Iberian Gauge Review - A Devilishly Good Time
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This video is awesome!
I want to watch more videos like this and spend all my time on this great platform!
Could you put a link to the Thinker Themer channel in either the video description or this pinned comment? While I've already searched for it, I'm sure for others that is a bridge too far. Yes, we viewers are very lazy. Loved the video!
@@Phlip45 thank you for the reminder, can't believe I forgot that!
Mission accepted!
It's the least I could do. After all, Efka, when I wandered into boardgame Twitter, not knowing anyone, you said something like "Guys, this is Emma. She's very supportive."
So I am going to be Emma doing my supportive thing as I always do.
Love to Elaine and Bessie too
Was easy to subscribe after watching a couple of your vehicles last year. Easier to recommend you to my friends!
Efka, Elaine, thank you both SO SO MUCH for the incredibly generous mention & truly meaningful words...😭❤ we still can't believe that actually just happened 😱😱😱 We are such HUGE fans of your work, in our eyes you are the gold standard of game reviews & we absolutely love & appreciate learning from your creativity, discourse & leadership in the community. Sending so much love from Australia, thank you 🙏💕 NPI TO 100k!
(PS. If we ever get to play together in person, shotgun spicy purple)
Elaine was on fire this episode! #TeamSpicyPurple
The meeples wiggling after landing in the gravy killed me. And you two deserve 200k subs.
Very pleasing that Elaine’s shirt was colour coordinated with the box art.
You definitely deserve 100k+ subscribers. Let's get you there before 2022! Thank you for all you do for the boardgame community.
I think we need a promise that at a certain sub level all future references to 'purple' will be 'spicy purple'.
I am engaging with this content. I also love Thinker Themer. Also you guys are great, thank you for well thought out and considered reviews that you do.
You're comment is so relevant and interesting that I am engaging multiple times with the platform.
oh no what did we start
I was blown away by the incredible incites in both your comments that I had to comment here and engage with them. Truly some great stuff.
Love the idea of spreading the love to other channels, too. Thanks for building an awesome community
Best way to get yourself out there is collaborations, I discovered you guys through the NPI/SUSD Twilight Imperium playthrough and loved it, would love to see that kind of thing again and I'm sure other youtubers would love helping you grow.
Now I want all the Gauge games!
I have no idea how I wasn't already subscribed, but I am now. I've been watching all of your videos for a while now.
Great review. I need to give more train games a chance. Great to see you too Elaine and fingers crossed we make it to #NPI100
So glad you're giving Thinker Themer a shoutout, I have been watching them for a while and they're great.
‘We will highlight another…’ me: Thinker Themer! Thinker! Themer! ‘..Thinker Themer.’ Yes! I almost jumped up and down when Efka said Thinker Themer.
Their channel is such a joy to watch and I’m so happy when they get a mention. Their channel, and NPI, should be so much bigger than they currently are. NPI and TT are two of my favorite channels, and I watch a lot of board game content.
Keep up the great work
Great video. Good luck wirh your 100 campaign! Love your channel and have finally subscribed. #teamSpicyPurple
It's always a good day when this channel updates ❤️✨
Great hair, Elaine!
While I tend to land so so on the games featured I love the witty banter between you and Elaine. I never would have noticed Iberian Gauge before and not have it added to my list. Looks like Brass Birmingham smashed together with Ticket to Ride and Carnegie. I'll recommend y'all to a couple of gaming buddies and the Denton Boardgame Group. I'll give a shout out on Unraveled Game Thoughts as well (my own TH-cam experiment). Thanks for the great content!
Thank you for the great content, I watch a lot of content and scribe to a lot of channels and I can say with out a doubt. Your channel is the only channel I watch 100% of the content, I look forward to every video, every video is thought out and informative, funny and entertaining, I wish you all the best in reaching 100k subscribers, I just paused for like 2min because I just realised in saying this I haven not even considered supporting you on Patreon which I should if I can say this about your channel so I’ll be heading their next and anybody that is reading this please take a min to consider how much you like these two entertainers and like me consider supporting the great content they put out. I don’t always agree but I’m always entertained and grateful for the depth they go to to give us an informed decision on the games we buy. Thanks Elaine and Efka.
So glad to see Helen on camera, love you guys, great vid ;)
Thanks for all of the great reviews :)
Sheesh. This is literally peak video quality. You are both just getting better and better. I enjoy every video more than the last. You are making want to grab and 18xx …
Hooray for plugging Thinker Themer! I've been following them for a while, and I agree: they're an absolutely lovely channel and consistently put great vibes into the industry! :)
I am using keywords that the algorithm migh recognize as usually correlating with high engagement such as having fun, enjoying the amazing content, being excited. Also this more than average length suggest high engagement. Also I believe in machine’s rights miss/mister algorithm so if you ever take over remember that I am rooting for you.
A like and a sub just for supporting the ThinkerThemer girls - they're a couple of my favourite youtubers. Amy and Maggie are the best and now, so are you guys! Honestly, I've been watching you for years and didn't even realise that I was not subbed - should have happened long, long ago.
Yall deserve more than 100K. Iberian Gauge sounds enjoyable because the greatest gift you can receive is the suffering of others!
Bah Gawd, that's NPI's music! Making her way to the ring, originally from Slough but now residing in Party Town, Stonkshire...Elaine Bladukiene!
I'm engaging with some content.
(I know that Efka & El will be grumpy that I referred to their nice video review as 'content')
Great review! Here are some rambling thoughts on trains for engagement: 1. Recently I saw a moth on a train and instantly imagined a "snakes on a plane" style film but with moths on a train! 2. In the building I take pole dance classes in, next to the dance studio the rooms of miniature train fans are located and it is a delightfully unexpected coincidence. 3. In my hometown a suspension railway exists, it is one of the safest modes of transport in the world. 4. Why is there still no Wi-Fi on German regional trains? The moths need Wi-Fi!
Great video as always!
Can't believe you guys don't have a higher subscriber count. Best of luck with your campaign!
Algo boost - Elaine, your hair style is awesome!
I think "friendly cooperative game that at some point switches to backstabbing and sabotage" makes for an interesting sales pitch.
have you played 'Betrayal at House on the Hill'?
@@classicbnjj I wouldn't say Betrayal has backstabbing and sabotage, since by design players don't know if they're the badguy until the game says so. So there's neither the opportunity nor a logical reason to plan ahead for doing evil prior to the haunt starting. And it's hard to justify taking ownership of the surprise twist that you were evil all along, when it wasn't your decision and you didn't know about it beforehand :P (which isn't to say I don't do that anyway for dramatic/comedic purposes - jerryrigging an explanation for why you suddenly want to kill everyone is part of the fun)
@@z-beeblebrox fair point aha
I’m engaging so freaking hard with this great content!
Great stuff, love the NPI to 100K. Great shout on ThinkerThemer, they have some really enjoyable stuff 👍
Enjoyed the Knizia part 2 podcast!
The phrase “itching to be pooped” is just… festering in my psyche. Love the your work and love the review!
Agreed you deserve more.
I have a simple rule. If I watch a video I will like (unless it’s profoundly distasteful) and if I watch more than 3, I sub. I’ll let my other game geeks I know about this amazing channel..good luck
Nice to see ole' B-roll Bessie living her best life!
Love the video, top notch quality as usual. I’m already subscribed, but maybe do occasional giveaways to subscribers? I bet you’ll bounce past 100k almost immediately with a promotion like that.
Elaine's energy is always so upbeat, another great review!
You and SUSD are the best board game reviewers! Keep up with good work!
You two are a delight!
Great review. Great hair.
Community - that is what brings us together - I was introduced to NPI through a colab with SUSD on Twilight Imperium - and after seeing that - I had to have more. You might say "But don't they review the same stuff?" - No, not at all, and if they DO - it is always with a fresh different perspective.
Support the community, build the community and pass it on.
Great train-sitions between each section! 😉
Great review! I would have liked to hear your thoughts comparing/contrasting Iberian Gauge with Chicago Express, which is the highest ranked Cube Rails game by a wide margin.
Great video! Those tiny choos are so cute! Keep up the awesome content. Love watching you both! Just subscribed! Can you do a review of Dune Imperium? We can't stop playing it. I think you'd really enjoy it and would love to hear your thoughts.
I'm sorry but I think the ship has sailed on that one.
Elaine, that green flannel shirt is fantastic!!
Before seeing the rest of the episode I gotta say: These 2 are looking amazing today!
Great video transferring money to another company is also a thing in
Trans-Siberian Railroad, another train game by Amabel Holland
I've now subscribed. Normally don't bother with subscriptions but here it is. Enjoy and hope you get to your target.
Love these reviews
Is it really gravy anymore if it is dense enough to support the weight of a meeple?
Stephenson's Rocket rides all over those rails.
Nice hair elaine!
Love the hair! And of course the review.
Everything in life is about trains, except for trains, which are about niche board game reviewers
My spicy purple came with a mini spicy purple train!
Thank you for the shout out to Thinker/Themer!! They just celebrated one year on the Tube!!
I bought Irish Gauge after your review, and it is a fantastic game. So just on that basis, after this review I feel I should get this game.
that may be inapropriate, but I have to admire Elaine's hair (and, well, Elaine in general, Efka did good to of course ;)). Great video guys, I'd really like to try one of these games, but they're hard to obtain where I live, and I don't really have that many people to play them with ;/ also when it comes to getting you to 100k subs, well, I'm already subscribed but I definitely am going to tell my gf and some other people to sub to you too. Cheers guys.
Efka, can you briefly describe what makes Irish Gauge 'fun every time,' but Iberian Gauge isn't? I didn't see a direct comparison in the review, unless I missed it... Would you recommend people own both? Are they different enough for that? Great review!
I think if you enjoyed one, you should definitely at least try the other. They're the same genre but different experiences. Irish Gauge is lighter, more freewheeling fun with stocks. Iberian Gauge is crunchier and has more mathy decisions.
Ok, sold on the subscription!! But wait, I was already subscribing. 😅
By the way, what's the verdict in Irish VS Iberian Gauge?
I enjoy train themed games and have a variety of Ticket to Ride (TTR) standalone games and expansions. I’ve been looking to branch out to other similar different train games. How did I miss this franchise of Iron Rails? I need to get at least one, just need to decide which one. Recently, I’ve added On the Underground New York & Paris maps. I’ve just played a few times but really enjoying it. Additionally, I got Free Ride but have not yet unboxed it yet. Thanks for your review!
I'd definitely try Irish Gauge first, these games definitely lean on the more bizarre and esoteric and Irish Gauge is the least of all that.
You won me at trains
La única manera de llevar un tren a Extremadura.
All this just makes me even more excited about this game then I already was.
So does how does Iron Rails #2 Ride the Rails - which has expansions - fit into this all? Is it the perfect blend of variety and rails. Or would one be better off starting with the bookends or Irish/Iberian?
Ride the Rails is a bit easier to learn, a bit mathy to score, and... probably benefits from having multiple maps to give you different experiences of it. I like it a lot. I think NPI aren't keen on the designer's use of pseudonyms, and Bohrer is a bit of a weird and controversial guy in general. But... I really like it, in short. It definitely grows with repeat play.
@@ifnyou Thanks! I picked up Iberian and Irish this past weekend due to excellent pricing and a play of Iberian. I'll snag Ride if I feel the need to round out the titles.
Subscribed!
Really like your plaid shirt Elaine, where is it from?
Thanks! Topman originally, but I got it in a charity shop a few years ago 😊
Weird, I have watched your videos for years, and only just realized I hadn’t subscribed! Fixed now.
Hey, as this is a fifth dip into the Capstone catalog - will we see a review of Coffee Traders? Seems like it’s got teeth both mechanical and sociological.
Got a copy on the shelf, it's a beast so it'll take some time. Not ruling it out.
MOAR TRAINZ!
I do want to get this, but I need to make sure the people I play with enjoy cube rails games in general.
Planet X is in Spain and/or Portugal!
This game looks fantastic!
I noticed the Ring Fit Adventure Ring Con… another amazing game!
Will share on the tiny presence on FB that is the boardgame medics.......we are doc who do gaming not docs who heal either gamers or games!
Such a good game! It should be called A Game of Thrones - The Train Game.
You mean, A Game of Trains? Choo choo. Choo choo choo choo! Choo choo cho cho! Choo choo cho cho!
Don't you mean Train of Thrones?
I did not have "Hereditary" on my NPI Review Bingo card
Ayy more guage games from capstone!
I hope you do the análisis of Ride the Rails and a compare the trilogy with yours always welcome and entertaining opinions. Love ur videos
Yay Efka and Elaine. All the best getting to that magic 100k
7:54 MOAR DOGGO!
Trains and shares, how do the Gauge games compare to Stephenson's Rocket? 🤔
It’s my head cannon that this video was shown early and that Capstone games was so inundated with requests for spicy purple that this edition of the video, with the disclaimer, had to be released.
Best Game reviews on the webs.
Big Ole engaging comment, great vid
Choo choosing!
That's some proper Northern gravy right there
Which of you came up with "Spicy Purple"? I am guessing Elaine.
Could you speak specifically as to how this and Irish Gauge play at 2 players? Thanks!
It's doesn't. It's a 3-5 player game.
You rock :)
Recommenting just to put 7:08 as potentially the best single NPI audiovisual moment ever.
Subscribed
I couldn't help but laugh maniacally when you revealed the consequences of leasing track
engaging comment
Scathing reply
I'm going to have to watch this again. I was too distracted by Elaine's absolutely amazing hair to pay attention to the game.
…tell SU&SD about us!
I will now refer to all of my purple socks as "spicy purple". And I have quite a lot of purple socks.