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Year
2025
Players
2-5
Age
12+
Playtime
90 min
Collection
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Description
A Stefan Feld reimplementation of Strasbourg where merchant families compete for influence through auctions and follower placement
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Board Gaymes James Top 10 List at 0:53 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
none
Cons
- theme not liked by speaker
- trust in Queen Games' Kickstarter handling
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- strawb bro
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- auction / tile placement — reprint of a Feld title with auction and town-building elements
- Tile Placement — reprint of a Feld title with auction and town-building elements
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I am such a data nerd
- I highly recommend you going out and buying the board game stats app
- the board game stats app is only $7.99 in the Canadian App Store
- It is so pretty
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slickerdrips Discussion at 16:56 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- It will be a completely new thing for me.
Cons
- Games that are for more than two players are immediately disregarded by the speaker.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Strasbourg
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — It is an auction game.
- two-player variant — Features a two-player variant designed by Stefan Feld.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's a great big box uh like it's a campaign right well like not it goes over several sessions but I don't think like a completely ongoing thing.
- I've heard it described as like a well I've actually heard a mix of people saying that it's like too many bones 2.0 and that it's like a mix of um too many bones and H Marcus I haven't played uh H Marcus but I've heard good things maybe I'll get stri at some point mixed together with the Elder Scrolls lured stuff I'm completely on board for this I cannot wait to play this.
- it is completely like to to try and put you off if uh if you're not familiar and you're into Euro stuff it is completely dice chucking and there there is like there is Choice there is strategy and stuff into it but more than any of that there is Dice chucking there's rooll to move there's rooll to hit there's rooll to wound there's there's so much dice in this.
- and so many things crop up in these um random cards that you're drawing whether it's the gear that you find whether it's those um events that um that come up or the the enemies that you tend to find that like you can you can see it happen even in like the the few episodes that I did of that playthrough like it's partly like just the human thing of wanting to recognize patterns but it comes up with these satisfying uh stories so often based on just a big pile of Randomness it is crazy that it can do that.
- Shout out to bromstone is so good they had a big Kickstarter I think that was a couple of years ago now and it's projected for this year who knows if it will deliver.
- if you get it and like it it is such a big rabbit hole that you can fall into like this game has been going for a long time like is like 2013 or something original Shadow to bromstone 2014 this game has been out for a long time and like 194 expansions.
- Liz Boa is winning so I think we're going to be playing Liz boa next year next week.
- is still getting disappointingly low votes that's my personal I'd like to give uh the the re revised uh Pathfinder ago uh and the reckon is actually
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Chairman of the Board Discussion at 1:48 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- mechanically straightforward with interesting twists on bidding
- ties into objective cards and resources for board dominance
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Straussborg
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction / Bidding — players manage a hand of cards to bid across progress tracks and allocate resources to win rounds and achieve objectives
- bidding — players manage a hand of cards to bid across progress tracks and allocate resources to win rounds and achieve objectives
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's quite unlike any other Feld
- mishmash of kind of that felian euro and mechanical excellence kind of blends well with a more in-your-face bombastic Euro... meatrashy style game
- mechanically pretty straightforward but there are some interesting twists on the bidding mechanism
- older school roll and right style game
- I quite like that little trade-off
- it's a very simple resource management contract fulfillment game which is not normally my jam, but this one has some cool twists
- overproduced in a good way
- the initiative system where all of the different pieces are put in this column and only the ones in the top half can be used to move
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Chairman of the Board Review at 0:07 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Unique push-your-luck bidding system (on paper)
Cons
- Dislikes negative points for uncompleted objectives.
- The difference between winning and coming second/third in auctions is not significant.
- Points are drip-fed and feel too slight and incremental.
- The mechanism for selling goods feels like an extra hoop for the sake of it.
- Too many cards in the deck making rounds feel too toled up.
- Objectives lack wiggle room and force a rigid game plan.
- Lack of polish and attention to detail in components and art.
- Game feels bland and soulless.
- Doesn't utilize the bidding mechanism to its optimum standard.
- Falls far below the standards held for Stefan Feld games.
Thematic elements
- Valencia
Comparison games
- Ticket to Ride
- Ra
- The King is Dead
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bidding — A push-your-luck bidding system where players use cards from their personal deck as bids over five rounds.
- Card Drafting — Players top-deck cards from their personal deck, deciding whether to keep drawing or stop.
- Objective Cards — Players are given goal cards at the start of the game which count as negative points if not completed.
- Set Collection — Acquiring goods which can then be sold in an auction to gain points.
- Worker Placement — Placing people on the board to gain points and fulfill objectives.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And all in all, I just thought this game felt pretty pretty bland and pretty soulless.
- This one, I think, has been kind of being reviewed at slightly lower level, so there might be something to that. But I can only go on what was presented to me with this Valencia edition. And there is no doubt about it, this is not staying around in my collection.
- The way that the points are drip-fed to you throughout the game is just too incremental and too small and kind of slight.
- I would have really have loved to have seen that kind of war of attrition shine through a bit more when you really do have to pace yourself with the bids you have.
- You know, I've played a ton of auction games, a ton of bidding games. And while on paper, I really like that push-your-luck bidding mechanism, this game though didn't utilize it to its um to its optimum standard, I think.
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