![]() ![]() ![]() With this many pieces, you are going to need some time for setup. Some of your actions will build up your own efforts but a clever enough player can also sabotage the efforts of others. The goal of Whistle Mountain is to earn more Victory Points (VP) than the other players with a combination of resource management, worker placement, and tile laying. Summarized up, the components show not just quality but a lot of forethought in making the game easier to play. Keep this in an easy to reach place while you play. There’s also a series of very nice tables explaining things like the Machines, Upgrades, Cards, Starting Abilities and Awards. The fully colored diagrams made setup way less daunting and really helped to demonstrate the gameplay examples. I also want to note how well the instruction booklet was done. The remaining cards are pretty typical thickness and the designs are simple and easy to read. Shapes and sizes are also used to help identify the pieces, making it way less overwhelming to keep track of what’s what. The Player boards have slots to pop pieces into, which really keeps your game space organized. The remaining cardboard-based pieces are sturdy and gorgeously designed. A closer look at the cardboard components. The Player Tokens (Workers, Hot Air Balloon Airships, Blimp Airships, and Dreadnought Airships) are easy to tell apart from each other as well as having distinctive enough colors to tell apart from other players. The Resource Tokens (Coal, Iron, Water, Gold, Whistles) are all easy to tell apart from each other during play. I really appreciate the strength and quality of wood components and these don’t disappoint in the least. The wooden components are brightly colored and easy to identify. The board itself is cardboard but not as thick as the old style fold-up boards so it takes up less box space, yet it’s still sturdy. There’s even little slots to put in the plastic Water Bar Holders. I find that level of organization really helps set-up too. The art is simple but attractive and I really like how there’s a designated space for everything given the sheer amount of components the game contains. I really like the board and find that I’m starting to appreciate the puzzle piece board style more compared to the traditional fold up style. Not an issue for us, but if you are setting this up as a game night sort of thing you should be prepared to calculate that into your playing time the first time around. On your first play it will take you quite a bit of time to get some of these things punched out and sorted (plastic bags are included) so I think that stage took us about 30 minutes. Overall, my first impression of the components is that they’re great and the amount and quality match up with what I would expect from a game in the $70 range. 4 Dreadnought Airships (in 4 Player Colors).4 Hot Air Balloon Airships (in 4 Player Colors).Whistle Mountain ComponentsĬomponents for ‘Whistle Mountain.’ Photo by Elizabeth MacAndrew. The game is designed for 2-4 players ages 14+ and takes approximately 90 minutes to play. ![]() Whistle Mountain is a tile laying, worker placement, and resource managing game where viewers compete to earn Victory Points (VP) faster than their opponents through a variety of ways. GeekDad Paul and I both received copies of this game to review from Bezier Games. Whistle Mountain from Bezier Games is exactly that sort of game. I really like board games designed where there’s not just one particular way to win, especially when the play mechanic is fairly straight-forward and the strategy makes up the real challenge. ![]()
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