Reply: The Castles of Burgundy:: Rules:: Re: just one silverling for a goods...
by Great Dane sneuhauss wrote:I think this mechanic is made to make you chosing this action more often. Otherwise you will collect more goods to get more silver with one action.Exactly. You want to...
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by Lorthania Thanks for all the replies, there's plenty of explanations in here to answer my question. I think my fellow players were indeed focusing too much on the 'just one silverling' aspect and...
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by CarlG Castles of Burgundy is ranked 22, with a geek rating of 7.724, an avg rating of 8.00, with 3486 ratings.In the past week it has moved up .001 geek rating, and 58 ratings.
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by petercox Hi All,I've been looking at the spielbox extra rules and they seem more interesting to me than the normal rules - basically, you can only place a tile if it connected tiles of the same...
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by fardoche It will not work with the original boards. The reason why is that it is impossible to reach certain regions by the new rules. In every original board there is at least one region that is...
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by petercox k, thanks
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by petercox Yes, I think so too.This tile becomes overpowered in the 2 player game because goods shipping is more powerful with less players.Same issue with Tile 25 and 5
View ArticleThread: The Castles of Burgundy:: Variants:: Dealing with Goods Tile...
by petercox 2 Player games result in more goods tiles being available for players, because the same amount of goods tiles are being divided out between 2 players as 3 or 4.To put it another way, in a...
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by CarlG Thanks for this post Peter! I felt shipping was a bit underpowered in 2p because the goods are worse less and are only worth 1 more point than if you kept them unshipped. The fact that you...
View ArticleReply: The Castles of Burgundy:: Variants:: Re: Dealing with Goods Tile...
by andreww If the knowledge tiles are more powerful, that only gives an advantage to the player who a) realizes that, and b) puts the effort into placing ships so they go first and can grab those...
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by petercox If the knowledge tiles are more powerful, that only gives an advantage to the player who a) realizes that, and b) puts the effort into placing ships so they go first and can grab those...
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by bchlax944 In my 20+ plays, I have never once felt this as an issue. I think a better way to look at it is that in the 4 player game, those things are less powerful and goods are "worth" more....
View ArticleReply: The Castles of Burgundy:: Variants:: Re: Dealing with Goods Tile...
by petercox In my 20+ plays, I have never once felt this as an issue. I think a better way to look at it is that in the 4 player game, those things are less powerful and goods are "worth" more. Either...
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by andreww Certainly if one tile or pair of tiles is so powerful that the game becomes all about who happens to get it, the game becomes dull. But until someone does a significant number of trials,...
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by petercox My girlfriend certainly feels much better about it. But her opinion is coloured by it coming up a couple times in a row.I can't see how it does any harm to any of the other mechanics to...
View ArticleReply: The Castles of Burgundy:: Strategy:: Re: After many losses I sat down...
by CarlG The Dave: Nice strategy! I had realized this earlier bud didn't include it in my strategy as stated above. My last play with my wife, however, reminded me of the importance of turn...
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by fnord23 petercox wrote:LOL, there's always a few of these posts on every variant page. Categorical statement that they know the game better and nothing needs changing.No one's forcing you to do...
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by petercox Wow and LOLThanks for reminding me of the many unpleasant people out there who I luckily manage to avoid in every day life.
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by fnord23 petercox wrote:Wow and LOLThanks for reminding me of the many unpleasant people out there who I luckily manage to avoid in every day life.Really don't understand people getting their...
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by petercox Okay, well this thread is clearly going to be a trainwreck. Thanks to those who bothered to engage with the point I was trying to make.
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