Anno 1800 - Playthrough with Friends - Help your opponents help you!

welcome to zhang it's games where today i'll be playing a full game of anno 1800 with my friends anastasia and nick now i first will be giving you an overview of how the rules for this game works and for that i use a physical version of the game and then we will use tabletop simulator to play through the game i do want to mention that i have recorded a tutorial style instructional video for anna 1800 and you can find a link to that in the description of this video now i do want to mention that the only reason we are making this video is because this game won the monthly poll that is voted on by the patreon supporters of the channel if you would like to directly support the channel and the creation of videos like this one in the future then please go to johngetsgames.com support there you'll find a bunch of ways that you can really help things out and many of them come with perks like watching exclusive content including my ongoing impressions of all the games that i'm playing as well as being able to vote on videos like this one and see them early and advertisement free now i do want to mention that once we finished playing this game the three of us recorded a podcast episode where we discuss this play as well as anno 1800 in general the three of us have played this game a lot so we have quite a bit to say and you can listen to that by searching for the friendly ties podcast wherever you normally listen to podcasts and you can also find a link to it in the description of this video the final thing i'd like to ask is that if you enjoy this video that you please click the like button for it down below as well as the subscribe button for the channel and we'd love to see comments uh when you watch these videos if there's any turns where you think we should have done something differently or maybe you just saw a mistake that we made then please comment down below because that kind of feedback is great and we really do appreciate it alright it's now time to jump into the overview for the game and of course if you like you can just skip right past that and jump right into the play out here we have the game mostly set up for the start of a game although i'm just showing one player's area here now before i move on i would like to ask that you please turn on the klingon subtitles because i might make mistakes as i'm showing you the game and it's certainly possible that we'll make mistakes as we're playing it and those will let me put corrections on the screen where you should be able to see them now i would also like to mention that the main purpose of this overview is to give you enough of an understanding of how the game works to actually understand the playthrough this is not going to be a comprehensive rules teach on that note let's now start talking about the game each player is going to have a board just like this in front of them at the start along with four of these green three blue and two of these red cubes and these are effectively workers that you can use to generate resources in the game so every player is going to have one of these in front of them and on a player's turn they're going to take one main action add as many free actions as they want to now there are quite a few main actions and let's talk about the first one right now which involves developing a new industry as you can see this main board is covered with a ton of different tiles that have been sorted to be placed into a matching spot for most of these stacks there are exactly two tiles whereas there are more than two for these ships and these shipyards over here now what players are going to do is take tiles from this main area and put them on their player board and those become industries that they will specialize in so for your full turn main action you can take any one of these that you want as long as you don't already have one of that tile in front of you so for example let's say we took this one right here this is a work shirt factory but then before we can actually construct this we have to pay the associated resources in this case we need thread as well as coal now the way we make resources in this game is we allocate our workers to various spots on our board to then generate those specific resources for example on our main board you can see there is a thread factory over here and underneath it we can see two of these green spots now the color matches up with the cubes and the number of spots is always two for every one of these factories and in order to make this thread we simply take one of our green cubes which are farmers from our main supply and we put it onto an empty spot in that associated factory as soon as we place this down that has created thread and then we can use that thread that exists to construct this over here there is no token to denote that resource that we just made now we need a thread as well as cool so we can see coal down here has the red icons which means we have to take a red cube which is a craftsman and place that down onto one of these empty spots if both of these were full for example we would not be able to place another one down even if we had more cubes because these do block those spots now in this case we have one coal and one thread which is everything that we need to create this factory so we can then flip this over and then place this down onto our board when we place this down it cannot go into the water that is where ships go and i'll talk about ships soon but you can put it here on the shoreline or you can also cover up any one of these pre-printed spots or a spot that has a previously placed tile if for example this was already over here we could place this on top of it and then this previously placed tile will go back to the main supply where somebody could build it again later on in the game so for example we could put this over here and now for as long as we have this we can spend our blue cubes which are workers in order to create work shirts now that's important because another main action that you can do on your turn is play cards and at the start of the game every player is going to have nine cards in their hand now at the top of these cards we can see various icons which look a lot like the icons that we saw on this factory tile that we already built and again for your main action and you only get one main action a turn you can play one of these cards from your hand as long as you can afford the resources as you can see three of our cards show work shirts which is why in this example it made sense to create that work shirt factory so for example let's say we want to construct this card right here now that requires work shirts as well as bread and for this example let's pretend one of our opponents had already constructed a bread factory on their board now in order to play this we need the work shirts and the bread we can make the work shirts easily by taking one of our blue workers and placing it down onto our work shirt factory but we do not have a bread factory however our opponent over here does now that's great because we can actually trade with them in fact they can't say no to us trading for the bread that they have in front of them the way we do this trade is we are going to spend trade tokens and the number of trade tokens we have to spend is going to be dictated by the type of factory that we are trading for now by type i mean color as you can see there are green factories red ones as well as blue ones and this bread over here is blue now with that in mind we can focus right over here because as you can see in the blue worker area it shows a single trade token now what that means is in order to trade for an opponent's blue type factory we have to spend one of our trade tokens and in fact if we want to trade for one of our opponents green type factories that will also take one trade token however if we want to trade with a red type factory that somebody else has that would cost two and if we want to trade with a purple type that would cost three now as you go from the green all the way up to purple the relative complexity of the factories is going to increase which is why the number of trade tokens that we need is going to increase as well so let's focus back out to finish this example where we can spend one trade token in order to trade for this blue factory because again that only takes the one trade token now whenever you trade with an opponent they will immediately gain one gold from the supply now this does not matter what type of factory you just traded for they always get one and it comes from the supply not from you so that means we traded with them to get that bread and then they get one gold for it again they can't say no to this trade but of course they're getting gold for the trade so they're not too unhappy about it now we did spend this trade token over here and we don't put it back into the supply we simply put it off to the side because we will gain access to that later on in the game now at the beginning of this overview i did say that on your turn you take one main action and as many free actions as you want and trading is technically a free action so for this example the main action is playing a card face up in front of us and then one free action involved trading for the bread in order to actually place this down right here the last thing i'd like to say about trading is you are never allowed to trade for more than one of a specific good at any point on your turn that means you could only trade for one bread total even if you need more than one and even if multiple opponents have bred factories you can only ever trade for one so if you ever need more than one of a resource within your turn you better be the one to actually have that factory in your area at this point it's time to talk about another free action and that involves actually activating the card that we have played in front of us i did say that for your main action you can play a card but you don't actually gain the benefits on the bottom of the card until you take a free action to activate it that means we could place this right over here and then on a future turn place that and we could put this over here leaving all of them as they are but then as a free action we can flip as many of these over as we want to to immediately gain the benefits on the bottom of that card now let's start with this one right here it's quite simple when you flip this over you get four gold so you can take that from the supply and put it in front of you and then put this into a face down pile it's worth noting that all of these cards are worth points at the end of the game these are worth three these ones right here are worth eight and you can actually see that's printed on the back of the cards and these over here which i'll talk about soon are worth five points and you get those points whether or not you've actually flipped the card over so this one just gives you four gold which is great this one right over here immediately gets you three trade tokens but these are special because they are actually one-time use you put those tokens on top of the card and once you've used all of them you can flip the card over and it is now gone and all of these trade tokens that you used will also be returned to the supply as you use them again remember the trade tokens you have on your board will be used later on and i'll talk about how you gain access to this soon now the next type of card is this one and as you can see the benefit there shows two of the green farmer cubes when you use this you will immediately take the indicated cubes from the supply and put them on top of your board and then it will be time to draw a card thematically in this game every one of these cubes is part of your population and you are trying to meet their needs and every time you gain a new cube you have to draw a card of the matching color you can see these three point cards are associated with the farmers and the workers and these eight point cards are associated with the craftsman the engineers as well as the entrepreneurs so by taking these two green cubes we have to draw two of these cards and thematically speaking these are the two people which are represented by these two cubes although the moment you take these cards you no longer have to worry about them being associated so these cards would be added into our hand and when we play these cards that is us thematically satisfying the needs of that new population that has been added into our area while we are over here i'd like to talk about the next main action and that involves actually increasing your population for your one main action on your turn you can gain up to three cubes and you will have to spend the associated resources that are printed above these areas so in order to gain a new farmer you simply need some wooden planks and you can gain wooden planks by using a farmer down over here to gain that resource these workers take wooden planks as well as bricks the craftsmen take bricks coal as well as these cargo boxes and the relative number and complexity of these resources that you need to get more cubes is only going to go up and again as you gain these new cubes you have to draw new cards into your hand the next main action i'd like to talk about is upgrading cubes you may have noticed these icons between the different areas and for your full turn main action you can upgrade up to three of your cubes in order to do this you have to spend all of the associated resources between where the cube is and where you want it to go so if you want to turn this farmer into a worker you simply need bricks and it looks like we can gain bricks right down here with a red so we could place this red right over here to turn this green into a blue and we simply swap it out with a supply now when we did this we did not increase our population we simply trained that one cube so that means we don't draw a new card when we do upgrades as you can see going from blue to red is going to take coal and cargo and going from red to purple is going to take a window and iron and windows are not a resource that we start with here on our boards in fact if we look out here windows take wood as well as glass to be made and glass is also not on our boards that's right over here so in order to make a window to upgrade into those purple engineers somebody needs to make glass and then somebody needs to use that glass in order to build windows which can then be used to upgrade into those purple workers alright let's now talk about the next main action and that involves using explore tokens at the start of the game each player has one of these and there are actually three different main actions that use these tokens the first of these i'll talk about is expanding in the old world and this is the old world right here so you can use this to expand your area when we focus on the main board these are the old world tiles and these are new world tiles which we'll talk about in just a second now looking down over here you can see the old world tile is going to cost one two three or four exploration tokens and the number that it costs is dictated by the number of these tiles that you already have if you are taking your first old world tile it's going to cost one explorer and if you already have one of these and you want to take a second one it's going to cost two so in this example we could spend that one exploration token and put it to the side of our board and then we take randomly the top one of these tiles flip it over and then add it into our area as you can see by placing this down we have increased our land area by four and our water area by two where we can put ships which again i will talk about soon and every one of these old worlds has a random benefit that you get this one right here comes with a brick factory that takes blue workers to make bricks remember at the start of the game we can all make bricks but it takes those red craftsmen and in general those are harder to come by now if we look here at this deck there's a wide variety of benefits if this is the one that you explore into you actually gain a couple of blue workers and then of course you draw two cards and then other tiles might have benefits like this one which actually gives you a ship whenever you gain ships you get tokens that are indicated on the bottom for example this one shows an exploration icon so if we place this right here we would gain an explorer token which we could then use in the future so as you can see expanding in the old world is going to always give you four land and two water spots but the benefit that you get is random so it often makes sense to do this early so that you can plan accordingly based off of your other actions now another thing that you can use these exploration tokens for is to explore the new world now the cost for this is the same as the old world as you can see it's one explore token for your first new world it's going to be two for your second and three for your third and so on now these also have some randomness on the back side but another part about exploring the new world is you always draw exactly three new world cards those are right over here so by taking this this is our first so we'd have to spend one of our explore tokens and then we would draw three of these and these are thematically again population that's been added into our overall area and these are the needs of that population that we are looking to satisfy by spending the associated resources up along the top then we take this we flip it over and we put it into our area and as you can see these icons are different they all show a trade icon and what this means is only the player who has this tile can spend one trade token to get the raw resource that is indicated every single one of these has cotton as the first option as you can see if we glance through all of these there's always cotton there but then the other two spots vary from four different options so you're not sure what the other two will be and that can be important because many of the cards that we try to play in the future will need factories that are made with raw resources from the new world for example this card was here in our hand and in order to play it we would need rum and in order to actually create a rum factory if we look over here that's going to take wood as well as sugar cane and the way we gain sugar cane is by having a new world tile that looks just like this now if you don't actually draw a new world tile that has the sugar cane on it then you cannot build that factory and you are not allowed to trade for other players new world raw resources so if you're not drawing into the raw resource that you need then perhaps you'll have to change your plans all right the time has come to talk about building ships now the way this works is you're going to build up to one ship for every one of the shipyards you have in front of you we all start with a level one shipyard and each shipyard can make a ship of up to the value of that shipyard that means if we were to take another level one shipyard as you can see it actually doesn't cost anything except your full turn now you can build up to two of these level one ships and if you got a level two shipyard which requires using engineers to actually make then this will let you actually make ships that are up to level two now we can tell the level of ships by glancing over here on the board because in the bottom right corner it tells you how many of the specific token you get for getting that ship as you can see these are level ones because they have one trade token or one of these explore tokens these are two and these are three and again in order to build them you have to have a shipyard of at least that value now when you build ships you can build as many as you want to up to the amount of shipyards that you have so investing in shipyards can mean you can have very effective and efficient shipbuilding actions later on in the game as you can see these ships often require sales but some of the later ones actually require steam engines and when you take these ships and you place them in front of you you then immediately gain the indicated tokens so for example if we took this one and that one we would of course first have to pay all these resources so that would be a sale and a wood plank for this one and this one needs a sale wood plank cannons as well as an engineer now that means you actually have the engineer on your board and you simply put them off to the side and you will gain access to them soon and then you can flip these over and just like that we would have gained one trade token and two explore tokens we'd put those directly on top of the ships and then we have these for as long as we have the ships and of course we can spend these to explore the new and old worlds as we've seen and we can use these trade tokens to get resources that our opponents have in front of them now at this point i'm sure you're wondering how do you get access to these things that you've put off to the side for example let's say we had a situation like this and we just didn't have that many options left to do on our turn because we've used so much stuff now another full turn main action is called a city festival and it's also called stodfest in the german version and you'll hear us using both of those terms as we're playing now the way this works is you simply take all of your cubes from wherever they are and you put them back up to the top so that you can use them again in the future and then all of your exploration tiles as well as all of your trade tiles will go back onto their associated ships so you can use them again in the future as well now again that takes your entire turn but once you've done that you will have a ton of opportunities to use this stuff to do more things on future turns at this point there are two more main actions i'd like to tell you about and they're both pretty simple the first involves just discarding cards let's say you have some cards in your hand and you just are not able to actually play them well you can take up to three cards from your hand and put them to the bottom of the associated decks and then you draw the same number of cards from those specific decks but this does cost your whole turn hopefully the cards that you draw into you'll be able to better play around often times players go the entire game without doing this but it is an option available to them the other main action i'd like to point out is this one over here that lets you spend two of your explorer tokens to draw three of these expedition cards now every one of these has a similar style they all show an animal on the left as well as an artifact on the right and they all have the colors red purple or teal on them and these are used during final scoring and i'll talk about that very soon let's now focus back on our board because there's one more free action that's very important for you to understand now again you can perform as many free actions as you want during your turn and this one involves paying gold in order to reset your cubes i'm sure you noticed earlier that there are gold costs underneath these spots and this is the number of gold that we have to pay to reset an individual cube for example if this was over here and on our turn we really wanted to play something that required a red worker we could do that by paying gold to gain access to another one of these red workers now again you could spend your whole turn resetting all of your cubes but this is a free action that you can do before you do other things on your turn as you can see the red workers have a three gold cost so you could spend three gold and then take a red worker from wherever they are and place them up here where you could then immediately use them now this is also helpful if you perhaps need to free up a spot let's say we really needed coal and we didn't have the trade tokens to trade it from somebody else and we'd already plugged up both of the spots on our coal factory well we can now spend three of our gold in order to refresh one of these red cubes to then free up a spot to then use with any of our red cubes in order to gain the coal that we need effectively spending three gold for the coal that we need in that moment you can also do this for cubes that are off to the side as you can see this purple costs 4 gold but by doing that you could then bring this back here and then use it immediately on that same turn at this point i'd like to briefly talk about a couple more icons that can show up on the cards that we have in front of us one of them looks like this now this has an exclamation point which means when you play it you have to immediately use it and that lets you take two other cards from your hand and discard them to the bottom of the specific stacks so you don't have them in your hand anymore and there is a very good reason to do that which i'll talk about soon this one right here is quite simple you can use this card to gain another main turn action remember you only get one main turn action per turn but if you play this and then use it you get another one that you can then use in the future looking through here these let you draw more expedition cards and then these let you actually do upgrades remember you can spend your turn doing upgrades but this one lets you upgrade up to three times without spending any resources but all of the upgrades have to start at green or blue alright we can now talk about how the game ends and this is quite simple as soon as any one player has no cards left in their hand at all that will trigger the end of the game that player will take this fireworks token and it's worth seven points to them at the end of the game then we keep playing until everyone has taken the same number of turns then we play another round around the table and after that it will be time for final scoring the way we get points is we will first count up all of the cards that we've played throughout the game whether or not we've actually flipped them over again these are all worth three these are all worth eight and those are all worth five we can add to that the points that we get from gold because every three gold that we have at the end of the game becomes one victory point and then of course the player with the fireworks token gets those seven points next up we can score points for the expedition cards that we've gathered throughout the game now these actually let us get points for the cubes that we have in front of us once the game is over we can consolidate all of our cubes up here and then you can see this card right here has a purple and a red icon on it so you could put a purple cube there and a red cube there and the purple cubes will always be worth two points and the red ones will always be worth one if we look over here some of them are teal which are the very hard to make entrepreneurs and if you are able to have a teal at the end of the game you could place that on one of these teal spots and those will always be worth three points that means if you have a bunch of reds purples and teals it makes a lot of sense to spend your time especially near the end of the game drawing into these expedition cards to then hope to get as many points as you can out of the workforce that you've already invested in throughout the game now there's one final place that we get points and those are these mission cards at the start of every game we are going to randomly flip over five of these face up on the table and these are going to drastically dictate the flow of the game some of these have a yellow background and these are actually free actions that you can do on your turn for example this one right here lets you spend two exploration tokens to gain a trade token and this one over here lets you spend two of those exploration tokens to discard a card from your hand which of course will make it easier to empty your hand entirely and trigger the end of the game there aren't that many of those yellow background cards but there are a couple this one right here lets you spend a teal worker exhausting it to the side to gain five gold now the rest of these cards are actually end game scoring cards as you can see they have various conditions on them this one right here will penalize you two points for every card you have in your hand once the game is over remember normally you are not penalized for that but if at the start of the game you deal this out then you're probably not going to want to have as big a hand as in other plays other cards have you competing with your opponents this one right here says the player with the most teal entrepreneurs at the end of the game will get 10 points and the person with the second most will get four yet other cards don't have you directly competing with your opponents they simply give you goals for industries this one right here gives you three points for every one of these seven different industries that you can develop into as the game goes on now as you can see there are a bunch of these cards that give different scoring conditions and depending on which ones come out in the game you will definitely vary your play style in order to best get the points from them once again you always deal out five of these and it's possible that all five will be end game scoring edition cards and you won't have any of these free actions or it's possible you could have almost all of them be these free actions and you'll have very few and game conditional scoring cards to play towards as the game is going on once everyone adds up all their points the player with the most victory points will be the winner now at this point i think i'm done with the overview i've certainly not talked about everything in this game but you should have a good understanding of the backbone for how this game plays and you'll see how all this stuff works as we are actually playing and on that note i think it's now time to jump into the game alright we're all here and by all i mean myself my friends anastasia and nick um i did a randomizer and it looks like i'm gonna be the starting player for this game uh now before we actually jump into all this let's just briefly introduce ourselves um obviously i'm jonathan and when it comes to the cards in our hands i just wanna say that i have a weird hand i'm not gonna be saying how because i don't want nick and anastasia to know but i i just have to say that this is a strange assortment of bonuses uh one that i haven't actually seen in the many many games of this that i've played so far so i'm going to be the first player and then anastasia you'll be next yeah i also have an interesting hand i think it's uh i'm not really sure how i feel about it yet it's gonna be it's gonna be an intriguing i don't know i don't like it i don't like to get too judgmental about my hands and nano i just kind of like to embrace the cards and just run with it so i'm gonna run with this that's that's what's happening no no presuppositions uh yeah i'm going third and i will say that i think i have a very normal hand uh and there's one guy who's given me a particularly raised eyebrow so we'll see if we can play him first [Laughter] sounds good now before we actually start the game let's talk really quickly about the five mission cards uh at the start of each game we pull five of these randomly out some of them are end game cards and some of them are mid-game actions this one right over here is a barrel omarra and i should probably not try to pronounce all these names but that says that on our turns as many times as we want we can spend two of our exploration tokens to get a trade that we can then use immediately and the other action is this one and it says that we can spend our teal workers in order to get five money we can exhaust our teal workers then we have three that are for end game scoring uh looks like we have the queen and she's gonna give us six points if we have the champagne bottle uh manufacturing as well as six points if we have the artillery then we have uh carl littered fawn mulching i said i wouldn't do the names and now i am he is all about giving us points for making stuff from the new world so that's the coffee the chocolate the cigars and the rum lastly we have a bit of a university battle going on at the end of the game the player with the most purple cubes um which are i guess engineers i believe is going to get 10 points and then the second most will get four so we're going to keep all of these in mind as we are playing the game you'll keep all of them in mind i'll keep like one or two of them in mind that's not true do not listen to nick he's lying he always keeps them all in mind and then he pretends like he doesn't and then he sweeps the floor with you can't wait all right i'm going to take the first turn and i think for reasons i'm going to start off by building a beer factory for reasons yes so i can take that and i'm going to place it right over here that is going to take a wheat and a coal so i can make the wheat with a farmer and a coal with a craftsman okay i make beer that's me done all right i think we're gonna go with something i like to do in this game can do we have any guesses well whoa well if it isn't the patented coal anastasia the cheap call you never do this i almost forgot about it i was like gonna go buy something else lame uh now i never do this i am going to make some cheap coal cost me one wood yup that's that great i'm going to do my best little john impression and get some schnapps schnapps snapshop schnapps little john not you the famous rapper you're not going to use anastasia's uh cheap coal to trade no i think i got other stuff to buy um no i uh just just to make a point too i'm not going to all right just to make a point maybe maybe later who knows he says that now just wait a couple turns i'm sure later we'll see not now anyway i'm done to be clear everyone it is cheap because it only costs a blue worker to trade for which is slightly cheaper than if you either use your own red or if you were to trade for it otherwise that's why we call it cheap coal yes yes yes yes all right it's my turn again and normally the first thing i do is go to the old world but i decided to get beer first so now i'm going to mix things up and go to the old world for my second action so this is my first old world expansion so it's going to take one of these explorations and i'm just going to shuffle these up real quick and take the top one and ooh okay that's nice that is going to give me two exploration cards right from the start honestly there's a lot of things i would rather have had but there's some things in there i also would have been pretty not happy with so i can keep i don't think i've ever seen it yeah i legitimately don't remember that being in the game yeah yeah so right from the get-go i have some uh goals right here as far as some of these cubes i want to take so yeah that is me done you know i don't know why but i never want to old world early like ever i know it'd be good and it would probably give me i might get cheap coal again that would be funny that'd be great now but i never i never want to do it early despite that i am going to make something what's been made so far beer and schnapps yeah very alcoholic so far yeah seriously all right i'm gonna make some soap i use my cheap coal and these pigs i will make some soap soap nice all right i'll go to the old world and okay there we go piles of blue workers couple of blue cubes as well as two more blue slash green cards okay next up i think i'm gonna make a work shirt factory got at least a couple of those that i need you can grab that right here and then that is going to take some thread as well as coal so the thread i can handle over there and now do i want to spend one of my trade tokens to anastasia for a cheap goal or should i just toss this red person over there um you do do i want to spend it i don't even need the gold but i just think anyone trading with me is a good idea up to you you know i think for reasons i am going to trade with you anastasia all right so that's going to take one trade token because this is uh a blue type of work and i'm trading for your blue factory right over there and you get a gold and i magically get your coal and then boom i make work shirts all right nothing magical about the world of industry john [Laughter] okay i am going to make some more things i will make some canned meat so another green worker on these pigs okay and a red worker down here on this steel um okay i guess i'm gonna build some bread all right with a wheat and uh coal that i pay for out of my own stock refusing to go for this oh my gosh your principals here all right i'm gonna play the first card of the game and that's gonna be this guy so that is going to take some boxes as well as beer and this is why i spent the trade token for the coal because i wanted to have this red craftsman available to go over here to give me the boxes i need and then i can use my own beer and then that's going to get me a red i can put that right over here and then i do have to draw one of these cards because these are for the red purple and teal cubes that we get i've used this person so i can flip them over and they are just worth three points to me at the end of the game all right i am going to use your work shirts john oh nice and i will also use this soap and i will also play a card down this card which is going to give me two four green workers and two more cards cool so i will gain a gold for you using my work shirts nice okey dokey um i'm also going to play someone because i'm feeling jealous and as a man of my word i shall play this eyebrow-raising fellow wow yeah the first card played ah so i'll get two workers and i'll draw wow between your old world tile and that card you have a lot of workers yes one could even argue too many workers and such a full hand but workers that would be can be a frivolous argument i'm done all right i am going to go again and i'm going to play another card and tell me if you've seen this before this card gets me a red worker so i need work shirts and the cargo boxes which i can use this craftsman that i got last turn for the cargo boxes and then i will get a work shirt and then i will get another red worker and another red card one of you made spread right that's me oh goody you may have some money mick one dollar all right so i'm gonna play this and i'm gonna use my other soap and i will take these three greens return them home and bring out three blues nice just to reiterate for everybody the way this upgrade works is you start at green or blue so greens can turn into blues blues can turn into reds so that was a really nice way to increase your workforce oh you nick well me um i believe that i'm gonna pay each of you one one of you for your canned kids that's to anastasia and one for beer that's john i'll play this fine cigar smoking fellow yep to get a red uh craftsman and card nice thank you for your business does anybody make sausages yet no but i would be very happy if you decided to make some you would feel free to make some okay let me think about it see sausages would take a coal and some pigs you could even make them and trade me for your coal that'd be wonderful actually i'm out of trade token so what am i saying go ahead make sausages i'll probably copy you i don't think i'm making sausage right now sorry anastasia instead i am going to use nyx schnapps so that's blue so that's gonna be one trade token so nick you get a coin all right and then i need to use my work shirts again so that is going to get me four gold bars that i will take immediately all right well i will make sausages instead okay which i was planning to do anyways um okay so in order to do this i need to first play a pick but i do not have any pigs so i'm gonna pay one gold to uh basically uh return one of my greens home and then reuse it over here on my peg except it's returning a pig one yeah except for except for doing that i'm gonna return a pick one and then put it back and that cost me a gold and uh then i will also use one of my coal on my cheap coal down here and i will flip that over all right this steel this fine fire water will make this guy who's missing an eye unfortunately yeah are you gonna use him for the trade tokens not activate him no i mean he's gonna stick around okay cool uh because there's a party coming yes yeah cause just to reiterate for everybody once you use this you get the three tokens and they go away once you use them but if you do a festival and you haven't used them yet you lose them so you definitely want to use this get these when you think you're gonna use them okay i'm in a weird situation i'm just gonna vocalize something i don't think i've ever got this far into a game and had no opportunities to get green or blue cubes from the cards in my hand it's very strange normally i feel like at this point i've got like a bunch of blues over here that i can use but right now i just have these three and i do have some money so i might pay to reuse them i can also i guess just make blues which is something i think i've literally never done in the probably 10 games of this i played that would cost a plank and some bricks um i could do that bricks are red and planks are a green oh man that'd be that feel weird you sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do i will say there's the flip side of this where i have played it where i've had nothing but a hand of just three or four or five make worker cards and you feel like this is just endless endlessly making workers so it really can be kind of interesting the wide variety that's the luck of the draw right there this is a very weird hand i mean it's cool it's cool to have a weird hand but i'm just like all my normal like dance moves are just not available to me right now why don't you just become like the trade ship king ah that's the thing i need to draw green slash blues to hopefully grab a purple card but i have not drawn any of those yet it's it's a strange situation to be in i really wish i'd pulled nick's old world card to get those two blues that would have been amazing i'm seriously considering just doing a festival right now i'm just trying to see if there's a better way i can use my turn right now with my one red and two green i mean honestly you can basically buy two greens with these two greens or buy blue like and you could spend the money like you can wood is actually pretty good commodity for that like yeah i have to admit that is tempting you know i think i am gonna purchase cubes uh i've never done it this early and i now see why sometimes you need to do that a big reason for that is because the cards i'm about to draw could give me other opportunities to draw more of those uh green and blue cards sometimes it feels like they can really clog up your hand but honestly at this point i feel like my hand is starting to get clogged up with the really hard ones that i'm nowhere near being able to do so yeah i'm gonna make up to three cubes uh i could start i think i will make a blue so that needs wood and brick i can get the brick right here and then the wood i can go there and i actually can make these one at a time so i can now take this and then potentially use it to make the next one so i'll take this blue and then i'll draw this card and i can make up to two more ah okay that's a a card that i'm pretty happy to see all right now i think i'm going to use this green farmer and they are going to make me a wood that will let me get a green and sort of importantly i can draw another card ah okay that's cool and then i can do this one more time and i think i want to but my wood's maxed out so i'm going to spend one of my gold so that i can reset this green and then immediately use it again to get another plank so that's going to give me another green so now i've got honestly maybe too many workers but i really feel like my hand the cards were just not working for me i needed more oh i mean that that card's not very interesting at all all right that's my turn not at all not in the slightest all right i'm gonna play this card after john just complained about not having any of these cards um okay so in order to do that i'm gonna use my canned meat and my sausage and i will take two of these workers take another one cool all right um i am going to have a festival yay so fancy using the tabletop simulator mod back to you john awesome okay well i have a relatively similar amount of cubes to the last time but i do have this worker so that does that change anything for me i also have all these extra cards that i do need to consider yeah i'm gonna play a card i'm gonna play this nice person over here so that's gonna take beer and work shirts i will go here for the beer and then i'm out of blue but i can spend two gold to reset a blue so i'll take this off work shirts and then put it back onto work shirts to pay for this and get four gold so one of the ones you just drew no my starting hand um was a whole multiple many cards giving me reds and many cards giving me golds and like i said zero cards giving me greens or blues which was peculiar i may still have cards from my starting hand that give me more reds spoilers all right i am going to go explore the old world all right i swear that if i get cheap coal it will be karma oh nope not quite what i wanted although weirdly that actually kind of works well with my hand so nice we'll take it you can already see how in this game it's endless cards yes the hands balloon up before they go down because the only way the game ends is somebody playing all their cards and the early stage of this game really does always feel like how's this game ever going to end but it always does and for us usually relatively quickly now that we've played it so much um great uh anastasia with some very very fine canned meat that you have over there oh i'd be happy to send you some if you'd like it great yeah i'm gonna just mix it with this schnapps and make like a like a canned meat schnapps slurry um for this this guy who definitely definitely drinks that kind of stuff the first purple of the game and very nice roll very nice that's me all right i've just got a couple green left i think it's time for me to festival um i need i need all this stuff back so there we go i'm good all right i am not going to festival i am going to keep playing uh i'm gonna play this with a sausage and some boxes and that's gonna let me upgrade three yeah and i'm gonna do these two farmers farmers you just got they're already upgraded that's nice and this one blue so one two three very nice all right i think that i am going to build nope i'm not going to build anything i am going exploring in the new world and look at this we find seeds and wool and rubber yeah technically cocoa seeds right yeah yeah that's chocolate and then then three uh three randos three new of the new world cards which worth five points each your hand is huge that's me okay i can go and i think i also want to go to the new world for reasons so that's gonna take one exploration token because this is my first new world so i will need to draw three of these cards and then the new world tile i get is going to make wool rubber and sugar cane they always have wool on them that's always there the other two are going to be random so these are the new cards that i have in my hand and wow i have a lot of cards a lot of interesting opportunities here and that's me done all right i can't stop won't stop over here so i'm just gonna keep playing cards so yeah you haven't festivaled yet i have not canned meat and boxes to play this nice lady for iron actually not bad money iron not boxes i don't know why i can't read symbols in this game today it's like very obvious uh yeah that's it um anastasia i would like to purchase from you some sausage to again mix up with some schnapps we'll pour them together make a nice little slurry i don't really like what's coming out of your industry over there i don't know that i ever want to visit your people so yeah you know do we make do with what we have don't judge us and i'll draw a card i'm good to go okay i think i'm gonna use my new world to make some refined cotton i'm gonna take this right over here that is going to need some raw cotton and i can get that by spending a trade token and then i also need some wood planks and i can very easily do that okay all right i think the time has come now i don't know what nick and john have been doing this whole time i understand that the english version of this is festival but i own the german version and i've played a lot of the german version here on tts so i will be stradvesting which i'm saying incorrectly but i do not know any other way to play this game so i'm strod festing i'm not festivaling like the rest of you shh dot vest stud vest great we're getting sailory over here with the shipyard we need some bricks for the shipyard we need some wood for the shipyard this guy is just telling everyone what to do it's great great time awesome that's me all right it is my turn and as much as i'd like to just trade for bread i don't have much in the way of trade tokens right now so i think i'm gonna spend my turn making a bread factory bra [Laughter] that is going to need some plants wheat barley something like that and then a coal and that is me done well i'm afraid i didn't think that far about what i was gonna do you have a lot of opportunities over here nine workers you know what people like living in my society we do not mix canned meat and schnapps together and call them a delicacy having said that i think i need to use some of y'all schnapps and beer know what i want to do i want to make some glass oh that is a very early glass in my experience interesting i'm just trying to decide if i really want to use my cheap coal this early yes i think i will all right we're getting a proper fleet yeah we're gonna have both our shipyards producing that's gonna require some sales we've got guys who can make sales that's gonna require some boxes we've got box makers that's gonna require some wood uh we got one wood and then unfortunately to pay a dollar to bounce this person just a little inefficient but hey life goes on when you're shipping i'll pick up three trade tokens that is awesome the industrialization is happening over here but this is just exploration right now you're right you're right don't get out of now let's not get excited you know you're not you're not trying to ship schnapps and canned meat off to the world no no that's for us [Laughter] okay i have not played a card in a while and i think i should change that so let's play this card which i can now do because well i've had the beer forever but i now make bread and i could have spent that trade token but it would have been my last trade token and now i can use this lady to get three at some point and i'll figure out when that is later i think all right y'all i'm gonna be fair and you each get a trade token so nick you can have the bread and john you can have the beer and i will make a purple worker and i will take one of these cards that will be that john take a dollar so i can play we are farmers nice go ahead that brings me up to eight money which is quite a bit somebody makes canned meat right i do anastasia well awesome it's your lucky day because i need some so i'm gonna play this card so i also get a purple out so i'm gonna spend my trade token for anastasia's canned meat and then i do need some refined cotton and that's why i spent all that effort to get this down maybe that was a little bit of a folly when i could have been doing some other stuff but either way i do have several of these reds so i can do that then i can gain a purple worker an engineer i can get another one of these cards i have so many of these in my hand and that will finish my turn all right y'all it's time for a parte over here i am going to make some champagne to keep all of my massive workforce very happy so boxes glass and this exhaust this engineer is very hard figuring out how to make champagne nice and that's six extra points to you at the end of the game right maybe yeah if you're paying attention to those end game cards it sure is yes exactly very nice um anastasia i would like to make you say yay by uh buying some of your cheap coal yay what did i tell you a couple times i would like to make you say wait why are you doing that by buying some soap wait what are you doing wow we have played too many games all right so i have a purple and the thing i would like to have done by now is the thing that nick did getting a couple more trade ships but i'm very far behind on that i do have a purple though so i could spend that purple as well as a brick and some planks in order to get this level two shipyard and work towards that i think i'm going to do that yeah let's go for it that is going to take my purple the planks and the bricks awesome and now i have two shipyards all right i'm going to explore the new world that is sugar cane and coffee beans not what i wanted yeah if you like i can uh i can sell you louisiana you can sell me florida and we can both be better off i would rather your tile i'm not going to lie i am communicating the same thing back uh you're good yeah oh you yeah i'm good uh john i would like to buy some beer from you excellent and then we're going to go ahead and drop a bar of soap in that beer [Laughter] for this miner who needs really needs that pick me up i'm pretty sure he's he's consuming the soap and the beer separately uh first of all don't pass judgment on my people you mind your own civilization over there and it's your turn awesome all right i'll take that gold okay anastasia am i correct in that you make sausage i do make sausage excellent i can even tell you how it gets made so i'm gonna use this card over here to get three temporary trade tokens and then i'm going to spend one of them permanently so it's gone so i have just two of them now and i will get that sausage and then i will play this card along with my beer i had four cards in my starting hand that needed beer so that's why it was the first tile that i took uh and that is yet another card that gets me a red worker um this is the third one of those that i had in my starting hand so i will take my third red worker of the game the old-fashioned way normally i make these type stuff and i upgrade them into reds but this game i'm just making them right from the cards and then i get yet another one of these super expensive cards y'all are making me rich so rich in fact that wow i'm gonna do what i think john has somehow dubbed the nick plan but i think it's just the by shipyard plan um it's a pretty pretty standard opening the truth is i have so many workers that it's not worth waiting around uh to for my next stod vest so i'm gonna spend four money to bring this purple back and use it then i will use my bricks and some wood and built this level two shipyard that'll be that man you were rich dang uh feel free to keep trading with me wow that sounds like a threat yeah it's mostly john's fault actually i've been doing a pretty good job never mind stop fest whatever yay it's john's turn there wasn't a threat that was an invitation i was just saying that my world is clearly thriving with all of my workers on all of my industries and you're just welcome to trade with me and make me rich all right it is my turn and now i'm gonna do the thing that i did not do last turn i think i'm gonna make ships uh it seemed too expensive last turn but i have another red which makes it three money less expensive so i'm gonna go for it i'm gonna do exactly what nick did i'm gonna take a level two or level one trade ship as well as a level two trade ship this is going to cost a pretty penny though so this one needs a sale and that's good and it needs some wood planks and it's already full so that means i have to spend the money to put this back and then go there this one is done and then after that i can gain a trade token there and then i was planning on paying to get one of these reds back for the uh the cargo here but i'm going to start here i guess by going on to the sales and then instead of paying for it with the cargo i just i have all these trade tokens so i think i'm going to trade for nick's cargo considering anastasia's bragging about being rich oh my god oh my god look you got to take i've learned you got to take the ego when you have it you know what i'm saying so cargo boxes are so rare which means that's going to cost two trade tokens john have you learned nothing nick has more money than i do why would you want to help him because i haven't spent four of it and i played a card that got me more gold it's true it's true so did i it was mostly you know talking a lot [Laughter] um and then so that paid for my trade with youtube cargo boxes i'll trade with you next time i'm holding you to that i'll trade with you next time it's a binding agreement you said it and then lastly i do need still need some wood so i think i'll spend one more gold to reset from here and go back there on the wood so just like that i get two more of these and i've got a lot of trade tokens yay all right well that trade tokens are the one thing i am not rich in but we will get there well i'm not really rich in anything at the moment but you know other than talking a big talk over here champagne i guess champagne yeah all right i'm gonna go ahead and play this this is gonna cost me my other cheap coal and a little bit of soap and i'm gonna turn three of these blue workers into three red workers very nice that's that i'm going to buy this cotton cloth with a trade token and some wood oh he didn't want to trade for mine to a pop no thank you sir yeah the back of my head is like maybe he will maybe he just needs one but yeah i if i needed one that'd be great yeah i happen to have five cards in my hand are you serious i am entirely serious that is insane i have three and now i'm lamenting that i did not beat either of you to that alas here we are well you can buy them from me since you weren't trading with john i made it much easier for you you know a very calm game of getting mad at each other with trading the most peaceful trading game where everybody kind of wins of passive aggressively threatening each other well knowing you're definitely going to be giving them gold later on all right i think i speaking of giving people gold let's give some people gold actually is this just all anastasia schnapps and soap oh nick does have snow that is true i do that and he also has schnapps so you can do two to nick or you can do one each oh wow you yeah i'll go one and one that you made it easy for me there all right so that's gonna take to trade and then i think i'm gonna upgrade all three of these farmers into workers all right well i guess i am now the last one to do the nick plan or the john plan or whoever plan the trade plan or just buying trade ships which is just a part of the game so all right i'm gonna put out two craftsmen and one farmer and then i'll pay money to send that farmer home give him good tonight to rest and send him back and oh crappers three gold bars oh i don't want to john [Laughter] i get that i do get that ah this is very annoying but i guess for the sake of things i will just spend three to get this craftsman and reuse it which is rather frustrating because i miscalculated that but you know what that is the luxury of having money so that's true and honestly this is kind of a weird social dynamic with the game where oftentimes people say i don't want to trade with that person they have too much money and usually the person with the least amount of money doesn't mean they haven't made it they've just been spending a lot so it's kind of nice to be sitting on stacks of cash because it incentivizes people to be like oh poor anastasia she's so poor she's so poor now she lost everything um all right that was that oh you nick you should get your trade tokens too yeah ooh thank you yes i will um great i'm going to use this soap and this cotton cloth these things that i just copied from other empires um and this old man is going to use it to clean up i guess and he will grab me a purple another purple don't like that okay so it's my turn and for the first time in a while i've really just kind of looked at the cards that i have in my hand and something is is jumping out and punching me in the face i now realize as far as the direction i should be going so i'm just gonna need to keep that in mind uh anyway i should do something right now i have one trade token left and a pile of the blue workers surprisingly i guess i just upgraded three green into blue so it's not that surprising someone can feel free to make some cannons sometime soon [Laughter] we all used our purples making shipyards it is crazy how expensive my hand is i just have to say i don't think at this point in the game i've ever had this many of the eight point cards and then obviously i have the five pointers as well but wow well i hate to do it with a trade token left unused and four of these workers but it's time for a city festival so that is me done all right i will use one of my trade tokens and craftsmen on expensive coal to make coffee i'm actually going to over build this i call this straight line because there's nothing else that i'd like to use it for nice so that cost you the coal and coffee very cool also that's six points at the end of the game because of carl leonard von melching so you're definitely doing a good job of hunting down those points john i am buying some boxes from you oh that is very generous yes it is super generous um and what's even more generous is i'm gonna build these cannons oh that is incredibly generous interesting okay that is interesting now if you haven't played this game before the reason that's interesting is because in order to get the level to well actually any of the exploration ships they require cannons so up to this point that the only ships we could make were trade which is part of the reason why those are the only ships we're making but now that nick has done that we could trade with him for his cannons i'll be honest nick i was planning on making cannons myself this turn so that is giving me an interesting situation because you can only trade for one of a specific good in each round so if i went to make ships i could only get one cannon but i could take i could use that cannon right here and make a level two trade ship or exploration ship right now and not spend all that time making my own cannon that is tempting especially considering that level two trade ship needs a purple and cannons require a purple and i only have one i'm not flush with purples like nick over there with his massive two yeah nick i think i'm gonna do it uh so the cannons are red which means that's gonna take two of my trade tokens and nick's gonna get a coin then i'm gonna make this level 2 expedition ship that will take a sale it's going to take some wood it's going to take my purple engineer and then of course the cannons that i just took from nick and then that will get me two more exploration tokens and i could build a level one trade ship if i want to i can't make a level one exploration ship because they also need cannons i've already traded for cannons level one trade ships take sales and wood and i don't see a reason not to do that sales go here wood goes there and then i will get yet another trade token and i have a full fleet at this point you can cover up previous ships but this is starting to incentivize me to get another old world tile to get even more ships but either way that is me done oh that was really interesting and i am torn if i'm being honest as to how i want to approach here really blew your minds with this cannon thing we've ground to a halt like i said i was going to make my own cannons i'm actually in retrospect i think i'm happy you did it because i only have that one purple okay uh i will lose my last two trade tokens one to each of you for schnapps and beer nice and i will play this guy which is just gonna add more cards to my hand that's totally not what i wanted him to give me oh boy alas going to make some exploration ships nick uh yes violence ships um two sails um i need to sorry two cannons three dollars to use a red person for a sale anastasia i'm gonna buy a sale from you and one dollar to reuse wood so that two wood and that will get me a level two and level one very nice that's that all right i get to go and i think i'm going to play this card that needs two exploration tokens and i have three of them i'm not sure what i'm going to do with the last one it's likely i will do nothing with it but in the future i can use this to get three trade if i need it even though i have six trade basically so i have a lot of trade options now all right well i hate stock vesting with so few with so many workers left but i've already made regretted my last turn trying to extend them out so i'm gonna do it all right newer worlds come on game huh god damn it wow got an overlap on the rubber oh that hurt looks like you wanted sugar cane the hard part about this this is actually one of my least favorite parts is that you can't trade for these with other people and every time you take one you have to take three new world cards which a lot of them do actually have the five pointers can be pretty great like like for the victory point and their effects like they can be actually relatively cheap on it a lot of these give you extra lumps or discard cards yeah but still yeah that is a that's painful but you know what after looking at the eights that i had in my hand i was like i'm not ending this game anyway so i'm done it's funny because i've thought the same thing so it's up to you john and he said nothing it's gonna be a long one guys get ready maybe maybe john's got planned john's got plans i have i have a very specific plan love my hand i i'm i haven't really oh i haven't really taken a high level look at my hand turn of fortunes now he loves it i didn't dislike it before it was more i noticed something and now i'm noticing other things and i feel like i like everything that i'm noticing you know i think i'm actually regretting not buying the other canon now but i could just buy it now it's not too late it would cost a pile of money though my uh purple engineer game has not been good so far you know i think i am going to play this card right over here that's going to cost a red and then some bricks and it's going to give me three more blues sorry two more blues and then two more cards which might be great or might make me really unhappy and i think i'm okay with that all right i'm getting in on this this uh ship game so i'm gonna build one more trade ship and another level to explore so that's gonna cost me two sales to wood and it's gonna exhaust this purple worker which i already did and then nick i will give you well you only get one gold but i will use two trade tokens to uh trade for your cannons all right i will use these two exploration tokens to actually now we're going to play this uh eyepatch fellow to hang out with his other eye patch friend you have more trade than you need it seems what no that's not how this is going [Laughter] all right i am going to play this card that i definitely just drew that is going to take a bread and a beer almost a perfect card really if i wanted more purples and i did do think i needed another purple that's gonna give me another one of those hard to make cards but either way so i'll get a purple and one of these cards and okay all right that's me done well you know nick pointed out to me after we played golem that i had this moment where i could take the safe play or risk it and take the chance play and maybe if i'd taken the chance play it would have helped me out more and i'm in that quandary again here and i think i think i'm going to take the chance play so let's do it it worked out so well for me it didn't work out well for nick so i'm hoping the odds are in my favor all right let's do it all right we're going to the new world and we're really hoping yes that will work needed the chocolate i needed the chocolate for reasons that i will not speak to all right uh i just want to point out that anastasia complained about stop festing with five unavailable workers ten workers not fast wow yeah all right wow wow this is what happens when you can't promote anybody you just have a bunch of people drinking schnapps and whatever else slurry i'm really sorry i drew all those cards we're gonna laugh at the end of the game and how many of them are actually played an interesting part about this play is so far no one has been really going to start the gauntlet towards getting teal cubes because in order to do that we need fur coats to be able to upgrade into teal or just to make teal and in order for fur coats we need sewing machines in order for sewing machines we need brass so in my opinion the moment somebody buys brass that's kind of like the initiation of like phase two of the game yeah and no that's true i was gonna see that too i was like no one's gone at all we don't we're not really incentivized to either so it's really interesting that this is not happening i mean some people swear that fur coats is what then like kind of kicks off phase three of the game and so it's just that's yeah it's kind of fascinating in my experience once brass happens usually sewing machines and fur coats happen very quickly thereafter is this just a preload for you to tell us that you're building brass no yeah no i'm not no no it's not doing it i don't have any interest in brass my society functions fantastically without these higher level goods you don't need them the situation i'm in right now is that i'm really tempted to make another ship with this engineer that i have another one of the exploration chips and cover up one of my other spots i'd also love to get another old world tile to just have more ships but that takes two exploration tokens so it's a little awkward i feel like i could cover up an explorer with an explorer with a double explorer so that i get up to i lose one but i gained two so i could then use that to make an old world and make another one later on which would get me up to six which is not terrible you know what i think that is what i'm going to do so nick it is your lucky day i am going to be making another another level 2 expedition ship so that's going to be 2 trade for your cannons i don't really think that he thinks of it as his lucky day i think he's like i had to buy build the stupid cannons and they're all using them i wasn't saying anything about it but you're not wrong yeah you made cannons and then everybody got really excited and you're like they got they got too excited [Laughter] it's not like you make any more money for going all that work yeah all right so now like the question is i can also cover up a trade i'd go down one trade and i go up two explorers so i'd have three explore at my disposal right now but trade tokens can be so crucial in the right moment yeah i think i'm gonna cover up an explorer so this explores going from one to two so i lost one and gained two so i effectively gained one overall and i could build another level one ship but i'm not going to i'm not going to uh that i do have to pay a bunch of other stuff though i'm a cheater that's going to take sales planks and a purple which i do have so but you're in the same boat i am yeah i am so i think what i'm probably going to do is anastasia i'm going to use your sales that's red so it's going to take two trade tokens and then actually i'm not going to use these i'm going to use this one shot card uh when i do that i get three of these and then i will use two of them right now to you anastasia and then i will leave this one right here and spend one money to reuse this green to get the plank that i need for that kind of a weird turn but i think it gets me where i need to go we'll see okay so on my turn i'm gonna build some sweet sweet chocolates nice continuing to chase those mission cards which is very smart what's that 18 points you have now in the bank from those that is that is which is not actually my intention at all i just really needed this stuff but you know if it works yeah um so i'm running out of space so i'm gonna actually build this over these pigs even though they've been so helpful for me this is the last thing i need pigs for so that means that this farmer just kind of comes over here and chills and this will go on top of there and that's that okay um i am going to buy the other chocolate for a trade token and a green yeah i'm good all right it's my turn again and nick just reminded me that i did need to pay an engineer for this ship that i just made so thank you for catching that and now the reason i did that was to have two exploration tokens so that i could go to the old world so let's do it i definitely am regretting playing this before that ordering was was was probably wrong i should have spent those two to go to the old world and then place the new ship over there but you know what sometimes you make mistakes even if you play the game a bunch ooh nice so this comes in with an industry it's cheap steel so normally it's red but now i can do it for blue and everyone can trade me for cheap steel if they want to so there you go you probably should point out that i think it's just us that calls the industries cheap i don't think that that's actually part of the game efficient steel that's true missions yeah yeah because it's one trade token so everyone else can trade for can get steal from me for one trade token instead of the normal two um which is you know cheaper in a way it is it is we could just call it bargain bin steel yes hey you know what as long as i get a gold you can call it whatever you want um yeah that's the interesting part of this game is the the the trade tokens don't increase the amount of gold you get so effectively for john it doesn't matter it just means it's more opportunities for people to trade with him so they can use their lower level people or so they can use their trade tokens more easily uh all right so i have been waiting all game to get this one wow a level eight card all right eight pointer card that's the first one i think he played it may well be uh i'm gonna play a sausage a champagne and a chocolate that is a really nice card you really did draw just all the upgrade cards didn't you i really really did if you only knew how many i still have are you gonna make two purposes i'm gonna not just make two i'm gonna make three purples y'all so oh yeah yeah i'm actually going to [Music] uh remind me if i if i am using okay let's pull out my purples all right so i will replace this one why why why they want to come this one with this purple and this one with this purple and then one of these guys very nice and of course eight points at the end of the game you that's right i'm not saying you're winning but i am saying that you're doing a really good job of getting points so far it's nice i like say that because you all said that during gollum and then so let's just let's stay the underdog for a little while you can stay the underdog i'm just saying i like i like what you've been doing you can't stay the underdog when you're winning though so all right i'm going to [Music] play this person and buy one of your beers john all right nice so you can use that person once in the future to get one new world good of your choice that's me i imagine you'll be using it for tobacco considering oh no sugarcane that's right i think it's that one i guess one of those two i'm trying to read your mind here all right it's my turn and a couple turns ago i talked about maybe making brass and i said no i'm not and now i'm making baths it's happening i'm just going to cover this thing up here brass is pretty simple it's just boxes and coal and i can handle that boxes and coal all right brass is in the game and again that's slightly ominous because tons of things actually need brass if we focus in you can see these glasses need brass the stop wash needs brass the sewing machine and the coat needs brass uh it needs a sewing machine which needs a brass and we need coats for teal also this steam engine needs brass and this steam car needs a steam engine there's just a whole bunch of things that kind of get launched off when brass happens so we'll see if that actually happens either way that is my turn so one of you has bread and one of you has work shirts i have both of those i do have bread all right well i feel like helping nick today so nick i will use your bread my canned meat to do another upgrade action and i'm gonna take these three blues and turn them into four four turn them into three reds very nice and that will be my turn um thanks anastasia i'm gonna pay you right back for some class and i'll spend the purple oh why thank you box and i'll build some champagne ah six more points to you there's only two of these so i'm locked out of those points um actually i'm going to use this champagne i think to build over my cannons oh that hurt oh my god nick that is a strategy in this game which is actually super interesting yes so now obviously none of us can make cannons until somebody else makes cannons and uh wow none of us can make ships until any of us can make cannons yeah so now none of us can make uh ships or explosion ships until somebody makes cannons again and now i'm really regretting not just going ahead and making my own cannons but hey that was a good play that was a good play at least you snuck in another ship i needed to stod fest and i did old world i needed room i think i am pretty happy that that i was able to sneak that in all right i'm gonna play a new world card that needs a red in order for me to make some cotton and i don't have any reds right now so i'm gonna spend three money and then i'll take a red from somewhere else and then go over here for the cotton then i need soap and a trade token who makes soap i do both of us okay anastasia i think you're gonna get it this time so all right trading for your soap and then this also just needs a trade token to be used and then this has an exclamation point on the effect which means it's the only card that must be used immediately after you play it and it says i have to take two cards from my hand and get rid of them shove them underneath the uh their draw decks i think the two cards i'm getting rid of are this one in this one which means yes i'm actually getting rid of a three-point card instead of one of the numerous eight-point cards in my hand read into that how you will and obviously by doing that i've effectively lowered my hand size by three because i played a card and then got rid of two more and then also that's five points so i'm feeling pretty good about that turn all right i just realized that when i played my last card which required bread i forgot to use a tray token even though i traded nick for it so i'm going to go ahead and take that off nice and now i'm going to play this card more chocolate yes another chocolate and some tea and pretty sure that's coffee coffee you know what i'm pretty sure that's a spiked coffee i'm making it tea and nicu will get uh gold for the uh schnapps and i will get two of these expedition deck cards all right i'm going to spend uh four military to play another eye patch person all right it's my turn and i'm going to festival shotfest and unfortunately i did not use all three of these so i maybe timed that a little bit wrong so this is going to go away without me using it and then i get everything back all right i'm done all right i am going to use my last trade token and one money to reuse this wood and i will buy myself some rum nice and i don't want to place this over six more points from that mission card i guess i will just place it here for now for now that's where it's going that's not a for now all right um anastasia i'm going to pay you a dollar to buy some canned goods um and i will also need to use another trade token and a red worker for some cloth go ahead john cool and that's just a banked main action you can do later on in the game very nice it's my turn and technically this card has been used up so i do have to remember to put it in there cash it in and now i've got a whole bunch of things i can do i think the first of those is going to be spending four of my exploration tokens to play this person who does not have an eye patch apparently only nick draws the eye patch people um i'm gonna use that immediately so i'll get two gold actually i won't use it immediately i don't have this gold just yet again i don't want to lose out on the trade tokens and i have so many trade tokens i can't be sure but either way this is in play and i can use it to get the gold and the four temporary trade tokens what i want all right let's see here all right i am going to actually make my own schnapps sort of a late game early i know i know ask yourself the same question all right uh so that's gonna cost me a potato let's do this in the proper order here all right so i have to pay one to move this guy over here and then i'm gonna use my cheap coal and then he is going to go home and this is going to go over my potatoes i am out of reasons for potatoes all you nick yup homie okay i'll pay you each one one for brass one for glass and use the purple to build pocket watches alrighty that's exactly what i was going to do on my turn which means i don't need to do it anymore that makes me happy i'm going to play this person they need work shirts they also need a trade token and they need the pocket watches so the pocket watch is a red okay cool so that's gonna be two more trade tokens so nick gets a gold i actually forgot to take a gold from when nikki traded back with me and then this person will give me an extra action when i use them and i think i will not for the moment anastasia just pointed out to me that i have been cheating i guess i have too many trade tokens one two three four five six and i have seven of these tokens i'm not sure how that happened uh so i'll get rid of this one and i did have one extra trade token the last time i did a festival so hopefully i didn't actually cheat thanks for catching that all right well it's really interesting because i actually am in a position where i have enough workers that i could build my own cannons i don't have anywhere to put them so i mean i don't think you need the barley anymore i'm pretty sure you're done with that you don't know i just built schnapps um well i guess we're out of bread but who knows who knows i think at this moment i have so many workers that they'll come back to me if i need them so i'm gonna go ahead and shot vest awesome that'll be that i am going to get some rocks and some whiskey and pour some whiskey on the rocks for this fine gentleman here and just even more trade tokens you drew every one of those cards yeah instead of drawing cards that let me deal with my own workers i'm not sure if that's legal because he doesn't have an eye patch just right yeah he doesn't quite fit the team they they make him go hang out with the other side people yeah all right it's my turn and i think i'm gonna make glasses those cost glass and anastasia has that so that is going to be one trade token and one gold to anastasia they need brass and i make brass and they need an engineer and i have a couple of those so that is done all right i am going to use my schnapps and one of you has work shirts that's one of your work shirts awesome john's work shirts and i'm going to play this fine fellow and keep him around all right i'll take a gold for the trade and now and it can go stop fast hey simple turn nice great it is time for me to go and i think i'm going to use this card now so that's going to give me two gold and then it's going to get me four temporary trade tokens then i'm going to use two of these and nick i'm going to once again use your pocket watch so that's a gold to you then i need to use my eyeglasses and then who has canned meat is that anastasia that's me awesome i will get rid of another trade token to do that and this is going to give me two expedition cards and actually have two up here already so i can just add those to the pile and technically i should be considering these uh when i'm making my cube grabbing decisions but so far i've been kind of ignoring them okay so all right i'm gonna use this fine fellow um i'm not even gonna bother taking all taking his trade tokens because i'm actually gonna use all of them to play this other fine fellow so i'm gonna put this guy away so i used the three trade tokens that he gave me two of them to go to nick for one of them yeah two of them to go to nick for the cloth because john just reminded me of a rule and i'm slightly annoyed at him at the moment that's valid i guess it's not his fault at all but you know what nick has more cards than i'm feeling sorry for him which is something that he'll remind me of later which i should not have done because he's probably definitely winning all right i think it'll probably be appropriate in this game so uh and then the last one for this and then i will use my own schnapps and i'm going to go ahead and take this extra turn right now and i will use two exploration tokens to go to the old world and see hey cargo boxes well you know empty space but we'll see you can still cover this up oh that's right all right i am doing cloth soap trade token and playing this lady with the cool hat to draw to expeditions great all right it's my turn and i think i am going to build cannons a thing i should have done a while ago all right john taking one for the team over there that's gonna help me out too um i could get away without it there's a path through where i could not do it but i'm gonna go for it uh so that is going to take a engineer it's gonna take steel and i have cheap steel now so i may as well use it and then oh anastasia has cheap cargo boxes i sure do you know what i'm going to lose this one if i don't use it i can also just go here with that uh sure i'll use this uh so go ahead i'll trade with you for the cargo boxes for that one and canons are back in the game all right well i am not going to turn down that opportunity but before i do let's take a brief break to uh spend another round spending three trade tokens and one sausage who are you trading this time this time i will be generous and send it right on back to you john oh thanks um okay so those three come over here and i will again use my extra turn right now and let's build some ships hey okay i can't build both sorry let's not get too excited here i can build one one exploration ship yeah yeah so first things first let's do our two sails we're gonna do our two wood we will page on our last two trade tokens for the cannon for the cannon and we will exhaust one of our many engineers who have nothing better to do and that will be that i will take my tokens i'll take the gold and announce your neck i will use one of your massive trade tokens nope no no this this lady trade tokens please for cigars awesome that's six more points because of the objective and obviously i think it's relatively obvious you need that for a card in your hand cover up some twine i guess actually some poultry great i forgot to put this card away since i already fully used it all right it's my turn and i think i'm going to do a festival and then i'm going to use this card right here to take another main action and with that i'm going to buy a single level 2 exploration ship with this shipyard i could buy a level 1 ship but the problem is all of the level 1 trades are gone and i don't think i need a seventh exploration i think six is going to be is going to be fine so i'm just going to make the one ship that means i need a sale i need some wood planks i also need the cannon that i just made and then one of these two engineers and that will get me two more explorer tokens all right pretty simple turn over here i'm gonna run these two exploration tokens and play this nice lady and i'm going to leave her chilling over here i'm playing this upgrady person with cigar champagne and breads just throwing a straight-up party yeah i don't know what i want my upgrade to look like yet so i'm not going to do it yet all right and here i thought i had purple workers locked in but i don't think that's going to happen all right it's my turn and i'm going to spend six exploration tokens to play this fine eight point fellow who gives me another action and i think i'm going to use this immediately to take another action and with it i am going to buy a sewing machine oh oops someone's going for fur coats getting classy over there john yeah so that's gonna take i'm gonna do some cheap steel we got some brass and then my other engineer all right in a very unsurprising turn of events gonna use this lady for her three trade tokens to play this yet another card that needs cloth that you can't make you have another card that needs cloth that's right and so i'm going to uh put her over here and i am going to take two from the expedition deck and i will put one down here on canned meat all right that is that who uh did you buy your cloth from today i help you nick back and forth back and forth don't worry there's many more to go maybe not that many but i'm going to use two exploration tokens to put another pirate into play believe it or not this is unreal i have no words i'm done all right it is my turn and it's time for for coats to enter the scene these take a sewing machine which i have they also need cloth which i make and they need boxes which i can make but my boxes are red and anastasia you have blue boxes right i sure do yeah i'm gonna trade for one of those so you can take a gold and now fur coats exist and it is worth noting that you can upgrade a purple into a teal with a red cube and a fur coat and teals can be pretty important depending on the situation because they're required to make all of these end-game super fancy industries so yeah all right that is me done all right i'm gonna make a little left turn move here and i'm gonna build windows okay which no one has done i'm gonna spend somewhat surprisingly considering you made glass so early i kind of expected windows to happen soon after that but every time you play this game the pattern is different so i used my own glass and i had to spend one to reuse a worker on my wood and that's that wow suddenly my turn looks so different and it did a hot second ago i'm going to upgrade oh no i'm gonna do this and this and this yeah yeah um i need red which is this guy i need coats which is one dollar to john yep i need windows which is one dollar to anastasia i need cheap steel which is a dollar to john cheap coal which is a dollar to anastasia and cheap boxes which is a dog anastasia that's three tokens which is one of these salty dogs cool so i get two more gold out of all of that and you turned what essentially a blue into a tv basically yeah wow stuff is actually active so i'm gonna do it one by one so blue into a red red into a purple purple into a teal that makes sense um i was not sure that i was gonna be doing any upgrading but i and i gave both of you like a victory point to do that but almost i guess you gave did anastasia get three cold yeah i gave her and i got two out of all that yeah yeah yeah i don't i i was very much struggling with workers so that seems good yeah and that's part of the my reticence to maybe do the sewing machine fur coat because it allowed things like this to happen but it also gives me a path to play all the cards in my hand one of the paths anyway sure that's my turn well i think for my turn even though i have a bunch of cubes over here and have a bunch of trade tokens down over here the right thing for me to do is to festival so that is what i'm going to do all right anastasia you're up all right i'm going to go ahead and do an upgrade action as well so i'm going to take all of these fine craftsmen i'm going to put them right here because this is going to get a little confusing so i'm going to upgrade three of them into purples so the first way that i'm gonna do that is i'm gonna put two of them on windows two of them on my own steel i'm gonna use one trade token to use john's cheap steal so you get a money john and then i will put one of these guys back and put him back for three money got it and then three of these guys i guess this one this one and sure this one will all become purples you have an army of purple cubes all i did in this game is upgrade yep awesome thank you okay um i am going to crack one of these for some trade tokens and then i will use one of them as a rubber uh investor steel for this yeah cool we're good awesome it's my turn and i'm going to spend 6 explore again and then play another one of these fellows who give me an extra action and i will use it immediately to take another main action john's making me nervous over there i'm sure you could see why i took the cannons to be able to get to the six tokens and why yeah i was a bit bummed when nick went made that go away when i was just too explore away from from getting to the the six uh explorer requirements there now for the action i just got from that card i'm going to do an upgrade i'm going to turn a purple into a teal so that's going to cost a red and a fur coat and then i could do two more upgrades if i want i'm just trying to figure out if i get to teal or not or if i just spend five money to reuse the teal i guess five money is almost two points so i'll just make another one then again i would then have no engineers so i'd have to upgrade into the this red to get back over here to get that engineer i think that's fine um i say that it's possible this is a mistake but i am going to do it anyway so that'll go there this red i guess this will take two more reds now i'm not gonna do that i'm not gonna do that um instead i think i will maybe make another purple that is going to take a window as well as a steel and i have cheap steel so i think that makes us worth it and then for the window anastasia i will trade you for that you get a coin and i could do one more upgrade if i want to and i think i will i'll turn a worker into a red so that's going to take coal as well as cargo boxes and i think i'm going to trade with you again anastasia one all right once for the coal and once for the cheap cargo boxes i think you gotta do it's gonna be better because coal and cargo boxes both are red for me and i'm trying to make reds that i can then use so that means this worker is actually a red craftsman this red craftsman is actually an engineer and this engineer is actually my first investor of the game all right i'm going to stratfest all right easy okay um i'm going to crack another one of these for three more because i need five trade tokens to play this card uh it's gonna be a dollar to anastasia and two dollars to john nice ah you're trading for my fur coat as well as my work shirts correct and now i have you guessed it i was going to say trade this is just becoming parody i don't think i've ever seen anyone get this many temporary trade tokens before it's comical i love i love that that you drew all trey token cards and i drew all upgrade cards just like john just your red workers that's great that's me all right it's my turn and i am going to build a steam engine this needs brass steel and an entrepreneur which is the teal so i have the teal there the steel will happen there and then the brass is going to take one of my reds all right that is out so technically people could now make the blue cotton cloth because that needed raw cotton as well as a steam engine although i suspect maybe people are done with cotton cloth at this point in the game but either way i'm done with my turn well i am not done let's go close you're gonna go for it oh no i'm not gonna go for it because at this point yeah turns it would take me at this point the turns it would take me to do that i might as well just trade for it so um i've been uh running through a fairly prescriptive plan actually for a couple of turns now i know i know i can't end it but i'm just gonna sit here and keep trading yeah keep getting points so i could have ended this game a little earlier but i decided not to because i was worried that i was already behind you get seven points for ending the game but i was worried that i was behind it i'm now worried that my letting the game go on maybe i'm not gaining enough on youtube but we'll just have to see because i'm not really getting that many end game points for the mission cards and i feel like both of you have done a pretty good job of targeting those we'll see the fact that you're gonna get you had so many of these played we both played at this point let's see you played just just out of curiosity i think 17 cards and i have played 16 well this will be 17 but okay i played far more uh lower level cards so it's very interesting and nick has 13. yeah i'm curious how this plays out i'm curious to see what happens so i paid three trade tokens uh i'm gonna trade with nick because i feel like you're the leader now so which i know is terrible because he seems feeble i just realized i actually forgot to take the two coins that nick gave me trading on his last turn so i'm gonna do that real quick all right well yeah you can have it nick and uh i am i i played a soap so uh we'll place this here and i will take two more expedition cards uh my turn yeah festival studfest easy turn all right i have had an interesting set of turns of trying to get all these cards played for points instead of just playing a card and discarding the other two which i'm pretty sure both naked anastasia have figured out is something i could have done a while ago but i wanted these points and i'm at the tail end of it now because i can finally make a steam wagon i've run out of space on my island so i think the steam wagon is going to run over these barley fields then i need rubber a steam engine as well as an investor now i only have one investor so that means i'm going to spend five of this money which is almost two points because six money is or every three money is a point so five of this means it's pretty costly to get that investor back to then use it to flip this and hopefully this is not a dumb thing to do i'll spend this trade token for the rubber and then i do need to activate my steam engine which is going to take an engineer and now i have a steam wagon all right i am going to actually not do what i expected to do which is trade y'all for another cloth don't worry that's coming um i'm actually oh nosies am i gonna be a trade token short to make this happen that is unfortunate stymied here at the end oh nick the risky play or the smart play let's do the risky one which is not really risky at all i've drawn quite a few of those which is pretty good considering you have this fleet of engineers and many of those expedition cards give you two points for the people but we'll see because what i really could i was gonna i need some more upgrades but we'll see how this goes um you can have six of those now nice all right so uh again i had to spend unfortunately four trade tokens on this one because i had none of these things so in this case i'll still give it all to nick nick you may have bread and claw so nice yeah everything's coming up next [Laughter] okay i am going to take two main actions this turn and the first of those main actions is going to be to build a coffee which i need coal so anastasia i'll give you a dollar to purchase some cheap coal and i also need to spend a trade token for the actual beans themselves um we will cover over uh this you know what actually we're gonna crush our one uh shipyard just because we're done making chips just we're done making ships and we'll the coffee i don't know gets poured into the ocean or something i don't know um and then and then we're going to spend these three trade tokens to john for um this fine fellow yeah that's uh coffee and uh soap for me this is why you never actually feel like nick is uh behind because then he plays cards like that and you realize your attempt to take away the purples is gonna fail right now to nick yeah you regret it you have seven right i do nick and you i don't have enough reds oh i only have four reds so at maximum if i cash both these in i would be tied with you ah okay we'll go back to feeling sorry for you continue again you could feel proud of me you're right i am so suggestion you two are jockeying over this university and i i'm just trying to end this game and i hope it'll be worth it i'm starting to feel like it's not but we'll just have to find out soon uh you're done right nick i'm done yeah this has created a very interesting tension because john feels like john has been very close to ending in every turn so i feel like every turn is my last and i keep being like now i'm like desperate i'm like john am i going to get two more turns can i like i want to look up the spoilers for the end can you just tell me you're always going to get two more turns because i was the starting player and we finished the round we're gonna do one more round um oh phew i'm fine guys take your time i'm good i've seen two more turns and i've done everything i needed to do well that's that makes me even less confident that it was a smart idea to drag this game on it probably should have ended it a little while personal goals here this does not mean i get points it's my personal desire to play the cards i'm capable of playing well i think the right call for me to do right now is a festival so that is what i am going to do all right that is not what i expected no me neither okay well this is interesting because no matter what john has in that little hand of his i'm still gonna have three turns including this one which kind of changes my yeah plans ever so slightly not not that crazy actually i'm going to go ahead and just play this um let's get the exploration down let's get a little more gold and i'm going to get some trade tokens and that will and we'll open things up so i will cash him in right now for four temporary trade tokens and uh that'll be that okay um i'm gonna cash in this lady for six temporary trade tokens two three four five six that was four somehow um and i will use one of them to play this person using my bicycles and schnapps uh and that's that's that's good i'm good there all right i am going to play this gentleman right here who wants rum he wants a fur coat and he wants a steam wagon so he is a very fancy gentleman uh the fur coat is going to be a red the steam wagon is going to be one of my engineers and then the rum is something i could have made but it would have taken an entire turn and it would have given me six points but i feel like i need to actually make this game end asap uh to kind of stem the bleeding of points that you two are making uh so uh anastasia i need your right i think rome is made from uh kane sap not asap by the way uh actually do both of you make rum at this point i don't okay cool i would have very so earlier when you were like nick i think you wanted the leaves for the tobacco or you wanted the sugar cane for the rum the answer to that question was right yes oh yeah yes and i i drew the three not those two things very impressive all right so anastasia i'm gonna trade for your rum and that's gonna take two trade tokens and you get a coin and then i'm going to use this person to take another action immediately and i am going to play this person so they need a sewing machine a steam wagon and some crates and the reason i went down this path is because i had one person who needed the fur coat and a steam wagon another person who needed a sewing machine and a steam wagon and that seemed synergistic enough to try and make this happen but and the steam wagons are tough to get to because you need the steam engine first and anyway we'll see what happens so i do need to pay for this that's going to be some boxes it is a sewing machine which is another red one and then my steam wagon gets used again with another engineer that's two of them in this round in this turn even and then i will use this immediately to get three one-time use exploration tokens so i actually have nine of them at my disposal and that finishes my turn more than needed yeah yeah i'd be happy to have nine of them so i am going to pay a sausage nick you get a money for your bread thank you and now i just have to think very briefly about [Music] how i want to divvy these guys up you know what i don't actually have to decide in this moment because i can hold on to that so i'm gonna hold on to that i never considered that but i can just i'm gonna keep him right there for right now sounds good hanging out yeah great all right um i'm gonna crack this for three temporary trade tokens one two three um i am going to play this lady for a pocket watch a cloth and a trade token and i'm gonna discard these two gramophone cards out of my hand which are definitely not getting played then i'm going to take another turn or another main action and i'm going to buy another car from you john yeah i swear as well as a cotton cloth if nick ends the game right now oh my god oh he just he just snaked you she just saved you so hard yep um wow so that's that uh oh i didn't need that uh i did need to use i did need to use the other pocket watch for that fella this is gonna be such a good friendly ties episode [Laughter] you gotta make sure you come listen to us chat about this certainly a mistake for me to let this game go on yeah um and since the last stodfest i just want to point out that i have used uh seven no 15 a trade token did you trade for me and all that twice twice okay so you get the uh the the seven point ending the game fireworks yeah fireworks and we actually will not get so that comes back to john and finish the round so we all get one more turn one more turn yeah yeah man spicy nick i know that was good playing the underdog over there yeah all right well i'm gonna play this card that i could have played a long time ago discard two cards from my hand obviously i that's my last card in the hand because i decided to try and play the cards in my hand to get points but obviously that was a a huge mistake so i will get rid of these three then spend three more and that's an eight points and that's gonna be my final action uh yeah i'm gonna keep it real simple you guys with all your fancy actions check this out we're gonna do another upgrade just making a pile of reds uh no one else has sausage do they no all right uh work shirts you know what john we'll throw you a little love over there so how many times have you traded with nick not as many as you think because we should we should keep uh like uh counters in between us so that we know at the end of the game i'm also going to take the two goal that uh nick gave over to me here if he ends up winning this will be the last time that i pity trade with nick's effort i feel like you say that every time he's very good at being convincing that he has bad hand um to be fair that was your interpretation oh shut up um he barely got any money out of me i usually split it between you two okay so uh i gotta pay let's see i gotta put a sausage down and i guess now would be the time to cash these in since this is my last turn so um i'm basically gonna turn all five of my blues into reds so so let's just put five reds well it doesn't really matter at this point but doesn't you can do it right so um all right so two got rid of these two and then one two three now the question is however uh i guess it doesn't matter whatever i'll turn this green into a blue and we'll call it a day that's my six upgrades okay doke last action i will use this investor uh thanks to this fellow over here to get five five gold um and then i will spend two exploration tokens to draw three cards from the expedition deck very nice um i'm also going to trigger both of these uh and i'm probably going to do the like seven purples thing but i'm just going to look at my expedition just to retroactively go back to my turn here i legitimately forgot yeah i was just about to say you should do that totally uh use this investor to also get five gold which is almost a point oh yeah yeah totally and technically that was two points because that got me to eight two points yeah yeah i'm honestly sure i missed a couple gold that i was supposed to get from some of your trades throughout this game but uh either way all right well let's uh do the final scoring and we'll just start here with the missions so the first one is 10 points to the player with the most purples four points the person who has the second most how many uh i have um i think two yes i have two i have seven how many did you end up with nick i did the seven thing that we talked about okay that we talked about yeah like we talked about that okay i've totally forgotten how the score is when it's a tie it's a friendly tie i'm pretty sure it is a friendly tie i'm pretty sure as well yep so um when it's a tie for second place everyone at second place gets it as well so i get a whopping four points for that which i honestly was not expecting uh then we all get six points for each one of the new world goods we've made which is coffee chocolate cigars and rum and i did none of those i did three of them i did three of them as well then six points for champagne and artillery and i think you both did that once and i did none and that is it what's with it what's with this copycat game nick you had to just you couldn't come play your own game he's had to copy mine they looked good yeah all right now we'll score the rest of my area uh we'll start with these expeditions i have four points for these two purples that's five and six seven eight for this investor and then nine so that's nine for all of those then i have 11 of these three pointers so that is 33. i have three of these five pointers so that is going to be 15 and i have six of these eight pointers so that is 48 more points yeah and then 18 divided by 3 is 6. and let's see what my final score is so that is a final score of 115 which is pretty good um from my past experience all right let's see anastasia next so i've got what i got from the end game cards and uh six 18 divided by three is six uh from my gold and for my cards up here let's see i had 13 threes so many three cards all right so that's gonna be 39 for those and i only had two eights so i kept that oh wow that's a big difference yep uh but i did get oh wow six six fives that's a lot fives that was just me in that cloth so point out how many of those were cloth uh and then down here i had 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 points from the uh investors or what do you call these actually the expeditions expeditions museums and zoos yep all right so so 85 for my cards transposed and then what do i got here one that is a third score that's one of the highest scores i've ever seen i'm pretty sure that is the best game of anno that i've ever played and now let's see if nick still beat me all right the expedition gods smiled on me with a fair amount of purples here so i got 2 5 7 9 11 13. um 27 bucks is 9 points i got seven for my fireworks and then i have four eights for 32 i have six fives for 30. and then i have is that 11 3s for 33 yep very similar scores for each of those classes there 28 34 47 56 uh 63 95 a buck 25 um plus 33 is 158 yup oh my god you sound surprised i hate playing games with nick yeah so this is i i think it's it's pretty clear this is a bit of an experiment for me because i i could have ended the game a long time ago um i probably would have i probably could have ended it ten rounds ago um before i even made the uh sewing machine um all i really needed to do was the glasses and stopwatch at that point i could have just done a festival a couple times and played that card to get rid of a couple cards in my hand and honestly my score would have probably been what around 16 less and i think both of your scores would have been a lot less than 16 less so i felt like i was behind and i needed to catch up but it looks like the opposite happened there to be fair john i'm pretty sure even if you had ended it earlier i would have probably i would have probably been able to play like four or less of these cards but i still had to to to uh next point i still had a lot of this stuff already down and i still had a lot of these already so i don't know i i don't know i i don't think i think what you were worried about in the moment that i had more points than you in that moment i think i did you probably did given where you were and how because the you know the bulk of your points came from what was in your hand but i do think that you doing that completely unlocked nick's game i mean he like the minute you built well yeah he used my uh he used my steam engine twice so that i think if i hadn't built the steam wagon then you would have won right i mean do you agree with that nick i think that's very very realistic yeah yeah and i put a lot of effort into that steam wagon because i had to do the steam engine before that and i had to do well the brass was good i needed the brass for the glasses and the stopwatch um earlier on but yeah it does seem like that so earlier on when i was like wow my hand like really feels like it's you know straightforward that's because half of my hand needed exploration i think i had four cards that needed six exploration or maybe it was three with even six and one that needed four and then one that needed two and that seemed like a really good strategy like just get a bunch of exploration but the problem is you know i got up to six and i needed to do a festival action between each one of those to keep getting those other cards out and then i tried to work in this other thing get teching up to the steam wagons to play the other two cards which felt like they were really synergistic but yeah at the end of the day i think they were just way it was just way too slow for me to do all that work for such a tiny bit of payout yeah yeah which is the essence of this game the the tug of war the race versus the points what makes it i agreed i think that if you said to yourself i feel behind i need to catch up what you needed to really do was go for the new world actually build some of these things and then depending what cards you draw then make your game plan because you had a couple cards that allowed you to discard cards i had two of those yeah and that was a funny situation because normally when i'm playing this game i feel like i get a bunch of these expensive cards that need a bunch of new worlds that i don't have but in this game i only had one of them i had that massive hand all of these cards that i drew only as uh i think two of them needed new world stuff um actually no only one of them did um and that was uh the uh rum and i already had sugar cane so that's when i said i kind of had a plan it's like i don't really want to draw into more i discarded one of these because it needed light bulbs that seemed like it was going to be very difficult to do but um so it like seemed really lucky at the time to draw all those that needed just a bunch of exploration but it seems like exploration is really slow or maybe i just needed to build even more like actually make these uh three-tier ones so that i could do a festival and have like 12 of these tokens and actually play multiple of them maybe that was mine so the three-tier ones because you need to get the teal worker for the artillery the teal worker for the the free ship yard yeah and it takes so long to do it really does yeah and and that's viable in a game where someone goes for the upgrade things a little bit earlier like we played one of those games where like no one was willing to go for sewing machine yeah um i actually do think that there's like a very viable strategy and like going for the fur coats like pretty early when other people are like i'm doing other things like i can't just like tech into stealing your sewing machine right now or something yeah um so there's an opportunity to do that but this was one of those games you know i think we played these more than not where like we couldn't we couldn't get anywhere with it um but yeah i think that not not scoring any of the end game points there really is just it's it's it's rough i think that like yeah it's tough to win without those yeah and the thing is that none of them really worked with all the other plans i had um you know that in order to get the cards played it just didn't seem like they were synergizing and i could have done them instead of playing my cards i suppose and you know perhaps i should have uh i definitely definitely feel like i whiffed on this one i mean this is a strange play i mean it's interesting that we recorded it because these are the biggest scores i've ever seen in this game which which does lead me to think that it was it was a super mistake to let the game go on so long but honestly i could have ended this game before anyone got a teal because people only got teal because i made a sewing machine that then let a fur coat be made so that teal could be made so if i had never made the sewing machine i wonder if anyone would have and the game could have ended before any of these purples got created at all i'm really excited to talk about this yeah and take it apart and so yeah i hope you guys will come join us as we dissect this a little bit more and talk about i mean i think we've all played this game i know i've played this game at least a dozen times i'm pretty sure i have as well we'll look it up before we actually record it but yeah we're we've all played this one a bunch in fact you two were the first two to play it with uh with me a year ago and yeah we'll go into all this stuff uh soon i think that's going to bring our discussion of this one to a close and yeah definitely if you'd like to hear us talk a lot more about anna 1800 because we love this game and we have a lot of thoughts you know positive and negative but mostly positive uh please check out the friendly ties podcast discussion you can find a link to that in the description of this video and you can also just find it just by searching for friendly ties wherever you listen to podcasts thanks for watching this playthrough as always i'd like to thank everyone who's been supporting this channel including these producer-level patreon supporters if you too would like to directly support the channel in the creation of future videos like this one then please go to johngetsgames.comsupport also if you enjoyed this video please click the like button for it down below as well as the subscribe button for the channel thanks for watching

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Length: 133min 47sec (8027 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 04 2021