When you use the landing pot action, you skip step 1... but do you still get the bonus from the turn order spot and collect your workers from the surface?
Thanks Chris. A few people have said that. I actually feel that with my last few videos, each one has been my best yet, but this one certainly required a lot of effort and I'm very happy with the end result :)
This has been one of the best board game tutorials I've ever seen. I got On Mars a few days ago, watched one other tutorial and still felt lost. This video was so well structured and paced however, that I feel completely confident to set it up and play a game. Thank you so much for how much work this must have been to make!
I've always been a fan of Vital Lacerda designed games. Man, this really is shaping up to be another fascinating brain-burner for sure! Great video on teaching the game.
Fabulous! I love how the movie on the shelf changes constantly too. That’s a great touch. The rulebook was great as was this. Thanks for all your hard and great work Paul!
I like reading the rule book as i play through the game for the first time. I follow that with watching a how to play video to see if rules were missed. I will admit... rules were missed. HAHA! Great how to video. You and Watch it Played are always the first channels I check for a how to.
You made this game SO understandable. Thank you so much, looking forward to playing this soon, and I was initially quite intimidated... until I saw Paul Grogan was on the job! Keep up the excellent work!
Very well done video for a highly complicated game. Thanks for taking the time to do this and clearly pushing through the process of wrapping one's head around all the intricacies.
The best explanation of On Mars that one could have ever made. After trying to figure out how to play the game myself and to teach my friend later on, I realised how much effort was put in to make this video, The explanation is so streamlined and answer all of the questions that I had when I was reading the rule book myself.
Thanks so much! Not every detail sunk in, because I'm tired from work, but I'm excited to try this game with friends tomorrow. Changing films and books on the shelf was a nice touch, I appreicate it ;]
Thank you so much for your videos. While I get everything I need from reading the rules you take my confidence in interpretation of them from 10 to 100 every time. You certainly are not the only one making videos like this but you are by far the best hands down.
Seriously well done. I just played this game at PAX unplugged and was totally hooked, and this rules explanation is phenomenal. I’m just going to have my friends watch this, no way I can teach it this well!
My compliments for a thorough overview of the gamerules, good pronounciation, useful examples of a action and a good video montage! Seeing an image with the status of things before and after the action really helps out!
You Sir, are a machine :) Such a complex game explained crystal clear (as always). Each aspect is shown in great detail. I'm getting my copy tomorrow. I enjoyed this video a lot, and will probably be coming back to it for reference a lot. Thanks!
Been writing down the rules for a week now, just starting to under stand how the buildings work, and bot/rovers. Now i must understand executive actions, cant wait to terrorize my family with this game.
WAW !! You always find a way to explain very well and very usefull, even a such complicated game as this one.... it seems more complex than Lisboa... But now everything is clear in my head.. ready to explain to my mates !! THANKS !
I would say it is more complex than Lisboa. Thanks for the kind words, videos like this take a long time to create, and a lot of the time is spent in the planning stages, scripting, storyboarding, etc.
Great video. Also, I do believe I saw the cover for War of the Worlds, as narrated by the one and only Richard Burton. Classic. Let’s go Thunder Child.
Thanks for another great rules video. Imagine, I spent maybe 2-3 weeks on and off learning the game. Than Yesterday made my wife play it with me. She freaking beat me 135 to 83.
Thank you so much, Paul. Awesome explanation! Amazing how you manage to structure this huge amount of information in a way that (even) I can follow. Great work! :)
Paul, thank you for the terrific video. I've read the rules which are well done, but this video really makes it clear how to play the game, although the strategies will be an ongoing discovery. I did have one clarification though -- when we first build a mine complex (2+ mines), we get to put a progress cube down in that fifth column showing the mineral, correct? However, that does not advance the LSS. I think that is right, but it is not really mentioned in the rulebook or the video, so I wanted to be sure.
I thought I did mention that in the rulebook and video, but you are correct. The first time you create or expand a mine complex, you get to put your Mine progress cube into the progress area. The LSS doesn't change, as Mines are not part of the LSS. So yep, looks like you got it right :)
Brilliant stuff Paul, just about to play for the first time. I have not felt so intimidated about learning a game for years but as usual you've produced a brilliant tutorial. Intimidation has turned to excitement.
Walked past you at the UK Games Expo and bought On Mars right at that stand you were near :) Didn't say hi, as I didn't want to bother you. But I'm definitely watching your rules explanation. Good stuff.
I like to work the other way around. I love the video to have a quick feeling of the rules and then I will dive in the book to let it all sink in. This video is also great to have a quick update on the rules if you haven't played the game in a while.
Amazing. I'm gonna need to use this to make teaching notes. Usually I have a strict order I like to teach thing in but this game requires some sidebars, and you chose them perfectly to make this make sense.
13:11 I've notice one little missing thing Paul, maybe i'm wrong but it seems to me you did not mentioned it. You say that minerals can be used as wild card resources and can be used as anyone of the 4 other resources. It's true but there's an exception to that. It's when you complete a contract. You must have exactly the resources required to do so. I think it's not possible to explain everything but i think this is important :-)
I have never seen such great tutorial videos for boardgames in my whole life! What do you think of Gaia Project? Ever played it? Also, the British accent sounds so wholesome to my German ears! The guys from the US always sound like a bunch of dying frogs in a pond. Keep up the great work!
In the setup - how is order for placing and revealing starting buldings? First reveal starting building on the map, or first players places their starting shelter (and starting buildings are unrevealed)?
I've been really hit-and-miss with Vital's games (CO2 being the real low point, sadly, as I love the theme), but thought The Gallerist was alright and really enjoyed Lisboa, and this one looks pretty good, but just a matter of finding a victim or 2. Great job with the video as always!
Paul, sorry if this has been asked before. When the end game is triggered you say finish this round then play another round. Does the round consist of one turn for every player or does a round consist of a number of turns depending on where the shuttle is positioned. In other words if the Shuttle is at 3 do we each get another three turns after the end game was triggered or do we only get one more turn no matter where the shuttle is? Thanks in advance.
Ok yes excellent work, we couldn't have learned this game without you. But let's talk about the dvds. Is that something you always do and we've just never noticed? We were highly amused and kept calling out when it changed.
