At 23:11 when you move your Viking to the other island, you no longer have any influence at the island you left. You would have to give that ruin back and lose it.
1:03:16, Am I correct on this rule? Whenever a player has more settlers on an island, the other player loses one. So when more AI vikings showed up, you should have removed one. Happened more than once.
when the enemy has a collect resources rune action, he will not be able to do it, because it’s not a harvest action, he will do the corresponding rune action on the enemy mat instead.
When the bot did the sail action shouldn't they sail for the rune in the top corner rather than the rune that triggered the action itself? I have attempted and got sidetracked by life like four different times trying to play this one solo. My biggest complaint is there is this weird assumption that you just know and understand the iconography on the cards. It is not as intuitive as the designers intended.
Great video, and one that helped me with my first play through. During my game, I definitely forgot to add the influence of the ships at the docks, hahaha. I do have a couple of questions, though. If your influence and the AI or another players influence is equal, then nothing happens, and neither player loses a Viking? Also, at 37:15, when the AI had to fight the Invaders, the AI won the fight, and you mentioned that the Invader card gets discarded, but doesn't it actually stay to the right of the round tracker board for further Invader battles if needed? Also, with drafting in the last round, did you have one pile that had only two cards in it instead of three?
It’s been a while so I don’t remember. Of all the TE games, this one is the most fiddly. That’s why I encourage people to use this vid to get a general sense of fun, not every jot and tittle of the rules.
Got this to the table solo using the Dized app tutorial. Bot is a hot mess of multiple chained actions quite often due to gaining resources. Quite a few times there was confusion with multiple battles occurring - are they concurrent or simultaneous or restricted? No one seems to know on BGG and no word from the designers. Can't believe the solo got sufficiently playtested. However saying that it does have the potential to be a good game.
@@OneStopCoopShop to be fair you did a fantastic job of doing a playthrough! I'm thinking you mightve had to do a bit of editing to cut out the times you needed to refer to the rulebook? What worries me the more games I collect the worse it is remembering the rules between plays (which could be months in between). This game may not get to the table (like Tiny epic dungeons) due to the rules overhead. Pity.
@@MarkThould Thanks! I actually had a call with the designer to clean up rules issues before filming. I had most of the rules; the biggest thing is sequencing all the extra actions.
I’ve played this solo twice, and both times the last card had the enemy take two of my ruins and win because of it lol. I personally find the enemy to powerful I’m solo mode lol. Like a harvest card can cause so much to happen at the wrong time. Like they suddenly knock off my boat, stealing my ruin, they add people killing my Viking, then they start a battle, etc. But I’ve also enjoyed how the AI really feels like a strong opponent and it just Doenst feel like a dumb AI
@@OneStopCoopShop yes initially it was a lot. I think it’s the kind of solo mode that if you do that a lot it just becomes second nature. But for the first time it’s definitely a lot.
Thanks for checking it out! It definitely went up after my plays. Ultimately, the bot is a bit too involved to break into the top tier - I cut out a lot of rechecking the rules from the vid. But I like it, happy to have it around.
Does the bot player only attack that one island or do they actually spread out and invade other islands? From this game it seems they only go to your C rune island and then back to their homebase? Why don't they invade all the other islands? If that's what they only do then Solo variant is well and truly broken.,........ Hang on they just spread out 🤣🤣 took them long enough
@@OneStopCoopShop cool I was getting worried that all the bot did was stay in one place lol guess it's the luck of the draw. I'm not a big Euro game fan but this game has perked my interest - got the Tiny epic Dungeon loved that - dungeon crawler I'm a big lover off lol.
Its steel not iron its N rune not H rune and when you moved your settler from the N island to the C island you should’ve given your blue N rune back to the island because you don’t have influence there anymore. Also I do believe once you enter a battle you have to pay the steel its not a choice whether you want to or not after you reveal cards. If you don’t have the steel you can’t engage in battle. Otherwise very informative.
I think he's referring to the fact that the "N" rune does not correlate to our English letter "N." It looks a lot like an N, but that symbol in Elder Futhark actually correlates to our "H." :) Of course, by the same logic, "C" isn't a "C." That appears to be a made-up rune, but it's close to the Futhark "P."
Convoluted. OTOH I got my shipping notice last week so I expect I’ll see this fairly soon. My experience with the Tiny Epic series is that, even if it doesn’t click with you, it’s a fun few afternoons at the very least. That plus keep the rules on PDF nearby. The tiny rule books are not epic.
This solo is so convoluted. The vast majority of the time you’re managing the AI and their turn can cascade into a huge drawn out turn. I’m selling this off quickly.
Do you think a software solution could be easily implemented? Ive done this with wingspan and Unearth. (the only two games I play solo currently. besides moonrakers luminor) Tbh I find solo board games kinda awkward. They feel incredibly fiddly and I often forget solo rules, or often times to even do the AIs turn. (frequent problem in unearth). So I write up my own companion apps on my phone. Wondering if this game could do something similar. With the card drafting I think it will be interesting. I could just numerically sort cards by names and add them to the AI that way. But that could end up being just as fiddly as running them myself.
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At 23:11 when you move your Viking to the other island, you no longer have any influence at the island you left. You would have to give that ruin back and lose it.
That gets fixed later in the playthrough.
Hi,
How did you manage to get the board flat ? Even after several days with something heavy on it, it doesn't stay flat..
Kept it laid flat on the table in a room with my dehumidifier running. Maybe it mattered or not, but it survived the play through :)
@@OneStopCoopShop Thank you !!! :)
1:03:16, Am I correct on this rule? Whenever a player has more settlers on an island, the other player loses one. So when more AI vikings showed up, you should have removed one. Happened more than once.
Oops 00:52:09.
You are correct. I should have lost a unit there.
when the enemy has a collect resources rune action, he will not be able to do it, because it’s not a harvest action, he will do the corresponding rune action on the enemy mat instead.
When the bot did the sail action shouldn't they sail for the rune in the top corner rather than the rune that triggered the action itself? I have attempted and got sidetracked by life like four different times trying to play this one solo. My biggest complaint is there is this weird assumption that you just know and understand the iconography on the cards. It is not as intuitive as the designers intended.
It always sails towards the rune on the card, which ever of the two runes of that color is closer while requiring a move.
For round 3 did you have to shuffle the discard? I ran out of cards for that era.
I believe so.
Great video, and one that helped me with my first play through. During my game, I definitely forgot to add the influence of the ships at the docks, hahaha. I do have a couple of questions, though. If your influence and the AI or another players influence is equal, then nothing happens, and neither player loses a Viking? Also, at 37:15, when the AI had to fight the Invaders, the AI won the fight, and you mentioned that the Invader card gets discarded, but doesn't it actually stay to the right of the round tracker board for further Invader battles if needed? Also, with drafting in the last round, did you have one pile that had only two cards in it instead of three?
It’s been a while so I don’t remember. Of all the TE games, this one is the most fiddly. That’s why I encourage people to use this vid to get a general sense of fun, not every jot and tittle of the rules.
Can’t wait for mine to be delivered!
NICE! Have you seen the Ragnarok solo rules as well? I like the solo Valkyrie automata
It was kind of a bear getting through just the base game! Might revisit Ragnarok down the road.
Got this to the table solo using the Dized app tutorial. Bot is a hot mess of multiple chained actions quite often due to gaining resources. Quite a few times there was confusion with multiple battles occurring - are they concurrent or simultaneous or restricted? No one seems to know on BGG and no word from the designers. Can't believe the solo got sufficiently playtested. However saying that it does have the potential to be a good game.
Ultimately, the convoluted nature of the bot keeps this one out of the top tier of Tiny Epic for me.
@@OneStopCoopShop to be fair you did a fantastic job of doing a playthrough! I'm thinking you mightve had to do a bit of editing to cut out the times you needed to refer to the rulebook?
What worries me the more games I collect the worse it is remembering the rules between plays (which could be months in between). This game may not get to the table (like Tiny epic dungeons) due to the rules overhead. Pity.
@@MarkThould Thanks! I actually had a call with the designer to clean up rules issues before filming. I had most of the rules; the biggest thing is sequencing all the extra actions.
I’ve played this solo twice, and both times the last card had the enemy take two of my ruins and win because of it lol. I personally find the enemy to powerful I’m solo mode lol. Like a harvest card can cause so much to happen at the wrong time. Like they suddenly knock off my boat, stealing my ruin, they add people killing my Viking, then they start a battle, etc.
But I’ve also enjoyed how the AI really feels like a strong opponent and it just Doenst feel like a dumb AI
Apparently it’s supposed to do that :). Personally, I find the extra actions a bear to track and execute, but I got used to it after a play.
@@OneStopCoopShop yes initially it was a lot. I think it’s the kind of solo mode that if you do that a lot it just becomes second nature. But for the first time it’s definitely a lot.
Game still has me nervous about the last round swing. Thanks for the playthrough!
The good thing is that the game gives you resources to get back whatever is taken.
How do you rank TEV solo play on your previously TE ranking? Great play through, the AÍ was messing with you! Lol
Thanks for checking it out! It definitely went up after my plays. Ultimately, the bot is a bit too involved to break into the top tier - I cut out a lot of rechecking the rules from the vid. But I like it, happy to have it around.
the enemy can’t build a temple on an island where there’s already one. You must have chosen an other island and therefore lost the rune.
good times.
Does the bot player only attack that one island or do they actually spread out and invade other islands? From this game it seems they only go to your C rune island and then back to their homebase? Why don't they invade all the other islands? If that's what they only do then Solo variant is well and truly broken.,........ Hang on they just spread out 🤣🤣 took them long enough
The bot happened to get a LOT of harvest actions. I’ve had games where it flies all over the place :)
@@OneStopCoopShop cool I was getting worried that all the bot did was stay in one place lol guess it's the luck of the draw. I'm not a big Euro game fan but this game has perked my interest - got the Tiny epic Dungeon loved that - dungeon crawler I'm a big lover off lol.
Its steel not iron
its N rune not H rune
and when you moved your settler from the N island to the C island you should’ve given your blue N rune back to the island because you don’t have influence there anymore. Also I do believe once you enter a battle you have to pay the steel its not a choice whether you want to or not after you reveal cards. If you don’t have the steel you can’t engage in battle. Otherwise very informative.
I think he's referring to the fact that the "N" rune does not correlate to our English letter "N." It looks a lot like an N, but that symbol in Elder Futhark actually correlates to our "H." :)
Of course, by the same logic, "C" isn't a "C." That appears to be a made-up rune, but it's close to the Futhark "P."
First lol😂
You win the prize!
Convoluted. OTOH I got my shipping notice last week so I expect I’ll see this fairly soon. My experience with the Tiny Epic series is that, even if it doesn’t click with you, it’s a fun few afternoons at the very least. That plus keep the rules on PDF nearby. The tiny rule books are not epic.
This one more difficult than most because it’s doing a lot. But I liked when it clicked. Went up a few spots for me on the Tiny Epic list.
Fate is weird.
Guess what just arrived this morning?
Not the week I wanted more to land on my plate but, hey, Ragnarok on!
This solo is so convoluted. The vast majority of the time you’re managing the AI and their turn can cascade into a huge drawn out turn. I’m selling this off quickly.
@@victorgonzalez2927 I had a play where it did 7 total actions. Bananas. Totally understand anyone's feeling here.
Do you think a software solution could be easily implemented? Ive done this with wingspan and Unearth. (the only two games I play solo currently. besides moonrakers luminor) Tbh I find solo board games kinda awkward. They feel incredibly fiddly and I often forget solo rules, or often times to even do the AIs turn. (frequent problem in unearth). So I write up my own companion apps on my phone. Wondering if this game could do something similar.
With the card drafting I think it will be interesting. I could just numerically sort cards by names and add them to the AI that way. But that could end up being just as fiddly as running them myself.