Hegemony Strategies For Each Class 

Watching this in preparation for my second game at a convention this coming weekend. Good to see you, Rich 😁

So there is a Chinese version of the game?

It really is such a great game. Enjoy your game today!

Awesome! It is really a great game. :). I’ll be posting a “how to teach” video in about 16 hours and linking it to BGG if that would be a helpful resource as well.

@@LakesideGamers5 oh absolutely! Looking forward to it * _ *

You are welcome! I hope it is a helpful resource. :)

Thanks!

As a whole I treat it as a low priority policy, but the Capitalist wants to keep fewer public businesses so more workers work for the capitalist. The working class likes more business work options, and working for the public companies allows the working class to buy from the state instead of the capitalist, slowing down the capitalist. Middle class will go whichever way benefits them. If they want middle class workers to hire out, more public companies is a plus. If they want to hire working class workers, then less public company competition is better. The state likes more companies to make more money and potentially have the option for more loans, but sometimes having to buy the extra companies and pay workers when the other players don’t buy the goods the state produces creates dicey situations for the state.

If you have 3 or 4 players, the middle class gets to be kingmaker, and if they want policies to stay in the middle, it is hard to get them to the other spots unless you have an absurd amount of purple cubes to sway the elections. Those labor unions can help, but it is tricky if the others work in concert against your A proposals.

@@LakesideGamers5well, I played the working class in a 4-player game last weekend, and in the end the State was the "kingmaker", mostly helping out the middle class and even helping it (him) get all 5 policies in the middle spot (which meant a whopping 15 points at game end!). but after the game finished, I realized, the middle class never took the "buy goods and services" action and used them only from their storage, instead of the "G&S space" on their player board.. lol! well, it seems no one paid attention to that, and I was too tired the day before to rewatch the whole rules video (it was my second playthrough, after months hiatus)..

@@wicked8576 yea, little things that everyone misses make a big difference. :). A thought I had would be to try to do some horse trading with capitalist and/or the state to try to get them to vote with you instead of middle class (maybe offer to vote for lower taxes with the CC if they will vote for free education or something like that), and that could help with the logjam in the middle, but I think doing that type of subtle negotiation and trade will work better when everyone is more well versed in the game.

Convince middle class and working class to raise taxes.

@@LakesideGamers5 How? Middle class benefits from taxes, don't they?

Middle class does get some benefit from lower taxes for their businesses, but their workers are taxed like working class workers. I would angle to offer something middle class wanted policy wise in exchange for higher taxes. It might not work, but it would be the thing I would attempt.

I’ve appreciated your support, and I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the videos! More will be coming on the horizon. It has been a busy summer, and I’m doing this as a hobby, so I chose to scale back instead of sacrificing time with my family.

there's no such thing as "free education" but there's a reason why people pay for it although they could get it "for free".

But capitalists don't want free education irl because uneducated workers are easier to exploit.

In which way does it benefit the capitalist? And even the middle class might not want that.

The one way that cheaper education could benefit the capitalist is allowing more skilled workers to hire and open up businesses, but otherwise cheaper public education takes away business from the capitalist trying to sell their own education. And endgame the capitalist would want those points by having all of the policies on the right track. (This is all in game…. I won’t make any grand declarations one way or another about the real world. :). )

@@LakesideGamers5 I mean sure we are talking about the game not the real world. In no game I played the capitalist ever had problems to get enough workers for their companies, but even if so that benefit doesn't outweight the downsides in the slightest in my opinion. Especially when in my experience the state should be prevented as much points as possible, as they seem to be the strongest of the 4 classes without rules updates.