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Coal Baron – or Glück Auf in German, after a greeting German miners use when wishing one another luck – has players sending miners underground to dig tunnels and acquire coal, which comes in four levels of quality and is used to fulfill contracts.
The game lasts three rounds, and in each round players take turns placing their workers on action spaces; you can place on a space occupied by another player, but you need to place additional workers in order to do so. Each player has an individual elevator shaft, and will need to use workers to extract coal and bring it to the surface, while also competing for contracts and scrounging for cash in order to do everything else that needs to be done!
Year Published
2013
Transcript Analysis
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Board Gaming Doctor general_discussion at 21:08 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Straightforward to understand
- Clear and thematic economic engine
Cons
- May feel routine to some players with repeated play
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Caverna
- agricola-style worker placement
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action point / programmatic action system — Fixed action economy where steps require action points.
- Action points — Fixed action economy where steps require action points.
- set collection — Acquire and fulfill orders to score.
- Set collection / order fulfillment — Acquire and fulfill orders to score.
- worker placement — Place workers to gather resources and fulfill orders.
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Quotes (from this video)
- and so I really like that the ramping difficulty is really nice as well
- thematic integration the push your luck mechanism of brewing your beers feels what I imagine to be very thematic
- I soundly lost
- I feel like it is a marriage between The Best of Both Worlds
- I would happily play if someone recommended it
- I really enjoyed the puzzle that this game provides
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Kickstarter Roundup kickstarter_roundup at 33:28 sentiment: other
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Overall sentiment (raw)
nostalgic but not strongly compelling
Pros
- solid, familiar mining theme with tactile components
- play mat and metal coins add quality
Cons
- theme feels dated for some; price/board content expectations high
- could be overpriced for what you get
Thematic elements
- Industrial era mining
- Mining for coal and iron; classic resource management
- Historical but lightweight in theme
Comparison games
- CNC Publishing line
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- tile placement/resource management — purchase and manage resource tiles, track finance and growth
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Quotes (from this video)
- I think this looks like magic the Gathering it really does seem like it
- it's just too much and people are just throwing hundreds of dollars into it
- as always yes I've been quite negative on the kickstarters and that but just remember as always it's only a game
- the hype train on this one that's going around at the moment
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