Iberian Railways - Tutorial & Full Playthrough

Here is my Iberian Railways tutorial where I teach the game as it is being played. Paid sponsorship by Rio Grande Games.

Teaching Timestamps:
Introduction - 0:00
Game overview - 0:33
Game start - 3:23
Starting a railway - 4:06
Gaining income - 5:57
Paying for track - 6:51
Taking loans - 7:55
Adjusting the build limit - 8:50
Receiving income & paying interest - 9:22
Paying off a loan - 9:42
Purchasing a business interest - 12:48
Expanding a railway - 16:27
Merging railways - 29:49
How the game ends & final scoring explanation - 30:57
Final scoring - 51:06

[saracampbell]

Step 1: like the video. Step 2: watch the video.
Keep up the great work!

[cfrost]

Thanks for covering this one, Jon! RGG and Capstone keep pingponging the Winsome reprints and I couldn't be happier. Iberian Railways, in particular, has been one I've been waiting on with baited breath! Here's to many more cube rails reprints to come!

[GettingGames]

CORRECTIONS:
19:57 - They should have paid $9, not $8.
50:45 - 2 of those tracks were laid on river hexes, so this should have cost $35 money instead of $33.

[timoseppa]

Looks a bit heavy in (light) accounting throughout - not that different from many cube rail games - but pretty fun looking. I might decide to purchase.

[danpalmer]

You need a friendly bank manager dishing out all the loans :)

[josiahjohnson]

Hi Jon. Thanks for the video, but I am a bit confused about your correction about scoring, where you only count a single railway.

The rules sure seem to say that multiple railways are used for that tally:
Most Towns
The player or players who control the Railway(s) connected to the most Towns (yellow bars) each receive 1 VP.

I fast forwarded to the scoring of the Heavy Cardboard teach-and-play, and they added up the totals from all railway lines as well.

[powerfade]

Have you played Railways of the World? If not, are you planning to? Would you consider it a cube rail game?

[powerfade]

How does this one compare to all the other cube rail games you've played? It seems simpler - very simple in fact. Do you think this is the best for someone wanting to try their first cube rail game or do you have other suggestions? Thanks!

[brazillb]

Wow, this game really said "go wherever the f you want"

[davidhytch]

~51:00 shouldn’t it be 35 money because of the two river hexes?

[timoseppa]

19:58 Isn't that $9 interest, not $8