At 1:12:50 you added three Barbarians to the Card Row from left to right. According to p.14 of the Rulebook, Townsfolk are added left to right, but Barbarians are added right to left. It makes a difference when adding three or more Barbarians because the costs in provisions changes.
Great playthrough Mike! Really helped me understand the game and will be adding it to my collection. Also great editing and rules clarifications by Nick. Overall great video, love your playthroughs.
I smashed it the second time I played! I made it look easy! When I ran out of wood and shells in the main supply, I began to realize how many times I’d inadvertently cheated. Now I’m binging playthroughs to hone my understanding of the rules. The comments section is often as helpful as the videos themselves. Thanks everyone!
I just got the game recently and awesome play through! I kept trying to guess ahead of time for every round what you might do. I’m glad I got to see this video!
This game feels like Shem flexing his design chops. The ramping tension, the great box design, avoiding broken combos, and balancing it all. And if that's not enough, there's a campaign too. His later games have been really puzzle-y, trying to find the right worker, resource, tuck a card, discard a card combos, but this one takes it to... 11.
!00% on board for the kickstarter! I got into board gaming in lockdown with afternoons on my own… opened up my world to all this goodness! Thanks for the play through.
I thought for a moment that the opening angle was how it might be the whole time to avoid spoilers, and I was like, "yeah I guess I'm just watching him for an hour."
Great job, almost did it! When I played this, the first farm I always built was the one that gives provision, funnily the only one you didn't build. I always found myself short of them, so that farm is super useful. I would only ever tuck cards below that give workers, you just need sooo many of them in the end. Also I would almost never discard the townsfolk cards from the top row, only if I really needed the bonus in THAT round. It's always better to just build your deck. I won the campaign 7-4 and enjoyed every single game. The game changes enough each time, that it doesn't feel the same. One of my defeats was funny though, I couldn't build the first canal by the third round, so the first time I had to shuffle, the flood ended my game. I wasn't paying attention, and I was one shell short to build it, and none of my cards would give me one, nor the ones in the top row. It was very unfortunate.
Also my very first game I messed up, and I thought if you bribe the barbarians, you also discard them. So I did just that, and won super easily. I thought i was a genius!!! hahahah
This video was super helpful! I was grateful to see that you didn’t beat it. The first time I played, I got killed in the second round! I reset and played a few times to get the lay of the land. Now I’m realizing that you probably need the legacy path to balance it out. It’s a deceptively challenging game and I’m loving it.
this was an awesome playthrough! easy to follow and basically taught me the game that's Mike! and thanks NICK for catching the cheater mccheaterson :P ...I mean honest solo mistake! this game looks really tight especially that endings holy moly !
This is a great look at this exciting new release. I'm always amazed at how few "takebacks" there are when you record these. I know that when I play new solo games, I make a bunch of mistakes that would be tough to watch back. You do a great job explaining your actions as well. Doesn't it seem like the townsfolk/barbarian row is a reverse Lost Ruins of Arnak card row?
@@hermesnoel apparently it wasn't pandemic related - it was due to a sale to a different board game cafe company that fell through after the founders retired. In any case I wish I'd gone one last time too, it was where I started playing modern board games back when it opened.
@@syklonic I just meant I was not able to visit one last time because of the pandemic. Regardless, it is a bummer. I introduced a lot of buddies to the hobby there and tried out a lot of games I later bought. It is wild a city the size of LA doesn't have more venues like that. I guess commercial real estate here is just too bananas right now.
This game clearly ramps up in a good way. I was find it a bit bland from the first half, but things get intense at the end! Legacy of Yu was already on my radar, and it will stick to it after this playthrough. Thanks! EDIT: I erased my question because I realized I mixed stuff ^^'
The canal cards don’t have anything they provide on the back it’ll all be listed on The front. Perhaps you’re referring to Huts? Cards With the green buildings. If I didn’t flip any of those to look then yes that’d be something I missed.
@@TheBrothersMurph You were quick to respond xD I just realized I indeed mixed the Canal with the Hut cards. Those are the ones you need to check the back and I think you did it properly. I guess the tension at the end got me confused
bravo!... nice video... in the last round, if you had spent the necessary resources to resist the attack of barbarians instead of trying to defeat them, you would have won I'm sure 😉
don't you get the resources in the red flag as well, if you dismiss townsfolk? or do you need to dismiss them from hand to get this many things? :) looks really fantastic!
If you dismiss them from the row on top of the board you just get what is it in the top then or not the red. Those come from discarding from your hand to the discard pile
Probably missing something but in the last round when you suffered attacks why couldn’t you use your last laborer to bribe one of the barbarians and the three shells for a clay/wood to bribe one of the others?
Not sure but I think you could have won in the last round if you stopped earlier and just bribed them instead of trying to fight them. But I enjoyed the playthrough looks like a game I will buy.
That is absolutely possible I’ll have to go back and look at all my resources and such! I forget sometimes that paying the baddies off might just be the best course of action haha
Yup, could have bribed the last 4 Barbarians (left to right) via trading 3 shells for a brick/wood, you had a white worker, using black worker for a yellow, using black/red worker for the other brick/wood.
Na, Mike was right. As he mentioned at that point in the video, he needed to remove all but 2 of the Barbarians to survive, since 4 more were going to be added (you have to finish out the round to win).
I’m trying to understand the mechanics: At about 46 minutes you spend 3 workers to defeat a barbarian. Shouldn’t you have placed a worker in your spot at the bottom that gives another worker in order to use that one to defeat the barbarian but still get the placed worker back next round? Is that how it works?
This was so good! You were one resource short of victory. 3 🐚 = 🪵 or clay. You had 1 laborer. You needed another wood/clay to bribe everyone. 😩😩😩This game looks so good. I vowed not to add to my Kickstarter list until I receive a game IRL😂 but this is on my check it out as soon as it comes to retail list. Thanks for sharing this play through. Garphill Games never disappoints.
I just got this in the mail the other day! I have read the rule book and watched this video and one or two others to help solidify rules. Thanks Mike, for this awesome, spoiler free run through! As always, you guys rock👊 tomorrow will be time, to outrun the flood! 🌊🚣♂️
Thought I was doing great with only two more canals to build and a couple spaces ahead of the flood. Built my deck up a lot to try to keep the flood at bay. Then I ran into worker production problems to keep up with getting rid of Barbarians. I had all workers equal to each other except Archers, and of course the Barbarians I could afford to get to required two archers and I only had one. (Warning: SPOILERS) The barbarians I defeated, |one made me destroy two cards and the other didn’t go down, caused another barbarian to come back in it’s place.| This led to me not being able to defeat 3, with the amount of workers I had, and that’s how I got overrun with Barbarians. I had such a blast though and can’t wait to play this more and more!
At 1:12:50 you added three Barbarians to the Card Row from left to right. According to p.14 of the Rulebook, Townsfolk are added left to right, but Barbarians are added right to left. It makes a difference when adding three or more Barbarians because the costs in provisions changes.
Shem makes the thing!
Mike plays the thing!
I buy the thing!
Circle of board games!!!
Thanks for showing us this!
IT'S THE CIRCLEEEEE OF GAMESSSSSSSS
Great playthrough Mike! Really helped me understand the game and will be adding it to my collection. Also great editing and rules clarifications by Nick. Overall great video, love your playthroughs.
Thanks for keeping this spoiler free. I just started a campaign and like the surprises
I smashed it the second time I played! I made it look easy! When I ran out of wood and shells in the main supply, I began to realize how many times I’d inadvertently cheated. Now I’m binging playthroughs to hone my understanding of the rules. The comments section is often as helpful as the videos themselves. Thanks everyone!
54:19 that is a super helpful clarification. Thank you!
Look like Hadrian wall which is one of my fav games so I’m happy with it
I just got the game recently and awesome play through! I kept trying to guess ahead of time for every round what you might do. I’m glad I got to see this video!
Nick: Cheater cheater pumpkin eater.
Mike: I like pumpkin.
Me: (eating popcorn) The joy of sibling rivalry.
Really pumped for this game. Garphill Games and Shem P. have rarely let me down. This looks so good.
This game feels like Shem flexing his design chops. The ramping tension, the great box design, avoiding broken combos, and balancing it all. And if that's not enough, there's a campaign too.
His later games have been really puzzle-y, trying to find the right worker, resource, tuck a card, discard a card combos, but this one takes it to... 11.
Murph-tastic as always. Definitely going to back this when it goes live. Reminds me of Hadrian's Wall which I like.
Definitely changing one worker into another is Hadrian-esque
Haha this feels like Rummykub towards the end, endlessly shuffling resources to try and make it all work out.
You ain’t wrong haha
Hahaha looooove the Spaceballs reference! Need to watch that movie again, it's been too long!
It’s a classic!
!00% on board for the kickstarter! I got into board gaming in lockdown with afternoons on my own… opened up my world to all this goodness! Thanks for the play through.
You got it! Hope it brings you some joy when you get the game!!
Awesome!!
Awesome playthough! Looks like a cool solo game!
I thought for a moment that the opening angle was how it might be the whole time to avoid spoilers, and I was like, "yeah I guess I'm just watching him for an hour."
With lightly salted popcorn?
Lol you get to watch a dude play a game for an hour, but you only see the dude
Hey listen I'm infinitely watchable. But at the same time we figured we should show the game once in a while.
great game! instant buy from me. After Hadrian's Wall this looks equally exciting. Keep them coming Garphill Games
Garphill rocks!
Thanks for the playthrough, I enjoyed watching it!
50:00 My brother and I are EXACTLY like this.
Great playthough, thanks!
You got it!
Great job, almost did it!
When I played this, the first farm I always built was the one that gives provision, funnily the only one you didn't build. I always found myself short of them, so that farm is super useful.
I would only ever tuck cards below that give workers, you just need sooo many of them in the end.
Also I would almost never discard the townsfolk cards from the top row, only if I really needed the bonus in THAT round. It's always better to just build your deck.
I won the campaign 7-4 and enjoyed every single game. The game changes enough each time, that it doesn't feel the same. One of my defeats was funny though, I couldn't build the first canal by the third round, so the first time I had to shuffle, the flood ended my game. I wasn't paying attention, and I was one shell short to build it, and none of my cards would give me one, nor the ones in the top row. It was very unfortunate.
Also my very first game I messed up, and I thought if you bribe the barbarians, you also discard them. So I did just that, and won super easily. I thought i was a genius!!! hahahah
Wow great game! I will definitely buy it. Thank you for this!
No worries glad you enjoyed!
Great playthrough, looks like my kind of game. Thanks :)
You got it!
Artwork is stunning! I like garphill solo modes, but can't decide yet if I am going to back this.
Right on right on and I agree the artwork is awesome!
This video was super helpful! I was grateful to see that you didn’t beat it. The first time I played, I got killed in the second round! I reset and played a few times to get the lay of the land. Now I’m realizing that you probably need the legacy path to balance it out. It’s a deceptively challenging game and I’m loving it.
A Garphill game optimized for solo play with a dope theme? Ya kidding me? This is basically an auto-buy for me
Take my monies
this was an awesome playthrough! easy to follow and basically taught me the game that's Mike! and thanks NICK for catching the cheater mccheaterson :P ...I mean honest solo mistake! this game looks really tight especially that endings holy moly !
Thanks for watching and I’m glad we were able to make things clear for you!
Just for solo is an automatic buy.
yup!
This is a great look at this exciting new release. I'm always amazed at how few "takebacks" there are when you record these. I know that when I play new solo games, I make a bunch of mistakes that would be tough to watch back. You do a great job explaining your actions as well. Doesn't it seem like the townsfolk/barbarian row is a reverse Lost Ruins of Arnak card row?
Ha Yeah it definitely feels that way where throughout the course of the game the barbarians become more and more common in those townsfolk less so
I wish Gamehaus (in the opening) was still around 😢
Yeah...it's a bummer. We're keeping the name of this series the same as an homage to them
That is exactly my first thought too. RIP Gamehaus. Wish I had gone one last time. Stupid pandemic.
@@hermesnoel apparently it wasn't pandemic related - it was due to a sale to a different board game cafe company that fell through after the founders retired. In any case I wish I'd gone one last time too, it was where I started playing modern board games back when it opened.
@@syklonic I just meant I was not able to visit one last time because of the pandemic. Regardless, it is a bummer. I introduced a lot of buddies to the hobby there and tried out a lot of games I later bought. It is wild a city the size of LA doesn't have more venues like that. I guess commercial real estate here is just too bananas right now.
This game clearly ramps up in a good way. I was find it a bit bland from the first half, but things get intense at the end! Legacy of Yu was already on my radar, and it will stick to it after this playthrough. Thanks!
EDIT: I erased my question because I realized I mixed stuff ^^'
The canal cards don’t have anything they provide on the back it’ll all be listed on
The front. Perhaps you’re referring to
Huts? Cards With the green buildings. If I didn’t flip any of those to look then yes that’d be something I missed.
@@TheBrothersMurph You were quick to respond xD I just realized I indeed mixed the Canal with the Hut cards. Those are the ones you need to check the back and I think you did it properly. I guess the tension at the end got me confused
There was just so much happening there! I mean I could barely keep up myself and I was the dude sitting there
@@TheBrothersMurph ahahah I can totally understand you. It was tough!
I’m usually sceptical about solo only games… buuuut I tell ya… Stick Shem on a box and you got a GAME!
Thems is facts!
Bought the game two ago. Still haven't beat it. :-)
bravo!... nice video... in the last round, if you had spent the necessary resources to resist the attack of barbarians instead of trying to defeat them, you would have won I'm sure 😉
You might be right!
Merci beaucoup ! 😊
De rien!
don't you get the resources in the red flag as well, if you dismiss townsfolk? or do you need to dismiss them from hand to get this many things? :) looks really fantastic!
If you dismiss them from the row on top of the board you just get what is it in the top then or not the red. Those come from discarding from your hand to the discard pile
Probably missing something but in the last round when you suffered attacks why couldn’t you use your last laborer to bribe one of the barbarians and the three shells for a clay/wood to bribe one of the others?
In short, I probably could have but I’m bad at board games
Not sure but I think you could have won in the last round if you stopped earlier and just bribed them instead of trying to fight them. But I enjoyed the playthrough looks like a game I will buy.
That is absolutely possible I’ll have to go back and look at all my resources and such! I forget sometimes that paying the baddies off might just be the best course of action haha
Yup, could have bribed the last 4 Barbarians (left to right) via trading 3 shells for a brick/wood, you had a white worker, using black worker for a yellow, using black/red worker for the other brick/wood.
Na, Mike was right. As he mentioned at that point in the video, he needed to remove all but 2 of the Barbarians to survive, since 4 more were going to be added (you have to finish out the round to win).
Great playthrough, and excellent editing! I don't solo game too much, having only Final Girl and Palm Island. This looks like a ton of fun!
Thank you so much Sean!
Instabuy for sure!
Heck yeah!
yussssssssss
btw, I hope they'll adapt the colors of archers, on the cards they're yellow, and their meeples are orange.. 😕
They read as pretty yellow to me but perhaps with the contrast in our video they present as more orange?
I’m trying to understand the mechanics: At about 46 minutes you spend 3 workers to defeat a barbarian. Shouldn’t you have placed a worker in your spot at the bottom that gives another worker in order to use that one to defeat the barbarian but still get the placed worker back next round? Is that how it works?
Ok, I see you used that spot to get a worker for the next round the next minute so, that’s what I thought!
Yup you got it!
Drinking game: Take a sip every time you hear "Uuummmm!" 👌🍷🍷🍷🤣
You will die if you try lol
Oh, it's just like 'Friday' by Friedemann Friese!
Only: Garphill...
(right?)
Slightly less green than FF’s games too
The second-turn could have been better but other than that it was all played well... But nonetheless good try and keep up with the great content.
Will do!
Thanks for the clear play-through, but could you try to say “UUUMMM” less often? It’s pretty distracting.
Hahahahahaha that’s probably not gonna happen sorry
This was so good! You were one resource short of victory. 3 🐚 = 🪵 or clay. You had 1 laborer. You needed another wood/clay to bribe everyone. 😩😩😩This game looks so good.
I vowed not to add to my Kickstarter list until I receive a game IRL😂 but this is on my check it out as soon as it comes to retail list. Thanks for sharing this play through. Garphill Games never disappoints.
I knowwww I was so close but no matter what I did I just came up short. Oh well still so fun!
I just got this in the mail the other day! I have read the rule book and watched this video and one or two others to help solidify rules. Thanks Mike, for this awesome, spoiler free run through! As always, you guys rock👊 tomorrow will be time, to outrun the flood! 🌊🚣♂️
So happy to hear the video was helpful and happy playing we hope you enjoy!
Thought I was doing great with only two more canals to build and a couple spaces ahead of the flood. Built my deck up a lot to try to keep the flood at bay. Then I ran into worker production problems to keep up with getting rid of Barbarians. I had all workers equal to each other except Archers, and of course the Barbarians I could afford to get to required two archers and I only had one.
(Warning: SPOILERS)
The barbarians I defeated, |one made me destroy two cards and the other didn’t go down, caused another barbarian to come back in it’s place.| This led to me not being able to defeat 3, with the amount of workers I had, and that’s how I got overrun with Barbarians. I had such a blast though and can’t wait to play this more and more!