Explanation of Board Options?

[fafa-fr]

Board 8 doesn't have a big beige area (there was a mistake earlier in this thread), it has a big 6-spaces animal pasture, which, combined with the many small regions Lumin_S mentioned, makes it overpowered.

In the physical game, the board #2 of the 1st edition became board #10 in 2019 edition, because in the latter a second beginner board (in 4 copies) was added, and they gave it the number 2 (so the old board #2 got relegated to # 10). In the BGA implementation, since 2019 edition's board #2 is available, even with the 1st edition option, I gave player boards the numbers of 2019 edition.

You can see 1st edition's boards here (should be the same as your link) and 2019 edition's boards here

[dragonbane]

I thought this page did a nice job of summarizing all the boards in an easy-to-read fashion:
http://www.fwtwr.com/fwtwr/cob/boards.asp

[fafa-fr]

I thought this page did a nice job of summarizing all the boards in an easy-to-read fashion:
http://www.fwtwr.com/fwtwr/cob/boards.asp

Beware: this page uses the numbers from the 1st edition (see my post just above), and BGA's implementation uses the numbers from 2019 edition, so #2 on this page is #10 on BGA.

[adano]

Where can I find the difference of the first edition vs 2019 edition?
If there is an option, it may be also good to to indicate the information of the different option?

Thinking of bringing this up as a new player myself, since we are on this topic.

[inkera]

Castles of Burgundy is a nice opportunity for me to experience the perspective of playing a game for the first time on BGA that I hadn't played in person. I viewed a comprehensive rules video before starting a game, and even read some basic strategy ideas on BGG. However, I was not prepared for the choice of seven different starting board options when configuring a game.

I play a lot of games that have different setup options, so I can guess at the reasons why there might be so many in this game. But from the perspective of a new player, I don't actually have any way of figuring out what some of the options are without leaving BGA, or why they are possible. For example, how would a new player find out what "Board 8" is or why one of the options is to exclude it?

I'd propose that if a variant that is not in the official rules is implemented (as with most of these board options), a brief summary of their meaning and purpose should be provided or linked to so that newer players can start to understand the choices they are making when setting up a game.

Found your post while googling what the heck the different board types are! Sadly it hasn't changed - and people are still googling their way here