Great playthrough, Mike. Thanks!

Thanks for this. I've played two solo games so far, and this clarified a couple minor mistakes I made. Can't wait to play again!

Thank you for playing at some pace. It is so boring watching other channels explaining and playing at 0.25x speed. Some of us can follow at normal speed :) Keep it up

I really like this game... even though I have yet to beat the Level 1 automa. Something hasn't clicked yet for me apparently, but i'm still enjoying trying to figure it out. There is so much replay value here!

Great playthrough, thanks. Small note: If you placed the last building in the middle grid of your capital city you'd have gained an extra resource for completing it, giving you an extra turn as well

The automa runs smoothly. The two card combination to determine what they do adds a lot of variability without adding much time.

Ooh. Solo play. I believe I only played this game once (but loved the theme and idea so much I got both expansions, which I have yet to play), but the automa kicked my rump so hard that's the main reason I haven't played again. >_< I'll likely try again this fall or winter, when my family's off avoiding winter and I have extra solo gaming time.

At 25:12 you roll the science die, however the tech just moves you up 1 on the science track

It looks like you may have made a fairly big mistake around 41:40 when you reached Singularity on the Tech track. You did correctly move a cube back to the beginning of a track, but it doesn't appear that you took the more powerful bonus of that space which is the extra 4 resources (1 of each type.) Though perhaps I missed it?

Hello, if Automa's favourite track changes, does it's civ change too? I watched to the point where Automa changed from military to science whereupon you didn't change the civ, but another video I watched had a similar thing happen where the player did change the civ. The rules don't say anything about this so I would have assumed what you did is correct but I would like to know for sure. Cheers.

Wait I thought you can only conquer if you had first explored the hex. 22:00 (Yes new player :) ) Or is this only for a bot? Or actually also in normal play

15:10 shouldn’t the first tapestry card be put on the first space after „Maker of fire“, which is space 2?

At 8:00, you don't mention it, so I'm not sure if it's a decision or not, but you could have decided to not move onto the first space of the tech track after rolling the die. And the first space of the tech track is pretty good I'd say.

Strategically I think you made some mistakes in some situations where you prioritized points over resources. In this game it really stands that buildings >> resources > points basically up until a point where an extra resource cannot get you additional actions, i.e. deep into the final round. So for example, when you are considering landmark placements on the map, it is a mistake to worry about getting rows/columns for an extra point or 2, when prioritizing the extra resources will likely get you an extra action and provide much more points. The same can be said about the military dice. The points can seem attractive (especially when the automa is way in front) but in reality choosing the resource is way, way better even when considering the 7 point option.

You lost me at victory points!!

this actually looks like a good system for solo play so could possibly invest when hits retail

Socialism is so fun!