Tom Teaches Oath (Rules Overview & Gameplay) 

At 1:36:57 you don't stop drawing from a discard pile when you reach a vision. You only stop when drawing a vision from the world deck.

This an outstanding teach. Three cheers to you, sir!

Really appreciate the effort on this. Going to teach it for the first time tonight and had done the same multiple readings of the rule books and watching of other videos as you mentioned. This really solidified things. Thank you!

Best explanation I have seen yet. Most videos won’t go as in depth as you. Worth watching for 3+ hours

We are learning a lot from this video. The order of reference used here is way easier to follow. We appreciate the effort. We, too, were still confused after following the scripted setup and walk-through provided by the game. It wasn’t bad, just a ton deep mechanics. Cheers!

I like the way you talk about your options for the various players, it makes it clear the agony of choice you would go through when playing this game, though saying this I can't wait to get it to the table.

I can't help but think that you are Tom Papa (the comedian). You sound just like him. Anyway, great teach and playthough. I've been hesitant to watch this from other, but you do such a good job.

Amazing work, thank you for this awesome teaching!

What a lovely video! EDIT: The rule issue I noticed was already covered, so deleted that.

wow thanks! you are a good teacher ,,also im one of those people who need things repeated

The game strikes me as having taken a number of ideas from Rob Daviau's Legacy format, without taking the full campaign idea (nor actually destroying components). Something I noticed in the rulebooks that might help with gameplay is that the game comes with bandit warbands that can be used to mark un-ruled sites. Uncaught errors I noticed on the way through: 1:29:44 "we need 3 to win" - bandits have 1 rolled shield plus 2 locations so the requirement for victory was actually 4. 1:31:43 "we can't put it on an empty one" exactly the reverse: if there is an empty one, that's where you must put it (done correctly whenever it comes up later) 1:36:59 Visions only stop drawing from the World Deck, not from discard piles (comes up multiple times) 1:41:00 If no-one holds the Banner of the Darkest Secret, you can recover it regardless of what cards are at your site. You can also "recover" it from yourself to add more secrets to it. This had a significant impact on blue's turn, with knock-on effects for the rest of the game. 2:28:06 Because red's pawn is in the mountains, the warbands on their board also apply, making a total of 7 defense, and making the timing on purple's relic critical to the outcome (purple would have to sacrifice both remaining warbands to win, so the relic spawning more would be needed in order to rule the site). Also, red should lose one warband from their board, so purple should gain another. 2:30:08 Warning Signals should have been discarded at the end of the combat (assuming the bandits didn't activate it earlier) - which comes up repeatedly for the rest of the game. 2:33:42 Forgot the Wake effect on the Banner of the People's Favor. 3:52:27 Purple should get 3 extra warbands from their combat relic here. 3:17:53 Because you're attacking the site blue's pawn occupies, their 2 warbands should also get involved (not that it mattered given their roll).

Excellent video! Really really helpful.

This game looks amazing!

When you play a Discord denizen to the Wastes, the Wastes' ability lets you recover the relic without having to spend Supply. You still have to burn two secrets to actually get the relic.

On turn 4, purple against Red campaign, you forgot to add the 2 red warbands on the the red players board. If the enemy pawn is on the site under attack, the warbands on the player's board also defend. You didn't have enough to defeat that, so technically Red won on turn 4.

Round 5 - Chancellor would have gained 3 Warbands (from the Cursed Cauldron Relic) after defeating red on the Salt Flats.

Il faut impérativement se procurer la VO anglaise ou s'abstenir : la "traduction" de la VF Matagot est effroyable et impacte la jouabilité ...

Round 2 Blue player when you are discussing recovering the Darkest Secret it says in brackets (You can recover it from yourself or the shared bank freely.) Does this not imply that you do not need to follow the criteria listed above "Players can only recover this from you if there is a card at your site whose suit does not match any of your advisors." in order to recover it the first time from the general supply?

Those "when played" cards you can only use once. Is that right?

Round 5 you forgot to give yourself a coin from the animal bank when you played the rangers card. Unless I missed something. Wonderful video a lot to keep track of with one player let alone 3.

Round 4 - Red should have added or removed favor from the Banner of the People's Favor during Wake phase before continuing on with turn actions.

16:58 This moment made me laugh 😅

At 2:52:.. when purple are attacking red and killed 3 warbands shouldn't purples relic grant him 3 free warbands ? (Great video)

It looks like this video has exhausted Tom so much that he has stopped recording anything :( I hope it's not permanent state and he will get back to us at some point with new content :D

Worth buying for solo game?

why did my box come with cardboard secrets and money

the game seems to have no flow....it's just fighting all kinds of specific rules

Really wanted to like this, love the art but got no idea what’s going on or what your supposed to do. Heavy on rules. You wonder how on earth someone comes up with a game like this. Not saying it’s bad game, it’s just got way too much going on.

Complicated?.. ya got that right. I passed on it. Whys the chrome so elaborate? The naming/labels of game pieces/themed parts/rules are obscure. War bands&Relics label make sense. After that..It's 'WTH' does this represent?! Just grab some nonsensical noun/pronoun. PC proofing. ...gezzz!