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This is a fascinating and delightful rundown! I have just unboxed the Norwegians with my kids this evening, and I'm getting ready to set up my first solo with it, but I wanted to get some clarity on the main differences, and boy you have really clarified those. Thank you! I've soloed AFFO 3 times and played only a single 2-player game with another homeschooling mom, who has played a ton of Uwe games herself and beat me soundly :). Having read and watched enough pro-Norwegian players discuss their thoughts, I knew I had to check this "fix"/expansion out, but I had missed yours in my research phase. I'm pretty new to the hobby; I began with Wingspan in October of 2020, and I've somehow made it to Odin in a few short and very exciting months. As such, I'm totally fascinated by your pro-short game enthusiasm, because part of the beauty for me as a newbie is not feeling so much pressure to not starve my Vikings, and I absolutely love the Round 7 abundance that makes the homeboard fill up like my Vikings have made it to an estate sale at the last hour and are glorying in the largesse of good timing. I absolutely adore that exponential gain, and the way they eat negative points. That said, I think I have to try the short game at least once to try to understand your enthusiasm. You've been one of the fun and helpful people who have made being a new participant in board gaming a real delight, even in the midst of a pandemic.
Yet another superb review / tutorial, many thanks for your time. Having just acquired the Norwegians we are very keen to play, your run though is a massive help in getting familiar with the expansion of a truly great game. Many thanks.
Just waiting for it to come back into Print; hopefully not too much longer now! Thanks for the video Richard...gonna make a nice cup of tea and get settled in to watch it. Lovely.
I think those “U”-shaped tiles make the bonuses too easy to get, in the base game you usually have to use up 3 or 4 tiles to get a single bonus, but now you only need 2.
Sorry I like the long game all game long. And hoping that it's true that another expansion will have 8! Wow! Love your channel though and awesome review! Thanks
Ah! I was wondering/hoping you would look at this expansion, since it seemed like it would address a fair number of your complaints about the base game.
Gernot actually never said that he didn't care about the 6-round version. He actually mentioned here, boardgamegeek.com/thread/2069151/second-expansion-danes/page/3, that he's currently working on additions that will make the 6-round version more interesting and more enticing to players who would otherwise play the 7-round version. That to me, sounds like he *does* care about the short game, and that he wants to functionally expand it so more people would play it. In fact, in his post, he gives more arguments as to WHY people would want to play the short version. Otherwise, I agree with everything else that you said - this expansion really elevated the game for me, and is also a must-have for me. I can't imagine ever playing the base game board ever again.
here's the post of his I was thinking of: www.boardgamegeek.com/article/30811731#30811731 so he said he prefers the long game, and the same is true for most of the testers. and the thing that really got to me in that post was that he added most of the testers wouldn't play the short game, hence my concern. He says specifically "In the expansion The Norwegians _all development_ was focused on the long version, even it still works short. " IMO that doesn't inspire confidence that the short game (which i prefer) got as much love and attention as the long game! :) i am really glad to hear about danes though!
I’m surprised the long game takes you 3 hours. At two players we usually get it done in about 80 minutes. Maybe closer to 100 minutes if you count set up and break down.
Just checked our statistics. I play this with the wife and our average are 1h30m and we only play the long game. You guys must have more AP than we do... We tried the shortgame once, not for us. But we are all different that way. Need to get this expansion as soon as it is available to bye here in Denmark/EU
yup, you just need something to represent the coins. you can read the rules here: images.zmangames.com/filer_public/b4/26/b4269cc5-1d85-4dc7-8a87-eca0a29029f5/zm7692_rulebook.pdf which i think will say how many coins there are (and specifics about how to use them) :)
hmm, my old top10 uwe list is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Le0UY4QleVY.html with norwegians, i'd probably put odin at #4 or 5 or 6 (tough choice)
