Miami Dice - Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn

Tom, Zee, and Sam take a look at the newest edition of Sid Meier's Civilization from Fantasy Flight Games, A New Dawn!!

00:00 - Introduction
02:00 - Game overview
10:31 - Final thoughts

[ЖаркоЈанковић]

Expansion is finally here. It calls Terra Incognita, and it's real good. They fix what they should with more cards, military, fifth player, different roads to victory.

[jrubin]

I'm a big fan of the game - basically because of the MAP element - you can create new scenarios every game - and you don't have to be in your own 'space' but can begin kind of close. I think it's most interesting aspect is HOW You are going to evolve your Focus cards - since you can choose ANY of them - and the combinations of one early card with a later one can be fascinating. Double thumbs up for me!

[Zilong]

Tom wishing for a game that focuses on the card system summoned Ark Nova from the ether

[verticalisland]

I picked this up for about 19 dollars at Gamestop. My wife hasn't played anything like this before so I hope that she enjoys it. When we are out looking at board games, we often refer to your reviews to decide if it is the kind of thing we would like to play. :) Thank you for that guys.

[TheSupremeSkill]

I think it's very good that there is this streamlined and faster version of Civilization and the older long one. They complement each other and can be introduced in different play groups.

[jarvbricks]

Played and brought this at UK Games Expo today. I really enjoyed it, enough to sacrifice the game I was going to buy to get this. Great balanced review guys.

[jonlocke]

Personally, I freaking loved this game. Easily one of the best I've played this year. Everyone who has played it with me (around 6) really enjoys it too.
My only gripe is I wish there were more main objective cards. Honestly though in 4-player games our group plays all of them at once.

"Moving the cards, upgrading the cards... I wish there was a game just based on that" That game is called Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization

[zachcorey]

Would love to see a review of the expansion. It improves this game a lot and addresses a couple of the complaints made in this video.

[RubenThePenguin]

I will buy it if it gets an expansion that makes the combat more interesting, and maybe that makes the civilizations more diverse, like in King of Tokyo Power Up.

[richardxob]

Maybe an expansion with the militaristic aspect expanded?

[vexdhex]

I have this game in my library. I use it as a "gateway" game to more involved 4x games like Twilight Imperium or Eclipse 2nd Edition. I like that it is simple enough to teach, deep enough to allow for some strategy, and streamlined to the point that the game can flow and end conditions resolved relatively quickly.

[richardshort]

Thumbs up for the guys to force Zee to live play a game of Advanced Civilization (1991). He'll never complain about Twilight Imperium begin too long again.

[jensthernstrom]

I think Otys and A New Dawn plays a bit alike in how you need to manipulate and move your action cards/divers.

[Esauofisaac]

You can really see that A New Dawn was made when FF looked at the 2010 rendition and thought "Sweet baby Moses look at all the pieces and this sideboard, we need to cut 90% of this, make it happen." I didn't buy this for years because I was very reticent to play a dumbed down game. But actually, the game itself is not bad at all. The thing is, it feels like a GAME moreso than assuming the role of a civilization with other characters. They got some things way better, and somethings way wrong. It's great that you have to claim tiles, that you have a plentitude of cities, that there's a greater level of abstraction. That all makes sense, and is what you would expect in a good civ game. The problem is really just with how barebones everything is, not even necessarily for speed but for want of creativity where it was needed. The tech pyramid in Civ 2010 was just incredible, easily the best technology mechanic I have personally played, replacing it with direct-upgrade cards is an absolutely massive disappointment, even if the action mechanic itself is stupendous. Stuff like that. It's not that the game is bad, it's just that when you inevitably compare it to Civilization 2010 you're left wishing you had something like that in.

[jpotter]

What beautiful terrain tiles! Thus concludes my New Dawn review.

[TheBrokenMeeple]

I've really enjoyed this, one of my favourites of the year - I don't care if combat doesn't come with miniatures. This abstracted the theme a bit but you can play a Civ game in less than 2 hours and it's streamlined. My review is out this week and it's more positive. Barbarians are fine - they are a pest like in the computer game and if you just ignore them then you deserve to have a city die!! It's a refreshing change though to have a game that I really like, that NONE of you like that much! ;-)

[davidkennedy]

After playing. 1 game (having played the last version many times) I really enjoyed the gameplay and mechanics but it feels like elements have been cut to be released later in expansions. And I feel this game kinda needs a little more just now. So am very much anticipating an expansion.

[wappe]

People seem to think that there is no combat in this game. That is not the case at all. The guys seem to not have done much of it but when the opponents citys start to fill up with cool wonders and you can take 3 of them in one turn with nukes I dont see how you can ignore it.
I think people for some reason just dont focus on it in this game. Maybe because of the abstraction.

[MarioFanaticXV]

Actually, I feel FFG's Civilization: The Board Game felt closest to Civilization Revolution.