Naveen, you really know how to make me smile in this videos! 😆 Those faces you make when realizing you just gave the game to Monique. It’s just so funny 🤩👏👏🫶 Love your videos guys! Keep it up with the Uwe Rosenberg series, please!! It’s great!
Thanks for the fun playthrough; I've been waiting for this one because I also recently acquired this game and am going to be playing it soon. I'm kind of a sucker for, "small versions," of big games because frankly I am lazy, setting up Agricola/Caverna is daunting, and (since I have the attention span of a goldfish) I tend to get antsy with 2 hour games. The Inland Port is strange: I didn't care for it at first, but we hauled it out a few weeks ago, gave it a couple of tries, and it is much better than I remember. The resource management is truly unique, and it can also been super tense if you gun after someone's building they've been quietly cultivating. Maybe after the series is done, you can give it a try so we can all see the different 2 player Uwe games. Thanks!
Totally know what you mean about pulling out the big versions lol. It's nice to just open the box, shuffle, and play. We will definitely try and see if we can find The Inland Port, Naveen now wants to try it after playing the Agricola and Caverna small boxes.
Rewatching this after watching your Oranienburger Kanal playthrough made me realize Uwe was probably using this game as inspiration for the core mechanics of OKanal.
Love this series! I’ve recently purchased Hallertau, Nusfjord, and Fields of Arle in large part because of watching y’all play them and have really enjoyed all three :). I was considering selling Cave vs. Cave because, as you mentioned, I didn’t really like it the first time I played it a while back. Just thought it was okay and this was the most disappointed I’d been of the 10-11 or so Uwe games I’ve played this far, and especially given how much I love both Caverna and Agricola: ACB&S. But your playthrough convinced me I should give it another go and then reevaluate whether I still want to sell it.
Yeah having more familiarity with the room tiles and the possible actions really helped appreciate the gameplay. The first time we played, we just decided to shuffle up and play without taking note of the way resources can feed into your unique machine. Hopefully you can play it again soon and make the decision. (I'm pretty sure after 2 plays you'll know if it's a keeper or not)
We’ve enjoyed this when we travel. I have enough heavier games I chose to not buy the original Caverna. I did, however buy this as the big box version with both eras. Was relatively cheap…. Thanks for the nice playthrough and review!
This one seems more appealing than the full Caverna or Agricola, tbh. They're so long and have sooo many moving parts, I just feel like there are more engaging 2hr long games.
Thanks for the playthrough. Would it have been tied if Naveen didn't point out the random choice chance? Because after the random choice, Monique said she gotten 1 extra point.
@Naveen, Era 2 extends the game, it adds 4 more rounds (for 12 total), and adds a new section to the cave. New abilities and rooms only become available after Era 1, which is rounds 1 - 8 that you two played. So basically it doesnt add anything to what you played, which is a bit unfortunate, but perhaps because the game is already well balanced they didnt want to add anything else. I just wish they added a few tiles to Era 1 so that every game a few tiles stayed out, for that extra bit of unpredictability. Oh yeah, it is an expansion and requires base Cave vs Cave.,
@@BeforeYouPlay you bet, if you have trouble finding it, both base and expansion are part of the Big Box release last year ($35 or so). And as far as other expansions, I’m not sure if it’s official or not but I’ve heard that the standard caverna is era 3. (Which adds farming and all that). That is to say, no more expansions.
Look like he activated the "Cave Entrance" in order to get the wood he needed for his next/last room he built. Was there something else that we missed, we couldn't tell from that timestamp?
It's the same collection of rooms in each game, but they show up in a randomized order due to how they get placed during setup and how/when/if they are excavated.
