Black Angel - A Gaming Rules! Review

[@gidiyaniv82]

Your first few minutes are extremely funny. Cheers for that

[@boardgameknight2791]

Thanks, Paul! Very thoughtful and thorough review! It really helped to see how the game played too. You managed to give me a good idea of the mechanisms and components without bogging down the review with a full teach of the game. I'm new to your channel but I'm sold on it.

[@pennincao]

Great review Paul... also love the new graphics at the beginning.

[@3838jeroen]

this is our nr. 1 game for the moment, still after many plays. The more you play, the better it gets

[@matthelion]

Fantastic. I love this one. I’ve played it more than any other game this year

[@mussoliniheadkick]

Spot on about forgetting little things. Every damn time I play, I forget to put down new tech tiles, draw a card matching the dice or draw ravagers after playing a card. I think while the iconography is there, it's either small and unobvious (tech tiles) or it's just not reminded as a part of the action (ravagers or drawing a card) unless you follow the player aid. Maybe I'll get there eventually.

[@jvomkrieg]

Weird, i found a copy of this on heavy discount because it has a small dent in the box. Didn't know it had sold out everywhere

[@jvomkrieg]

Its still on my SHELF OF WONDERS! And I really need to get to it, but there are others on there as well, Brass, Troyes, Castles of Burgundy and more. (Oh, lol, this is my personal account, J from 3mbg)

[@andrewloch3563]

I can't see the link to the BGG discussion on differences with Troyes?

[@mkrool]

love this game its defiantly in my top 5 ive played i think ur review was fair.and u have the same criticism i did

[@SparkyHelper]

"... because we're rubbish." ROFLOL

[@JLX5]

How does one know which version to buy (for the updated rulebook)?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

I don't know, sorry. Later printings had the better rulebook, but you might find someone selling an original print run and you wouldn't know.

[@malcolmmacdonald9238]

If a rule book is bad it should be called out.

[@GamingRulesVideos]

It absolutely should. It's the only way publishers will listen and hopefully improve.

[@mkrool]

although i wouldnt say its all bad it just has one bad spot lol

[@jonathanindrabajra9000]

Hi Paul,, Do you recomend to buy this game for solo only?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

That's a good question. I'm not sure. The solo game was nice, but I'm not sure I would buy the game only to play solo. However, I know people who have, so ultimately that is your call. If it helps, I have done a solo playthrough of the game on my channel, so you can see how it plays out. :)

[@jonathanindrabajra9000]

@@GamingRulesVideos thanks for the reply Paul.I'll consider to buy this after the pandemi over. Great Video btw. 🙏

[@Tracks777]

lovely stuff

[@3838jeroen]

OOOh I love this game

[@andrewv3515]

I hated the insert soo much. For an 80+ dollar game I would have preferred a functional insert that doesn't result in every cardboard piece larger than the tech tiles just piled on top all willy nilly. I don't need Gametrayz but that 2x2 square insert makes no sense. And yeah, the rulebook isn't great basically because of the layout - some key concepts are hard to find. That's what I get for early adoption I guess (picked it up at Gen Con). Maybe I'll grab the new edition. I still prefer Troyes since it plays quicker and just seems more streamlined. But have really enjoyed Black Angel the 2-3 times I have played it.

[@Cronos804]

I don't think the game looks great. Too much of the imagery does not have boarder transitions - its just one dominant color next to another really dominant color. The lack of smoot transitions gives me the impression of this being a draft version. The colorscheme also is hard to look at for me. When i first looked at the Box it was hard to tell what the 'Black Angle' was. I still can't really tell which direction it is traveling on the image because there are distortions one direction and a pink beam in the other. I was at Spiel 2019 and the people i talked to also said that it looked a little wired. Not saying it is objectively bad, but it is not objectively good looking either.

[@lucianmaximus4741]

JESUS CHRIST -- 📏 of The WORLD

[@Hurt009]

"A Gaming Rules Review". Waited 10 minutes for the gaming rules explanation to start - until I noticed that it's only the channel's name xD

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Yep. I don't do many reviews (none now in fact).

[@dillenbeck53531]

2 whole pages of clarifications? _Looks over at the 12 pages of rules and 3 pages of glossary for 7 Ages_ . . . _Looks over at the 107 page Nit-Picker' Guide to 7 Ages version 2.2_ Uhhh... yeah, that's just horrible.