Great video Paul!

Great video! Whenever I get a new heavier game I always pray that he's made a video tutorial. He presents the rules clearly and succinctly. No wasted time, just rules and examples presented perfectly. Thanks!

Just revisited this video. Paul, I gotta say - you did it. As you always do... great teach. Your videos are super easy to follow, always well done. Just awesome. Thank you!

Another extremely good and helpful explanation. Thank you so much for also including the 2 player rules as well.

Watched your clear and concise video today and played the game straight afterwards with no issues - cheers Paul!

However, watching this game again has reignited my passion , and made me appreciate some of the better moments of this incredible game.

We would have been lost without this video. Thank you. We usually have no problem learning from the rule book but we found this one impenetrable. Really enjoy the game as well. Cheers

Thank you for making such a wonderful tutorial! I really enjoy your videos 👍

I love Ian O'Tooles artwork in games, so that alone makes this an instant buy for me.

Unbelievable good tutorial. Thank you so much!

Thanks for this great video. Sharing with my group for our next play.

Lots going on. Love it.

Wow. This looks amazing!

Great video Paul, thank you!

Excellent as always Paul. Just watching before you do the solo play-through.

Excellent video!

Amazing work! 👍

Game looks super solid! Going to preorder now.

Top notch work!

Such a clear explanation, nice one Paul :)

Thank you. First video of yours I've watched. The usual suspects were lacking detail, or I grit my teeth through their usual shenanigans until I had to stop. Subbed!

Thanks for this. Just bought the game and now I'm off to watch the solo playthrough.

I love your How to Play videos!

Thanks!!! I am confused about soldier rule. Example in video is technically not FULLY procteted. Rather partially protected by one wall only.

Excellent tutorial! Game looks great: pretty, interactive and thematic, something you dont see in all euros. One to keep an eye on for sure

Hi, Paul, such a great tutorial video. It really helps me a lot. A question needs to be clarified. In 13:24, if I want to buy a rare good (in Kashgar ), it seems to put just one camel between the inner city and outer city (Samarkand - Kashgar) since I placed a trading post (a disk) in Samarkand already. Or I can buy the rare good in Kashgar by putting 2 camels on the routes between the inner city and outer city ( Merv ->Samarkand ->Kashgar), if I don’t have the trading post in Samarkand. Referring to rule book page 12 - Buy Goods and the example as following. Thanks, Paul

Great video. A lot of useful information in just 20 minutes. The rulebook of Merv is rather poor, so I really needed this video. As I will be playing mainly solo, do you have any idea when your solo-video will be released? Thanks.

Thanks for the excellent video! Got a stupid question though; what do these coloured cubes represent? They are resources, but thematically what are they? Money, silk or what? Can't find sth in the rulebook!

This game remind me gugong, Trajan, Istanbul all have mini game within main game.

Thank you for this helpful video. I’m puzzled about the marketplace though. It seems to me like it is significantly underpowered and that there are way too many of the resource pieces associated with the different outposts for a rule that says you can only have one of each. At the end of the game there’s always a large pile of marketplace resources while the other pieces are scarce. With this one resource per outpost rule, a player that focuses on the marketplace can only fulfill two of the higher 3 level contracts and two of the lower level ones that require more scrolls. It seems to me like either the higher level contracts should maintain the scroll requirement (especially since you can get as many of these as you like) or a player should be able to activate any and all outposts he has on the marketplace to gain more of that resource to fulfill contracts as long as he pays the required amount and type of cubes for each resource. This would balance out the relative strength of the marketplace, caravanasary and mosque tracks. As it stands with that one resource per outpost rule, the marketplace is relegated to being a secondary track that you use to top off your points after you’ve exhausted the mosque or caravanasary. I think the game would be a lot more fun with a third viable path to victory and that it would balance it out significantly. Any thoughts? Thanks again, Jonathan

Is it mentioned that you score 1 vp for each of your buildings in scoring phase

Hi, Paul, great video! I have a quick question about deploying a soldier... As you said in 7:38 you can't put soldiers when the building is already protected byt walls. But in the following example the builind were not fully protected, as the mongols attack from both sides. With that I wonder if it was possible to deploy soldiers on the blue 1,4 or both yellow at the forth row...

My OCD is triggered @1:43 . Shouldn't the Caravan cards be aligned with the shaded area underneath it? Great tutorial as usual.

What an elegant dummy player for the 2 player game

Rules Query: If you place a building on a site i.e. activate it, are you required to take the action of the site? Can you instead ignore the action and collect the cubes then deploy a soldier or gain favor?

This was really helpful! The Merv rulebook is not the greatest…

Why do the Cards on the Caravan not align with the slots on the board?

Looks interesting, but that overwhelming preparation process seems terrifying. And the board is overwhelmed with icons

Artwork looks amazing. Gameplay kinda meh. I'd have to try it. I haven't played an Ian o Toole game yet that I didn't like so maybe this will stay true.

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