Iberian Gauge - Tutorial & Full Playthrough

Here is my Iberian Gauge tutorial where I teach the game as it is being played. Paid sponsorship by Capstone Games.

Teaching Timestamps:
Introduction - 0:00
Game overview - 0:32
Game start & stock round - 2:40
Priority deal marker explanation - 12:51
Build round - 13:28
Cost to build trains & lease track - 14:$1
Increasing dividends & stock value - 16:15
Stock value penalty explanation - 18:23
Paying dividends - 19:00
Five cities bonus - 24:26
2nd stock round - 25:07
2nd build round - 26:46
3rd build round - 32:16
3rd stock round - 38:03
4th build round - 41:38
5th build round - 53:21
4th stock round - 1:05:57
6th build round - 1:07:35
Final scoring - 1:17:28

[nzimphotography]

Never has a train and stocks game peaked my interest until it was so beautifully explained. This does look fun.

[GettingGames]

CORRECTIONS:
18:24 - The Blue railroad forgot to pay $4 for that train placement.
33:30 - The Blue railroad should only gain $10 (2x5) instead of $15 with that dividend payout.
48:04 - The total lease cost is $6, not $4. It's $2 for the easy terrain hex and another $4 for the difficult terrain hex.
58:55 - I forgot to pay dividends for the Purple Railroad! It was at $7 a share, so White should have gained $14, Green $7, and the Purple Railroad $7.

[bensmithxlvi]

I appreciate that you meticulously arranged all of the trains into a grid on the left side. That must've been so tedious, but it looks great for the video haha

[azariusflashfang]

I must say I am amazed by the amount of depth this game has. There is a very fine balancing act with regards to the stocks, for each stock purchased that is less money that can go to company coffers because of less room for dividends. However the less stocks that are bought the less things that company can do meaning it'll lose even more value. Plus the old balancing out between helping yourself and messing with your opponents. Excellent job on the tutorial and playthrough as always, I really have a good grasp of the game watching this.

[leavemydogalone]

Wow, this board is so pleasing to look at.

[tfpp]

I have the first two installments in the series (Irish Gauge, Ride The Rails) and enjoy those thoroughly. Combine that with the fact that I am of Spanish heritage, and I love Ian O'Toole's artistry, this seems like a zombie . . . yeah, it's a no-brainer.

[mikechipman]

Great tutorial and playthrough. My family played last night and enjoyed it. Thanks for the teach!

[timoseppa]

Nice. Definitely thinking about getting this.

[mariusferreira]

Excellent tutorial, thank you very much 👍🏻

[MortlachNL]

Another great video! Hitting it out of the park. Will definitely try to order this one while the pre-order discount is still on!

[morrigambist]

This game is superb - simple rules and complex play.

[AhJong]

Wow, a perfect game for this sort of tutorial play through. You could read the rules and have no idea how the game would actually play. I was a little worried that the start of the game felt fairly arbitrary but it didn’t seem that was the case later on.

Only aspect that worries me is the replay ability with that map being the same each game?

Thanks Jon, great video.

[jwetsch]

@ 48:04 red actually should have paid $6 to orange as it was one easy and one difficult terrain. Loving seeing you do a few more full playthroughs!

[fmoros]

nice one! I am from that city w difficult name: Zaragoza (CaesarAugustus, in case you wonder)

[Skycroft]

Hmm, I was initially drawn in by the cooperative nature of train building in this game compared to other... 'train-stock-cube games', but "I'm going to waste this company's money even though doing so hurts me, because it hurts everyone else _more_ " is the kind of game theorizing that I dislike doing. I like games where players bounce off of each other but not ones where they work to screw each other over in this way. That's a huge turnoff for me.

Love the full playthrough though, even if the game isn't for me. Great video as always.

Edit: A correction - I don't think the blue company paid for the train you built at 17:30 it has 28 money before and after.

[scottsaccenti]

While—in recent years—pushing back against ever-increasingly-heavier games in my own personal gaming life, and thus probly not engaging with your channel as much as I once did…

When you dipped your toe into this train subgenre, I saw that, and dipped as well. Wow. What a fun ride it has been in recent months. Kind of three branches I’ve ventured down, the Pick-Up-And-Delivers (Railways/Steam/Age of Steam—all wonderful in their own ways), the Cubes (Holland & Bohrer, such good stuff), and even some beginner-friendly 18xx (Chesapeake & ‘46).

I’d pretty much stopped buying board games a few years ago, and now this has happened. Where do I send the bill?

[MikeRisley]

At 33:30 shouldn’t blue only get $10? At $5/share the company only owns 2 shares with the blue, white, and pink players owning the other 3.

[Tarnest]

I'm not sure if you take suggestions, but if you're interested in 18XX games, maybe consider Poseidon? I would be interested to see a playthrough since from what I've seen it's sorta an introduction to 18XX games.

[TheBigScreenTv]

Jon, nice to see you doing a well thought out Euro game. I much perfer these to the dice chucking dungeon crawlers with boobs.

[StevenStJohn-kjeb]

This was surprisingly a lot more interesting than the Trans-Siberian Railroad game. It looks fun. But I wonder - it seemed like almost every building phase move was obvious - not a lot of tough decisions. The tough decisions seemed to be only in the stock-buying phase. And are those decisions tough because there is a lot to think about, or are the tough because it's really just speculation? Did the winner make the smarter choices or did the winner get a couple of good early coin flips that then played out well?