Coimbra Tutorial & Playthrough - JonGetsGames 

Thanks Marcel, it's always great to hear feedback like this :)

Thanks Brock, I'm glad you've enjoyed my videos :)

BionicBeans That’s because every player who teaches a game will almost always lose. As the game teacher in my group, it’s rare that I ever win. By belief is that the student players have less to worry about as they play since they don’t know the game as well as the teacher player. The teacher player knows everything and over thinks instead of just playing. Plus the teacher player has to break their turns so much to help the other players on their turns that they typically and sometimes purposely screw themselves over for the sake of teaching lol.

Jon you gotta stop asking these other players to your playthroughs....they always whip your ass

It's weird, in Rahdo's videos I always cheer for Jen, in slickerdrips I always cheer for Marty, but here, it's my piece dammit, it had better win!

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I'm sorry I didn't even think about spoilers! Wait, I'm not sorry, he's playing against himself and its a tutorial playthrough.

Yep, you are correct. This was pointed out earlier and I added a correction to the Klingon subtitles already :)

Thanks Christopher, I hope you enjoy the game :)

It's always great to hear things like this, thanks :)

I'm glad you liked it, and hope you enjoy it more the next time you get it to the table :)

It looks like that note was already in the Klingon subtitles. Thanks for pointing out out even so, and I'm glad you enjoyed the game :)

JonGetsGames oh I thought I had the subtitles on! Whoops!

Thats great to hear, I hope the ending wasn't a let down :P

@@JonGetsGames I think it's the constant getting of stuff (points, gold, etc) that really makes this game seem so riveting. I can't wait to tear the shrink-wrap off and play this game!

The first time I played was 3p and we sorted by pips as well as color, creating essentially a matrix of dice to choose from. This was necessary for us though since one of the players is color blind and was having a rough time with a couple of those colors.

Ah yeah, that certainly would make them be not worth grabbing :)

Dang, that is a big assumption fail there. I played it this way at BGGcon where I quickly skimmed the rules, and since I remembered playing that way I just assumed I was playing correctly! Even though I fully re-read the rules before filming this, it still squeaked through. Thanks for pointing this out, I'll make a correction in the Klingon subtitles so that others hopefully learn from my mistake. Fortunately this has very little impact on the game itself, sure the card mix would have been quite different but overall I think the only real impact is that more crown token cards were discarded than should have been, so our overall crown acquisition was likely slightly lower than average.

Interesting question, overall I don't think so. I do reroll them frequently until I get what I'm looking for though ;)

The main reason I filmed this at 2 players instead of 3 was time restraints to get this out amongst everything else I had to do last week. Even at 2 players it took me 8 hours to film this, and it likely would have been 11 or so hours with 3 players, plus all the extra editing time that the longer raw footage would have created. Honestly I do regret not sucking it up and going for 3p with this play because I don't think the player count modifications are as robust for 2p as I thought going in. Having only 1 purple and 1 green die also made the monastery map area somewhat binary. During Phase E you can perform any dice color ordering that you want, and it will matter sometimes depending on what you want to do (activate purple first to move the pilgrim and gain a bump on another track for instance). This is certainly an Engine building, resource management, pool drafting game in my opinion :) The game only has 4 castle tile options, so they are always out there for each round.

They are set up exactly like this for every 2 player game. There are less of them for 3p games and none at all in 4p.

I've had Brass Lancashire on my Patreon poll for one month and it did pretty well, but Coimbra easily beat it. It may win a future poll, though I don't think I have the time to make it happen if it doesn't end up being a winner there unfortunately.

I talked for a while about my impressions of Coimbra here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BoGd-w7rUjo.html . My opinion hasn't changed since recording that video since this playthrough is the only other time I've played it since then. I will admit that the game didn't feel as interesting at 2p vs the 3p game I played at BGGcon.

In my first play (this was my 2nd) it was 3p and I went heavy monastery and I hit all but 1 I think. Even so I won by a single point, so it seemed strong but not overly so in that moment.

Good call, it's a solid design but the downtime and crunchiness will certainly not be for everyone.

Not Jon obviously, but for me this playthough actually showcased how the purple track, while strong, isn't unbeatable. Sure the blue player won through it, but he had to invest heavily into the strategy (while red only dabbled), and IMO only won through the last card he drafted, meaning it was anyone's game until that point. Not to mention that Jon was playing in such a way to showcase different strategies (I would imagine real players would fight for purple more), and kinda 'wasted' 2 purchases - one with the grey die activation card, another when he forgo the "no purple die, move 2 steps" card. Is the purple track strong? Definitely. Could you win while ignoring it completely? Arguable, but likely not. Is it a sure win if you invest substantially in it? Nope, not in my book.

I also don't believe the Purple track to be too strong. It is important but not an unbeatable strategy. I dominated a game with the Green Track where a player focused on Purple and I won by a fair margin. There is a fair bit of variation to the game and that what needs to be focused on, not just one track.

I don't feel like purple is too strong after two plays. As I pointed out in the wrap up, the purple track was heavily incentivized this game due to the random voyage and monastery layout. I have read on BGG that many think that purple is overpowered, and perhaps it is, but in my experience I haven't seen that yet.

Wow, I don't know how I made that mistake. Fortunately we made SO much gold over the course of the game that we never came close to spending it all so I doubt this actually impacted the final scores. Thanks for pointing this out, I've added a note about it to the Klingon subtitles.

Yep, not sure what was wrong with my simple math brain when I recorded this. Thanks for pointing it out, i've added a note to the subtitles.

Dang, I certainly had some trouble with payment errors in this playthrough. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll add a note to the klingon subtitles about it.

Haha, well I'm glad you were able to follow it. Normally I can teach everything as it comes, but the tightly connected mechanics here meant I had to frontload more details than I usually like to in these playthroughs.

Oh jeez, you are right! I'll add a note to the klingon subtitles about. I went back and watched that bit and honestly didn't say much more than "lets get the green 1 so that we can grab a cheap card as well as bump the green track to get some more points". Thanks for pointing this out, sorry it got chopped off in the edit!

Huh, I didn't change anything up with this edit. Did this feel worse than my other recent videos, or is this an issue you've been having in others?

@@JonGetsGames It's the same in all videos. I recently experiemented with the Gate effect because I wanted to eliminate some noise from my voice recording, and suddenly my voice sounded similar to what I hear in your videos. Then I realized - this is it, and that's why I wanted to let you know.

@@nithrania-gameinanutshell Well I appreciate the feedback about it. In the latest edit I messed around with the audio options in Final Cut abit and honestly ended up liking the way it currently sounds the best. I agree that it does seem slightly gated, but when I pull that back then I just get the echo back in that I'm trying to nullify. I'm far from an recorded audio expert, and at some point would like to get the main audio feeling closer to my natural sound but so far this is as good as I seem to be able to get it.