Is GREAT WESTERN TRAIL New Zealand WORTH IT?
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- Top Euro Games such as Wingspan, Everdell, Terraforming Mars and Ticket To Ride are popular board games that have expansions, sequels and a range of different spin offs. Great Western Trail is the latest game to have its own trilogy. In this video we look at 10 things that is different about Great Western Trail New Zealand compared to the other games. We also rank the games in order of best to worst!
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You're right! They missed an opportunity with "Great Western Trail", "Great Southern Trail", "Great Eastern Trail", and "Great Northern Trail"
Oh my gosh. Now they have to do a trilogy for each of the compass directions :)
G'day friends
Have you ever played Great Western Trail? What are your thoughts on the trilogy?
Are you someone who has never played Great Western Trail? What are your opinions and impressions of the game from the video?
I would love to hear your thoughts.
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Danny :)
i like you enthusiasm man! keep up the good work!
Aww thank you so much. Greatly appreciate it! :)
Just found your channel! Amazing work on this video! Thank you so much. New Zealand is my favorite version, but I have heard they are all worth a spot in many People's collection.
Yes it is very worthy! Also welcome to the channel! :)
I do not have a Great Western Trail experience as I have never played one of the games. But I have a pointless Great Western Trail story, as I had a dream last night and this is the first video of my subscription feed that is about Great Western Trail, so I guess you're the one who gets to hear it. It was very simple: I dreamed that in order to maximize sales, the publisher went to extreme lengths to cut costs. The board was white with just black outlines/text, and the whole package was wrapped in cellophane. I'm pretty sure they were selling it for $20. And I thought "Only $20? Sure, it doesn't have all the art and box and stuff, but it's probably worth $20 just to have a Great Western Trail experience" and that was the whole of my dream.
I've watched three GWT New Zealand reviews in a row and each reviewer has said this one is more focused on deckbuilding and it is really hard to cull your deck. Culling is part of the deckbuilding process and should nit be made so difficult. I'm surprised I haven't heard more about variants and house rules to help remove cards. I've never played GWT because the length always scared me off. I'm going to try New Zealand because someone suggested ways to shorten the game.
You probably don't need to cull your deck as much in this one as the cards bounce off each other as you trigger their effect then draw a replacement one. :) But yes, not much in the way of culling.
If you got two shearers, then you can shear two shares of sheep. 😳
Like your video, all.
I'd put Argentina in a dead heat with the base game and New Zealand takes the prize. Argentina -- I really like the shipping board but I despise the help the farmers with boomerangs thing. It makes no sense at all to me. The base game always felt cold and hostile to players, a real chore to like. It's sometimes enjoyable but many times just an agony. New Zealand wins by a landslide as the best for me. The aggravation of the entire series is the huge starter deck. At 14 cards, it's just ridiculous. 12 would be manageable. 14 feels like what... designer arrogance, maybe? I've been gaming modern stuff for 8 years and have played my share of dense, rules heavy games. GWT's 14 card deck sticks out in my mind as one of the biggest slaps in the face to players, insulting you with more difficulty in what is already a 100 meter hurdle race you're running with sandbags attached to your legs. But anyway... NZ rocks.
I would like to knoe if you enjoy more Original+expansion or new zeland?
ooh. I like them for different reasons!... maybe the og + expansion actually. Less set up of the decks..
But the new cards and tweaks in NZ just make the game feel more gamery