Hallertau | Rahdo's Final Thoughts 

Love the runthrough and the shirt. Being indigenous myself it makes me happy that you are bringing awareness to this issue.

I love your "Rosenberg Shackles". If boardgames eventually arise to a school of academic writing, this phrase will be a part of the discourse.

Great playthrough, I love that you can tell immediately how much you enjoy it. I've always kinda been intimidated by his giant games like Caverna and Feast For Odin but this seems really easy to get a handle on, I definitely am gonna give it a shot. Also just wanted to say thanks for all the great content you put out last year. Awesome stuff as usual but I really enjoyed the videos from Shea and Ryan as well, and all the guest spots were so good! Hope to see plenty more of both in 2021. 2020 was really tough for me but your videos really helped distract from a lot of that. Thanks so much! (also really appreciate your choice in shirts)

congrats 100k!

After planning this my thought was Rahdo and Jen would love this, glad you are enjoying it.

Really hoping to pick this up in April. Even more excited for it now I've watched your vids on it. "Best since Agricola!" High praise indeed! I am a huge Uwe fan, but was a bit lukewarm to this one initially. That turned around and now its seeming that this might just be a special one after all. Can't wait to play it! Also, my family played 'gric for over two years every weekend (and sometimes in between) it was a revelation for me! Rosenberg is still the king of designers in this house.

99.9k! Almost there!

I know i am late to the game but this game is what i need and want for sure, gates of Loyang is the first Uwe farming game i had and fell in love with it and still play it and im just discovering the games i missed and want so badly, started just months ago with this hobby :) even though im late to this video i wanted to thank you for the rundown/play-through and this video, your excitement made me excited too. I do have more Uwe games but those are light and easy to play and do in about half an hour like patchwork, spring meadow, my kids love them so much but i am just so hungry for amazing solo games that scale well. (did watch your top list solo games too)

I agree this game is amazing from Uwe! Love to play it solo and with the market variant of bgg, to enjoy and build the cool combos :)

Loved the visual of "drowning in milk" at 9:10. :)

Congrats on 100k !!

Of the "Essen" Euros I have Red Cathedral, Arnak and pre-orders for Hallertau and Pragna. Looking forward to seeing how they will rank and compare.

Before that one person posts...yes, he liked it. And that is okay! 😁 Thanks for the great work as always, Richard!

Really hope this goes down in price! Looks so cool, gameply wise, but so expensive (especially with the production not seemingly above and beyond). I like the resource tracking mechanism for instance, but that should help drive cost down! I get why you don't include value in reviews. For instance, I had thought you could weight your rating by price (eg $100 ÷ 8.741). That would rocket games like Tiny Towns waaaay ahead in 'value.' However, even if prices stayed static (as I say, hope this one doesn't), individuals may find deals, used games etc, but more importantly, it would be trying to make a subjective opinion objective. I suppose if someone said 'wow, my tastes are EXACTLY the same as Rahdo's,' they could always apply a 'value' weighting factor themselves... Anyway, another great video, thank you!

I think the moving boulder mechanism is weird, where rocks keep themselves socially distanced (two spaces apart)

Excellent shirt

This looks like the best Uwe Rosenberg game since A Feast for Odin.

Hi Richard another great video :) where would this rank on your all time list of Uwe's games?

I keep sitting on the fence about this game [have yet to have a chance to play it]. I'm a big fan of agricola and glassroads. I prefer tight games, and ones where you always wish you had one more turn! I didn't feel as enamoured by caverna or feast for odin, for example. I'm guessing fields of arle is also not right for me. This one though seems to be middling - so will I like it? Is there enough channeling direction in the game in your opinion? very tempted to buy this but maybe the rosenberg ones I already have are enough for that uwe itch...?

Was interested to hear you suggest that getting to 10/11 workers may be sufficient in this game...just had a quick look through our scored games and the least either my wife or I have got from the community centre so far has been 46 points...with overall scores being in the 90 to 120 range. That would be a hell of a lot of points to make up with just the cards and scoring the "threes" for a few craft building moves??

Some reviews of Hallertau have mentioned that the cards, especially the endgame bonus cards, add a huge factor of luck to this game. I recall this being a huge negative for you in Nusfjord. I am curious how the endgame luck in Hallertau will compare to Nusfjord for you after the opportunity for more plays, or if you already have thoughts on that comparison?

This was my #1 of 2020. As for favourite Uwe games, I probably prefer A Feast for Odin and Fields of Arle, but this is not far behind.

Great review, thanks. Do you think it's better than Agricola? I prefer this game's art so much more than Uglycola's and if I was to buy either or, which one would should I choose? Thanks :)

As someone getting into solo board gaming (with occasional 2-4 player games) and wants to play a farm game, would this be a good place to start?

what's that game on the shelf next to It's A Wonderful World????

My favourite game of 2020 and my third favourite Rosenberg game after A Feast for Odin and Fields of Arle. Such amazing combo building. When people say it is bad that you have to focus on upgrading the building it feels to me as if people would say it is bad that in Terraforming Mars you need to focus on terraforming.

yay 100k!!

Agricola was...."I could do all this awesome stuff...but I need to get 2 food instead. Ok i finally have an engine and I can...what? Game over?!"

And again Uwe coudn't made Automa AI to beat in Solo game. Just "good points", "extraordinary points", but no clear win/loss condition. That's sad, I like "get high score" solo, but I think, ideally there should be also variant with AI opponent to beat also. Of course, with adjustable difficulty modes.

where would you rank this in your top 10 uwe rosenberg's games?

Do you like this better than feast of Odin or Agricola or caverna?

Will getting weaker cards at the beginning put you at a disadvantage?

Wait, there isn’t a puzzle built into the game somewhere? 😂

How does this rate vs Agricola?

Better than Feast??

looks good but not sure its worth 70€

Your audio track is ever so slightly off which unfortunately makes it hard to follow. Maybe you want to fix this and reupload?

Release date?

Looks absolutely brutal. Function over form not great for selling the game even if it's great. An epic disappointment for us 4 at the station at KiS 102.4. And grats on the 100k subs... you rock!