At 1:12:50 you added three Barbarians to the Card Row from left to right. According to p.14 of the Rulebook, Townsfolk are added left to right, but Barbarians are added right to left. It makes a difference when adding three or more Barbarians because the costs in provisions changes.
This video was super helpful! I was grateful to see that you didn’t beat it. The first time I played, I got killed in the second round! I reset and played a few times to get the lay of the land. Now I’m realizing that you probably need the legacy path to balance it out. It’s a deceptively challenging game and I’m loving it.
Great playthrough Mike! Really helped me understand the game and will be adding it to my collection. Also great editing and rules clarifications by Nick. Overall great video, love your playthroughs.
I smashed it the second time I played! I made it look easy! When I ran out of wood and shells in the main supply, I began to realize how many times I’d inadvertently cheated. Now I’m binging playthroughs to hone my understanding of the rules. The comments section is often as helpful as the videos themselves. Thanks everyone!
This game feels like Shem flexing his design chops. The ramping tension, the great box design, avoiding broken combos, and balancing it all. And if that's not enough, there's a campaign too. His later games have been really puzzle-y, trying to find the right worker, resource, tuck a card, discard a card combos, but this one takes it to... 11.
I thought for a moment that the opening angle was how it might be the whole time to avoid spoilers, and I was like, "yeah I guess I'm just watching him for an hour."
I just got the game recently and awesome play through! I kept trying to guess ahead of time for every round what you might do. I’m glad I got to see this video!
!00% on board for the kickstarter! I got into board gaming in lockdown with afternoons on my own… opened up my world to all this goodness! Thanks for the play through.
Great job, almost did it! When I played this, the first farm I always built was the one that gives provision, funnily the only one you didn't build. I always found myself short of them, so that farm is super useful. I would only ever tuck cards below that give workers, you just need sooo many of them in the end. Also I would almost never discard the townsfolk cards from the top row, only if I really needed the bonus in THAT round. It's always better to just build your deck. I won the campaign 7-4 and enjoyed every single game. The game changes enough each time, that it doesn't feel the same. One of my defeats was funny though, I couldn't build the first canal by the third round, so the first time I had to shuffle, the flood ended my game. I wasn't paying attention, and I was one shell short to build it, and none of my cards would give me one, nor the ones in the top row. It was very unfortunate.
Also my very first game I messed up, and I thought if you bribe the barbarians, you also discard them. So I did just that, and won super easily. I thought i was a genius!!! hahahah
This is a great look at this exciting new release. I'm always amazed at how few "takebacks" there are when you record these. I know that when I play new solo games, I make a bunch of mistakes that would be tough to watch back. You do a great job explaining your actions as well. Doesn't it seem like the townsfolk/barbarian row is a reverse Lost Ruins of Arnak card row?
this was an awesome playthrough! easy to follow and basically taught me the game that's Mike! and thanks NICK for catching the cheater mccheaterson :P ...I mean honest solo mistake! this game looks really tight especially that endings holy moly !
@@hermesnoel apparently it wasn't pandemic related - it was due to a sale to a different board game cafe company that fell through after the founders retired. In any case I wish I'd gone one last time too, it was where I started playing modern board games back when it opened.
@@syklonic I just meant I was not able to visit one last time because of the pandemic. Regardless, it is a bummer. I introduced a lot of buddies to the hobby there and tried out a lot of games I later bought. It is wild a city the size of LA doesn't have more venues like that. I guess commercial real estate here is just too bananas right now.
bravo!... nice video... in the last round, if you had spent the necessary resources to resist the attack of barbarians instead of trying to defeat them, you would have won I'm sure 😉
This game clearly ramps up in a good way. I was find it a bit bland from the first half, but things get intense at the end! Legacy of Yu was already on my radar, and it will stick to it after this playthrough. Thanks! EDIT: I erased my question because I realized I mixed stuff ^^'
The canal cards don’t have anything they provide on the back it’ll all be listed on The front. Perhaps you’re referring to Huts? Cards With the green buildings. If I didn’t flip any of those to look then yes that’d be something I missed.
@@TheBrothersMurph You were quick to respond xD I just realized I indeed mixed the Canal with the Hut cards. Those are the ones you need to check the back and I think you did it properly. I guess the tension at the end got me confused
don't you get the resources in the red flag as well, if you dismiss townsfolk? or do you need to dismiss them from hand to get this many things? :) looks really fantastic!
If you dismiss them from the row on top of the board you just get what is it in the top then or not the red. Those come from discarding from your hand to the discard pile
Not sure but I think you could have won in the last round if you stopped earlier and just bribed them instead of trying to fight them. But I enjoyed the playthrough looks like a game I will buy.
That is absolutely possible I’ll have to go back and look at all my resources and such! I forget sometimes that paying the baddies off might just be the best course of action haha
Yup, could have bribed the last 4 Barbarians (left to right) via trading 3 shells for a brick/wood, you had a white worker, using black worker for a yellow, using black/red worker for the other brick/wood.
Na, Mike was right. As he mentioned at that point in the video, he needed to remove all but 2 of the Barbarians to survive, since 4 more were going to be added (you have to finish out the round to win).
I’m trying to understand the mechanics: At about 46 minutes you spend 3 workers to defeat a barbarian. Shouldn’t you have placed a worker in your spot at the bottom that gives another worker in order to use that one to defeat the barbarian but still get the placed worker back next round? Is that how it works?
Probably missing something but in the last round when you suffered attacks why couldn’t you use your last laborer to bribe one of the barbarians and the three shells for a clay/wood to bribe one of the others?
This was so good! You were one resource short of victory. 3 🐚 = 🪵 or clay. You had 1 laborer. You needed another wood/clay to bribe everyone. 😩😩😩This game looks so good. I vowed not to add to my Kickstarter list until I receive a game IRL😂 but this is on my check it out as soon as it comes to retail list. Thanks for sharing this play through. Garphill Games never disappoints.
I just got this in the mail the other day! I have read the rule book and watched this video and one or two others to help solidify rules. Thanks Mike, for this awesome, spoiler free run through! As always, you guys rock👊 tomorrow will be time, to outrun the flood! 🌊🚣♂️
Thought I was doing great with only two more canals to build and a couple spaces ahead of the flood. Built my deck up a lot to try to keep the flood at bay. Then I ran into worker production problems to keep up with getting rid of Barbarians. I had all workers equal to each other except Archers, and of course the Barbarians I could afford to get to required two archers and I only had one. (Warning: SPOILERS) The barbarians I defeated, |one made me destroy two cards and the other didn’t go down, caused another barbarian to come back in it’s place.| This led to me not being able to defeat 3, with the amount of workers I had, and that’s how I got overrun with Barbarians. I had such a blast though and can’t wait to play this more and more!
