Tom, thank you for this video. I am self teaching Viticulture and I am a very slow learner. I watched a bunch of play throughs, read the manual, and yesterday I started watching this one while playing along exactly what you are doing. I pause to find the cards you pick, and put play mode at .5 so I can easily keep up. I appreciate so much that you clearly showed every card and every move you made. I thought Viticulture was going to take me hours and hours of self teaching, but doing it this way with your Tom vs Tom has saved me many hours of struggle. BTW, in .5 playback you sound a little tipsy, like you've had a bit too much vino. ;)
15:05 I absolutely love the idea of a professional vintner describing their own vines as "a little bit wussy" 😂 FYI, a lot of wines are named after the grapes they use- eg Chardonnay, Zinfandel, Pinot Noir.
Tom, I love your play-throughs mainly because you state upfront that you are not teaching strategy, but teaching the game. When you screw up, you own it. No excuses, just "let me show you the game". Awesome. Thank you for doing, sir!
Well dang Christopher! Thanks so much for the super super nice comment 😀 I really appreciate it. And yeah, in case it isn’t clear: I am NOT a great strategic thinker... 😂 I started making that statement in my videos because I got kinda tired of the “why didn’t you do X?” Comments.... I still get them, but now I can have the peace of mind of that I’ve let the back-seat Gamer’s know that I’m just playing for fun. (I know, can you believe someone would just play a game for fun?!? Shocking.)
I’m not sure it’s OK to send a purple grande worker to fulfil the second order in the last round, because you can take a particular action only once in a year.
In terms of strategy, a couple of rounds before the final one, I was yelling at the screen for you to buy another worker for blue - it would have slowed down the wine-engine for that turn, but you'd have had some extra actions to play with over the remaining rounds that should have let blue catch up. It does seem like the crossover point for having extra actions per round against having more productive actions in the early rounds comes about at the end of the game for this one, but in that last round, "red" had such an action advantage that blue didn't actually have a chance, despite having an extremely lucky draw for his fall card. I did spot one rules error - at 49:24, you did forget to take the point off "red" for getting the cellar upgrade (you mentioned it as a possibility later, but didn't annotate it). As for tracking which fields you've harvested, I've not played the game, nor read the rules to know if there's a standard/suggested method, but simply pushing the field up a few centimeters seems like an obvious option.
I still haven’t gotten Tuscany! 🤦♂️ I got Viticulture years ago and it has been in my shelf of shame.... so I never got the expansion because it took me so long to get the base played! But I’ll keep an eye out for it.... thanks a ton for watching and commenting!
Just an FYI because I played for months before noticing it, but each color has it's own player board. Just look at the icons next to the structure names and you can see which board you have. Like in this tutorial you used the orange player board for the blue player. :)
Great play-through. Thanks, Tom. This is a classy, engrossing game. Like Renee said above, the Tuscany Essential Edition makes a great game better. While I'm not sure you'd need to spend time making another video with Tuscany, you'll never go back to the base game.
Yeah! I remember watching reviews of the original Tuscany (which included some of this stuff) but I vaguely remember stuff about cheese.... and maybe some animals.....? I definitely need to check it out. I really like the idea of opening the game up more and having more options.
Do you need the original viticulture to play Tuscany? Or can I just buy Tuscany and have that be my game? The viticulture one does seem easier to handle for a first timer but many people are raving about Tuscany.
So, it’s a little tricky because (at this point) I THINK they’ve released this game 3 (?) times…. So I think if you have the first editions, you’d need the base and the expansion. It’s been so long that I can’t remember, but I feel like the Tuscany expansion is incorporated into the base game for the second edition….? But that’s the kind of thing you’d want to research.
@@TomTeachesGames thanks. Yea there’s a game shop in Pasadena ca. I’ll run it by then and make a plan. I’m really into wine so this theme works well for me.
Tom, thank you for this video. I am self teaching Viticulture and I am a very slow learner. I watched a bunch of play throughs, read the manual, and yesterday I started watching this one while playing along exactly what you are doing. I pause to find the cards you pick, and put play mode at .5 so I can easily keep up. I appreciate so much that you clearly showed every card and every move you made. I thought Viticulture was going to take me hours and hours of self teaching, but doing it this way with your Tom vs Tom has saved me many hours of struggle. BTW, in .5 playback you sound a little tipsy, like you've had a bit too much vino. ;)
15:05 I absolutely love the idea of a professional vintner describing their own vines as "a little bit wussy" 😂
FYI, a lot of wines are named after the grapes they use- eg Chardonnay, Zinfandel, Pinot Noir.
Tom, I love your play-throughs mainly because you state upfront that you are not teaching strategy, but teaching the game. When you screw up, you own it. No excuses, just "let me show you the game". Awesome. Thank you for doing, sir!
Well dang Christopher! Thanks so much for the super super nice comment 😀 I really appreciate it.
And yeah, in case it isn’t clear: I am NOT a great strategic thinker... 😂 I started making that statement in my videos because I got kinda tired of the “why didn’t you do X?” Comments.... I still get them, but now I can have the peace of mind of that I’ve let the back-seat Gamer’s know that I’m just playing for fun. (I know, can you believe someone would just play a game for fun?!? Shocking.)
This is a clear, concise playthrough, nice work, almost don't need to read rulebook🐓
Thanks Mick! I’m so glad it came across clearly! And I really appreciate you taking the time to reach out. You da best!
Our firs play is behinde us! It was great! Thanks a lot
That seriously makes me so extremely happy! I hope you get more plays in now that it’s the weekend! 😀
I’m not sure it’s OK to send a purple grande worker to fulfil the second order in the last round, because you can take a particular action only once in a year.
In terms of strategy, a couple of rounds before the final one, I was yelling at the screen for you to buy another worker for blue - it would have slowed down the wine-engine for that turn, but you'd have had some extra actions to play with over the remaining rounds that should have let blue catch up. It does seem like the crossover point for having extra actions per round against having more productive actions in the early rounds comes about at the end of the game for this one, but in that last round, "red" had such an action advantage that blue didn't actually have a chance, despite having an extremely lucky draw for his fall card.
I did spot one rules error - at 49:24, you did forget to take the point off "red" for getting the cellar upgrade (you mentioned it as a possibility later, but didn't annotate it).
As for tracking which fields you've harvested, I've not played the game, nor read the rules to know if there's a standard/suggested method, but simply pushing the field up a few centimeters seems like an obvious option.
Solid playthrough 👍🏽 Any chance for another but with the Tuscany EE? 😬
I still haven’t gotten Tuscany! 🤦♂️ I got Viticulture years ago and it has been in my shelf of shame.... so I never got the expansion because it took me so long to get the base played! But I’ll keep an eye out for it.... thanks a ton for watching and commenting!
You could always put one of the clear tokens on a field when you harvest it.
That’s a good point! I’ll keep that in mind next time I play, for sure.
Just an FYI because I played for months before noticing it, but each color has it's own player board. Just look at the icons next to the structure names and you can see which board you have. Like in this tutorial you used the orange player board for the blue player. :)
Holy cow!!!! You’re 100% right! I’d say “how did I miss that?” But... I mean... that’s subtlety in action....
Great play-through. Thanks, Tom. This is a classy, engrossing game. Like Renee said above, the Tuscany Essential Edition makes a great game better. While I'm not sure you'd need to spend time making another video with Tuscany, you'll never go back to the base game.
Yeah! I remember watching reviews of the original Tuscany (which included some of this stuff) but I vaguely remember stuff about cheese.... and maybe some animals.....? I definitely need to check it out. I really like the idea of opening the game up more and having more options.
Do you need the original viticulture to play Tuscany? Or can I just buy Tuscany and have that be my game? The viticulture one does seem easier to handle for a first timer but many people are raving about Tuscany.
So, it’s a little tricky because (at this point) I THINK they’ve released this game 3 (?) times…. So I think if you have the first editions, you’d need the base and the expansion.
It’s been so long that I can’t remember, but I feel like the Tuscany expansion is incorporated into the base game for the second edition….?
But that’s the kind of thing you’d want to research.
@@TomTeachesGames thanks. Yea there’s a game shop in Pasadena ca. I’ll run it by then and make a plan. I’m really into wine so this theme works well for me.
The most helpful playthrough, very clear and easy to follow. Thanks!
This was super helpful, thank you
You're welcome! I'm glad I could help!
Thanks for this video. It is very well done.
Thank you! I’m glad it was useful!
This is a very good video thank you.
You're so welcome! Thanks for taking the time to say something kind! We need more of that in the world this year....
Great video! thanks a lot!!
Thank you so much for watching and commenting 😀 It’s always great to hear from people!
Oh man, I don’t know...! 😂
.... I never know......
LOL You should always read the rule book! Tom, you’re a rock star 🤟🏽🎸🤩🤩
Rule books have so many words!!!! 😂😂😂