Review We Played Sweet Lands

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Want the most information about this new Kickstarter from the same designer and publisher of Ostia? Look no further! Well, maybe this isn't the most information, but it's a lot of information from Brad and Toph! Uchibacoya was kind enough to send us a protype to review and we had a lot of thoughts to share. Sweet Lands is the 2025 game by Totsuca Chuo and published by Uchibacoya. It's dropping on Kickstarter on Wednesday, November 27, 2024. Sweet Lands is a heavyweight, Euro-style strategy game meshing many of our beloved game mechanics in a way that just makes you grow to love the game the more you play. It's a big box with a lot of beautiful components. But is that all that this game has going for it? Brad and Toph say no. What are our thoughts? What did we like? What did we feel was a miss? Watch and find out--then, let us know your thoughts! Will you back it? We'd love to know! Thank you to Uchibacoya for sending us the review copy and allowing us to share our honest thoughts with you all! contact us at badatboardgames.contact@gmail.com 00:00 - Start 00:25 - What are we talking about 00:47 - Why Back? Watch? 01:03 - Publisher / Designer 01:32 - Prototype Review 02:21 - Theme 03:25 - Mechanics 07:01 - Player Count / Solo 08:30 - Time to Play 10:02 - Turn Overview 16:39 - Work Placement Spots 17:18 - Some of the Actions 19:15 - Marker 12 20:34 - Toph Pro 21:53 - Player Boards 23:09 - Toph Pro 24:36 - Brad Pro 27:57 - Toph Pro 28:45 - Brad Pro 31:58 - Looing at Tableau 34:10 - Tableau City 34:41 - Cons 36:39 - Toph saw the Change 37:30 - Playing Tip! 38:10 - Tip #2 38:36 - Toph Con 41:39 - Brad Con 42:08 - Nit Picks 44:08 - Brad Disagrees 45:14 - Set-Up Time 46:02 - Weight Rating 48:47 - Value Rating 51:45 - Brad BGG Rating 52:47 - Toph BGG Rating 56:01 - Who is this for / not for? 57:12 - What do you think?