Maracaibo Tutorial & Playthrough - JonGetsGames 

Exactly, Alexander) Thank you for creating a game like that)

I just bought this game and not only am I excited to play it but the component quality is also excellent but...The number and types of cards stated in the rulebook don't match the actual cards in my box?! I've counted and recounted but still can't work out if cards are missing and/or which specific ones. Presently don't know if I've even got duplicates or too many of some and others just missing. Waiting for a reply from customer service but hoped there might be a simple answer? Superb game though. Can't wait to play it!!!

@@mdcs1992 Here are the not existing numbers: 23,26,33,39,40,47,51,53,57,60,61,63,65,66,67,69,72,74,78,79,97,98

@@alexxpfister Hi Alexander. Just wanted to both reply and put this message "out there." I contacted the Customer Service for your game and they (Ralph) were extremely helpful and efficient. All resolved now and thanks both to them and you for the experience and an amazing game.

@@mdcs1992 Good to hear!

That is so great to hear, I hope you enjoy playing this one!

Haha. I was unpleasantly surprised to see this tutorial go a full hour, though much of that was just playing and not necessarily teaching. I hope you enjoy it!

Me: Well I suppose I better get up and do those couple projects I have to finish. Jon: Here's almost 3 hours on how to play the game you are most excited about.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, hope you enjoy the game when you get your copy :)

I'm glad it helped :) This one surprisingly was only a couple hours longer than my average, the whole project took ~16 hours.

I'm glad you enjoyed it and found it useful :)

I'm glad you found this helpful :)

Awesome, I hope you get a chance to play it :)

@@JonGetsGames I did! and I enjoyed it quite a lot, credit to you too for my nice experience! I always appreciate your style a lot! thx!

Thanks!

I actually bought this game off the BGG market place a couple weeks ago since I'd heard it was sold out at the distributor level. I imagine the next printing is being fast tracked.

JonGetsGames Looks like next printing would be near end of February and will correct the miss printed cards. Capstone says this is also going to be a small print run that will not meet demands. I don’t understand this. They know that this designer’s games are popular yet since October it has barely been visible, or visible for two seconds before it sold out. Up here in Canada I saw a total of 4 copies between 4 stores, including 2 online. I guess the one advantage is that by the time the game is actually available eight months after it was released, I’m so tired of waiting and reading about it that I have already moved onto the next thing. Have you realized that your play Throughs are also working as a pseudo gameplay experience for people that will never own the game? It’s like you watch it and you feel that you almost played it, thereby saving yourself $100.

At this point I think the dislikes might be a bot considering how quickly and consistently they show up. It's possible that there are a couple people who subscribe just to downvote I suppose :P Glad you enjoyed this :)

When icons have a red background they are one time, if they have green backgrounds then they are ongoing income.

From my experience this is about how the game usually plays. It's true that players could go WAY slower as long as everyone collectively decided to do that. This would make the game significantly longer, but players are incentivized by the mechanics to try and speed ahead. You get more village actions and if you think your opponent is getting more from this round then you are then rushing the end means you'll get more points then them and you can hopefully disrupt their plans.

I advise giving it a read even after this tutorial, I certainly skipped over some things trying to keep it short. Doesn't look like I succeeded with that goal :P

Oh I will. Part of the “job description”. But it will be a much quicker consume now ;)

@@DriveThruReview Good to hear :) Something similar happened to me actually. I read the rulebook twice before BGGcon and did NOT feel like I had it all down but then I met someone who had played 5 times and wanted to teach with their copy! I was so thankful to get a play in before I had to teach it.

Ah, yeah you are correct sorry about that! Glad you enjoyed the video overall.

Is this a correction? I checked the rules in the game I bought last month and it says deal 8 cards from deck A to each player before adding the 40 cards from deck B.

Alison You're right. You have to deal cartes from deck A to players. In thé playthrough Jon start with a master builder (a vert strong card of the B stack) but it's a mistake. Frenchfab

Yes, you get the benefit shown on the left side of the tile a number of times equal to your compasses. The compasses don't affect the benefits on the right though.

Probably Isle of Skye, Maracaibo: Cooperative, then Boonlake.

That's an interesting question. I looked it up again and it turns out the specific wording is "the player with the least ownership markers", not specifically "the nation in 3rd place". I feel like they should have used up and down arrows instead of 1. and 3. for those icons.

Ahh, ok....makes sense. Thanks!

There is a setup card which explains where to put quests on the sailing track.

JonGetsGames is it part of the campaign? By the way, I love your videos! I have a TBI so I can have a hard time learning new games but your videos always help!

@@alisonjohnson8623 If you don't play with the campaign then you are suppose to use a setup card that is easy, medium, or hard complexity as part of setup. I used "easy " for this play through and that card explains where to put the quest tokens on the sailing track.

JonGetsGames I guess I missed that part of the instructions. I’ll try again tonight. Thank you!

JonGetsGames I’m so glad I watched your video! I completely missed #14 Making Decisions in the rule book🤦🏻‍♀️.

I don't fully remember if it's immediate or at the end of a player's turn, sorry.

@@JonGetsGames no worries!

Yep!

Technically the bonus goes to the country in "last place", the iconography isn't great and I should have been more clear about that.

I haven't looked into any Automa options, so I can't really say.

No, I don't show setup because generally rulebooks are very clear about how to do this and my videos focus on teaching the gameplay instead.

At that moment we didn't have enough influence to get the money and points reward, we decided to just take the money reward then because having that money to spend on a card seemed too good to wait on.

My understanding here is they spent 4 of their 7 which left them with 3, and then they added 2 of their 4 strength to get to 5 to do a double influence. It looks to me like they should still end their turn with 2 strength unless I am still missing something.

I've really enjoyed it :)

Oops, looks like I forgot to publish it last time I made an edit. It should be fixed now, sorry about that.

They do pop off the board for good visibility, but I agree that the design of them would have been done in such a way to match the theme better.