Upgrades: Put them whereever works for the resources you have or plan to use. Rusviet Riverwalk: in games where you want to get enlists first, you can riverwalk to the northwest farm directly from your village and riverwalk with your hero to the northeast farm directly to the encounter. Only if you want the food straight away though. Fastest Food: This really depends on your faction's starting area and your player mat

which is not possible for all board/faction combos. (crimea/russviet not having a cost 2 oil or cost 3 food/steal). like industrial crimea, mechanical in general with those 2 (no pairing with the 3 mech), always take three turns

Right. A lot of games depend on how others are playing, and which Encounters you draw, too… I just played yesterday and trounced both my opponents while breaking three of these rules (I did all my upgrades, only got one enlistee, and made it to the factory four turns before anyone else).

Hard agree. I think if a game becomes math and statistics and strategy and nothing else, I might as well be at work pushing buttons and not having fun. Good tips. Not my favorite delivery though.

Your brother (and you) have just helped the entire Scythe community.

I did that, too. Ymmv, but I think it depends on the level of the table you're playing. Granted, I tend to play with less experienced players and, being one myself, it allows for these deviations from what's unequivocally optimal and still walk away with a victory to show for it. Needless to say, I still struggle to beat the Automa even on easy mode, so these videos definitely come in handy. One of my favourite games, even if I suck at it haha

I think it has something to do with being able to use the Mechs to move your workers more efficiently that way and that takes priority to crossing the river.

At the start of the guy I typically don't move my character till I have the speed mech. Then it's a single move to get your character straight to the encounter token. Likewise you don't have to have riverwalk to leave the starting areas. Make sure you check the other mech abilities and see which is the most use given what others round the table are doing.

Every faction has the mine building which will get you out of your starting area and into the middle without the need for river walking. If used correctly the only reason you would really require river walk is to go into other starting areas (to contest enemies or claim un-used areas).

@@tikksisnogood9021 Nope, speed mech is more important unless like he said you're Rusviet. Especially if you're on a starting position with brick, you can combine trade and produce and get a speed mech on your 2nd or 3rd turn and then your first move you can bring you character straight to the encounters and you can base your game play based on the resources you get. Then while your producing more workers you can also produce more steel and get you riverwalk or whatever mech to get off your starting base, and with most factions move onto your 2nd encounter with only your second move. You could even end up with a mine from the encounter which in combo with your speed mech, trumps any mech movement ability. The 2nd reason is also leaving your home base makes you completly vunerable. Why leave your home base where your completly protected when you have two resources already? Take your 4 workers from your village with a mech and split them on your resources and build a foundation. You want to build up power and mechs before leaving your base in almost all situations to avoid being taken advantage of. This is especially true early game when many teams we have little to no popularity and won't hesitate to knock you and all your workers back to your base. And then without a speed mech it'll take 3 movement actions to get back to where you were. That's 6 total turns, and with that kind of game play you likely don't have the power to take it back, and even if you do you're likely down to near 0 even if succesful, and back in the same vunerable position.

Togawa and Albion make you think your strategies from scratch. I usually priorities the factory with them to balance the lack of speed mech... :)

@@bernardjuganniere3339 how can you get to the factory quickly with Togawa tho?

For the Togawa, no, not at the start. The only advantage of Shinobi is allowing your Mechs to catch up with your Hero. Probably good for combat, but not until your hero slowly waddles her way over to the Mine network and the center of the board, plopping traps down along the way. You won't really need Shinobi until you've lost a fight and need to bring your stuff back to the front. For the Albion? Yes! Rally lets you cleverly move your workers around and teleport your Hero to said worker as well. You can quite easily grab the first two Exploration tokens near Albion with this, and push your forces up wherever you have workers on the board.

I'd say yes, especially if you get it faster than your opponent. If your opponent does it and you don't, i can say with full confidence that you my friend are screwed.

Depends. If you're Saxony and you could probably still rush the game by going for worker star, mech star, one or both objectives, two or three combats.

Not always, but emphasizing it pretty much helps people understand how big it is. I'd rather overstate here than understate.

@@Reign274 like industrial saxony?

Actually, Steam and Tabletopia are exactly the places where you can play it online. This video shows "Scythe: Digital Version" in Steam.

Nononono this video is old and wrong

@@Reign274 No worries! I am old, and often wrong too!

Old video, very much out of date. I'll make a new one soon!

By trading for metal you can have usually have both your speed and submerge mechs out by turn 6-8 depending on your mat and encounter. I don't think it makes sense to move out onto the board as Polania without speed in most situations, because you would need an extra move to reach the factory card (or next encounter, whichever you go for) which will slow you down by two turns again. I think Polania actually has a decent starting position with food and a village on their island, although Rusviet's and Crimea's positions are better in my opinion.

lol

you get coins when you or an adjacent opponent deploy mechs. so 12 would be the highest amount of coins you could get

@@lurvigw as well as the +2 if you chose to cover coins on your player mat.

Thank you. I totally agree.

hahah, such a complete nonsense comment :D

I understand what you're saying. It all depends on the other players' levels. If they play casually, just for fun, without too much ambition to optimize then there's no need for these strategic analyses. If you find yourself amongst experienced min-maxers who play Scythe regularly and participate in tournaments... well. that's another story.

check steamstore

"Russ-vayt" hurt me pretty bad too.

Lol, I generally win all of my games with near 0 popularity. Spending popularity speeds the game

It's exactly the opposite. Don't be afraid to spend popularity. Most games are over before anyone can get to tier three.

@@devendrabendkhale6902 Don't think this is true, I've done both and much better if you keep pop high. Keeping it low, has considerable risk.

Of course it was arrogant to say that and I shouldn't have. But at the time of this video's release, it was accurate to say this. I made this video early on when the Scythe meta was evolving from being released on mobile and players playing more often online. In the early stages of Scythe online, everything I said here was true. It was a time where if you did powerful things (like enlisting) in suboptimal conditions you could win over people who did suboptimal things in suboptimal conditions. I recommend you check out the more recent content where I have tons of videos breaking down the latest meta which do hold up. Type 1 and Type 2 gameplay, diversity, etc. I don't tell you everything must be a certain way, but break down multiple ways to play the game and win based on board and faction setups. This was absolutely unnecessary until the meta had evolved to a point where people were playing well enough that it required you to play optimal things in optimal conditions to win.