This is something that is tragically missing across the board game community. These games come out with specialized inserts that clearly have a purpose, and then just leave you hanging to figure it out
In my little tray I gave the mine, ship, and castle tiles each their own trough. The extra space means they will lay over a bit so it's easier to see what you're grabbing. Then the empty trough was used for discarding the unsold tiles at the end of a phase, since we were short on table space. Do wish that little tray was a sturdier build though if it's meant to be out on the table during play.
After getting through 4 different vids where creators either didn't know how to fit stuff in the box, and tried to figure it out on the go, or told me to get rid of inserts to make the room for zip bags I finally got to yours and it's absolute banging. Thank you very much good sir for helping me to sort it out. I've kept a thin foam insert that was on top when I first opened the box to hold my gameboard. (also long sentences ftw)
I really liked your re-boxing solution, I reorganized mine following your advice, I have a suggestion or two to make. Use the small tray where you have space left to place not only for the blue hexes (ships) and burgundy hexes (castles), add on all the hexes with black back since they need to be separated anyhow when playing the game. You can also fit the hexes that belong to expansions there. This will make your set up easier and those hexes will fill the 2 empty slots nicely, not too loose or too tight. The other suggestion I have is to place the 12 bonus tiles in the slot between the plastic colored turn order markers and the 4 round 100/200 victory point tiles, they fit perfectly in that slot. place the 4 cardboard victory point markers with their acrylic bases attached inside the small compartment that is next to the two rows of square brown plastic Goods tiles.
So the pieces fit better if you swap the standees and the bonus tile (the ones that look kinda ticket shape). Place those bonus tiles upright with long edge down between the first players markers and the 100/200 tokens.. there a notch on the side to pull them out!.
Yeah that's how I have mine packed too. The bonus tiles fit nice and snug between the first player markers and points tiles. And the assembled standees fit okay in the other spot
Cool Video. I just started to organize it. In the smaller tray you have got some extra space left which could possibly be for some expansion Hexagon tiles. In my German rulebook Page 3. are shown 4 Hex-tiles of exp.2 and 9 Hex-tiles of exp.5 (white castles). I have never played the game yet and don't know if its a problem to have them allready in the bags if you want to learn the basic rules with just basic game tiles. I love the quality of this massive Box of a game and i think it's well thought through but pictures of the packed Inlays in the rulebook would have been nice. I can't imagine how they didn't think of it. Thank you for your video. I hope my english is enough to understand.
Thanks for the video! Very helpful. I bet you’d be able to store vertically with all the material flush against each other. Doesn’t seem to be extra space (air) in the box. Also, try using the styrofoam frame for the game board.
I like to store the "web" for the duchy boards underneath a stack of one of each of the 30 boards and on top of all the other boards to better facilitate everyone getting a unique board.
Thanks for the video; I've not played CoB before, so this was really useful. I think you can swap the positive of the area completion bonuses with the standees - seems to be a better fit.
Most sensible organising video so far for the base pledge with minis (and no acrylic), thanks. I agree, a photo or something of how the publishers intended is needed, when the trays are obviously designed with a certain configuration in mind. Re: the little standees - I assume they are for those that opted for the 'no-minis' option?
I think all kickstarter versions include the minis for the 4 player colors and the 16 castles. But its possible the retail edition won't have those and will require the cardboard standees to keep score.
@@SolooperativeGames I’m in the UK and the base pledge for me was definitely without minis, as I added that later for a small amount of €. It may have been just the castles though.
Thanks for the helpful vid, my copy just arrived today. I feel the extra spaces in that one tray will be useful for other expansion tiles you don’t want to include if you just want to play the base game
Hello, thank you so much for this video, it is really helpful. However I put the bonus tiles instead of standees next to the first player tokens. I think it fits even better like that.
Mine came with a piece of padding that surrounds the game board so it does not slide around Thanks for the video. It really helped me organize my trays. I think I’m just going to store it flat I’m afraid to do it any other way some pieces might fall out
I like to put the organizer with the pull-out tray on the bottom since the large tray isn't used after setup and I don't want to risk dropping the stuff.
I thought they mentioned the acrylic tiles wouldn’t be getting storage in the main box but have to be stored in their own separate box, or maybe you could only store cardboard OR acrylic, can’t remember.
@@Flip5ide Yes Board Game Garden was able to get many of the acrylic in the insert, but it definitely wasn't made for them. Which means in effort to accommodate them they made it worse for both.
I put the lids on the bottom 2 layers since those hold the most weight. I suspect that it shipped with lids on the top layer for protection during shipping. There was barely anything in the bottom layer when it shipped so there was nothing to protect.
The coins don't fit in mine. They climb on one end like a staircase making it impossible to put the lid back on And the black ship, mine & castle tokens don't fit with the other ones
I have the Billy Bookcase from Ikea which has more shelf space horizontally so it fits great on top of my other games like Expeditions and Arnak which are bigger than Kallaxes can fit. Starting to feel that Kallaxes are overrated for this reason.
It fits but not with the nicer graphics on the front. You will only see the ends with just the name. Mine will have to be with my copies of War Room, Everdell Collectors Edition, Mage Knight Ultimate Edition and Xia 🙄
So unbelievably frustrating that they didn't make the box fit all the content without lid lift, even with just the base non-acrylic pledge. It needed to be like 3mm taller. 3mm! The box lid is supposed to be supported on the *edges* by the *sides of the bottom half of the box*, not in the *middle* by the *manual and gameboard*. Now carrying it is going to wear on the actual game components, the lid is going to warp, and if you stack anything on top of it it'll press down onto all the components too. Argh! Since that top split tray is kind of an eyesore anyway, I'm probably going to end up tossing it and just baggying all the bits that are supposed to go in there. Maybe that'll buy me back the 3mm it needs.
So I actually ended up pitching the tray that holds the castle minis and big stack of duchies instead. I kind of tossed the minis in the deep well of the split tray along with two of the hex bags, and put the duchies and other two hex bags on top with the manual and board. With that, the box closes totally flush and everything is still reasonably well sorted.
Absolutely bonkers that games like this don't come with a sheet that tells us how they envisioned everything to be stored. Thanks for the video!
Yeah, why. They've gone to all the effort of ensuring everything has a place, and then can't be bothered to tell us!
This is something that is tragically missing across the board game community. These games come out with specialized inserts that clearly have a purpose, and then just leave you hanging to figure it out
Thanks for this. I couldn’t find any other Reboxing video that didn’t have the acrylic tiles in it, so I’m grateful for the help!
In my little tray I gave the mine, ship, and castle tiles each their own trough. The extra space means they will lay over a bit so it's easier to see what you're grabbing. Then the empty trough was used for discarding the unsold tiles at the end of a phase, since we were short on table space. Do wish that little tray was a sturdier build though if it's meant to be out on the table during play.
After getting through 4 different vids where creators either didn't know how to fit stuff in the box, and tried to figure it out on the go, or told me to get rid of inserts to make the room for zip bags I finally got to yours and it's absolute banging. Thank you very much good sir for helping me to sort it out. I've kept a thin foam insert that was on top when I first opened the box to hold my gameboard. (also long sentences ftw)
I really liked your re-boxing solution, I reorganized mine following your advice, I have a suggestion or two to make. Use the small tray where you have space left to place not only for the blue hexes (ships) and burgundy hexes (castles), add on all the hexes with black back since they need to be separated anyhow when playing the game. You can also fit the hexes that belong to expansions there. This will make your set up easier and those hexes will fill the 2 empty slots nicely, not too loose or too tight.
The other suggestion I have is to place the 12 bonus tiles in the slot between the plastic colored turn order markers and the 4 round 100/200 victory point tiles, they fit perfectly in that slot. place the 4 cardboard victory point markers with their acrylic bases attached inside the small compartment that is next to the two rows of square brown plastic Goods tiles.
So the pieces fit better if you swap the standees and the bonus tile (the ones that look kinda ticket shape). Place those bonus tiles upright with long edge down between the first players markers and the 100/200 tokens.. there a notch on the side to pull them out!.
Yeah that's how I have mine packed too. The bonus tiles fit nice and snug between the first player markers and points tiles. And the assembled standees fit okay in the other spot
Cool Video. I just started to organize it. In the smaller tray you have got some extra space left which could possibly be for some expansion Hexagon tiles. In my German rulebook Page 3. are shown 4 Hex-tiles of exp.2 and 9 Hex-tiles of exp.5 (white castles).
I have never played the game yet and don't know if its a problem to have them allready in the bags if you want to learn the basic rules with just basic game tiles.
I love the quality of this massive Box of a game and i think it's well thought through but pictures of the packed Inlays in the rulebook would have been nice. I can't imagine how they didn't think of it.
Thank you for your video.
I hope my english is enough to understand.
Thanks for the video! Very helpful. I bet you’d be able to store vertically with all the material flush against each other. Doesn’t seem to be extra space (air) in the box. Also, try using the styrofoam frame for the game board.
I like to store the "web" for the duchy boards underneath a stack of one of each of the 30 boards and on top of all the other boards to better facilitate everyone getting a unique board.
That may help with an issue I'm seeing where the web is warping
Thanks for the video; I've not played CoB before, so this was really useful. I think you can swap the positive of the area completion bonuses with the standees - seems to be a better fit.
Thanks. This saved me much time and effort
Most sensible organising video so far for the base pledge with minis (and no acrylic), thanks. I agree, a photo or something of how the publishers intended is needed, when the trays are obviously designed with a certain configuration in mind. Re: the little standees - I assume they are for those that opted for the 'no-minis' option?
I think all kickstarter versions include the minis for the 4 player colors and the 16 castles. But its possible the retail edition won't have those and will require the cardboard standees to keep score.
@@SolooperativeGames I’m in the UK and the base pledge for me was definitely without minis, as I added that later for a small amount of €. It may have been just the castles though.
Thanks for the helpful vid, my copy just arrived today. I feel the extra spaces in that one tray will be useful for other expansion tiles you don’t want to include if you just want to play the base game
Life saver!!! Thank you!!
Thank you so much - Saved me a lot of time 😊
You've saved me a lot of time thanks!!
Hello, thank you so much for this video, it is really helpful. However I put the bonus tiles instead of standees next to the first player tokens. I think it fits even better like that.
Good man was looking for this as well
7:20 wasn't there a rectangular thin piece of foam there, with a cut-out for the main board?
thanks for the good video. today at spiel23 i bought the special edition of castles of burgundy and wondered how to sort it all out
Mine came with a piece of padding that surrounds the game board so it does not slide around
Thanks for the video. It really helped me organize my trays.
I think I’m just going to store it flat I’m afraid to do it any other way some pieces might fall out
I like to put the organizer with the pull-out tray on the bottom since the large tray isn't used after setup and I don't want to risk dropping the stuff.
The standees are for those that didn't get the miniatures and are the scoring tokens
Thank you, you saved my sanity 😊
Thank you very much for sharing. It was informative for me. Are the product tiles wood or plastic? I would be happy if you give me information.
Thank you !
Brilliant thank you😊
I thought they mentioned the acrylic tiles wouldn’t be getting storage in the main box but have to be stored in their own separate box, or maybe you could only store cardboard OR acrylic, can’t remember.
They said that the acrylic hex's will fit but not the tokens, as it is it looks like they mucked up and made the insert a little rubbish for both lol
@@Flip5ide Yes Board Game Garden was able to get many of the acrylic in the insert, but it definitely wasn't made for them. Which means in effort to accommodate them they made it worse for both.
I just got mine and got all the acrylic tiles to fit. Grapes are a little tight on the bottom, but definitely not room for both.
I put all the acrylic pieces in the main box and keep all the unneeded cardboard bits in the tray and box that the acrylic pieces came in.
So what’s the point of the plastic lids if they don’t hold things in?
I put the lids on the bottom 2 layers since those hold the most weight. I suspect that it shipped with lids on the top layer for protection during shipping. There was barely anything in the bottom layer when it shipped so there was nothing to protect.
The coins don't fit in mine. They climb on one end like a staircase making it impossible to put the lid back on
And the black ship, mine & castle tokens don't fit with the other ones
The player aids and other little cards fit under the bags in the tray.
I have the Billy Bookcase from Ikea which has more shelf space horizontally so it fits great on top of my other games like Expeditions and Arnak which are bigger than Kallaxes can fit. Starting to feel that Kallaxes are overrated for this reason.
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Finally an organizing video of the non-acrylic tile set. What goes in the black bag??
The tiles for the black depot.
That's odd, they literally said it'd fit in a kallax 😑
It fits but not with the nicer graphics on the front. You will only see the ends with just the name. Mine will have to be with my copies of War Room, Everdell Collectors Edition, Mage Knight Ultimate Edition and Xia 🙄
Not all heroes wear capes 🦸
Two things are true.
1. The top tray is horrendous.
2. This video is incredibly helpful
Thank you
So unbelievably frustrating that they didn't make the box fit all the content without lid lift, even with just the base non-acrylic pledge. It needed to be like 3mm taller. 3mm! The box lid is supposed to be supported on the *edges* by the *sides of the bottom half of the box*, not in the *middle* by the *manual and gameboard*. Now carrying it is going to wear on the actual game components, the lid is going to warp, and if you stack anything on top of it it'll press down onto all the components too. Argh!
Since that top split tray is kind of an eyesore anyway, I'm probably going to end up tossing it and just baggying all the bits that are supposed to go in there. Maybe that'll buy me back the 3mm it needs.
So I actually ended up pitching the tray that holds the castle minis and big stack of duchies instead. I kind of tossed the minis in the deep well of the split tray along with two of the hex bags, and put the duchies and other two hex bags on top with the manual and board. With that, the box closes totally flush and everything is still reasonably well sorted.