Merv - How to Play - Full tutorial video
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This is a how-to-play video for Merv - The Heart of the Silk Road, designed by Fabio Lopiano and with artwork from Ian O'toole
Thank you to Osprey Games for sponsoring this video.
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Timestamps
1:06 Setup
3:02 Game Overview
3:57 Player Turn
15:33 Camel Market
16:00 Contracts
16:57 End of Round
17:51 Scoring Phase
19:28 Invasion Phase
20:33 End of Game
21:19 2-Player Game
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Great video Paul!
Thank you. And sorry again for not lining the cards up :)
And beautiful artwork, Ian! 😊🥰
Great video! Whenever I get a new heavier game I always pray that he's made a video tutorial. He presents the rules clearly and succinctly. No wasted time, just rules and examples presented perfectly.
Thanks!
Just revisited this video. Paul, I gotta say - you did it. As you always do... great teach. Your videos are super easy to follow, always well done. Just awesome. Thank you!
We would have been lost without this video. Thank you. We usually have no problem learning from the rule book but we found this one impenetrable. Really enjoy the game as well. Cheers
However, watching this game again has reignited my passion , and made me appreciate some of the better moments of this incredible game.
I love Ian O'Tooles artwork in games, so that alone makes this an instant buy for me.
Another extremely good and helpful explanation. Thank you so much for also including the 2 player rules as well.
Watched your clear and concise video today and played the game straight afterwards with no issues - cheers Paul!
Thank you. First video of yours I've watched. The usual suspects were lacking detail, or I grit my teeth through their usual shenanigans until I had to stop. Subbed!
You're very welcome
Thanks for this. Just bought the game and now I'm off to watch the solo playthrough.
Excellent video!
Excellent tutorial! Game looks great: pretty, interactive and thematic, something you dont see in all euros. One to keep an eye on for sure
Yep. Seems more interactive than a lot of euros.
I love your How to Play videos!
Thanks!
Excellent as always Paul. Just watching before you do the solo play-through.
Top notch work!
Thanks Mike!
Thanks for this great video. Sharing with my group for our next play.
Such a clear explanation, nice one Paul :)
Unbelievable good tutorial. Thank you so much!
Lots going on. Love it.
Thank you for making such a wonderful tutorial! I really enjoy your videos 👍
Game looks super solid! Going to preorder now.
Great video Paul, thank you!
Wow. This looks amazing!
Amazing work! 👍
Thanks!!! I am confused about soldier rule. Example in video is technically not FULLY procteted. Rather partially protected by one wall only.
Thank you for this helpful video. I’m puzzled about the marketplace though. It seems to me like it is significantly underpowered and that there are way too many of the resource pieces associated with the different outposts for a rule that says you can only have one of each. At the end of the game there’s always a large pile of marketplace resources while the other pieces are scarce.
With this one resource per outpost rule, a player that focuses on the marketplace can only fulfill two of the higher 3 level contracts and two of the lower level ones that require more scrolls. It seems to me like either the higher level contracts should maintain the scroll requirement (especially since you can get as many of these as you like) or a player should be able to activate any and all outposts he has on the marketplace to gain more of that resource to fulfill contracts as long as he pays the required amount and type of cubes for each resource. This would balance out the relative strength of the marketplace, caravanasary and mosque tracks.
As it stands with that one resource per outpost rule, the marketplace is relegated to being a secondary track that you use to top off your points after you’ve exhausted the mosque or caravanasary. I think the game would be a lot more fun with a third viable path to victory and that it would balance it out significantly. Any thoughts?
Thanks again,
Jonathan
Hi, Paul, such a great tutorial video. It really helps me a lot.
A question needs to be clarified. In 13:24, if I want to buy a rare good (in Kashgar ), it seems to put just one camel between the inner city and outer city (Samarkand - Kashgar) since I placed a trading post (a disk) in Samarkand already.
Or I can buy the rare good in Kashgar by putting 2 camels on the routes between the inner city and outer city ( Merv ->Samarkand ->Kashgar), if I don’t have the trading post in Samarkand.
Referring to rule book page 12 - Buy Goods and the example as following.
Thanks, Paul
Thanks.
To answer the question: There was already a red disc in Samarkand yes, but in this example, you were not the red player. Sorry, I should have clarified that. The red player would have needed to only use 1 camel. Other players would need to pay 2.
This game remind me gugong, Trajan, Istanbul all have mini game within main game.
Great video. A lot of useful information in just 20 minutes. The rulebook of Merv is rather poor, so I really needed this video. As I will be playing mainly solo, do you have any idea when your solo-video will be released? Thanks.
Solo video is already on the channel :) th-cam.com/video/xuf7D5xXUTs/w-d-xo.html
What an elegant dummy player for the 2 player game
Thanks for the excellent video! Got a stupid question though; what do these coloured cubes represent? They are resources, but thematically what are they? Money, silk or what? Can't find sth in the rulebook!
who knows :)
@@GamingRulesVideos lol thats a mystery then! I ll ask Lopiano!
My OCD is triggered @1:43 . Shouldn't the Caravan cards be aligned with the shaded area underneath it? Great tutorial as usual.
Also just noticed this was pointed out in the comments section :)
@@hammamzamzami1101 Yep. And I've received hate mail from some guy called "I. O'Toole" telling me how he went to a lot of effort with the graphic design, only for me to get it completely wrong :) (joking of course, Ian only sends me nice cards) :)
Looks interesting, but that overwhelming preparation process seems terrifying.
And the board is overwhelmed with icons
It's mostly just background art. The icons are clear when you play I think.
Is it mentioned that you score 1 vp for each of your buildings in scoring phase
Rules Query: If you place a building on a site i.e. activate it, are you required to take the action of the site? Can you instead ignore the action and collect the cubes then deploy a soldier or gain favor?
As per page 6 of rulebook...
Placing a Building and activating a site in a row/column are independent and distinct (so no need to place a building to activate but you must place a building if none exist on the chosen space)
Generating resources is the following step which must happen and this might award resources to your opponents as well
Finally, an action must be chosen from (so only ONE OF THESE):
- Performing the action of the activated site
- Gain favour
- Deploy a soldier
Finally if the Camel Market is in the row/column chosen this would also be an extra action which may be additionally taken before or after the action described in point 3 above.
Essentially and in summary, one can activate a site and not take its main action but instead Gain favour OR Deploy a soldier
This was really helpful! The Merv rulebook is not the greatest…
Yep. I think they did a new version.
Hi, Paul, great video!
I have a quick question about deploying a soldier... As you said in 7:38 you can't put soldiers when the building is already protected byt walls. But in the following example the builind were not fully protected, as the mongols attack from both sides. With that I wonder if it was possible to deploy soldiers on the blue 1,4 or both yellow at the forth row...
At the rulebook it says:
"You cannot place a soldier on a building site that already has a soldier or an upgrade, or a site that is already protected from invasion by walls."
What I get to understand is that even that building is behind one piece of wall it is not protected from invasion, because if the invasion was to occur the building would be destroyed...
@@henribcosta Correct. If a building is protected from one side by a wall, it can still have a soldier placed on it, because it isn't COMPLETELY protected from walls.
Why do the Cards on the Caravan not align with the slots on the board?
Because the idiot who made the video put them in the wrong place! :)
@@GamingRulesVideos don't be so hard on yourself. Thank you for your videos. I just wanted to know if it is intentional by the game or I missed something in the explanation.
@@JuliusCorvinus yeah, it was just me. I saw the orange parts and thought "ooo, that's nice, that must be telling me where to put the cards".
And then later on when someone told me, I put them in the brown sections and was like "oh yeah.... that looks much better" :)
Came here to ask exactly that, glad to know it's resolved. My OCD was acting up hahahaha
Artwork looks amazing. Gameplay kinda meh. I'd have to try it. I haven't played an Ian o Toole game yet that I didn't like so maybe this will stay true.
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