COMPONENTS - Fabulous! I have zero complaints here. The storage, the tokens, the cards, the wonderful roll-out map. It's all pretty awesome :) 0:00 - Introduction 1:00 - Overview of Play 4:51 - Site Overview and Set-Up 7:56 - Solo Playthrough 41:08 - The Chronicle 43:03 - Solo Impressions
39:33 when one die roll destroys your entire strategy... NOOOOOOO 😭 lol Seriously, though, this is a great playthrough, I really appreciate watching someone play against the Clockwork Prince who understands the mechanisms so well. Great game, sorry you got killed with a d6 👍😎🚛
This is great -- it confirms that I've playing the Prince correctly :-). A couple comments: 17:47 - I believe you should have used the Elders action to gain the secret, since it wouldn't cost any supply. You could then have used the secret to gain more favor from the Nomads. 23:05 - Assuming you're playing the Prince in the "Limited" (basic, easy) way, they don't use battle plans that require discarding cards (unlike Bandits), so they wouldn't play the Rain Boots
Awesome play through dude- this was a huge help to me! Couple notes- you mention at some point that you can’t take the darkest secret from the prince because there were no cards at his site however this apparently has been changed and you can take it even if there are no cards at the site or if the player has no advisers. Secondly I was a bit confused on the chart as to why you moved up when it said “battle ready” because it doesn’t look like an arrow but I eventually caught how that worked. Great stuff!
The only change in the errata is that you can take it if they have no advisers. There still needs to be at least 1 denizen at their site. The easiest way for me to wrap my head around it and remember it is to imagine that any denizens at sites are nosy and untrustworthy when it comes to the darkest secret… so they will discover the secret and help you or anybody else take it. UNLESS all those denizens have friends in the court (advisers) of the secret holder, in which case they won’t betray their friends.
Thanks for the video! Well done. I got to playtest this a few times. Like a COIN game Oath needs 4 people to shine and I was disappointed that once again they made solo play only as a two player experience. I get making solo rules for this game had to be really hard, so I'm glad they tried. hopefully someone else improves on the system.
@@OneStopCoopShop I love this idea. A way to have multiple bots would be a huge benefit as well. It's not that the bot is bad, it's just that the game really needs more interaction.
Thanks for the playthrough! Great as always :3 Companion app (or anything) to play against more than one opponent a la Scythe would be preferred for me. Oath is a game of creating a chronicle of the world as generations pass, and there's not a lot of story to create between just two sides. I don't know if I would want more flow charts for each opponent, but I'd still prefer that than just having only one AI opponent for a game that plays best with 3-5 players. Thoughts?
Oh! I suppose the same flow chart could work with a token for each AI on the flowchart board. Then it's just a matter of having an AI board for each Exile opponent. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
That’s where my thoughts went (multiple tokens at different spots of the same flowchart). But first, for me, they would have to make the non-chancellor AI better. It’s a bit rough at this point.
Great demo of the solo mode. Question, not sure if I missed something. At 14:42, did you forget to take a favor from the Nomad bank after playing Rain Boots? Or is there a different rule when playing from a facedown advisor?
wow the mind map for the AI is really clever. Can't wait to open my copy of this game. It'll be tough to get a couple of people to play this with me but at least the solo mode looks fun enough
At 11:25 the mind token was in a Conspirators section so should not have played the friend Beast Also, when they have unaligned faction during step 2, I think they break ties by faction placement on their player board, not the ones drawn. They are tie breaking faction, not cards at that point
6:10 Correct me if I'm wrong but I see two revealed site cards in the Hinterlands. In the Chronicle rules, it says to reveal the top most site card of a region only if there is no other face up site cards in them (I think). In your case, the Standing Stones are already revealed because of the ruined edifice. So shouldn't the Lush Coast be face down at the start of the game ?
At 22:00 you went directly up to the move/campaign action. That wasn’t connected to the start spot on the Clockwork mind. What informed you that was the spot to go to? I had thought the action token only moves along the arrow paths
I'd like to buy it but I always play solo, do you suggest it for only solitaire player? Maybe with a 2nd hand box should more reasonable,isnt it? Thanks
Rule 5.5.3 says bandits use all battle plans that have no cost. The specific example of a discard card like Horse Archers is mentioned in this thread: boardgamegeek.com/thread/2653523/bandits
10:23 "when they play a card or discard it, they gain one favor" - I think this is wrong. If the Clockwork Prince discards a card, the Prince only gains the "can't play" benefits - and with favor gained (to Ambition) only if these benefits include gaining favor.
Quoted from the Clockwork Prince rules sheet (in the discard section): “Gain favor from the bank matching the discarded card and add it to your Ambition box.”
@@OneStopCoopShop That describes how you get the favor if that's shown in the Can't Play Card box. Instead of getting one favor on every discarded card. "Gain one favor from the favor bank matching the played card." "If you cannot play this card to any site, discard it and gain what is shown in the Can't Play Card box of your Mind quadrant. Gain favor from the bank matching the discarded card and add it to your Ambition box. The shield advances your tactics marker."
@@terryleung5666 Ah, I see it now. That was a dumb way to write it in my opinion (but then again these solo rules are lacking and vague in many aspects). Why call out favor in such a specific way but not warbands and books and other stuff? But thanks for helping me understand!
During your trade action around 17:50, you spent one secret to obtain two favor, then you immediately spent those two coins to gain one secret. Net gain = nothing. Was there a strategic reason for it? I know in multiplayer it can be to keep others from being able to use those cards, but what about for solo play?
You are forgetting that spent favor goes back to the supply, but secrets come back to your board each round. So my net gain was 1 permanent secret for the rest of the game (unless I burned it).
Bigger issue with this play. He traded to gain 2 favor (1 supply) then traded again to gain 1 secrets (1 supply) while his advisor would have allowed for the same second trade but not costing supply since it was a card action instead of the trade action.
I know this video is three years old by now but if you can play solo with essentially two players one being AI the other human why couldnt you just play this at two human without the AI? I assumed it wouldnt be fun but you looked to be having plenty of fun at two and you problems with it were mainly that the AI especially as an exile isnt a human who would make smarter plays. I had a three player game going but the person who is the current chancellor lives further away but the other is over frequently for Board game nights so i might have him and i do a game with clockwork as chancellor and once they are dethroned maybe drop to just two and give it a shot
Yeah, definitely give it a try! Though if you didn't already see, they had a new crowdfunding campaign recently and my friend Liz from Beyond Solitaire is working with Ricky Royal to develop an improved automa. I'm really excited for it!
@@OneStopCoopShop I did see that shortly after watching this! I'm excited to see the new content and especially the revamped Solo experience! Anything to table this game more often!
Lovely video as always, and the game mechanics look great. Unfortunately, I really, really, REALLY don't like the art. It makes my eyes hurt to the point that it is impossible for me to enjoy the mechanics. Others in my play group love the art of course, but this is just not to my liking, so this is one game (and Root) that I will never play with them :( Cheers for the video.
COMPONENTS - Fabulous! I have zero complaints here. The storage, the tokens, the cards, the wonderful roll-out map. It's all pretty awesome :)
0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Overview of Play
4:51 - Site Overview and Set-Up
7:56 - Solo Playthrough
41:08 - The Chronicle
43:03 - Solo Impressions
39:33 when one die roll destroys your entire strategy... NOOOOOOO 😭 lol
Seriously, though, this is a great playthrough, I really appreciate watching someone play against the Clockwork Prince who understands the mechanisms so well. Great game, sorry you got killed with a d6 👍😎🚛
Ah, so it goes sometimes. Happened in my Deep Space D-6 play too!
great stuff, i think im falling in love with this game; and now they have the bot coming out and designed by Ricky as well as another expansion!
I’m VERY excited to see Ricky and Liz Davidson’s new bots. The one in the base game never worked great for me
@@OneStopCoopShop I hopped on the kickstarter!
Thanks for this! I realized I played the trade action wrong with the CP.
Happy to help!
This is great -- it confirms that I've playing the Prince correctly :-). A couple comments:
17:47 - I believe you should have used the Elders action to gain the secret, since it wouldn't cost any supply. You could then have used the secret to gain more favor from the Nomads.
23:05 - Assuming you're playing the Prince in the "Limited" (basic, easy) way, they don't use battle plans that require discarding cards (unlike Bandits), so they wouldn't play the Rain Boots
Awesome play through dude- this was a huge help to me!
Couple notes- you mention at some point that you can’t take the darkest secret from the prince because there were no cards at his site however this apparently has been changed and you can take it even if there are no cards at the site or if the player has no advisers.
Secondly I was a bit confused on the chart as to why you moved up when it said “battle ready” because it doesn’t look like an arrow but I eventually caught how that worked.
Great stuff!
Thanks for the clarification on the secret card, and glad it was helpful!
The only change in the errata is that you can take it if they have no advisers. There still needs to be at least 1 denizen at their site.
The easiest way for me to wrap my head around it and remember it is to imagine that any denizens at sites are nosy and untrustworthy when it comes to the darkest secret… so they will discover the secret and help you or anybody else take it. UNLESS all those denizens have friends in the court (advisers) of the secret holder, in which case they won’t betray their friends.
Thanks for the video! Well done. I got to playtest this a few times. Like a COIN game Oath needs 4 people to shine and I was disappointed that once again they made solo play only as a two player experience. I get making solo rules for this game had to be really hard, so I'm glad they tried. hopefully someone else improves on the system.
I'm hoping something like the Root better bot project happens ;)
@@OneStopCoopShop I love this idea. A way to have multiple bots would be a huge benefit as well. It's not that the bot is bad, it's just that the game really needs more interaction.
Thanks for the video Mike! I think I made the right call for myself to sell it (for solo only). I might look to pick it up again later though.
Yeah, not a bad decision :)
I'm struggling with the same decision. I really hate to sell it, but not sure it's worth keeping around just for solo.
Thanks for the playthrough! Great as always :3
Companion app (or anything) to play against more than one opponent a la Scythe would be preferred for me. Oath is a game of creating a chronicle of the world as generations pass, and there's not a lot of story to create between just two sides. I don't know if I would want more flow charts for each opponent, but I'd still prefer that than just having only one AI opponent for a game that plays best with 3-5 players. Thoughts?
Oh! I suppose the same flow chart could work with a token for each AI on the flowchart board. Then it's just a matter of having an AI board for each Exile opponent. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
That’s where my thoughts went (multiple tokens at different spots of the same flowchart).
But first, for me, they would have to make the non-chancellor AI better. It’s a bit rough at this point.
Great demo of the solo mode.
Question, not sure if I missed something.
At 14:42, did you forget to take a favor from the Nomad bank after playing Rain Boots? Or is there a different rule when playing from a facedown advisor?
No, you’re absolutely right! I got so excited by the free secret from the site power that I forgot my favor!
wow the mind map for the AI is really clever. Can't wait to open my copy of this game. It'll be tough to get a couple of people to play this with me but at least the solo mode looks fun enough
Yeah, and I'm hoping variants take the slickness of the mind map and make it work better for exile automa and multiple players.
At 11:25 the mind token was in a Conspirators section so should not have played the friend Beast
Also, when they have unaligned faction during step 2, I think they break ties by faction placement on their player board, not the ones drawn. They are tie breaking faction, not cards at that point
6:10 Correct me if I'm wrong but I see two revealed site cards in the Hinterlands. In the Chronicle rules, it says to reveal the top most site card of a region only if there is no other face up site cards in them (I think). In your case, the Standing Stones are already revealed because of the ruined edifice. So shouldn't the Lush Coast be face down at the start of the game ?
Not sure, sorry. Haven’t played this one in close to two years
At 22:00 you went directly up to the move/campaign action. That wasn’t connected to the start spot on the Clockwork mind. What informed you that was the spot to go to? I had thought the action token only moves along the arrow paths
Look more closely. There is a very wide orange arrow that says “battle ready” going up, and that space takes priority.
Thanks so much! I see what you are saying.
I'd like to buy it but I always play solo, do you suggest it for only solitaire player? Maybe with a 2nd hand box should more reasonable,isnt it? Thanks
I would very much not recommend it for solo. I think it’s a great competitive game, but the solo mode, for me, has too many flaws
@@OneStopCoopShop that was my doubt.. Thanks
It's a 1/6 die roll. What are the chances? 100%
LOL. Sex Panther dice. 60% of the time it ruins Mike's game EVERY TIME!
the 6 was awesome.
Luck in action! 😅😅😅
I can't find the rule what says bandits should discard the card in their site. Is this a community rule?
Rule 5.5.3 says bandits use all battle plans that have no cost.
The specific example of a discard card like Horse Archers is mentioned in this thread:
boardgamegeek.com/thread/2653523/bandits
@48:00 why did they get one favor for starting on the mine? Doesn't it have to be their pawn? It is just a warband there.
I had forgotten to give it to them at the start of their previous turn, when their pawn was there.
10:23 "when they play a card or discard it, they gain one favor" - I think this is wrong. If the Clockwork Prince discards a card, the Prince only gains the "can't play" benefits - and with favor gained (to Ambition) only if these benefits include gaining favor.
And again in 30:10
Quoted from the Clockwork Prince rules sheet (in the discard section):
“Gain favor from the bank matching the discarded card and add it to your Ambition box.”
@@OneStopCoopShop That describes how you get the favor if that's shown in the Can't Play Card box. Instead of getting one favor on every discarded card.
"Gain one favor from the favor bank matching the played card."
"If you cannot play this card to any site, discard it and gain what is shown in the Can't Play Card box of your Mind quadrant. Gain favor from the bank matching the discarded card and add it to your Ambition box. The shield advances your tactics marker."
@@terryleung5666 Ah, I see it now. That was a dumb way to write it in my opinion (but then again these solo rules are lacking and vague in many aspects). Why call out favor in such a specific way but not warbands and books and other stuff? But thanks for helping me understand!
@@OneStopCoopShop Nevermind. Thanks for your great video though. I really enjoyed it and learnt some steps in solo play as well.
During your trade action around 17:50, you spent one secret to obtain two favor, then you immediately spent those two coins to gain one secret. Net gain = nothing. Was there a strategic reason for it? I know in multiplayer it can be to keep others from being able to use those cards, but what about for solo play?
You are forgetting that spent favor goes back to the supply, but secrets come back to your board each round. So my net gain was 1 permanent secret for the rest of the game (unless I burned it).
@@OneStopCoopShop duh. Thanks haha.
Bigger issue with this play. He traded to gain 2 favor (1 supply) then traded again to gain 1 secrets (1 supply) while his advisor would have allowed for the same second trade but not costing supply since it was a card action instead of the trade action.
@@dragonfang12321 ah, this would have been smarter indeed. It's always tough to remember the best plays while filming and commentating ;)
Really like the look of this game but there’s just too much going on for me. Looks confusing.
I don’t like it for solo, but with 4+ players it’s a lot of fun. And that also removes all the confusing solo bits ;)
I know this video is three years old by now but if you can play solo with essentially two players one being AI the other human why couldnt you just play this at two human without the AI?
I assumed it wouldnt be fun but you looked to be having plenty of fun at two and you problems with it were mainly that the AI especially as an exile isnt a human who would make smarter plays.
I had a three player game going but the person who is the current chancellor lives further away but the other is over frequently for Board game nights so i might have him and i do a game with clockwork as chancellor and once they are dethroned maybe drop to just two and give it a shot
Yeah, definitely give it a try! Though if you didn't already see, they had a new crowdfunding campaign recently and my friend Liz from Beyond Solitaire is working with Ricky Royal to develop an improved automa. I'm really excited for it!
@@OneStopCoopShop I did see that shortly after watching this! I'm excited to see the new content and especially the revamped Solo experience! Anything to table this game more often!
Lovely video as always, and the game mechanics look great. Unfortunately, I really, really, REALLY don't like the art. It makes my eyes hurt to the point that it is impossible for me to enjoy the mechanics. Others in my play group love the art of course, but this is just not to my liking, so this is one game (and Root) that I will never play with them :(
Cheers for the video.
I know Kyle’s art isn’t to everyone’s liking. I tend to like it :)
I can just imagine what it would look like if Ian O’Toole did the art and I think it would appeal to many more people
I like O’Toole’s work, but has he ever done fantasy? I mostly think of him for dry euros :)
@@OneStopCoopShop not sure. I’d love to see him branch out though because his art style gets me goooooooood
@@Iamwrongbut On Mars (with the upcoming solo/co-op expansion) is in my to-play pile ;)