At 1:12:50 you added three Barbarians to the Card Row from left to right. According to p.14 of the Rulebook, Townsfolk are added left to right, but Barbarians are added right to left. It makes a difference when adding three or more Barbarians because the costs in provisions changes.

Nick: Cheater cheater pumpkin eater. Mike: I like pumpkin. Me: (eating popcorn) The joy of sibling rivalry.

Shem makes the thing! Mike plays the thing! I buy the thing! Circle of board games!!! Thanks for showing us this!

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

IT'S THE CIRCLEEEEE OF GAMESSSSSSSS

I smashed it the second time I played! I made it look easy! When I ran out of wood and shells in the main supply, I began to realize how many times I’d inadvertently cheated. Now I’m binging playthroughs to hone my understanding of the rules. The comments section is often as helpful as the videos themselves. Thanks everyone!

This game feels like Shem flexing his design chops. The ramping tension, the great box design, avoiding broken combos, and balancing it all. And if that's not enough, there's a campaign too. His later games have been really puzzle-y, trying to find the right worker, resource, tuck a card, discard a card combos, but this one takes it to... 11.

Look like Hadrian wall which is one of my fav games so I’m happy with it

Awesome playthough! Looks like a cool solo game!

I just got the game recently and awesome play through! I kept trying to guess ahead of time for every round what you might do. I’m glad I got to see this video!

Really pumped for this game. Garphill Games and Shem P. have rarely let me down. This looks so good.

Thanks for the playthrough, I enjoyed watching it!

Murph-tastic as always. Definitely going to back this when it goes live. Reminds me of Hadrian's Wall which I like.

@slackfish

Жыл бұрын

Definitely changing one worker into another is Hadrian-esque

Hahaha looooove the Spaceballs reference! Need to watch that movie again, it's been too long!

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

It’s a classic!

Haha this feels like Rummykub towards the end, endlessly shuffling resources to try and make it all work out.

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

You ain’t wrong haha

I thought for a moment that the opening angle was how it might be the whole time to avoid spoilers, and I was like, "yeah I guess I'm just watching him for an hour."

@Poiuytrew.Q

Жыл бұрын

With lightly salted popcorn?

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Lol you get to watch a dude play a game for an hour, but you only see the dude

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Hey listen I'm infinitely watchable. But at the same time we figured we should show the game once in a while.

!00% on board for the kickstarter! I got into board gaming in lockdown with afternoons on my own… opened up my world to all this goodness! Thanks for the play through.

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

You got it! Hope it brings you some joy when you get the game!!

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Awesome!!

great game! instant buy from me. After Hadrian's Wall this looks equally exciting. Keep them coming Garphill Games

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Garphill rocks!

Great playthrough, looks like my kind of game. Thanks :)

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

You got it!

Great playthough, thanks!

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

You got it!

Wow great game! I will definitely buy it. Thank you for this!

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

No worries glad you enjoyed!

50:00 My brother and I are EXACTLY like this.

this was an awesome playthrough! easy to follow and basically taught me the game that's Mike! and thanks NICK for catching the cheater mccheaterson :P ...I mean honest solo mistake! this game looks really tight especially that endings holy moly !

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and I’m glad we were able to make things clear for you!

This is a great look at this exciting new release. I'm always amazed at how few "takebacks" there are when you record these. I know that when I play new solo games, I make a bunch of mistakes that would be tough to watch back. You do a great job explaining your actions as well. Doesn't it seem like the townsfolk/barbarian row is a reverse Lost Ruins of Arnak card row?

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Ha Yeah it definitely feels that way where throughout the course of the game the barbarians become more and more common in those townsfolk less so

Artwork is stunning! I like garphill solo modes, but can't decide yet if I am going to back this.

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Right on right on and I agree the artwork is awesome!

Great job, almost did it! When I played this, the first farm I always built was the one that gives provision, funnily the only one you didn't build. I always found myself short of them, so that farm is super useful. I would only ever tuck cards below that give workers, you just need sooo many of them in the end. Also I would almost never discard the townsfolk cards from the top row, only if I really needed the bonus in THAT round. It's always better to just build your deck. I won the campaign 7-4 and enjoyed every single game. The game changes enough each time, that it doesn't feel the same. One of my defeats was funny though, I couldn't build the first canal by the third round, so the first time I had to shuffle, the flood ended my game. I wasn't paying attention, and I was one shell short to build it, and none of my cards would give me one, nor the ones in the top row. It was very unfortunate.

@coldnuit

9 ай бұрын

Also my very first game I messed up, and I thought if you bribe the barbarians, you also discard them. So I did just that, and won super easily. I thought i was a genius!!! hahahah

Great playthrough, and excellent editing! I don't solo game too much, having only Final Girl and Palm Island. This looks like a ton of fun!

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Sean!

Merci beaucoup ! 😊

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

De rien!

Bought the game two ago. Still haven't beat it. :-)

A Garphill game optimized for solo play with a dope theme? Ya kidding me? This is basically an auto-buy for me

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Take my monies

bravo!... nice video... in the last round, if you had spent the necessary resources to resist the attack of barbarians instead of trying to defeat them, you would have won I'm sure 😉

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

You might be right!

don't you get the resources in the red flag as well, if you dismiss townsfolk? or do you need to dismiss them from hand to get this many things? :) looks really fantastic!

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

If you dismiss them from the row on top of the board you just get what is it in the top then or not the red. Those come from discarding from your hand to the discard pile

Just for solo is an automatic buy.

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

yup!

I wish Gamehaus (in the opening) was still around 😢

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Yeah...it's a bummer. We're keeping the name of this series the same as an homage to them

@hermesnoel

Жыл бұрын

That is exactly my first thought too. RIP Gamehaus. Wish I had gone one last time. Stupid pandemic.

@syklonic

Жыл бұрын

@@hermesnoel apparently it wasn't pandemic related - it was due to a sale to a different board game cafe company that fell through after the founders retired. In any case I wish I'd gone one last time too, it was where I started playing modern board games back when it opened.

@hermesnoel

Жыл бұрын

@@syklonic I just meant I was not able to visit one last time because of the pandemic. Regardless, it is a bummer. I introduced a lot of buddies to the hobby there and tried out a lot of games I later bought. It is wild a city the size of LA doesn't have more venues like that. I guess commercial real estate here is just too bananas right now.

I’m usually sceptical about solo only games… buuuut I tell ya… Stick Shem on a box and you got a GAME!

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Thems is facts!

This game clearly ramps up in a good way. I was find it a bit bland from the first half, but things get intense at the end! Legacy of Yu was already on my radar, and it will stick to it after this playthrough. Thanks! EDIT: I erased my question because I realized I mixed stuff ^^'

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

The canal cards don’t have anything they provide on the back it’ll all be listed on The front. Perhaps you’re referring to Huts? Cards With the green buildings. If I didn’t flip any of those to look then yes that’d be something I missed.

@m-sousa

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBrothersMurph You were quick to respond xD I just realized I indeed mixed the Canal with the Hut cards. Those are the ones you need to check the back and I think you did it properly. I guess the tension at the end got me confused

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

There was just so much happening there! I mean I could barely keep up myself and I was the dude sitting there

@m-sousa

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBrothersMurph ahahah I can totally understand you. It was tough!

Probably missing something but in the last round when you suffered attacks why couldn’t you use your last laborer to bribe one of the barbarians and the three shells for a clay/wood to bribe one of the others?

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

In short, I probably could have but I’m bad at board games

btw, I hope they'll adapt the colors of archers, on the cards they're yellow, and their meeples are orange.. 😕

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

They read as pretty yellow to me but perhaps with the contrast in our video they present as more orange?

Not sure but I think you could have won in the last round if you stopped earlier and just bribed them instead of trying to fight them. But I enjoyed the playthrough looks like a game I will buy.

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

That is absolutely possible I’ll have to go back and look at all my resources and such! I forget sometimes that paying the baddies off might just be the best course of action haha

@ian_forbes

Жыл бұрын

Yup, could have bribed the last 4 Barbarians (left to right) via trading 3 shells for a brick/wood, you had a white worker, using black worker for a yellow, using black/red worker for the other brick/wood.

@garphillgames

Жыл бұрын

Na, Mike was right. As he mentioned at that point in the video, he needed to remove all but 2 of the Barbarians to survive, since 4 more were going to be added (you have to finish out the round to win).

Instabuy for sure!

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Heck yeah!

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

yussssssssss

I’m trying to understand the mechanics: At about 46 minutes you spend 3 workers to defeat a barbarian. Shouldn’t you have placed a worker in your spot at the bottom that gives another worker in order to use that one to defeat the barbarian but still get the placed worker back next round? Is that how it works?

@marcojean6578

Жыл бұрын

Ok, I see you used that spot to get a worker for the next round the next minute so, that’s what I thought!

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Yup you got it!

The second-turn could have been better but other than that it was all played well... But nonetheless good try and keep up with the great content.

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Will do!

Oh, it's just like 'Friday' by Friedemann Friese! Only: Garphill... (right?)

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Slightly less green than FF’s games too

Drinking game: Take a sip every time you hear "Uuummmm!" 👌🍷🍷🍷🤣

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

You will die if you try lol

Thanks for the clear play-through, but could you try to say “UUUMMM” less often? It’s pretty distracting.

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

Hahahahahaha that’s probably not gonna happen sorry

This was so good! You were one resource short of victory. 3 🐚 = 🪵 or clay. You had 1 laborer. You needed another wood/clay to bribe everyone. 😩😩😩This game looks so good. I vowed not to add to my Kickstarter list until I receive a game IRL😂 but this is on my check it out as soon as it comes to retail list. Thanks for sharing this play through. Garphill Games never disappoints.

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

I knowwww I was so close but no matter what I did I just came up short. Oh well still so fun!

I just got this in the mail the other day! I have read the rule book and watched this video and one or two others to help solidify rules. Thanks Mike, for this awesome, spoiler free run through! As always, you guys rock👊 tomorrow will be time, to outrun the flood! 🌊🚣‍♂️

@TheBrothersMurph

Жыл бұрын

So happy to hear the video was helpful and happy playing we hope you enjoy!

@jjrathkamp9021

Жыл бұрын

Thought I was doing great with only two more canals to build and a couple spaces ahead of the flood. Built my deck up a lot to try to keep the flood at bay. Then I ran into worker production problems to keep up with getting rid of Barbarians. I had all workers equal to each other except Archers, and of course the Barbarians I could afford to get to required two archers and I only had one. (Warning: SPOILERS) The barbarians I defeated, |one made me destroy two cards and the other didn’t go down, caused another barbarian to come back in it’s place.| This led to me not being able to defeat 3, with the amount of workers I had, and that’s how I got overrun with Barbarians. I had such a blast though and can’t wait to play this more and more!