Do sympathy tokens get removed from the map when crafting with the Alliance?
@IvoCunha2 күн бұрын
Does control of a clearing count only the number of warriors or buildings and tokens like wood and the keep also count?
@IvoCunha2 күн бұрын
Does crafting as Blue faction mean we remove the roosts from the board?
@yebs68362 күн бұрын
Hey RTFM! Names Gortash! Everytime me and my friends play dead of winter we always watch your video. Thanks for having our back you baked bean!
@patrickvalo88223 күн бұрын
So to recap the only way i get weapon upgrades is if i draw the monster loot card and then take it to a story shop? That is the only way?
@jennb15903 күн бұрын
This is my favorite game and this video is my favorite way to introduce it to new players. Every time I host Spirit Island game nights I include a link to this video in the description.
@harrywagstaff63314 күн бұрын
Nice video, really looking forward to getting this to the table now that the new Kickstarter stuff has arrived!
@lancejarvis2615 күн бұрын
Love your videos
@TonyTonyChopper196 күн бұрын
W guide
@SileneDioica7 күн бұрын
Need more visual aids
@dawidjanik5457 күн бұрын
Are you going to cover the expansions if you get them?
@RTFM6 күн бұрын
To be honest, I don't even own the base game, so I don't imagine I'll be covering it any time soon. If my Patreon backers ask for it though, I might.
@sivraj011718 күн бұрын
when you discard a card for any reason do you have to place it face up?
@RTFM6 күн бұрын
Yes, discarded cards are placed face up.
@sivraj011716 күн бұрын
@@RTFM that’s what I though, I have someone I play with that doesn’t, any idea where it’s in the rules? So I can prove it to them
@RTFM6 күн бұрын
@@sivraj01171 page 12 under action cost it says that discarded cards are always placed face up.
@thesweeples32669 күн бұрын
The people giving you kudos should really watch a quality teach such as those provided by Gaming Rules! This was awful. Utter chaos.
@thesweeples32669 күн бұрын
This teach was chaos. You’ve GOT to introduce the moving parts first. Almost useless.
@anothername27309 күн бұрын
Very helpful, and I like your presentation style. I did notice that the player board says the Crossroads card is drawn by the player to the *right*, not the left.
@RTFM6 күн бұрын
Yeah, I posted a little correction about that in the description. An annotation used to pop up at that point, but KZread removed that functionality.
@FeelingBoardLetsPlay9 күн бұрын
I'm going to bring this back to my game group this week to celebrate the 45th Anniversary of Alien. Thanks for the refresher on the rules!
@RTFM6 күн бұрын
Happy to help!
@knutenathe632211 күн бұрын
I will absolutely @ you for ranking OS 5th (unforgivable) and Lower Decks, objectively the third best Star Trek show and the best Star Trek show currently on air, an unfathomably low 7th. Discovery and Enterprise are garbage tier, Voyager is just above them, in the salt mines. Then DS9, OS, Lower Decks, and TNG basically tie for 2nd.
@divesc750211 күн бұрын
15:35 how can you attack the nest?
@RTFM6 күн бұрын
You attack it the same way you'd attack an intruder, with any non-blank result counting as a hit. There's a little more, but it's listed in detail on the room sheet under Nest.
@johnbertrand718512 күн бұрын
Again with the hair dude.
@MatZuvO13 күн бұрын
I'm getting a Fallout: The Board Game and a very basic Twilight Imperium vibe... I LOVE IT! Might give it a go, maybe in the future try it on tabletop, if not I'll get a physical copy ;)
@tophat59313 күн бұрын
Why the Australian impersonation at the beginning? You know it's set in England right? Excellent explanation though. 👍
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
Fun fact, an Australian accent and a REALLY bad Cockney accent sound kinda similar.
@tophat59313 күн бұрын
@@RTFM hehe. :) But it's set in the Black Country. Cockney is the wrong accent. Do your Australian accent but pretend to be an out of tune choir boy who's really sad because his voice has just broken. Google the accent, you'll see.
@albertoilmio616113 күн бұрын
Very good kind of content but I kindly ask you to take in consideration two little topics to enhance the quality because the overall experience result been not so good despite the effort you have invested: - it would be better to speak slower, because the concepts are many and people need a bit of time to follow you properly and understand at the same time what you are explaining. Creating this kind of contents is like having a small digital lesson... often stopping and going back to be sure to have understood the mechanics could become a bit frustrating - the sound quality is a bit metallic, most of all if you try to follow reducing the speed to 0.75 (while following at normal speed the problem is not perceivable. Hope you don't get offended... I shared this tow little issues because I like yours contents and hope it could help in improving the overall quality fo the great videos you provide us!
@Lapusso65015 күн бұрын
Why don’t people who make these ultra complicated boardgames just make their own videos for us to watch instead of expecting us to read the manual which no one wants to do..? they don’t realize that they’re making a lot less money because of that
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
Not sure if you were hoping for a serious answer to this question, but I am in a pretty good position to provide one. There are a few reasons that all come together to influence this kind of decision. First off, making tutorial videos is difficult, so a lot of the time when publishers make their own videos they're...not great. And that can be worse than not having a video at all. They sometimes hire people like me to make them, but we aren't cheap because, well like I said, these videos are hard to make. And then you have videos like this, which was asked for by my Patreon, so FFG didn't have to pay anything for it. Knowing that these kinds of videos get made, some publishers will just put out their game hoping that a tutorial will get made without their asking for one. Also some people do prefer reading manuals to watching videos, so it's not like these are a total prerequisite for a game being successful. So unfortunately, while it would be nice if every game came with a high quality tutorial for those who need it, it's probably not gonna happen for most of them.
@adrianor825915 күн бұрын
Ah! Last audio is mute. Thanks for your work Shea!
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
Yeah, there was a copyright issue with my old credits music, so I had to mute it. Thought I had the rights perpetually, but apparently not. Oh well.
@FabioBrachtPlus15 күн бұрын
14:50 - I know this has been mentioned before but ARE YOU KIDDING ME THAT WAS SICK! And funny as hell! You wouldn't believe how much I laughed at that, for real
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
😎
@lislgoesskateboard54715 күн бұрын
Perfectly explained - thanks a ton for that! 🤝🏻
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
Happy to help!
@Feldingor16 күн бұрын
At first I thought this was a guide to play a full game session in 30 minutes when it actually is a 30-minute teach 😅
@RTFM6 күн бұрын
Yeah, I've accidentally tricked a few people like that. Sorry!
@Noland5516 күн бұрын
Evil, very evil.
@Warchoon17 күн бұрын
Some tips for every side that I would give after over 10 plays: 1. Working Class - strike to your heart's consent in the early stages, always strike if wages are ever at 'low'; don't let the cash pile up, spend it as fast as you can on prosperity - prosperity early is way cheaper, and it will build a base for the late game. High immigration is a silent but steady killer - if you let it run rampant for 2-3 rounds, you will have to feed more people and improving prosperity will be much tougher; only accept high immigration if both the Capitalist builds 11+ companies AND the government has 9 companies, that could help with cash flow. 2. Middle Class - it is fairly easy to build an engine of several high-yield companies with 2 of your workers and every round go for Extra shift. This will yield enough materials to increase prosperity "free of charge", and almost unstoppable by other players. Your Extra shifts are free and you can always sell the excess on the foreign market for extra points. 3. Capitalist - first two rounds you need to build companies like crazy, preferably taking on 2-3 loans to fund it (you can't take loans voluntarily, but can manipulate your revenue to go bust during production and taxation) - even if you would have to pay interest on loans for the whole game, it's worth it. Make a deal with the Working Class to help them with policies 4A & 5A in exchange for them helping to get 3C - taxation at 1% is paramount, if you can manage that it's to your advantage. You can live with 2B and even 2A if 3C is in effect. 6A is good, but not more of a bonus, the bulk of your income comes from selling on foreign markets. 4. Government - always react to both objectives; sometimes they ask you to provide stuff, that is potentially an extra point, these points really do add up over the course of the game. If your cards allow it, aggressively look for class legitimacy tokens in the first 3 rounds, these help immensely with legitimacy offset at the end of the round. Your second goal is to avoid IMF, especially in the last rounds - push for higher taxes if you see your coffers running dry, IMF really screws you over; it's a bit more of a gamble with optional IMF cards from expansion, but it's easier to just avoid it. IMF in round 1 is not as impactful, but in round 5 it's basically game over. As a side note, white objective deck gives you a bit more control, but a bit less points as they don't have "provide" mechanic - it's easier to maintain equal legitimacy with a white deck, but harder to score points.
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
Great tips!
@SaniFakhouri18 күн бұрын
When playing as the Working Class and Middle Class, one thing to be really cautious about is your Free Actions. The game's 5 rounds long, with each round consisting of 5 actions. This means you have 25 Actions for the whole game, as well as 25 Free Actions to boot. Since one of the most important scoring Free Actions is increasing your Prosperity, you have to be very mindful of setting your class up with the necessary resources to be able to continuously use them to up your Prosperity. You're doing well if you're able to always use those Free Actions! Also, a higher population makes it MUCH MORE DIFFICULT to increase your Prosperity. Any "Emigration" cards you pick up are worth their weight in gold, since they potentially allow you to drop your population below a certain threshold, possibly decreasing the amount of resources you need to up your Prosperity! For the State, keep the Free Actions of other players in mind when you put Benefits out from your Events. A player who has a bunch of resources may neglect picking up those extra State Benefits with their limited Free Actions (and deny you getting a point from them doing so!). Try to complete Events early in the round so that other players may figure out how to grab those Benefits as part of their whole Round (or, alternatively, if a player is doing too well, finish those Benefits later in the round to overload the use of their Free Actions on their turns!).
@jwfcp18 күн бұрын
The best thing about hegemony is that the theming is so good that people can't help but roleplay their class, even to their own detriment.
@SnarkyComments18 күн бұрын
Great game
@UheReasin18 күн бұрын
Wow I'm early. 0:00
@Ambitosis18 күн бұрын
This game got recommended to me more than once in the last week alone, I'm definitely going to give it a try.
@Music4LifeGL11719 күн бұрын
Great video, Shea! I did have one question; at 34:33 (and again at 41:40), you mention that the State player earns a VP for making a sale of Health/Education if the corresponding policies are in 'either section A or B'. However, as best as I can determine, it seems like the VP bonus is only applied while the relevant policy is in section 'B', and if a policy changes to section 'A', the reward of legitimacy per every 3 sold is in lieu of the VP reward. Am I missing something? I really did try to dig through these comments and BGG before posting, you do such a thorough job on this stuff. Thanks!
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
Hmm, yeah that does seem to be the way now that I'm looking back on it. It's probably a mistake on my part and the publishers just missed it when they double checked the video, but I've sent your question to them just in case I got it from some FAQ or something and forgot. If they say you're right about it, I'll make sure to add a note. Thanks!
@Mikecrimson3022 күн бұрын
Unsure if mentioned, but for the intruder weaknesses each card has a corresponding token for it, meaning you set 1 egg 1 intruder carcass and 1 character corpse which all correspond to a different weakness once discovered (P21)
@clearyourthirdeye23 күн бұрын
Thanks, this is very helpful!
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
Glad I could help!
@MaximumImpactGames24 күн бұрын
At 20:05, you have a court with a British and Afghan partisan, is this a mistake, or is there a way to get cards of different affiliations into your court that doesn't require playing them from your own hand?
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
It's a mistake. There's a note about it in the description.
@felipefigueira968924 күн бұрын
Glad to see that Sam Altman stoped to teach how to play boardgames and focused on AI.
@Jorn2u25 күн бұрын
13:23 wait what. Companies produce and pay wages even if the workers are not committed?
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
Yeah, committing workers isn't necessary for the company to function, it just locks them in so they can't leave or get kicked out for the rest of the round.
@Jorn2u25 күн бұрын
10:11 How do you commit workers, when al of the available companies already have uncommitted workers?
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
At the start of the game, there will be companies that don't have any workers in them, so you can fill those slots. If all the slots are filled with workers, committed or non, you can't send yours to them.
@zhengyang926525 күн бұрын
can torpedo go back wards?
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
Yeah, the torpedo can move away from you in any direction.
@auroreinara732225 күн бұрын
Great teach, and I enjoyed the poetry.
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@kingpietro127927 күн бұрын
sorry but i hate this mechanic in dead of winter. I think dead of winter palys better for a co-op game and players with their own ojbectives. i hate this because like you said its so easy to lose moral that you can use so many options just to tank the moral at one turn its just not fun at all. so you can use just a simple turn to lose moral like hey lets move my character from the non collony to the collony and hope i get bit !!!
@SadullahMBag28 күн бұрын
seriously, i don't understand advanced mode at all. i don't know how to figure it out, but it's very complicated. also, when you explain, i don't understand why you do certain things. for example, i don't understand why you move the PB card up at 7:56, or why you move the BC card away at 8:05, or none of the policy actions you do from 8:55 on. it's literally a mess. i'm not saying it's you, it's the complexity of the game.
@boardgameaddiction708128 күн бұрын
As the old saying goes, "Common sense ain't common." My biggest problem when teaching games to my group is when players decide to have too many side conversations, then decide the rules teach is taking too long and say "let's just start playing", then later say "I didn't know that!" To which I usually reply, "I said it 3 times and told you it was important." The players who were listening proceed to nod their heads in agreement.
@johnbertrand718529 күн бұрын
Seriously, did you lose one of these games and you now have to wear your hair like that?
@Warchoon29 күн бұрын
Sadly, this expansion has been a huge letdown for our group. We've waited for it for over a year only to get a small "Prelude"-style expansion. New factions are at least interesting and fresh, leaders are just ok but not great (they are pretty situational and are simply small bonuses, not game-changing additions), but everything else was very lackluster: too few new techs, and those that were added, don't really feel any different at all, just a little variation on the techs we already had, almost no new rules or game systems (apart from Leaders), almost no new events, no variable tree paths... nothing. I mean, there are under 20 cards to add to the base game, apart from leaders, and most of them won't even be seen in a game. And the solo mode was just a slap in the face with "Oh you got all these new factions and leaders in this box? Nope, can't use them with this all-new solo mode, just your basic stuff, or it breaks!" - and the publisher was even lazy enough to not add solo-only techs as replacement, or at least a card with tech change reminder. After a stellar appearance of the base game, the expansion really felt like a cash grab, especially as its price is almost 50% of the base game ($40 RRC vs $85 RRC for the base). It felt like a couple of separate mini-expansions in the box, and shouldn't have been priced at over $20-25, there is just no content inside to warrant the price tag.
@Jorn2u29 күн бұрын
Curious to hear which expansion modules you like best, or which work best in your opinion
@RTFM13 күн бұрын
Haven't played with them much, to be honest, but I like the different IMF interventions a lot.
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My boyfriend is making me watch this video😭
Do sympathy tokens get removed from the map when crafting with the Alliance?
Does control of a clearing count only the number of warriors or buildings and tokens like wood and the keep also count?
Does crafting as Blue faction mean we remove the roosts from the board?
Hey RTFM! Names Gortash! Everytime me and my friends play dead of winter we always watch your video. Thanks for having our back you baked bean!
So to recap the only way i get weapon upgrades is if i draw the monster loot card and then take it to a story shop? That is the only way?
This is my favorite game and this video is my favorite way to introduce it to new players. Every time I host Spirit Island game nights I include a link to this video in the description.
Nice video, really looking forward to getting this to the table now that the new Kickstarter stuff has arrived!
Love your videos
W guide
Need more visual aids
Are you going to cover the expansions if you get them?
To be honest, I don't even own the base game, so I don't imagine I'll be covering it any time soon. If my Patreon backers ask for it though, I might.
when you discard a card for any reason do you have to place it face up?
Yes, discarded cards are placed face up.
@@RTFM that’s what I though, I have someone I play with that doesn’t, any idea where it’s in the rules? So I can prove it to them
@@sivraj01171 page 12 under action cost it says that discarded cards are always placed face up.
The people giving you kudos should really watch a quality teach such as those provided by Gaming Rules! This was awful. Utter chaos.
This teach was chaos. You’ve GOT to introduce the moving parts first. Almost useless.
Very helpful, and I like your presentation style. I did notice that the player board says the Crossroads card is drawn by the player to the *right*, not the left.
Yeah, I posted a little correction about that in the description. An annotation used to pop up at that point, but KZread removed that functionality.
I'm going to bring this back to my game group this week to celebrate the 45th Anniversary of Alien. Thanks for the refresher on the rules!
Happy to help!
I will absolutely @ you for ranking OS 5th (unforgivable) and Lower Decks, objectively the third best Star Trek show and the best Star Trek show currently on air, an unfathomably low 7th. Discovery and Enterprise are garbage tier, Voyager is just above them, in the salt mines. Then DS9, OS, Lower Decks, and TNG basically tie for 2nd.
15:35 how can you attack the nest?
You attack it the same way you'd attack an intruder, with any non-blank result counting as a hit. There's a little more, but it's listed in detail on the room sheet under Nest.
Again with the hair dude.
I'm getting a Fallout: The Board Game and a very basic Twilight Imperium vibe... I LOVE IT! Might give it a go, maybe in the future try it on tabletop, if not I'll get a physical copy ;)
Why the Australian impersonation at the beginning? You know it's set in England right? Excellent explanation though. 👍
Fun fact, an Australian accent and a REALLY bad Cockney accent sound kinda similar.
@@RTFM hehe. :) But it's set in the Black Country. Cockney is the wrong accent. Do your Australian accent but pretend to be an out of tune choir boy who's really sad because his voice has just broken. Google the accent, you'll see.
Very good kind of content but I kindly ask you to take in consideration two little topics to enhance the quality because the overall experience result been not so good despite the effort you have invested: - it would be better to speak slower, because the concepts are many and people need a bit of time to follow you properly and understand at the same time what you are explaining. Creating this kind of contents is like having a small digital lesson... often stopping and going back to be sure to have understood the mechanics could become a bit frustrating - the sound quality is a bit metallic, most of all if you try to follow reducing the speed to 0.75 (while following at normal speed the problem is not perceivable. Hope you don't get offended... I shared this tow little issues because I like yours contents and hope it could help in improving the overall quality fo the great videos you provide us!
Why don’t people who make these ultra complicated boardgames just make their own videos for us to watch instead of expecting us to read the manual which no one wants to do..? they don’t realize that they’re making a lot less money because of that
Not sure if you were hoping for a serious answer to this question, but I am in a pretty good position to provide one. There are a few reasons that all come together to influence this kind of decision. First off, making tutorial videos is difficult, so a lot of the time when publishers make their own videos they're...not great. And that can be worse than not having a video at all. They sometimes hire people like me to make them, but we aren't cheap because, well like I said, these videos are hard to make. And then you have videos like this, which was asked for by my Patreon, so FFG didn't have to pay anything for it. Knowing that these kinds of videos get made, some publishers will just put out their game hoping that a tutorial will get made without their asking for one. Also some people do prefer reading manuals to watching videos, so it's not like these are a total prerequisite for a game being successful. So unfortunately, while it would be nice if every game came with a high quality tutorial for those who need it, it's probably not gonna happen for most of them.
Ah! Last audio is mute. Thanks for your work Shea!
Yeah, there was a copyright issue with my old credits music, so I had to mute it. Thought I had the rights perpetually, but apparently not. Oh well.
14:50 - I know this has been mentioned before but ARE YOU KIDDING ME THAT WAS SICK! And funny as hell! You wouldn't believe how much I laughed at that, for real
😎
Perfectly explained - thanks a ton for that! 🤝🏻
Happy to help!
At first I thought this was a guide to play a full game session in 30 minutes when it actually is a 30-minute teach 😅
Yeah, I've accidentally tricked a few people like that. Sorry!
Evil, very evil.
Some tips for every side that I would give after over 10 plays: 1. Working Class - strike to your heart's consent in the early stages, always strike if wages are ever at 'low'; don't let the cash pile up, spend it as fast as you can on prosperity - prosperity early is way cheaper, and it will build a base for the late game. High immigration is a silent but steady killer - if you let it run rampant for 2-3 rounds, you will have to feed more people and improving prosperity will be much tougher; only accept high immigration if both the Capitalist builds 11+ companies AND the government has 9 companies, that could help with cash flow. 2. Middle Class - it is fairly easy to build an engine of several high-yield companies with 2 of your workers and every round go for Extra shift. This will yield enough materials to increase prosperity "free of charge", and almost unstoppable by other players. Your Extra shifts are free and you can always sell the excess on the foreign market for extra points. 3. Capitalist - first two rounds you need to build companies like crazy, preferably taking on 2-3 loans to fund it (you can't take loans voluntarily, but can manipulate your revenue to go bust during production and taxation) - even if you would have to pay interest on loans for the whole game, it's worth it. Make a deal with the Working Class to help them with policies 4A & 5A in exchange for them helping to get 3C - taxation at 1% is paramount, if you can manage that it's to your advantage. You can live with 2B and even 2A if 3C is in effect. 6A is good, but not more of a bonus, the bulk of your income comes from selling on foreign markets. 4. Government - always react to both objectives; sometimes they ask you to provide stuff, that is potentially an extra point, these points really do add up over the course of the game. If your cards allow it, aggressively look for class legitimacy tokens in the first 3 rounds, these help immensely with legitimacy offset at the end of the round. Your second goal is to avoid IMF, especially in the last rounds - push for higher taxes if you see your coffers running dry, IMF really screws you over; it's a bit more of a gamble with optional IMF cards from expansion, but it's easier to just avoid it. IMF in round 1 is not as impactful, but in round 5 it's basically game over. As a side note, white objective deck gives you a bit more control, but a bit less points as they don't have "provide" mechanic - it's easier to maintain equal legitimacy with a white deck, but harder to score points.
Great tips!
When playing as the Working Class and Middle Class, one thing to be really cautious about is your Free Actions. The game's 5 rounds long, with each round consisting of 5 actions. This means you have 25 Actions for the whole game, as well as 25 Free Actions to boot. Since one of the most important scoring Free Actions is increasing your Prosperity, you have to be very mindful of setting your class up with the necessary resources to be able to continuously use them to up your Prosperity. You're doing well if you're able to always use those Free Actions! Also, a higher population makes it MUCH MORE DIFFICULT to increase your Prosperity. Any "Emigration" cards you pick up are worth their weight in gold, since they potentially allow you to drop your population below a certain threshold, possibly decreasing the amount of resources you need to up your Prosperity! For the State, keep the Free Actions of other players in mind when you put Benefits out from your Events. A player who has a bunch of resources may neglect picking up those extra State Benefits with their limited Free Actions (and deny you getting a point from them doing so!). Try to complete Events early in the round so that other players may figure out how to grab those Benefits as part of their whole Round (or, alternatively, if a player is doing too well, finish those Benefits later in the round to overload the use of their Free Actions on their turns!).
The best thing about hegemony is that the theming is so good that people can't help but roleplay their class, even to their own detriment.
Great game
Wow I'm early. 0:00
This game got recommended to me more than once in the last week alone, I'm definitely going to give it a try.
Great video, Shea! I did have one question; at 34:33 (and again at 41:40), you mention that the State player earns a VP for making a sale of Health/Education if the corresponding policies are in 'either section A or B'. However, as best as I can determine, it seems like the VP bonus is only applied while the relevant policy is in section 'B', and if a policy changes to section 'A', the reward of legitimacy per every 3 sold is in lieu of the VP reward. Am I missing something? I really did try to dig through these comments and BGG before posting, you do such a thorough job on this stuff. Thanks!
Hmm, yeah that does seem to be the way now that I'm looking back on it. It's probably a mistake on my part and the publishers just missed it when they double checked the video, but I've sent your question to them just in case I got it from some FAQ or something and forgot. If they say you're right about it, I'll make sure to add a note. Thanks!
Unsure if mentioned, but for the intruder weaknesses each card has a corresponding token for it, meaning you set 1 egg 1 intruder carcass and 1 character corpse which all correspond to a different weakness once discovered (P21)
Thanks, this is very helpful!
Glad I could help!
At 20:05, you have a court with a British and Afghan partisan, is this a mistake, or is there a way to get cards of different affiliations into your court that doesn't require playing them from your own hand?
It's a mistake. There's a note about it in the description.
Glad to see that Sam Altman stoped to teach how to play boardgames and focused on AI.
13:23 wait what. Companies produce and pay wages even if the workers are not committed?
Yeah, committing workers isn't necessary for the company to function, it just locks them in so they can't leave or get kicked out for the rest of the round.
10:11 How do you commit workers, when al of the available companies already have uncommitted workers?
At the start of the game, there will be companies that don't have any workers in them, so you can fill those slots. If all the slots are filled with workers, committed or non, you can't send yours to them.
can torpedo go back wards?
Yeah, the torpedo can move away from you in any direction.
Great teach, and I enjoyed the poetry.
Thanks!
sorry but i hate this mechanic in dead of winter. I think dead of winter palys better for a co-op game and players with their own ojbectives. i hate this because like you said its so easy to lose moral that you can use so many options just to tank the moral at one turn its just not fun at all. so you can use just a simple turn to lose moral like hey lets move my character from the non collony to the collony and hope i get bit !!!
seriously, i don't understand advanced mode at all. i don't know how to figure it out, but it's very complicated. also, when you explain, i don't understand why you do certain things. for example, i don't understand why you move the PB card up at 7:56, or why you move the BC card away at 8:05, or none of the policy actions you do from 8:55 on. it's literally a mess. i'm not saying it's you, it's the complexity of the game.
As the old saying goes, "Common sense ain't common." My biggest problem when teaching games to my group is when players decide to have too many side conversations, then decide the rules teach is taking too long and say "let's just start playing", then later say "I didn't know that!" To which I usually reply, "I said it 3 times and told you it was important." The players who were listening proceed to nod their heads in agreement.
Seriously, did you lose one of these games and you now have to wear your hair like that?
Sadly, this expansion has been a huge letdown for our group. We've waited for it for over a year only to get a small "Prelude"-style expansion. New factions are at least interesting and fresh, leaders are just ok but not great (they are pretty situational and are simply small bonuses, not game-changing additions), but everything else was very lackluster: too few new techs, and those that were added, don't really feel any different at all, just a little variation on the techs we already had, almost no new rules or game systems (apart from Leaders), almost no new events, no variable tree paths... nothing. I mean, there are under 20 cards to add to the base game, apart from leaders, and most of them won't even be seen in a game. And the solo mode was just a slap in the face with "Oh you got all these new factions and leaders in this box? Nope, can't use them with this all-new solo mode, just your basic stuff, or it breaks!" - and the publisher was even lazy enough to not add solo-only techs as replacement, or at least a card with tech change reminder. After a stellar appearance of the base game, the expansion really felt like a cash grab, especially as its price is almost 50% of the base game ($40 RRC vs $85 RRC for the base). It felt like a couple of separate mini-expansions in the box, and shouldn't have been priced at over $20-25, there is just no content inside to warrant the price tag.
Curious to hear which expansion modules you like best, or which work best in your opinion
Haven't played with them much, to be honest, but I like the different IMF interventions a lot.