I'm just recently discovered that this game exists, and then to see this amazing playthrough has convinced me that it's worth spending the money to buy this game. How much fun it is to do all that strategy! Thanks for making this video!
I bought A Feast for Odin based mainly on your clear demonstration of game play and presentation. I enjoy your content and wish you and yours all the best . Thank you for sharing your passion for gaming.
SPOILER ALERT! A log of actions and the final score of Tom's gameplay below: . . . . . . . R1 1V: Get 2 woods 2V: Laying a snare - get a fur 1V: Hunting game - get a game meat and a hide 1V: Get a stone and upgrade the game meat to a skin and bone 1V: Spend a stone to get apprentice craftsman into play and earn 1 coin Income: 1 Breeding: none Feast: beans, mead, long beans Bonus: none R2 1V: Turn a flax into a linen (OCC: get a wood from the apprentice craftsman) 2V: Get a knarr 2V: Get Iceland 1V: Trading - pay 1 coin and turn the skin and bone, hide, fur, into spices, a silverware and a jewelry 1V: Draw one occupation card (village leader) and get 1 coin Income: 6 Breeding: none Feast: grain, 1 coin, beans Bonus: stone, ore, oil barrel R3 1V: Turn stone into a rune stone and 1 coin (OCC: get 2 coins from the apprentice craftsman) 4V: Pay 3 coins to get a cattle and sheep (Get the village leader into play) 1V: Pay 1 coin to get 2 fish 1V: Upgrade 2 - cattle to clothing, fish to hide 1V: Get 2 coins and upgrade the sheep to fur Income: 8 Breeding: none Feast: flax, fish, long beans Bonus: oil barrel, stone, ore, fish (OCC: get 2 coins from the village leader) R4 Buy a long ship before the actions 3V: Get Baffin Island and draw an occupation card (milker) 1V: Turn a flax into a linen (OCC: get a wood from the apprentice craftsman) 1V: Hunting game - get a hide and game meat 1V: Raiding - get a jewelry 1V: Trading - pay 1 coin and turn the oil barrel and clothing to silverware and silver hoard Income: 14 Breeding: none Feast: long beans, fish, grain Bonus: fish, 2 oil barrels, stone, 2 ores, skin and bone, whale blubber (OCC: get 2 coins from the village leader) R5 (9:07) 2V: Laying a snare - get a fur 1V: Turn a stone into 1 rune stone and 1 coin (OCC: get 2 coins from the apprentice craftsman) 1V: Upgrade 2 - fish to hide, whale blubber to robe 2V: Trading - pay 1 coin to upgrade the barrel, robe, hide, fur into a rune stone, treasure chest, silverware and jewelry 2V: Pillaging - get the English Crown 2V: Turn 1 wood into chest and 1 coin (OCC: get a stone from the apprentice craftsman) Income: 19 Breeding: none Feast: cabbage, 2 coins, game meat, beans Bonus: mead, wood, 3 ores, 2 stones, rune stone, oil barrel, fish, whale blubber, skin and bone R6 (18:25) 3V: Get Newfound Land and draw an occupation card (armed fighter) 1V: Turn a flax into a linen (OCC: get 1 ore from the apprentice craftsman) 2V: Pay 3 coins to get 1 cattle and 1 milk 3V: Upgrade 4 - turn the cattle, whale blubber, fish, milk to clothing, robe, hide and wool. Draw an occupation card (peacemaker) 1V: Trading - pay 1 coin to turn clothing, linen, hide, wool, robe to silver hoard, silk, silverware, chest and treasure chest 1V: Raiding - get the cloak pin Income: 25 Breeding: none Feast: grain, mead, bean, 1 coin, long beans Bonus: mead, wood, 3 ores, 2 stones, rune stone, oil barrel, fish, whale blubber, 2 skin and bones, stone house, dragon cane R7 (24:54) 2V: Pillaging - get a jewelry 2V: Laying a snare - get a fur 1V: Pay 2 coins to get 2 fish 2V: Upgrade 3 - two fish and the whale blubber to 2 hide and 1 robe 2V: Trading - pay 1 coin to turn hide, robe, and skin and bone to a silverware, treasure chest, spices 2V: Pay 7 coins and use the knarr to emigrate 1V: Turn 1 stone to 1 rune stone and 1 coin (OCC: get 2 coins from the apprentice craftsman) Breeding: none Feast: fruit, mead, cabbage, fish Final score counting (30:32) Ships 8 Emigration 18 Exploration boards 66 Sheds and houses 10 Sheep and cattle 0 Occupations 3 Silver 21 Final Income 32 English Crown 2 (Negatives) Home board -0 Exploration boards -15 Sheds and houses -7 Thing penalty -0 ----------------------------------------- 138
I hope this is right for the solo game and admittedly I've just finished reading the rules. But I think you may have made an error when replacing mountain tiles. Page 11 states that when all but the last "2 silver" space are empty, remove the two silver and the entire mountain strip. You left it and I "think" that's incorrect. Happy to be wrong! It's around the 8:30 mark. Cheers and thanks for an excellent play through.
Hi Dave, there are a few hiccups in the rulebook that are corrected in the errata here boardgamegeek.com/filepage/138082/errata-and-faq-1st-english-edition you actually only remove the mountain strip when it's fully empty
Awwww sorry! I didn't know about the FAQ file. Downloaded and reading now... before the first game ಠ_ಠ Thanks so much for the reply. And again, excellent playthroughs which will really help being the rule learner/explainer person thing :) Please keep doing this - love your tastes in games and appreciate the hard work. BTW someone yesterday on Reddit described you as a mellow Rahdo (or something to that effect). I'd take it as a compliment myself, you received pretty good comments. :) cheers!
Great playthrough! While I was watching it, I realised that I play way too conservative and that I really need to get my hands on those exploration boards. :-)
Great video! I like all the solo play throughs you've been doing! A small suggestion is maybe try to keep the camera a bit more steady? Or just move around slower so it doesn't create as much dizziness. :) also at the end of this video, if you put the cabbage horizontally and use 1 coin in the feast to take out the meat, and use that to cover up the space with 2 -1 points side by side in the house, would that earn you 1 more point? Please keep up the great videos! :)
At 21:05 you talk about the conditions for failure during your raid. Is it a roll of 5 that fails automatically? Or only if you can't modify it up past 5?
Great video Tom. But I think you added up your score incorrectly. Your total score prior to negatives came to 160 (not 150 as you recorded) so your final score was 10 points higher at 138!
Your channel is quite a hidden gem among the board gaming channels.
Your playthroughs and impression videos are very clear and helpful.
Thumbs up!
Thank you!
I'm just recently discovered that this game exists, and then to see this amazing playthrough has convinced me that it's worth spending the money to buy this game. How much fun it is to do all that strategy! Thanks for making this video!
After bumbling my way through my first game, this video was like stumbling across the Rosetta Stone. Thank you!!!
I bought A Feast for Odin based mainly on your clear demonstration of game play and presentation. I enjoy your content and wish you and yours all the best . Thank you for sharing your passion for gaming.
The Dice rolling gods were with you on this day.
SPOILER ALERT!
A log of actions and the final score of Tom's gameplay below:
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R1
1V: Get 2 woods
2V: Laying a snare - get a fur
1V: Hunting game - get a game meat and a hide
1V: Get a stone and upgrade the game meat to a skin and bone
1V: Spend a stone to get apprentice craftsman into play and earn 1 coin
Income: 1
Breeding: none
Feast: beans, mead, long beans
Bonus: none
R2
1V: Turn a flax into a linen (OCC: get a wood from the apprentice craftsman)
2V: Get a knarr
2V: Get Iceland
1V: Trading - pay 1 coin and turn the skin and bone, hide, fur, into spices, a silverware and a jewelry
1V: Draw one occupation card (village leader) and get 1 coin
Income: 6
Breeding: none
Feast: grain, 1 coin, beans
Bonus: stone, ore, oil barrel
R3
1V: Turn stone into a rune stone and 1 coin (OCC: get 2 coins from the apprentice craftsman)
4V: Pay 3 coins to get a cattle and sheep (Get the village leader into play)
1V: Pay 1 coin to get 2 fish
1V: Upgrade 2 - cattle to clothing, fish to hide
1V: Get 2 coins and upgrade the sheep to fur
Income: 8
Breeding: none
Feast: flax, fish, long beans
Bonus: oil barrel, stone, ore, fish (OCC: get 2 coins from the village leader)
R4
Buy a long ship before the actions
3V: Get Baffin Island and draw an occupation card (milker)
1V: Turn a flax into a linen (OCC: get a wood from the apprentice craftsman)
1V: Hunting game - get a hide and game meat
1V: Raiding - get a jewelry
1V: Trading - pay 1 coin and turn the oil barrel and clothing to silverware and silver hoard
Income: 14
Breeding: none
Feast: long beans, fish, grain
Bonus: fish, 2 oil barrels, stone, 2 ores, skin and bone, whale blubber (OCC: get 2 coins from the village leader)
R5 (9:07)
2V: Laying a snare - get a fur
1V: Turn a stone into 1 rune stone and 1 coin (OCC: get 2 coins from the apprentice craftsman)
1V: Upgrade 2 - fish to hide, whale blubber to robe
2V: Trading - pay 1 coin to upgrade the barrel, robe, hide, fur into a rune stone, treasure chest, silverware and jewelry
2V: Pillaging - get the English Crown
2V: Turn 1 wood into chest and 1 coin (OCC: get a stone from the apprentice craftsman)
Income: 19
Breeding: none
Feast: cabbage, 2 coins, game meat, beans
Bonus: mead, wood, 3 ores, 2 stones, rune stone, oil barrel, fish, whale blubber, skin and bone
R6 (18:25)
3V: Get Newfound Land and draw an occupation card (armed fighter)
1V: Turn a flax into a linen (OCC: get 1 ore from the apprentice craftsman)
2V: Pay 3 coins to get 1 cattle and 1 milk
3V: Upgrade 4 - turn the cattle, whale blubber, fish, milk to clothing, robe, hide and wool. Draw an occupation card (peacemaker)
1V: Trading - pay 1 coin to turn clothing, linen, hide, wool, robe to silver hoard, silk, silverware, chest and treasure chest
1V: Raiding - get the cloak pin
Income: 25
Breeding: none
Feast: grain, mead, bean, 1 coin, long beans
Bonus: mead, wood, 3 ores, 2 stones, rune stone, oil barrel, fish, whale blubber, 2 skin and bones, stone house, dragon cane
R7 (24:54)
2V: Pillaging - get a jewelry
2V: Laying a snare - get a fur
1V: Pay 2 coins to get 2 fish
2V: Upgrade 3 - two fish and the whale blubber to 2 hide and 1 robe
2V: Trading - pay 1 coin to turn hide, robe, and skin and bone to a silverware, treasure chest, spices
2V: Pay 7 coins and use the knarr to emigrate
1V: Turn 1 stone to 1 rune stone and 1 coin (OCC: get 2 coins from the apprentice craftsman)
Breeding: none
Feast: fruit, mead, cabbage, fish
Final score counting (30:32)
Ships 8
Emigration 18
Exploration boards 66
Sheds and houses 10
Sheep and cattle 0
Occupations 3
Silver 21
Final Income 32
English Crown 2
(Negatives)
Home board -0
Exploration boards -15
Sheds and houses -7
Thing penalty -0
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138
Yep, the 150 points before negatives at 33:01 were a math error. It’s actually 160 points minus 22, so it WAS your best solo game.
Thanks so much for this! Great videos! Always easier to watch a playthrough then try and digest a rule book. Game is set up, I’ll try tomorrow!
These dice are SO RIGGED. lol
Fantastic playthrough as usual. Thank you for making these videos.
Amazing video... This really reinforces... How badly I play this game. Can't wait to try again after having seen your strategies.
Great and helpful video! Cleared up a few things for me as a new player. Thank you 👍
Thank you, I'm glad it helped! Good luck with your viking voyages :)
@@slickerdrips played 6x this weekend thanks to your video!
Thanks for the playthrough, it was very helpful! Would you consider doing a solo one for Ora et Labora?
I hope this is right for the solo game and admittedly I've just finished reading the rules. But I think you may have made an error when replacing mountain tiles. Page 11 states that when all but the last "2 silver" space are empty, remove the two silver and the entire mountain strip. You left it and I "think" that's incorrect. Happy to be wrong! It's around the 8:30 mark. Cheers and thanks for an excellent play through.
Hi Dave, there are a few hiccups in the rulebook that are corrected in the errata here boardgamegeek.com/filepage/138082/errata-and-faq-1st-english-edition
you actually only remove the mountain strip when it's fully empty
Awwww sorry! I didn't know about the FAQ file. Downloaded and reading now... before the first game ಠ_ಠ Thanks so much for the reply. And again, excellent playthroughs which will really help being the rule learner/explainer person thing :) Please keep doing this - love your tastes in games and appreciate the hard work. BTW someone yesterday on Reddit described you as a mellow Rahdo (or something to that effect). I'd take it as a compliment myself, you received pretty good comments. :) cheers!
I loved that post - I've been a big fan of Rahdo for a couple of years and any comparison to him is great in my eyes :)
I much prefer this to Rahdo who I find a bit too chaotic .... this is so much more M E L L O W.
Great video. However, at about 25:30, you make an illegal placement of green next to green.
Not sure if you corrected that later?
+Thomas Leitner I was afraid there'd be one somewhere! I'll add a note, I don't think I realised
Also at 8:30 when you update the mountain strips, if there is only the last money token left on the strip it is removed in this phase.
John Giblin I'm afraid that's incorrect. There is a long discuss about this on BGG.
*discussion.
Oh my mistake, I didn't realize there was errata for that already. Thanks for the clarification.
Great playthrough! While I was watching it, I realised that I play way too conservative and that I really need to get my hands on those exploration boards. :-)
Thank you! I did the same at the start, now I love getting that income as early as possible
Haha yeah, I said aloud, "he's taking another board?!"
Awesome, awesome, awesome. I just got this game in a math trade and it looked so intimidating but it really isn't. Well done.
Sweet playthrough, as usual
Great video! I like all the solo play throughs you've been doing! A small suggestion is maybe try to keep the camera a bit more steady? Or just move around slower so it doesn't create as much dizziness. :)
also at the end of this video, if you put the cabbage horizontally and use 1 coin in the feast to take out the meat, and use that to cover up the space with 2 -1 points side by side in the house, would that earn you 1 more point?
Please keep up the great videos! :)
+Imaodehl there's a chance I might be zoomed a little, I was accidentally doing that for a short while until someone pointed it out!
great Playthrough
Your rolls were crazy lucky, but great score.
Where did you learn to roll dice like that?! I'm jealous.
It's a skill I somehow gained and lost just for the duration of this playthrough it seems like :D
Man. I have the opposite luck with dice, and chaos bag draws in Arkham Horror. They must have been magetized or something lol.
You, like rhado, are going to hit my wallet like a Mack truck. Excellent video!
At 21:05 you talk about the conditions for failure during your raid. Is it a roll of 5 that fails automatically? Or only if you can't modify it up past 5?
+Alex Nguyen if you can’t modify it because the cheapest tile is 6
Good job
Tom - have you played with the new Norwegian Expansion yet ? Seems to really make a great game awesome ?
Ric
Hi Ric! I bought it in Essen but still haven't had the chance to try it yet - hoping to fix that soon :)
Great play through! What camera do you use to film these?
Thanks Jarren :) it's a Sony CX450 handycam (or if you go right back to the early videos it's an iPhone....6 maybe)
138 is just about the upper end of scores I've seen on this game, maybe nothing above 150? How easy is it do you feel to "max out" the solo game?
In round four, how did you build a ship when you had no wood and why did you not place three workers on the build ship action?
Did I buy it with coins? You don’t need an action to do that. Otherwise there’s a mistake in there :)
Yes you bought for 8 coins- that is possible?
Never mind i missed that part in rulebook thank you
every time you roll you got the best number on these dice! lol great video though
I’ve got a playthrough for the expansion coming soon, I’m not so lucky this time 😀
Great video Tom. But I think you added up your score incorrectly. Your total score prior to negatives came to 160 (not 150 as you recorded) so your final score was 10 points higher at 138!
Thanks, this would have been my highest score at the time I think!