I was excited to see two more days of your playthrough showed up to start the weekend! More tense decision making on display. Loving this and can't wait for more. Thanks for these.
Oh boy, here was me binge watching you Ricky playing a game I set up last night ready to play. I decided to check and see if good old Ricky Royal had done a playthrough first and lo and behold! Then I see you haven’t finished it yet. Noooooo! Lol. Really enjoying this one. Any have to crack on myself if you don’t upload the conclusion. Cheers. Thanks
Strategically speaking, this game presents such a formidable challenge, ( plenty rules also but not that hard to remember) that even when attempting an easier version, I still suffered a horrible defeat
Really great videos so far, I appreciate the time you're taking with explaining each aspect of the rounds and showing it up close. It's really unfortunate you had such poor luck with the recruit bag right at the beginning, it seems like that can be the biggest impact factor for how many days you still have some control of managing your resources. I made it to the readying of troops on day 8 over the weekend (last day of siege 1) and it seems like I'm managing things okay because my recruit draws have been unbelieveably lucky (3, 3, 3, 1 doubt, 2, 1 doubt, 2... plus one soldier from a high morale card) and no one is in the morgue yet. One thing I've realized, for moving forward, is I'll likely just bottom out morale through recruiting, as I can just accept "losing" a single defender for these last 4 rounds (double checked on BGG and the designer confirmed that "losing" means going to the reserve instead of the morgue and there's no penalty indicated for lowering morale if you're already at minimum) and it will retain my limited (5) supplies a little since I no longer have any routes opened with resources. Plus, no unpredictable low morale cards to deal with (resolving 3 of 4 sounds brutal). I'll have to follow up and let you know if my plan pays off.
@@BoxofDelights I'll have to remember to get back to you on this later (or in your next video if you drop it soon!), I finished the game that evening and then started doing some math and strategy planning... I will say, "unbelievably lucky" is an understatement as, based on my doubt token additions each round, being able to draw three recruits for each mobilization round is ~13%.
@@BoxofDelights thanks for the reminder! So I found a thread on BGG titled "readying defenders by lowering morale" (actually posted right when I finished that run on Feb 26) which clarified you stay on the "draw 4 resolve 3" low morale and would lose defenders each time it should be lowered on that turn. This made my strategy invalid. I maybe would have lost an extra defender, which wouldn't have been a big deal, but 3 of the last 4 days I should have drawn and resolved 9 total low morale cards which probably would have impacted my final results significantly (which were nearly perfect except I had 4 injured defenders in waiting). I do think I still would have survived the last stand, but who knows. I played another game afterwards and scraped by days 9 and 10 but got demolished before the last stand draw. One take away I can say with certainty is the recruitment can really make or break those chances more than any other random factor. You have a higher probability of drawing 4 recruits the first turn (63%) than drawing 3 recruits on the second day, even if you only pulled one recruit in the first and only added one doubt to start day 2 (60%). I was not only extremely lucky drawing 3 each of the first 3 days (13% with 2 doubt added on the third day) but I also had incredible event draws. First day was cloudy, then I had 7 days of sun. On my second game, every day was cloudy or snowy and day 9 decimated me by removing 3 supply tokens. It's a lot to deal with... The more I've tried to dive into the individual mechanics of the game, the more impressed I am with the balancing of the design. You really are at the mercy of some of the draws, whether it's early recruiting, event cards, snow tile order, hit bag pulls, morale, or the cursed die rolls. But the game also gives you so many ways to rethink how you can mitigate these. It is an excellent game to visit every so often when you have the peace of mind for getting smacked down ☺️
Ricky! Sorry off topic but The War of the Ring The Kings of Middle-Earth expansion just dropped! Any chance you can do a full playthrough with ALL 3 expansions? 😬 like the good old days. Cheers!
Hi - thank you. Re Voidfall, no, I don't have a copy. I'm not sure it would be a good fit for me as it goes - a heavy Euro that looks like a tonne of work...?
I was excited to see two more days of your playthrough showed up to start the weekend! More tense decision making on display. Loving this and can't wait for more. Thanks for these.
Oh boy, here was me binge watching you Ricky playing a game I set up last night ready to play. I decided to check and see if good old Ricky Royal had done a playthrough first and lo and behold! Then I see you haven’t finished it yet. Noooooo! Lol. Really enjoying this one. Any have to crack on myself if you don’t upload the conclusion. Cheers. Thanks
Amazing. Glad someone is playing along! Part 5 coming soon ! :D
Strategically speaking, this game presents such a formidable challenge, ( plenty rules also but not that hard to remember) that even when attempting an easier version, I still suffered a horrible defeat
“We need men on the wall! Get those walls repaired ASAP!!!“ lol Man this one ramps up quickly! Enjoying this one Ricky, good luck.
thank you !!
Really great videos so far, I appreciate the time you're taking with explaining each aspect of the rounds and showing it up close. It's really unfortunate you had such poor luck with the recruit bag right at the beginning, it seems like that can be the biggest impact factor for how many days you still have some control of managing your resources.
I made it to the readying of troops on day 8 over the weekend (last day of siege 1) and it seems like I'm managing things okay because my recruit draws have been unbelieveably lucky (3, 3, 3, 1 doubt, 2, 1 doubt, 2... plus one soldier from a high morale card) and no one is in the morgue yet. One thing I've realized, for moving forward, is I'll likely just bottom out morale through recruiting, as I can just accept "losing" a single defender for these last 4 rounds (double checked on BGG and the designer confirmed that "losing" means going to the reserve instead of the morgue and there's no penalty indicated for lowering morale if you're already at minimum) and it will retain my limited (5) supplies a little since I no longer have any routes opened with resources. Plus, no unpredictable low morale cards to deal with (resolving 3 of 4 sounds brutal).
I'll have to follow up and let you know if my plan pays off.
oh yes, let us know how the plan goes. This sounds like a useful tactic. I think I will need all the help I can get!
@@BoxofDelights I'll have to remember to get back to you on this later (or in your next video if you drop it soon!), I finished the game that evening and then started doing some math and strategy planning... I will say, "unbelievably lucky" is an understatement as, based on my doubt token additions each round, being able to draw three recruits for each mobilization round is ~13%.
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@@BoxofDelights thanks for the reminder! So I found a thread on BGG titled "readying defenders by lowering morale" (actually posted right when I finished that run on Feb 26) which clarified you stay on the "draw 4 resolve 3" low morale and would lose defenders each time it should be lowered on that turn. This made my strategy invalid. I maybe would have lost an extra defender, which wouldn't have been a big deal, but 3 of the last 4 days I should have drawn and resolved 9 total low morale cards which probably would have impacted my final results significantly (which were nearly perfect except I had 4 injured defenders in waiting). I do think I still would have survived the last stand, but who knows. I played another game afterwards and scraped by days 9 and 10 but got demolished before the last stand draw.
One take away I can say with certainty is the recruitment can really make or break those chances more than any other random factor. You have a higher probability of drawing 4 recruits the first turn (63%) than drawing 3 recruits on the second day, even if you only pulled one recruit in the first and only added one doubt to start day 2 (60%). I was not only extremely lucky drawing 3 each of the first 3 days (13% with 2 doubt added on the third day) but I also had incredible event draws. First day was cloudy, then I had 7 days of sun. On my second game, every day was cloudy or snowy and day 9 decimated me by removing 3 supply tokens. It's a lot to deal with...
The more I've tried to dive into the individual mechanics of the game, the more impressed I am with the balancing of the design. You really are at the mercy of some of the draws, whether it's early recruiting, event cards, snow tile order, hit bag pulls, morale, or the cursed die rolls. But the game also gives you so many ways to rethink how you can mitigate these. It is an excellent game to visit every so often when you have the peace of mind for getting smacked down ☺️
@@kylemoore7746 ouch, yes.. I am about to suffer from this effect...
Good to see you're keeping up your amazing skills at drawing doubt discs in day 4, lets see what day 5 brings.....oooo 2 doubt discs....you nailed it
haha...yes, I am good at this at least... !
Ricky! Sorry off topic but The War of the Ring The Kings of Middle-Earth expansion just dropped! Any chance you can do a full playthrough with ALL 3 expansions? 😬 like the good old days. Cheers!
It's coming.... ;)
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Great Video! Btw are you going to play Voidfall? :)
Hi - thank you. Re Voidfall, no, I don't have a copy. I'm not sure it would be a good fit for me as it goes - a heavy Euro that looks like a tonne of work...?