Tigris & Euphrates Micro Review

Tigris & Euphrates Micro Review

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[brianpierce]

Exactly the component comparison I have wanted to see! Thanks Joel!

[rossc]

I like the side-by-side comparison! Thanks for showing all the changes. I've always wanted to play this...looking forward to trying soon

[sadhappy]

I got myself the original German first edition published by Hans Im Glük from 1997! It has the wooden player tokens aswell the wooden monuments and I must say I prefer the old ones by far, also I love the cubes too. Only thing I'd replace from the newer versions are the actual tiles that go to the board, in the original version they are quite hard to distinguish and black tiles have yellow colour in them.

[winterplum]

Excellent and timely look at this latest edition. I wanted to know how it looked, played and changed, and you covered it well. Thank you!

[salty-horse]

As mentioned, the "Wonder Variant" is also not new. It was called previously called the "Ziggurat Variant", and was in the Mayfair 2nd edition, or as a separate expansion prior to that.

The Mayfair 2nd edition, besides having a double-sided board, also changed the color palette from white to brown, which looks similar to the FFG version.

Besides the change of wording of the conflicts, the rulebook is very similar to the Mayfair 2nd edition. I have a hunch that Knizia's team had a lot of control over that.

You might want to add a note at 0:50 that actually nothing is new, in case people eagerly watch the video expecting something else :)

[MentatOfDune]

I think the newer version looks better except for the plastic in the new version.  Really prefer the wooden round disks, not a deal breaker though.

[clumsydad]

Joel, this game is kind of a long slog, but I def. get the appeal, there is certainly a lot to consider, and one has to adapt and address your weaker areas (colors). I’m still undecided if I want to bother with the app, but there’s no way I’d play this game with 4 in real life, too AP (a bit old school that way with the turns). I think I’ll just hold off and maybe someday do Yellow and Yangtze (or if they ever do an app for that).

It’s interesting watching gameplay though how much build up but then destruction of tiles there is, there often are not that many left on the board… I agree with you, the game is strongly thematic… almost disturbingly thematic when you think how much destruction there’s been around Tigris/Euphrates post 1997. I guess the game is too conflict heavy for me in general. I’ve always tended towards Reiner’s lighter, shorter, card driven games.

It almost has this presence a bit like Go, where there is a wide open board and you can place all around it, and areas of control are being carved out, but which can be flipped.

[timg]

I really like the map - can't wait to get my

[shanelaporte]

Great comparison video and much appreciated!

[brianpetersen]

This is not a review, this is a comparison with the old edition.