COUP: Pants on Fire
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2024
- Use the elites to destroy the elites, and become even more elite yourself! Coup, a liar's dream where you look to destroy your friends while making them look like fools.
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Every line you'll ever hear during a game of Coup:
1. "Duke for three."
2. "Sorry, I'm Captaining you."
3. "No you're not."
4. "Yes I am."
5. "Prove it."
6. "Aaaargh!"
7. "Ambassador..." (Said shakily in hopes nobody bothers with you.)
8. "I'm assassinating you."
9. "I block it with my contessa."
10. (Saying absolutely nothing and meekly taking 1 coin.)
Me: "Income"
Friend: Too suspicious. I'm using my money to make you lose influence...
Me: Oh
In our playthroughs, almost no one mentions 2 or 3, declaration of intent is final
That ambassador one is spot on
“I assassinate” player does not have assassin
“I block” does not have contessa
Nothing happens because player 1 was not willing to bluff their way out
Love the pauses at the start when reading off the synopsis
....this world is absolutely f**ked-
I assumed that was because it’s boiler plate cyberpunk setting
@@Tickerchicken nah, it's just what America's come to :(
@@rawhead1486 Visit a country in the global south, mister upper middle class.
@@rawhead1486not just america, thats just what capitalism does
@@mandarinenschaeler3192No?
My local friends play Coup all the time and it's WILD how intense it is. Like it seems so simple but good LORD it's not at all
While I bought the expansion none of my friends liked any of it except for the new character. So we just added her and some additional rules to an otherwise normal game of coup. I'll go in detail but bear in mind we are still working the kinks out. The expansion adds a new character called The Inquisitor and her powers are normally: she replaces the Ambassador and can be used to exchange with the court deck and blocks stealing. Additionally she can examine another player's card and force them to exchange. We felt that was overpowered so here's roughly what we decided. She does not have any of the powers of if the ambassador and he is still part of the game. She can still examine and force exchange but it costs 1 coin. We also tried to buff the Contessa and make it so she can block an examination.
thank god someone buffed contessa
What really amazes me about Coup is how much is done with very few components. Hearing the strengths and strategies of each character, and being able to lie/challenge lies as a game mechanic, it's impressive.
Kam keeps finding the most fun yet chaotic games to bring up. Also I love how so many cyberpunk/dystopian settings seem to not realize they're basically just describing our world.
Doing that is the entire point of dystopian settings, and ESPECIALLY of cyberpunk as a whole genre
I would flip that and say our world doesn't seem to realize it's mirroring dystopia. A lot of tech bros in the industry seem to be *wanting* to emulate cyberpunk and don't realize it's saying they're bad people who are ruining everything. That's, like, a huge thrust of its message.
@@Phoenix0F8Yeah its weird how in a few years the idea of personal privacy is dead, all so tech bros can sell info about spying on us online to companies.
@@Phoenix0F8i recently had a chat with someone who wanted warhammer 40k to be real.
If you've never had anything to do anything with it, it's f***** up.
I sincerely implore you to visit a country in the global south: if you think you're living in a dystopia in comparison, you are unfathomably priviliged.
If you want to teach a group of new people how to play this game, play the first round with all cards face up and tell everyone it's going to be unfair but it'll help them understand how things work. Then play the next round with the cards hidden and introduce the challenge rule
I want you to cover more coup as much as Katy Perry doesnt want another potentially deadly encounter with Nickelodeon goo.
That teen choice award box with a high pressure water nozzle aiming viscuous substances right at her face was actually a safety risk.
Coup has always been one of the big attraction games for my get-togethers, because you naturally get so much table talk and drama out of what is a very simple game. It's also very easy to learn for even people brand new to board games, as the depth comes from social interaction rather than rules complexity.
One thing I learned about playing Coup with my board game club... Everyone is the Duke till the money in the bank runs out... That's where the killing (coup and assasination) starts lol
I remember when I played Coup regularly, we reached the consensus that, while the Contessa's printed FUNCTION is probably the worst , the Contessa CARD might just be the best card to have in front of you. In typical gameplay what's printed on the cards is moot - early on, there's a certain tension to calling anyone out on their bullshit; but further down the line, you might have sold your Contessa's story as being a Duke or a Captain perhaps, and the blow-out you cause when your Duke-coins make you an assassination target and your Contessa call is challenged is just unmatched.
when i heard about the Capten i went "Turn one Capten would be so busted compared to Duke"
I still like the Polish version better-"Światowy Konflikt" (World conflict), because it uses real world countries and leaders. So Duke is Russia with Putin's face on the card. The captain is Police, ambassador is called media, assasin became a protest, and the most useless card - contessa is the european union with Angela Merkel's face on the card. There is a new one however - UN you can play using it instead of media (ambassador) and it lets you either draw one card and exchange it or peek at another player card and choose whether he has to exchange it or keep it, so the UN card is useless.
Of note the UN card is the same as the inquisitor card, which appeared in the kickstarter version and later the reformation expansion
Captain does not block stealing for other players, only the target of the action.
18:55 That setup throws the game off balance.
Coup: that one game at my summer camp in the games bin nobody has played
Just bought the game at a local board game store because of this video. Hopefully the video helps me teach others how to play too.
I haven't played coup in forever, this makes me wanna play again! Thanks for the awesome video as always Kam!
My favorite strategy is to not even look at the cards until challenged. I'm now 100% bluffing the whole time without any tells 😂
THIS IS THE THIRD COUP VIDEO I"VE SEEN TODAY. THE OTHER TWO WERE ALSO THIS VIDEO
I absolutely love coup. It’s so broken and unfair but I love it
Turn 1:
If Duke: Duke
If Ambassador: Ambassador
If neither:
If
I would honestly like you to do the sequel/expansion, especially how you would rank all the new characters, such as the Illusionist and the Mortician, which are my favorites of the newest characters.
Also, it's kind of surprising seeing the game in that style, since the french version (which I don't know if it's the original version) features a much more cartoonish artstyle, and is based on medieval europe instad of a futuristic, dystopian setting.
Captain Contessa one of the nastiest hands if you have a group that plays really safe.
Coup is insanely fun! Between me and my roommates, its the game that gets the most mileage. It's so easy, and so fast. I love that the results of previous games played informs your decisions when playing with the same group later on.
For a fun variant, sometimes we would play "blackjack", where one of your influences started the game face-up. The two influences were separate, so if your face-up one got taken out, you didn't have to flip the face-down one, but if the face-down one was killed, you were playing honest Abe from then on out. It's a fun way to mix it up once you've played the base way dozens of times.
I would love to see the expansions and variants covered as much as coup players love using the duke turn 1
You missed a key feature of the ambassador: no one I've met calls you a liar for swapping cards. It's never worth calling someone a liar when they're just swapping their hand.
Also, the Assassin is great when someone tries calling you a liar. They lose a card for being wrong, then lose a card from your attack.
Coup is probably my most played board game of all time. Played it a ton in high school.
I want you to cover the rest of coup as much as i want to think of a good analogy.
I have a genuine tournament trophy for Coup from winning a tournament at my local comiccon. It was a total fluke, and every year that I have attempted to reclaim that glory has ended with me out in the first or second round.
god i love this game, i cant remember how many times ive claimed each role in a single turn and got to watch my friends sit there trying to figure out which one om lying about
(it was all of them, i actually only have a stack of uno cards)
Good stuff - this is the kinda shiz people crave
There is one house rule that turn Coup from a game I would never play into my favorite game I own: when you coup someone, you have to guess their card. If you guess it right, they lose that card, but if you get it wrong, they reveal their cards to prove it and replace them.
This rule does all of the following:
-Encourages players to interact more with the main mechanic of bluffing
-Adds a much deeper strategy, especially to a low player game
-Makes exchange much more useful
-Makes a double contessa hand more useful, since lying is more viable
-Reduces the chance of a 'lock' situation in the endgame. Where one player is guaranteed to win because they have a captain or duke. Now they also have to figure out which influence card you are holding.
-Coups can target a specific card, you you dont have to completely eliminate a player to get rid of their duke.
-Couping yourself, guessing wrong, and getting to replace both your cards for a very inefficient ambassador is now viable.
1:03 1:13 the silent pauses say a thousand words
This is surprisingly, the best tutorial ever for Coup. I'll start using this logic and video when i teach the game at the board game club i use to go.
Lying about who you are reminds me of the age old classic of Chardee MacDennis
I have played a fair amount of coup with my family but never actually engaged with any discussion about it until now and I find it really funny how we had just figured out so much of what you said here on our own. It only takes a few rounds before you get 4 people at the table claiming to have a duke on turn 1 and nobody wants to claim foreign aid after seeing it get blocked twice.
Thanks for covering this, after seeing it in your Game Themes video I really wanted to check it out
I ended up finding the base game at a local comic shop and played with my friend and roommate and it goes by quick if you're bad at lying like we are lmao. I appreciate this vid for introducing me to a new game to play!
I really liked the video. I would recommend avoiding the "best to worst" sort of talk though. It's not really helpful for evaluating the game and when encourages viewers to play in a very specific way. As an example, if I had to pick a "best" character I'd argue that the ambassador is the best character in coup. This is primarily for the ability to make it extremely difficult to nail down what you actually have. Ambassador drawing two ambassadors can often be turned into a game win. In addition not showing a ton of money early may let you keep two cards for longer and let you set up for a strong late game. Being able to negate the captain not just for steals targeting yourself, but also between other players can allow you to control who you want to face in the inevitable 1v1.
I loved the spoon smacks XD
I wonder how how people use the Ambassador to make people call each other out.
"I Duke for three."
"That's a lie."
"Are you challenging me?"
"I'm not. I'm just saying there's two Dukes in the middle so there's a high chance you are."
And that'll just encourage other players to call them out if they have a Duke. Or you're just lying and no Dukes are in the middle.
I would probably switch the assassin and the ambassador because the info from the ambassador is just too easily destroyed by other ambassadors like he says. And the assassin is a great offensive card.
I don't think I've ever heard 7 double S's in a sentence
I've played this game myself but this video made me appreciate it more than even playing it did
Great overview of Coup! The moments where you threw the card you were holding while explaining something were funny too ;u;
When you compare how simple this game is to the game it's in the same world of - Resistance- it's interesting how night and day the mechanics are. Since this game is basically an anti-Love Letter and Resistance is your typical Secret Hitler saboteur game.
Ah yes, my favorite game about gaslighting people
Between you and Ordinary Things I’m totally ready to overthrow my democratically elected Guvment.
It’s like Monopoly cheater edition, but fun
I LOVE COUP
I play with a house rule where you keep your card when challenged, It makes deduction easier
I wanna see more coup videos like I wanna see Duke in my opening hand amirite fellas?
said yippee out loud when i saw this was uploaded. ty for the food
I played Coup once but as someone who just can't lie AT ALL, of course I had no chance. These bluffing games are really interesting but unfortunately I can't play them
Videos are getting better and better! Keep it up!
Coup is one of my favorite games! Great to always keep it with you for great pickup games when traveling or just need to kill some time.
THIS GAME SLAPS
I'd love to see it as much as I love claiming Duke
Love coup, the board game club at my uni plays it fairly frequently- its got little in jokes with ir, primarily "but a simple income!", said whenever we take income (ofc)
this sounds awesome
and could probably be replicated with normal playing cards, even if you have to maybe write out all abilities on a piece of paper
I want to see you cover the rest of Coup as much as a completionist wants to see a platinum trophy.
Hey id like to see a total over view of the coup stuff. Also would like you to review the minecraft board game builders and biomes, it's a game that from my experience goes from 0 to 60 real quick in competitive groups.
Love this guy
I already know about this game as i think polygon played it
One of my favorite recently discovered channels, love your sense of humor man.
i'd like more vids on the expanded universe
Damn sounds like a very interesting game ngl
I love this game but it really depends on the friend group. With some of my friends it’s perfect, but with others it’s annoying cause they all play it straight every time. This game isn’t much fun when nobody else is lying
i'd like to see you talk about the coup expansions & spinoffs more then i'd like to see the duke in my hand in the first turn.
fun fact theres actually a ttrpg set in the world of coup.
On the contrary, Contessa is the MOST powerful card, as it has all the powers of the characters you pretend it is.
Review the expansions or I'll wee on you.
I like Coup, but you gotta play it with people who are into games. I've played it with friends who are much more casual, and they basically never lie, so the game just becomes predetermined based on who drew the best cards.
Wow this game seems dope
I want to see a video on the expansions as much as the Pope wants people to stop calling his vehicle the Popemobile
Coup is really fun - simple and ruthless. My eight years old kid loves it, though I am slightly worried that the game will teach him to lie, deceive, betray and cut traoths. He is already pulling off pretend-duke moves like a pro.
Got a little prodigy on your hands there
4:32 jackbox reference????????
A hidden role game? Sounds a little... sus.
I'm the duke
I am terrible at lying.. which is why I was so happy last time I played being 100% honest with a start of Duke and Ambassador, the only time I claimed something else was after my Ambassador got called out and I got a captain instead.
Obviously i would be terrible with players who have played a lot, but I'm still happy with a luck win
Now do Sabateur
Am I hallucinating or has this video's title changed 5 times?
I've only ever played the original and I only played it once
Unfortunately the people I was playing with did not explain the game very much to me
I had 2 Contessas, that's right! 2!
And I didn't have a strong enough understanding of the game to know how to play the other characters...
If you want to review a popular, small-size, bigger-strategied game with distinct characters and lore, how about Love Letter?
I have a huge distaste for COUP and other games of its nature such as Sheriff of Nottingham. Every single action you take must be a (double) bluff or an outright lie. You are never allowed to just relax and play "normally". You are punished IMMENSELY whenever you wrongly accuse someone or they correctly accuse you. I much prefer games that are more subtle about tricking other people (most hidden role games). The Resistance: Avalon for example is much less about "haha I guessed your bluff" and more about the social dynamics of the group since you play in teams.