Scholars of the South Tigris | The Third Trilogy Just Keeps Getting Better | Board Game Review

Description provided by kovray on YouTube:

Scholars of the South Tigris is the second installment of the South Tigris trilogy. What are your first impressions of the game? Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shem/scholars-of-the-south-tigris Question of the Day: What is your favorite Garphill Games board game? Scholars of the South Tigris is designed by Shem Phillips and S J Macdonald, illustrated by Mihajlo Dimitrievski and published by Garphill Games. It is the second of the south trilogy, a trilogy focused on the utilization of dice. In Scholars of the South Tigris, you'll work as a scholar to increase your influence in the House of Wisdom, hire skilled linguists to translate scrolls to Arabic, and research diligently in order to acquire the most knowledge. Each turn you'll play a card along with dice and sometimes workers to complete a specific action on the board. Your dice value and colour can be manipulated and matters in variety of ways in various sections, will you be the most clever scholar and score the most points? Just a reminder that what you see here today is a prototype, and although it's pretty near finalized, the final product may look slightly different! We are Ilya and Tylor, A.K.A Kovray, an LGBTQ+ couple with a passion for creating content that helps build community, and promote inclusion and diversity in this wonderful space. Our goal is to inspire the world to play board games through vibrant photography, engaging videos, and genuine enthusiasm for the board game industry. Want to support our work? Check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kovray Looking for a community space? Check out our Discord: https://discord.gg/mqwR9PPpdr Follow along our social media to join in on our adventures! Facebook - @Kovray https://www.facebook.com/kovray Instagram - @kovraystudios https://www.instagram.com/kovraystudios Twitter - @kovraystudios https://twitter.com/kovraystudios​​​​ Tiktok - @kovraystudios 0:00​​ Pure Excitement 0:15 Expectations and Hype! 0:57 Scholars of the South Tigris 1:35 Overview of the Game 1:57 Turn Overview 2:26 Dice Value and Colour 3:26 Actions You Can Take 3:41 Recruit Action 4:37 Travel Action 5:38 Research Action 6:29 Translate Action 7:50 Rest Action 8:43 Caliph Cards 9:22 End Game 9:39 Scoring Victory Points 10:31 Will You Be Knowledgeable? 10:51 Tight Resource Management 11:57 Unique Mechanism of Dice Colour & Value 13:55 Translation Mechanic 15:28 Thematic Integration 17:11 Is There Too Many Mechanics? 19:43 Flow of the Game? 22:59 What is the Complexity? 24:59 How Does It Compare to Wayfarers? 27:50 Wayfarers or Scholars? 31:30 Last Thoughts 32:17 Question of the Day 32:33 Any Questions? 32:54 Thank you! Learn more: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367041/scholars-south-tigris Music from Purple Planet Music #scholars #scholarsofthesouthtigris #boardgames