Crystal Palace Review with Paul Grogan from Gaming Rules!

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[PauloRenato]

This is a great game... fantastic interaction between the players and the mind games it allows for. Truly excellent!

[danidanovic]

nice clip my dude you deserve more subscribers

[JohnMellby]

One error I should mention on the Black Market.
When you place a die you DO NOT remove an assistant.
Instead, you move the assistant one step down. If there are no empty spaces underneath then it is removed, but it otherwise just goes a single step down.

[bobnetherton]

Thanks for the review, Paul. It is the last hours of a really nice Capstone Games sale and this one was on the bubble.

One of my favorite games is The Artemis Project, but it is a light one. Tense, but very light. My favorite mechanism is the place your dice (which are rolled) but you can be bumped in resolution order if you aren't careful. This has a lot of similarity with the randomness replaced by how much money you are willing to spend. Balanced point salad ???? I'm all in now. Thanks!

[InteractionImplants]

Including a quote from Vital was a great idea Paul!

[Selecta]

Ha, your Top 3 is my Top 3 as well, with Crystal Palace being #1, Cooper Island #2 and Maracaibo #3. I don't mind the random negative points on the loans, I think it just helps me to plan if I pay them back at the end of game. With the -8 ones I might not cause hey, -8 compared to -5 is not bad most of time but a -10 might influence that.

[skipper]

Agree ! Every game should have a tiebreaker rule ! you can't be tied after 2-3h of gaming.. i prefer loosing on tiebreaker rather be tied in 1st position !!

[jellevancamp]

ahaa synergy bonus, the same trap Everdell stepped into.

[jamesroy]

Is Barrage more thematic in mechanism than this boring theme?

[kornelije.h]

We are playing with a very simple house rule. Every loan is minus 9 VP.

[TheBrokenMeeple]

Good to hear your respect surprised you like game is a boring, themeless, frightful looking, table hogging, AP inducing, stretched out game of unprecedented punishment with bizarre balancing decisions (loans with variable negative VP, income being the most essential thing with only limited means of obtaining it), unnecessary side mechanics (black market, pocket watch) and restrictions that force you to start in a certain way or straight out lose the that kind of sets out the this is a 2 hour game minimum, usually closer to 3 minimum - the teach and setup is just mad. The dice selection mechanic I thought would be good, but it's straight up guesswork. You've no idea what the opponents will set their dice too, and if everyone has 4-5 dice, how can you possibly gauge your dice effectively, it's a giant crap shoot. This is one of my worst of 2019 and would happily burn it under a Xmas tree!! Lol! :P And on my birthday as well! Ha ha!