Caesar’s Empire Review: The Return of the Super Filler

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Күн бұрын

Tom Vasel, Mike DiLisio, Chris & Wendi Yi take a look at Caesar’s Empire!
Intro 0:00
Overview 1:05
Final Thoughts 3:42
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Пікірлер: 78

@HolyGrailGames Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, thank you so much for the wonderful review! We really appreciate you taking the time to try the game.

@diecycling Жыл бұрын

I’ve even had fun playing this with my five-year-old. After pointing out the Gauls on the map, he asked to read my old Asterix & Obelix comics. That made my week. 🙂

@wizo656 Жыл бұрын

The look on Wendy's face when she realizes she will be playing this game way more than she wants to! :D

@sebastianyanez2039 Жыл бұрын

why?

@AdaminWales Жыл бұрын

I’m so glad this game got such positive coverage here. I love the game, and it would be great to see more people playing it.

@_Cervantez Жыл бұрын

There's a shadow of Caesar on the map! Took me ages to realize that

@crepusculo1027 Жыл бұрын

Chris has become a major asset for the dice tower :-) really happy he's there

@rentless666 Жыл бұрын

This game looks fun. I can imagine an expansion where Asterix and Obelix are running around the map messing with the romans in some way.

@Mokhnaar Жыл бұрын

Wow, did not expect that 10 from Chris. Did not know this game existed and everyone loves asterix in France so yeah. Added to my wishlist !

@kevinwallace1374 Жыл бұрын

I have to say that you guys are excellent at selling out games. I've been eyeballing this game for a while and was ready to purchase it, but I heard you mention that you were going to be reviewing it soon, so I decided to hold off. Day after the review, I see it sold out everywhere that I normally buy games. This has happened to me several times with you guys. Keep up the great work! I actually found it on Walmart's online store, so I secured my copy :)

@fiuza27 Жыл бұрын

Tom should make a top 10 super filler anytime soon. It's a very interesting niche of games to take a look, specially if we want a varied BG collection

@VillainCollector1 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a major hit or miss depending on the individual or group. Wide range of perspectives. Definitely want to try.

@grog3514 Жыл бұрын

This feels like a Knizia design. My kind of game.

@troygillespie Жыл бұрын

When this format of reviewing on the dice tower became more frequent, I was wondering if there would be more groupthink in the recommendations. Clearly not the case! Nice job providing disparate perspectives!

@jasonpmathew Жыл бұрын

I was able to play this game 4 times last week at the DT Retreat and I agree with Chris. This is a 9/10 for me. It’s a 9 because I don’t think it plays as well with 3 players as it does with 4 and 5.

@girlrutherford Жыл бұрын

We were very happy with the 3-player game!

@sebastianyanez2039 Жыл бұрын

@@girlrutherford same here, with 3 works perfectly

@jamesjacobthomson6198 Жыл бұрын

Awaiting more comments about the "legitimacy" of the seals. I for one am really enjoying the different opinions. :)

@arnold2011 Жыл бұрын

Never heard about the game. Now it is on my buy list.

@Allanq69 Жыл бұрын

Chris I loved our play at the retreat! So fun!!

@DieJG Жыл бұрын

“The year is 50 B.C. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well not entirely! One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium…” Say whatever you want, but having the face of Caesar on the boardgame made my day. I love Asterix and Obelix and i hope to see and play this game someday.

@toddcarlson5324 Жыл бұрын

Looks like an interesting game and really like the board artwork with Caesar's shadow on the board and all the items placed around the map. Interested in trying it out now. Thanks for the review.

@npckse8508 Жыл бұрын

I played this at the Retreat and it was fun. I would say keep it to 4 players as 3 can get wonky. Sort of a different version of Ticket to Ride.

@ronrideout3969 Жыл бұрын

When they were showing the "how to play" part of the review, I thought "this looks very similar to Ticket to Ride".

@Lenkic13 Жыл бұрын

God bless you, Chris Yi. 😁

@ko9 Жыл бұрын

After the vibe in the game overview I was sure everyone HATED this game, boy was I wrong!

@NickDavies75 Жыл бұрын

Looks fun - like a more streamlined Ride the Rails (in terms of scoring at least), and a lot more accessible. Shame it's quite expensive (relatively), which makes it harder for me to go out and buy (will be on my Christmas list though!)

@bernadmanny Жыл бұрын

I took a look at the small image of Caesar and thought that looks kinda like the one from Asterix; Tom: The Caesar from the Asterix and Obelix comics

@JorWat25 Жыл бұрын

With a 10 rating from Chris, I feel I have to check this out. Shame the RRP is £55! Seems way too high for what you get.

@sebastianyanez2039 Жыл бұрын

its a very fun game

@Moviefan-s8f Жыл бұрын

you go Chris!!! 10 all the way!!

@Ipazc Жыл бұрын

After the 10 of Chris, Tom Vasel pick the box and removed his "8" XD!

@erik2643 Жыл бұрын

i havent played the game but the feeling is like a ticket to ride game. so about the replay ability uts almost the same. still to much different to play it more. Great for both casual gamers and advanve players to still enjoy.

@2532robh1 Жыл бұрын

So glad there was some positive about this. I bought it without knowing anything about it. Thanks!!

@fishfleas Жыл бұрын

Seems like this needs a rename to “Roads to Rome”

@2Playornot2PlayGameReviews Жыл бұрын

Guys, I feel if you like this 'super filler' you'll love The new Kramer and Kiesling game The Wandering Towers (Die Wanderlnden Turme) its got the same fun/easy gameplay and is done in 40 mins tops even with 6 players... Scales from 2-6 perfectly. Deffo check it out. There's a review on our channel if you wanna see it... Worth hunting down - Especially as Chris have this a 10!!

@Bada4ever Жыл бұрын

When you have a game where you only score the highest of a certain group, you could just let people exchange the lower thing for the higher thing. Easily fixed.

@budsticky Жыл бұрын

This looks really cool, but I wish one of the gang would have played it 2p and commented on it as that's my main player count.

@AdaminWales Жыл бұрын

I have played the game at 2 players, and it’s GREAT. A really nice back and forth. Everything you do benefits your opponent, so you have to just squeeze out a little bit more of a benefit for yourself. It’s really tight and balanced. I highly recommend it for two.

@ClasmanFilms Жыл бұрын

Wendy, I’m with you. I don’t understand the appeal for the game. So far everyone I play this with feels the same way. It’s currently on my possibly sell shelf.

@primusinterpares5767 Жыл бұрын

Feels like blue lagoon. Will totally get this

@DTChrisYi Жыл бұрын

I like that, that's not a bad comparison on complexity vs strategy. But some turns in Blue Lagoon are just positioning moves. Every turn in Caesar's Empire gets a city, goods tile, and points! Very exciting stuff.

@XCM666 Жыл бұрын

Have your played Blue Lagoon, Chris? The way you described Caesar's Empire is pretty much how I feel about Blue Lagoon. I need to check this game out, looks like it is full of quick but meaningful decisions.

@DTChrisYi Жыл бұрын

I like this comparison, Blue Lagoon is good and simple yet deep, but I think every turn in Caesar's Empire is more exciting. There's never just a turn where you're positioning yourself for a future turn, you're always grabbing a city tile, goods tile, and scoring roads. Each turn is quite exciting!

@nshaw1299 Жыл бұрын

not to mention there's a difference in elegance of scalability. In Blue Lagoon all the chains fill up the board, but here, it's so nice that the board 'fills up the same amount' regardless of player count (yes, I know there's a different board for 2-3 players, but what I said still highlights why this game scales so nicely, I think)

@antgerfitz Жыл бұрын

@@DTChrisYi Hi Chris, I bought it to find out for myself why you gave it a 10. I'm trying it tonight for the first time, a 3 player game. When you play with 2 or 3 players do you use the 2 variants on page 4 of the rulebook? 1: Uneven Treasures setup - Use all treasures, remove leftovers at setup. 2) If you get all cities of a color score the sum of all those tiles at the end of the game.

@notsaved Жыл бұрын

this feels like an extremely streamlined Free Ride?

@_Cervantez Жыл бұрын

well that was unexpected

@Luchiop Жыл бұрын

The caesar in the box looks like the one in the animated asterix movie.

@sorrowsong08 Жыл бұрын

Tom mentioned that it is exactly what happened at the beginning of the video.

@christianbank393 Жыл бұрын

I wasn't interested at all by the box, but the gameplay actually looks fun. Reminds me of a light cube rails game kind of like North Pacific.

@RandomPerson-nd2ey Жыл бұрын

Wait... Is this a lightweight Concordia? Edit: it seems like someone designed it while amusing their kid while playing with their Concordia game. Edit: 3:30 okay, now I'm convinced that's exactly what happened! It even has the same type of two sided board with the same player counts and everything!

@revimfadli4666 Жыл бұрын

My Little Concordia ftw

@DeltaDemon1 Жыл бұрын

Zombicide is definitely overproduced. When those dam zombie figs can't all fit in a square, it's annoying. They should be counter that you can stack.

@stevegunasingh9333 Жыл бұрын

The game is good if you are a PVP player

@huuuze Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure Tom's scoring for Gold is incorrect. You also get points for being the person with the most unused “links” at the end of the game.

@thedicetower Жыл бұрын

Yes, I didn't mention that, Bryan, but I played that way.

@jasonc2784 Жыл бұрын

10! Perfect! Publisher has already begun ramping up the alternative themes. Undead map, space, alternative physics universe where the map is 3d and the trains dance on strings.

@TheBrokenMeeple Жыл бұрын

This is why I don't watch reviews that speed through in 1 minute, 3 minutes etc. I need these detailed discussions and information. I would have likely have skipped this with that IP and cartoony art but now I'm intrigued. Also doesn't Wendy play and love a ton of "abstract" Euro games?

@Chereebers Жыл бұрын

I’m guessing here, but I think it’s the spatial puzzle part that makes her reference abstract games. A lot of games Wendy likes are economy of action/efficiency puzzles not spatial puzzles.

@flawed1 Жыл бұрын

Oh thank goodness! I thought the “super filler” part was actually part of the title of the game. That would’ve been a little bit meta me, 🤣

@jessicaw2137 Жыл бұрын

We played this 3 years ago at Essen and everyone at the table was bored

@darinherrick9224 27 күн бұрын

I hate, hate, HATE the term "filler". Hate it, hate it, HATE it!!!!!

@worldofbachman Жыл бұрын

Looks like a fun game... but an insane waste of a no-doubt expensive Asterix licence.

@claytrongo Жыл бұрын

Agree! Hopefully they'll do more. I'm surprised at how much latent affection I have for Asterix, so much so that there's a minor hesitation on playing this game because I don't want to help the Romans!

@waardlafrance110 Жыл бұрын

In the US this licence has never been popular, it is often considered racist, the difficulty of translating from French to American English, plus the difficulty of Americans to understand the antiquity and references of the jokes does not help. I doubt the licence is expensive for this area.

@worldofbachman Жыл бұрын

@@waardlafrance110 Well it looks like the game was first released in Europe where Asterix (though problematic certainly) is viewed with a lot of affection, so it’s possible it might well have been more expensive to get rights there. But really my point is why use the IP at all? Because this basically abstract game has literally no connection to the source material apart from the style of the artwork and the Asterix logo on the front. I’d love to see a game based on Asterix, but this really isn’t one.

@greginfla7211 Жыл бұрын

$45 dollars …..

@saveversus Жыл бұрын

This looks like a stripped down version of that MtG boardgame, Heroes of Dominaria (?), and THAT game wasn't very deep. You can build "roads" (mana), but there's more to do.

@MrDaveydtd Жыл бұрын

oh yeah? well I'm giving this game a 10.5 Seal of Totally Excellent. Nah, I never played this game before, looks fun tho

@nathanprice100 Жыл бұрын

Didn't realize your ratings are just based off of who gave it the highest score, I think that's a poor choice. I think labeling it a 7.5 (the average of the 4 of you) would be more useful to viewers.

@DTChrisYi Жыл бұрын

But you got to see all four scores and the explanations as to why we rated them that way. We could do single person reviews instead and you would only see the highest score. But that would actually be less informational.

@fabianohernandesramos3561 7 ай бұрын

The thing that I most loke in this type of reviews is to know the game grade based on each specifical taste...