Nidavellir - Tutorial Playthrough 

I dIscovered your channel only recently. This is an extremely comprehensive explanation of what is in my humble opinion, a very solid math/strategy game, with an interesting auction mechanism, and also the concept that you must find the optimal compromise between building vertically to increase your score, while also building horizontally to recruit heroes. Many thanks for uploading. Please take care and stay safe.

Can I just say I love looking up a playthrough and seeing that you've done a playthrough. Thanks.

My English edition arrived today along with the Thingvellir expansion. Would love to see the expansion touched upon. Very grateful for this video so thank you and the Patrons that voted for it.

Wow! This is my first time on your channel and watching your Playthru, you did an amazing job. I can’t wait to play this game!

My copy should be arriving soon, your playthrough is the best I've seen, keep up the great work, you're quite talented at this!

i only really learned this game as it's done by jongetsgames - the best tutorial vids out there! and have really enjoyed it!

Great stuff as usual. I liked your surprise at revealing opponent coins.

I love, love, love this game. ❤️ It’s quick and snappy. Fun theme. Lovely art.

This is the first of your videos I have watched. I had this game delivered today, so excited to play and your instruction and play through is the very clear and concise, the best I have seen on you tube, Thanks you, looking forward to getting a game in now.

What an excellent game explanation. Bought this because it was mentioned many times as fun. I bought it and after watching your review, so glad I bought it!! Thank you!

What an amazing game! I look fwd playing this right away. As always, so well explained! This a great channel & it really makes it easy to kickstart playing the game. Thanks once again! 👍

Really good tutorial thank you. Looking forward to playing this on BGA later!

As usual.. best explanations !! Thanks from Strasbourg, France.

Love your presentation, so professional!

My tips: Draft defensively, especially early when you don’t need to commit to one strategy. This lets you get bidding advantages to lock out your opponents. Think about what cards you would be happy with, rather than which is the best. This gives you more flexibility and helps you bid low to combine coins early. If you are going to take a Royal Offer, upgrade your 2 since there’s no way to upgrade it by combining and it only beats 0’s. This is a great way to counter the player who gets the Hunter Distinction. Heroes are the powerhouses of this game, my first priority is always going for heroes if possible before bidding solely on strongest card. Lastly, don’t focus on the numbers of your coins. Track highest coin to highest coin, next highest to next highest etc. (who’s best coin is highest? Who’s second best is highest) Having the best second coin is often more useful than the outright highest because it’s rather easy to predict where your opponent will place the highest bid, allowing you to bid low and thus ensure you pick first on a different tavern while finding the best place to play your 0.

Great video! This looks like a lot of fun!

Amazing tutorial! You really do great tutorials!

Excellent playthrough. Great game!

Thanks Jon! Well done, as always!

Thank you! I really enjoyed watching the tutorial

Thank you for this great tutorial!

This explanation was excellent!

This is a very well made game! While it’s relatively easy to get a commanding advantage early on in two player, it’s very easy to change strategy on the fly and adapt. It definitely rewards keeping on top of bidding power and definitely has enough depth for more competitive people like me. At the same time the Norse and dwarf theming and quality art make it easy for to add a little bit of roleplay or narration and it’s super satisfying. It includes extra bags for storing everything after initial setup and is overall a very well put together product! Only drawback is it can take up a lot of table space, but you can always place dwarves on top of the taverns and not place heroes on the stands to save room!

great game. easily my fav game of this year. and yes the app is also on iOS and is so easy to use.

Thanks for the through play through! Looking forward to this available in the US

This is a rather interesting take on the set collection game with regards to how the different 'classes' of Dwarves score differently and the coin collection. There's also a major potential for head games as players try to figure out what they're opponents want most compared to what they also need. Great work as always on this one.

Outstanding - thank you.

Great job. Thank you.

A great game! Good video on it.

Fantastic teach

Jon pumpin out the content

Great video! There's an app in the Play Store that will tally up your score. It's messy otherwise and with a fairly big setup for a shorter game it simplifies the ending for you

Absolutely fantastic game!!! My #1 thinky filler!

Just one thing you missed. The gold jewel can never be swapped. If you tiebreak with the gold jewel it stays with you. Meaning you will always win ties.

35:50 - The difference between the 3 and the 2 is, as mentioned, pretty small. However...there is an additional consideration here. Putting the 3 and the 9 in the pouch adds to 12 so, as stated, this will give the 12 coin. However, the 2 and the 9 make 11 and there isn't currently an 11 coin in the supply, so it will ALSO give the 12 coin... Yes, there is a small chance that an 11 will be put back into the supply, but I believe there was only 1 11 with 3 players and since you have it, that isn't a consideration. So that being the case, there is really very little reason to put the 2 into the tavern instead of the 3...unless you are trying to avoid tying because you would rather go last than risk tying on something you don't care about and having the trade off the 5 gemstone...but again, that seems a minor issue.

I wanted to check if money + warriors wasn't a broken strategy because your highest coin gets counted twice which feels like a huge swing and noticed a small mistake for the final scoring: Green actually ended up with 129 points (12+9+36+12+29+31) so only lost by 1 point.

And a thanks of course

This looks amazing! Not available in Canada yet though.

this is now available on boardgame arena :)

They HAVE to publish an expansion where you actually FIGHT that dragon, right ? I want to fight the dragon ! Great playthrough, I'm really keen to get this one (especially if I can fight the dragon ;-)

The bravest Dwarves are the drunkest Dwarves!

How are you ever going to upgrade that 2?

I would prefer Battle for Greyport can you show that Jon ( is that youur name ? )

I replaced the hero stands with business card holders real quick. So you can use a 3+ card on a coin that is not revealed yet in that round? Really? So other players could deduce what coin you traded with the bank just before the reveal? Actually yeah, makes sense.

You forgot to add 3 points to the midle player

"Each player is trying to fill out the bravest army of Dwarves...." Nope. Done. I hate Dwarves with a passion. Hard Pass.