Known Errors: At 42:25 Duke put Leatherneck into his hand with his ability but you can only do that with a G.I (starting Joe) NOT any Joe character!

The basic Joes trashing themselves after a mission is a nice twist. It does seem like it can snowball a bit, although preventing that seems like part of the strategy.

This game looks really fun and true to the IP (which was one of my favorites as a kid). Thanks for the video.

"Shadow Storm".... atrocity! :P

Oh yes!! The playthrough I've been waiting for, hehehe! Great work, Colin!

Thanks. I am not a regular gamer so your videos are a must. I don't know if my reading comprehension is bad but I missed a lot from just reading their rules.

I loved every play so far!!!

Great video and much easier to learn then the rulebook. Thank you and Go Joe :P

really great to see this played out. This is a top show from my childhood and this looks amazing! i had already picked it up but thought i couldn't use my spent joes as purchasing power so it was kicking my butt.... but now i know... and knowing is half the battle ;)

Recently bought and started playing this game. Really digging it.

Great playthrough, Colin! I'm surprised --> this game actually looks really fun :-)

This is a great game once you get passes the sloppy rule book. Love it solo, just oozes adventure and theme.

wow really loved your playthrough im gonna get this game :D

I'm only halfway through watching right now but wow is your dice rolling really making it look easy. When we played last weekend I could only roll misses. In one of my attempts I rolled 10 dice with all being misses (1/1024 chance there) on one of our important story missions. Needless to say, we lost. I'm worried that the failure results on story missions are too punishing if you happen to have bad dice luck. In Venom Assault, there's no penalty other than a wasted round if you roll terribly, very different than the huge swing from success to failure on story missions in this game. I also like that in VA you can lower enemy defense down (once you have good rewards and/or supports) so that every die succeeds on 1s or 2s to really overcome the randomness. There's no way to do that here as each die is always 50% miss. There are a few ways to add auto-successes but in general you'll always be at the mercy of fickle 50% dice. I think I would have preferred if each die had 4 hits sides with no double hit side. The expected value per die would be the same but the variance would be greatly reduced.

Excited for my copy to come in! I've heard that VA has better card play, but after watching a playthrough of both games, this one seems more "on theme" and a better "GI Joe Experience" not to mention this is loads easier to find in stock now.

What? It exists? I want it! I want it all and I want it know!

wow - those rolls!! If I could roll even half that good

I just got my preordered copy in and sleeved everything and built my 3D hangar, I’m excited to play now after watching your play through. Question for you. What is your opinion on playing 2 handed over playing the solo version? Is playing 2 handed pretty much always preferred over solo for you? Thanks for the great video as always.

Love the video. Thank you. One question. At around the 35:39 mark. How do you determine the extra two recruit for scarlett for the 9 total. I may have missed that in the rules.

Nice playthrough and decisive victory! Now add in the Expert Mode cards. :) !!!

At about the 42:25 mark you use Duke to put Leatherneck into your hand, but I don't think it works that way. He specifies you can put a "GI" into your hand, but Leatherneck is a "Joe" not a "GI". I could be wrong though

Still waiting for this game to come to Europe. Seeing this video it is hard to wait.

Great stuff thanks Colin! Looks fun even though I've never seen GI Joe. Not sure it was even screened in the UK and it was after my time! lol When the Joe cards were removed from the game, it doesn't sound right to "destroy" them when they've helped in a successful mission. They go for promotion training and come back in the game as characters! lol How did you think this one compares to Venom Assault? GI Joe seems to have a couple of extra layers to it, but my memory is bad so may be doing Venom Assault a disservice!

Question - It says Duke can bring out a G.I. - I do not think that means any Joe, just the G.I.s?

I see vehicle icons (tank, ship, plane) on missions. Does that mean you need to use a matching type of vehicle to do that mission?

How does it compare to Venom Assault? I feel one of the weaknesses of VA is, when playing two handed solo, that there is no difference or what so ever between the two decks. Every hand has the same cards, the same abilities, same everything. On the other hand, having regular D6 might be less fancy than special success/failure dice, but it brings a little more flexibility. The fun part is to tinker around with cards that and lower the success values. Can you already say which one do you prefer?

I can't wait to watch later, I really hope it's better than Transformers looked... (I preordered this one Haha)

nice playthrough man , i just donr know how you passed Hawk so many times hehehe

As someone who owns Venom Assault, I would love to hear what you think is the more enjoyable game. I don't think I need to own both. This seems faster and maybe a bit easier. Venom can be punishing.

1:02:53 When you use a vehicle it is discarded in the player who started the mission discards but then when that player gets it in their hand again they don’t put it in the Hangar until the start of their next Action Phase (so basically the beginning of their turn).

So glad to finally see a play through of this one! I believe that you may have made a mistake when you faced Destro though. Weren’t you supposed to re-roll the 2-success rolls when facing him?

How positive at 12:20 are you that you have to move the threat meter twice? The rules make it seem like only once? I don’t see where it says you activate it twice…

This or transformers? I can’t decide which one I prefer. Any advice?

Is this a new game or are you doing a playthrough of an out of print game?

Three things you've mentioned that I don't see in the poorly written instruction manual. 1. The rifle side deck 2. Not having the "0" cost cards in the draw deck. 3. The story ends at end of turn. Is there some sort of Official Errata or Update out there?

Which do you prefer? Venom Assault or this?

Hey Colin, did you like this or Venom Assault more?

I’m glad this exists but a HUGE miss on lack of nostalgia artwork.

It's a fine video but I think it could be cleaner. I.e. you selected the Expert difficulty adding +1 to missions.. then the whole video your goal won't match the printed, visible cards. Why the need? Just do a tutorial over what's on print to make it more clear to the viewer without having to reference the +1 all the time. The start could have been cleaner too, you used a large portion talking about specific things before talking about the overall goal. Constructive fb for the future

watched video and you used Duke"s ability incorrectly you san only use his power on the basic G"I that are in your base deck because they state GI on top of card all other Joe"s do not have that card title on them. You overpowered your mission attack"s quite a bit. I"ve played game 6 times and was only able to defeat the game once. Just a head"s up so you play game correctly next time.

Wtf deck building with dice? No not big huge pass for me Also don't care about the theme Thanks for the play through it convinced me that renegade don't know how to make deck building that are great for my taste at least