NOTE: During final scoring, for every face-up claim token on the board, all players tied for the most towns in that region score half the number of points shown on that token, rounded down.
Always amazed at the clarity of Rodney’s teaching. This game looks like it has tight mechanics with meaningful player choices. I really like the elegant and clean artwork which provides great readability. I’ll pick this one up as soon as possible.
Here I was cruising the internet, minding my own business and out pops Rodney. "Yo I am teaching another game over here," he hollered very politely. I flip it in reverse, pop the glove department, pull out my bacon rations and watch. At this point, I don't even know what game you're teaching--I'm just here to support you. I give you 5 🥓 way up!
Awesome! I know a lot of people don't appreciate the art style on this game, but I love it. Very much up my alley. Same goes for time period games, especially in this period. Fantastic! Can't wait to see reviews and find out MSRP.
Many thanks Rodney, your videos are of great help, whenever we are about to choose a new game to purchase, and whenever we want to get the rules right. Just purchased it and like the game. Greetings from Czech Republic (same continent as Ireland ;) ) and thanks again!
@@WatchItPlayed Irishman here. if you ever want help with name pronounciations with Irish games id be more than happy to write it out phoenetically for you
Thanks for the super clear explanation. We got this game for Christmas and have played three times, but we were missing some subtleties in the rules that are really going to change the game play. It really is a fun game, but will be even better now.
Rodney, The rules that came in this game (obviously translated from German) are so obtuse and hard to understand (and missing in places) I would have never played the game properly without your terrific tutorial. Thank You!
Just got this for Christmas and your video has just tidied up some questions I had after reading the rulebook. Looking forward to playing it tonight! Merry Christmas WiP!!
Except for the victory tiebreakers, the first place tiebreakers can be generalized to "if there's a tie for first, no change occurs, move to the next step". For ties below first, you get (or lose) the same thing you would have without the tie. The extra bits are the "if you'd end your turn tied on the marriage track, fall back til you're alone or a the bottom" and "if there's a tie for Viking lead during an invasion, the choice of town(s) lost falls to the player(s) losing town(s)"
Hi Rodney! Question: If you’re the majority disc holder, do you have to place a monastery when scoring the church region? I’ve heard the designer say this is an optional placement and that the wrong language was used in the rules translation to English. I think the player still removes all their disks no matter if they place or not. Thanks and great job as always!
This is a tough one to answer, as it sounds like the designer and publisher might have had different ideas about the intention. I know this is the ruling based on what was shared and approved by the publisher. If you have a link to the designer's comments, I'd be happy to look at it.
Thanks for the explanation (and for all rules explanations for other games). I also have a rules question. During upkeep, when deciding who claims the region tiles, I assume you can claim region tiles from any region that is flipped over? (Even if a town was covered by Vikings and therefore no longer meets the requirements to be flipped). And my actual question, during upkeep when deciding the flipped region tiles, do you only look at the region tiles that are still on the gameboard, or can you 'steal' region tiles from other players when you gain control of that region? Related, do you lose the region tile when you no longer have more towns in that region (in case of a tie), during upkeep, and so return it to the gameboard face up?
The only question I have rules wise is for the final round. Is the final round the one where the princess of Denmark is married or is there another round after that? Other than that, fantastic video, I'm super excited to get a copy and play this!
Hey Charles, you'll find that covered here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qhdyWNRixqw.html When you get to the end of a round where the deck is empty (so that would be the round that the princess was taken from the deck and put on the board, which is also the round that the princess is married or discarded), the game ends. Have a great time playing!
@@kindertuintm3637 I tend to avoid giving personalized recommendations. What I like, someone else might not - but hopefully you see a few games on here that might be what you are looking for!
Are an individual card's rewards simultaneous or do the occur in the printed order? i.e if my card reward is two coins and an optional 'buy a town for 5 coins,' and I currently have 3 coins, can I spend the two coins I just received as part of the 5 coins I need to take control of a town?
Hey Rodney! Great video as always. Regarding end game scoring, it seems you missed the part that face up claim tokens on the board are also scored, each player with most towns in those regions score half of the points shown on that token (rulebook, p. 10).
Hey Jeremy! Yep, they will gain the ring, because they will resolve the top action of their card, which always shows this symbol (which causes them to claim the ring): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qhdyWNRixqw.html
As we have talked about, unfortunately, you lost me at 3 to 4 player. We rarely have three players. Which is really too bad. I know we would love this game. We both love kingdom games and Viking games, and this has a bit of both; not to mention it is based in Ireland which is where our ancestors are from…I was looking forward to this when I saw the other folks in the Watch it Played team talk about it… Oh well, can’t have them all…
@@WatchItPlayed Of course. Always happy to support the channel. Plus I wanted to learn about the game anyway. Take care, and have a wonderful holiday, my friend.
i am getting a Crusader Kings vibe off from this game even if made in a more should we say, casual way :) i mean it features "the tutorial island" of that game, ie Irland. And it focus on politics, marriages and terrain control as well
Hi Rodney. Your videos are always spot on. Thank you so much. After watching your video multiple times I taught the game to play. Our very first round we played cards face down and revealed simultaneously, and resolved the cards. Something felt wrong so I checked the rules and realised that the start player plays a card face up, followed by the other players in a clockwise manner. I realise your video has to be quick and to the point and I probably connected A to B to make C, but upon watching your video the following day I realise that you did brush over very quickly how cards are played. I know, I realise that you did state that the start player plays a card then follows clockwise, but seen as it's a major part of the card play, it would have been good to be specific and mention face-up. Please don't take this as a harsh criticism of your videos. They are fantastic and again, I really appreciate your hard work that you and your team put into this. I would just like to point out something that tripped me up initially. Brian Boru was a hit with us, as is Watch it played. All the best, MArk