Awesome tutorial. 1:55:30 you check the range of the e-Web and determine that it is 2 which is just "barely able" to hit Diala 2 blocks away. However note that E-Webs have +3 Accuracy always so range is actually 5. E-Webs are awesome for their range!

Great video. Although long, actually VERY long, this is far and the best tutorial I have seen for this game. It works through concepts and all kinds of additional stuff that can be a little confusing to the first time player. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

Watched a good few tutorials for this game. This is by far the best. Great job.

Thank you so much for this video. Wife and I have just order the game and this tutorial and mission really helps get to grips and understand the game while we wait for it to arrive.. as well as being exiting to watch: you deliver your words brilliantly and clearly. Again very much appreciated.

Thanks for making this! Very helpful walkthrough for someone brand new to the game, who will be playing as the imperials.

Nathan an absolutely brilliant video,so easy to understand.Thanks mate.3hrs,seemed like 30mins because it was so engrossing.10/10 dude

Amazing, I just played this game today with a friend, and we're still learning a few things here and there, but after watching this video, we're certainly ready to begin our first mission. Thanks, Nathan! Keep up the good work.

Really appreciate the videos. Just got this game as watched those tire video. Really helped to understand it clearly. Played first mission with wife and kids tonight. Had a blast thank you. Really helped save a lot of time. Very through and clear to understand.

You are amazing at teaching this game. I have played it many times as the rebels, but tomorrow is the first time I am playing as the Imperials. Your video helped so much. Thank you!

This video is fantastic!! I was a bit overwhelmed trying to figure out what agenda and class decks and all that were, but seeing it visually makes a lot more sense.

This is amazing. As a new player who is overwhelmed at the rules, I feel pretty comfortable after watching this.

@ChronoRadio

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to help. I wish I had time enough to create more videos like this one. This took a looooooong time back when we didn't have a toddler running around. :)

@travisjansen7413

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChronoRadio I have three of my own. I barely had time to watch a 3 hour video let alone build one, so much appreciated. I'm using redjaks solo variant and without this I wouldn't have been able to understand that either.

Thank you! I bought this game months ago, and was kind of overwhelmed by learning it so it went on the shelf. Until I found this video, its been key in my learning to play the game. Again thank you!

This is a really great tutorial. We play a lot of games, but we were pretty intimated by this one! Watched your video and I was ready to run my boys through a mission. Had a blast!

@ChronoRadio

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

So amazingly well explained!!!!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to resolve the first campaign. I think it's a great game. Waiting for the Spanish edition so I can play it with my daughter and friends. Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for making this. I just purchased my copy of Imperial Assault today and am a little intimidated to play the role of the Empire. This was very helpful and I feel I can better facilitate the game. Thank you!

Thank you for doing this. I was having a bear of a time figuring out how to construct the campaign decks and this really helped. The video is long but not due to poor editing or wasted time. It doesn't drag or ramble at all. Well done!

Thanks for creating and posting this video. You did a great job of explaining everything!

This is exactly the video I've been looking for. Thanks so much

at 2:27:28 during Diala activation, she could spend 2 strains to move 2 squares (it's not an action) and reach a position next to the terminal and attack it twice (cause she always has 2 actions to do). I'm new to this kind of game, but your video is very helpful, cheers from Italy!

Dear Nathan, An excellent tutorial! I would have spent ages going through the manuals (Which I will do when the game arrives) This at least explains some of the rules, and I am getting very excited at the prospect of starting the campaign. Kind Regards Johnny

Hopefully getting this game for xmas, if not i'll be ordering it xmas day :D Although I will still read all the rulebooks, this video has given me an awesome headstart into figuring out the rules which we all know can take ages! Great video, took me 2 days to watch it all. Great job.

One of the very best game tutorials I've ever seen. FFG should pay you for this! I challenge you (actually beg you) to make a video tutorial for............Star Trek Frontiers.

Good tutorial ! I'm 1/3 of the way into it. Keep getting pulled away but man good editing ! Cheers

I actually watched a a 3 hour long KZread video... thankfully it was worth it. Great video, I feel like I have a good handle on the game and really look forward to playing.

@ChronoRadio

5 жыл бұрын

Corey C. I’m glad you found it helpful. I’d love to do more of these, but now that we have a baby in the house, recording anything is tough, let alone something as in-depth as this.

@coreyeatsdetroit9733

5 жыл бұрын

@@ChronoRadio congrats on having a baby the bud! Thanks again for taking the time to make the video.

I'm learning to play again and this has been the best video, sure there is the surge used twice, but as you said that info isn't in the the L2P book. Great work.

@ChronoRadio

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it's still helpful so long after it was recorded. :) I really want to get back into some app-based solo play or with the "Redjak's Automated Imperial Version" fan-made Imperial AI to go back through campaigns I never had time to finish.

Awesome video!!! Just got the game and thanks to you,I fully understand it now :) Great job!!

From what I understand about pierce, is that you ignore the block. Not that it negates a block and the damage. So the pierce of +1 would damage as a pass through to the target.

This is a fantastic tutorial video, thank you. This video has really helped me to get a better understanding of AI

Got the game yesterday and this helpen a lot thnx man !!!!

When the E-web engineer attacks Diala and she gets the second dodge spending a fatigue it's really what makes "Ameritrash" games so epic! I'm just watching someone else playing but I find myself also shouting "holy crap!" because of the narrative in the story! That wouldn't happen if I were watching a playthrough of, say, Agricola...

What an amazing video. Thank you so much. Excellent teacher!

Thank you so much for doing this. Great explanation and play through. This game is almost like Descent 2ed.

You made one mistake: From the Rules Reference Guide: "Each 'Surge'- ability can be triggered only once per attack." E.g. at 1:24:17 you spend all the surges for the +1 damage, but you are not allowed to do that.

@ChronoRadio

9 жыл бұрын

Interesting. The Learn to Play booklet entirely omits that when describing how Surges can be spent and the like. I wonder why they would ignore such an important element when first explaining how they work and chose to only put that in the RRG.

@TheWarmupLap

9 жыл бұрын

Nathan Butler Same thing happend to me. The Learn to Play booklet omits it so I missed the rule. It's in the rules reference guide as you said in your description. Really easy to miss!

@TyrboCreed

Жыл бұрын

>"Each 'Surge'- ability can be triggered only once per attack. But that means that he could choose only between 'Pierce', 'Damage' or 'Recover' ability. Spending all surge points to 'Damage' is correct.

At 1:48:00 when you bring in that new Imperial Officer I beleive you can only put him on the green deployment point as that is the only one active together with the red. The two yellow are actually not active spawn points just places where your E-Web can spawn. In other missions the campaign guide is usually very specific about saying that a spawn point is now active.

Thank you! Very clear and concise!

great now i have another game to buy this looks rad, also cant believe i sat through all of that

absolutely great video! thanks so much

Nice job. Thanks. I also made the surge mistake at the start.

Thx for this amazing info saved me alot of headache

You can only activate each surge ability once per attack. At around the hour mark you spent both of the Officer's surges on +damage,

Thank you for this. Really helpful.

Wow Nathan, epic video, so well done, you gave us a great understanding of all the rules concepts, it was both entertaining & educational! So thanks! Any chance you could do that side mission homecoming you had setup? Im eager to see vader in action!

Thanks for this, don't know what's wrong with me, I don't seem to retain information when reading rule books, if there wasn't videos like this I would never get to play :)

This is an awesome video! It explained so much to me when I got the game last Christmas. And now I'm having a blast with it. Are you still planning to do a demo of Skirmish mode?

Great tutorial. Thanks!

I found another mistake around 36:00. You can't apply a condition with an attack unless you deal damage. "The target of the attack must suffer one or more damage for the condition to apply"(Rules Reference Guide pg. 9).

I learned a lot from this. I still don't own the game, but I'm about to. What I've learned is, don't open the door. Of course if surge was used correctly some of this wouldn't have happened this way, but that's really FF's fault

great video!..all other videos teach you nothing...with this i know how to play now! thanx!!!

I was curious, you didnt use Mak's Pierce ability. For 1 strain? He could pierce which if I read right meant it would offset 2 blocks? So Mak could have taken out those terminals faster. Excellent tutorial!

you cant stack surges on the same attack you can only use one surge per type but nice video other wise

You sir are amazing!

Sorry for a question: For the first attack of Diala, although she got 2 "surge", but she couldn't deal any damage to the trooper finally. Could she still able to "Stun" the trooper? As the "Learn to play" book said on page 9, "As long as the target figure suffers at least 1 'damage' during the attack, that figure becomes 'Bleeding'(condition)." BTW, thanks for the video, it helps us a lot!!

Hi at 33.17 in video you state Dialla has to be adjacent to the character she is attacking. But I noticed on her weapon card she has "Reach", doesn't that allow her to attack at two spaces away or am I reading it wrong

Wow what a great video! I'm so late to this party but I'm hoping to get clarification on something. At 1:08 pierce would have been the better choice for the probe Droid since pierce ignores a block hence the hero would have taken 3 damage. Is this correct?

Tip 1:always have mak on your team he has two abilities where if he has them both he’s overpowered like when he gets hit he gets to go 6 spaces without using a movement

Excellent breakdown of this game. This video is a great resource! When you were doing the mission setup for Homecoming, you prepared the threat and round dial to 2 and 1 respectively. Is this accurate? Looking at the Learn to Play Guide (pg 10) under Prepare Threat and Round Dial: "The Imperial player set the threat dial to 0 and the round dial to 1". I believe the only time you increase Threat is through Special mission actions and during the Status Phase. Otherwise you begin with 0 Threat.

@ChronoRadio

9 жыл бұрын

For homecoming, the special setup has you set the initial threat icon counter to something like twice he current threat level on the campaign guide list, which the Imperial can spend during the whole setup process.

@Piddeism

9 жыл бұрын

Right, which gives you 4 threat because of that special setup. I don't think there should've been that initial 2 threat to start with though.

Few questions if you have time. 1. Can a hero attack and rest in the same activation? 2. Can either side move double if they don't attack etc?

first things first: thanx for the video :) :) clear useful and interesting :) second thing... Nathan I got the feeling the rebels were kind of underpowered... their weapons throw a minum amount of dice, and all those imperials shooting them would sooner or later crash them. Did it feel the same to you who were playing?

Good Job!!

Also s there are some restrictions for the imperial player when there are only two heroes playing. And one of them is that the use of Probe Droids is not allowed.

@ChronoRadio

8 жыл бұрын

+Nikola Kosmajac Any idea where those restrictions are found? I don't recall anything like that in the materials included with the game, so those might be post-release FAQ rulings from after this was made.

@kompaj

8 жыл бұрын

The info is in the "Learn to play guide" page three, or four. Enjoy playing this awesome game! :)

@ChronoRadio

8 жыл бұрын

+Nikola Kosmajac That is for the tutorial mission only, not for the game as a whole. This is not the tutorial mission, so that does not apply.

Great tutorial, but I thought the point of having 2 activations per Rebel player (in a game with only 2 Rebel characters ), was that the character could go twice before the Imperial player's turn, otherwise it's just like playing it normally. Admittedly, I haven't watched this video all the way through yet, so apologies if this is covered later on.

@ChronoRadio

9 жыл бұрын

You always alternate Rebel/Imperial activations, and you cannot do a second activation with a Rebel character until all other Rebels have done their first, so if you have two Rebels with two activations each, it's "Rebel 1 #1, Imperial activation, Rebel 2 #1, Imperial activation, Rebel 2 or 1 #2, Imperial Activation, remaining Rebel #2," then onward into just any remaining Imperial activations.

@fulcoboy

9 жыл бұрын

It's like Nathan says, you kinda emulate a 4 character game with 2 characters :)

Just a question, what is your box for sorting out the gear called? I've been looking for something like that. :D

hi nathan im thinking about buying IA ... but i wanna play only solo... are u using some variants to play solo or am I missing something? Cuz i dont see any kind of overlord deck like in descent... so is it possibly to play solo like u whole campaign? ty:)

You forgot the "reinforce and deploy" on this game, and increase threat and advance the round dial.

Holy Sith! (at 1:32:00) great job!

47:29 Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise

Why did you increase threat level x2 (to 4) and add 2 to it? Where does the extra 2 come from if the mission starts at 2 threat and you only double it? Where does the last 2 come from? I am tearing my hair over this.

do friendly characters block line of sight? thx

I'm confused about stun though. Why aren't you stunned both activity and movement?

hey so I'm kind of unsure of the number details on the dice. so at 43:52 you said that There is 1 surge and 1 damage on the green die. If thats so, then why is there a number 2? I thought that it meant there is 2 surges and 2 damages each on the green die.

@Jabbs

7 жыл бұрын

The number is for when you are working out accuracy.

you cant stunt any one antil you dont give him dameg so in first roll you didnt have any points of dameg so you cant stunt the trooper. true??

Regarding your comments on Dialla the "Reach" ability on her weapon card is not a surge action on my card, so your comment regarding the amount of times surge can be used per attack does not seem relevant unless I have missed something

Will you still be making a skirmish demo?

Nice job! MTFBWY

Does this game have an App like Descent road to legend?

@ChronoRadio

6 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, the only app tied into IA is just the Dice app.

@zachsmith8967

6 жыл бұрын

Nathan Butler Ok thanks

What case do you have there?

@ChronoRadio

4 жыл бұрын

Tahj Delk It’s a Plano model 732 tackle box. I use those for many of the games that I play. There’s a video on the channel where I show one of them in detail.

Can you add some subtitles? English is not my main language and I find it a little hard to understand some words when listening to them from people who have talked english their whole lives lol. That may also help other people with similar problems than mine.

u made few misteakes bro, #1 when u r moving on dificult terrain u pay normal cost of movement points, u need to pay twice only for entering dificult grund! #2 yellow deploy points are only for this crazy e-web, if you want to put oficer back to game u need to use red deploy point which is in storage room;)

@thebadges6046

7 жыл бұрын

#1 is incorrect, every space contained within the outline of difficult terrain is considered difficult terrain. The rule states "A figure must spend one additional movement point to enter a space containing difficult terrain". When you move from one space to the next you are exiting the current space and entering a new one, which means rules that affect moving into spaces apply. It would be silly if only the first step through icy rocks would be difficult when every step after is easy. #2 is correct, deployment zones other than green are activated by mission triggers and are only active during said trigger. Red are usually secondary deployment zones that stay active after a trigger has finished while yellow and blue are usually for specific figures at specific times. Sorry for the novel but the difficult terrain issue is very common and can be difficult to grasp because of the wording in the RRG.

You made 2 mistakes. 1) You do NOT get the Legendary Reward cards at the beginning of the Aftermath Mission. 2) You don't roll the Defense Die together with the Attack Die. Your Opponent rolls their Attack Die, and THEN you roll the Defense Die.

Great video. There is some confusion about the 'first time door is opened' by a rebel. The eWeb stormtrooper gets deployed and the one of the two occurs at the end of this turn. The door shuts again needing the rebel to destroy it, or the terminals all now have 7 health?

ffg sure loves its stupid custom dices.

37:00 can she use her surge to stun him twice?

@thebadges6046

7 жыл бұрын

No, conditions can only be applied once, including Focus.

God damn it. I enjoyed this video until you said "Can't see with the Ipad"... Holy shait. I already gave you a like so I guess its water under the bridge. No, I am joking. I am enjoying every second of the video (except that one).

The lack of gender appropriate character selection for all the classes especially the Jedi and Smuggler makes this an automatic no buy. Why would Fantasy Flight not include male character options for the two most popular roles in the movies except to milk the expansions? The character sheets should be double sided if they want to provide female roles for the token female board gamers out there. Board games need to come out of the 1970s and catch up to RPGs on the basics.

@lukemayhew6758

6 жыл бұрын

There are 6 playable chatacters in a game meant for four people! Not only that but we already have a male smuggler and jedi in the form of Luke and Han. Stop complaining!

this game looks really boring. why was it rated so high by boardgamegeek?