Miami Dice 218: Yamataï

Tom Vasel, Zee Garcia, and Sam Healey review Yamataï, a new route/network building game from Days of Wonder!

00:00 - Introduction
01:36 - Game overview
08:50 - Final thoughts

[VanJeans]

"Here's your hosts Tom Vasel and Sam Healey". "Hi I'm Zee Garcia".

[natelinhart]

Days of Wonder gets it right again in production. I agree what the Dice Tower keeps saying. Some companies need to take their strategy and just put out one big game a year and make it looks phenomenal.

[stephenrace]

Zee & I have generally the same taste in games so this is a major buy for me. I can't wait for this.

[cammot]

Excellent explanation of the game Zee. Best I have seen so far. Thanks for the effort.

[MrFotoka]

you guys are so great. now there is such a great variety to your recommendations then just one but three different tastes I can take into account. Great work guys

[shanerion]

The theme with the colored ships and why it lets you build the building is simple. Those colored ships represent supply routes of certain types of goods. You can’t build the buildings along the archipelago if the resources to build those buildings aren’t available. So as trade routes and supply routes spread across the board, you can use those available supplies for construction of appropriate buildings. I see it as thematically integrated.

[dddmmm]

There is a obvious comparison to Five Tribes, which is: This is Five Tribes but in reverse, and I guess that is why many reviewers are not noticing it... In FT you take things out of the board, so the AP is high in the beginning and it diminishes throughout the game together with the number of pieces on the board. In Yamatai you add stuff to the board, so it begins sweet and simple and the AP gets progressively higher as the possibilities increases with more pieces on the board. Looking this way, both games are indeed quite alike.

[arbiggerstaff]

Excellent setup of table and camera! :D

[glenjust]

Much better with the table for the camera angle guys. Think it would be good to have a small Dice Tower logo in one of the corners throughout the video. Just trying to make suggestions/feedback, but looks great. Good job!

[ramonosuke]

Days of Wonder?!? Bruno Cathala?!? Loved Five Tribes so I'm a little excited about this

[geektome]

I found the psychology of Tom, Zee, and Sam fascinating in this video. I could tell they were all trying to contain their opinions until the end but it was clear who liked it, who didn't care for that much, and who was middle of the road.

[Atlas-FM]

This is the first positive review I've seen of this game so far.

[joshjenson]

This is one of my favorite board games
Definitely best at 2 and 3 but i have no problem playing it with 4

[stevepruneau]

I've added this to my to-buy list, so onwards and upwards. Thanks for the great review guys! You've been to Toronto, you should also consider to come to Montreal. :D

[alxgonzalez]

I preordered the game and I can't wait to get it to the table.

[signore]

Turn order is really great. Tom should play more Cathala games. Reminded me immediateley of Kingdomino!

[jrubin]

Two things - 1. There is a very strong taste of Via Nebula when I demo'ed this game - I'm not sure it brings more to the table for me because of that 2. I know everyone on the video was raving about the components - but THE PLAYER MATS ARE BARELY MORE THAN SHEETS OF PAPER! I have Portal of Heroes which I love and yes the mats are just paper - but that's an $18 game from Mayfair. But for $60 they should at least have the consistency of the fleet tiles.

[RonnieLunn]

I'm glad Tom mentioned the iconography, that's the issue with Five Tribes when I played it and really turned everyone at the table off. This looks like there's a bit less going on than Five Tribes, and I'll definitely give it a go, but I'm like Zee, don't like too much iconography.

[AgentKuo]

looks inspired by terra mystica, which is a huge plus for me. the game looks really cool!

[eastcoastboardgamer]

Quadropolis was last year Five tribes year before :)