Reviewing ALL 28 Railroad Ink Expansions!
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00:00 intro
01:45 Rivers (B / Deep Blue Zone)
02:27 Lakes (A / Deep Blue Zone)
03:01 Meteor (D / Hell)
03:38 Lava (D / Hell)
04:15 Challenge
05:25 Cactus (B?)
06:01 Canyons (?)
06:23 Trails (S / Very Good Tier)
06:58 Forest (A / Very Good Tier)
08:07 Underground (C)
09:09 Street Lamp (B)
10:16 Power Grid (A)
10:59 Airline (D)
11:53 Weather (A)
12:26 Engineer (S)
14:21 Pluck-Man (B)
14:31 Tetris (Boring Zone, Brought to you by "? Tier")
14:39 Rainbow (Boring Zone / Hell)
14:52 Galactic Invaders (B)
15:22 Ritual (B)
15:35 Portal (C)
15:38 Tentacle (C / D)
16:11 Investigation (S)
16:41 Alien Farmer (C)
17:03 Super Connection (C)
17:14 City Builder (A)
So adjusting for the disappointgly expensive rule it sounds like electricity is the best box?
I have no intention of playing these expansions, but I've come to enjoy watching all of Tom's reviews just so I can enjoy seeing how unhinged one man can become.
I'm sincerely envious of Tom's doodling abilities.
I’m sincerely envious of Tom…. 😹
I’m six minutes in and so far Tom has assigned the boxes to “A and B tier”, “hell tier”, and “the secret question mark tier”. This is art.
It does not get less chaotic.
Tom is thoroughly steeped in the rich tradition of British absurdist comedy, and it shows.
@@murrayjeffree8245 As well as the tradition of non-standard modernist reference pears.
Love how much Tom has committed to his own style with the vid reviews, this lad is doing gooood things
Right? It was such an amazing fit with the show. It's his own style, without taking away from the show
Cue Emperor Palpatine voice
I love how when Tom makes a video, the top comments are almost always just people saying nice things about him. It's so nice :)
Yes, he is.
I love Railroad Ink so was really enjoying this video until I realised that you didn't review every possible combination of two expansions on the epic board, making the video incomplete and void. Please start from the beginning again or I'll have to put you into Hell Tier.
This is a vital issue that MUST be addressed!
Time to play another...*tap tap tap*...378 games of Railroad Ink!
YEs
That is such an Elaine joke.
Picking 2 out of 28 expansions leads to 378 possible combinations. I'm seeing a fun crossover event where both channels do like 20 a video, once a week, for 2-3 months!
Blazing red edition!
Game designer: "I made the game, as you asked, a meteor!"
Tom: "I said meatier"
Game designer *tearful*: "Meteor"
Tom *crying*: "Meatier!"
Designer: Soooo... tantacles?
If you know...you know lolololol. One of my favorite TikToks lolol
Game designer: “I made the new expansion as you asked, a forest!”
Tom: “I said ‘for rest’. You know, because of the covid that I have.”
Game designer: “Forest”
Tom: “You know what actually this is great, thanks.”
The meatier one should have lots of passengers.
Hmm... Add the number of passengers rolled to a square with a station. Score equal to the number of total passengers, divided by the number of distinct networks on your board, rounded up.
Pandémie!
* pleurant *
Pain de mie
I have the blue edition. This video convinced me that I need to buy some blue dry erase markers for the rivers and lakes
Sure you do 👍🏼
I had no clue that they made 28 expansions for this game. Good lord.
I'm happy to see expansions for great games, but at some point it just gets ridiculous!
There are 4 base sets, each comes with 2 expansions in the box, so the other 20 expansions are only 5 sets of 4 dice you can buy, each dice being counted as an expansion. Still ridiculous, but more affordable than buying 28 things would be.
@@isaacstevens5415 Close. The 20 added expansions are 28 dice in total in 7 boxes of 4 dice each - Underground where all 4 dice are a single expansion; Sky and Electricity with 2 pairs of dice in each; Futuristic with a pair and two singletons (8 expansions so far); and Arcade, Eldritch and Engineer, each containing 4 single-die expansions and accounting for the remaining 12.
So, depending on which small box you obtain, you could get 1, 2, 3 or 4 expansions in that box. Although if you want to quibble, the Underground expansion comes with an alternate variant where you just don't use the white dice at all and only play on the one board.
And then there's the various ways of combining pairs of expansions - there's a large document available online that details the interactions of all 406 possible pairs, many of which have no additional special rules, but many do introduce additional interactions (and, as I recall, a few are incompatible)
The extreme expansionitis Railroad Ink developed during the Kickstarter for the challenge edition actually had me switch from the "get everything" tier to the "get the base version" and adding a few addons separately.
@@giantnanomachine oof! I wasn’t part of that one, but definitely have had a game recently where the campaign made me go “I can see where this is going and I don’t like it”, dropping an everything pledge to a pledge manager token.
"we've got to meet our expansion quota or Quinns will be angry" had me in stitches
Excellent. Now do all Carcassonne expansions.
You'll kill him!
@@vanhellsing112 Or Catan, Or Pandemic Or Ticket to Ride. The Holy Four!
Good idea
@@crusador84 But Catan has "only" 3 or 4 expansion to the main game hasnt it?
@@kapitanbeuteltier5889 At least 1 of them is a collection of smaller modules.
I love Roland Wright. His games are so interesting.
This just got funnier and funnier as it went along, to the point where every time the tier graph came up I started laughing. Loving the abject insanity at play, and Tom I am glad you're recovered and hope the whole team stays well! Look forward to your videos each week!
Railroad Ink was the very first game I bought based on a SU&SD recommendation. I was spending a week in a cabin in the Highlands with a friend and I was looking for games to play and discovered this channel and the Dice Tower and BGG. Playing Railroad Ink and Onitama on a bench with the sun setting across the mountains and the smell of burgers cooking on the fire was glorious. Thank you for reminding me of the joy of this game Tom.
*slaps box
"This bad boy can fit so many expansions"
Beat me to it!
I am so very grateful you recovered from your medical experience Tom. It's nice to see you helping make the world a better place again. I look forward to many , MANY more reviews from you.
This has to be Tom’s best video so far. Feels more like a lot of the earlier SU&SD videos, which had more fluff and were more “entertainment.” That’s what got me watching all their videos, even if I didn’t even care about the game. Tom is doing an awesome job!
I lost it at that conspiratorial "*I don't know*"
Monetizing Our Suffering: The TH-camr Story
This totally sold me on the Engineer expansion - bought it immediately. Now I don’t have to permanently commit to anything! Anxieties begone!
You meme about this review, but it was ACTUALLY helpful! The Red going to hell tier meant that Tom's tastes coincide with my boring engineer dreams and I will hunt down that Green edition AND the Engineer expansion. I adore this game, and as always, this was quality SU&SD content! Also, happy that you are back on your feet!
5:02 glad we finally got confirmation that Tom has feet now
loved the twin peaks-esque "electricity" to introduce the streetlights expansion
I feel like Tom mostly just wants rule sets for his doodle making.
Isn't that what all of us really want in the end?
“So why am I doing this? … I don’t know” + a goofy grin had me laughing out loud, fo realz.
i love that tier lists are a part of this review. glad you recovered from covid
This is hands down one of my favorite videos Su&Sd has ever put out. Tom, I love your style, charisma, and goofy expressions. When you threw in the "Banana Bonus" I lost it (I was barely keeping it together after "Hell Tier")
Also, I kickstarted this and have no idea what expansions I actually have, but I for sure don't have them all. During the kickstarter I think I just threw my hands up and said, "Do I get the green one? Ok, cool, I'm not looking at this anymore."
This deluxe edition feels like a parody of excessive board game expansions. How is it real?
Yes.
....now that you point this out, I can't help but view this review as satire.
@@kevinschultz6091 I think that the game itself wandered into self-parody with the more bubblegum coloured expansions, and it is by far the biggest “small” game I can think of. Much like the late night TV shows that make the only sense that can be made of the US politics of recent years, I wonder whether satire isn't the only honest way of approaching this box!
Not that other games haven't survived the acquisition of weird expansions over the years-Snowdonia leaps to mind.
Wait-that's also trains. Hm.
I agree. Too much is too much...
The deluxe edition is like heaven for guys like me that are into solo gaming. There's so many expansions and stuff in the box that you'll never get board of it.
Yes! Restoration videos, the zen of rust removal.
Hell Tier needs its own spin-off channel.
This video came out the day that I was admitted to hospital for a week and frankly I would have gone significantly more doolally if it hadn't given me the idea to bring Railroad Ink with me. It turns out it's very possible to play it with your non-dominant hand if you're really determined!
This review is top tier comedy Tom. Bravo. It has everything you need to know about all these expansions, and plenty of laughs. Well done and thank you!
I honestly would have believed that the Eldritch Investigation dice were a SUSD goof.
It's official, Tom's my favorite video creator at SU&SD. Pure enjoyment
@5:02 - the saddest, but best cut away ever.
Genuinely my favourite review you've done. This was great.
I think you should do more of these personal opinion style videos. This is great fun!
This has sparked my interest in Railroad Ink. Or at least one of the Pokémon styled main boxes
It feels like they had one really good cool idea per expansion and then hurriedly made up a couple more that were on theme to fill the box
As someone who owned the two original editions I thought it was nice to have so many options and variety. Boy I didn't see them making 24 more expansions :D.
The boy did it again. I get a little happy every time a new susd video comes up, but I get a little extra happy when I see this handsome face
After a month or two of contemplation, I am confident this is one of the very best SU&SD vids ever
Glad you're feeling better! I got a good number of these but I haven't had a chance to play them yet, so I'm looking forward to taking your rankings for a spin!
I have 1 interest in Railroad Ink but 1,000 interests in Tom's thoughts. You did a great, ridiculous job!
Loved it! Hope you're feeling better Tom.
Two of the most creative and flexible designers out there.
Glad you're doing better Tom! And you came out of it with another excellent video!
Fantastic review...had to watch it a second time since not only is it a great review, it is comedic gold ;-)
This video was so chaotic, I love it! It was a review using Calvinball rules. Kinda depressing and entertaining at the same time...
Tom's charm is that I genuinely can't tell what was scripted and what was a genuine out-take.
This was extremely well done. I loved the chaos of it all.
Fantastic content. Thank you, Tom!
Wow! Well done making this huge collection of expansion look so “easy”! 😅 As always; great review Tom! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I am going to print Tom's review chart and keep it in my Railroad Ink box
This was absolutely amazing fun to watch.
God I love tom's reviews.
This was genuinely my favourite "ranking stuff" video yet.
The bonkers system just cracked me up.
OK, that could very well be one of my favourite Tom videos yet, and I love all his stuff. Fantastic fun!
I hope you feel better soon, Tom!
Stay safe!
Im glad youre better Tom! I love your videos :)
Such a great review. I remember when this lad was trying to sell me oil. Look at far you've come!
16:39 final tier list
Glad you are feeling better. This video was useful.
Glad to see you're hale and hearty once again Tom!
Next Week: Tom reviews all the Dominion expansions.
This was a very helpful video Tom thank you!
This was so fun, thankyou :)
congrats for getting over the big CV and living!
I pledge this game because of the this channel’s review last time.
This is a good summary on the expansions too.
How long until we get a 24 hour loop of Tom harmonizing with himself? That left me in stitches.
Really enjoyed the review Tom. It didn't feel rushed at all.
Love how all the colorful dice look next to each other, looks like candy!
Glad you're feeling a bit better
I just bought the green expansion partially because it was green. Glad I made the right choice!
Loved this review. For some reason it makes me wonder what a Drunk History for board game reviews would be like…
Glad you’re able to rotate vertically again Tom. Just thought I should let you know that fart pipes has been inceptioned into my brain. Just walked past a manhole cover that my peripherals read as Fartlid rather than HartLtd.
love the subtle twin peaks reference, great work
You just crushed this list, I laughed so much
I want your copy of Powergrid, jealous of the design
this guy Roland Wright has made a ton of bangers
Haven't played a single one of them yet but considering the sheer size of what's added, HG did pretty well I think. Thanks for the review!
Omg the jokes in this were unreal good! Literally couldn’t stop laughing the entire time!
Glad you're feeling better 👍
Lazy? Yes. Phoned in? Yes. Genuinely excellent content that makes me want all of these, even the bad ones? Yes. Excellent video Tom :)
I haven't tried them all. So this was a pretty good overview. Thank you. From the ones I have played, I would only disagree with your take on the Lava expansion though. I actually found that one to be really fun. Obviously everyone is different. Meteor is definitely hell tier though. haha
Tom you're truly a gem, hats off sir!
I didn't buy the Blazing Red Edition, I got it as a gift. From people who themselves only had Deep Blue Edition, which I really liked, and they thought they'd just get me "the other one" because why not. And I totally share your assessment about Blazing Red, so based on your assessment, I guess I will soon buy the Lush Green Edition and the Engineers Expansion, and download+laminate the Epic board.
This was a really excellent review
Tom Brewster is a national treasure. Protect him at all costs!
Nice Errors record! Pleasure Palaces playing in my head throughout enhanced my viewing experience
This is my favorite Tom review yet.
Great video! I had no idea which one to start with because red and blue are absolutely meaningless names. I need the green one. Thanks!
Uff the tough humor of TH-cam of giving me Corona Extra beer add just before Tom tells us he had coronavirus. Just yt algorithm things...
Very glad you're feeling better Mr Brewster!
😂 Tom might be losing his mind and I’m loving it lol.
Entertaining and informative review as always! I got the massive ridiculous kickstarter box, even though I am unlikely to ever bother playing more than the base game. I just like Railroad Ink so I had to get it.
But when Tom put Power Grid into Hell Tier, I realised I can never trust his opinion ever again. Sometimes you just have to throw the whole reviewer in the bin.
Amazing video, having just got COVID, I searched my shelf of shame and guess what, my copy of a rather rushed purchase (only went and ordered the Spanish version off Amazon, who’s don’t that before eh?) Deep Blue (Spanish) edition, plus Engineer dice. What fun it was to discover and play. Now for some retail therapy, which expansions should I buy. Have settled on Electricity and Future Dice, and why not a Big board.
This is a Brian David Gilbert-tier undertaking, love it
The fire walk with me sample got me
I bought expansions blind and it seems like I picked pretty well.
This is absolutely fantastic