Watch “Whistle Mountain with Kevin & Melissa from Tantrum House,” a board game review for Whistle Mountain on BoardGameVideo.
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Kevin & Melissa Delp from Tantrum House stopped by Gumbo Live! to chat with BJ about a spicy hot game from Bezier Games, Whistle Mountain. Designed by Scott Caputo and Luke Laurie with art from Taylor Bogle, players control airships and use worker placement strategies in this next step up from Whistle Stop. With a beautiful production and intriguing gameplay, BJ gets excited about their description!
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Mainly reviews. Whistle Mountain is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 35 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 8 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 4 other videos.
2 - 4 players
60 - 90 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
About Whistle Mountain, from BoardGameGeek:
Whistle Stop designer Scott Caputo has teamed up with Luke Laurie (Manhattan Project: Energy Empire) to create a new worker-placement strategy title. Whistle Mountain gives a nod to Whistle Stop, but in this standalone game, you leave the train tracks behind and head to the sky with blimps, dreadnoughts, and hot air balloons!
In Whistle Mountain, take your company's massive profits from all of that railroading and invest them in new technologies, deep in the Rocky Mountains where there is an abundance of resources. Your workers build crazy arrays of scaffolds and machines, upgrading your abilities and collecting resources. As you build with the help of your airship fleet, the mountain's melting snow causes the water below to rise higher and higher, putting workers in danger and increasing the tension on the dynamically-changing board.
Because the resources you gather are determined by what players build, each game evolves differently, resulting in endless replayability. You have to choose between acquiring new abilities and enhancements for your airships and workers or building all sorts of contraptions as quickly as possible in order to achieve victory on Whistle Mountain.
-description from the publisher