Iberian Gauge Review - with Chris and Wendy Yi
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Chris Yi and Wendy Yi take a look at Iberian Gauge, a shorter train game in the Iron Rails line by Capstone Games.
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I love these Yi-views! Y’all should do more of them
Ok “Hear Yi Hear Yi” got an out loud chuckle. Nice job.
Hear Yi! Hear Yi! Hah! That's great! Good little overview, Sir. Iberian guage was my into into not only the iron rail series but in cube rail games altogether. I enjoyed the 4 player game quite a bit, and ended up buying a copy(of course.) It remains 1 of my favorites of the cube rail genre.
The biggest key to winning in this game has to be strategic leasing of track. Expand routes of a company you have a stake in by leasing track from a company you have a stake in. That just moves money around among both companies you are invested in.
As a fan of Ticket to Ride and looking to branch out into other train games, how did I miss this franchise of Iron Rails games? Looks very interesting, and I can see playing this particular with a specific group of people. I might be better to try the Irish Gauge first so that it gets to the table more often. I addition to TTR, I recently purchased On the Undeground New York and Paris maps. So far, really liking it although I’ve only played it a few times. Just wish it had train cars instead of sticks as the component to represent trains. I also got Free Ride but haven’t unboxed it yet.
"They run out of money, that's something I had to wrap my head around" sounded oddly funny.
For the money, I suspect the best physical solution would be full-sized chips (like Iron Clays). However, I can see how a game like this would be even better in a digital implementation that does the calculations for you.
This is my favourite out of the iron rail games. The other two I was pretty meh about, this one turned it around for me. I never played any 18XX games but I love how you pay money to the company and then you build out of the company's treasury (not your own) and the fact that earlier ownership gets to build first. I hope there can be better crunchier Euro that uses these tried and true mechanisms but not in an 18XX game - I don't like the aesthetics of 18XX.
City of the Big Shoulders is a crunchy, economic worker placement game that does just that.
For some that balancing act is what some people like because it's what happens in real life. But it isn't also for me but because that specific part because the rest I like a lot.
Maybe Dice Tower should have a reviewer who actually like (very) mean games?
Chris and Wendy, I would love to see a review from you on the game Bear Raid!
Money could be tracked by King of Tokyo style counters, but with three digit wheels. This might be more efficient.
I love how an equal amount of share ownership in a train company produces a mutually beneficial partnership among those players, but as soon as one of those players buys one more share then it immediately becomes an adversarial relationship. You just can't let the majority share holder benefit more than you, so you have to try to tank the company cuz it hurts them more than you. My, how fast a business relationship can flip!
Once you have invested in a company, can you subsequently divest out of that company, recover your cube, recieve a payout for your share and then reinvest into another company?
Hear Yi! Hear Yi!
I love it...
Hi, can you explain what is so funny about it? English is not my first language
In the olden days town criers would walk the streets to yell out important news for the townsfolk to know. To attract attention they would ring a bell and shout out 'Hear Ye! Hear Ye!' before the main announcement.
It is pronounced the same as 'Hear Yi!'
It's a classic from the master of puns, Chris Yi...
Peper monery vs. card monery?
Using removable marker to use the treasury ->>> ?
Seems like they could have made the "constant change making" problem less, by having things be done increments of five, rather than four. Maybe?
Nice review. More Hollandspiele, please.
Yi-haw! Keep it up the couple reviews
Train games are all about temporary partnerships. You need to know when to jump into a company. You need partners, but also need to know when it's time to tank a company.
Nice review! Do you know how this game differs from Ride the Rails or Irish Gauge?
Ride the rails focuses on route building and maximizing profits that way.
Irish gauge focuses on auctions and stocks and manipulating odds to have shares pay out in your favor
Yeah. The making change issue drove me and my friends nuts. That cast such an annoying shadow on what seemed like a cool game otherwise.
i'm confused why and who gets upset with someone using the word bucks for money?
"Bucks" is an American nickname for American money. This is a "Spanish" game that references what used to be Spanish money. Calling pesetas "bucks" is like calling lumpia "taquitos". YOU can call things whatever you wish to call them when playing in private, but Chris is not private and he's covering a game that was probably provided for free. So he should ABSOLUTELY call the board game pieces what the board game publisher calls them. I'm sure they would be "upset" if he didn't.
@@kevinbhieey9188 Who made up these rules of “correctness” that you’re referencing? And why should anyone be bound by them?
@@kevinbhieey9188 I think “buck” can be used more generically than that, as in, “make a quick buck”.
@@kevinbhieey9188 I believe the publisher could care less what they call the money and is more concerned with hopefully getting a good review of their game. I understand calling it by the right term but I promise this is non issue even to Spanish gamers.
non americans
Who is Tom Russel then???
Amabel Holland changed her name so that is what she goes by. I suppose we had an earlier released copy that did not reflect that name change yet.
@@DTChrisYi Ah ok. That explains it. Was very confused about how the publisher could make such a mistake after checking the BGG listing and it confirmed what you said.
There is a major disconnect in how many times I heard the word "interesting" and my actual "interest" in ever playing it. Oof.
High interactive games are not very apreciated by the dice tower. Train games fall into that category. A shame that the dice tower don't have a real train gamer among the reviewers so these games can get the attention they deserve. 😢