I love these Yi-views! Y’all should do more of them

Ok “Hear Yi Hear Yi” got an out loud chuckle. Nice job.

Hear Yi! Hear Yi! Hah! That's great! Good little overview, Sir. Iberian guage was my into into not only the iron rail series but in cube rail games altogether. I enjoyed the 4 player game quite a bit, and ended up buying a copy(of course.) It remains 1 of my favorites of the cube rail genre.

The biggest key to winning in this game has to be strategic leasing of track. Expand routes of a company you have a stake in by leasing track from a company you have a stake in. That just moves money around among both companies you are invested in.

As a fan of Ticket to Ride and looking to branch out into other train games, how did I miss this franchise of Iron Rails games? Looks very interesting, and I can see playing this particular with a specific group of people. I might be better to try the Irish Gauge first so that it gets to the table more often. I addition to TTR, I recently purchased On the Undeground New York and Paris maps. So far, really liking it although I’ve only played it a few times. Just wish it had train cars instead of sticks as the component to represent trains. I also got Free Ride but haven’t unboxed it yet.

"They run out of money, that's something I had to wrap my head around" sounded oddly funny.

For the money, I suspect the best physical solution would be full-sized chips (like Iron Clays). However, I can see how a game like this would be even better in a digital implementation that does the calculations for you.

For some that balancing act is what some people like because it's what happens in real life. But it isn't also for me but because that specific part because the rest I like a lot.

Maybe Dice Tower should have a reviewer who actually like (very) mean games?

Chris and Wendy, I would love to see a review from you on the game Bear Raid!

Money could be tracked by King of Tokyo style counters, but with three digit wheels. This might be more efficient.

This is my favourite out of the iron rail games. The other two I was pretty meh about, this one turned it around for me. I never played any 18XX games but I love how you pay money to the company and then you build out of the company's treasury (not your own) and the fact that earlier ownership gets to build first. I hope there can be better crunchier Euro that uses these tried and true mechanisms but not in an 18XX game - I don't like the aesthetics of 18XX.

Seems like they could have made the "constant change making" problem less, by having things be done increments of five, rather than four. Maybe?

Once you have invested in a company, can you subsequently divest out of that company, recover your cube, recieve a payout for your share and then reinvest into another company?

Using removable marker to use the treasury ->>> ?

Peper monery vs. card monery?

I love how an equal amount of share ownership in a train company produces a mutually beneficial partnership among those players, but as soon as one of those players buys one more share then it immediately becomes an adversarial relationship. You just can't let the majority share holder benefit more than you, so you have to try to tank the company cuz it hurts them more than you. My, how fast a business relationship can flip!

Yi-haw! Keep it up the couple reviews

Train games are all about temporary partnerships. You need to know when to jump into a company. You need partners, but also need to know when it's time to tank a company.

Nice review. More Hollandspiele, please.

Hear Yi! Hear Yi! I love it...

Yeah. The making change issue drove me and my friends nuts. That cast such an annoying shadow on what seemed like a cool game otherwise.

Nice review! Do you know how this game differs from Ride the Rails or Irish Gauge?

i'm confused why and who gets upset with someone using the word bucks for money?

Who is Tom Russel then???

There is a major disconnect in how many times I heard the word "interesting" and my actual "interest" in ever playing it. Oof.

High interactive games are not very apreciated by the dice tower. Train games fall into that category. A shame that the dice tower don't have a real train gamer among the reviewers so these games can get the attention they deserve. 😢