Mage Knight - Solo Conquest 2020 - DAY 1 

"Let's play some Mage Knight." I've never heard a more satisfying sentence in my life. So many content creators dredge up the first 1-2 minutes of a video with introductions and recaps, which is fair but gets repetitive over the years. Thank you for respecting our time.

Ricky: "Let's play some Mage Knight." Me: "Yes, yes indeed"

I love it. "Let's play some Mage Knight." And just jump right in.

Ricky: "Let's play some Mage Knight." Me: Clicks the Like button

Back to Mage Knight... how great. As a matter of fact, you started my love for boardgames with your old MK videos. Although my wallet isn't thankful, I really am, for starting me on that journey. Thanks Ricky.

Ricky and Mage Knight....fantastic entertainment.

Ricky Royal and Mage Knight... I am looking forward to this absolutely. I wish you well on your adventure. Thank you for sharing your insight and passion for the game.

My mother, my dear friends, magic the gathering, and mage knight. That is my life

Thank-you for not having 3 minutes of introduction and rambling before the good stuff starts. Take note other video makers! Good video - thanks.

Great to see another round of Mage Knight. Please make another one !! Thanks.

I really like watching you play Mage Knight. I bought this game because of you. Your Mage Knight and War of the Ring videos are the best!

I'm 8 seconds in and have to say: thank you! I probably wouldn't enjoy this game a lot if it weren't for your videos. Thanks for being there!

Your videos are always informative and entertaining. RR you are the reason I purchased MK and learnt the rules so easily. I have to thank you for that. I have enjoyed every game no matter how frustrating it can be at times. Thanks again.

I friggin' love this game so much, it's the perfect content to watch. Thank you!

YES!!!!!!!! A fresh mage knight play through to enjoy thank you soooo much

Love your Mage Knight videos! Thanks for sharing

Oh wow, what an unexpected treat! Thanks for doing this again Ricky. Cheers!

Thank you so much for another fantastic playthrough, i really missed these videos series, MK is the solo king!

You got me playing the game and I can’t get enough watching Mage Knight run-throughs 🥰

It feels like 2012 again. I am glad to see you take another go at this. Your content is amazing as always. Also, we need to increase our reputation by 1 after we take out the zombie horde. Rampaging faction enemies give reputation the same way as their non-faction counterparts.

And STILL the gold standard for MK videos. Bravo!

This is by far my favorite board game... I really like your videos!

You've made me love this game from day one.... Many years ago. Thank you

Found your channel and subbed because of your MK vids. Very happy you’re making more, thanks! :)

Oh man!! These videos got me to buy the game all those years ago. Never regretted it. Seems like these videos will restore my flame for this game. :)

So happy to see this! Like others here your first MK vids got me into board gaming. And during lockdown ... MK feels even more relevent!

Glad you took the time to go back to it, I’m doing the same since last week with this quarantine thing, what a coincidence cause I had to check your old videos in fact!

I would have conceded so hard after that start. Really looking forward to seeing if you can pull this off, thanks for uploading.

Yours was the first board game channel I subscribed to (2012) and Mage Knight was the first game play through I watched. This upload therefore is a very pleasant surprise. Thank you.

Well ... That was unexpected. Brings me back to when i discovered your channel and wanted to learn this new and complex games i had just received called Mage knight. Oh my how time goes by. Thank you to bring me back to those happy times.

So you *were* recording when you posted on Twitter the other day. Very glad to see another Mage Knight series from you. Always fun to watch!

Your videos really taught me how to play this wonderful game, thank you for a new video!

oh! how did I miss you posting these?! perfect quarantine viewing material! I'll be catching up and probably playing my own MK right along side ya, M8!

Again, thanks for all your MK videos! Such a joy each time. I watched all your series many times :-)

WOW!! This is great! I ordered mage knight just by watching your videos (still waiting for it to arrive!)

Man you are the best!!! I've been trying to find mage knight gameplay for a while. I've learned all the rules, but I still suck at it. So I have tried to just watch someone play, and not explain every little rule. Do more of these pleaseeeee

Commenting 2020 clip is weird, but cannot help to do it. It's seen in BGG forum that this channel is the most educative one. Really like hearing good players' explanation and that makes watching game play meaningful.

whoohoo, mage knight series again! love it, thanks!

YEES. More mage knight! I´m hyped

Hey Ricky, nice to see some MK again! Thanks to you and your videos, I bought and learned both Mage Knight and Robinson Crusoe; two excellent games. I have watched your MK tutorials so many times when learning the game, that I get a warm nice feeling inside when I hear the intro music to those videos. Keep up the good work👍👍

Wow! Cheers from Argentina! My favorite Channel AND Game

You made me had a feel to start a game. Regards from Malaysia.

Thanks god you are back with MK

Thank you for your videos, by them I learn how to play MK and I also practice my english! Grateful from Italy!

Just bought MK Ultimate edition and everywhere I looked people recommended your playthroughs to learn how to play. After watching this I can see why. Awesome content! Subscribed.

Dude...I’m getting my copy today in the mail. I’m so excited, I’ve been binging all your play throughs since I made the purchase, thanks mate!

Hey Ricky, Nice to see a new Mage Knight campaign. Good luck! This week my german channel will start the 4th series of Mage Knight. This time: full cooperative with 2 Mage Knights. It was epic.

Holy macaroni a new mage knight playthrough quarentine brings good things too hehe

What a rough start! Good luck!

Very well edited!!

This means more RU-vid for me the next couple of days! Go, Royal, go!

YES! Thank you so much for this.

9:00 not blocking the Familiar attacks will be 6 wounds, not 8 (Brutal doubles the attacks, not the wounds) - still knocks you out. brutal start. I probably would have picked Planning and gone for the Mage Tower. when you reveal Familiars, they're killable with the hand of Swiftness x2, Concentration - not sure that you want to wait to assemble that (also needs an extra mana from Mana draw or earlier Crystallize). Or maybe 7 attack 3 block is easier? 23:10 "only Ice block is effective" - no, only Fire Block is effective. 26:14 don't forget Shapeshift is only on Basic cards. Great to see a new Mage Knight playthrough!

hey, really enjoy your MK videos. It would be interesting if you added a little bit more comments on your decisions along the way - for example I was quite surprised that you replaced your illusionist so quickly after hiring them, and I would be interested to see how many wounds you'd be happy to take for the early mage tower etc. Please make more MK videos :)

Good luck with the Conquest scenario. But boy was that an unlucky start.

I always like taking Planning in the first day because I find I often just use a couple of cards, so having 6 for the next hand, often helps. I never knew you took the benefit token for beating a tezla enemy in a non-Tezla scenario. I need to start doing that because they're definitely a bit tougher.

Yes!!! Now we just need a new Hoplomachus video as well :).

Awesome. I'll happily request another round of TMB or Hoplo

Ah. Classic. Look forward to more

Hey man, awesome video :) Would be amazing if you could do a video on a hero tier list. Which are the strongest in order and also rank their skills. Would help new comers a lot I rate :)

Boom. Box of Delights. Mage Knight! 2020. I did a double take when this showed up in my feed. Awesome. I love this game and I learnt to play it with your help Ricky! You know it’s a bad first day when you don’t get off the first row! 😂What brought this one back to the table? Not that I’m complaining. 😀

Yep awesome...I always watch MK with Ricky!

Just got a second hand copy of mage knight ultimate. Havent brought out that beast. Think i need a few more videos

Yes! My favourite game.

Another game bought because Of you hahah cheers from Argentina

I am so jealous of his mana crystals. They're actually brightly colored and shiny. I bought the original and the latest Ultimate Edition, and the mana crystals are muddy, dull, and look nothing like that!

It’s the legend

Never played this game and I've no idea what's going on, but it's soothing to watch.

Ricky Royal playing a new game of Mage Knight? What is it, Christmas in May?!

so glad you are playing this game again, if i could make a request star trek frontiers, return of Khan. please please. thank you again

Hooray for MKBG! One thing I've started doing is putting mana tokens on the map whenever I draw mines and glades. It's easy to forget their benefits when you're figure is on top of them, especially after combat with a rampaging enemy on an adjacent hex. I also keep a couple shield tokens next to my deed deck and put them on it before starting a fight. That way if I'm due a combat reward or level up, I know to take them before drawing. But therein lies the challenge to the game, remembering to remember to follow the rules. Ricky, it broke my heart to watch you take those three wounds from the zombie horde. With one more (spell) card, the movement from Improvisation would've reduced its attacks to zero, and you could've killed it with Blood Rage. Since it was your last turn of the round, I think it would be fair to wind it back and say you discarded the spell card with Improvisation, but it may be too late for that. Here's to watching you pull a rabbit out of the hat and conquer those two cities!

Awesome :D !!

The king 🤴 is back! Love it. Playing Renegade, what a great game you made 👌🏻. Are there expansions I can buy (in Holland 🥺😉)? I want more Renegade!!!

YAS!

Do you ever try the other scenarios, or even community scenarios like those found on BGG? I recall finding a word doc or pdf or something a couple years back that had a dozen community scenarios pulled together in a handy booklet, for example.

Mage Knight? The only game I saw was "Bad RNG beating up a poor Braveheart" haha. Great videos as always.

1:39 - 'This might be the way' - Unsure Mandalorian

I need more mage knight gameplay in my life. 2021 version? 😇

I love me some mage knight

Why do his crystals look so much more vibrant (I'm jealous) ? I've considered replacing mine with acrylic gems

More MK 🔥🔥

Hey Ricky - is this the Ultimate Edition version? Some of the components are different colours to your old skool videos (that got me hooked on this game!). Thank you so much for sharing (and creating) such excitement for this epic board game. I doff my helmet to you, sir.

You forgot to get your spell when defeating that Mage Tower.

[At this point in writing] It is not often you see a video with 4724 views and not a single downvote (340 upvotes), it speaks to you as a content creator as well as the Mage Knight community.

I have a question. What contents from all the expansions would you recommend to keep and what would you leave out for a good mageknight game?

At 19:10 why did you reveal the zombies? I thought during night time It is neccesary to get to an adjacent hexagon to peek. Just learning the game... Very good video, thanks for sharing

Nice playthrough. What plastic tray are you using for your tokens?

Not to question to methods of the Great Sensei, but was it worth it to get the illusionist just to use his abilities twice and replace him with the monks? You spent 7 influence to 1 ) gain a white mana crystal and 2) gain 4 influence? I never replace followers unless they're wounded. (not saying it's correct, just how I play)

Had my first solo game today. Didn't even manage to conquer the first city...feeling dumb now :D

This seems to be the most complicated board game of all time.

Hey Ricky, been really enjoying solo conquest after playing several First Recons. These map tiles look more vibrant. Are these custom printed? Thanks again, for your content. I'll probably get Hoplo in a few months, since that one is rated very positive on the solo experience. Unfortunately, I can't find your game Renegade, as I came a bit late to the party. Cheers!

Man what a slow start, this game sometimes...

There seems to be a certain interest across several board game channels in Mage Knight lately. Why?Maybe because of the pandemic?

Think ive played like 6 sessions at least since this quarentien haha

You sound exactly like a man I know from Bromsgrove... Great game though 🤣🔥🔥

I prefer watching this rather that champions league!

Im pretty sure that you HAVE to start with tiles #1 and #2 as the first 2 auto-revealed tiles. I mean you dont have too you could always use house rules, but yeah, Im pretty sure its in the rulebook.

Hello. At min 24, wouldn’t you had to take 10 damage instead of 5? It was an elemental attack.

How big is your table your playing on? I never seem to have enough room for my games.

At 14:54 ; Isn't your tile placement illegal ? When you explore isn't a new tile be connected to 2 installed tiles ?