At the Gates of Loyang Extended Runthrough 

I really like the various mugs in your videos. I used to make a whole bunch of mugs like that when I had access to a ceramic studio. Definitely something I want to get back into.

Taking a loan at 10:55 was the right thing to do. Without the loan, you stay as you are. With the loan, you can afford to pay one to advance a space. Granted, you lose that space later, so that winds up a wash--but you have the remaining four coins from the loan for use. In effect, it's a choice between getting four bucks now, or getting nothing now, but having a slightly easier buy if you want to advance multiple spaces in a single turn. But the four bucks would make up for that.

Thanks, belatedly, for a great video. Gonna need to pick this one up one of these days.

You forgot to fill up the whole field of Jen with radish, not only 4 out of 6. If I've seen that right (17'12''). Thanks for sharing the gameplay ;)

I would LOVE to see a full runthrough of all the games, but I can see how that would get tedious and take up a lot of time (not only to play the games, but to record and upload them as well). It would be really helpful if you could include a final scoring for the game though or at least give me a hint as to how a typical game wraps up or comes to a close ^_^ THANK YOU for what you do provide though, it's a big help (even if it can get annoying because I can't choose which game to buy next :P ).

thank you for this, very helpful for me!

Did that starting player token come with the game? If not where did you get it, Richard?

Have you ever thought to finish the games so we can see how the final scoring goes? I understand that some games could take quite a bit more time to end, but I always like to see how a game ends. Love your work, if its not feasible no problem at all :). Also I dont know if its just me, but the buttons dont pop up for me anymore.

At 16:00, you have Jen trade in a radish and a pumpkin for a leek, which she plants. Then she buys Wheat for $3 to trade in for a Radish to plant. Then she saves an extra bean. Is there any good reason for saving the bean? Wouldn't it have been better to trade in the bean and pumpkin for the leek, then plant her original radish and save her money and merchant?

Or maybe even better -- she could have converted a pumpkin into a radish, satisfy the radish customer, then use that money and the Haggler to buy 2 leeks. Then, plant 1 of those and use the other and her remaining bean to satisfy the other customer! And after the harvest at 21:00, should you have flipped over more fields? Or is there a limit on number of active fields?

Just a thought, because maybe I have the rules confused. At around 16:16 Jen trades for the Leek and then immediately plants it. Could she not have instead traded it to her 'market' (for 2 coins i believe) and then used the card she just acquired to buy BOTH leeks from her market for 1 coin? That way she could then have planted the field AND satisfied her customer. And be +1 coin. Or did I break a rule. Also ... lets see that missing Ora et Labora run through :0)