Scythe board game - Playthrough & Review 

Which is your favorite faction to play as? Why?

This is one of those games that intimidates me....Yet it entices me at the same time

just found this channel this week while looking for a boardgame tutorial, and I loved it! You guys are fun, interactive, and give so much more detail than I expected. Thanks for sharing this quality content!

I like this playthrough. You guys kept this moving along at a good pace as well as keeping me engaged.

I appreciate how you guys keep the pace quick

The quality of this video is amazing! Very well explained, easy to follow along! Great job!

I've been watching over 15 videos on how to play Scythe....set-up the game 2x and tried to follow along, read the booklet at least once and STILL couldn't understand. I bought this game because I am beginning to like Complex games. So glad I watched this video....the explanations are easy to understand and I am so glad the view of the board with the camera can perfectly show what you guys are doing. Also, thank you so much for saying what you are doing every single turn and your reasons as to why. I can't wait to play on my own. I think I will watch this video at least one more time. Thank you both from Rhode Island ❤️!!

Superb explanation in the beginning of the video. Most other videos try and explain far too much of this game at once, but that was an excellent and concise description of everything going on.

I have avoiding Scythe for years now. The theme didnt appeal to me, so I just looked elsewhere. But I recently learned that the theme ties into the idea of Scythe being a combo of Euro (farms, worker placement) and Ameritrash (dudes on a map, combat). And then this video cinched it for me! I needed to know how it plays with two people. I purchased while watching this! Thanks for the video-liked & subbed. Keep up the awesome wotk!

Absolutely adore this game, and you two - fun to watch you play through it and get your opinion, this is a top 3 game for me. Great explainer and playthrough, a few notes below: 12:58 - a small error in the way Monique discussed movement regarding encounters that may be worth correction subtitle if others are following for rules: Engaging an enemy (whether it be their character, mechs, or workers) immediately stops your movement, not encounter as Monique describes here - you may pass through encounter tiles without issue, encounters are only taken when the encounter token still exists, and only if your movement STOPS with your character (not mech/worker) there. To specify further, each piece you move to a maximum of 2 spaces (unless factory card movement) with Speed Mech enabled, may get interrupted by enemy piece, complete the movement of other pieces. Then resolve battle first, an encounter if your character has stopped on encounter token, then bottom row action if possible and desired. 36:40 - This is caught by Monique later, but may be worth a correction subtitle. During her movement, she moved her mech away from 2 oil, and 2 food resources. Because she no longer has pieces (character, mech, workers) on this hex she loses control of it, and thus cannot use the resources on it which she does 1 minute later. Any other faction may put a piece there and then gain control of the hex and those resources. 44:43 Been mentioned in a few other comments but wanted to summarize all in one - Naveen completes his objective to control 'villages;' incorrectly he is on 'farms' (yellow food icon) not villages (red meeples). Also small thing, completing an objective ends your turn, he continues to build after - he should build first, then complete objective. Doesn't matter in his case here, but it does for other objective's stipulations that may be affected by bottom-row actions. E.g. If objective required resource tokens that you spent in your bottom-row action that makes you fall short. Also, are you playing the base game with Wind Gambit cards? A couple objectives referenced airships, dont think it matters though. Love the metal coins and resources you guys have, great job again!

Found this video on the day it was uploaded completely by accident while trying to figure out how to play scythe, great informative entertaining video, thanks a bunch!!

Thank you for making the play through and review. Extremely helpful!

Very illustrative and well explained. Thanks guys. I just bought it and I feel I am ready to play it with my peeps.

Very informative review guys - really dig your channel!

You guys have great content ! And deserve way more subs. :)

Really well made video! It's not easy to play and explain so well 🙌🏼. Scythe is such an awesome game

You earned my sub today. Great job with this playthrough. I am about to start playing it! Owned it from Kickstarter and have never started playing it.

Thanks, guys! Super helpful. Excited to play with friends and family!

This video was very informative. I have played the game once and really enjoyed it. I am invited to another game day at the end of the week, so this video is helping me to prepare. Thanks. Plus, the art work of the game is amazing.

This playthrought was really good,great videos guys!

This helped me a lot! Thank you so much for this!

I finally got this game after years of circling it, but I've been too intimidated to try it out. What if it was too complicated? What if I didn't like it? What the hell are all these symbols??? I've seen roughly three hours of how-to videos, and yours is the one that made me finally confident enough to tackle the game; not just because you explained it very clearly, but also because you described it in a way that showed me that I would definitely enjoy it. Great job! Now for the real challenge: waiting until it's safe enough to go out for Game Night. (Ugh.)

Thank you for your clear explanation - my friends and I were a bit lost reading through the rules initially!

I love this game too. You pretty much played my two favorite factions. I like to pick two options from the encounter cards, thats always fun. And I like the benefit of having combat cards to spend as resources combined with the fact that you typically have more combat cards in hand and therefore your opponents are a bit careful. I played the fenris compaign solo and it was the most fun solo experience I had in a long time.

Well played both great demo and presentation of game!

Been enjoying your videos today! Subscribed

Great walk through guys ,I've just got the rise of fenris can't wait to try it

Thanks for the great tutorial!

You two are very sweet 😊! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and the play through! I don’t think this game is for me but I might try it one day 🙂

Easily in our top 10 games of all time. So great!

Fantastic game a fun play through

It's a pleasure to watch you play ;-)

This is my favorite game of all time. Top 1 since it came out, its hard to describe, no other game is like this one. What a nice design.

Good game,thanks for sharing!

I've been intimidated to play this game. After watching this play through, I have a little more confidence. Super helpful to see things in action. It seems intuitive once you start playing it.

Love love love this game, I am noticing our taste to be pretty similar to you both and hence love your channel :). I am curious to know what do you both feel on Viticulture?

At 32:00 you have a heart Monique, you should have moved into the home base then monument space to get all those juicy resources and force all those workers back home. Such a nice, non take that action. I really like this game. The stegmaier games are in a rare category for me: how well I pimped them up!

Loved it so much I subbed :) Hope you'll do a playthrough of Expeditions (the sequel to Scythe) when it comes out later this year!

Scythe is my number 1 favorite game of all time :). I own pretty much all available gameplay content. There came a time when we only played this with my main gaming group and I will always try to get people to play it LOL. I also own the digital version often playing any downtime I have. It really is a masterpiece in my book. Also its so awesome Monique compared this game to chess. I thought I was the only person that felt this game had a chess like pacing in terms of taking turns and strategizing :)

Wow wow ur doing this.. I've been on the fence bout this one for soo long..

great video! convinced me to get it and do video on my channel! Thanks for the inspiration!

This was fantastic guys. Can you do Root sometime?

Another Excellent play through 👍 Are you going to do another play through of Scythe with the Expansions?

This is a really great play through. Great job, very informative. I don't like the idea of the tunnels and the water tunnels, thematically, I can certainly go as far as mechs in the 1920s but a massive underground tunnel system? Any thoughts on that?

I love this game!!!

Nice video! I really enjoyed seeing this game in action before I buy it, though I think that you made a mistake around the 44 minute mark, you claim to occupy 3 village territories but I think you mixed them up with farmlands. Minor detail xd

your dog at the end... damn... how adorable

Subbed. Love this game!

Would be cool if you guys did another playthrough 👍👍

This game always intimidates me. it looks so complicated. I love what it looks like, though and want to try.

Nice playthrough! Love this game, its quite bad for just two players though. It really shines with at least 4.

Got Scythe delivered today after watching yours and some other playthroughs: love the dieselpunk aesthetic and artwork is glorious. Got totally destroyed by Autometta on my first go, made plenty of mistakes but had lots of fun doing it. The Automa was way more intimidating than to actually use.

Are you guys a couple? Great job on this video. Makes everything easier to understand for a new player. Wish I watched this vs a different video before playing the first time. I did end up winning on my first go though, so guess I figured it out 😂

I'm going to go ahead and like this video for Naveen

Great playthrough as usual. Where did you get these Cylinders youre using for action space selection? Those arent in the retail-box, at least not in Germany...

Nice video!!! Just received Scythe as a gift and was wondering can we decide at the beginning and end game at lets say first 3 stars or 4 stars to keep game shorter?

Alright, after watching this video, I’ve finally decided to get the game and try it out 👍🏻

It’s a good game and I think the weakest part of it is the combat. But seeing as it’s not something you do often it’s not a big deal. Great video guys! Not sure if you guys like doing videos for games that are OOP, but I’d love to see you guys play Madeira!

Thank you for doing this video. I am very new to the game and did not realize you could do all 3 actions on the encounter cards!! I do realize you have to have the required resources but I have no idea why I thought you only got to do one lol.

Quack!! :D Excited to watch this one - I love this game!

Nice vid. When a faction activates multiple mechs, can those mechs use each other's uncovered abilities -- or is the mech restricted to using just its own ability? Thanks.

I've heard one option to make the 2 player game tighter is to randomly block off 2-3 factions' starting areas. I haven't had the chance to try it yet. The modular board also has a 2 player smaller board set up.

Love this game, played with 3 others for 7 hours once. We did skip the 6 star instant end tho just for fun

"Steer the mechs away from the electric lines" "Trying to be a good person yeah"

My favorite game. Really want to play the campaign expansion Rise if Fenris.

I want to have a version of this game with just the Euro side, no combat... the theme is awesome

You should try 2p game with an automa in it. It really makes it so much better. It is not the same as with more players but simulates pretty good that tension and closes the map a little bit. Essentially a 3p game.

A little bit latem but: What do you think about the Modular map (a little shorter) for lower player accounts?

Just a detail and maybe subject to interpretation 51:50 Enlisting the last one of Naveen’s should have triggered him another combat card as the ongoing bonus? (We play it this way) Does someone have some insights on this ?

Regarding your comment about some mats having a hard time to start, I think it's also because you're playing really in a "conservative" way at the start. For example, in this game, Nadeem (not sure how to write his name, sorry) could have rush the encounter in the hope of getting a mech, or just traded to get enough metal to get the first mech and then not be limited to his starting island. But still a great playthrough, as always. Thanks for all your work!

For normal Move, isn't it, 2 pieces with 1 move each?

remembering that time I played for the first time against my friend and her family, most of whom had played before and came second

@17:15 Is it legal to move the character to the adjance territory even has a river in front of ?

I am really late to this party, but there seems to be a major mistake with movement on the part of Monique at 32:00 where she moves with Riverwalk and uses a mine to go across the board without having built her mine. Her faction ability lets her move to unused faction bases, not to mines.

great video, but i really wish it was in 4K. There is sooo much detail its really hard to see everything. Thanks though, very helpful

Naveen's secret objective said he needs to control three village territories. He then counts up the number of farm territories he controls. This is at 44:30 ish. What am I missing?

At 42:09 Monique moves three workers two spaces with the oil. I thought each move action allows you to move only one worker/mech/character x number of spaces? Or am I misunderstanding something? Thanks for the great playthrough

Where did you guys get the combat sleeves?

I highly recommend the Modular Board for 2-3 player especially.

One of your best bets to get out of Polania's base is to build a mine on your village, you have easy access to wood.

I get jealous watching couples play complex board games. My gf can only play uno.

Metal pieces :O

44:40 you played your objective of controlling three village territories but you controlled three farms, not villages.

Seems like a great game, but we are only 2. How long (in average) takes to play with 2p? Is it worth to buy for only 2p?

Did Naveen mean to match the factions? Hahaha!

Is this the original board that came with the game or is it the modular board for 2 players?

"Rusviet sounds like it should be over powered but it's not"... yes it is! I basically don't lose if I get red...

The first encounter card he got said, "use your mech's headlights...." Can he use that option since he didn't have a mech deployed? He straight shut down one of her options on her encounter card and I like to rules lawyer a bit. I just wonder if he should not of been able to take that option out of curiosity? Is that language simply thematic or is it functional?

Hi! How it going for two players?

If anyone reads this... Is this the standard size of map or bigger version? It looks hugs but I don't know if that's just the size out the box!!

Scythe is a 10. Rise of Fenris takes it to 11.

Do you choose mat or go also random?

I love this game; but a few minor points: It's 1-5 players, it goes up to 7 with the 'Invaders from Afar' expansion. There's no banned factions, just faction-player mat combos, namely Crimea/Patriotic and Rusviet/Industrial.

How does it sound like you have metal coins? All my coins are cardboard.

@44:51, you controlled Farms, and not Villages! You couldn't complete that objective.

is it me but the box kinda similar with iron harvest

22:55 I think you accidentally gave yourself an extra coin. You were at $1 because you used it before.

Hey Guys, great video. For your first combat at the 55 minute mark, the loser of the battle received a combat card, however shouldn’t have. A combat card is only received if a minimum of 1 power or used for the battle. 0 power was used with a 2 combat card. Hence, should not have received a combat card because of the loss.

I watched the whole thing, and have no complaints about the video, I just don't understand this game at all. You have this setting with big steampunk mechs as the defining drawing point, and the mechs barely get to do anything at all. If you don't want to make a war game, fine, but then why pick a warlike setting like that. I guess it's because there were only two players and the map didn't get smaller but it looked like both of you were also just doing your own thing up until the very end where it no longer made a difference. Games where you're scoring a bunch of points doing all kinds of things that all have to be counted at the end but can be rather vague during the game are really not my thing. The fact they have to ban certain combos also tells me not all of it is very properly thought out... Glad I watched this video because I might have ended up buying this game based on the theme alone...

This is a very frustrating game for me. I still cant land a win, and my wife is always so rich with coins.