Maracaibo Extended Playthrough - JonGetsGames 

Jon you are a life saver. Started reading the rules last night and they were so confusing. Seemed to jump around everywhere. As soon as I watched the gameplay run through I completely understood the game. Decided to stay around for the whole extended playthrough just to give your channel the love. Love how you are able to play 3 completely different strategies so seemlessly

Fantastic play through Jon. This is why your channel is crucial to this hobby. I’m heading up to play this with my Brother and Nephews on Saturday. I’m totally stoked now.

I have the humor of a 12 year old and couldn't help giggling whenever the "Pinnace" card came up.

Wow thank you very much. You are the best teacher for Maracaibo. Your play through is outstanding. Clear and simple for a medium-heavy game.

This game really is basically Alexander Pfister's Greatest Hits Album, huh? I like most of his games, and like the look of this one, but it sadly shares the thing I hated most about Great Western Trail, and that is that a player can rush to the end of the game by going round as fast as possible. As someone who likes to take their time, I hate being rushed like that. Wonderful video as always. As usual, your editing and presentation is top notch.

After watching attentively your playthru I cant help buying this excellent game. It is a big pleasure following your explanations. Although I had decided not to acquire this game your excellent playthru ended up convincing me to have this game in my collection. Congratulations for your really perfect job. I am about to become one of your big fans. Greetings from Valencia, Spain

I have watched several videos of yours. You are the best teacher out there for new games. keep up the great work!!

One word summarizes this video - OUTSTANDING!

Great walkthrough Jon, this really helped a lot.

such a game! Good job man that is wonderful

Watched the whole thing and I finally get it. Thanks a lot!

This is AWESOME!!! I just got the game yesterday and played it Solo. That was tough, trying to learn the regular rules AND the Automa rules. You clarified a lot of rules and explained some I didn't fully understand. Thank YOU!!!

Wow. My copy should arrive on Monday. Your excellent playthrough was my introduction to the complexities of this game. Thanks for spending the time - I know your time is much longer than video time.

Ty. Great video for learning. Set up the game for playing with 2p solo,but way too much to get in to ! Setup was long to. Don’t wanna explain this for my group,hope they can look at this vid. Now I’m ready to play tomorrow if I manage.

Best showcase for this game out there! Great job John!

Thanks so much for helping me get up to speed on this awesome game!

What a show. Thanks!

thanks, I decided to to through the complete playthrough, and after that , on the same day, setup the table to explain to my 16yr old son. Too many details in the rules, so, setup took a while. We are playong it later tomorrow, and your videos totally helped me to explain it for the first time. thanks a lot.

Very good play through, with different strategies per player. At 12'26" a misspoken location: green player places a cube in the last free city. That city is called Cartagena, not Santa Marta (which is a village). At 44'45" yellow player buys 2 cards, one of which is a Pioneer. Yellow forgot to return a worker to the general supply as it is an additional cost for the Pioneer.

Wow, three players handling by one!!!! Amazing 👍

Enjoyed watching this again! Ty

Fantastic playthrough.... Buy the game - view this video - read the rulebook & game on...

Long, but such a great play through

Great job Jon! This the second game after GWT that I bought immediately after watching your playthrough. Great game and even better tutorial and rules explanation. Keep up the work!

not sure if it effects anything but at 1:30:40 you give green your points. great tutorial none the less. I appreciate these so much.

I watched all three videos you explained it all very well thank you!!

Once again an awesome video, looking forward to this game arriving soon thx for teaching the game

Brilliant play-through, Jon, awesome job!

Now If I can only find this available ( without spending a fortune ), Loved the play through and great rules tutorial.

Excellent playthrough!

I just want to thank you, Jon, for putting up your Maracaibo videos. I am so impressed with the quality of your presentation. The image/sound quality is really clear and your close up shots help to see what's going on - everything about it looks so professional. I've been trying to learn Maracaibo, but I knew it would help to learn from an expert so I don't miss anything. I think I learn better from your style of tutorial than other ones I've watched. Does anyone help you with all this? Or are you a one man operation? Either way, awesome work!

Thanks for these wonderful videos, they are extremely valuable to an hobbyst like me.

Thank you for this Jon really great playlthrough as usual

Thanks for this play through - really enjoyed it.

The amount of planning you has to do to make this video!!!

Thank you! Excellent presentation of the game. TOP CLASS

Loved the playthough. I kind of wished you would have sold out more on the exploration track. It felt like you hedged a bit with doing combat over exploring, and I can't tell if that helped or hurt you over all. Still really fun, and I do love your playthoughs with how you hide the 'other' players knowledge even though you are ostensibly playing all three players. Edit to clarify: I wasn't talking about your last combat vs explore action. That made perfect sense at that point. I think you went for combat at the end of round 2 and 3 though, and that would have put you up higher on the explore track for more and higher rewards. You could of maybe stopped at Port Royal more as well.

Very good play through. Thanks

Hi John, I appreciate your videos a ton. This game's rulebook is hard to follow and your play-through is a difference maker. One note. Seems like you never give the victory points when you use the cubes... :)

Cool vidéo. Quite clear and interesting. Well done.

Thanks so much!!!!

I don't like how ties work regarding strongest and weakest nation. When fighting a battle, a tie means no one is best/weakest. When endgame scoring happens, a tie suddenly means all of them are the best. Seems strange and inconsistent... :( Other than that, it seems to be a nice game. Good Job!

At 1:13:53 the green player used 2 combat to get 1 influence instead of England taking over an empty village and still getting an influence, which seems like a strategic error.

Wasn't the green player supposed to be first to act in round two? Thank you for teaching by playing.

1:30:40 you gave the green points instead of yourself

Good game i bought but did not played yet...i have a feeling you can play this totally random and still win...

Thanks this was great! I just played my first game last night. Question on Combat: For the top bar bonus/penalty, on the combat tokens: In the first round, you played it as if there was a tie for majority, there was no bonus nor penalty And you played that way for the rest of the game. We came to the same conclusion, as the rulebook gets quite confusing to follow. Now in the first round, what you considered the weakest, (which is marked 3rd place) if 2 countries tied for first, then there is no 3rd place, and then there would be no bonus nor penalty. That seemed to be how you played it, but rounds 2-4 you went with just the weakest (which could be second place) and we still played it that if there was no third place, it got skipped. Was there an F.A.Q. Eratta to update or clarify that rule? We could not find it?

31:00 black forgot to take their money from the quest token 2 coins for each compass =6

I thought you could only buy cards if they're on the reserve slot above your player board?

Forgot to pay yellow player’s worker for pioneer card at 44:30 and black player’s worker for same card at 54:21

Hello - I am a little late to the party is seems, but I have a question about the prestige building "Abbey": Do you get 12 points for having passed the red, green and blue barriers on the exploration track when you pay for a spot in the Abbey? I played the game for the first time yesterday, and 2 players claimed 24 points each for the Abbey, having passed red, green and blue. The argument was that red is 1barrier, blue is 2 barriers and green is 3 barriers - 6 in all. There are 6 barriers in all if you see it that way. Can anybody help me?

I pressed pause, but at around 12:35 you move black marker instead of the green one!