Thanks for this playthrough. Your style is fantastic. This really gave me a good idea of how the game plays. Really excited to get my copy next week now.

Excellent video and commentary. It has helped me immeasurably in understanding every card and action. Thanks for taking the time and effort to produce such professional videos.

This is my second full watch of yours and holy crap Jon, your explanations are fantastic. This is high quality work thank you!

your attention to detail and explaining things just for the sake of explaining is admirable. I appreciate the effort you put into this. #respect

Great play-through, thanks, Jon!

Always love your playthroughs :)

You are decisively in my top 3 board game you tuber! Every single time I enjoy your video. Your detailed explanation and easy to understand rules explanation.

thanks for the paly, I am getting the game this weekend after seeing it play through.

Great playthrough. Well filmed and explained.

At 1:01:36, if I remember correctly, Jamey said on BGG that you get both dice if anyone gets toppled by your conquering action. So a trap does not prevent you to take both dice.

Anyone else hear a kind of metal echo at the end of the video with the wrap-up? Not sure if you're experimenting with different audio/microphones. I thought I would mention it. Great playthrough, once again. Thank you, Jon.

Top as usual. Thank you Jon :-)

23:50 - That is an error. An era lasts until you take another income turn, so the Monarchy effect was not active.

I believe at 15:27 red player should have scored 4 points for the exploration tile placed; 2 desserts, and two oceans.

At 47:50 you cover up the science square of your Leaders card. But the bump on the science track was from your tapestry card, not the Leaders card

In your final scoring you forgot to take the 10 extra points on your yellow building row (perhaps too focused on scoring your technology cards), I think perhaps you also made this kind of error in one or two of the other scorings, but I cannot remember for sure.

I was watching your playthrough and i did notice you didn't gain your extra resource from a completed district, was that an error? I thought that you will have to take an extra resource of your choice once a district is completed. Overall good playthrough. Been playing a few times and want to make sure I'm playing it correctly. Noticed a few mistakes here and there, but they were already mentioned from the comments.

at 7:06 it looks like the yellow player took 3 points for the explore action when in fact they should have had 4.

I don't even have this game but I want it! I also hear this game loses its magic after the first couple times you play it though?

At 34:03 the red player gets those five points for free because of Trade Economy so he did not need to decide to discard the tapestry cards.

@1:36:05 Once you are done with your 5th income, you can't play a Trap card, so you were safe to conquer the middle island.

41:15 It appears you did not pay the 2 resources to move up the Science track. If this is true, you would not have been able to take your next move which would have significantly changed your game. I would get in the habit of paying resources before taking the benefit.

@36:40 Yellow player didn't get their Tapestry card from income.

At 58:30 the red player pays 1 too few resources.

At 1.38.20 you took 1 too many points.

Game look amazing but it looks so confusing.

My dude. I love your videos but you play so weirdly sometimes. Sooo many missed points and inefficient actions.