Paladins of the West Kingdom Review - The Broken Meeple

[@joshbain8032]

Really don't understand everyone's complaints with the box. I've never head an issue with getting it in there. It's right, but the box closes 100% and I've bagged everything separately for each player. Is my Tetris skills wildly better than most? I didn't think they were?

[@Puzzu]

Great review! Your thoughts pretty much echoed my impressions about this game from watching playthroughs, wouldn’t mind to try it sometime but I don’t need to own it as I’d likely rather play something else like Architects. I heard somewhere the next one is called Viscounts of the West Kingdom but have no idea what it will be about, hopefully it will be better.

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

I have no idea what a Viscount is.....

[@larrytedmcbride]

Your reviews come across very genuine and honest. It's not the other's are dishonest, it's just you have a way of removing all doubt :)

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

Ha ha thanks! It's how I like to roll! It's just my word, but hopefully it gives enough information.

[@simonaubin9549]

What's this Print and Play axpansion for Architect you speak of at 6:35?

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

Artisans - I had a prototype copy at the time of that review.

[@HiddenKeep]

IF you go to Garphil games website they have a larger box that you an purchase for Raiders and all its expansions. I assume they will so the same for Architects and Paladins once they have their expansions out and complete.

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

Hopefully yes, though it's a bit cheeky to sell a box!

[@HiddenKeep]

@@TheBrokenMeeple it also adds upgraded wooden Provisions for the game

[@TheLuminousCleric]

@@HiddenKeep I decided not to buy that box because the Hall of Heroes box looks so damn good.

[@Schlagathor78]

Have you played the expansion for this? I saw videos about the other games in the series but didn't see anything about city of crowns expansion

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

Nope but then I eventually grew bored of the base game so had no desire to play the expansion.

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

I learned the game using solo mode. It was painful. I only played architects before and it was only half a game.

[@daviddigby6978]

I’ve got everything in the box, without too much trouble. Equally I imagine the game is too slow at 3 and 4 players so could take a player board out for extra space. This is a great game for 1-2 players, Architects is fun at 3-4 players and I’m hoping the expansion will fix the issues I have with it. Great series though, paladins is more my thing but very pleased with both, we shall see what Viscounts brings.

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

What issues do you have? I have reviewed the expansion in late prototype stage.

[@daviddigby6978]

@@TheBrokenMeeple the random card draw of buildings and apprentices means I almost always ignore but a couple of them as I just cant build effective combos on the cards I see. The apprentice display get stuck fairly early and the cost of drawing cards is too high given the swing in the deck. I end up playing the same game most of the time which got a bit boring.

[@mightyted1]

Great review. I only own Raiders and to your comments about it, do you really find the expansions make it that much better? I find they just make the game busy imo.

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

It needs that added variety of options though. The base game alone is very limited.

[@TheLuminousCleric]

Ah, yes. Very much. Raiders with both expansions is a blast.

[@russell19955]

With this game, I understand it's a trilogy but are all three games different? or is sequel always better than the last? What I'm trying to figure out is that, is it necessary to buy all three? or just get the better game?

[@jefff.2052]

The first two are certainly different. They have the same art design and are set in the same universe, but they are different stand-alone games.

[@henricdenzler8826]

Raiders of the North Sea is probably the most spoken about from the first trilogy. It was the second game though, so apparently the third didn't top it. In this trilogy both the first and second have been considered really good by various gamers. So I would argue that you could own several or just a few, but it all depends on your personal taste. I have Raiders, Architects and Paladins, and really like all three of them. Whether or not I'll get the third game in this trilogy is yet to be seen.

[@shanerion]

Get Architects

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

They all are very different from each other, it's just the theme and art direction that's the same. So far Architects trumps Paladins for having more theme, interaction, being shorter and easier to play.

[@andrethannhauser6302]

Too me it's obvious If you want to play 1-2 players play paladins. If you want to play 4+ players play architects. If you are 3 players, then it heavily depends on the players. 1. Paladins is much heavier 2. Paladins is a more "epic" experience 3. Architects is more interaction. A lot of heavy strategic gamers dont like a too high level of interaction because it a) increases randomness b) things you cant influence All in all 1-3 heavy gamers = bring paladins 3-5 medium gamers = bring architects So both games deserve a space. Remark: Once the number of votes gets similar to architects on BGG, paladins (8.10) will top architects (7.86)....at least get into the top 100. It's Tom Vasel's #1 Eurogame 2019, for a reason....but it's not gonna be everyones cup of tea.

[@shanerion]

The third one will be Viscounts of the West Kingdom!

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

Uh oh, 5 people who don't like Architects! 😄