Mistakes were made. But playing solo is difficult because there aren't other players to help identify the mistakes. It does seem like the game flowed well and was certainly enjoyable to watch. Thank you.
And here are my thoughts for this marvelous video, some of which may be redundant when combined with other comments here: 0:13 You were previously at 7 Power, but when you gained 3 Power, you moved your token to 11 instead of 10. 4:45 You indicate that all of the Automa's workers are on the board. But as of the end of your previous video (at 23:38), the Automa had only 7 workers on the board (2 in his home base and 5 on territories). So the Automa should be able to move his last worker to his home base at this point. 5:32 Technically, you shouldn't resolve the Encounter until your Move action is completely over (see page 24 of the rules). I realize this and other notes I mention are incredibly minor but newbies watching this video should be aware of all the rules. 6:20 The worker you gain from the encounter should be placed on the territory occupied by your character. 6:28 And the 2 resources you gain from the encounter should also be placed on the territory occupied by your character. 8:59 The Nordic Mech should move to the Lake territory immediately northwest of its other mech adjacent to the Crimean units. 16:35 Missed the Lake rule again. The worker would move to the Lake territory immediately southeast of the factory. 17:10 You can only take a Factory Card if your Character is on the factory. It doesn't apply when you simply control the factory with a mech. And again, technically speaking, you wouldn't select a Factory Card until after your Move action is complete. 20:58 You neglected to reduce the Automa's Power after you attacked him last turn, so he shouldn't be able to earn this star. 22:55 You can't move your character where you did because you don't have the ability to cross rivers into villages. 25:38 You should earn 8 coins for your 8 resources. Terrific job!
Well spotted, really helpful for clarification of the rules! How come the resources would be scored at a 1:1 ratio, I thought you got one coin for every two resources for the purposes of end game scoring?
Several years after the original post date but this is the first video that made the automa make sense to me. Been thoroughly enjoying playing solo games as well as 2 player + Automa. Thanks you
Really enjoyed this playthrough - thank you for posting it. Loved the pacing of the editing - so many other boardgame playthroughs are soooo slllloowwww!
Great to watch this - Thank you for making it! I think everyone makes mistakes playing a game and I appreciate you left the video up as it is usually pretty helpful to see how others make mistakes.
Thanks! I enjoyed this playthrough. Well explained and well edited, kept it moving. Appreciate the subtitle corrections. Part of the enjoyment in playthroughs are the mistakes & corrections. "Shouldn't that have.. Oh good, he caught it." Miniature conflict arc.
One of the trickiest things about moving workers is ensuring they are not in the neighborhood of your units (I miss this a lot with the tunnels). At 14:40, you move the work to a tunnel spot, which is technically within one movement range of your 3 mechs that are also on a tunnel. You only get to grab a factory card if it is your character that ends it's turn there, not a mech or worker.
+mjcarcus yup, sounds like I missed lakes and tunnels! I'm away at the moment but I'll do a correction video on movement when I get back as I seem to have made quite a few mistakes on the subject - I blame time constraints :D
I appreciate you making the video, and appreciate that mistakes happen while filming. I just thought since this is one of the first playthroughs of the automa posted, people may come here to learn the automa, so clarifying some of the trickier rules is probably good to do.
Tom, thanks for sharing this great game that has a great solo mode. I agree with the previous post. The solo mode is difficult and not having someone else to help catch rules mistakes makes it a little worst. However, it is still a great game.
+winterzee You're welcome! I did forget in the Playthrough that the Automa can place on lake hexes, which normally isn't allowed, but there are some very knowledgable people in the comments that can steer you right where I've gone a bit wrong :)
Imo, the automa system a lil bit scary. How they move, like suddenly show up at your doorstep. But it is a good ai system. Anyway, nice playthrough mate. Very enjoyable.
67 to 69. Wow close game. I just played the same on my version, and it was 50 to 56, with me losing. It was my first game, so I fudged up the building of structures, and did not build them on the target hexes. Fun game!
I've never played this, I'm here to know if I would like it. Thank you for the video. Also, I'm I wrong to think that you should have scored 8 points for the ressources at the end of the game because you were in the 2nd popularity bracket?
Played solo yesterday for the first time, did a bunch of mistakes, but anyway I enjoyed the game and this is why we are playing, not to only follow rules) will do the second session today without those mistakes, I think that this "teleporting" stuff is the most confusing part. But what I did like the most - is the speed of the game, this is the main stopper to play Scythe for me and the group, cos it plays like for 3-5 hours, but solo mod took me like 1 hour 20 mins and could be faster)
but then later you forget to take it off in another combat and allow automa to get a star and end the game. It shouldnt have ended and you could then have finished your developing and won
late to the party on this. Curious how the automa would work if they had the Saxon faction. As the their ability is they can do unlimited amount of combat victories. Assuming they win a combat they get a star and they can do that multiple times unlike other factions. The Automa seems to play really aggressive. Nothing like some of the Multiplayer games I have played. Still though, Like the game and the fact there is an automa makes this game enticing as a solo player.
Your solo game overview is excellent. You committed a serious mistake though: you should not have taken a Factory card bc you went there with a MECH instead of your ==character==.
Continuing my viewing and I noticed another one: at 22:50 your character crossed a river in order to have an encounter on VILLAGE. Your riverwalk ability enables you to go to farms or tundras only. Sorry. :-s
And you miscaculated your points for resources: 8 / 2 is indeed 4 pairs but you should have gotten 2 pts for each so it's 8 pts. Final score: 69 - 67 (while overlooking your previous mistakes)
Thanks this helped me a lot, played with friends but the Automa rules confused me. You made a lot of mistakes dho.... For instance when u attacked the enemy mech you didn't set back his power token.
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Mistakes were made. But playing solo is difficult because there aren't other players to help identify the mistakes. It does seem like the game flowed well and was certainly enjoyable to watch. Thank you.
And here are my thoughts for this marvelous video, some of which may be redundant when combined with other comments here:
0:13 You were previously at 7 Power, but when you gained 3 Power, you moved your token to 11 instead of 10.
4:45 You indicate that all of the Automa's workers are on the board. But as of the end of your previous video (at 23:38), the Automa had only 7 workers on the board (2 in his home base and 5 on territories). So the Automa should be able to move his last worker to his home base at this point.
5:32 Technically, you shouldn't resolve the Encounter until your Move action is completely over (see page 24 of the rules).
I realize this and other notes I mention are incredibly minor but newbies watching this video should be aware of all the rules.
6:20 The worker you gain from the encounter should be placed on the territory occupied by your character.
6:28 And the 2 resources you gain from the encounter should also be placed on the territory occupied by your character.
8:59 The Nordic Mech should move to the Lake territory immediately northwest of its other mech adjacent to the Crimean units.
16:35 Missed the Lake rule again. The worker would move to the Lake territory immediately southeast of the factory.
17:10 You can only take a Factory Card if your Character is on the factory. It doesn't apply when you simply control the factory with a mech. And again, technically speaking, you wouldn't select a Factory Card until after your Move action is complete.
20:58 You neglected to reduce the Automa's Power after you attacked him last turn, so he shouldn't be able to earn this star.
22:55 You can't move your character where you did because you don't have the ability to cross rivers into villages.
25:38 You should earn 8 coins for your 8 resources.
Terrific job!
I thought the same thing about his River Walk ability. I do the same thing all the time, but I'm always corrected.
Well spotted, really helpful for clarification of the rules! How come the resources would be scored at a 1:1 ratio, I thought you got one coin for every two resources for the purposes of end game scoring?
He is in the second tier where he gets 2 coins per 2 resources.
At 22.55, doesn't he move into the village via the tundra, which he can riverwalk into?
Several years after the original post date but this is the first video that made the automa make sense to me. Been thoroughly enjoying playing solo games as well as 2 player + Automa. Thanks you
Really enjoyed this playthrough - thank you for posting it. Loved the pacing of the editing - so many other boardgame playthroughs are soooo slllloowwww!
These two videos have been a great help. Thanks!
Agreed
Great to watch this - Thank you for making it! I think everyone makes mistakes playing a game and I appreciate you left the video up as it is usually pretty helpful to see how others make mistakes.
Thanks for this. It helps to make playing Scythe solo much more understandable.
Love the quick playthrough. Thanks!
Thank you for the video. I finally added scythe to the collection and will most likely be playing it solo. Great pacing.👍
Thanks! I enjoyed this playthrough. Well explained and well edited, kept it moving. Appreciate the subtitle corrections. Part of the enjoyment in playthroughs are the mistakes & corrections. "Shouldn't that have.. Oh good, he caught it." Miniature conflict arc.
Just picked up a used copy of this game. Looking forward to trying solo mode now that I've watched your videos. Thanks so much!
Super job in explaining the automa game. I’m learning, and this helped me clear up some of my mistakes in managing the automa
One of the trickiest things about moving workers is ensuring they are not in the neighborhood of your units (I miss this a lot with the tunnels). At 14:40, you move the work to a tunnel spot, which is technically within one movement range of your 3 mechs that are also on a tunnel.
You only get to grab a factory card if it is your character that ends it's turn there, not a mech or worker.
+mjcarcus yup, sounds like I missed lakes and tunnels! I'm away at the moment but I'll do a correction video on movement when I get back as I seem to have made quite a few mistakes on the subject - I blame time constraints :D
Correct + i believe automa units can move into lakes?
I appreciate you making the video, and appreciate that mistakes happen while filming. I just thought since this is one of the first playthroughs of the automa posted, people may come here to learn the automa, so clarifying some of the trickier rules is probably good to do.
+mjcarcus No worries, I'm glad there are people watching who know the game well and can point these things out so quickly! :D
Well done. The comments were uncharacteristically (for a TH-cam video) helpful as well!
At 11:22 you missed a chance to get your bonus (two coins). Even though you had deployed all your mechs you can still take the bonuses.
Great video!
Tom, thanks for sharing this great game that has a great solo mode. I agree with the previous post. The solo mode is difficult and not having someone else to help catch rules mistakes makes it a little worst. However, it is still a great game.
Really enjoyed watching your video. I feel like it's given me a good foundation for learning the game. Thanks! :-)
Thanks Mark, glad I could help!
So pleased you did a Scythe walkthrough, thanks!! :)
+Angela Martin you're welcome! Thanks for asking for it :)
Nice work, the automa rule book is daunting
Thanks Jonathan!
You forgot to pay for the Automas power about 20:00, and thereby give them a Star, that probably won them the game.
Also at 13:55
Just about to start playing this solo, having got it for Christmas. Many thanks for this, which is effectively a tutorial.
Really appreciate the play through, thank you! It helps me figure out how to play.
+winterzee You're welcome! I did forget in the Playthrough that the Automa can place on lake hexes, which normally isn't allowed, but there are some very knowledgable people in the comments that can steer you right where I've gone a bit wrong :)
Imo, the automa system a lil bit scary. How they move, like suddenly show up at your doorstep. But it is a good ai system. Anyway, nice playthrough mate. Very enjoyable.
67 to 69. Wow close game. I just played the same on my version, and it was 50 to 56, with me losing. It was my first game, so I fudged up the building of structures, and did not build them on the target hexes. Fun game!
You only get a factory card when you character goes there, not just mechs
Saw that too.
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Yup, I saw these errors. I was just glad to see how to play the solo game, even though there were mistakes made, and tactical errors.....
Close game! Closer than I thought it was going to be, for sure.
+Stasia Doster I thought I was doing really well until the game suddenly ended and I realised I'd only placed 3 stars!
I've never played this, I'm here to know if I would like it. Thank you for the video. Also, I'm I wrong to think that you should have scored 8 points for the ressources at the end of the game because you were in the 2nd popularity bracket?
Played solo yesterday for the first time, did a bunch of mistakes, but anyway I enjoyed the game and this is why we are playing, not to only follow rules) will do the second session today without those mistakes, I think that this "teleporting" stuff is the most confusing part. But what I did like the most - is the speed of the game, this is the main stopper to play Scythe for me and the group, cos it plays like for 3-5 hours, but solo mod took me like 1 hour 20 mins and could be faster)
Thank you for this!!!
@13:20 why didnt you reduce the blue power marker by 7?
Oh at 14:53 you take ythe 7 off
but then later you forget to take it off in another combat and allow automa to get a star and end the game. It shouldnt have ended and you could then have finished your developing and won
GG Chap!
For your first battle, shouldn’t you have used the discarded card to get resources?
Fun to watch. I thought in combat you could only use one combat card?
One card per combat unit.
The worker goes where the encounter takes place. Also it's called iron not steel. You mine iron you make steel. 😁
It's neither, it's "metal"
Does the automa not lose power when engaging in combat?
It does yes, I think there's a mistake where I don't reduce it which leads the Automa to getting a star it shouldn't have
slickerdrips pavan. He did move Automa's power down, just on the next turn
ttttt Pavan Sarguru
Stop by the 1 Player guild at bgg! We'd love to meet you. :D
Thanks, I wondered where the jump in subscribers came from :D suprised to see a thread about me!
late to the party on this. Curious how the automa would work if they had the Saxon faction. As the their ability is they can do unlimited amount of combat victories. Assuming they win a combat they get a star and they can do that multiple times unlike other factions. The Automa seems to play really aggressive. Nothing like some of the Multiplayer games I have played. Still though, Like the game and the fact there is an automa makes this game enticing as a solo player.
The Automa doesn't gain stars the way a human player does. Its AI card dictates the pace at which it gains stars.
The very first automa card you played on here you played incorrect. It's an attack move toward a worker not a combat unit.
Awesome video. I'm desperately waiting for them to release this on phone, but AI rules for the board seem pretty good!
Your solo game overview is excellent.
You committed a serious mistake though: you should not have taken a Factory card bc you went there with a MECH instead of your ==character==.
+Martin Malo thanks Martin! I've been away for a couple of weeks but as soon as I get back to a PC I'll be able to put annotations for the mistakes :)
Continuing my viewing and I noticed another one: at 22:50 your character crossed a river in order to have an encounter on VILLAGE. Your riverwalk ability enables you to go to farms or tundras only.
Sorry. :-s
And you miscaculated your points for resources: 8 / 2 is indeed 4 pairs but you should have gotten 2 pts for each so it's 8 pts. Final score: 69 - 67 (while overlooking your previous mistakes)
This is incorrect, he has two hex movement and he moves to a tundra hex before moving to the village hex.
21:01 shouldn't you have moved the automa's combat power down after the fight therefore the automa shouldn't have gained that star?
Noted up, thanks
slickerdrips yup 👍 I do want to say that I love this channel and all of the series you do
Thank you :)
20:50 Shouldn't the worker go on the lake surrounded by 3 workers and the character ?
I think the rule about treating lakes a normal hexes was missed (it happened in the first video too).
Marcus S I think you're correct. Automa plays lakes as territories
Thanks this helped me a lot, played with friends but the Automa rules confused me.
You made a lot of mistakes dho.... For instance when u attacked the enemy mech you didn't set back his power token.