I got excited when I saw this in my subscription feed. I just joined a gaming group last week (via MeetUp) and I saw a couple playing this Imperial Settlers game. I sat next to them thinking they were part of a gaming group but they were on their date and they just happened to walk in the same location at the same time as a gaming group! They were so nice to let me ask them about the game and I told them that I'd be interested to play with them if they come next week and join a gaming group. They said yes! Because of this tutorial video, I'll be ready to play this game when I see them! I'm so excited. Thanks, Rodney! Perfect timing!
We like to double check if we understand the game well from the rulebook and it's always a pleasure to find out you covered that particular game. Just like now where I misunderstood some rules and found out thanks to your great instructional video. Thanks!
I finally started to just bring up your videos to show players while I set up a game rather than me being the only who watches and * tries * to teach after set up. lol. Obviously, just watching the full videos you put out goes MUCH better
Great implementation of things discussed in the previous video like hand size/privacy and limit of components (or lack thereof). As always, very good job.
Amazing video! In just 15 minutes I understood everything, so we can try this game (and then if it's so good then buy it). Are you going to make a video about the Deus board game?
I’m late to the party. This game arrives today and I’m looking forward to playing with my wife. Your tutorial is going to save us a lot of time. Thanks so much!
Brilliant as always Rodney. Just bought a copy of the game with the first expansion online. And yes, I still think you and Pep look the same. (yes it's the guy that started that rumour. :) )
Hope you would do this video Rodney. I found a mistake that we were playing. You are the king of Instructional videos buddy. Will you ever do one explaining the Atlanteans? With all the new stuff in it, it might help players. Thanks for the great video's.
Great video, thank you! I noticed you mentioned that faction locations can never be raised (except by the Japanese faction), but you also often added defense to faction locations. I'm guessing that was just an oversight... or can the Japanese attack other faction's locations as well?
Holy crap. My brother got me this game for Christmas but we haven't played it yet. Now I'm watching this and I'm so confused... I'm gonna come back when I'm not half asleep, maybe I'll understand the rules better haha
Hey Kash, it's been awhile since I shot this, but I believe it has to do with some of their specific cards - for individual factions, you'd want to see their specific rules, if any.
Somehow I missed from the rules that you can do certain actions multiple times in one action (like turning in 4 workers for two things, using an action location twice if it allows). Thanks.
Another great video! Question...if you had an Action card placed on the Action row that said you could pay one wood for a Victory Point, could you instead substitute a coin for the wood for that Action? I assume you probably could because you could substitute a coin for a wood when paying the cost of laying down a location card.
In the video, you show that the Egyptian faction receives a few extra special tokens. However, I don't think the video addresses what these are for or how they are used. Are they just a special token that is used on certain building effects?
Glad you liked the video Alex! I've been wearing glasses since I was in grade 3 :) Sometimes I've worn contacts on the show, but have been wearing glasses for quite awhile on here now too.
I don't recall off the top of my head, but how the tokens are used is usually indicated on the cards that use them, or in the rule book index on the various cards with special rules.
IIRC, there is a card in Egyptian deck (Ra's Temple?) that allows you to claim your enemy's action cards as your own, for the end of your turn. You place Egyptian token on it to mark it as your own and gain any benefits it provides (when using action).
In order to discard a location/building that you have built, do you have to raze it first? I thought you needed to raze a building in order to build another that had the building icon as a resource required? Or can you just remove/discard in order to do that ?
+HITFORDCYCLE1 You actually can't raze buildings you've already built (only those in your hand). Satisfying a House icon when trying to build something is a separate process. You simply discard a building you previously built in order to pay that part of the cost. You do not raze anything during that build action. Hope that helps!
+carter grantham It was a reference to computer strategy series called The Settlers, well known in Europe (especially in Germany and Poland), but not so much in US. See: PC vs. consoles.
So to clarify, when you raise someone else’s building, you get whatever the card says you get and they always get just one wood for a consolation prize?
+Robert Topper The game moves more quickly at the start, when you don't have a lot of buildings out, but as you discover more combos and your empire grows, it gives you more options for each round. The answer is going to be pretty dependent on the number of players and their knowledge of the game, to be sure.
+Robert Topper Just another key to game time...the more people you have the longer the game will be since it does have some analysis paralysis, but not too bad. My favorite way to play this is 2 player since that keeps the game time down to about 1 hour
Sorry, my wording there is a tad confusing. When I say "it" is returned to the supply, I'm referring to the Defense token, not the card itself. The card that was razed still functions as normal (it is turned into a foundation).
Rules question: I have played this a few times, but I read recently on the internet someone saying that the step where you can take two meeples to gather one resource can be done multiple times, but it has to be done all in one turn. In other words, you can have two meeples gather a stone, then in the next turn build something that gives you a meeple as a the production bonus and finally in the next turn use that meeple with another to gather another resource. I've looked at the rules and it doesn't seem to stipulate this. Thoughts? Thank you.
Question: if someone razes my location that has a defense token, you say that "it is returned to the supply". Do you mean the defense token, or the location is also discarded? [10:53] I'm guessing the location stays at the table, so I can use to pay future costs...
Thank you for asking this as I came up with the same question after watching the video :) Big thank you to Rodney for answering back :) I'd be lost without your videos!
I scrolled as far as I could and looked like no one asked this question and I couldn't find the answer in the rule book. The rule book says that in the "clean up" phase, you discard all the resources, tokens and coins except what your faction feature states. The faction feature doesn't allow that many things to be left behind. For example the Roman faction feature says "can keep as many raze tokens". If I discard everything except my raze tokens, how will I acquire resources in the second round to build locations? The production locations that you showed in your video under production phase, you didn't mention that you had to use resources to build those locations in the first place. Please clarify the production phase and what happens after clean ups.
Hey Turfa, very little carries over between rounds, as you note, but don't forget, at the start of every round is a Production phase, it's detailed at this point in the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K66BCYMuqwQ.htmlm5s Watch until the 4 minute mark and that should cover the basic details. You'll regain all the items listed in the production area of your board, plus from deals you've made and buildings that produce. It's generally a good idea to build a couple of Production buildings in the first round, to help boost your production in future rounds. Any time you add a building to your play area, for example, a Production building, you have to pay the cost to build it. Once built, it stays there, and each production phase will Produce the goods mentioned in it's description. You'll find the process to build a structure here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K66BCYMuqwQ.htmlm46s Between those 2 clips, let me know if there's anything else that you might be unsure about, and I'll be happy to assist! Hope you have fun playing. Oh, and if it might help, we have a full play through series, so you can see the game in action, with full examples of a game from start to finish, starting here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4WA4aAiUk3g.html
so samurais will keep being in their location until the end of the game, and it will always take 3 raze tokens to destroy japanese faction that has any samurai on it?
Not necessarily. You gain the Goods depicted in the Raze field of the card (which could be a victory point, but it isn't always). You'll find all the rules for razing here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K66BCYMuqwQ.htmlm22s
Watch It Played If I play it with expansions , should I need to choose 30 cards (including base game’s cards and expansion’s cards) to be my deck of this game?
Oh, I was just wondering if you've played IS with the expansions and which one you preferred. I'm looking forward to the Aztec expansion coming in September.
I don't get it - you said that a player can only raze another player's common cards, but then you talk about adding samurais as Japan to your faction cards for protection. What's the point of it?
Happy to help clarify. The Japanese faction has slightly different rules, you CAN raze their buildings. So they have the option of protecting themselves. This is mentioned here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K66BCYMuqwQ.htmlm29s
***** Oooh, dunno why I missed that part. Thanks. And btw your channel is THE best of all, and I MEAN of all and in all aspects. It's enjoyable to watch, it's the only channel that shows ALL the rules, making it easy to jugde whether or not this game's for you, the response time in comments is super-fast, the high quality production I don't need to mention. I'm sure there's more. Great work, I hope this channel is profitable to you guys, great work deserves great reward.
What happens if I have 2 feature cards built with the same feature "Each time you build gray building gain 1gold or 1point". If I build a gray building do I get 2gold or 2 points?
