A Feast for Odin - Norwegians Tutorial & Playthrough - JonGetsGames 

I must say you are always EXTREMELY clear in your explanation. When I wanted to prepare this, I saw your face in the thumbnail and I clicked it immediately with a "I remember this guy, he's great when explaining complex games". My compliments for the clarity and enjoyability of your explanation

One thing to note: you can place tiles/silver on your boards between the income and bonus phases. There were a couple times where you lamented that you were short on silver for unlocking a bonus but you could have easily gotten them using your income.

Best play through of any game I have seen. Clear video, great use of zoom, good light, great editing, no motion sickness inducement (this has happened).

I just love A Feast For Odin, especially with the expansion. And now I can't wait to get to play that again. And you are brilliant when doing playthroughs, informative but still "simple" and very easy to understand. And I think you are really good a showing all the actions in any game you playthrough. Thanks, I love your playthroughs and vlogs.

Playing this game as both players is quite an epic task! Good job.

I greatly enjoy this combination of worker placement, set collection, and even a tile laying puzzle. I love how it gives you so many things to consider and think about with regards of how to get the various tiles you need and synergies between occupations and actions that really do give you a sense of direction of what general direction you should be aiming. I wish more games gave this much variety in terms of paths to take. Excellent playthrough and demonstration as always.

Wonderful playthrough! Thank you!

Outstanding job, well done!

A very nice playthrough Jon. Thanks for doing it! :)

Great stuff, probably going to finally take the plunge and get the base game.

I did enjoy this playthrough! Thank you.

I appreciate this very much. Just got the game and loved your play through (like all of them). Thanks!

a BRILLIANT job once again Jon; I enjoy the actual game that you are playing through as much as the tutorial aspect, which is almost a bonus to the enjoyment of watching the game unfold!

good stuff jon, watching this the second time to understand the rules, have it in preorder along with norwegians

Thank you for this great video, it helped me a lot. Still great after all the years!

I like watching your videos to find games that I never have heard of before, and your playthroughs help me decide whether or not the game will be a good fit for my style!

Just bought this game last two weeks ago and learned how to play from your video. Keep up the good work! Easily one of my top 5-10 favorite game now

Amazing job. I finally bought this game with expansion (I was waiting for a bit of a sale since it is so expensive). I watched this after playing one solo game , and I realized that I missed a few things (partially explains my low score) but now thanks to you I can correct them going into a two-player game. I know also after reading the forums on BGG and watching this how to make use of those islands to improve my engine.

Hands down the best boardgame Channel on RU-vid. Your playthroughs always show all strengths and weaknesses of a game. Your videos dictate a lot of my ks decisions and so far it was always correct to back or cancel. I know it doesn't fit to that video, but I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your channel

brilliant run through!! thanks

your videos are the best on the internet! they help me learn a game so much. clear, precise and everything is explained. so good. thank you so much.

Best playthrough video - for any game - I've ever seen! I love your channel, Jon! I'm playing Feast today and I feel well prepared to teach it to friends after watching this video.

I still have this on my BUY list but the price has to go down! Of course great video as always.

The GOAT of tutorials. Your videos are the reason i own so many board games! Thank you!

Amazing job

Thanks Jon!

Fabulous playthrough! I'm ready to go and play on my own now (sure I will make some mistakes - but this has set me up well!). Thank you!!

Domo Arigato, Jon-sama! Very useful.

Great video again Jon! One more quick pronunciation note, Islay is an Scottish Island known for it's whisky and is pronounced ai-luh.

26:00 I could understand that Vikings do like to eat a variety of food, and that the same food type would be wasted. But realistically, I can imagine Viking warriors would like more mead that they can possibly drink (and would not waste one drop of it!). So I think a fun house rule would be that multiple mead can be placed sideways.

Your videos are always really clear, if you ever have time you should do a review for something like the Next War Series which is absurdly difficult to learn

Great video

Great video! Just a small rules correction: the long mountain strip is supposed to be used ONLY in the last round. My source is on the forums, the designer of the expansion said it. That's why it's longer than the other mountain strips.

great video. thx

1:49:41 This is wrong, though I've seen many playthroughs that make this mistake. The rulebook says a horrifyingly misleading phrase in this section that causes widespread misunderstanding, but the designers have clarified on BGG and elsewhere that what they were _trying_ to say is that if at the *start* of phase 11 there is a mountain strip with only the last money, you remove the money and the strip. That is, you just remove the leftmost item and then if the strip is empty you remove it, but they said it in a rather poor fashion. Also, it's called a "thing penalty" because 'Things' are what the old Germanic peoples, such as the Norse/Vikings, called town gathering and meetings where issues were aired and discussed etc. So it's people complaining about the lack of food at the town hall, basically. Fun fact, the English word 'thing' has the same root and indeed the same root meaning, but the Germanic word refers to a gathering/collection of _people_ while the English word refers to a bunch of _stuff_ . Fantastic job with a very complicated game. Like you I think Norwegians potentially makes this my all time favorite game. I've played it a _lot_ so there were several moments when I winced at some moves you made, but it's easy to criticize from the bench and it can't have been easy making good moves for two people. I do think especially the blue player should have been slaughtering more rather than upgrading, but this game is deep and I'm still working out new strats after months of play.

Just finished the playthrough and loved it. Have you noticed that scores have been higher with the expansion? Horses seem huge! Pigs seem incredible too as pieces to surround bonus spots. Man I love everything about this expansion and it's on my must have list.

well friggin done!!

Hey there. Thank you for a great playthrough. I know it's already kind of old, but I noticed a mistake not mentioned by klingons. At 1:47:57 you show a board filled by blue and he put green "skin and bones" next to the green "oil barrel" (cheeter ;)). As far as I remember, he should receive -3 token penalty at the end of the game for this :)

I got the Norwegians expansion because of your enthusiasm for it in a previous video. So excited about this, thanks!

Jongetsgames + A Feast of Odin = heaven! My favourite reviewer and my favourite game :D

Small correction at 25:57. During feasting subsequent identical tiles are rotated to their shortest side so the 2nd mead tile should cover one space not two.

The Thing (pronounced Ting) was a political assembly. If memory serves, I think it’s explained somewhere in the rule book.

Rules clarification: weapon cards are supposed to be stored face up, so @17:00 we would have already known that the blue player had two bows and arrows in hand. It's listed under Phase 4 on page 9 of the base game's rulebook.

Can you review the new expansion for plague inc? Plague inc: Armageddon expansion

Thank you was thinking of getting this but its a bit pricey

1:54:40 usually boat liquidation is a bad thing

At 40:30 I thought that red and orange resources cant touch on sheds. I want this expansion so badly!

1:31:06 As convenient as it is, you can't take the belt. It's worth less than 9 sword value, but it doesn't have a forge tongs symbol on it.

If you assign two workers to the 5th column exploration space (2-player side), are you allowed to take an exploration board that would normally require a 2nd column action?

The belt you crafted in column five is not a crafting item. It does not have tongues on it

At 27:16, it is mentioned that if the second last resource is removed and the last remaining resource on the mountain strip is in fact coin, the strip is removed entirely. I cannot find this rule in the base game, or expansion, where did this rule come from? I know I'm a bit late to the party, but love the game and love the review!

Enjoyed watching this. One thing, Hebrides is pronounced Heb-ri-dees. I know it's not obvious from the spelling but to save you offending any locals you might bump into. =p

26:24 wouldn’t that second mead have to be turned vertically because it’s the second one?

So my bro and I are arguing about the rules on occupation cards and would like some clarification. I believe that once played a card cannot be removed from play and that the card effects have different requirements to use the effects. My brother believes that you remove from play a card that has resolved its effect through its requirements and you add the points for every time it's used. We are new players but I believe I'm right and would like some clarity on this situation.

1:56:11 I think you are not allowed to get to this Raiding space without having a proper ship according to the rules on page 17 "Raiding"

I don't know why you keep on referring to the Red player as "Us", I am all for Team Blue :D I feel like you sabotaged my boy there :P I can only imagine how long this game would be with three players. I'm so glad you did a playthrough of this game. I have always been interested in the game but just overwhelmed by it and I've never been able to find a good playthrough. Now I feel more comfortable with trying this game. Question: For those bricks of 10 coins, are you allowed to break them up into individual units as you see fit?

you cannot place two identical resources in the same direction but one vertically and one horizontally in the banquet

Bluel player has2 greens together

59:22 blue forgets to get his bonus coin from his sober occupation card (unless Klingons isn’t working for me)

1:16:06 Sorry to come in so late with this, but I was just rewatching the video. It's actually possible for Blue to make some progress on their main board, though it does leave them in a bit of an awkward position later on. Here's how they do it: - the 2x1 oil lies down in the crucifix, diagonally adjacent to the other oil. - the 3x1 hide goes along the bottom of their board under the stone bonus - the 3x2 skin and bones goes longways under the runestone bonus, so it's not touching the hide - their single silver goes to the right of the stone bonus to plug the gap - this lets them cover the 4 and 5 income spaces with the hammer, with the handle extending down toward the stone bonus. But this is an awkward setup, with a big jagged green bit to worry about later on. A better play might have been to take the 1-viking 2-upgrade action, trading the herbs for a pig and the skin and bones for a blue spices (which can rotate to go on top the hide), then buy a sheep with a 2-viking action. Or if they had even one more silver left over, they could put the skin and bones in the bottom corner against the stone bonus, and put a silver under the stone bonus and under the runestone bonus; that would also let them cover the 4 and 5 income. This isn't to disparage your play at all. A Feast For Odin is a very complex game and it's hard enough to play it and do well for just one person, never mind two at a time! It's just that it's also so open that a couple of decisions can completely change the trajectory of the game.

57:54 -- you said for Limerick that he had to continue to left, but the area I highlighted in blue (in this picture oi65.tinypic.com/2woairs.jpg ) wasn't filled in. Also he left two spots below the two coins above the blue 2x3 tile empty (shown in purple on the picture above). How are each legal moves to get the game meat bonus?

meanwhile me sitting at -11 points

Robot voice?

You're right about butchering Hebrides....It's Heb.....ree.....deez...Good try though.