I love this game. It was one of the first games I bought when I began my interest in board gaming as a hobby a year ago. After paying this game, I knew I had picked the right past time. Wonderful.
Another very professional and well executed review. We always value your opinion. Thanks for all your time and effort in putting these videos together.
Nice review! It's my top 1. Incredible easy to play with a bit of depth. Creta/Aegyptus for me it's the best expansion, with new mechanics on the boards and a nice 2 players map (Creta).
Got to love games with unique scoring mechanisms on top of tight gameplay; allows you to actually focus on the unique tactics & player interaction the scoring mechanism bring, as well as your general strategy. Also, nice shirt!
Just recently I got my Concordia collection 100% compeleted as I bought Venus and few missing map packs. It's an amazing game. Very easy to teach, hard to master, scales incredibly well too. It's in my Top 10 too.
Great review Paul. I have heard folks talk about what a great game Concordia is for years, but no one in my group has it. I guess I really need to pick it up. I have played and it was OK, but everyone says Concordia is so much better.
There is a new box art version of Salsa also. However I'm not aware that any of the contents have changed. There is also a version of Concordia Venus that is just an expansion to the original version. There are a couple of small changes between Concordia Venus and regular Concordia - the cards have been slightly tweaked. However both versions of Venus come with the capability of running regular Concordia without those tweaks if you want.
You missed the one other bit of on-board interaction: colonists aren't allowed to share the same line. So it can be possible to block (or at least, delay) certain moves, by parking up in inconvenient places.
This is my understanding as well. However, I believe there is a difference of a map in stand-alone Venus vs original plus Venus expansion. It is quite confusing, especially with different maps and some previous expansions. Basically I came to the conclusion that for people who don't own Concordia, the stand-alone Venus is the way to go, at least with the way it is priced in Canada.
Hi, Paul, thanks for another great video. I have had this game for a long time in my basket because I like classic solid games. Also not too long or complicated for the sake of making it complicated. One criticism I read from reviews is that the game is 'solved' after a few games, and player just go for the strategies that work and becomes repetitive. What do you think? thanks
I've not played enough to know that. I'm sure there are some strategies, but you need to be flexible and change things up depending on what the other players do.
I love this game. It was one of the first games I bought when I began my interest in board gaming as a hobby a year ago. After paying this game, I knew I had picked the right past time. Wonderful.
I'm glad you like this game so much, I respect your opinion! This is one of our favourite games, and we own all expansions as well. It's just so good.
Another very professional and well executed review. We always value your opinion. Thanks for all your time and effort in putting these videos together.
Thanks Mike!
Thanks for another great video Paul. I bought the game off the back of this video 😊
Nice review! It's my top 1. Incredible easy to play with a bit of depth. Creta/Aegyptus for me it's the best expansion, with new mechanics on the boards and a nice 2 players map (Creta).
Got to love games with unique scoring mechanisms on top of tight gameplay; allows you to actually focus on the unique tactics & player interaction the scoring mechanism bring, as well as your general strategy. Also, nice shirt!
Just recently I got my Concordia collection 100% compeleted as I bought Venus and few missing map packs. It's an amazing game. Very easy to teach, hard to master, scales incredibly well too. It's in my Top 10 too.
Great review Paul. I have heard folks talk about what a great game Concordia is for years, but no one in my group has it. I guess I really need to pick it up. I have played and it was OK, but everyone says Concordia is so much better.
There is a new box art version of Salsa also. However I'm not aware that any of the contents have changed. There is also a version of Concordia Venus that is just an expansion to the original version.
There are a couple of small changes between Concordia Venus and regular Concordia - the cards have been slightly tweaked. However both versions of Venus come with the capability of running regular Concordia without those tweaks if you want.
Played this once, thought it was amazingly well done.
My no1 since I first played it. Such an elegant, yet crunchy gem.
Love this game! In my top 10 for sure. Thanks for the review
truly one of the greats
Great review!
You missed the one other bit of on-board interaction: colonists aren't allowed to share the same line. So it can be possible to block (or at least, delay) certain moves, by parking up in inconvenient places.
oops. thanks for pointing that out.
There's actually two versions for Venus: a stand-alone one that costs a lot, and just the expansion Venus if you have the base game.
This is my understanding as well. However, I believe there is a difference of a map in stand-alone Venus vs original plus Venus expansion. It is quite confusing, especially with different maps and some previous expansions. Basically I came to the conclusion that for people who don't own Concordia, the stand-alone Venus is the way to go, at least with the way it is priced in Canada.
@@c.w.2000 ooo, I didn't know that. I'd best check before I pick one up. Thanks.
Hi, Paul, thanks for another great video. I have had this game for a long time in my basket because I like classic solid games. Also not too long or complicated for the sake of making it complicated.
One criticism I read from reviews is that the game is 'solved' after a few games, and player just go for the strategies that work and becomes repetitive. What do you think? thanks
I've not played enough to know that. I'm sure there are some strategies, but you need to be flexible and change things up depending on what the other players do.
It is NOT a five minute teach, ten at the most!
If it is then please do a five minute teaching video.
I'll try to time myself next time I teach it.
@@GamingRulesVideos I found a five minute teach for Lords of Waterdeep Video. That impressed me well enough