Hi - As part of this series of Old Gems that you are doing, I would sincerely request you to review and do a video of Vikings by Micheal Keisling. Vikings is also a great gem which came in 2005 and is an awesome tile placement game (much better than Cascadia). I am sure once you check out Vikings you will surely make and add the video of it in this series.
@@BoardGemsI couldn't agree more. Though the Modern Art gavel may have been slight overkill (my 10 y/o little brother would of course strongly disagree with that lol)
Not 100%. One major change is that players assign work to labs openly, not in secret. Since resources are physical tokens and not cards, you can't keep your lab public and easily keep the resources hidden like in the old one. You could have one each of a hammer and pincer board or card kept behind your screen and assign your resrouces there. It would be easier for players to cheat than in the old one, but assuming that's not a concern, that I think would be the only non-easy change. Everything else would be pretty easy. I do suggest anyone who gets the new edition to try it with the new rules first. Whether the old or new way is better is entirely personal preference. It's pretty much just the added complexity, with patron rewards and inventions with special abilities, that I don't prefer.
