So adjusting for the disappointgly expensive rule it sounds like electricity is the best box?

This is a vital issue that MUST be addressed!

Time to play another...*tap tap tap*...378 games of Railroad Ink!

YEs

That is such an Elaine joke.

Picking 2 out of 28 expansions leads to 378 possible combinations. I'm seeing a fun crossover event where both channels do like 20 a video, once a week, for 2-3 months!

I’m sincerely envious of Tom…. 😹

It does not get less chaotic.

Tom is thoroughly steeped in the rich tradition of British absurdist comedy, and it shows.

@@murrayjeffree8245 As well as the tradition of non-standard modernist reference pears.

Right? It was such an amazing fit with the show. It's his own style, without taking away from the show

Cue Emperor Palpatine voice

I love how when Tom makes a video, the top comments are almost always just people saying nice things about him. It's so nice :)

Yes, he is.

Designer: Soooo... tantacles?

If you know...you know lolololol. One of my favorite TikToks lolol

Game designer: “I made the new expansion as you asked, a forest!” Tom: “I said ‘for rest’. You know, because of the covid that I have.” Game designer: “Forest” Tom: “You know what actually this is great, thanks.”

The meatier one should have lots of passengers. Hmm... Add the number of passengers rolled to a square with a station. Score equal to the number of total passengers, divided by the number of distinct networks on your board, rounded up.

Pandémie! * pleurant * Pain de mie

Sure you do 👍🏼

I'm happy to see expansions for great games, but at some point it just gets ridiculous!

There are 4 base sets, each comes with 2 expansions in the box, so the other 20 expansions are only 5 sets of 4 dice you can buy, each dice being counted as an expansion. Still ridiculous, but more affordable than buying 28 things would be.

@@isaacstevens5415 Close. The 20 added expansions are 28 dice in total in 7 boxes of 4 dice each - Underground where all 4 dice are a single expansion; Sky and Electricity with 2 pairs of dice in each; Futuristic with a pair and two singletons (8 expansions so far); and Arcade, Eldritch and Engineer, each containing 4 single-die expansions and accounting for the remaining 12. So, depending on which small box you obtain, you could get 1, 2, 3 or 4 expansions in that box. Although if you want to quibble, the Underground expansion comes with an alternate variant where you just don't use the white dice at all and only play on the one board. And then there's the various ways of combining pairs of expansions - there's a large document available online that details the interactions of all 406 possible pairs, many of which have no additional special rules, but many do introduce additional interactions (and, as I recall, a few are incompatible)

The extreme expansionitis Railroad Ink developed during the Kickstarter for the challenge edition actually had me switch from the "get everything" tier to the "get the base version" and adding a few addons separately.

@@giantnanomachine oof! I wasn’t part of that one, but definitely have had a game recently where the campaign made me go “I can see where this is going and I don’t like it”, dropping an everything pledge to a pledge manager token.

You'll kill him!

@@vanhellsing112 Or Catan, Or Pandemic Or Ticket to Ride. The Holy Four!

Good idea

@@crusador84 But Catan has "only" 3 or 4 expansion to the main game hasnt it?

@@kapitanbeuteltier5889 At least 1 of them is a collection of smaller modules.

Beat me to it!

Isn't that what all of us really want in the end?

Yes.

....now that you point this out, I can't help but view this review as satire.

@@kevinschultz6091 I think that the game itself wandered into self-parody with the more bubblegum coloured expansions, and it is by far the biggest “small” game I can think of. Much like the late night TV shows that make the only sense that can be made of the US politics of recent years, I wonder whether satire isn't the only honest way of approaching this box! Not that other games haven't survived the acquisition of weird expansions over the years-Snowdonia leaps to mind. Wait-that's also trains. Hm.

I agree. Too much is too much...

The deluxe edition is like heaven for guys like me that are into solo gaming. There's so many expansions and stuff in the box that you'll never get board of it.