What a great video and game! Glai was only 1 cow and 1 hog short of winning. Pat's stone storage pulled him through, both of you played a great game. This close score warrants a rematch!
Thanks for the comment Trent, and really glad you enjoyed the video. Caverna is indeed a great game. There are lots of options so there are many different paths to victory but it is very well balanced which leads to a lot of close games like this!
Fantastic video. Very easy to follow the game. Made me feel as though I was right there with y'all. How am I just finding your channel now? Subscribed, and may you make many more.
Hi Steel Beard! Thank you very much for your comment. We're really happy to hear that you liked the video. We do our best to make our videos clear so that you guys can follow along and feel like you are here with us so it's great to hear that it worked for you! Thank you also for your subscription and welcome aboard. Hopefully you will find some other videos on our channel that you like too! :-)
This was the first time I've watched one of your videos and it was great! Interesting stratégies exposed and wonderful zoom_in's for the various actions and tiles. Liked and subscribed. ;-)
Great playthrough and amazing editing with all the pictures of reference cards and action spaces, really helped with making the game click for me! Thank you and subscribed!
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That was fun to watch, thanks for the upload! Whenever I play these sort of games it’s often a race to get more workers so it was interesting how you both didn’t prioritize that much. I was really surprised every time Glai furnished a cavern and it wasn’t a dwelling haha. Pat’s couple dwelling + two worker turn was huge, thought he’d run away with it after that but it was still really close thanks to Glai’s sheep farm.
Hi Christopher. Yeah, normally we would be racing to get more workers out too but it just worked out differently this time as I think we were both trying new things. The Adventurers also give you other options but we probably would have scored more points if we had gone for more workers. We still had a lot of fun with it though! Thanks for your comment. Much appreciated!
Thanks Bobby! Glad you enjoy the games we play. I have to say I am a big fan of Uwe Rosenberg's games especially. He always has great mechanics and the games are a lot of fun!
@@AllAboardBoardgames We Love them both, it's hard to say. We got Caverna before Agricola and have played that more, Caverna is probably our most played game we own. Agricola has a lot more variability in the cards, but Caverna is fun with experienced players, and there is more to do! When we can't decide, we just play LeHavre, LOL
My favourite games include: most games from Uwe Rosenberg, Quacks of Quedlinberg, Viticulture, Carcassonne, Grand Austria Hotel, Chronicles of Crime, and Through the Ages. I'm pretty new to the hobby so my collection isn't very extensive yet.
@@ericbanks693 Yeah, I love Uwe's games too. We just got our hands on Quacks of Quedlinberg so will be featuring that in an upcoming video. How is Chronicles of Crime? We love doing cooperative games and it looks like it could be interesting!
Thanks again for this vid🙌🏻We are thinking about to buy this one. We love Agricola and we think Caverna would bring bit more action🙃 We are looking forward for next videos 🤙🏻
Hi Patryk. Thanks a lot for your comment. We're delighted that our video was of help to you. I am a big fan of Agricola too, and Caverna gives it a different perspective that is quite interesting. Have you played A Feast for Odin? That is another great Uwe Rosenberg game!
@@AllAboardBoardgames your vids are always helping🙌🏻keep doing this guys. I hope your channel will grow. We never habe played A feast for odin, but it is on our list. The game has a bit of something „Puzzling „ and we actually don’t know if we like it. We have to try it for sure🙃 And then we gonna decide if this will be added to our collection 😃
@@patrykjankowski1608 We'll keep plugging away Patryk and hopefully the channel will grow. A Feast for Odin is a really nice game to play. I love it! It does have the puzzle aspect there of course, so that might not be for everyone, but if you get a chance to try it you should give it a go.
Nice video Pat and Glai ! At first, the Dwarf theme wasn't interesting to me, but... if I imagine the LOTR Dwarves or an RPG clan retiring to peaceful times, ok, I started to get into it. I really like all the cavern room options. Caverna seems like a lot when you look at all the options for the first time, but I think that variety of tiles and rooms gives it more replayability for those who like Agricola. Which one to buy first is the question?
Hi Ken! Thanks a lot, we are delighted you enjoyed the video. Haha - that is a good way of looking at the theme... Gimli and his wife settle down and decide to take up a bit of farming along with their mining, while still venturing out on the odd adventure! The cavern room options are great and there are a lot of tiles to choose from. There are actually 2 sides to the furnishing tiles board. One of them is used for the introductory game and has less tiles to ease new players into the game, but actually when you start playing it is not that complicated and the tiles are in groups of similar type functions. The variety is very good for replayability for sure, but for me I would say to get Agricola first. There is still plenty of replayability in Agricola, with the different Minor Improvements and Occupations changing the direction of your play each time, and there are many different ways to win so, although you are encouraged to do a bit of everything you can have more focus on the different animals or on planting crops, or aiming for points with the Major Improvements, etc. I really like Caverna too, but I think Agricola has a nicer feel to the game. The expansion, Farmers of the Moor, also adds a lot to the game, but it might be difficult to get your hands on it.
Thanks for the video. Your gameplay was so smooth that I watched the all without getting bored. I was thinking about buying this game for a group of 4-6 players and I am more tilted towards to the side of buying. Thanks to both of you for your efforts. Also how well is the replayability of the game? Is the starting furnishes changes?
Hi Yusuf. Thank you very much for the comment. It is great to hear that you liked our video and that you found it helpful to decide whether to buy the game or not. The furnishing tiles are the same for every game, but there are a ton of them and there are many different strategies that you can take, so I would say that there is very good replayability. If you decide to get the game, we do have a link in the description to get it from Amazon US, which can help support the channel! ;-) Cheers!
@@AllAboardBoardgames I would like to but there is high shipping cost to Turkey so I would try to find on some local markets ^^ thanks for the fast reply
He didn't pay the two wood and two stone for his Peaceful Cave (45:20), so actually they tied 57-57. (because he'd get two less stone for victory points).
Hi Chris. Thanks very much for letting us know this. Actually we didn't realise that. I have made a note in the Klingon subtitles. Really glad you enjoyed the video! Cheers!
"Dogs don't breathe." Sheep/ship, worth/work. Gotta love closed captioning! 😁 Mystified that you both disdained growth for so long; the extra actions function in Caverna just as they do in Agricola, generating more points. Had either of you expanded your family early on, it would have been a runaway win instead of a tight race. Also, Glai outfitted a guy for adventuring and then barely bothered; my noggin is bouncing around like a bobblehead. No matter, you still provided a good overview of the game and obviously had a good time doing it. Thanks for another top-rank video, and Happy Turkey Day to you both!
Haha! "Dogs don't breathe!" Yeah, we did kind of ignore growth for a long time there. I think if one of us had gone for it early, the other would have for sure. It was quite a different game to how we normally play Caverna but I think we were just both trying out new things and seeing how it went. But the extra workers were definitely the difference in the end and Glai regretted not increasing her family. Still, as you say we did have a lot of fun playing it and hopefully viewers can get a good feel for how the game works. Do you prefer Caverna or Agricola yourself? Happy Turkey Day Geoff!
Definitely Agricola, although I still enjoy an occasional Caverna session. Caverna's just a tad too tension-free for my taste, although admittedly I enjoy its point-salad nature now and then. It was nice to see it still functions well with two players; my crew is normally three or four, and if I recall correctly, I once tackled the game with either six or seven players, which of course ran a bit longer than what's normally comfortable. 😁 I traded a prime copy of AH's Bismarck 2nd edition for my copy of Caverna, mostly on the strength of my friend having printed up and laminated 7 sets of player aids and charts of all the tiles (very nice to have instead of having to lean over the table to see what's what). I think I've gotten about a half-dozen plays out of it, which is still better than Bismarck ever saw, so I feel I got the better end of the deal. 😃
@@MisterG2323 I'm with you on that. I enjoy Caverna but Agricola is a lot more streamlined and tense. You definitely got the better of the deal if the game is making it to the table more than Bismarck. I haven't played that one.
The original 60s edition was sort of a precursor to the AH classic Midway, a cat-and-mouse double-blind search game, culminating in one or more gunnery engagements to settle the issue (Midway, of course, had lots of dive and torpedo bombers). 2nd edition Bismarck changed things up more than a bit, but I wouldn't know because I never had the opportunity to play it (iirc it was an unpunched copy I traded off!) Neither version appears to be much in demand these days, but I have fond memories of playing the original game back in the day. No doubt there are computer simulations now that rule those waves...
@@AllAboardBoardgames that would be awesome because it’s about life and choices of life it tells a great story and everyone who uploaded a video playing it have some great stories told by the game. You can virtually do anything and is a worker placement game but it’s so so realistic how they did it the. Additional expansion are also amazing right now I’m awaiting the Kickstarter new big box addition
Hi Droidux. Caverna doesn’t take too long to set up. You just need to place out the boards, put the tiles on the supply boards and make the round deck by shuffling each stage’s cards separately. I guess most time would be taken by placing the tiles on their corresponding spaces but there is nothing too complicated about it.
What a great video and game! Glai was only 1 cow and 1 hog short of winning. Pat's stone storage pulled him through, both of you played a great game. This close score warrants a rematch!
Thanks for the comment Trent, and really glad you enjoyed the video. Caverna is indeed a great game. There are lots of options so there are many different paths to victory but it is very well balanced which leads to a lot of close games like this!
I really appreciated the camera work and editing to make all of the components easier to see. Fantastic production and a great playthrough all around!
Thanks a lot Paul! We're really glad you enjoyed the video. Thank you for the comment!
you guys are the best, i love your playthroughs especially that you zoom on the cards; this is amazing, i love all your videos
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Fantastic video. Very easy to follow the game. Made me feel as though I was right there with y'all. How am I just finding your channel now? Subscribed, and may you make many more.
Hi Steel Beard! Thank you very much for your comment. We're really happy to hear that you liked the video. We do our best to make our videos clear so that you guys can follow along and feel like you are here with us so it's great to hear that it worked for you! Thank you also for your subscription and welcome aboard. Hopefully you will find some other videos on our channel that you like too! :-)
This was the first time I've watched one of your videos and it was great! Interesting stratégies exposed and wonderful zoom_in's for the various actions and tiles. Liked and subscribed. ;-)
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Great playthrough and amazing editing with all the pictures of reference cards and action spaces, really helped with making the game click for me! Thank you and subscribed!
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Great playthrough. Subscribed.
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That was fun to watch, thanks for the upload! Whenever I play these sort of games it’s often a race to get more workers so it was interesting how you both didn’t prioritize that much. I was really surprised every time Glai furnished a cavern and it wasn’t a dwelling haha. Pat’s couple dwelling + two worker turn was huge, thought he’d run away with it after that but it was still really close thanks to Glai’s sheep farm.
Hi Christopher. Yeah, normally we would be racing to get more workers out too but it just worked out differently this time as I think we were both trying new things. The Adventurers also give you other options but we probably would have scored more points if we had gone for more workers. We still had a lot of fun with it though! Thanks for your comment. Much appreciated!
You guys have great taste! You almost always play games I either own or have on my wishlist.
Thanks Bobby! Glad you enjoy the games we play. I have to say I am a big fan of Uwe Rosenberg's games especially. He always has great mechanics and the games are a lot of fun!
Another good video. I continually look forward to upcoming vids, keep it up!
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One of our all time favorites!
It certainly is a great game, Tim. Do you prefer Agricola or Caverna?
@@AllAboardBoardgames We Love them both, it's hard to say. We got Caverna before Agricola and have played that more, Caverna is probably our most played game we own. Agricola has a lot more variability in the cards, but Caverna is fun with experienced players, and there is more to do! When we can't decide, we just play LeHavre, LOL
@@timnickerson5389 Le Havre is a great fallback to have! We haven't gotten it to the table in quite a while but I always love when we do!
A classic game for sure. Another great video. Congratulations Pat on the win.
Thanks Eric! It sure is a classic game. We're glad you liked the video!
What are your favourite games Eric?
My favourite games include: most games from Uwe Rosenberg, Quacks of Quedlinberg, Viticulture, Carcassonne, Grand Austria Hotel, Chronicles of Crime, and Through the Ages. I'm pretty new to the hobby so my collection isn't very extensive yet.
@@ericbanks693 Yeah, I love Uwe's games too. We just got our hands on Quacks of Quedlinberg so will be featuring that in an upcoming video.
How is Chronicles of Crime? We love doing cooperative games and it looks like it could be interesting!
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Thanks again for this vid🙌🏻We are thinking about to buy this one. We love Agricola and we think Caverna would bring bit more action🙃 We are looking forward for next videos 🤙🏻
Hi Patryk. Thanks a lot for your comment. We're delighted that our video was of help to you. I am a big fan of Agricola too, and Caverna gives it a different perspective that is quite interesting. Have you played A Feast for Odin? That is another great Uwe Rosenberg game!
@@AllAboardBoardgames your vids are always helping🙌🏻keep doing this guys. I hope your channel will grow. We never habe played A feast for odin, but it is on our list. The game has a bit of something „Puzzling „ and we actually don’t know if we like it. We have to try it for sure🙃 And then we gonna decide if this will be added to our collection 😃
@@patrykjankowski1608 We'll keep plugging away Patryk and hopefully the channel will grow. A Feast for Odin is a really nice game to play. I love it! It does have the puzzle aspect there of course, so that might not be for everyone, but if you get a chance to try it you should give it a go.
Nice video Pat and Glai ! At first, the Dwarf theme wasn't interesting to me, but... if I imagine the LOTR Dwarves or an RPG clan retiring to peaceful times, ok, I started to get into it. I really like all the cavern room options. Caverna seems like a lot when you look at all the options for the first time, but I think that variety of tiles and rooms gives it more replayability for those who like Agricola. Which one to buy first is the question?
Hi Ken! Thanks a lot, we are delighted you enjoyed the video. Haha - that is a good way of looking at the theme... Gimli and his wife settle down and decide to take up a bit of farming along with their mining, while still venturing out on the odd adventure! The cavern room options are great and there are a lot of tiles to choose from. There are actually 2 sides to the furnishing tiles board. One of them is used for the introductory game and has less tiles to ease new players into the game, but actually when you start playing it is not that complicated and the tiles are in groups of similar type functions. The variety is very good for replayability for sure, but for me I would say to get Agricola first. There is still plenty of replayability in Agricola, with the different Minor Improvements and Occupations changing the direction of your play each time, and there are many different ways to win so, although you are encouraged to do a bit of everything you can have more focus on the different animals or on planting crops, or aiming for points with the Major Improvements, etc. I really like Caverna too, but I think Agricola has a nicer feel to the game. The expansion, Farmers of the Moor, also adds a lot to the game, but it might be difficult to get your hands on it.
Thanks for the video. Your gameplay was so smooth that I watched the all without getting bored. I was thinking about buying this game for a group of 4-6 players and I am more tilted towards to the side of buying. Thanks to both of you for your efforts. Also how well is the replayability of the game? Is the starting furnishes changes?
Hi Yusuf. Thank you very much for the comment. It is great to hear that you liked our video and that you found it helpful to decide whether to buy the game or not. The furnishing tiles are the same for every game, but there are a ton of them and there are many different strategies that you can take, so I would say that there is very good replayability. If you decide to get the game, we do have a link in the description to get it from Amazon US, which can help support the channel! ;-) Cheers!
@@AllAboardBoardgames I would like to but there is high shipping cost to Turkey so I would try to find on some local markets ^^ thanks for the fast reply
@@yusufkarabacakoglu9281 Even better - it's great if you can support your local gaming store and keep them in business!! Greetings to you in Turkey!
He didn't pay the two wood and two stone for his Peaceful Cave (45:20), so actually they tied 57-57. (because he'd get two less stone for victory points).
Also, great video! Not trying to be nitpicky, just mentioning in case any one else was paying close attention :)
Hi Chris. Thanks very much for letting us know this. Actually we didn't realise that. I have made a note in the Klingon subtitles. Really glad you enjoyed the video! Cheers!
@@AllAboardBoardgames Gotta do a new video for the tie-breaker now!! haha. I'd watch it for sure. Thank you.
@@ChrisRobesonMusic Haha... it would be great to get a chance to revisit Caverna. It's such a great game!
"Dogs don't breathe." Sheep/ship, worth/work. Gotta love closed captioning! 😁
Mystified that you both disdained growth for so long; the extra actions function in Caverna just as they do in Agricola, generating more points. Had either of you expanded your family early on, it would have been a runaway win instead of a tight race. Also, Glai outfitted a guy for adventuring and then barely bothered; my noggin is bouncing around like a bobblehead.
No matter, you still provided a good overview of the game and obviously had a good time doing it. Thanks for another top-rank video, and Happy Turkey Day to you both!
Haha! "Dogs don't breathe!" Yeah, we did kind of ignore growth for a long time there. I think if one of us had gone for it early, the other would have for sure. It was quite a different game to how we normally play Caverna but I think we were just both trying out new things and seeing how it went. But the extra workers were definitely the difference in the end and Glai regretted not increasing her family. Still, as you say we did have a lot of fun playing it and hopefully viewers can get a good feel for how the game works. Do you prefer Caverna or Agricola yourself?
Happy Turkey Day Geoff!
Definitely Agricola, although I still enjoy an occasional Caverna session. Caverna's just a tad too tension-free for my taste, although admittedly I enjoy its point-salad nature now and then. It was nice to see it still functions well with two players; my crew is normally three or four, and if I recall correctly, I once tackled the game with either six or seven players, which of course ran a bit longer than what's normally comfortable. 😁
I traded a prime copy of AH's Bismarck 2nd edition for my copy of Caverna, mostly on the strength of my friend having printed up and laminated 7 sets of player aids and charts of all the tiles (very nice to have instead of having to lean over the table to see what's what). I think I've gotten about a half-dozen plays out of it, which is still better than Bismarck ever saw, so I feel I got the better end of the deal. 😃
@@MisterG2323 I'm with you on that. I enjoy Caverna but Agricola is a lot more streamlined and tense.
You definitely got the better of the deal if the game is making it to the table more than Bismarck. I haven't played that one.
The original 60s edition was sort of a precursor to the AH classic Midway, a cat-and-mouse double-blind search game, culminating in one or more gunnery engagements to settle the issue (Midway, of course, had lots of dive and torpedo bombers). 2nd edition Bismarck changed things up more than a bit, but I wouldn't know because I never had the opportunity to play it (iirc it was an unpunched copy I traded off!) Neither version appears to be much in demand these days, but I have fond memories of playing the original game back in the day. No doubt there are computer simulations now that rule those waves...
please could you play the pursuit of happiness. That game is so amazing and after watching this video i think you guys could do a playthrough nicely.
Hi venomgold. I have not heard of that game. I will keep an eye out for it and if we can get our hands on a copy hopefully we can get to play it!
@@AllAboardBoardgames that would be awesome because it’s about life and choices of life it tells a great story and everyone who uploaded a video playing it have some great stories told by the game. You can virtually do anything and is a worker placement game but it’s so so realistic how they did it the. Additional expansion are also amazing right now I’m awaiting the Kickstarter new big box addition
@@venomgold Sounds great. I love games with good stories!
Hey, how much time does it take to setup the game ? I feel worried about that, after my very Bad experience with tainted grail 😅
Hi Droidux. Caverna doesn’t take too long to set up. You just need to place out the boards, put the tiles on the supply boards and make the round deck by shuffling each stage’s cards separately. I guess most time would be taken by placing the tiles on their corresponding spaces but there is nothing too complicated about it.