I picked up a used copy of the revised edition recently and I am finally getting it to the table tomorrow! Watched this three times through already to make sure I can teach it effectively. Thanks for the great information!
The pleasure is all mine my friend and I'll be happy if you tell me how did it go after you play :) Feel free to contact me via Discord if you have any kind of question, I'll be available to answer questions 😊 Enjoy!
@@ezbgames So we got through a game! We had three players and the game ended in year 5 with a score of 6 - 3 - 2. I really like a lot of the systems the game has (resource dials, order cards, different army composition) but there are a few things that just feel like bloat to me. I cycled through 3 objective cards and none of them seemed remotely possible. I didn't look at the odds in the fate deck beforehand, but looked through afterwards and I think that will make a big difference in the decisions I make next time (I didn't realize there are only 4 cards that make allying with neutral units possible). We also had no idea what we were doing when setting up the map so 2 players got blocked in by neutral units and the third player (who ended up winning) had free reign to claim 2 cities and take off to a very fast start. Overall, I think it is pretty good and I am interested in getting it to the table again with the same people. Also, the teach went very smooth since I had such a great reference video to watch beforehand!
First of all, thank you for reporting back and also for the kind words. I'm glad my video was useful. This game definitely 'starts' from the second go.. and your 3rd time will be a blast on all accounts. That's a guarantee. In the expansion, there are a few ways to modify the game and I think it adds a lot to it. You don't like this? You have this. You want more of that? You got it.. The base game is good on itself of course, don't get me wrong.. but FFG (as always) are doing things good only AFTER the game is already out
@@ezbgames I am here with another battle report. We've since played three more times and you were right. Gets better and better with every playthrough. I am now in the process of painting the hero miniatures and making a custom insert to help ease the set up woes. Thanks for the great content. Hope the move is going smoothly!
It makes me so happy that you're having a good time with the game! Super cool.. And I love that you're investing some more effort into upgrading it. Waiting to see photos..? The move went as smooth as possible and already started filming new videos. Thanks for writing me this and hopefuly there will be more helpful videos for you 😊😊
This game was incredible and still is. It is a shame we don't see games this well designed these days. I'd love to see FF release a new edition with new factions.
Oh man.. that will be truly amazing. I think that today people just care mostly about miniatures and if they are pre-shaded or sundropped or not. And I agree- this game is super good
Thank you so much for doing this. I didn't watch it but I completely trust your teaching skills. I add the video to my TH-cam "How to Play" playist and someday I will learn it from you. I own both the base game and the expansion but I don't own any free time in my life currently to execute my desire to play this. Nevertheless, that's amazing. Thank you for the effort. P.S. Now when I think about it, I have the revised edition. I hope the rules will apply to it. I will cross that bridge when I'll get there.
Amazing runthrough! This is a lovely game that has almost been forgotten but im gonna have to bring it out again this summer! Truly a fantasy epic in a box!
Thank you so much ❤ I agree this is an awesome game absolutely! And not so difficult to set up.. easy set up to be honest. I hope it will reach your table 🤩
I found your channel because of Forbidden Stars, just wanted to see if someone recently cares about this great game! Continuing with more FFG Classics just puts Legendary status over your videos, at least for me! :) Corey's games just have something unique! And hearing from another video that you planning doing MEQ coverage made me overexcited, haha. It is amazing game and has very sentimental meaning for me and my wife. I had an offer to give it away for Forsthaven+Sleeping Gods+Pandemic Warcraft+another one and I... Refused lol... Even if I can sell them and buy it again, lol. That much we love it!
Ohhh I'm so happy to hear you got to my channel through Forbidden Stars, even though I personally prefer Starcraft (I did a comparison video a while ago..) I will definitely cover MEQ either this month or hopefully in October after Essen Spiel. I'm glad you didn't trade this game.. and I'm a true believer in sentimental value ❤️ I hope I can continue create content that you'll like and if there's a game you'd like me to cover don't hesitate to contact me via TH-cam or email and I will do my best to get a copy
This game was my first big box game and some of the first to start my collection.I have doubt to get this or Earth reborn,and it was this one😊Normaly after that I also bought Earth reborn,witch is also a gem,true masterpiece of a design and gameplay.I will never get rid of these two games,because they are very special to me and they are get me in this hobby
@@ezbgames Definetly do that if you can,it has a learning curve about the rules,it goes trough scenarios in the game and each new scenario adds a few new rules.That game has such many layers,it is unique.Got some plans to paint minies in Runewars,Earth reborn was able to paint recently😀
I see your collection and you are a dudes on a map guy just like me. I have Cthulhu Wars, Runewars (1st and 2nd), Kemet, Cyclades, some solid variations of risk, Dark ages (both maps), Chaos in the Old World etc....you name it. After some deep thinking about it, this game may have to take the title (2nd ED) as my favourite in my collection.
at around 47:00 during your battle sample, I believe the Daqan knight was entitled to draw a tactics card after the rout due to his special ability. Looks like you may have forgot to.
Whoooaaa!!! That quite the collection and quite the statement!! How come 2nd edition and not the 1st one? I've never played the 2nd edition. And yes, you are absolutely right. I said the knight needs to take a card but never actually took it. Thank you!! ❤
@ezbgames I use the 1st edition map tiles because of the mountains but everything else 2nd including rules. Well, it's revised rules and usually it's for the better when publishers do that. I don't know ALL the differences between runewars 1st and 2nd, but for a quick example, what I will tell you is that on command cards 1, 2 and 3, movement includes heroes too, not just units. I believe there's a small difference in the set up and quite a bit more. Different, yet pretty subtle. There's no point going back to the 1st edition, if you have the 2nd.
Amazing wow for the rules perfectly explained. One question by the way: you say we give wounds card after card, so what if i took 2 wounds on a fig that needs only one to be killed, the other is lost in the air or is put to another fig?
Thank you very much!! ❤️🤩 Just from memory, since you assign damage one per one, if you assigned damage to a unit and it got killed, the other damage is assigned to another figurine. So damage never gets lost. I need ro verify it but I'm 99% sure 😊
If we ever meet in RL, I will tell you the amazing but lengthy story of how a buddy and I had our freshly purchased Runewars stolen from us by the police. 🥴
I didn't play the revised edition, but my advice is ALWAYS wait with the expansion. If you don't feel you need it- fuck it! Don't buy it.. with its price you can buy another awesome big game so go for it 🤩
Yeeeeesss Runewars. I was just thinking, did he also did a RW video? He did;) Yeah❤❤❤ It is my favourite game ecen though TI is the better game It is pure magic
Hahahaha let me know if there are other games you'd like to see on the channel! 😍 I like Runewars very much and it really surprised me. Banners of War is a cool expansion but in my opinion not that much mandatory.. what do you think?
@@ezbgames we got the revised Edition and Banners shortly after that, and that is all probably 10y ago, so I dont how it is without expansion. I like the new units, cant think to play without. Also the lost City thing is cool. But we always play with the "old cities" the new ones are too strong and having one at the doorstep in the beginning is just lucky. Both starcraft and runewars we played a lot in our group(s) - would still if not TI4 would be such an exceptional game;) If you want to look at the undaunted series;) I just got 2200 calisto, very cool game. And yes a playzhrough of TI4 would be an idea. For me it is the crown of All the heavy concept banger games;))) Cheers to Paris
I'm really happy you get to play these games.. For me the problem with TI4 is the play time. I find it very hard to potentially invest 10-13 hours for a single game. And unless you have a REALLY dedicated group for this, it will be a game that will come out once a year. For me it's not enough in order to keep a game like this in my collection. Undaunted is intriguing for me, but I still didn't pull the trigger on that one.. I have so many projects I'm currently working on, and since I'm moving to Switzerland soon I have even less time. This is the only reason why I didn't upload a video for the past 2 weeks (which personally hurts me because I love making videos 😊) Also, Essen is next week and I will receive Mindclash new game to do some content as well
@@ezbgames nice, where in Switzerland;) We have in Vienna a TI4 group with around 60 people and organize a montly game. Of course I cant play that often. It can be long yes, but if you have a table where everybody know-know the rules, well we played 8P games in 8 hours. But it is long, yes. It gives social interaction as no other game I know. Speaking of time - we have luxury, having so many great games, so one just have to decide what game to play. I agree, there is NO game out there one HAS to play. And on the other hand, because TI4 plays such an important part in our groups very good other games dont get time.
Sorry for the late reply.. I will move to Geneva :) Ohhhh Vienna.. what an amazing city! I've been there SO MANY TIMES!!! I absolutely love it😍😍 Yes I agree that if you have a game that is absolutely the favorite of a group, other games might not have a place.. But I hope some of my videos will convince you to give a chance to some others ;)
I picked up a used copy of the revised edition recently and I am finally getting it to the table tomorrow! Watched this three times through already to make sure I can teach it effectively. Thanks for the great information!
The pleasure is all mine my friend and I'll be happy if you tell me how did it go after you play :)
Feel free to contact me via Discord if you have any kind of question, I'll be available to answer questions 😊
Enjoy!
@@ezbgames So we got through a game! We had three players and the game ended in year 5 with a score of 6 - 3 - 2. I really like a lot of the systems the game has (resource dials, order cards, different army composition) but there are a few things that just feel like bloat to me. I cycled through 3 objective cards and none of them seemed remotely possible. I didn't look at the odds in the fate deck beforehand, but looked through afterwards and I think that will make a big difference in the decisions I make next time (I didn't realize there are only 4 cards that make allying with neutral units possible). We also had no idea what we were doing when setting up the map so 2 players got blocked in by neutral units and the third player (who ended up winning) had free reign to claim 2 cities and take off to a very fast start. Overall, I think it is pretty good and I am interested in getting it to the table again with the same people.
Also, the teach went very smooth since I had such a great reference video to watch beforehand!
First of all, thank you for reporting back and also for the kind words. I'm glad my video was useful.
This game definitely 'starts' from the second go.. and your 3rd time will be a blast on all accounts. That's a guarantee.
In the expansion, there are a few ways to modify the game and I think it adds a lot to it. You don't like this? You have this. You want more of that? You got it..
The base game is good on itself of course, don't get me wrong.. but FFG (as always) are doing things good only AFTER the game is already out
@@ezbgames I am here with another battle report. We've since played three more times and you were right. Gets better and better with every playthrough. I am now in the process of painting the hero miniatures and making a custom insert to help ease the set up woes. Thanks for the great content. Hope the move is going smoothly!
It makes me so happy that you're having a good time with the game! Super cool..
And I love that you're investing some more effort into upgrading it.
Waiting to see photos..?
The move went as smooth as possible and already started filming new videos.
Thanks for writing me this and hopefuly there will be more helpful videos for you 😊😊
I was just looking for a video explaining this game! Great timing
Whooaaa!! That's awesome!
Please let me know if you found it helpful and if you have any questions..
Pointer pen returns, how we all missed you!
I swear to God I did it for you especially! 🤣🤣
This game was incredible and still is. It is a shame we don't see games this well designed these days. I'd love to see FF release a new edition with new factions.
Oh man.. that will be truly amazing.
I think that today people just care mostly about miniatures and if they are pre-shaded or sundropped or not.
And I agree- this game is super good
Thank you so much for doing this.
I didn't watch it but I completely trust your teaching skills.
I add the video to my TH-cam "How to Play" playist and someday I will learn it from you.
I own both the base game and the expansion but I don't own any free time in my life currently to execute my desire to play this.
Nevertheless, that's amazing. Thank you for the effort.
P.S.
Now when I think about it, I have the revised edition. I hope the rules will apply to it.
I will cross that bridge when I'll get there.
The revised edition should be pretty much the same so no worries there. If you have any questions when time comes, please let me know :)
Amazing runthrough! This is a lovely game that has almost been forgotten but im gonna have to bring it out again this summer! Truly a fantasy epic in a box!
Thank you so much ❤
I agree this is an awesome game absolutely!
And not so difficult to set up.. easy set up to be honest.
I hope it will reach your table 🤩
I found your channel because of Forbidden Stars, just wanted to see if someone recently cares about this great game! Continuing with more FFG Classics just puts Legendary status over your videos, at least for me! :) Corey's games just have something unique! And hearing from another video that you planning doing MEQ coverage made me overexcited, haha. It is amazing game and has very sentimental meaning for me and my wife. I had an offer to give it away for Forsthaven+Sleeping Gods+Pandemic Warcraft+another one and I... Refused lol... Even if I can sell them and buy it again, lol. That much we love it!
Ohhh I'm so happy to hear you got to my channel through Forbidden Stars, even though I personally prefer Starcraft (I did a comparison video a while ago..)
I will definitely cover MEQ either this month or hopefully in October after Essen Spiel.
I'm glad you didn't trade this game.. and I'm a true believer in sentimental value ❤️
I hope I can continue create content that you'll like and if there's a game you'd like me to cover don't hesitate to contact me via TH-cam or email and I will do my best to get a copy
Thank you for your excellent video. I want so badly to get this game played again.
The pleasure is all mine!
Glad you liked it..
This game is truly awesome 🤩
This game was my first big box game and some of the first to start my collection.I have doubt to get this or Earth reborn,and it was this one😊Normaly after that I also bought Earth reborn,witch is also a gem,true masterpiece of a design and gameplay.I will never get rid of these two games,because they are very special to me and they are get me in this hobby
Thank you for sharing this experience with me 🤩
It's a super cool game indeed and I should check out Earth Reborn..
I trust you ;)
@@ezbgames Definetly do that if you can,it has a learning curve about the rules,it goes trough scenarios in the game and each new scenario adds a few new rules.That game has such many layers,it is unique.Got some plans to paint minies in Runewars,Earth reborn was able to paint recently😀
Oh wow sounds awesome!!
Okay I'm on it 😎
I see your collection and you are a dudes on a map guy just like me. I have Cthulhu Wars, Runewars (1st and 2nd), Kemet, Cyclades, some solid variations of risk, Dark ages (both maps), Chaos in the Old World etc....you name it. After some deep thinking about it, this game may have to take the title (2nd ED) as my favourite in my collection.
at around 47:00 during your battle sample, I believe the Daqan knight was entitled to draw a tactics card after the rout due to his special ability. Looks like you may have forgot to.
Whoooaaa!!! That quite the collection and quite the statement!! How come 2nd edition and not the 1st one? I've never played the 2nd edition.
And yes, you are absolutely right. I said the knight needs to take a card but never actually took it.
Thank you!! ❤
@ezbgames I use the 1st edition map tiles because of the mountains but everything else 2nd including rules. Well, it's revised rules and usually it's for the better when publishers do that. I don't know ALL the differences between runewars 1st and 2nd, but for a quick example, what I will tell you is that on command cards 1, 2 and 3, movement includes heroes too, not just units. I believe there's a small difference in the set up and quite a bit more. Different, yet pretty subtle. There's no point going back to the 1st edition, if you have the 2nd.
@@Talisman_227 I see what you mean..
I'll be honest, I don't think I'll get the 2nd edition aswell.. I run a tight ship of 100 games maximum 😅
A lovely game !
Indeed 😊
FFG was so good. I am happy to have a lot of them
Yeah, they used to have some timeless games. Epic!!
I hope to get a few more with time 😊
@@ezbgames I think you have the most important already;)))
Hahaha I tend to agree 😉
Great Video
Thanks buddy 😊❤
Amazing wow for the rules perfectly explained. One question by the way: you say we give wounds card after card, so what if i took 2 wounds on a fig that needs only one to be killed, the other is lost in the air or is put to another fig?
Thank you very much!! ❤️🤩
Just from memory, since you assign damage one per one, if you assigned damage to a unit and it got killed, the other damage is assigned to another figurine. So damage never gets lost.
I need ro verify it but I'm 99% sure 😊
If we ever meet in RL, I will tell you the amazing but lengthy story of how a buddy and I had our freshly purchased Runewars stolen from us by the police. 🥴
Noooooo!!!!!!
Oh my God I definitely want to hear this story!! 😮😮😮
RL ?
@@stefanosstefanos401 Real life.
I just got myself a revised edition last week and wonder if I really need the Banners of War.
I didn't play the revised edition, but my advice is ALWAYS wait with the expansion. If you don't feel you need it- fuck it! Don't buy it.. with its price you can buy another awesome big game so go for it 🤩
@@ezbgames Thanks a lot for the tip and your great video as well!
The pleasure is all mind buddy 😊❤️
Yeeeeesss Runewars.
I was just thinking, did he also did a RW video? He did;)
Yeah❤❤❤
It is my favourite game ecen though TI is the better game
It is pure magic
Hahahaha let me know if there are other games you'd like to see on the channel! 😍
I like Runewars very much and it really surprised me. Banners of War is a cool expansion but in my opinion not that much mandatory.. what do you think?
@@ezbgames we got the revised Edition and Banners shortly after that, and that is all probably 10y ago, so I dont how it is without expansion.
I like the new units, cant think to play without. Also the lost City thing is cool.
But we always play with the "old cities" the new ones are too strong and having one at the doorstep in the beginning is just lucky. Both starcraft and runewars we played a lot in our group(s) - would still if not TI4 would be such an exceptional game;)
If you want to look at the undaunted series;) I just got 2200 calisto, very cool game.
And yes a playzhrough of TI4 would be an idea. For me it is the crown of All the heavy concept banger games;)))
Cheers to Paris
I'm really happy you get to play these games..
For me the problem with TI4 is the play time. I find it very hard to potentially invest 10-13 hours for a single game. And unless you have a REALLY dedicated group for this, it will be a game that will come out once a year. For me it's not enough in order to keep a game like this in my collection.
Undaunted is intriguing for me, but I still didn't pull the trigger on that one.. I have so many projects I'm currently working on, and since I'm moving to Switzerland soon I have even less time. This is the only reason why I didn't upload a video for the past 2 weeks (which personally hurts me because I love making videos 😊)
Also, Essen is next week and I will receive Mindclash new game to do some content as well
@@ezbgames nice, where in Switzerland;)
We have in Vienna a TI4 group with around 60 people and organize a montly game. Of course I cant play that often.
It can be long yes, but if you have a table where everybody know-know the rules, well we played 8P games in 8 hours.
But it is long, yes. It gives social interaction as no other game I know.
Speaking of time - we have luxury, having so many great games, so one just have to decide what game to play. I agree, there is NO game out there one HAS to play.
And on the other hand, because TI4 plays such an important part in our groups very good other games dont get time.
Sorry for the late reply..
I will move to Geneva :)
Ohhhh Vienna.. what an amazing city! I've been there SO MANY TIMES!!!
I absolutely love it😍😍
Yes I agree that if you have a game that is absolutely the favorite of a group, other games might not have a place..
But I hope some of my videos will convince you to give a chance to some others ;)