Caper Europe Review: 10/10 Would Play Again...and Again and Again and Again
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Caper Europe is sure to be one of the best board games of 2022! It's a beautifully produced card drafting 2-player tug of war board game about pulling off competing heists in different European cities. Incredibly tense, tactile and balanced, this has been a real hit with us.
0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Brief Overview
2:47 - Why Caper: Europe is Great
4:19 - The Experience
6:27 - The Cities
8:00 - The Cards
9:22 - Final Thoughts & Doggos
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Caper sounds like a keeper! Loving your channel, well done 🙌
It absolutely is! Thank you so much 😊
Bought it based of your recommendation! Received it this week (retail version) and we have played it a lot. Thank you for your recommendation and all the work you put in to your channel 👍👍
Love to hear that you're enjoying it. Glad we could help you find a game you like! Thank you :).
Love the bandit doggos! Looks like a good game. Hope I get to play it sometime thanks for the review.
Bandit doggos: experts at stealing treats. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for going the extra mile, putting all of this extra work into your videos. It really shows. Just got the game, look forward to play it. My wife is a little hesitant. Hopefully I can convince her to give it a shot. Greetings from Iceland! :)
Greetings! Hope you enjoy it! Thank you for the kind words :).
Bought this game for it's beautiful design and it came in today. Can't wait to play!
Hope you enjoyed it! We've actually been playing it today!
You've deepened my anticipation tenfold! Backed the deluxe version and waiting on delivery. Tracking needs to update now! Now? Please? (Great video!)
I feel your pain! Hope you get it soon.
on a side note: your beard looks sharp 😍😇
Cheers!
Sounds like a great game :) will have to check it out!
Please do - you really can’t go wrong with it!
Played it once and I’m in just as much love as you! Not sure how I feel about the blaze blasters but I can see that it does add tension, even if it is tension I particularly would want less of.
Honestly at times it's tempting to take them out to have a less stressful game! I think overall though they're an important aspect. Glad you're enjoying it!
We've been enjoying card-based games like capital lux 2, royal visit, arboretum, codex naturalis lately due to too much work and not having enough energy to setup heavier games. I used to be a snub and looked down on these simple card games but we can't get enough of them now! caper europe has been on my wishlist for a while now and i can't wait to get it once it hits retail. do you know if the only differences between deluxe and retail are metal coins and insert?
It appears based on Keymaster's website that you get cardboard coins instead of metal. Insert still appears to be there though. Perhaps the card quality is a little less too?
Dang it. I'm going to buy it. :)
Yessss we’re pretty sure you won’t regret it!!
That's a pretty enthusiastic recommendation! Is that the retail version you were showing, or a deluxe version?
its the Mastermind edition from the Kickstarter. AFAIK there will be some different components in retail.
I think it's the main version from the KS, but the main difference for retail appears to be cardboard coins.
@Sergio and@@BoardOfItReviews Thanks for the reply. No metal coins would be a pretty small difference for what looks a clever, fun and beautiful game. I'm definitely interested after this review!
We personally think you just can’t go wrong with it, even if the concept and mechanisms overlap with other games you may own, the combination of everything this offers makes it a must own for us!
This really looks great, but my hesitation as to whether I need it or not comes from the fact that I have quite a few of these two player tug of war games. I've got Lost Cities, Schotten Totten 1 & 2, Fight for Olympus, Matcha, Jixia Academy and Hanamikoji: Geisha's Road. I know you both love it, but would you say that it is really so different from other tug of war games that it's worth getting?
While I haven't played any of the ones you've mentioned, I was just asked to compare it to Watergate, a game I really like, and realized I would by far prefer to play this over any two player tug of war game we have. But yea, hard to say without intimate knowledge of the games you listed, but I think at worst it's so well designed and fun to play you can't go wrong even if it does overlap.
Those games are quite different. This has drafting plus combos plus interaction. Schotten doesn't have the combos or really the variety or interaction. I have a mate that finds this too interactive but fine with most of the others you mention
@@benmecfslc2506 Thanks for the insight! Now I just have to see if I can find myself a copy at a decent price!
From watching other videos, this game looks heavy on iconography (for its weight, I mean; seems heavy on icons for how simple the game play is). Is it tough to learn at first, is there a player aid or something, what's been your guys's experience with all of that?
With the caveat that we've played a lot of heavy games so we are probably biased, I'd say the iconography is very simple and easy to pick up. There are only a few different symbols which are all clear, and the only difficulty I can see is with the new symbols that come up in the different locations. There is also player aids, and it's very easy to learn. I've taught a non-gamer this in about 5 minutes and had a fairly competitive game after. Hope that helps!
@@BoardOfItReviews Very helpful, thanks a lot! I enjoy your videos, please keep up the good work! :)
Thank you so much, very happy to hear that!
What is your opinion comparing it to Watergate?
Love Watergate, but they are fairly different. In Watergate you each pick a 'character' which has a unique deck and a different goal, and the trick is to do your goal while stopping your opponent. Like Twilight Struggle, cards can be played for their action or spent as points to move trackers and such. In Caper Europe, you both share the same deck and card drafting is incredibly important. You have a few different options of what to focus on to score, and you can max out one and ignore the rest, or dabble in all, etc.
I'd rather play Caper Europe I think, particularly because it has a bit more replayability than Watergate. I think I'd only recommend Watergate over Caper if you were a huge Twilight Struggle fan. They are different enough to have both though.
@@BoardOfItReviews Thank you for the detailed reply. Really appreciate it. Will give Caper Europe a try.
No problem!