Rahdo's Extended Gameplay►►► Marrakesh

[@jankogo]

I can´t wait for this game to come to home. It will have a great place on the shelf with several of it´s siblings in the collection.

[@TheFlymar]

Another appearance of all open feld tower:) it wil piss the bggeeks very much:)

[@rahdo]

i never had the problem with the amerigo tower, and is suspect this tower works fine... for cubes. and like i said in the video it also works at higher player count, just not 2p (and more to the point, just not my tower... haven't tried anyone elses)

[@TheFlymar]

@@rahdo I don't see a cube tower as a problem in Amerigo. But I'm visiting bgg from time to time and the cube tower threads are always there (right now 2 of 10 newest). For me it's itsy bitsy too shallow. All of the game is pretty much "I will block you with my shiny new tetris tile":) And pirate "battles" are well... shallow. None of my fellow players liked the game and wish to play it again (not a case in CoB, Bora bora or Trajan).

[@rahdo]

yeah, to be honest, the reality is that going the entire game without the cube tower functioning is fine. my wife isn't bothered at all that in 2p they tower rare if ever works, she still LOVES the game. and at higher player counts, it does work, but even if it didn't (or you ignored it) the draft would still be fantastic and tension filled. i hope people don't get too hung up on this. it's mostly a non-issue really... works well at higher player counts, could be a tiny bit better at 2 if you're bothered by minor luck swings (which we foudn tended to even out over the course of 12 rounds of drafting) :)

[@michaelnewsome1248]

Why not just have a opaque bag to pull out cubes? Would that have it own issues?

[@rahdo]

the point of the tower is the unpredictable nature of when things get stuck and unstuck. to emulate it, i suppose you could get a person who isn't involved in the game, whose sole job is to pull stuff out of the bag and choose randomly when to lveave some things in and when to pull out more than normal. but it wouldn't be much fun to be that person :)