Thanks. There were six little details about the rules that would have gone forgotten without this video : 1) being able to bump tribes despite there being free encampments, 2) The level 3 boat transport counting boat goods as ANYTHING regardless of territories neighbouring the water, 3) A single sale including up to two different types of exchanges. 4) Being able to voluntarily pay card costs as if a higher stage (without left-to-right skips), 5) No discounts for cards with a single stage cost, 6) A cave connecting territories adjacent to the same cave. The video also hammered home needing to check for various site bonuses when procreating, producing and hunting. The first two could easily be missed, at least. The rules are not a short set, but they are very easy to understand and to remember, once committed to the mind. The main rulebook is also flawless. It's a really really good one. And this video is extremely meticulous in its structure. Very finely polished. Nice.
How you can make a complex game like this feel pretty straightforward to learn is impressive. Thanks Paul for yet another great, thorough how to play video 🎉🎉
This game looks great! Can’t wait to watch your solo play throughs. Your style and presentation combined with your enthusiasm is top notch. It really helps me understand if a game is a good fit for me. Thank you!
As usual, you deliver in spades! I was surprised that one “reminder” was omitted at 50:00. When you ignore one of the costs, you also don’t score any points shown in the cost bar you ignored. I’ve seen more than one person tripped by that, including me! Also, at 53:19, you are not required to flip the stage 4 tile first. I’ve had a situation when it was more advantageous to me (for a few extra points) to flip stage 5 first, usually in situations when you’ve run out of time to flip stage 4 as well. Once again, Bravo!! for an A1 video.
Decent points, even if minor. Nice. The "cost ignoring" counting as turning the cost-space inactive/empty (no points scored) is clearly stated in the rulebook though, as is pretty much everything. I know that the glossary has a few errata. But the main rulebook looks ridiculously well proof-read. Paul could have reaffirmed these things. But he did voluntarily clarify a huge number of similar edge-cases that he could have chosen to leave out.
Thanks for that, yeah, when you skip one of the cost bars, you skip it completely, not just the "cost" part. And thanks for the clarification on the stage 5 tile. I didn't think that was a rule, and I did have the script and video checked by the publisher, so I thought it was ok, but interesting you got into that situation (I guess one big column of cards, so you only had 1 chip in stage 4 and 1 in stage 5)
@@GamingRulesVideos Something like that. I was ambicious and built a goal tower up to stage 5 thinking that I had enough time to flip both stage tiles. In the end, I only had enough time to flip one of them so flipping the stage 5 tile scored me 3 extra points. Wasn't enough to win though. :)
@@LarrySchneiderI was thinking about this more yesterday. If you’d built one column to stage 5, if you flipped your stage 4 tile, it would have been 14 points. Because your starting income chip is at stage 4
Setting up this morning for first game What a beast! Took me 90 minutes with punch outs and gluing. Thanks for this video to speed it up! I will ‘sleep’ now. 😂
I already played it 3 times and lost miserably on easy setting :-) but i can tell u that this is a brilliant game and worth every penny. Great teach Paul.
i have no words on this video. ok, maybe a few. this was THE best how to play video i have ever seen i think. i have this game setup and trying to learn all the rules. and this video goes through every single thing about this game. in detail. so so good. i have a better understanding of everything now. i am going to give this a shot! thank you.
Thank you so much. Although I got paid to make this video, I'm passionate about what I do, and comments like yours make me know I'm making a difference, so yeah, thank you.
@@GamingRulesVideos i understand about getting paid to make videos and i always make my own decisions about buying or not buying a game. but with "how to play" videos like the ones you make, help me so much.
Hi Paul! Thanks for another fantastic How to Play video. After watching this has shot right to the top of my acquire list. I can see why you have rated it so highly this year. Look forward to the next one!
So excited for this, as hopefully my preorder will arrive this month. Thank you for your great work! Your coverage is why I chose it as one of my three “not going to Spiel consolation buys”, with Spectacular and Ark Nova Map Pack 2 being the others. :)
Awesome video as always Paul. Thanks for this How to Play. It will definitely help myself and so many others learn to play and teach the game to others.
Fantastic teach, i'm using this for my first game of solo whilst also watching your solo game. Making really easy to get to grips with the games and icons.
unbelievable effort you made with this video! just watched it on my way home from my FLGS where I just bought Civolution! 😅😍 can't wait to dig into this game, it really ticks a huge amount of boxes I love in games, what a great game by Stefan Feld! 🥰👍🏼
I've been wavering on the fence about this one as I have several other heavy games pre-ordered and on the horizon (Galactic Cruise, Doggerland). Watching your playthroughs and tutorials is makIng me excited for this one as well and my local game store had it in stock.
Amazing work here Paul, will definitely try to get my hands on this one. Civ games are a personal fave, interested to see if this knocks Clash of Cultures from my number 1 spot.
My favorite game from Essen. This video is so much better than my very basic short review i did on my channel. One day i hope to have your setup and confidence to shoot videos like this one.
@@GamingRulesVideos Thanks. I believe I learn the most from making my own mistakes and shooting videos and looking at how others film and talk on their channels such as yours. One of the best parts of board games is the community which is often really helpful. You are really pedagogical and your way of teaching games helps me in my day job as a teacher.
This made it easy to play. Thanks! I used your solo variant for beginners and it was great. I do have a question: can you use a tribe on a boat for an extra find, as in a resource from one of the territories adjacent to that water space?
Thank you for the amazing video! Your way of explaining is very straightforward and easy to follow! Just one question though, in the rulebook, it says that when flipping a stage 4/5 inactive to active, you don't have to do the 4 stage first. You can flip even the 5 with the 4 still inactive. Do i have this right?!
Thank you for the kind words. A few other people in the comments have mentioned this - yes, you CAN flip the stage 5 tile first if you want to. Apologies for this in the video.
Paul As usual. Awesome video. One question though. You showed a card that required 1 feature to play in first and second row. Does it really require 2 of the same feature to play it in second row? Thanks Bruce
Am i correct that if I want to install the card @47:27 at stage 2 and I have 2 settlements, I only need to pay 1 clay? Because of the cost of stage 1 and not having 3 settlements.
@@GamingRulesVideos I have to admit that I didn't check all the comments, just the time stamps of the first couple of them.😀 Anyway, your rules videos are extraordinary. I don't think any other channel comes even close to that.
What if in the weather phase, I'm already at the penultimate place, and the card show's 2 steps down? I loose one meeple, i get back 1 step, and over again?
Just realised that my game came completely without any settlements. So I had to use tribes face lying on the side. Any idea how to resolve this for the long term? I heard this was an issue when I picked up my game in Essen.
At 1:07:50 an advert for the Aeon Trespass Odyssey pt V video pops up. Was this something you did, or was it me? (If I rewind it comes back at the same point)
@@krissiewright3413 That's why I thought it was noteworthy - I don't expect to see mid-roll ads. But coming back later and after a browser refresh there is no ad. Weird!
@@GamingRulesVideos I guess I should have been more explicit in my description: what I saw was what you often see at the end of a video - a large thumbnail of another video(s) from the channel, but this also had the Gaming Rules logo on-screen. It was weird.
It is a long ruleset due to extreme freedom of choice, but it's very digestible/memorable with a few plays. It's not as tough to run a Civolution (at 70 minutes) as it is to run a "40 minutes rules video" Lacerda game. Civolution actions are very very short and simple. But there are Many of them to choose from, dice allowing.
Yes - but that is because I chose to go into a lot more detail than I normally do for these games. It's actually a lot lighter than games which I've done a 45 min video for. But in this video, I explain everything.
Thank you for your support, Paul! We're so happy we got you on board for this one, great explanation!
It was an honour.
Paul is the best!
What, 1hr 10mins….worth every second. Thanks Paul for yet another saving of my mind.
Thanks. There were six little details about the rules that would have gone forgotten without this video : 1) being able to bump tribes despite there being free encampments, 2) The level 3 boat transport counting boat goods as ANYTHING regardless of territories neighbouring the water, 3) A single sale including up to two different types of exchanges. 4) Being able to voluntarily pay card costs as if a higher stage (without left-to-right skips), 5) No discounts for cards with a single stage cost, 6) A cave connecting territories adjacent to the same cave. The video also hammered home needing to check for various site bonuses when procreating, producing and hunting. The first two could easily be missed, at least. The rules are not a short set, but they are very easy to understand and to remember, once committed to the mind. The main rulebook is also flawless. It's a really really good one. And this video is extremely meticulous in its structure. Very finely polished. Nice.
Thanks for the comment. Those things are clear in the rulebook, but there are a lot of rules :)
Thanks! Turns out I missed 2 and 5 as well.
Really, Paul, this is excellent work. This must have taken forever.
How you can make a complex game like this feel pretty straightforward to learn is impressive.
Thanks Paul for yet another great, thorough how to play video 🎉🎉
This game looks great! Can’t wait to watch your solo play throughs. Your style and presentation combined with your enthusiasm is top notch. It really helps me understand if a game is a good fit for me. Thank you!
I just got this for Christmas and immediately came to your video. Thank you.
Glad it helped!
Same 😂 cheers Paul!
As usual, you deliver in spades!
I was surprised that one “reminder” was omitted at 50:00. When you ignore one of the costs, you also don’t score any points shown in the cost bar you ignored. I’ve seen more than one person tripped by that, including me!
Also, at 53:19, you are not required to flip the stage 4 tile first. I’ve had a situation when it was more advantageous to me (for a few extra points) to flip stage 5 first, usually in situations when you’ve run out of time to flip stage 4 as well.
Once again, Bravo!! for an A1 video.
Decent points, even if minor. Nice. The "cost ignoring" counting as turning the cost-space inactive/empty (no points scored) is clearly stated in the rulebook though, as is pretty much everything. I know that the glossary has a few errata. But the main rulebook looks ridiculously well proof-read. Paul could have reaffirmed these things. But he did voluntarily clarify a huge number of similar edge-cases that he could have chosen to leave out.
Thanks for that, yeah, when you skip one of the cost bars, you skip it completely, not just the "cost" part.
And thanks for the clarification on the stage 5 tile. I didn't think that was a rule, and I did have the script and video checked by the publisher, so I thought it was ok, but interesting you got into that situation (I guess one big column of cards, so you only had 1 chip in stage 4 and 1 in stage 5)
@@GamingRulesVideos Something like that. I was ambicious and built a goal tower up to stage 5 thinking that I had enough time to flip both stage tiles. In the end, I only had enough time to flip one of them so flipping the stage 5 tile scored me 3 extra points. Wasn't enough to win though. :)
@@LarrySchneider awesome.
@@LarrySchneiderI was thinking about this more yesterday. If you’d built one column to stage 5, if you flipped your stage 4 tile, it would have been 14 points. Because your starting income chip is at stage 4
Setting up this morning for first game What a beast! Took me 90 minutes with punch outs and gluing. Thanks for this video to speed it up! I will ‘sleep’ now. 😂
Don't forget to have a couple of ideas when you sleep.
...gluing? What needs to be glued?
@@megalodon2012 The player boards need sticking together. The game comes with small sticky tape things.
@@GamingRulesVideos oh that's right, thanks for the reminder! The mention of glue had me worried.
My game of the year! Superb tutorial video! Well done Paul.
You are the man 🙌🏻, I’ve read the rules and now watching the video. You make a complex game easy to learn 👍🏻
I already played it 3 times and lost miserably on easy setting :-) but i can tell u that this is a brilliant game and worth every penny. Great teach Paul.
Great job Paul! This will help my group tremendously to tackle this game
Amazing Video Paul… wonderful thorough job!!!
Thanks Chris!
Awesome job, Paul. My copy just arrived, and I'm itching to play!
Have you played yet?
Fantastic video! Lots of things to learn as I get up and running.
That was awesome. Thank you for being so thorough and clear!
Glad it was useful.
i have no words on this video. ok, maybe a few. this was THE best how to play video i have ever seen i think. i have this game setup and trying to learn all the rules. and this video goes through every single thing about this game. in detail. so so good. i have a better understanding of everything now. i am going to give this a shot! thank you.
Thank you so much. Although I got paid to make this video, I'm passionate about what I do, and comments like yours make me know I'm making a difference, so yeah, thank you.
@@GamingRulesVideos i understand about getting paid to make videos and i always make my own decisions about buying or not buying a game. but with "how to play" videos like the ones you make, help me so much.
@@travelinwithTODD Thank you again. Very much appreciated.
Paul you do a fantastic job with your teaching videos
Thank you!
Hi Paul! Thanks for another fantastic How to Play video. After watching this has shot right to the top of my acquire list. I can see why you have rated it so highly this year. Look forward to the next one!
So excited for this, as hopefully my preorder will arrive this month. Thank you for your great work! Your coverage is why I chose it as one of my three “not going to Spiel consolation buys”, with Spectacular and Ark Nova Map Pack 2 being the others. :)
I like the idea of consolation buys. I didn't go to Essen either, I think I deserve a pressie from myself.
@ It makes Spiel season fun no matter what 😂 You deserve it!
Thanks for this! After reading the rules, this is exactly what I needed to remember and memorize everything.
Time to play now :)
Awesome video as always Paul. Thanks for this How to Play. It will definitely help myself and so many others learn to play and teach the game to others.
Will learn it with your rule video. Discovered it with your amazing Playthrough. Always high standards with Paul !!
Right, now I can get it off the shelf!! Thanks Paul, so clear and concise
Fantastic teach, i'm using this for my first game of solo whilst also watching your solo game. Making really easy to get to grips with the games and icons.
I love how this one looks! Thank you so much for the video. As usual you are my go to for rules videos :D
Just in time! My copy arriving this Friday. Thank you !!!
Brilliant. I've already played the game, learned via your playthrough video. Thanks so much, Paul!
I feel like I need to take a nap after watching this video! It was well done though! Paul is a great teacher.
Amazing quality as usual 👍🏼
Perfect timing! Just recieved the game. This will help tremendously learning the game. Thank you Paul! 👍🙏
Jeebus, this is an awesome how-to-play video!
Thank you!
Superb explanation. Thanks, Paul!
Thanks Rick. I appreciate the comment.
One of the most exciting releases of the year. Thanks for the great teach!
The video or the game? :D
@@RobertKonigsberg 🤣
unbelievable effort you made with this video! just watched it on my way home from my FLGS where I just bought Civolution! 😅😍 can't wait to dig into this game, it really ticks a huge amount of boxes I love in games, what a great game by Stefan Feld! 🥰👍🏼
Excellent rules video again. Thanks!
Excellent as always
Oh this game is so so good. Thank you for such a good tutorial!
my pleasure
I've been wavering on the fence about this one as I have several other heavy games pre-ordered and on the horizon (Galactic Cruise, Doggerland). Watching your playthroughs and tutorials is makIng me excited for this one as well and my local game store had it in stock.
Amazing work here Paul, will definitely try to get my hands on this one. Civ games are a personal fave, interested to see if this knocks Clash of Cultures from my number 1 spot.
Thanks Paul, for yet another great instructional video! 😁🙏🏼
great explanation - can't wait for my copy to arrive!
Very clear rules explanation. Now I just need my copy to arrive. 😀
I did end up buying this ( or rather I'd forgotten I'd already pre-ordered it). Surprised how easy the mechanics actually are in practice.
Love it! Perfect video as there are so many things to keep in mind
Thanks! Been waiting for this video ❤
Outstanding tutorial video of a complex game!
Always clear explanations and great visuals
Glad you like them!
Thanks Paul. Hoping to get a game of this in soon. Thorough how to play as ecer!
I have pre ordered this game, hope it plays as well as it looks like it does. Looking forward to it and this video will help with learning it
Thanks for another great video. There are many reasons I liked this one but I'll get to that later.😂
Great video, now to go and use this to teach a game.
Thanks Paul, great how to play video for a great game 🙂
Solid overview, well done.
Can't wait to watch this in full
Fantastic explanation, thank you !
I’m so excited about this!
Great teach. Thank you so much!
My favorite game from Essen. This video is so much better than my very basic short review i did on my channel. One day i hope to have your setup and confidence to shoot videos like this one.
If you need any help, let me know, but it's taken 11 years of hard work to get to here :)
@@GamingRulesVideos Thanks. I believe I learn the most from making my own mistakes and shooting videos and looking at how others film and talk on their channels such as yours. One of the best parts of board games is the community which is often really helpful. You are really pedagogical and your way of teaching games helps me in my day job as a teacher.
This is the teach I’ve been waiting for. Another great job!
Just curious… what’s the shortest teach time that you’ve experienced?
When I teach this in person, I do NOT teach it this way. I get people playing in 15 mins. No need to explain most things up front.
39:39 What if you are the player with the most of that color? Are you unable to use that action?
If you mean taking a new die then yeah, you wouldn't do the action as you wouldn't get a new die.
saved for when the game arrives next week
Great video for a great game!
This made it easy to play. Thanks! I used your solo variant for beginners and it was great. I do have a question: can you use a tribe on a boat for an extra find, as in a resource from one of the territories adjacent to that water space?
Nope. Extra find specifically says "land territory"
Thank you for the amazing video! Your way of explaining is very straightforward and easy to follow! Just one question though, in the rulebook, it says that when flipping a stage 4/5 inactive to active, you don't have to do the 4 stage first. You can flip even the 5 with the 4 still inactive. Do i have this right?!
Thank you for the kind words. A few other people in the comments have mentioned this - yes, you CAN flip the stage 5 tile first if you want to. Apologies for this in the video.
Great teach!
Paul
As usual. Awesome video. One question though. You showed a card that required 1 feature to play in first and second row. Does it really require 2 of the same feature to play it in second row?
Thanks
Bruce
Yes. That is explained at 46:50.
Great solo experience
Thanks Paul.
Am i correct that if I want to install the card @47:27 at stage 2 and I have 2 settlements, I only need to pay 1 clay? Because of the cost of stage 1 and not having 3 settlements.
So it is, yes.
Correct.
34:47 You don't have to flip stage 4 first, the choice is up to you.
Yep. Someone else spotted that too. There is another comment below. Thanks!
@@GamingRulesVideos I have to admit that I didn't check all the comments, just the time stamps of the first couple of them.😀
Anyway, your rules videos are extraordinary. I don't think any other channel comes even close to that.
What if in the weather phase, I'm already at the penultimate place, and the card show's 2 steps down? I loose one meeple, i get back 1 step, and over again?
You just move it the one step.
Just realised that my game came completely without any settlements. So I had to use tribes face lying on the side. Any idea how to resolve this for the long term? I heard this was an issue when I picked up my game in Essen.
It’s a known issue. Check DPG’s Facebook posts about it, or there are some BGG threads. You need to contact Pegasus.
I need this game
This looks interesting, but it's making me feel like Stephan and Vital Lacerda should get a room.
At 1:07:50 an advert for the Aeon Trespass Odyssey pt V video pops up. Was this something you did, or was it me? (If I rewind it comes back at the same point)
There are no mid roll ads in this video. I will log out and check the timestamp you mentioned because I have a premium YT account.
Checked in incognito mode and no ads anywhere around that timepoint. Only at the start of the vid.
@@krissiewright3413 That's why I thought it was noteworthy - I don't expect to see mid-roll ads. But coming back later and after a browser refresh there is no ad. Weird!
You got a TH-cam ad for another of my videos? That's not possible. I don't pay for any TH-cam ads, so I'm not sure what happened there.
@@GamingRulesVideos I guess I should have been more explicit in my description: what I saw was what you often see at the end of a video - a large thumbnail of another video(s) from the channel, but this also had the Gaming Rules logo on-screen. It was weird.
So this game has player books instead of player aids?😂
Yep. But in 10 games, I think I've looked at them once.
One hour plus tutorial. Yikes.
It is a long ruleset due to extreme freedom of choice, but it's very digestible/memorable with a few plays. It's not as tough to run a Civolution (at 70 minutes) as it is to run a "40 minutes rules video" Lacerda game. Civolution actions are very very short and simple. But there are Many of them to choose from, dice allowing.
Yes - but that is because I chose to go into a lot more detail than I normally do for these games.
It's actually a lot lighter than games which I've done a 45 min video for. But in this video, I explain everything.