Watch “Is Black Forest what we hoped for? - Board Game Review,” a board game review for Black Forest from Board Gaming Ramblings on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Board Gaming Ramblings on YouTube:
Hello everyone!
It's time for another week, and time for another video.
Today we are taking a look at Black Forest, the new design from Tido Lorenz & Uwe Rosenberg.
Did we need a revisit to Glass Road? Is this one better? We share what we think in this short review.
Let us know what you think of the two games.
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Timestamps:
Intro: 00:00
Overview: 00:27
Card play vs Board movement: 01:50
The resource wheel is the best thing: 04:53
Buildings are not very interesting: 06:30
The game is fun, but is it good?: 08:13
A randomly random element: 09:07
Who is it for?: 10:32
Final thoughts & Keep or Cull: 11:42
Mostly reviews and playthroughs. Black Forest is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 27 reviews, 13 how-to-play guides, 17 recorded sessions, 5 unboxings, and 3 other videos.
1 - 4 players
60 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
About Black Forest, from BoardGameGeek:
In Black Forest, you start out with a small domain in need of new buildings and livestock. You'll travel from village to village, to enlist the aid of the best specialists. Exploiting the abilities of these specialists lets you collect resources, lay out new landscape tiles (e.g. ponds and fields), and build a variety of buildings, which come in four types. Choose the right buildings, place landscapes, fire up your glass production, and expand your domain.
Uwe Rosenberg's resource wheels, made famous in Glass Road (2013), return in Black Forest. Two resource wheels on your tableau help you keep track of your resources and production. Black Forest continues the story - as the name suggests - in the Black Forest. Among others, the main difference between the two games is the use of worker placement in Black Forest instead of simultaneous action selection.
A wide selection of buildings and their different effects offer many different paths to victory.
-description from the publisher