I just want to thank everyone involved making these videos. It helps so much to learn new games. Everyone is very entertaining to watch and brings life to the table. You have brought me back into the hobby with all the episodes. On a personal note it has help my anxiety and depression by getting back into board games. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart.

Dave did a really good job (as always) explaining this rather complex game. After watching this playthrough consulting the rulebook was just a formality rather than a time-consuming torture. Thanks for making my life easier. Cheers!

When playing follow this order: 1) Place workers 2) Check attribute level 3) Pay cost (if applies) 4) Complete action 5) Raise attribute marker ( if applies) 6) Gain townsfolk rewards (if applies) This really helps to prevent forgetting something.

I appreciate the close up camera on personal boards. Especially for a game like this one

Finally, someone did a high quality playthrough of this game.

I've played this game quite a bit, but I still enjoy watching it being played. It's such an enjoyable button-pushing game to me.

Good to see Candice!

I had a lot of fun with this game! And, having the chance to interview Shem Phillips was amazing! Glad to see it played!

What a great explanation of this game. I only had to watch this video once to understand the game. In the meantime I have also purchased the game and will explain it exactly the same to my fellow players as Dave did in the video! thank you

Thank you for this playthrough. Despite of little mistakes done, it's a great material to learn the game easily. I'm done one at home trying to learn the rules, and I've maked some mistakes that I repaired looking your video (ex: when praying I took back my meeples and play them again, forgot to take a villager for free in the begin of the game). Thank you again!!!!

Great game! I've been playing it nonstop recently. It's so easy to make little mistakes when it comes to all the bonuses and special abilities. Really enjoyed the playthrough 👍

Oooh, I want to play this now!

I love when Candice joins!

This was great! I was so impressed with how you presented the game in your video that I ordered a copy almost immediately: my wife and I played our first game this weekend and really enjoyed it. Thanks so much for sharing!

Still love coming back to this playthrough and re-watching it. Esp for Nikki's very quite little 'Done. End of line.' (1:29:37).

Listening to the rules explanation and all the stuff made it feel super overwhelming... But by the first turn was complete this all made sense. It's such a simple and intuitive looking game, once you get past the scary initial look!

Great how to play & playthrough vdo Thank so much

what a pleasant enjoyable time!

Oh, Candice is so sweet! Good game, guys!

Love this game.

"And if you have a fountain, you can do the fountain joke." HA HA HA HA!

Glad to see this game here. REally great game, but seems a bit on the heavier side that GameNight plays.

I kept hearing, "You built a wall so you get a white walker."

Play it. It goes smooth from turn 2-3. the thing I do when I teach this game is we play two rounds, then reset, and play for real. It works with all heavy euros I teach.

great game. Would love to see your group play the other two games of the West Kingdom series. For myself I hope to complete the series with Christmas so I can start the Tomesaga.

Now this is a surprise! I didn't expect Paladins to get played here. I'll have to check this one out!

Just give Lincoln a t-shirt with "MJ" written on it -- because he is the King of Pop (Culture)! LOL. We have had Architects for a while and now we're excited for Paladins! Thanks for the great explanation and gameplay. It is complicated -- but worth it! Can Viscounts be far behind???

Thanks for the great play through, It does look fiddly, but overall I would love to try the game

Dave didn't pay for his recruit at 41:55 Nikki should've got 2 faith bump at 42:25 The Peddler should've been discarded at the start of the 2nd round yeah the game is a lot to take at 1st play. I too was a bit overwhelmed

Wooooot, Candice is back! \(^O^)/. I like all the Shem Phillips games. I think Architects is the best so far, but I've yet to play this.

This game is EXTREMELY fiddly, so I can totally relate to the amount of rules goofs, revisions, and late corrections. However, I love the quality of this playthrough with the individual cams for each player board. Great job!

LOL! 12 minutes in and Lincoln is on a roll with the jokes. 'Smoooooooth Criminal' and 'Purker' are my favorites so far. Poor Dave trying to wrangle the cats and explain this game! We spent probably 2 hours pouring over the instructions and doing our own practice round before actually playing and it still took 2 full playthroughs to remember all the rules. Nonetheless, our favorite game to play right now.

Zznice video guys nice game from Shem in NZ

Nikki's mercenaries we're each worth 4 points each not 3 points each. One point each plus one point for each mercenary 1+(3x1)=4.

Nikki "I'm going to have to do the wild thing again." Candace "This is a family show." HA HA HA HA!

So many musical puns. 😄

This is an excellent game. There is a bunch of upkeep, but it is fairly easy to check every once in a while to ensure you strengths are all correct. Lots of cook interlocking mechanisms. Highly recommend people try this game.

That was alot of Inquisition in this game, and no Squire Townsfolk came up. It was easy for you to track the Strength/Faith/Influence bump, but if Squire bonus and Kings action that gives the bump, it would've been harder. The Absolve action that most player usually forget is the Influence point requirement, plus the removal of suspicious card.

So happy to see you guys playing this game!!! My favourite game ever...and has removed my need to buy games. 😀

To those who find this convoluted or overly complex or clunky, it is basically an engine/worker placement game with more options and more inter-related possibilities. To me, the genius of this game begins to shine once you have a few plays in and begin to recognize patters and the paths other plays are taking. It's definately not for everyone, but the same goes for a game like Scythe, which to many people also seems too complex until you get a grip on the possible engines. It takes a few plays to 'get it'. So don't write it off too easily or you might miss out on a fantastic experience.

I hope see in future vicounts of the west kingdom stream.

An Amerithrash face on a Euro game. Nice pretty artwork and cards, on what is really just a solitaire cube pusher with zero player interaction (aside from racing to take a few cards). You CANNOT play rounds fast...the faster you play your turn, the more likely you are to miss a cost or payment...I would love to try this out...as an app...where the machine keeps tabs on all the give and take. But, way too many moving parts in a real-world board game for my tastes. How I would explain the game...it's like if you take Lords of Waterdeep, but every time to you use an agent you get resources, then you get more resources when you actually place the agent at a space and doing that action MIGHT get you an additional action or extra resources. It's way too many "get something AND get something"..."pay and get something AND get something"..."pay and get something, then get a card, which gets you this, that, AND this if you pay that"...ugh. ...I'm not joking. As I typed that, Dave's turn (1:12:07)...watch Dave's hands on the top down camera...he commissioned...payed a provision...put his black meeple on the big board...that got him a thing...and because he had that card, he got a white meeple...and a coin from there...and a coin from here...and he gets a bump in faith there...one action, with seven actions triggered by that one action...and that was just one random turn that happened to be playing out. It's not exactly a game dripping in theme...it's a group solitaire cube pusher, plain and simple.

Candice!

I think this might be me, but the person explaining the rules has the patience of a saint. If I was always interrupted with a joke when I'm explaining the rules, I'd probably get a bit upset.

immediately after the flag warning us that Candice did not pay a provision to garrison, Dave did not pay a required coin to recruit. This wasnt fixed later. :)

42:46 Nikki was suppose to gain 2 Faith. 1 for removing the 0 pot and 1 as the bonus she chose.

Fast Sloths... in outter Space. It's a win win.

What brand of collapsible components bowls are those?

I didn't know you can take meeples off any of the spots with the pray action. Lincoln did that with develop around 58:30. I thought that you did for the main actions(Garrison, Convert, Commission, etc.) hmm good to know.

@BoardGameGeek the amazon link in the description is for Architects, not Paladins

Didn't know Dave was German! ;)

For the meeple bowls were they the large or small size from the BBG store?

25:22 rounded down means 1 divided by 2 = 0.5, rounded down to 0 not 1 right?

Nikki should have moved her faith up 2x in the first round bc she gained one for moving the blue jug then one more for placing the blue jug on the empty slot

Haven't you played Architetcs of The West Kingdom?

Does anyone know how this plays with 2 players and how long it takes? Thanx

44:41 "Debt is not necessarily as bad as you think it is." Dave must be a banker...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquitaine (from Occitan from latin 'occidens') en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrasia (from germanic 'ostr')

Anyone know where to buy those bowls they used to hold the meeples?

they repeatedly ignored their influence level when absolving. nice play through though (as always)!

As I understood the rules, all players should choose their paladins first and only then should everyone choose a tavern card. I guess that makes sense because it gives players chanse to mess up other players strategy. I see that here every player chose a tavern card before the next player chose their paladin... Can someone comment on this, please? Thank you!

at 1:07:38 some of them got a debt why did that happen? I got a little confused by that part

57:00 She did have two faith.

Nikki should have had a 2 faith bump on her first turn, not 1. Because she got 1 by removing the first blue thingy, and got one for using it when she covered a black faith space. Either that or I’m not understanding the rewards you get for uncovering things 😬 Which then screwed up her second round when she couldn’t get the guy she wanted because she thought she didn’t have enough faith, but she really did! Makes me so sad no one caught that! It was a small thing that slowly snowballs outta control.

Shouldn't Nikki have had 2 black faith from the beginning?

"Hey Abbot" "Hi" "Hey Abbot" "Hey" "Hey Abbot" "Hello" "HeYii Abbeeeet!!!" "I HATE that guy"

Great game, but definitely a harder one. It can make headaches not just during the game itself, but after it, when you try to fix everything back into the box! Seriously, does anybody have a pro solution, how to fix everything back into the box without any extra insert things, so next time the setup could be easier as well?

why did they switch cards at 06:30

Same problem with terraforming mars, probably worst, it's a mess to keep track of everything, i guess i will pass this game.

Lol, 4 (double!) ads before I'm 10 mins into the video - really?!?? Guess this is the last time I'm checking out your channel. Barely 1/3 through the intro - are you kidding me??? 😄

Lols, at 55:00, they should have just started over and cut out the oopses. We've all had those moments where so many things are messed up that we should start over.

think she had 2 faith at that time

This or viscounts?

Looks way too convoluted (aka: the opposite of elegant) for my tastes. Costs and benefits to keep track of all over the place -- on your board, on the central board, on cards on the side of your board, on cards tucked at the bottom of your board, on the card ON your board. No wonder they made more mistakes than I've ever seen them make in a GameNight episode... Interesting watch, but I'll probably pass if ever given the opportunity to play.

This was kind of a bummer for me. I thought Architects was a really great game - a clever twist on the usual worker placement, and fairly elegant and easy to teach. Unfortunately this seems to have jumped into the deep end of the current kitchen-sink Eurogame ethos. I'm sure there are some who'll love it but don't think it's for me

My ADD prevents me from playing games that take over 20 minutes to explain...

This game is the antithesis of smooth. Architects is fast and smooth and is easy so teach. This game is dare I say is fiddly, clunky and just loses the theme due to being overly mechanical. I was HUGELY disappointed by this game.

There is so many mistakes in this play of this.

I can't help but think of Lincoln as King Swinger and each broad is one of his sex companions