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Various content around board games including solo playthroughs and some strategy thoughts along the way and certainly invited in the comments. Please subscribe if you feel so inclined and if you enjoy the content visit my Patreon page and send me a comment on what you'd like to see more of :)
Undergrove Solo Playthrough
My solo playthrough of Undergrove. I am not sure I verbalized the scoring correctly at the end but I recounted and posted the scores in the playthrough. Thank you for watching!
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Undergrove Deluxe Unboxing
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My quick and dirty unboxing of Undergrove Deluxe edition, just arrived yesterday. Thank you for watching!
Unraveled Game Thought's Top 10 Games for 2024
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Finally getting around to another top 10, this time my earliest predictions for 2024 based mostly on gameplay but in some cases on speculation. As always, thank you for watching! www.patreon.com/user?u=41028015 ko-fi.com/unraveledgamethoughts44212 www.buymeacoffee.com/cwb95kt 00:00 - Intro 04:16 - Runner Ups 1 & 2 07:23 - Runner Up 3 08:22 - Runner Up 4 08:55 - Runner Up 5 10:31 - Shipwrights R...
Unraveled Game Thoughts Top 100 (2024 Version)
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It has been a while since my last video and I am making an effort to post a few more in the coming months. Work and family consume most of my time and getting recordings in and edited proves to be tougher these days. 2024 Top 100 (#100-91) 00:00 - Intro 04:20 - Unfathomable 11:36 - Call to Adventure 16:38 - Green Team Wins 21:29 - Yedo 25:46 - Blood on the Clocktower 31:39 - Concordia 35:35 - O...
Ezra & Nehemiah Solo Playthrough
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A solo playthrough with some description and teach for Ezra & Nehemiah from Garphill Games. Shem and SJ have hit a solid homerun with this game imho. 00:00 - Intro 01:29 - Description of Components & Board(s) 13:50 - Solo Gameplay till Sabbath #1 51:26 - 1st Sabbath 58:38 - Solo Gameplay till Sabbath #2 01:24:57 - 2nd Sabbath 01:30:54 - Solo Gameplay till Sabbath #3 01:59:03 - 3rd Sabbath 02:01...
Draft & Write Records Solo Playthrough
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My solo playthrough on BGA www.patreon.com/user?u=41028015 ko-fi.com/unraveledgamethoughts44212 www.buymeacoffee.com/cwb95kt
Land of the Mesozoic - Introduction & Play thru Period 2
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Welcome to Unraveled Game Thoughts. Today I am talking through setup and demonstrating play through the first two periods.
Recent Plays & Local Artists
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I promised some local artists I'd feature snippets of their music on one of my channel postings. Unfortunately, this is only me rambling about some recent plays over the past few months. The musicians are located toward the end if you'd like to skip to there. 00:00 - Intro 18:44 - Musicians
Age of Comics (Part 2)
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The final rounds of my solo playthrough of Age of Comics: The Golden Years. I apologize as I believe my wife walks through in her morning robe at some point but I was not able to locate it during the edit. www.patreon.com/user?u=41028015 ko-fi.com/unraveledgamethoughts44212
Wingspan Playthrough on BGA
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Quick playthrough of Wingspan on BGA with commentary
My Top 10 Games from 2023
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Having seen a couple 2023 Top 10 videos, I decided to get back on the bandwagon and post one of my own. This list is certainly subject to change as time goes on as I have not played a number of games I hope to play down the road. 00:00 - Intro 01:44 - Honorable Mentions 08:53 - #10 Expeditions 11:42 - #9 Sail 16:30 - #8 Legacy of Yu 22:12 - #7 Forest Shuffle 24:35 - #6 Sky Team 27:49 - #5 Earth...
Age of Comics: The Golden Years - Solo rules and 1 round
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I received Age of Comics the other day and got it to the table this week for a solo run-through. This turned out to be a better game than I expected! My lighting was off on this one so I apologize for the darkness. www.patreon.com/user?u=41028015 ko-fi.com/unraveledgamethoughts44212
Forest Shuffle & My List of Underrated Games on BGG
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In this episode, I present a run-through of Forest Shuffle on BGA and talk through the games I've identified as grossly underrated. www.patreon.com/user?u=41028015 ko-fi.com/unraveledgamethoughts44212
Apex Theropod - Solo
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Unfortunately, my overhead camera battery dies about 4/5ths of the way through the video. Hopefully, this video offers enough of an overview as to how Apex plays and whether or not it is a game you'd enjoy. www.patreon.com/user?u=41028015 ko-fi.com/unraveledgamethoughts44212
Van Down by the River - 2P Ark nova BGA
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WIlst living in my RV away from family and the comforts of home, I am using my evenings to grab a few random plays online. Hopefully, these are not too spastic and might prove helpful in learning or developing your own opinions and strategies. Thank you for watching and have a great evening! www.patreon.com/user?u=41028015 ko-fi.com/unraveledgamethoughts44212
Van Down by the River - BGA 3P Great Western Trail
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Van Down by the River - BGA 3P Great Western Trail
Halls of Hegra - Day 6 till the bitter end!
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Halls of Hegra - Day 6 till the bitter end!
Halls of Hegra (Day 4 - Part 2 till Day 6 - Part 1)
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Halls of Hegra (Day 4 - Part 2 till Day 6 - Part 1)
Halls of Hegra (Mobilization Day 3 Part 2 - 1st Attack Day 4 Part 1)
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Halls of Hegra (Mobilization Day 3 Part 2 - 1st Attack Day 4 Part 1)
Halls of Hegra: Mobilization (Day 2 Part 2 - Day 3 Part 1)
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Halls of Hegra: Mobilization (Day 2 Part 2 - Day 3 Part 1)
Halls of Hegra Mobilization Day 1 Part 2 - Day 2 Part 1
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Halls of Hegra Mobilization Day 1 Part 2 - Day 2 Part 1
Halls of Hegra Day 1 Mobilization Part 1
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Halls of Hegra Day 1 Mobilization Part 1
Darwin's Journey solo Playthrough (3 rounds)
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Darwin's Journey solo Playthrough (3 rounds)
Unraveled Game Thoughts 2022 Top 10 Games Reprised
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Unraveled Game Thoughts 2022 Top 10 Games Reprised
Shipwrights is great, I would say it's not up to the weight of the west kingdom but a fun one nonetheless.
Noice!
Shout out to GreyCon!
@@KuteKitty45 Glad to see a GreyCON lover out there. It might be the most underground CON of all the CONs. WadeCON is the only other one I know in competition.
In solo drafting why not create 4 piles of 4, 3, 2, 1 cards and pick 1 from each deck, ie like you would if it was with more players and you also get benefit of seeing more cards
Hi, wich organizer used?
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Wow! The discarding down to three lands is tough but being able to have 2 herbivores without overgrazing is a huge bonus! Thanks for calling out those misses.
Great playthrough. I just received my copy, and I’ve played it a few times myself. I noticed a couple of things: First, according to the rules, after resolving the effects of a major extinction event, “all players make Land cards in play go extinct until there are 3 or less left.” (Page 9, column 2). I missed this myself the first couple of plays. Also, the overgrazing rule doesn’t come into play unless the number of herbivore cards minus the number of carnivore cards in play is MORE than 2 (page 5, column 2). So if the difference is exactly 2, you’re still fine.
What did you think? I didnt love it
Nice video! Thanks!
The special action for idea tokens doesn’t let you boost a comic multiple time if I’m not mistaken.
I'll have to look back and double check that rule. We played it a few days ago and I've found Age of Comics to be thematically appealing but mechanically lacking. If you've correctly ID'd a mistake here, I would argue that it adds to the dry mechanisms. I think getting only one fans for 3 ideas would make it far less valuable to the point of not wanting to take that bonus very often. But, that may be what it is. I recall trying to read that rule several times and not being quite sure if I was doing it right.
You don’t replenish the cards on display (writer/artist/original comics) until the end of the round. I believe you missed a couple of things on fans for the Automa’s printed comics. The Automa also add points for the round they are in. I think you should also be giving the Automa fans for the mastery tokens. Each of the ones in the first round should have been 5.
try making notes before yakking instead of this disjointed repetitive blather that makes it sound like you are unsure of what's going on....organize your thoughts to minimize the skipping around syndrome.
I believe the game was so easy for you because you played four rounds. The rules state you play three rounds when you're playing solo.
Just got it set up for my first game and it's nice to be able to watch a play through before I start. Just an observation, but the brim of your hat blocks a decent amount of the board. I'd suggest either trying to get your camera extended further and more zoomed in to the board, not wearing a hat, or maybe leaning back just out of camera view. I enjoyed the play though.
Thanks and good suggestions. I'll playing with those options. Good luck on your first play!
Sadly, you can't leave a defender in an action space (as you did with the medic at 18:18). I hope all is well with you and your family, and I look forward to seeing more of your playthroughs. Thanks!
Great shout-out and even more brutal than I was already suffering! Thanks for watching and noticing the bits I missed. :)
You only get +2 morale for defending the walls by placing 4 SOLDIERS in the defensive positions; you placed 3 soldiers and a volunteer...
Repair comes after the fire artillery step, so if you have enough workers in repair, you can "plan" on repairing the gun if it jams. If you roll a 6, that frees up a repair action for gun 2, or any defensive positions you have left. While you have "extra" defenders, I would spam shovel snow, fear/doubt, and morale. Take advantage of the snow marker moving, and keep that morale up!
Liked and subscribed. Thanks for your playthrough! I just received my copy on Monday, and only managed to play through the first day of 1st Attack. I'm sorry you had to injure 2 defenders on the very first round; that can really affect your action economy. Mathematically, on the very first recruit draw, there are 2 doubt tokens and 18 defenders, so I went for broke and was able to draw 4 defenders on the first day. I immediately went for bolster, inspire, and repair: your defense basically substitutes for defenders in your defensive positions, so the higher you can get it early, the better. Morale helped me immensely through every round where it was high, as every high morale card is helpful, especially for supplies and feeding your tired workers. Repair frees up those defensive position slots, and I used some on the artillery as well to free up both guns; don't overlook the fact that one of the targets gives you +2 morale. I never saw any hunters, but I had enough workers throughout my 4 days to shovel snow, although I never got any permanent actions (I found water, a generator, and extra tools, all of which helped in their own way). I think the best play is to keep your defensive positions open until the end of the coup, as placing 4 soldiers in there at the end of that turn will give you +4 morale (you won't need any soldiers in there anyway until then, and you CAN send tired soldiers to the walls without any penalty). By the time the German soldiers hit the map, I had 4 soldiers on the walls and my defense was maxed out (at 3?) I did have to promote once because I just kept drawing volunteers; good for supplies, but that's about it. I managed to send and retrieve 1 supply token from the depot, and then patrols and suspicion got in the way, and I kept finding better things to do with my defenders. Seems expensive to open new routes, but depending on the board state, I might go for the soldiers or morale tokens. Anyway, that's my experience so far. I am very excited about playing through a whole game, and I look forward to your next video. In summary, morale pays high dividends, and you definitely want to make your way to sending 4 soldiers to the walls at the end of Day 3. Thanks again!
Nice! I am thrilled that someone else is enjoying this game :) I am going to tap the morale but try a slightly different approach given my losing two workers. Fortunately they are in the infirmary and I will get them back (eventually). I will work toward the 4 soldiers on the map as I recall that being a huge advantage. I am working turns in-between family and work duties so my "mathing" skills are subpar at best...lol. I'd love to hear how your game turns out!
9:24 I believe Ivan will only buy a land if it has no fur tiles on it (page 12 of the rule book)
I jumped forward and, unfortunately, the right side of your table view was unused while your player board was offscreen for the whole game.
I'll have to review it again when we get back. Thanks for the heads up! Guess I'll have to play it again 🤓
Just found your channel and am thankful for your videos😎👍
Thanks!
You are the game version of bob ross. Very enjoyable
Thanks man!!!
Replay ability…super important but I have a hard time understanding how that wouldn’t heavily weight short games!
*promo sm* 🌷
This is whisky, not beer 😅
Nice
I added chapters and links to the games that were available. Check out Board Game Atlas or Board Game Oracle to see if any of these are available down the road.
Where did you get the storage tray for the tokens, etc?
I really need to play chakra.
A few comments : 08:04 - the special masks are not to be shuffled with the discovery tiles. You can only get them on the Empire board. 14:30 - the major discovery tiles count as discovery tiles except for counting and manipulating ; you cannot claim a non-mask major discovery tile with Quetzalcohuātl 21:45 - the Shaman only gets the benefit of the space you put it on, not from both spaces of the Altar (as noted at 24:12) 22:20 - the Mask Collection tile of the bot can only take masks from the action tiles, not from the temples 25:20 - After a Mask Collection action, the bot doesn't move a worker 29:34 - The lowest powered worker, in case of a tie, is the closest to the Palace (tile 1); you don't get to choose or pick at random (I don't know why he chose that one on the Construction tile) 31:30 - When you put a disc on a technology, all other players already on that tech get 3 VP 34:45 - When taking "any resource", you cannot usually take obsidian. You can, because of technology 1½. The bot cannot. The bot would take the least it has among gold, stone, or wood. 35:45 - The special ability from the orange temple on the bottom does not give you a cocoa when taking the action on boards 2,3,4. It reduces the cost of taking that action by 1 cocoa, with a minimum of 0. It's unfortunate they used the same iconography as the one on tech 07. They should have gone for something more similar to tech 15. 36:40 - You're not supposed to move two direction tiles down. You're correctly moving the top one down. What you're not doing correctly is you have to flip it over so that it points in the opposite direction next time you use it. 39:36 - Correct. The bot does not advance on the orange temple. He is supposed to never get to the top of that temple. 39:45 - We just said 10 seconds ago he does not advance on that temple. Well, you didn't give it the 8 points anyway, so it doesn't matter unless you reach the top of that temple yourself. 42:08 & 45:50 - It's not evident why you chose to push the bot's warrior to the highest region. The normal way is to randomly pick a Path tile to select one of the four regions. 50:00 - Mastery again? Looks like you forgot to move the bot tiles two turns ago. 58:50 - It isn't easy to see, and I didn't track it, but if the bot has obsidian, you add it to the wood to check if it has enough resources to perform its action. 1:00:16 - When the bot does the Worship action, it moves only one worker, the one locked on the Worship space. 1:05:20 - Except for the right-most, a region cannot be occupied by two warriors. Putting a blue warrior on the Teotihuacan region would push the yellow warrior to one of the four adjacent regions (selected by a random Path tile). It could end up on the region where there is a blue warrior, who would be pushed to the next region to the right. 1:07:45 - A displaced Shaman does not get any benefit from the Altar it ends on. 1:09:55 - I, too, skipped the second scoring step for my first eclipse: the player(s) most advanced on the pyramid track get 4 VP. 1:10:30 - One scoring is missing: 1/2/3/5 VP per warrior on the first/second/third/fourth region on the Empire Board. 1:16:30 - For the Alchemy action, if the bot cannot perform the main action, it powers up its weakest worker, not the strongest, and doesn't move it. Also, its strongest worker would be the one on the Conquest (6) Board (highest value, farthest from the Mansion (1) clockwise on a tie) 1:19:05 - You forgot to take the benefit from the Orange Temple: power up one worker 1:22:02 - The bot never ends its move on the Palace/Mansion (1) Board. It skips that board when advancing a worker. 1:50:12 - Huixtocihuatl's power only triggers on a roll of 6, 7, or 8. Not on a 4. 1:55:44 - "He's all over the place" because it receives too much obsidian and you chose to distribute its warriors all over the place. I think the Path tiles are there to avoid that. 1:58:05 - As for other Action tiles, the bot doesn't take the value or number of its workers into account. If it has two wood and a worker on Board 6, it should place two warriors on the Empire board, then use the two woods to build. 2:00:45 - That tile does not work like that. If you want to advance three times on the temple, you have to pay three times the price. 2:03:42 - You're not going to lose any VP for not paying for your workers, thanks to that ability on the orange temple.
Hi - your video is only in 240p and it's basically impossible to read anything....need to upgrade man to a batter audio & video
I got GH digital for free. Didn’t like it. Found combat clunky. I may have to give it another try but for now there are games I have and love to play with so ..,
Also, was Boonlake the Pfister you didn’t much care for?
I mostly agree with your assessments, and after having played a number of those with you, there are two I’d want to add: Strasbourg and Cryptid. Strasbourg’s bidding mechanism is a great driver for what amounts to a decent game. Cryptid doesn’t really hit a lot of what we don’t already have in our collection, but it does it so well. Simple rules, easy gameplay, and for an abstract it isn’t incredibly hideous. Great video!
Wow! A solo playthrough already! Impressive! 👏🏼
Just played my preview copy of Unconscious Mind tonight with some friends and we had a fantastic time! A few wrinkles to iron out yet, I would say, but there are so many extremely clever ideas woven into this game! It's brilliant! 🧠 (And very beautiful, as you mentioned!) 🎨
Great list! I've enjoyed going through your top 100 videos. We have similar taste in games so I now have a bunch I need to try out from your list.
Thank you for the holy grail nod in the parks review
Tnx for the playthrough guys! Great. just some problems with the end gaming scoring for the coöps. First (majority) is 16 points, 2nd is 8 points and 3rd gets 4 points. For example: with 2 the majority? 16+8= 24/2= 12 for each player. 3rd gets 4 points.
Thank you for the playthrough. I just got the game and I'm excited to try it out :)
@@unraveledgamethoughts3841 Okay, I've played it a few times and I'm getting better... Once you understand the rules it's not too complicated, really.
@@magm1377 😀
Sure, I'll post. I feel upside down watching this.
Listening to you try to pronounce the artist’s names is worth the watch by itself. Freaking hilarious.
I debated enrolling in a study abroad program just to get through the artists.
😂 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚖
Version 2.0 includes the ability for the automa to collect barrels and a few other changes to choose difficulty and automa end game scoring.
Oh, I'll have to look into that. I might have to laminate a new set of solo cards :)
Hey man! We are just getting a channel started too and I LOVE BGA. Maybe we could coordinate and get some two player stuff on each other's channels?
That would fantastic! There are quite a few games I'd love to post but need a coordinated recording of the game is missing a solo. Message me in BGG (WadeB1977) and we can get better contact info from there.
Nice video. Glad to see Teo videos. Ive played a lot on BGA and was number 1 for a while. Some things were good. But i think you need to think about efficiency. I never build the pyramid before buying at least one of the techs that give you a bonus for them. Cocoa is great as beginning tiles, ut you missed gold, as well as the position. I always try to get cocoa, gold, and a position where i can buy a tech as my first move.
Very nice. Regarding the bot's Toth action at 11:02 I think it takes cards in the highest segment possible. Therefore he would take the 2 techs and the leftmost blessing in the red segment, not 3 techs from red and yellow. Or am I mistaken?
That's a good call out and I might have done it incorrectly. I assumed he took the best cards available and treated tech cards as the best. I'll have to take a look at the rules for the bot's action there. Good catch and thanks for watching :)
@@cwb95k Thank you. This game is not so easy to learn because there are quite a lot of rules. In addition the bot rules (which are well designed) are different from the normal player rules. For instance for Toth the bot takes cards from the highest segment, regardless of happiness. For the player happiness determines the segment, etc. Another example is the placement of pillars in the temple for the bot : priorities are numerous and a bit tricky, and again scoring is different for the bot. That said the solo design is excellent and it makes a strong but fair adversary.
@@ericfernandez8700 Agreed! I am hoping to get this to the table with others later this summer. I have a hunch this is an underrated game for the year it was released (2020), in fact, though it's rated 7.8 it does not seem to show up on my list!
@@ericfernandez8700 I think you are wrong, for Toth action bot still takes happiness to determine highest possible segment for him.
This seems like a beast of a game! Gonna have to look into it
I think most folks would prefer to be taught this game as opposed to reading the rules but after a few turns the icons get easier to interpret. Not as much chrome as might at first seem.
I’ve been on the fence about this one lately. Been playing Marvel Champions solo and love it .
I got Scythe for Christmas ! Excited to try my 1st solo play.