For more twilight imperium content I would love for you to do a game recap. It seems you play frequently, and as someone who owns the game but has only been able to play half a game once I think a recap of strategy and board state and thought process of a game would be very insightful for me managing any attempts in the future. Thanks! Keep up the great work
Thats brilliant. As a long time player of this game, this game is hard to showcase some of the genius moves and counter plays that occur. Combined with the RNG of some rolls or opportune Action Card draws and uses, you end up witnessing epic falls from power and against the odds victories. Usually there is a pile in on the one player about to win and they either deftly counter and withstand the assault or end up getting rocked and the rest of the table scrambling for any chance of their own victory; that or they just revel their vengeance against the one who laid them low.
Round one is important, yes. However, it is knowing how to adapt to the changing choices and playing to your factions niche, he explains the factions well. Round 1, most important, is building units and getting as many planets as possible.
I always found the green tech very useful for the Hakan. Neural motivator get them more action cards that they can trade, and +1 strategy token by hyper metabolism is always a win in my book.
Thank you for the playlist. This was helpful. For our next game - whenever that may be - I'm thinking about playing the Naalu or the Arborec again, now that I got a better understanding how they work. 👍
These videos have been awesome. I just started playing recently and have been sure to catch all of your faction guides. Next, I hope you’ll cover some of the other basic game elements and give your thoughts on them such as technology trees, combat, and action cards. Also would love to see your game recaps, like another commenter said.
I'd love to see more TI4 content, but would also love to see what else you would be interested in doing. Going more in depth or even some gameplay footage of certain factions would be very cool. But keep up the amazing work man, I look forward to seeing what you upload next!
I just bought the base game in anticipation of a game night I'm having. I've been binge watching all your videos as a way to prepare myself to help everyone learn the game since none of us had even heard of Twilight Imperium prior to this week haha. Your channel has been instrumental in helping me understand this game and it's only caused my excitement to grow thank you for all your hard work
Thank you for great guides! Watched em all and going to watch again if it comes to play any faction. Please keep posting videos about Twilight Imperium!
Great TI4 strategy guides for each faction! I'm an experienced TI player and love these types of videos. I'm going to give your Jol-Nar strategy a go this weekend:) I think you would enjoy Forbidden Stars and a similar faction guide would be appreciated.
My comment before I view it: If you don't play Hacan like a small business simulator OR you don't know much about small business management in general this faction will elude your understanding for all time. I'll pop my comment down below after I've watched it as a reply! I absolutely LOVE Hacan, and the greatest recurring compliment I get is that when I play Hacan the entire table has a better experience, I've won once and come 2nd another two times as Hacan and I just adhered to a few small business principles!
Thanks for all the faction videos, very enjoyable to watch! I would love to see more TI4 videos. For example one about how to set up a game best (6 players), which options you got and how to build a interesting map without taking too much time on game day but rather by pre drafting. Or one about reading the map - like asteroid fields, tech specs planets etc. how to build your strategy on different map examples with different races in early mid and late game. I think there is plenty more content to explore about this game that I would love to see :)
Great review! I also would like to see more TI4 content but am also interested to see a balance with other games. Also, you have a great speaking voice for the podcast and it’s a great format for driving to work so I am most excited for more of that :]
Thank you so much for these high quality guides. I know I’m late and you’ve heard this before but your videos have truly helped me prepare for this upcoming game I have. Your videos have helped me find so many synergies and given me strategies to build off of. I can’t wait to use all the knowledge I’ve gleaned from you.
I've played Green Tech Hacan and it was not bad. Hacan is a very cerebral faction to play and only limited by your imagination for crafting deals and the level of manipulation possible at a table. Simple combo with production biomes. Make a deal with a player and agree upon cost. Say you wish to buy their trade agreement to use your agent on a 4 commodity faction and promise a 2 TG kickback. Man hands you his his Trade Agreement, you pop Prod Bio, he goes "WTF?", you say its all good were friends and its good to have rich friends and you got your money! Profit= 8 Golden Trade Goods vs expected 2 TG. Then you Bio-Stim it at the end of your turn. Next turn you offer to buy one random Action Card from a player with too many for 2 TG, pop Prod B, get an A Card & 4 bucks. There are a million ways to use that card as a sneaky interjection into a deal. Do not underestimate it. Plus, it is also is a flat Stall Card. Sling Relay, Biostims and Prod B are easy enough to get as Hacan. This gives you immense Stall power. Green in general is STRONG for Hacan for a few amazing reasons. Nueral Motivators+Arbitors= Action Card Mercenary Arsenal. This is just so helpful in creating a proxy war, don't be shy with it, just let them pick and choose from the whole hand. Make them think that stealing even your best Action Card is worth sending their fleet against another player. Hyper Metabolism= Huge economic boon, the sooner the better. You want to use Prod B and Quantum Data? Well Tokens are going to be a significant portion of your economic sink. Inf II? Sub teching Yellow for Quantum Data? Transit Diodes and a triple docked home system means your producing significant holding forces (insane combo with your hero & Dock II's btw), which you'll need as the Triple home system is a liability to clinching final victory as players try block your score by securing the planet 0/1 planet you never reinforced. Green is good. Green is God Tier. Don't let the non believers fool you. If Green fails you, you were either not up to the cerebral task double speaking your "comrades" and profiting from everything, or they were way to wary of you, and that's your fault for not looking weak enough/they saw thru your BS.
Thanks for all the TI content - there really isn't much out there, and your content is top-notch. As a fellow Magic player (primarily EDH with the occasional Limited), I'd prefer you continue pumping TI content. Magic content is over-saturated, and every channel has started to blur in the past year or so. Of course, feel free to do whichever you find enjoyable and/or helps grow your channel, but I'd thoroughly enjoy your TI content over the hypothetical Magic. Actually, if you play Arkham Horror, I'd love some of that, since my playgroup just started it and are only halfway into the first real campaign (Dunwich Legacy?).
I think Hacan is a really well designed faction in the TI4 universe. It's almost quintessential TI 4 - BUT - I don't know whether it is my personal play style, but I just haven't been drawn to play them - yet. They might even be my last choice of faction to play. But I will play them at sometime. They might be a great faction to play having just played Neckro Virus in a previous game - when you just want everybody to be your friend - for a change :)
My last game I played was the first I played without the Hacan at the table. Was probably the most fun game Ive played so far, and trading was much more meaningful because you had to earn the right to trade by getting ships in the right places.
Love your videos! Would you consider doing a video on the Discordant Stars homebrew expansion? Would love to hear your thoughts on it, and perhaps some faction guides down the line.
As an idea for the video, I can say that it would be interesting to see which factions play well against others. Counter picks? For example, faction A, factions B, C, D play well against it because they kill infantry well, etc. And so about each other factions.
Naalu original promissory note is actually amazing, you just have to give it to the dude who’s being ganked by the vuil’ raith so that he can play before they do… they will literally sell their souls for it and use it immediately so they can preemptive strike lol
I've only played them once in base game, and won, so it's interesting to hear the new synergy w the new heroes. Pumped to try them out again in POK. My hot take would be that faction-specific strategy can only take you so far. Gotta combine strategy and the nuts and bolts of the game with being able to read the table and the game state as well. I'm starting to become more open to breaking what guides like this would discourage you away from or at least always being aware of openings where that make sense. But also relying a bit on my own understanding of the game and the people I play with. But that's also dependent on who you play with or if you play online with strangers more. With that being said, as far as voting on whether or not this channel should expand, I would selfishly as a TI player say I would prefer more TI stuff. That being said, it's probably in CCC's best interest to expand. It just would be interesting to get more in depth TI stuff that isn't elsewhere. Maybe like stuff on recognizing board states and how to react when you're in a certain position. It might be good to kinda drill down the stuff that most factions, regardless of their abilities, should be aware of in terms of staying in the pack and within shooting distance of the win.
My hot take: Winning is not actually fun and kid of destroys the late game. The moment someone is at 8VP (or 12 in the long game), the whole dynamic changes and suddenly everything goes in order to stop him. These two rounds can be crazy and drag on for ever.
greetings Ethan, Thank you for this video. if I have for example a fleet with the Wrath of Kenara and additional 5 cruisers in the same system and I would score a hit by +1 on each of the rolls, I could spend a maximum of 7 trade goods (5 for each cruiser and 2 for The Wrath), right? Or can I only raise +1 a single roll regardless of the number of ships?
Hey man! If the Nekro Virus copies QDN, what's the correct way of playing this out? Ebd of strategy phase means, both players may do this in clockwise order? The card doesn't say that you can only use it once either. Can the Hacan and Nekro keep spending tokens and change strategy cards untol one of them gives up or runs out of tokens? 🤔
I would like to see more videos on TI. Maybe one where you categorize the factions like combat or economy and rank them within that category. Hot take: pillage by the Mentak coalition is better at stopping people from trading and should be used as such rather than as a source of trade goods.
Could you next make a series for Eclipse similar to how you did with TI4? Obviously there’s not as many factions in that game, but a how to play video followed by faction break downs would still be nice.
When I play HACAN,I will get AI and self assembly as fast as possible to get the war sun.Because the QDN is not as important at the beginning, it usually only plays a role in the final round so it is not urgent.
TI Hot Take; if I was running an event I would almost always ban Nekro Virus, unless someone else is playing the Sardakk N'orr. After all what is a computer system without a few bugs? More seriously, the Nekro Virus are very troublesome to play against, unless you are the virtually tech-less insect-oids.
At 9:20 i dont understand how a war sun can be produced when the space dock capacity is maximum 6. even if u have to pay zero, the maximum producty capacity is still only HALF of the war sun?
@@CardboardCrashCourse I think it would be very helpful I havent seen ANYONE doing content on it ( I know I have been looking for days) but there is a LARGE portion of the homebrew community that would love ANYONE to do ANYTHING about it LOL just a suggestion. I personally just picked up all 34 extra races and I am not even sure where to start haha
Sarwean tool is a bad tec, you pay 4 resources to get it and it doesn't pay off until you produce 4 times. From experience I only get 2 space docs so it takes 2 rounds from purchases to start paying off.
For more twilight imperium content I would love for you to do a game recap. It seems you play frequently, and as someone who owns the game but has only been able to play half a game once I think a recap of strategy and board state and thought process of a game would be very insightful for me managing any attempts in the future. Thanks! Keep up the great work
Thats brilliant. As a long time player of this game, this game is hard to showcase some of the genius moves and counter plays that occur. Combined with the RNG of some rolls or opportune Action Card draws and uses, you end up witnessing epic falls from power and against the odds victories. Usually there is a pile in on the one player about to win and they either deftly counter and withstand the assault or end up getting rocked and the rest of the table scrambling for any chance of their own victory; that or they just revel their vengeance against the one who laid them low.
I'd love to see something like a "Round 1" video where you and friends play through the first Round and explain your choices.
Round one is important, yes. However, it is knowing how to adapt to the changing choices and playing to your factions niche, he explains the factions well. Round 1, most important, is building units and getting as many planets as possible.
I always found the green tech very useful for the Hakan. Neural motivator get them more action cards that they can trade, and +1 strategy token by hyper metabolism is always a win in my book.
Hey Ethan, I'm actually watching your Show because of the Twilight Imperium content. Please continue and give us more insights into Twilight Imperium.
Yes sir!
Thank you for the playlist. This was helpful. For our next game - whenever that may be - I'm thinking about playing the Naalu or the Arborec again, now that I got a better understanding how they work. 👍
My hot take is that playing random factions and learning them makes more fun than max out your playstyle with your favourite faction
These videos have been awesome. I just started playing recently and have been sure to catch all of your faction guides. Next, I hope you’ll cover some of the other basic game elements and give your thoughts on them such as technology trees, combat, and action cards. Also would love to see your game recaps, like another commenter said.
I'd love to see more TI4 content, but would also love to see what else you would be interested in doing. Going more in depth or even some gameplay footage of certain factions would be very cool. But keep up the amazing work man, I look forward to seeing what you upload next!
Thx for all the videos!
My pleasure! Glad you enjoy :)
I just bought the base game in anticipation of a game night I'm having. I've been binge watching all your videos as a way to prepare myself to help everyone learn the game since none of us had even heard of Twilight Imperium prior to this week haha. Your channel has been instrumental in helping me understand this game and it's only caused my excitement to grow thank you for all your hard work
I couldn’t - and wouldn’t - do it without you! Thank you
I would love to see you go through all the tech cards in your style. I love how you tell and then show on the game board.
Thank you for great guides! Watched em all and going to watch again if it comes to play any faction. Please keep posting videos about Twilight Imperium!
Great TI4 strategy guides for each faction! I'm an experienced TI player and love these types of videos. I'm going to give your Jol-Nar strategy a go this weekend:) I think you would enjoy Forbidden Stars and a similar faction guide would be appreciated.
My comment before I view it:
If you don't play Hacan like a small business simulator OR you don't know much about small business management in general this faction will elude your understanding for all time.
I'll pop my comment down below after I've watched it as a reply! I absolutely LOVE Hacan, and the greatest recurring compliment I get is that when I play Hacan the entire table has a better experience, I've won once and come 2nd another two times as Hacan and I just adhered to a few small business principles!
Thanks for all the faction videos, very enjoyable to watch! I would love to see more TI4 videos. For example one about how to set up a game best (6 players), which options you got and how to build a interesting map without taking too much time on game day but rather by pre drafting. Or one about reading the map - like asteroid fields, tech specs planets etc. how to build your strategy on different map examples with different races in early mid and late game. I think there is plenty more content to explore about this game that I would love to see :)
Keep making TI content. Love this
Great review! I also would like to see more TI4 content but am also interested to see a balance with other games.
Also, you have a great speaking voice for the podcast and it’s a great format for driving to work so I am most excited for more of that :]
Thank you so much for these high quality guides. I know I’m late and you’ve heard this before but your videos have truly helped me prepare for this upcoming game I have. Your videos have helped me find so many synergies and given me strategies to build off of. I can’t wait to use all the knowledge I’ve gleaned from you.
This was great series. A more in depth guide for each faction with possible matchups would be nice next.
I've played Green Tech Hacan and it was not bad. Hacan is a very cerebral faction to play and only limited by your imagination for crafting deals and the level of manipulation possible at a table. Simple combo with production biomes. Make a deal with a player and agree upon cost. Say you wish to buy their trade agreement to use your agent on a 4 commodity faction and promise a 2 TG kickback. Man hands you his his Trade Agreement, you pop Prod Bio, he goes "WTF?", you say its all good were friends and its good to have rich friends and you got your money! Profit= 8 Golden Trade Goods vs expected 2 TG. Then you Bio-Stim it at the end of your turn. Next turn you offer to buy one random Action Card from a player with too many for 2 TG, pop Prod B, get an A Card & 4 bucks. There are a million ways to use that card as a sneaky interjection into a deal. Do not underestimate it. Plus, it is also is a flat Stall Card. Sling Relay, Biostims and Prod B are easy enough to get as Hacan. This gives you immense Stall power. Green in general is STRONG for Hacan for a few amazing reasons. Nueral Motivators+Arbitors= Action Card Mercenary Arsenal. This is just so helpful in creating a proxy war, don't be shy with it, just let them pick and choose from the whole hand. Make them think that stealing even your best Action Card is worth sending their fleet against another player. Hyper Metabolism= Huge economic boon, the sooner the better. You want to use Prod B and Quantum Data? Well Tokens are going to be a significant portion of your economic sink. Inf II? Sub teching Yellow for Quantum Data? Transit Diodes and a triple docked home system means your producing significant holding forces (insane combo with your hero & Dock II's btw), which you'll need as the Triple home system is a liability to clinching final victory as players try block your score by securing the planet 0/1 planet you never reinforced. Green is good. Green is God Tier. Don't let the non believers fool you. If Green fails you, you were either not up to the cerebral task double speaking your "comrades" and profiting from everything, or they were way to wary of you, and that's your fault for not looking weak enough/they saw thru your BS.
Discordant Stars Factions next (34 factions) 🎉😂❤
Thanks for all the TI content - there really isn't much out there, and your content is top-notch. As a fellow Magic player (primarily EDH with the occasional Limited), I'd prefer you continue pumping TI content. Magic content is over-saturated, and every channel has started to blur in the past year or so. Of course, feel free to do whichever you find enjoyable and/or helps grow your channel, but I'd thoroughly enjoy your TI content over the hypothetical Magic. Actually, if you play Arkham Horror, I'd love some of that, since my playgroup just started it and are only halfway into the first real campaign (Dunwich Legacy?).
I think Hacan is a really well designed faction in the TI4 universe. It's almost quintessential TI 4 - BUT - I don't know whether it is my personal play style, but I just haven't been drawn to play them - yet. They might even be my last choice of faction to play. But I will play them at sometime. They might be a great faction to play having just played Neckro Virus in a previous game - when you just want everybody to be your friend - for a change :)
I think I may try Hacan out next time I play. They're no space turtles. But they seem really interesting.
My last game I played was the first I played without the Hacan at the table. Was probably the most fun game Ive played so far, and trading was much more meaningful because you had to earn the right to trade by getting ships in the right places.
Hacan are one of the things that drew me to TI4. They're iconic and fun to play if you like to make deals and scheme.
Definitely would love to see more TI videos, but one-off videos or short series about other games could be cool too
Love your videos!
Would you consider doing a video on the Discordant Stars homebrew expansion?
Would love to hear your thoughts on it, and perhaps some faction guides down the line.
As an idea for the video, I can say that it would be interesting to see which factions play well against others. Counter picks? For example, faction A, factions B, C, D play well against it because they kill infantry well, etc. And so about each other factions.
Naalu original promissory note is actually amazing, you just have to give it to the dude who’s being ganked by the vuil’ raith so that he can play before they do… they will literally sell their souls for it and use it immediately so they can preemptive strike lol
I've only played them once in base game, and won, so it's interesting to hear the new synergy w the new heroes. Pumped to try them out again in POK.
My hot take would be that faction-specific strategy can only take you so far. Gotta combine strategy and the nuts and bolts of the game with being able to read the table and the game state as well. I'm starting to become more open to breaking what guides like this would discourage you away from or at least always being aware of openings where that make sense. But also relying a bit on my own understanding of the game and the people I play with.
But that's also dependent on who you play with or if you play online with strangers more.
With that being said, as far as voting on whether or not this channel should expand, I would selfishly as a TI player say I would prefer more TI stuff. That being said, it's probably in CCC's best interest to expand. It just would be interesting to get more in depth TI stuff that isn't elsewhere. Maybe like stuff on recognizing board states and how to react when you're in a certain position. It might be good to kinda drill down the stuff that most factions, regardless of their abilities, should be aware of in terms of staying in the pack and within shooting distance of the win.
My hot take: Winning is not actually fun and kid of destroys the late game. The moment someone is at 8VP (or 12 in the long game), the whole dynamic changes and suddenly everything goes in order to stop him. These two rounds can be crazy and drag on for ever.
Absolutnie i niepodważalnie 😂😂😂 prawda którą znają nieliczni
Hey! Thanks for this series! I’d love to see some magic the gathering content too!
Party on 🤘🏻
Woot woot! Okay :)
Couldn't you utilize biostims with the 2prereq faction tech to get 8 trade goods each round(maybe more with strong trading)?
Are you planning on doing guides for the Discordant Stars homebrew?
Nice vid!
Hi, this series has been brilliant. Do you have any plans to do the same for Eclipse?
greetings Ethan, Thank you for this video.
if I have for example a fleet with the Wrath of Kenara and additional 5 cruisers in the same system and I would score a hit by +1 on each of the rolls, I could spend a maximum of 7 trade goods (5 for each cruiser and 2 for The Wrath), right? Or can I only raise +1 a single roll regardless of the number of ships?
Each roll from each ship would need to be bought with 1TG, so your first assumption is correct.
@@CardboardCrashCourse Thank you very much for your valued opinion
Hey man! If the Nekro Virus copies QDN, what's the correct way of playing this out? Ebd of strategy phase means, both players may do this in clockwise order? The card doesn't say that you can only use it once either. Can the Hacan and Nekro keep spending tokens and change strategy cards untol one of them gives up or runs out of tokens? 🤔
I would love to see a live game of you and your friends playing
Hey, man! Would you be interested in remaking your Mahact faction guide with your current level of polish?
I would like to see more videos on TI. Maybe one where you categorize the factions like combat or economy and rank them within that category.
Hot take: pillage by the Mentak coalition is better at stopping people from trading and should be used as such rather than as a source of trade goods.
Is there a place where the guides are written up? Definitely would be nice to have a reference guide.
Could you next make a series for Eclipse similar to how you did with TI4? Obviously there’s not as many factions in that game, but a how to play video followed by faction break downs would still be nice.
When I play HACAN,I will get AI and self assembly as fast as possible to get the war sun.Because the QDN is not as important at the beginning, it usually only plays a role in the final round so it is not urgent.
Villainous would be an interesting direction for the channel to go.
Fremen Kitties
TI Hot Take; if I was running an event I would almost always ban Nekro Virus, unless someone else is playing the Sardakk N'orr. After all what is a computer system without a few bugs? More seriously, the Nekro Virus are very troublesome to play against, unless you are the virtually tech-less insect-oids.
Doesn't Trade Convoys act as a Stall Tactic card as well since it requires an action to be played?
At 9:20 i dont understand how a war sun can be produced when the space dock capacity is maximum 6. even if u have to pay zero, the maximum producty capacity is still only HALF of the war sun?
The war sun still only counts as one unit towards capacity. It’s cost is separate from the capacity slot it takes uo
What did you mean by as long as it's one of your 2 turns?
Hacan, providing catnip to the galaxy since 4200.
Could you do Discordant Stars Homebrew Races???
I’m heavily considering it
@@CardboardCrashCourse I think it would be very helpful I havent seen ANYONE doing content on it ( I know I have been looking for days) but there is a LARGE portion of the homebrew community that would love ANYONE to do ANYTHING about it LOL just a suggestion. I personally just picked up all 34 extra races and I am not even sure where to start haha
@@CardboardCrashCoursethat would be awesome!
Sarwean tool is a bad tec, you pay 4 resources to get it and it doesn't pay off until you produce 4 times. From experience I only get 2 space docs so it takes 2 rounds from purchases to start paying off.
I'd like to see more TI content.
Rock Chalk 🤟
I see you have a Kansas sweatshirt on? From the State or just a KU fan?
Rock Chalk! My brother is in KU.
@@CardboardCrashCourse Went to K-State, so I’m sorry to disagree. Love your content though!
No worries, cheers anyway! Thank you!
I'd love for you to check out ROOT. I really think you'd love the different factions.
I could imagine you becoming a mtg channel
Move on to Discordant Stars?
Do i recognize your voice?...
Are you playing on TI4 discord?
Hacan has ware's if you have coin
My hot take for my group i that I don't really care about winning, getting plastic and ruining other people's master plans is a lot more fun
Hot take: using prebuilt, balanced maps is a terrible way to play the game and ruins the magic of TI, which thrives on imbalance.
Isn't that a bad way to play with new players?
@@brynwilliams8416yes