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The Age of Discovery, Portugal, 15th–16th century: With the Mediterranean under Osman Turk control, the Portuguese were severely limited in the Mediterranean and looking for other trade routes. Better ships, better compasses, and a general centralization of power helped push the Portuguese explorers into the Atlantic, and sailors like Prince Henry, Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama took to the seas.
In Sail to India (セイルトゥインディア), the players are nobles who support these sailors in their efforts to discover a route to India and to be the foremost and most famous explorer of all. Players must manage their resources to develop sales channels to India, and they have only two Action Points with which to do it. A player's money, score, ship and building are all affected by the same pawn, and to do well you'll need to manage the movement of that pawn to make full use of twelve types of actions, six kinds of products, and three different buildings.
- incredibly abstract
- really not engaging
- cubes are multi-purpose to a fault
- hard to teach
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- multi-purpose cubes in a quick euro framework — Intended as a quick euro, but described as confusing and very abstract.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's just too random too quick
- the game played itself
- I bought it because of the crazy art and you've got that crazy cover and it's just wonderful stuff and ideas in the box
- it's so busy
- the four player colors are gray black tan and brown they're the same colors so you're like is that a player color is that a resource
- backstabby
- incredibly abstract and really not engaging for me at all
- the idea of this just totally blew my socks off
- but ultimately it is a big old area majority game
- I've actually just posted before this video a full run through of this game, including that run through I played it three times and I'm just really into it
- grabbed it for only $20.9 bucks
References (from this video)
- Was not played during the resolution year.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I wanted to have a collection of games that I play or at least have played once and if I wasn't going to make time for a game over the course of an entire year maybe I didn't need to have it in my collection
- The gaming community kind of help me out with this ridiculous challenge that I gave to myself
- Unlike a lot of New Year's resolutions you might make so if you haven't made a gaming resolution you know it's not the it's not the end of the world if you don't complete it but maybe you want to consider trying one for this year