Your videos are very useful to help understand the rules of that game! Also it's really easy for a non english native speaker to understand what you are saying. Perfect! Thanks!
I like this Videos very much ! I think, it's time to keep on rocking. I'd love to see one more Episode starring Ghillie and Nugget or an Episode of Age of Tyranny. There hasn't been any new stuff for over 1 year. That's sad!
Hey I have a question. Stanza's Trance skill "Forever Mine", do you have to be adjacent to said baddie you want to control at the start of your turn or can you pick any baddie on the mat that's allowed by the point restriction? I'm assuming you have to be next to the enemy for it to work since she's melee. But the wording also kinda suggest it's just a map wide effect.
Excellent playthrough series, please do another campaign (Stanza & Dart)! At about 23:30, One Mind was triggered and executed before Ape attacked. Are the order of events with baddies flexible?
Her answer give the impression that she chose not to use it, when in fact Buff HP is only removed in place of standard HP if the Gearloc is suffering normal damage and only after defense dice are spent. True damage and fatigue go straight to HP. In this fight Stanza almost always had defense or took true damage or fatigue, that was due to Baddies always targeting the weakest Geraloc.
It’s refreshing seeing a play through with someone who has the rules down. Most of the reviewers that got early copies tend to make a mess of them. You mentioned that fatigue rounds now allow diagonal movement, which I assume is a way to counter high mobility gearlocs from kiting around baddies during them. Do you know if this is a change to base game’s 3rd edition rulebook too, or just for Undertow?
Thank you so much Jemmy! It's been really fun making these videos! I actually did speak to CTG about this, and diagonal movement in Fatigue rounds is unique to Undertow - it won't be introduced into the Too Many Bones base rules.
Adventures in Boardgaming That seems like an odd choice, making things more fiddly than they need to be. Easily housed ruled, though. Good luck running the demos at Gencon!
House rule away! The designers felt it was a necessary addition to Undertow. They didn't want to alter the base game rules too much and the issue was specific to Undertow, so they didn't change it in the base.
@44:05 since the monkey rolled a bone on its attack should it have become untargetable or does this not occur because the attack only happened due to One Mind?
Very nice video about playing Untertow with Stanza and Duster. At 42:26 you expain the consumable dice of Duster. For me, Scrag Roots does not say, that the effect die is canceled. It seems, that it cancels effect dice, but It should be written on the sheet to clarify this. And Blade Dip ... the attack is not negated if you roll a bone, simply the poisen is negated. You do the normal damage from the ATK dice, or not?
Thanks for watching and for the feedback! I see what you're saying about Scrag Roots. Though I am positive it works the way I described, I agree the wording could be more clear. I'll note this with the designers. You are correct regarding the Poison from Blade Dip... I'll make a note to annotate the video. Thank you!
Really enjoying this playthrough. You are doing great work and also explaining things very well. One question: When the fatique damage kicks in after round 5, can Stanza not take that damage from her buff HP pile? It is not described as true damage in the rulebook, as I see it.
Buff HP can be used when the Gearloc is taking Damage. Fatigue is not Damage. It is worded as "lose 1 HP" and therefore cannot be taken using Buff HP. Basically Fatigue has to come off of your Gearloc's HP - there's no way around that.
I love the new cards! They are easier to read than the previous editions, and I like that they got rid of the textured side that would eventually show wear.
Hi Shannon I have a question about Stanza's Charged Swing it says also Deal # damage to any unit adjacent to target. but Stanza is a Melee character so she will always be adjacent and so also get damaged is that correct? Other question the skill Under the Old zelfey on one of the sites on the dice u see an A so that means All Apply to every Unit on the battle mat so that heals all units Gearlocs and baddie's wit h1 health is that correct ? Same for Dissonant Dissidence when use the site where the A is then every Unit again also Gearlocs get 1 true damage anywhere on the battle mat? And if i then use my backup plan 3 bones Add Distortion and Advance the Dissonant Dissidence i again do 1 true damage to all units on the battle mat if i have enough focus. Yesterday i did play it wrong i think i did do it only to units adjacent to Stanza but now that i did see the video and read it again it says A All-Apply to every Unit in the battle Mat makes more sense cos it is a song so sort of range weapons right ? The only thing what confuse me is at some skill for example Cleanse i read Remove aand prevent all negative effectss dice from being placed on effected unit while section is active does that work for more then one unit at the same time cos the first site of the dice shows P for party so lets say stanza and duster have poison can i then remove that effect from both players.
Wow lots of questions! Good thing I love answering rules questions :) 1. Charged Swing does Blue # Dmg to ONE unit adjacent to the Target. So if you can maneuver it so there's a Baddie beside your Target... you can get that Baddie to take that Dmg instead of Stanza. I'm going to have to check my video to see if I messed this up, as I may have had a different understanding of the rule at that time!
2. Yes, "A" means it heals all units - Gearlocs and Baddies. This is one of the reasons I love Stanza - sometimes she forces you to do things you might not want to do, in order to get to more powerful sections of the song. And figuring out how to balance that is so interesting to play!
4. Yes, Cleanse is active the entire time its side is showing, removing and preventing negative effect dice for the Party potentially for a full round. There is no limit to how many Gearlocs can take advantage of this at a time!
If i read Charge swing: Electrify #/ Blue#- Deal # Damage to target. Also, deal Blue# Dmg to Any unit adjacent to target Does not say to ONE unit and Stanza is always adjacent Update after looking at boardgamegeek i did find this Stanza's Electrify should deal the Blue # Dmg to one unit adjacent to the Target. We will add to FAQ and clarify the wording for the next print run. Thanks all!
Where is the rule that allows Duster to occupy any starting position 7:26 on the battle mat? I have not been able to find any reference to that capability so hoping I'm not missing a rule. All gearlocs need to start on the grey areas only. Thanks.
Spot on! It's the first sentence in Dusters Innate ability. That is a definite game changer. Unrelated but movement related to Undertow, I wonder how many people original TMB owners are going to miss the new Undertow rule that allows you to move diagonally once you enter round 6 of a battle. Thanks again and kudos for this great playthrough.
Hi, if I understand rule from back of stanza sheet correctly, it says crescendo (5th song advance) must be vamped. So die cannot be exhausted? Or I didnt understand this rule in right way? Around 52:00 minute.
Stanza may exhaust a song at any time. That sentence is trying to clarify that a song in its last Section cannot be Advanced back to its first section - if you want to keep it in the Active Slots, it must be Vamped and then Intro'd. But again - exhausting a song is always an option. Thanks for watching!
Minute 22:13. Dusters Dagger must be played as back up Bone and not back to the skill area. See Dusters reference sheet. Red Bone must be in Backup Plan.
Duster's Dagger does not have a "Red Bone" on it - the profession is red, so the die face itself is printed red, but the iconography of a regular bone and a "Red Bone" is different. The only die that Duster has with the "Red Bone" is Ferocity.
nice video as usual... Small question Re.Duster's backup plan and more precisely the backstab. Are those 2 damages considered as true damages or not ? Thanks!
Hi Shannon, at 34:00 you re-rolled one of Duster's defence dice that was already in her Active slots: I am new to TMB and couldn't find that option in the Undertow rulebook. It doesn't explicitly say a player cannot do that, but I couldn't find the part that explicitly states we can. Is this something that is covered in the base game? Love the video BTW!
Oh wait -- I see on p14 of the Undertow rules it states 'to free up space, a player may remove [...] dice from Active [...] slots at any time during their turn'. So that makes sense, I suppose! However, re-rolling a Def die in this way would not have occured to me -- so thanks for the tip!
Shannon great video, great attention to detail, but I think you're wrong here. Defence die in the active slots don't count against defence stat. I got this game recently so I read this just yesterday and remember being surprised about it. So that means you can always roll your defence up to your dexterity of course.
You are correct! I've already added this to my annotations for video corrections. Make sure to watch with the Klingon subtitles so you can see the corrections I've noted :)
