I made a couple mistakes in this video! Nothing major, but please check out the description to the video for the "CORRECTIONS" section.

In all these years as a boardgamer and having watched hundreds of "how to play" videos, these Eclipse series are by far the best! The most detailed, complete and didactic I've ever seen. If you don't mind, I intend to use the same methodology for our channel in Brazil. Thanks a lot and congratulations for this great work.

@TheGameLocker

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Gustavo! Please use whatever you find helpful in these videos for your channel ;)

@reelwater7983

4 жыл бұрын

Is this game even out yet ?

@TheGameLocker

4 жыл бұрын

The publisher had a first wave of preorders recently, and I believe they’re still estimating November for US retail availability.

@reelwater7983

4 жыл бұрын

So if i order one on boardgame geek.com its a pre order?

@woj_kal

3 жыл бұрын

can you fire missiles and retreat right after

So after finally being able to get together with friends after we all got vaccinated, I got to play Eclipse with my friends after having the game for over a year. It was an amazing experience and I attribute a lot of that to just rewatching your videos to make sure I knew the rules enough to teach them and get the game going without bogging down while teaching it. I know you said you like the rulebook, but trying to learn the game through it was very daunting with the large pages and small text size. I was able to confidently teach the game because of this and had such a blast that it may honestly be my #1 game now! Thank you so much for these videos. I was upset when other How to Play channels didn't have videos for Eclipse, but these videos taught the game so cleanly that I'm very glad I found this channel because of it. Thanks again so much. S+ tier content!!!!

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

That makes me SO happy to hear that your first experience of this game with friends was a positive one! It’s always a little scary teaching a game for the first time, especially one this size. Thank you so for the positive feedback, if you ever have any rules questions just reply to the video and I’ll do my best to help ;).

This is probably the best rules explanation I've ever seen. Well done and thank you!

You did a fantastic job of teaching this game. You were thorough and didn't talk like an auctioneer on speed so I could follow what you were saying. Thanks! We are gearing up to play this game and I've shared your videos with my friends. And by the way, where did you get that shirt? I need one!

@TheGameLocker

Ай бұрын

Haha, happy to hear the pacing worked for you! The shirt was a gift from the publisher after my first video :)

YESSSSS!! I was looking forward to Part 2!!

These really are the best how to videos, kudos and thank you

Great Video, looking forward to part 3!

Great thank to you ! As french guy with some issu with the english of the instructions books you help me a lot !

Kudos for a very well made and helpful video!

I'm going to go ahead and subscribe now and patiently wait for more how to play videos.

Thanks for the great tutorial!

Just really good! Clear, concise and great examples. Looking forward to the next one!

The rule book say is drawing reputation tiles starts from the player now controlling the sector then it goes in order of player entry

I'm your subscriber no. 1000 :D Great vids btw ;)

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU so much for the sub!!

Great video👍 one point though, the Defender is always considered to have moved into a tile first, so would be first to choose influence tile after a battle.

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct, sir! I posted a couple of corrections in the video description, including this point. There was a big debate in the BGG forums about this based on the wording in the rulebook, but the publisher confirmed :)

Great videos! I hate reading rule books...game kinda reminds me of a much more engaged terraforming Mars for some reason lol. I know editing takes a while for these games so much appreciated taking the time to make this!

@Grnademaster

3 жыл бұрын

This game looks like so much fun. Terraforming Mars is by far my favorite board game (I've played around 300 games), but I can easily see Eclipse rocketing up my favorites list to fall in behind Mars, even though I haven't even played it yet. I love Mars so much that I've created my own expansion for it (nuclear), and I've mocked up around 75% of the other fan-made expansions found on Board Game Geek's website.

I played this for the first time yesterday, I knew most of the rules from the 1st edition. We played 4p game, I found this video very helpful, especially in the combat phase. I found combat in my play through very confusing when there was 3 fleets at the Galactic centre at the last round. I thought a 9th round would have been nice as we couldn’t claim the centre hex.

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the combat near the end of the game tends to get pretty epic because you don't get points for your ships, you might as well use them to claim as many juicy hexes as you can for victory points! I think it's pretty normal to have a first game where people are scared to take on the GCDS in the middle, but it's really not that bad (assuming you use the basic GCDS blueprint), with the right techs you can take it well before round 8.

@_SBRacing

2 жыл бұрын

​@@TheGameLocker Just had my first game last weekend and we had the exact same problem. All 5 players played quite passively all game and by the 7th round had massive fleets making the combat quite daunting

@TheGameLocker

2 жыл бұрын

If your group is more passive you could try adding in the warp portal stuff to open up a bunch of “back doors” into people’s territory and incentivize more player interaction. Each group is different, but more plays does help people explore a bit more :)

Great!

just so you know i had to give up 2 of my "other sessions" to watch this

Soo... you have to flip colony ships to move population cubes to orbitals? Great video!

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is correct! Orbitals function just like planets, so you do have to flip a colony ship.

Hi. Love Ur eclipse Videos. But i have a question for this one. At 24:10 you say that red entered the sector before you so they Shot on Second Place. But earlier you said that red entered the sector last. So wouldnt red shoot last in the Battle against you? Greetings. Very good work i watch the eclipse Videos for over a week now and i think im ready to Play First Time now (the game Came a Few days ago) :)

@youtubedude1355

4 жыл бұрын

Or did you mean that they shoot Second because they entered LAST and accidentally said „first“

@TheGameLocker

4 жыл бұрын

You are correct, that was my mistake! At 23:20 I said red entered last but at 24:10 I said red entered before me (which is wrong). That means red's interceptors should have been last in the initiative order. (Now, since red had nothing but missiles it didn't really matter since red fired all the missiles first anyway, but this initiative order will matter in every other case). Thanks for catching that, I'll update the description. Have fun on your first game, and feel free to ask if you have rules questions!

@youtubedude1355

4 жыл бұрын

TheGameLocker thank you very much for the explanation. And thanks very much for showing me this game! Greetings

What an awesome video! I wouldn't have to read the manual that many times if I would watch this guide first. Really well done. Just a question I couldn't find anywhere and you might happen to know: I already read that you do not NEED to atack the enemys population when there are only your ships there at the end of the round (althoug most of the time you will wan't it). Can I attack only one population tho? Let's say at 29:50 I got a double hit, could a choose to atack only one?

@TheGameLocker

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, I'm glad you found them helpful! Curious with your question - what would be the benefit of not killing off all of your opponent's population cubes?

@tulioconcolato3963

8 ай бұрын

@@TheGameLocker I'm actually not so sure about the effectiveness because I've just bought my game, it didn't even got to me yet. I'm just looking for the rules and the things I didn't understand/wasn't sure. But there was one guy saying that he could picture 3 scenarios where you wouldn't want to attack your opponent population: 1) You might want your opponent to go bankrupt due to excessive spending (and maybe trigger a domino effect with his systems) 2) You might want not to free your opponent's disk so he will not be able to occupy some other sector. 3) You might have an agreement with PLAYER A that you want to go attack PLAYER B (who is clearly winning), but to do so you have to cross PLAYER's A territories. He will allow you to do so as long as you don't attack those systems. From what I've seen I imagine these scenarios are reeeeally unlikely to happen, but, in case it does happen (1 or 2), it could be more effective to attack some of the population.

@TheGameLocker

8 ай бұрын

@@tulioconcolato3963 Very interesting. Well my version of the rulebook says "When attacking population cubes, each ship MAY attack once with its non-missile weapons..." (emphasis mine). The use of "may" tells me you can choose which ships you want to attack population cubes with. So I would say you could decide which ships to attack with, but if you roll a hit you MUST assign the damage. That's my take. Hope that helps!

@tulioconcolato3963

8 ай бұрын

@@TheGameLocker Indeed what you say make a lot of sense, this is probably the best interpretation. Anyway, thank you a lot for your help and, again, great video!

Question: 14:02 What (if any) advantage would there be in picking up a disc in a sector, and then immediately replacing that disc back in that same sector?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Good question! In 1st edition players used to pick up a disc in a sector and immediately replace the disc in the same sector to change the type of population cubes being used on white planets and orbitals. They added this rule in the 2nd edition to prevent those shenanigans :)

@ZoSoPage1977

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker OMG! ty so much!

Merci (Thanks in French)

Great video, thanks. Still confused about the pin effect: If player A enters a sector with a ship where player B also has a ship is there any way player A´s SAME ship could leave that sector? (without a battle or replacing that ship for another to unpin it)

@TheGameLocker

2 жыл бұрын

In your example, aside from having a battle or flying in another ship to unpin it, the only way player A’s ship can leave that sector is if player A had the Cloaking Device tech (which makes it so that it takes TWO opponent ships to pin each one of your ships). The pinning rule is super important because it allows you to protect your valuable home sector by preventing opponents from flying straight through your defenses; it allows you to set up defenses in a sector with lots of your own ships so your opponent will have a tough time getting through. Does that make sense?

@pintarfacil8064

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker Thanks m8. It's not clear in the rulebook imo. Having a 1st go at the game this weekend and that rule was not clear to me at all. Now it makes sense. Cheers from Portugal 😊

Your link to part 1 actually just links back to this video.

@TheGameLocker

4 жыл бұрын

Whoops! I just fixed it, thanks!

At the end of the video you say that if you have your brown track full, and have to place materials back on the materials track, but if it's full you would have to place it on another track. How would this scenario happen if resources must go back to the track where they started. Is it only in the instance where grey planets are de-influenced, and you can chose to place them on different tracks?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

De-influenced or destroyed population on grey planets or orbitals are the most common instances, there might be a couple more scenarios I'm not thinking of. In any case, it's still SUPER rare for that to happen at all :).

The plastic holders are engraved, not embossed. Embossed would be if it jutted off of the plastic, not goes into it. Great video though! Very helpful!

Question: At 32:35 you show a sector with a discovery tile and a damaged ship ready to claim it. According to the new 2nd edition rules, that scenario is no longer possible since tiles are automatically claimed by whoever explored that sector. Correct?

@TheGameLocker

2 жыл бұрын

Not if there was an NPC ship guarding the discovery. If there is an Ancient on a sector you explore, you can’t claim the discovery until you destroy that ship first. Hope that helps!

do more videos!

Regarding the upgrade action. Is the Drive requirement also only checked at the end, like power?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

I believe so, yes.

hi i would like to clarify about the dracos ability or everyones really, about being pinned but also able to place an influence disk on a nearby tile? just by taking the influence action next turn? Idid what you said about the dracos incredible move and my gaming group went nuts. we tried to find a clarification about being pinned, but also able to place influence disks on nearby tiles just by taking the influence action, but we couldn't. could you tell me please where to find this kind of information? thank you for the great video its very very helpfull.

@TheGameLocker

Жыл бұрын

Hi! You can reference the rulebook for the Influence action. It says you can move an influence disk to an uncontrolled sector where no opponent ships are present, and a wormhole (or warp portal) connection exists with a sector where you have a SHIP or control. The key there is the sector you're seeking to influence must have a connection with a sector where you have a SHIP. There is no prohibition on this if that ship happens to be pinned. I found this confirmed multiple times on the boardgamegeek forums as well, if your friends are skeptical still that's where I would send them next :). Hope that helps!

@ioannislagios6323

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker You do a great job, thank you so much

Heya, great explanations. Just want to confirm that the pin ships get to influence next tiles but cant explore new tiles as long as they are pinned? is that correct?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

That is correct!

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

But you can still always explore from sectors you control, even if there are pinned ships in that sector you control.

Nice video... Also, where did you get the shirt?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

the publisher sent it to me as a “thank you” after I made the first video ;). Not sure if they’ll be selling them later...

@carlking9088

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker very nice.. they should sell them, I'm sure they'd be popular

Hi, did you paint your ships all the way or just used washes on them?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

The Kickstarter edition I got had an optional add-on for a ship wash, so that’s what I got :).

@jorischkovich

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker ah looks very cool!

@thegamelocker 29:12 "even though no battle took place". Doesnt the rule book state that all sectors that contain ships of one and influence or ships of the other player are considered battles? even if it is just against the population? this matters becaus it would make attacker and defender elligable for drawing VPs.

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Rhajalob! This is described on p21 of the rulebook. Attacking population happens during the combat phase, but AFTER all of the battles have been resolved in a round, so it is not considered a battle. You do NOT draw reputation tiles (VP tiles) for attacking population. Hope that helps!

@Rhajalob

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker thank you very much. It was lost in translation. Page 18, '1. Determine Battles' is not well translated into German. I read it up in the English version online now. In German it basically says that any sector that contains ships of someone and an influence token of someone else is also a battle. Thanks for the quick response!

24:06 - Shouldn't red's inceptors fire last since black would have been the defender (since it entered the sector before red) and ties on initiative go to the defender? You do say red entered the sector first but at 23:23 you said they entered last.

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct, that was my mistake :(. Someone else pointed this out a while back so I put that in the video description under "CORRECTIONS". There's one other mistake I made that I put there too. Thanks!

@dsweet5273

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker Ah my bad for not look into the description. Just trying to learn the game and making sure I understand everything! Your videos have been a huge help! Thanks!

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

@@dsweet5273 No worries! You're not alone there, I just wish there were some way to make the "corrections" more obvious to everyone! Please let me know if any other questions come up, have fun!

You note resources are produced after upkeep, but in the example you use money produced after upkeep. Is money an exception to the rule?

@TheGameLocker

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, sort of :). The steps of the upkeep phase are as follows: 1. Colony Ships, 2. Civilization Upkeep (where you use your income/money production to pay your upkeep), 3. Resolve Bankruptcy, 4. Player Elimination, 5. Materials and Science Production. The reason it’s important to produce Materials and Science at the END of the phase is that you’re not allowed to TRADE those resources you’re producing to get more money. Hope that helps!

Thanks so much for the *fantastic* rules explanation! I do have a tiny request though... Would you consider re-shoot the Combat Phase section to fix the errors? (as a separate video).

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

The perfectionist in me wants desperately for this video to be perfect, but I’m afraid that as a dad with young kids I just don’t have the time to reshoot the whole combat example. I did add the corrections to the video description, but that’s the best I can do for now. For a game this size I’m glad those are the ONLY mistakes I made, and that they were relatively minor mistakes!

Fucking master of the universe, thanks!

14:00 Why can I put an influence marker next to the gcds in this situation. is the gcds sector not about to become a battleground? reminds me of the situation shown before where the ship is together with the npc

@TheGameLocker

2 жыл бұрын

The gcds sector IS about to have a combat during the combat phase, but that does not matter in this example - you are AWAYS allowed to influence an empty sector that's adjacent to any of your ships, even if your ship is pinned and about to engage in combat. However, you can't influence a sector that has an enemy ship in it, so in that example you couldn't influence the gcds sector - you'd have to destroy the gcds first. Does that help?

@patritsche

2 жыл бұрын

hi, thanks for the quick reply. that certainly helps. it is actually clear in the video, but I got it wrong. :)

At 39:00 you have them influence the next sector over but I thought you couldn’t do that from a pinned ship?

@TheGameLocker

Жыл бұрын

You can influence from a pinned ship, but you can’t explore from a pinned ship.

@KMReviews

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker oh ok! That’s definitely good to know.

Ugh, forgive me for being thick headed, but at 15:13 why is there a bonus action for as part of the Influence action?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Kevin! No worries at all, the influence action is the hardest to understand for sure! The best summary of the action is at 12:16, where I explain that taking an influence action gives you TWO things, which are shown on the player board as a reminder: move up to TWO influence discs, AND flip over up to TWO of your colony ships. In the example you cite at 14:39, I do everything the influence action allows, but I also use my colony ships in the middle of the action to populate planets. Remember: using colony ships is a freebie thing you can do at any time during any of your actions (or at the end of the round, which is what I do in my part 1 video). Does that help? Please let me know if you have any other questions!

@darthkt

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker You are genius! Yes that is a perfect answer.

Hey, if all players passed but one, could the last one still make as many actions as he wants or just one last one?

@TheGameLocker

2 жыл бұрын

As many actions as he can pay for!

@-Ambos-

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker thank you!

I have one question about retreating: Lets say my opponent has the initiative . He fires missiles destroys three of my ships, with one remaining. He doesn't have any canons, so he decides to retreat. Can he decide retreat before engagement rounds. Meaning, does my remaining ship have just one shot at retreating ships, or two: One from engagement, one at retreating ships, since he decided to retreat before the engagement round.

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Good question! You cannot retreat before engagement rounds, retreating is something you can do during normal engagement rounds INSTEAD of firing with a ship group. So in your example, you’d get to fire twice against those ships with missiles if you have higher initiative. Hope that helps!

@skroblas5411

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker But I mean if my opponent, the one that fired the missiles, has the Higher Initiative? Also where on the rule book specifies that you CAN only start retreating on engagement rounds? Also i don't seem to find the rule where it says you can't start a retreat before engagement rounds.

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

If your opponent that has missiles has the highest initiative, then you would get one chance to fire back at them before they retreat. The ONLY thing that happens before normal engagement rounds is firing missiles, there is NO opportunity to retreat before engagement rounds, the rulebook is clear on that when it lays out the order of the combat phase. The order of a battle goes like this: 1) missiles fire first in initiative order. 2) begin normal engagement rounds, starting with highest initiative ships first. 3) each ship group on their turn can either ATTACK, or RETREAT. This is the ONLY time the rulebook mentions being able to retreat, therefore you cannot retreat BEFORE engagement rounds start. Does that make sense? Let me know if you need further clarification, I’m happy to help if I can!

@skroblas5411

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker Crystal clear. The rules were spread out all over the rule book for this specific situation. I didn't know if the initiative order mattered when retreating. also i realized that missiles are not part of the engagement round: Probably was playing with Twilight Imperium combat mindset. Made a graph, and in became clear Player one Fires missals. Engagement round begins: Player one announces retreat (moves ships at the border where it retreats to). Player two shoots at retreating ships. Player one retreats at neighboring hex End of combat. Yesterday we yelled for like an hour at each other for this specific rule. it got heated. Turns out i was wrong :p. Great game tho. Thanks for your clarification!

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

You’ve got it spot on now :). Let me know before another argument breaks out so you can save your friendships, lol!

The Discovery tokens are claimed right after exploration or I need to control the sector?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Your first answer is correct, discoveries that are not defended by ancient ships are taken as soon as you choose to explore the sector, BEFORE you decide whether to control the sector with an influence disc. This was a rule change in this second edition of Eclipse. In 1st edition you had to control the sector to take a discovery, which forced a lot more tactical bankruptcy which is harder for new players to understand, so they changed it in 2nd edition to make it easier.

@Intacta1

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent, thank you for your answer. And i have one more question regarding the warp portals. Is it usable right after discovered or do I need a technology to use it? What are the warp tokens for?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

1. Yes, no technology required. 2. There should only be one warp portal token. It’s used with the Warp Portal Rare tech. When you research the Warp Portal rare tech, you immediately place that token on a sector you control, and it connects to all other warp portals.

Where did you get that shirt?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Was a gift from the publisher after I did my unboxing video :)

At minute 24. Red enter first? But they were the last to move into the sector. I'm confused 😀

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Yup, that was my mistake! Check the description of the video, I note one other mistake I made too.

@monstiii749

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker However, I would like to praise you again. Your rule explanation is very structured and clear. Only the rules in combat is really complicated at the beginning. I have to read through again Thank you for the great videos!

What id in combat the initiative is a tie but none of the players are defenders then who goes first?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Bastian! Every battle has a “defender”. The “defender” is the player who entered the sector before the other. Does that make sense?

@bastianvillebro6420

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker oh yeah! I get it thank u so much👍

Can a player ever get eliminated? If they have no influence Discs on the board or population cubes and ships? Are they then eliminated from the game?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! There are two ways to be eliminated (page 24 of the rulebook): #1, if you are unable to pay your upkeep cost even after trading and abandoning sectors. #2, having no ships AND no controlled sectors at the end of the combat phase.

@bastianvillebro6420

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker thank u so much !

How do you resolve drawing a Warp Portal discovery on a tile with a Warp Portal already on it?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Woah, good question! Short of asking the designer, I would just houserule that and say you shuffle it back in and draw a different one. Or just call it bad luck and say you must keep it for the 2VP.

@No_One_77

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker Thanks for responding. Is there a way to contact the developers in a forum or something similar I would like to see if I can get an official response?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

@@No_One_77 Try here: en.lautapelit.fi/page/16/contact-information

@No_One_77

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGameLocker Ok I got a response from them via email: "I would rule as follows: 'Since the Warp Portal Tile cannot be placed in the Sector where the Discovery Tile was drawn, the Discovery Tile must be taken for 2VP.' The other way you might consider ruling is similar to what we have in the FAQ for resolving placement of things from ancient labs by placing in your starting sector (or taking 2VP). However, I think that is unnecessarily complicated since it introduces an exception to the rules about placement. Besides, discovery tile usefulness is already pretty variable, sometimes you get tiles that aren’t useful for your game state and better used as VP. I would argue that in most cases discoveries are better used for their VP anyway so maybe that is just my bias coming through."

@No_One_77

3 жыл бұрын

Personally I think I would still just house rule it the way you described as I think it's more fair.

Do Starbases Pin ships?

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Yep!

Does this game have an official Discord? I can't seem to find it..

@TheGameLocker

Жыл бұрын

Good question! No idea :P

How do I get the shirt?

@TheGameLocker

2 жыл бұрын

As far as I know it’s only available from the publisher - they sent it to me after I made these videos :)

The example is wrong. The ship is locked. 38:37 rules page 9

@TheGameLocker

3 жыл бұрын

Just to clarify, are you saying that I can’t influence from the yellow Draco ship in the galactic center because the ship is pinned by the GCDS? If that’s what you’re saying, that is incorrect according to the English rulebook p14 under the influence action, it says you can influence “an uncontrolled sector where no opponent ships are present and a wormhole...connection exists with a sector WHERE YOU HAVE A SHIP OR CONTROL.” The ship can be pinned or unpinned, it doesn’t matter, you can still influence an adjacent sector from it. Pinning prevents movement, not influencing. This is a well-known strategy in the community, it just isn’t very common so I wanted to explain it here :). Does that make sense?

Are they going to make this available for purchase?

@TheGameLocker

4 жыл бұрын

Their website says this summer ;)