COIN Collectors #14: Vijayanagara

Join the COIN Collectors as we head back in time to 1290 India where we explore the challenges and issues of the struggle between three influential factions. In this episode we are joined by a new guest Xander as we discuss Vijayanagara: The Deccan Empires of Medieval India design by Cory Graham, Matthieu Johnson, Aman Matthews and Saverio Spagnolie.  Vijayanagara is currently on the GMT P500 pre-order system, with a scheduled release of 2023. 0:00 - Intro (https://youtu.be/Wkn5Njw8alE?t=2316) 4:30 - Host Introductions 5:20 - Initial Interest / Previous COIN Experience 08:30 - Initial Impressions 11:00 - Strength of Events Compared to other COINS 12:00 - Difference of factions actions and degrees 15:00 - Setting / Theme of the game 18:53 - Playing time 19:17 - Sultanate Arc throughout the game 21:32 - Common problem with 3 player games (2v1) 23:44 - Interaction between rebelling faction 27:00 - Combat mechanics  32:17 - Mongols! 37:00 - Comparison between Propaganda and Epoch Cards 40:00 - End of game(Timur Invasion) 42:45 - Initiative System 45:40 - Thoughts on number of revealed cards 49:40 - People Power - future COIN  51:10 - Crucial Faction Events 57:58 - Replayability  1:00:22 - Production 1:01:00 - Final Thoughts This podcast episode uses these sounds from https://freemusicarchive.org/: The Circle of Fifths 2.wav by Bus Window Clap: freesound.org/s/509526/ licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Intro game clip was taken from live gameplay hosted on the Guerric Samples Games Channel. Visit his youtube/twitch for more live gameplay of board games, both historical and not. https://www.youtube.com/c/GuerricSamplesGames https://www.twitch.tv/GuerricSamplesGames http://www.dadsonamap.com Support the Show - Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/dadsonamap Twitter and Instagram - @dadsonamap BGG Guild - http://tiny.cc/DoaMGuild Merch Store - https://teespring.com/stores/dads-on-a-map Contact us at dadsonamap@gmail.com