Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps l Playthrough Mission 1 Newt l With Bairnt 

Hudson was never so wrong. The game ain't over, after all. R.I.P. Bill Paxton.

I’ve watched 4 other episodes of this game, but your single play through of this first mission gave me a better understanding of the rules & tactics, & was a far more involving & enjoyable experience, than all 4 of those other videos combined! You have a logical way of presenting large volumes of data, you speak clearly & coherently, you really bring the game to life with your enthusiasm 😊👍 & your visuals are crisp, well lit and filmed at just the right distance to show everything clearly. Can’t wait to watch your other episodes. WELL DONE & THANK YOU! 🤝

The blip behind hicks at the start wouldn’t be revealed because the door would be closed until a character gets in the space in front of the door

Great video of a great game! I rarely have the patience to watch board game playthroughs that are longer than half an hour, but I watched this entire thing from beginning to end. Your enthusiasm is infectious! This game has immediately gone to the top of my Must-Have List. Thank you!

Great video! Have watched some other “how to play” (since I ordered the game yesterday), but they have all been a bit “muddy”. This is how you do a tutorial!

Other than a few rules mistakes (which we all usually make the first time or two in playing), this was an excellent explanation of the game. I liked how you went step by step through everything. Some may not like the repetition, but that helped to reinforce the concepts. I'm now a new subscriber to this channel. Thanks and looking forward to the second mission!

Knower error 1. The grenades on Gorman should have been a “backup weapon” not an “equipment” 2. Each character can only activate once a turn.

"Game over man, game over.." A must have for me. Strangely, reminds me of Terminator : Rise of the machines, which I loved. Thanks Bairnt.

I like this video. Very well paced and easy to follow. I enjoyed the excitement in the tone of the game play and explanations.

21:40 “Hudson sir…. He’s hicks” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Awesome to see gameplay of this! Looking forward to trying it out

When you rolled that 10 around 35 mins... oh man... we had a good laugh at your reaction :D

Thank you for this tutorial. I'm using this as a guide when we are going to play it this weekend.

Dude I had clicked on anoth play thru video and ot was 3 dudes and it SUCKED. You are amazing! Perfect camera and explanation! Thanks!

Loved watching the game play! That was a lot of fun!

I recently acquired the game, nice playthrough video

Loved your play thou.. been painting my .. looking forward to more from you..

Awesome video. thought I would point out some rules that will help you out in your next mission, Events go to the exhaust pile not the discard when used. You can only discard from your exhaust deck if there are no cards in hand or in the endurance deck. Full auto only exhausts one card no mater what weapon you use To answer your question you do lower your aim dial after shooting a flamethrower. Acid blood is covered by one of the expansions Tip for next mission, Don't forget to take the rest action (You don't need to draw cards with it), its key to keeping your endurance deck full. Can't wait to see mission two! Let me know if you have any questions.

Definitely going to the local game store tomorrow to pick this up. Gives me the (late 1990's) Aliens/Predator CCG nostalgia, but in boardgame form.

I keep watching this and I still can't believe the possibly unluckiest rolls in recent history of board games. It was going good after that, but when you turned two 10's I spilled my coffee 😂

Nice playthrough. I'm gonna go ahead and like this, and then I'm gonna go ahead and see if I can find this game ;) (little jab there, sorry heh)

LT Gorman as Hero. Remember to draw 2 endurance cards end if activation. Aslo his layout had a weapon - grenades which is a back up weapon. He cannot equip a pistol.

Your rolling skills are way too good! ^^ :D

Those rolls... God mode! 🙏

42:19 I'm not clear yet on whether it is allowed to move diagonally when there is a corner of a wall involved. Can you always move that way, or only aliens?

Good video. FYI the U.S. Army has had “Sci-fi” underslung grenade launchers for our rifles since 1969. 😂

I'm so, so happy that they used stills for the cards. No stupid "artist's interpretations" here.

You can't move across thick white lines, like the bulbs at doorways. They are impassable terrain. More importantly, thanks for the playthrough.

great video thanks! only complaint is the way you count your moves jessus it always seems like your taking an extra step lol!

Think if you have the smart gun you should be allowed a back up weapon. Vasquez had a pistol and Drake had a flame thrower back up weapon in the movie.

Actually, the M16 and the M4 carbine can both have underslung grenade launchers. Probably other guns too that I’m not aware of. Which makes the built in grenade launcher in the pulse rifle within reasonable bounds

I wish i watched this before playing with my brother. Would have made things a lot easier. And faster.

LOOK INTO MY EYE

First of all, great tutorial. A few questions: @44:19 why did you use Gorman's ability and exhaust three cards to activate Vasquez when she'd be activated in the grunt phase automatically without exhausting any cards? As a Marine's aim dial lowers during a turn does that apply also to the grunts they control or do you use the grunts aim number? When you have to exhaust a card does it have to come from your hand or can you discard equipped weapons and equipment? @47:11 are you supposed to lower the aim dial between each individual shot or after you've fully completed your attack phase?

Grenade attacks are a free action if used after firing a pulse rifle.

great playthrough! thank you so much and you explained everything so well. it seems to capture the Aliens theme very well. we already have Nemesis but that is more like Alien than Aliens so maybe there is room in our game collection for this at some point. Will you be doing a review vudeo?

Take rest actions with some characters each turn to move exhausted cards back into the first pile.

Acid for Blood! How did the rules writers miss that detail.

At 33:27 the second Blip token never should have been revealed since the door didn´t open. (There were no a line of sight)

question: i have the alien warrior addon, do you basically use them instead of the swarm counters underneath or do you always have to use those counters for them?

Your video made me buy the game!! Could have been a little longer I think since you repeated yourself quite a few times but it was very helpful nonetheless. I really like how fast your camera focuses, do you mind telling me what camera were you using?

I want this game so bad.

at 25:48 u moved frost through the side of the door,which u cant do.when u move from a room to another u have to be on 1 of those 2 squares in front of the door! u cant move diagonally through the side of the door,bc thats part wall. u did the right move with vasques before frost and thats how u should've moved frost also. u've also moved those 2 blips at 27:33 same way and that was also wrong.blips are moved the same.pretty much everything u move through a door, u cant move it through the side of the door. in turn 4,ripley and hudson should've not be able to move that way. the way u move them gives u a bit of advantage,bc if u'd have moved them properly,hudson would've not reach the corridor where the alien was lol. gg overall tho😊

Just a point If you play single player only one character of your choice is played as a hero. As stated in the manual “each player controls one hero character “ ( i mean you can play theoretically as many hero’s as you want, what ever makes you comfortable ) So at the start of the marine phase if your hero is Hicks then hicks has the activation token and can choose to make his activation first or choose anyone else to go first. Meaning Gorman is also a grunt and not treated as though he has rank. Hicks ( your character of choice) is the highest ranked character for that game. If that makes sense :)) I got a bit confused at the beginning of the video because you played as a single player with multiple hero’s. So I’m not sure if my statement is correct. Great vid

Do you need to do the activation on ur character turn every round or just the first time u activate them

Just ordered this and looking forward to playing it, thinking about ordering the small expansions with more grunts and replacement minis for the tokens. Have you got them yet Bairnt? Also 3 or 4 missions does seem like too little, but it looks like they are pretty hard and I would imagine fan made missions coming soon!

Loved your play through. I have the original “Leading Edge” Aliens game and I’ve played through it tons of times. May I suggest for this Gale Force 9 version, to account for “acid spray”, if a xenomorph is killed directly adjacent to a character, that character rolls a 6 sided die. If they roll a 6, that character suffered critical damage from the acid and they are dead. If they roll a 5, they’re “incapacitated” and can’t move until someone else moves adjacent to them. If they roll a 1-4 they avoided any damage from the acid.

I have a question about defensive fire. On page 21 of the instructions it says "...players take turns taking a normal attack action". On that page it also says "...Hudson fires defensive fire and kills two aliens." How many attacks can you make with defensive fire? It seems to me it should be, and is worded to imply, one. However, in the example they say Hudson kills two. Thanks for the help. Your tutorials are by far the best I've found for this game.

Do the Aliens not get to move and attack after the blip is spotted? pages 22-23 seem to imply this but i cant find a solid answer

23:54 hick would have line of sight to the door on the left not that right. 27:05 gorman can’t have m40 grenades in a equipment slot that’s a weapon card. 28:55 gorman does have a activation ability. 33:27 only the left blib get revealed, the right door blocks line of sight. 36:38 hudson has to stop in front of that aliens you cannot cut corner to move and this ripley would not be able to move to the top corner nor take an attack action because her line of sight would be blocked by hudson. 39:00 aliens always move to the closed “marine” not your choice. 39:46 didn’t take a defence fire for hudson or ripley skiped a whole step???? 40:08 you revealed a weapon card that exhaust’s husdon body and we doesn’t get knock down example you were attacked but survived and your body amour was damaged and you lose it. 42:33 the door is closed vas is not adjacent to it… 48:52 again no line of sight.. 50:44 door is closed blocks line of site and use a ruler and you’ll see that your lines are way off 51:54 again you’re cutting corners with movement. 57:23 again movement sloppiness hudson would stop short of the door and not have los 100:27 can’t activated a grunt that has already been activated… 1:03:03 hicks and gorman both can make a defensive fire. 1:06:16 gorman does not have a grenade equipped he has a pistol as a back up.

"The turn dial is kind of a [newt] point at this point"

doesnt make sense. it says event cars can be played anytime even during aliens turn. so would you not havr to use a action to activate a event card?

23:50 shouldnt Hicks see the first token behind the corner because the line of sight is drawn from the extreme corners of his space (rulebook page 17)? In that case the line would cross the tokens space.

"Look into my eye."

man they really should have made it so a wy hero can give one grunt action and then marines get: private 2, sgt, 3, lieutenant 4.

Somehow it feels completely wrong that gorman is viable to act first... ^^

Can a activated grunt take a rest to recycle cards? And if they do how many cards get recycled per rest turn ?

since you had 2 "hero" characters shouldn't you of been drawing 4 motion trackers? or are there separate 1/2 player rules allowing you to use multiple heros?

Why are you moving the characters double their “move” limit? Isn’t the move action performed in “Step 4” and is capped at the character’s move limits indicated on their card?

Definitely got a few mechanics from Space Hulk.

@14:55 "Now in this game you have to use six characters in your actual party." Just got this game and I believe you but where does it say this in the rule book?

See comments on your other channel on missed rules, why two channels?

You are forgetting to Rest!

Have you done the second mission?

Not to be a nitpicker but I think he screwed up with Gorman on equipping a grenade as equipment instead of a weapon as indicated on the card

1:18:24 - bruuuuh... that's not a Smart Gun, that's definitely a Dumb Gun.

Why when you count to 4 for movement it looks like 6 or 7 😂. Is there a rule that gives them extra movement?

Looks really fun. Hoping for a second edition with pre built minis in a year or so.

53:00 Player shouldnt mean hero character used? Its not the same playing multihand with multiple heroes or with your friends all controlling one hero, in that case you draw a lot more motion tracker cards and the game is harder than soloing with multiple heroes.

Where’s my preorder 😩

I was not able to find a lot of review about this game looks cool but maybe few mission? What is your opinion worth the investment? Is not very expensive

You are so unlucky with your dice rolls.

Really useful playthrough, but you make a number of mistakes exactly at points where you want a playthrough to have the fiddly rules down. Movement, LOS, stopping movement when next to an alien, open/closed doors. Worth recapping the rules.

Good game thks for making this i enjoyed watching it but from the playthrough's i watch i think there's a lot to fix in the rulebook ( people are confused and it's totally normal ). Two things are really bothering me in the first mission 1)Line of sight fails to follow any kind of logic ( why are there thick white lines and seems like a wall at the corner, why objects are not blocking the line of sight ?) 2)Newt's movement....You ll have to make your own assumptions as to how move her and i had some situations where it felt totally awkward and not following any kind of logic. The description in the manual is just two words and it's open to so many interpretations that i feel they just wanted to release before christmas no questions asked. Designers should have more responsibility to clarify rules because it makes the game feel uncomplete and not playtested enough. I would like to see you mission 2 progress too with the rules just to check if i m right to be worried. I ll redo mission 1 and continue to the second one as well, i hope theres more official answers and faq that will clarify some basic stuff because i really want to love this game.

18:30 your in luck, in the expansion ultimate bad*sses you can equip experience cards that help create powerful characters, one of the cards in the hero line of cards can allow your character to equip the m240 flamethrower as a backup and allow you shoot your backup as a free action after using an m42a pulse rifle in an attack action similarly to using a grenade after the pulse rifle Edit* since opening the get away from her you b*tch expansion, enraged Ripley a new character you can play as instead of normal Ripley can equip the m240 as a back up as well! (Minus the free action bonus like the perk card)

A very good play through. Great explanations and very informative. I find the rule book lacking in a lot of things but your play through cleared some points. Actually the rule book sucks, very badly written. You are much better than the book. Keep up the good work.

A few issues: 1. You have to be right next to a door to open it and be within LOS if whatever is inside. 2. You can't walk diagonally across corners that jut out like you did with Gormans first move. You did the same moving the aliens. Kind of stopped watching after that, the LOS thing made the game weird. Sorry!

thanks to all the hype on youtube, I bought this game for Christmas and we set to play it three players. . . . None of us enjoyed and none of us will play this game again. Laborious hand management, mechanisms trying to be very clever and that do not make sense, old school reactions, rules with wholes bigger that your steps. The social buzz was very well orchestrated and the theme calls for us to like it, but in the end this is a very poor game that will gather dust. Well done Marketing!

Seems to be very luck based with little to no strategy besides playing against the deck system when you should be playing against the aliens? Confusing where it should be simple and simple where it should have depth. I’m dying to buy it but can’t justify another mediocre crawler to sit on the shelf