Rajas of the Ganges Review - with Tom Vasel

Tom Vasel takes a look at Rajas of the Ganges, a worker placement game designed by Inka and Markus Brand!
00:00 - Introduction
01:23 - Game overview
09:02 - Final thoughts
BGG link: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2...
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[@MovieWanderer]

I really love this game! It's been around 4-5 years since the first time I tried this game and I can't stop thinking about it. Finally I just got my own copy! Thank you for the review

[@redeyedghost1406]

I played this a couple of weeks ago (skipped the basic game), and loved it. Immediately pre-ordered it, and it's supposed to be delivered today!

[@billjensen51]

The game ending based on money and fame meeting is a very clever idea in my opinion. This does not look like a game for me, but it is close and looks good.

[@fakeaccount759]

Sounded like you felt it was excellent yet only approved?

[@SapphireBones]

I just played this game yesterday for the first time, I genuinely loved it. What a fantastic game. Definitely becoming one of my favorite worker placement games, and it also inspired a new mechanic I added to my game (the one I'm currently working on)

[@lilianakowalska5265]

The race on those scoring tracks in the late game😊 I absolutely love it! My favorite part of the game.

[@talesofcardboard3986]

Great review. Looking forward to this game!

[@RowantarotBlogspot]

This game looks like it manages to incorporate all my favourite game mechanisms, plus I really love the uber-colourful, busy board and those jewel-like dice! It's a must have for me. :D

[@landryayaan5215]

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[@beaukayson929]

@Landry Ayaan instablaster ;)

[@mikeboyd79]

This sounds like "Castle of Burgundy" but with a solid theme and more mechanisms, very interesting!

[@markc1560]

Thanks Tom! Appreciate the instruction, I won my my game 👍

[@Thiashadow]

I Love this game, My favorite of this year

[@johnrochester1419]

So, what are some things you love about it? I noticed Tom didn't give it an excellent rating, which usually makes me think a game is good, but not great, but this one does look interesting to me. Would you compare it to any other games? Does it possibly have a puzzle within a puzzle? I love games like that. I ask because of the dice as a resource.

[@Thiashadow]

John Rochester hi! Just das your message now! So... The thing that I like is How well conected is all gears of The game. I had not a feeling of playing various minigames at once. Instead Every piece talks easily with one or more pieces.evething adds together at The end. The whole "carcassonne" miniboard os algo a Nice puzzle and once more The pieces do/are related to The others parts... The dice used as a resources, as colors or pips, or both! Was also a thing that I found not usual and good! Finally, The concept of Double "victory Track" is really Nice that you have many ways to persuit victory! So basically is that :)

[@loicovis426]

Great explaination! Thank you!

[@whatboardgame]

This keeps getting recommended to me. Need to check it out.

[@finarfin9939]

This game sounds complex and thematically it looks really nice. I totally agree that gameboard needs to be a bit bigger looks a little too crowded as it is. Definitely interesting

[@RevoltzRetrogaming]

Tom, at 3:52 i think you have mistake fame with Karma. You loose KARMA to switch the sides of die. And the fame is the one you keep track until it crosses the money for the win

[@RevoltzRetrogaming]

lol

[@flameonglass]

I love this game. Great graphics & lots of different strategies to win.

[@HellPet]

This one deserved a seal of excellence.

[@Stefannvh]

Looks awesome! good amount of depht and beautiful board. But aren't there an insane amount of rules to this game ? Looks like a players turn would take ages ? doesn't matter too much to me, but my girlfriend might. Will probably buy this one anyway!

[@ricke1732]

Had you played this earlier, would it have made it into your top 30 of 2017?

[@EclecticCamel]

I would also like to know this.

[@RFatecha]

Poor dice! And you said you liked them Tom :)

[@kotieerwee2593]

You said you can hold 8 dice. I have not read the rules myself but was tought you can have 10 dice. The two hands on the board is also two dice spots. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[@xxporchyxx]

Kotie Erwee the basic game you can hold 10 when you flip it the two boxes in the middle aren't used so you have eight spots in the advanced version

[@Forza1988]

I need this game now

[@patricioiasielski8816]

Absolutely miss the component drop in the new videos

[@fozanify]

I just read the rules and this video confused me. Do you start with all of your workers in the advanced variant, or you can unlock all 3 of them instead of 2 as in the basic version?

[@Stephens_Rocket]

you can unlock all of them but you get to hold fewer dice in your stock

[@Fentox]

Any chance of changing your rating to Seal of Excellence now that it's in your top 100?

[@andrewsmith144]

the victory conditions are reminiscent of a game i grew up with called Careers

[@greglott4977]

I remember that game! :)

[@sarag8925]

Hi! 🙃🙃🎲Could someone please help me... I wonder, Can I use several karma at the same time?

[@cleftturnip7774]

Hi. Are there any other game with the 2 tracks around the outside?

[@VTboardgamer]

Ark Nova is one of the newer games that uses this mechanism

[@cleftturnip7774]

@@VTboardgamer cool

[@ericmattar-hurlbut2317]

I seem to be coming to this board gaming party late. Another older game that I just found out about after seeing the dice version. At least it's not going to be $100+ like some of the older gamea.

[@hewieedacat6375]

Based on your comments and my playthroughs also, the approved verdict seems harsh 😢

[@zakkoehler6820]

It is called Karma not Fame

[@davidkok2489]

there's both fame and karma in the game...what r u referring to?

[@viaumarcandre]

God i didn't understood anything. See you tommorow when i'm drunken out.

[@JHuntjens88]

Great review as always, but I respectfully disagree with your conclusion. We already have enough games like this on the market. It brings nothing new to table. With so many options it just looks like a slot machine for victory points and that isn't engaging at all. And this theme is just slabbed on to it... There is no connection between the mechanics and the theme of Ganges river, except of these ships in the middle. These kind of worker placement euro games don't do it for me anymore. Btw, doesn't the "dice like a resources"-mechanic remind people too much of a game called Troyes?

[@TorIverWilhelmsen]

Who are "we" in this scenario? Certainly, more than enough people are likely to want to play this particular variety that the publisher sees a market for it. It's like saying there are more than enough fantasy novels.

[@TheGrooves]

I, for strarters, love both tile placement games ( such as Glen More, Isle of Skye, etc. ) and dice drafting / allocation ( Castles of Burgundy, Voyages of Marco Polo, Grand Austria Hotel, etc. ). Having both these mechanisms in one game is more than great, so no, I don't think this game is redundant by any means.

[@simonmounsey4191]

While there are worker placement games. There aren't many that use dice as resources. What really intrigues me though is the end game. There really aren't many that use the mechanism of having two tracks and whenever they meet, you win. Love that. Also, it uses a combo of other mechanisms.

[@TheRamblingpitchfork]

"slot machine for victory points"? The game doesn't have victory points it is a straight race game.

[@HoratioHuffnagel]

"We already have enough games like this on the market." Could you please name a few? And I'm not being sarcastic - I actually mean it. Love this game and would love to get my hands on something similar.