when it came out 3 years later after Iberian Gauge, which i thought is the second game. Im confused
It's the order in which they were re-done and re-released for Capstone games, not the order they originally came out in.
@@BoardOfItReviews Oh i see, thanks for the clarification! :)