Awesome to hear my style worked so well for you, thanks for the kind words!

Thanks for the update Jon, has there been any other rules changes that you noticed since then? Love your tutorial and turn by turn explainations!

@@Renzuo77 No other changes have been pointed out to me.

@@JonGetsGames noted with thanks!

I agree about being a sucker for this type of game with asymmetries and unique abilities. Honestly I quite enjoyed playing this too, I just generally try to keep my opinion out of the actual video since this was sponsored content :)

The reason why I backed it

How donu even play this bro. How can u even understand lol

No, I mentioned at the start of the video that this uses a prototype version of the game.

I've never actually covered video games on this channel, these days I don't really play them anymore.

I didn't mean to intone that, you do the action first for sure.

until you roll 1s and fail turn upon turn. Tell me all about it later.

Sofoklis Kapriniotis what are ur specific reasons not to back If I may ask ?

The game may not be for you, but I'm not sure where your negativity is coming from. The mini's are honestly the least interesting, and least impactful part of the game. Many have played it and loved it, just like the designer's previous game, Energy Empire. For me, this game has everything I love in it. An interesting take on Worker Placement where engine building is built into their roles and the tableau you develop. Competition for score tracks, potential to interact on locations. Having to plan ahead to reach locations. Acquiring resources on the map, hand management. To me it feels like this game has it all.

Exactly, this game has it all. A little of everything, nothing to actually make me want to play it. Imho it tries too much to be everything and fails in almost every aspect. It has generic workers, and asymmetric powers, it has Dragons, because, well, it is Dragons, even for the rat people. It has gimmicky meeples that stay on top of the workers, it has gametrayz for very few items per player, it has a spell board, now where have I seen that before? and the list goes on. I am sure it will do great in the campaign, it is beautiful and the designer is obviously well liked from what I understand. And this is probably why my comments seem like an attack to a wonderful game, but honestly it's just me.

@@S.Kapriniotis Fair enough, I get some of your points. Personally I love and appreciate Game Trayz, even if they're not as necessary. There's a fair amount of setup here, The trays will help with that. The roofs on top of meeples do seem a bit silly looking, but I can see why they chose to do it, it takes up a worker so I'm sure it was a functional choice. Not sure what the issue with the spell board is, moving up tracks is in many games. For me, none of those things are what sold the game for me, in some cases they're a bit of icing on a cake. I do admit it seems overproduced. I would have been fine with meeple monsters, and less stuff in a smaller box for less money. To me, the game looks absolutely fun. It's a lot of Euro elements but framed around a more Dudes on a Map style area control mechanic where you're battling to attain locations. I think it's a really clever blend. I like that you can specialize in different strategies for both points and just dominating the board. Didn't see it quite as much in this video series, but in the Man vs Meeple one off, and from what I could watch of the Dice Tower, some people make use of their asymmetric workers, some find fun combos with cards allowing them to manipulate monsters to dominate the board, some use their faction abilities more to find ways to churn points. There's lots of point combos to be found, varied board setups, 16 unique races to play as, you really have to consider the other players with every action you take, I dig all of that. I'm pretty sure the game will be a hit for me. It is lighter than I first thought, and there's dice rolling combat, so I can see why it would turn off a lot of people. I'm excited though.

Same for me. Not really into dice combat anymore. Will probably look again at retail release, but have other things to spend this year’s money on.

I think I found it. It looks like when you slot a tile it stays in the slot until you decide to replace it.

I do try, believe it or not this is me talking much slower than I do in real life. Sorry it's been an issue, it's something I'm continuing to work on.

At this point I haven't heard anything from the publisher. Have there been rules changes that you know of?

@@JonGetsGames they aren't much rule changes. Just some additional rules due to the additional modules added in.

It does seem lighter than I first thought. More fine for me as I prefer medium weight Euros. The player interaction is what really sells it for me and makes it special. Competition for spaces for abilities, combat to get up the war track, race to get up the magic tracks, even competition in how spell cards are discarded. It seems like fun to me, but yeah, not for everyone.

You aren't the first to mention this, and I have been actively trying to do this over the years. My natural speech speed is quicker than you see here so it's a constant battle for me, unfortunately. Sorry this has been an issue for you.

@@JonGetsGames Don't be sorry, it's my problem if my brain doesn't go as fast as your speech :) Maybe with practice, it will be easier to understand fast speeches

one trick is to watch the video at 1.25 or 1.5 speed in the 1 /2 minutes, then slow it down to normal speed, then you can trick your mind and find his speed much slower. XD

Actually I watch your videos because of your speech speed! Others are way too slow. I have the same problem so I guess I relate lol

My gaming group felt the same way about "Rise of Tribes", one of Breaking Games previous releases. The ideas are solid, but we all wanted it to be more where it wasn't and less where it was (if that makes any sense lol). Developers are crucial now. You need someone who says, "This isn't good enough, try again," over and over.

Yeah, seems like a bloated mess of mechanisms.

I think It’s great for me-The only thing that’s a bit unnecessary is the sound effect thingies. I dislike games that are too “streamlined”-excessive bloat to me means additional content, often stretch goals, that add lots of miniatures and such that ultimately don’t add much to gameplay. This to me looks like a game that has all the expansions built right in. Instead of starting with a more basic worker placement and coming out with endless expansions to fix the original design. I respect your opinion and I’m totally glad their is a diversity of tastes out there, but sometimes “Tighter” games end up having the same openings or, especially in coops, feel more like a puzzle than a game. I’m not saying I dislike some streamlined games, I own plenty, but I can totally see how the marketing of this game made it seem more streamlined by saying a player has ‘only 2 choices: put out a worker or pull them all back’. well, there’s a lot more ‘unofficial turn actions’. Out of curiosity, if you were in the mood for a worker placement of this nature (not necessarily the same theme), what would you suggest our hypothetical group play instead? There’s no wrong answers, just preferences. Also great job explaining the game-I like your cadence and calm delivery as you explain this rather detail game thoroughly. Although I know everyone wants a faster video, I appreciate you didn’t skip much, but instead offered watchers timestamped buttons to skip ahead to the relevant part of the game they may be trying to get more detail on. Cheers to all!