Phenomenal game , different ways to approach victory ...you need to play to win based on the different circumstances presented when the game starts While I 100% respect Tom I feel sometimes he takes a game for a quick spin and isn't able to really focus energy on the big and long-term picture

I saw this play through on Ant Lab Games channel and it looks good. Gonna pick this up when I can as the wife loves this theme. This is the game I wanted out of Marrying Mr. Darcy which fell flat for me.

I wouldn't recommend ignoring courtship. In addition to having one of the very good Fairchild cards to play each new season, you also get to Take a VP card for winning each one and get 8VP for winning final courtship (which is a sum of all previous courtships combined). Many points here, and points that if you win them others don't. Many of the other ways to score points are areas in which you're opponents will also score in without you being able to do much to prevent it. Not so with courtship.

2nd edition fix a lot of the problem you had, especially extensions

I am OK with the theme, still a big question whether I would buy it or not, nice review Tom, thank you!

I played my first game and I agree that the end game scoring cards seem a little imbalanced at first glance. I had the one that gives 17p for three specific building tiles and it was stolen right in front of me. But one can mitigate the randomness somewhat by using reputation to clear the market, which I discovered way too late in the game. Overall, I think there are ways to counter the randomness somewhat. Also, I was not a fan of the ability to steal workers from each other, especially since there was no way to block it (to my knowledge). However, I found that there was always an alternative path one could take, although suboptimal, and I never felt stuck only because someone stole a servant from me. All in all definitely want to give this a few more tries.

Bowling Green in a board game so soon after the tragedy? Outrageous!

I have been meaning to ask is that ending music the same that SU&SD uses sometimes but at a faster pace?

Obsession is not a new perfume :)

Am I the only one that hates it when they print the game's logo on the board? It looks so tacky I think.

idk Tom. You are not really selling this

If you play Solo and win, Keira knightley comes round to your house and bangs you. Fact.

Ssssssymbolism

2018 game shouldn't look visually this bad. A tiny company back in the day - Portal Games - released a game called Legacy which is both more fun in gameplay and more thematic regarding themes like this.

I fell asleep

Visual design looks really bad....maybe 5 years ago great gameplay could make up for that but not anymore I think.

Tom is so boring and can’t put his bias aside when reviewing games.

this game would be great if I was British… and was born in about 1865,,, sorry, not my “cup of tea”

God this game looks horrible! I can’t see how anyone would like such an abhorrent theme. The aesthetics are bad and the components mediocre. This game reminds me of the hype around Food Chain Magnate. Another horrible game!