Windmill Valley - Board Game Review - My God They Discovered Colour!

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Windmill Valley - Board Game Review - My God They Discovered Colour!
In Windmill Valley , a game inspired by the Bloemen Route, you and up to three players take on the role of tulip farmers and entrepreneurs. You will build and enhance your windmills, look for new tulip bulbs in foreign trades or among local vendors to buy and plant, and try to get an edge with hired help and lucrative contracts. Let your blooming fields make your competitors green with envy!
During their turn, players choose the action by rotating the wheels on their windmill board. During the game they can:
Enhance their wheels, by adding enhancements, to build their engine
Plant tulips in their fields, which will score VP at the end of the game
Build windmills on the main board to activate rewards from adjacent fields
Hire helpers that provide bonuses for certain actions
Get contracts for endgame scoring
Visit the local market and conduct a foreign trade
All in all, Windmill Valley is a lightweight game with quick turns, a smart action-selection mechanism, multiple options to build your engine, and a lovely setting.
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00:00 - Introduction and "New" KIENDA Promo
01:11 - Background
02:29 - Basic Overview
05:50 - The Good Things
17:30 - The Bad Stuff
27:00 - Summary, Verdict & Player Scaling
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@elainetyger 27 дней назад

Thanks for this review! I've been intrigued by this game and nothing you said has put me off of it, though I realize I will have to choose carefully who my fellow players will be; I don't right off the bat want that one friend who immediately figures out the path to victory while reading the rules PDF on the subway en route to meet me, and then steamrolls right to it if there's a way, and I don't want someone who thinks through every permutation more slowly either. It seems like if you have a group who's just interested in trying different things to see how they work at first, everyone will enjoy from the start. Viticulture vibes from the art/theme.

@vangelisevangelou 28 дней назад

Thanks. Great review.

@BillyIndiana 29 дней назад

Thanks for the overview and review. I don't play solo often, so I think it will be a try before buy game for me 👍

@TheBrokenMeeple 29 дней назад

No problem 👍

@mkitten13 29 дней назад

I'm really looking forward to this one, I love me some cogwheel mechanic :D

@sadekhanna 28 дней назад

Black tulips are harder to come by both in the game and real life that's why that contract gives so many points. You can see that those contract cards scale the points for the colours according to the placement of the fields on the board. I know that there are other ways to get tulips, but still, it just makes sense.

@TheBrokenMeeple 28 дней назад

I get why black tulips would score more but it still pales to easier windmill placements

@Puzzu 29 дней назад

Great review! I was on the fence about this one, and from your thoughts, I think I'd love to try this given how smooth it sounds but not one that I necessarily need to own given how linear/non-interactive it seems, not sure about long term replayability. I guess you're not a fan of Tiletum but I think I'd rather pull that off the shelf to try, I heard it does have a bit more interaction compared to this one.

@ilqrd.6608 29 дней назад

Great review! The tulip scoring has been the single most annoying thing in this game and preventing me from buying it.

@TheBrokenMeeple 29 дней назад

You mean the rows and columns?

@shinyhappymeeple 29 дней назад

I really rate this…..it’s just good fun to play

@a-c-m 29 дней назад

The bright colours are clearly no one-off for Board&Dice recently. Both Barcelona and Nucleum also already featured an eccentric and hallucinogenic colour pallet…

@TheBrokenMeeple 29 дней назад

But that make the game actually look clean and good on the table though? Barcelona is a fiddly mess of stuff on the table. You can barely make out stuff and it looks cluttered as hell. And Nucleum?? Nothing but dull brown and green everywhere? That's not what I call a good use of colour. If that's meant to be a looker for them, they failed.

@a-c-m 29 дней назад

@@TheBrokenMeeple Nucleum has lots of purple and orange on top of those unusual neon greens... I don’t like either of those three graphic designs, but at least they are trying something new. So an „A“ for effort but still a „F“ for performance

@Original_Maverick 28 дней назад

Just saw Paul's video of Reef Project, which is a looker as well. Definitely appreciate the steps B&D are making in the art department.

@danpalmer7676 28 дней назад

I have commented elsewhere that i dislike the colours. Makes it resemble a kid's game.

@shatnershairpiece 28 дней назад

Yeah, as far as the rows, one of the worst design choices is ‘obvious best choice’ I never understood why that is ever in a game or how it gets past playtesting. It was the same reason (but there were many others) I hated kutna horror (obvious best church bonuses) and sold it immediately. Thanks for this. Was on my radar but will skip.

@ludovico2069 4 дня назад

hi. Thank you for the video. I`d like to ask you a question. As the number of rounds is variable, will still be played under 90 minutes with 4 players, or it will need 2 hours, or more? Thank you

@TheBrokenMeeple 3 дня назад

It does depend on the players though at least one player should be going at reasonable speed. MAX you will need 2 hours.

@ludovico2069 3 дня назад

@@TheBrokenMeeple Thank you very much for your prompt answer!

@CarlosRodriguez-ez3ls 29 дней назад

Don't know this game but why doesn't competition for worker placement spots or contracts or resources count in favor of player interaction? Granted some games are tighter than others but how can that be considered a solitaire experience? Thx!

@ilqrd.6608 29 дней назад

Depends on what you define as interaction. For me player interaction is when a player intentionally interacts with another player’s decisions space so to slow them down or throw them off. If this interaction also benefits their own game then even better. Placing your worker in a spot just to prevent someone else from going there is super rare in games. Off the top of my head only Argent the Consortium had truly interactive worker placement in that sense

@TheBrokenMeeple 29 дней назад

I don't mean interaction as always meaning "mean interaction" - but it's a case of "how much do i take an interest in what my opponents are doing"? Some games have you really care about the strategies others are following, what objectives we're racing to, what important spaces are available. This game has very little of that. I honestly couldn't care less what strategy you're following as 95% it's not going to be the same as mine. You want a Euro game with a ton of useful interaction elements - play Whistle Mountain.