Architects of the West Kingdom + Age of Artisans Expansion Co-Op - Playthrough & Review

hi everyone my name is moni and i'm naveed from before you play and today we are going back to the original game in the west kingdom trilogy with a bonus video for a playthrough of the co-op mode with the age of artisans expansion yes this is again published by sj mcdonald and shem phillips published by garfield games as well as renegade here in the us and like monique said this is the co-op experience so there's nothing competitive about this one except we do have to deal with the overlord which monique will tell you about soon yes and so we're excited to be doing this place here it's kind of just like a fun extra video for the west kingdom trilogy that we just finished kind of wrapping up yep we figured this would be a kind of a nice way to showcase some of the stuff in the age of artisan expansion while also playing one of the three co-op modes that come in the tome saga and so as per usual we are going to start with a teach of sorts just to kind of discuss what comes in both uh expansions and then we're going to go into our playthrough and kind of like a first impressions review and so if you're interested in jumping around we'll include timestamps down below but before we begin if you can all do some big favor and turn on your klingon subtitles just in case you make any mistakes we can make those corrections there if we do find them we'll add them to the description as well and if you like to see more videos like this in the future please consider subscribing and with that we are ready to get started so if please direct your attention to the set of the table we are all set up here for a two player fully co-op scenario of architects of the west kingdom we are going to be going up against this overlord and so this is the overlord right here i don't think they have a name not like constantine no in the last one kind of similar but a little bit worse right right and so the rest of the board is gonna look very familiar uh with the exception of a couple of overlays as well as some cards over here that all have to do with the age of artisan's expansion and so we're just gonna start by talking about what comes with the tome saga expansion that's gonna be particular to this playthrough as well as the different aspects of the age of artisans expansion so over here we have the overlord and this is the uh kind of like the third player who we're going to be going up against their main focus is going to be in wrangling up our workers from around the board and putting them in prison and so if you caught our first video on architects and we're kind of going up against constantine his board works very similarly in the sense that he has a deck of cards and these are called scheme cards each turn uh we're gonna flip over one of their cards and basically do everything that it says from top to bottom a lot of the cards say a certain spot with a worker next to it and in those cases we're going to place a worker of theirs in that location so the silversmith in addition they also have a demand card deck which is over here and we choose one from each level there are four different levels randomly and on each demand card it'll tell you based off the number of players how many of a certain type of resource you're required to put on this card before the end of the game if you're successful then typically each person will score one additional point towards their score but if you are not successful it's minus five points per player so that is something that we're going to be uh needing to work on any of these cards that do not uh get flipped over during the game are going to be worth five points to each player and so in order to actually place items on these demand cards we have this new kind of action which is a donation action you'll see two of them the king storehouse and each player also starts with a an apprentice that is specific to the tome saga co-op scenario and they're double-sided one side is the uh clergyman that does one donation per i guess cathedral built in the guildhall and the other side is a scoundrel that just gets two gives you two donation actions and so each player is allowed to choose which side they're going to use for the entire game but essentially with one donation action you can donate an item to one of these demand cards or you can give opponents items resources debt cards building cards that haven't been built yet and so that is a way to exchange resources between between players again because we're working together it's fully cooperative and lastly some of the overlord scheme cards will ask them to flip over an event card and so that is what this new event deck is uh there's typically something bad on the opposite side of this card and the number of these that you play with is dependent on which overlord difficulty level you're playing with so today we're going to be playing with the standard difficulty overlord because we don't have as much experience with this mode of play but there is an advanced board where you would only play with four of these and so the thing with the event cards is not only are they kind of bad the actual cards are but it is a new way for the game to end so if we flip over the final event card the game will end immediately right after that and each player will lose 10 points so it is bad really bad yeah you don't want the game to end that way because at the end of the game we're going to count up our score and add them together and we're trying to meet a certain threshold of points and if we don't meet the threshold then we lose that's the same thing with these for each card that it was not flipped over during the game we each get five points so that is that is kind of nice and that is essentially it with the overlords so there are two ways that the game can end we already discussed the flipping over of the last event card but also the standard way that architects end which is uh filling up the guild hall and so we add up all of our points and we add them together mine and the beans combined is going to be our total score and some of that is going to be based off of some age of artisan stuff which we'll talk about in a second but in the end you're also going to calculate the overlord score and that's going to be with the standard difficulty it's going to be 10 points per uh one of their workers in the guild hall per player so if there are four of their workers in the guild hall at the end of the game then it's gonna be 40 times two because there's two players so we have to hit 80 points minimum to win yep we'll see how that goes we'll see yeah and then with the age of artisans expansion it brings two main things um but first of all it does add more apprentice cards and more building cards and so we're going to go over whenever we see an expansion card we'll talk about it during the play through but the major thing that it incorporates are these craft cards craft cards are going to be another thing that we can build during the game there are two sides to it the very top here the yellow part is if we were to use the craft card as an adornment to a building and the bottom half are for tools for our apprentices and so the way that you put these into play is you go to the guild hall just like when you're building a building or going to the cathedral but the difference is you have to place one of your workers out on top of one you've already placed so you have to have already built a building or gone to the cathedral essentially in order to do this so if my worker was there and i wanted to build an adornment then i would go to the guild hall and place my worker on top of another one that is the maximum height that that can get to so it's you have to divvy out one worker per additional worker i guess right and even though it's co-op i cannot stack on top of monique and vice versa that's right and so if you wanted to build an adornment that's going to cost five silver two to the tax stand and three to the bank yeah which is denoted here and so that allows you to take one of these and you have to have a building already built but you would essentially place the adornment behind the building and each building can only have one of these each they're going to be worth points at the end of the game and they also get you something immediately so that would get me one marble on the opposite side we have the tools and so tools get placed behind an apprentice that's already you know amongst your workers and that basically gives them an additional ability or benefit but in order to take that benefit you have to be taking the original benefit that the apprentice gets you right so for this one for this combination here it says that whenever i go to the tax stand i lose one less virtue and i gain a wood and so that is kind of how the tools work in order to build these tool cards you can either go to the guild hall and do everything that i just mentioned or you can go to this second spot with the black market because we have this new overlay card here that allows you to just build a tool and so that is a way of doing it without having to spend an extra person right but this costs two silver and you lose a virtue whereas when you do it the guild hall away this one does not cost any silver tools at the end of the game will score depending on how many you have total there's a little chart that we have here one two four six nine so if you have a maximum of all five apprentices with a tool each then you can get nine points max and so the second major thing that this expansion brings are these artisans and so artisans are basically much bigger or slightly bigger actually versions of your workers and so the benefit that they give you is when placing them out onto the board they count as two workers but if it's my following turn and this artisan is in the quarry then it only counts as one right in addition when placing them out if you have to lose virtue you lose one less and just kind of the last bit that's kind of neat about this expansion is this guild hall overlay has these three spots for refreshing the apprentice market and so once a meeple is placed in any of those three spots we remove i believe the leftmost of of both rows and so that is a nice way to get the apprentices cycling more movement it also adds the orange player color which naveen is going to be as well as two new uh player boards that provide um variable player powers which were i think the means gonna use one of them yeah i'm gonna use the orange one one of the the ones that come in the expansion and i think that's it so with with that being said do you want to explain who you're going to be sure okay so i am walloric what i have is my artisan uh the benefit is it acts as a third uh worker so you know how monique earlier said when you put out an artist in axis 2 for me access three i start with nobody in prison i have no money to show for myself i do have a lot of virtue though i'm at 12. i do gain a tool so i would have one tool and i take a debt so i am a little unfortunate uh yeah so we'll do that once we do the cleanup i'll get all those things going and so i'm going to be playing as the purple player and i'm playing who is this this is friedrich i start with nobody nobody in prison i have four silver i have uh seven virtue and a stone my one random stone and uh the thing with friedrich is whenever i go up on the cathedral i do not have to discard a building card so that's kind of a nice way if i plan on going up the cathedral to manage my hand well and the reason why i'm actually starting at eight is because we have our starting apprentices and so i drafted the acolyte who gets me an additional virtue to start the game with and so every time i go up on the cathedral i gained two clay so i felt like it was kind of a good certain synergy with fred friedrich over here uh i drafted the strong man and so during the black market refresh if my artisan is in jail i get to pull them back yes and so this is obviously an artisan expansion apprentice for that reason exactly they're denoted by this little white meeple in the bottom left corner yes and so with the tome saga co-op mode we also do not draft buildings right so the way that that works now is each player has dealt four cards and we discard one so we have our standard starting hand of three and the last thing before we get started is we do need to decide which side of this card to play with so we can either do the scoundrel which again is two donation items whenever whenever we go to the black market or the clergyman that says whenever you go to the guild hall it's a one donation item per cathedral level so i think that's gonna be me right i think i'm doing the same thing and the reason is because i'm so virtuous here uh i'm never going to be going to the black market unless i drop super far down which i just can't happen but um i think i want to do this and uh each one of these cards also has a different symbol at the top left so you are supposed to deal them out randomly yeah there's three different types of symbols for me just by the way i've drafted i have one of each symbol okay so we're just gonna get a little cleaned up and then we'll get started okay so we are all set up we're ready to play we pre-selected the starting player that's gonna be me then moniko's next so i start with three coins mooney gets four additional coins uh the overlord doesn't have to worry about money um and i got a starting tool so i took gain one coin or one silver anytime the strong man gets activated so that'll be during the black market refresh uh and i believe we are set up we're ready to go yes yes so as a reminder the game is going to end uh once the guild hall is filled up and so in a three-player game that is up to the spot right there or if we run out of event cards in the overlords deck unfortunately uh that would be bad so we're gonna try not to do that and then we are trying to beat the amount of points that the overlord earns and they are going to earn 10 points for every meeple that they have in the guild hall the end of the game times two two because there's two of us yep all right naveen take it away okay so uh might as well put out my artisan uh so let's put them in the mine and because i did that my additional ability is acts as an extra worker so i get three resources here so it's going to be actually four four clicks clay yes one plus one per in there so it's gonna be a total of four yes right now your artisan uh counts as an additional one yeah that's my special ability so i'll just keep my stuff here sweet okay so now to me all right i also i'm going to play my artisan i'm going to place them in the mines so that is going to count as two for me because i'm not uh wall right over here and so that's going to be three clay total okay one two three all right perfect okay we are clay rich right now we are and so now that it goes to the overlord let's see what nasties they're going to do first okay so it looks like it's going to be one worker in town center yep and so then the first thing that happens is at the town center the overlord would capture two of our workers each but if there are none then they would send all of our workers to prison which also wouldn't happen because they didn't have any of our workers yet pretty early in the game then you'd go to this part over here that says each person loses one worker from prison out of the game which also thankfully doesn't happen yeah because we don't have anybody there and then we go to this bottom section here which says you place a worker of theirs at the location with the most total non-overlord workers and so if there's a tie there's a whole priority order that you would go down but there is no thai it is definitely the mines because where our artisans are and then they would capture both of our artisans technically two workers per player but those are the only two that were there wow i'm going to put those workers that's fine and that's it the wonderful overlords they took us out yeah well well then well that goes back to you back to me well i was planning on hitting that spot again yeah that backfired yeah all right i'll go to the forest let's go get myself one piece of wood please okay just one this one we should probably also uh kind of discuss what we're trying to do here i'm trying to build my building that's uh to a brick and and two wood i would like to go up to the uh cathedral but i don't have gold yet so that's kind of what i'm trying to do but i think i want to build this building first so i'm gonna need i need wood okay so hello i just put that there he's just gonna wrangle us up again hope that they don't do that i don't know i need wood yeah i know all right let's see come on overlord ready yep okay priority order he they they do wrangle us yes and it looks like we're gonna have an event card so they're gonna go here into the forest and take our workers and then we're gonna have an event so we flip over the topmost one and it looks like oh nice this says uh you reveal and resolve the next overlord scheme card so that is one event card out of six and here we go so they are going to go to the forest which is over here and then all of our workers will go to prison all right well then let's just hope that we don't get a you know a black market reset soon and also just keep in mind we can now bail each other's workers out of prison that's right so that's okay and they also put a worker in the quarry they are everywhere they are there and technically for both of these locations we're supposed to do what it says here and here but since we don't have any workers on the board then we go ahead and skip that and then that's it for the overlord's turn uh back to you naveen yeah the oral lord's doing very well when they don't have to take any action so i will go to the forest okay to get myself another piece of wood please all right there you go thank you okay well at least i think i can build my building okay good so which is good because in order to do any of this stuff we need to have building out yep so i'm going to go to the guild hall and place the first worker in the guild hall and i'm going to build the carpenter's hut so it doesn't have any of these symbol requirements which is good but it does require three clay one wood and one stone so this is gonna get me five points at the end of the game and it's also one point per um carpenter symbol which is which i only have one of with my protein so that's my one building and i believe that's it and so now i have enough money naveen if i if we want to i could get an adornment so yeah i can get you one gold order that could go up the cathedral so we're working because we also have to keep in mind that there is this demand card out that requires six clay yeah so we need to get on that so now it is back to the overlord i can't believe it's his turn again do not well you can't hurt me really okay so they go to the workshop and they're technically supposed to wrangle up people but there's nobody this symbol here means that we reveal the next demand card okay so it's going to be building cards building cards oh and to be clear these are non-built buildings by the way so in a two-player game we need to turn in four four of them huh so we need to start donating okay they also put in two coins into the uh the tax stand that's nice and and you also add the top of the future scheme card deck on top of the discard so we can actually see it and so these are more advanced versions of those yeah we're already getting our butts kicked yeah these are gonna kick us even harder okay and this looks like uh one player has to discard an apprentice oh that's terrible oh my gosh wow that's miserable i mean the good news is players can choose who yeah so wow anyway that is the overlord i don't want to think about the overlord again until it comes back so naveen what would you like to do oh i don't know okay let's see you know i'm gonna go back to the mines i was really hoping to get gold in the future but uh right now i'm just gonna get more clay uh so i get two clay one for the worker plus the one for being there perfect all right i'm going to uh build an adornment okay you're going to build that one this one over yes okay so i have to put a person here on top of my previously placed one and um it's going to cost me five silver two of which go into the tap stand maybe i should go take the tax standard i think they should because uh they're going to to put all the money back yeah and then three goes into the supply and then i can go ahead and place this behind my carpenter's heart it's now been adorned by this craft card and with that you got two goals two gold and it's gonna be one point at the end of the game there was also this one that's that's worth a little bit more points but only one gold yeah i figured the additional gold is probably worth it i think that additional gold will turn out to be more worth more than two points so we can refresh yep this okay oh interesting looks like if you build this as an adornment you get to discard all eight of these and then gain an apprentice so that's an interesting one yeah all right so back to the overlord already oh here we go silversmith okay so they're gonna go there they pick up people there but there's nobody there uh and then everybody gains we either gain a debt or we lose two silver oh my gosh well you know what i think i'm gonna rob the tax stand so i'll just lose you silver okay should i gain a debt it's minus two points flipping a debt is is tough but uh maybe or maybe i do have okay i'll just do silver okay okay let's just do that there we go and then we have to reveal the next one and resolve that as well so they get two turns double whammy yes okay so now they go to the guard house okay all right so they go to the guard house nobody's there so then that's that they release their own people from prison which doesn't happen doesn't happen either and then they have to pay to the tax stand naveen that's good for you that's good for me yes and then they go to the mines and they steal just naveen oh my gosh right there it's so hard to to ramp up yes this is uh it is hard to ramp up with the with the overlords i'm trying to get gold and it just keeps taking me down all right well it's back to you i think you just have to not kind of depend on having a lot of workers in one place lose virtue naveen so you can go to the black market do bad things yeah i got it so all right we're gonna go to the tax stand so because i'm gonna go here i lose two virtue one two uh and then i get to rob this place of all its money perfect oh now you're close but you're not quite there to being able to go to the blackboard that's okay all right that's okay right now i'm just trying to survive okay so that's my turn all right so back to me i think i am going to go up the cathedral now that i have uh gold and because i'm friedrich i don't need to discard a building card it's perfect so let's do that so you do have to put a worker out in the guild hall yes that's right so i'm going to place my worker right there then i pay my gold yep and it's going to move me up here in the cathedral nice and i don't have to discard a card but i do get to flip this over good luck oh thank you one virtue and two stones two stones slightly more virtuous but now i have some resources which i think is the important part yeah that's really good for me and in addition i went to to build the cathedral so my acolyte gets me to clay here we go with that and i gain one donation action uh per level i am in the cathedral which is just one right but uh now every time i go to the guildhall i get that as a bonus which makes me think that i should probably build a tool in the future because i'm probably going to try to tap these yeah so uh should i donate one of my clay then well do you need do you need clay for uh i could get away with just using one yeah so i'll do it right okay sure okay because we have to have six of them so let's see one that's one five more all right that's that's me i believe that's it right okay back to the overlord oh boy here we go all right we have the tax oh good good fantastic so they're gonna go to the tech stand and they don't wrangle anybody it says if there are four or more coins and everybody has to lose a virtue and you you clear all the money but you put it out good timing and then they go to the silversmith which is here uh they're supposed to take people but they can't so then naveen goes to prison i do okay while i have somebody in the forest i'm gonna go make this sweet and get uh two wow look at you you did it you have double double uh workers got something fine for once yes awesome all right so back to me i need just one one oh what i just got maybe i should just go to the black market you would have to pay which you don't i don't have enough money to do that all right well i guess i'm going to the forest i really just need the one wood so there's that and then back to the overlord oh man here we go we have the guild hall okay so one person two into the guild hall so this is now 10 points all right uh 20 points actually is our minimum threshold for winning the game right and then he's going to go to the king's storehouse which is right there and nobody to capture so we do need to not forget uh because they covered up the spot these two go out ah oh yes we do a an apprentice apprentice market i guess refresh move those down and so now we have the traitor and another acolyte let's see the only age of artisan expansion cards here are the antagonists which is this awesome person right here which lets you uh whenever you put a worker in the town center that worker is essentially one additional worker right yeah so if you have two out there and you have that then you have three technically and then this trader uh when you go to the king storehouse you can turn into wood for one gold ah that's nice i kind of like that there yeah okay i like uh that person right there so uh yeah you're gonna hire yeah i'm gonna hire so i'll go one there so two into the tax stand yep uh two to the bank okay and then i will hire the antagonist so this one is that one we spoke about earlier they're going to come and do my employment that's pretty nice so that's specifically when you go to the town center so my next goal is to go to the town center that's awesome yeah because you can pick up uh the overlords workers and that's two coins per worker it's in prison all right so we have the conspirator that is a base game card all right so back to me it is so expensive to go up the cathedral it is i need three oh no any combination any combination yet of wooden stone i mean now's the time in the forest yeah i'm gonna do that i'm gonna go to the forest and just get two wood it might get wrangled up but oh well yeah i can go up the cathedral right uh and so i can give you gold yeah when i take that action i give i can give you gold another clay over there let's do it yeah okay so let's go to the overlord first and see this is the last overlord card okay so we have the mines where's the mines that's where i'm gonna wrangle them very good that's for sure and then they go to the last spot they're always gonna go to this third spot here in the black market if it's a four to six player game then people lose virtue but because it's not we we can kind of dodge that totally and that's it that was a great turn thank you yeah that was the best turn so far of the overlord yes okay unfortunately when it comes back to overlap we're gonna have to reshuffle that deck and there is that card that makes us lose an apprentice yes all right so i will go to that town center with my newly hired person so that's i'm gonna go there uh so it's one plus my uh antagonist so technically two workers yep so for the first one i paid to the tax stand and i'm gonna wrangle up here uh and then for the second one which will get paid to the bank where do you where should i wrangle do you want me to wrangle silversmith or you can you're allowed you're allowed to either wrangle up another one of theirs or you can wrangle up your own but i'm assuming you wouldn't want to take your own right i don't want to i'd like to just have all of them and then toss them all in jail because if we have a black market refresh i'd rather they have to have all you know the most so that they take the debt then i would say take them from the forest because it's actually two workers per player per worker they have in there so if i were to put another worker in there then they would be able to take all you got it all three i'll take it perfect okay that's two you know it doesn't really matter so that's gonna be ten coins for you right uh yes it'll be ten yeah that is nice yeah okay so i think the solution here for me right now is to go up on the cathedral sure i'm gonna place a worker into the guild hall so next row no i think it's oh yeah there's three there's four technically it's technically a three-player game right uh so i'm gonna put that worker there and then i have to pay a combination of four four resources between wood and stone let's go with three wood and one stone since right now it's easier for me to gain wood right and then i don't have to discard a card i will go up like that i'm going to draw this card oh ooh i get a building card and a virtue oh thank you oh no i can't go to the black market no that's kind of bad you always get a virtue by doing this by the way yes that's true i should have thought about that i should have gone to the black market sooner that's what yeah that's good anyway uh and then because i went to the guild hall i did a cathedral action so i get to clay for my acolyte i really should put a tool on my acolyte yeah that would be good and now i can do two donation actions because i'm on level two of the cathedral so my first one is going to be giving you this goal yes thank you you're welcome thank you thank you and for my second one i'm going to donate another clay so we have two towards that six dude you think we can do this no i don't no i have i have a debt of two and i have one point for my tool you need to start putting people in the guard house yeah you want me to put people in guard house well i was thinking about uh getting getting this guy tossed in the slammer so let's do it so i will go well no the overlord goes oh yes yeah unfortunately yes and they're going would you care to shuffle their scheme deck i feel like they take way more actions than i get one would oh yeah they take like maybe maybe so let's see what we're to do but you're already priority order okay so they're going to definitely go to the mines the forest because they're supposed to go to the the location that has the most of our workers yes that's right they go there and then they're gonna take two workers per player so everything we just work towards yep wiped that's that uh and then they flip over an event card here we go and it looks like everybody either takes a debt or loses two coins i cannot i'm gonna lose two coins because i'm definitely throwing him in the slammer so that's fine so you take a debt i take a debt yeah now we both have a debt this is bad this is really bad it's really bad so back to you what were you gonna do naveen all right well now i will go to the guard house i'm gonna spend my one action to throw him in jail giving me ten bucks so it's two times five so i get 10 silver and now they are the leading uh prisoner so that's a lot of money so which means we can leave them there and now they may take a guard house action though that's true you know that card might come we don't know but this would be a really good time to do a black market reset it yeah you can i could go to the black market oh yeah you guys could really do but you you cannot go to black market you're too virtuous you can't yet and so if i want to do that i gotta go to the tax stand okay so i'm going to the tax stand i lose two virtue but i get three coins so now i at least have money to go to the black market right and try to speed up like a black market reset process right all right let's go overlord guard house speaking of they're going to release all their their workers oh my work i mean i got 10 bucks out of it i guess so they go here they capture you and then they should be back home so that was a flop and then they go to the mines and they don't take anybody there so then they release all of us back to the guard house this would be a good time to take our people back because we can get at least our artisan back yes yeah all right so it goes back to you you know what uh having the artisan in play is is gonna be better so i think i'm gonna go to the guard house and just get all my people out uh unfortunately so i come back you got everybody everybody back including my artisan nice because i i can't just sit around waiting for this black market reset to happen all right back to me uh that's kind of what are you working on okay so i have three building cards my plan and now that you gave me the gold yes i plan on going up the cathedral but because i go up to the cathedral and i'm not frederick i have to lose a card from my hand yes so i would only have two cards so i'm gonna definitely i'm gonna ditch the card that requires me to have gold because how else am i gonna get gold um so then i'm gonna build something afterwards i'm gonna try to build something and then adorn it do you need anything from me i guess it's my question uh no i mean i mean yes i can take everything but well i think because i'm the only one who has kind of a clay making machine i am probably just gonna go to the cathedral as much as i can and try to donate to the demand cards yep right okay so i think then in order to get the marble that i need for this next level i got to go to the tax stand okay so let's go to this tax or sorry at the time the black market yeah so i lose one virtue and i have to pay a coin into the supply and then i gain one stone and one marble can you pass me a marble please yes so now i have two stone okay so we have some stuff and then this flips over right or no it's only in the black market so overlord time we have the forest okay oh this is good so they grow the forest no wrinkle nobody to wrangle they don't have any of our workers so nobody goes to prison and then they go to the quarry and then same thing so where is the quarry oh right there yep same thing perfect perfect our one time the overlord didn't do anything okay okay all right back to you all right so now i think i will go up the cathedral so i'm going to put out my worker in the guild hall and who oh so i have to discard gold thank you for that gold and then i'm gonna discard this card out of the game uh cathedral for the cathedral you have to represent going up so here we go we're on the board now all right perfect and because i have the clergyman i can donate would you like to see your oh yeah bonus first first yeah for sure it is oh two wood and a virtue no virtue so i'm back back up there you need to lose some virtue not too good i know but if i make it to the to the max here i can i can discard this uh debt yeah i have come to terms with that in fact it's gonna be minus two points i think instead of it being minus four hopefully yeah it could just be minus two it's true uh so now i i do have this uh this over here so the clergyman i will donate this here oh nice one clay to that okay yeah since i'm abundant in clay so this just needs three more which i can probably do on my turn and then after that it's gonna be donating uh building cards building cards there so that's it for you yeah that's it all right so i think i will probably do the same i'm gonna go to the guild hall okay well uh maybe i should it seems like a waste if i know i'm going to tap these two i should build a tool okay how about this on my next turn i'll go to the town center and then because i'll have one for my one two plus the person i put there that's three and i can just wrangle him up a bunch and then toss him into jail okay for my next turn so save that like yeah all right i'm gonna go to the guild hall and i'm going to build a tool so i have to place this on top of one of my other workers and i'm going to take this tool it's not going to cost me any money because tools only cost money if you go to the black market um but i'm going to go ahead and attach it to this clergyman and so whenever i take uh the guild hall action which is what you did i could take a worker back from prison which is nice because my artisan's always going to be in there basically so take the artisan back right well since i went to the guild hall i also get one donation per level of the cathedral that i'm at and so i am at level two so i might as well donate both of my clay now nice two so that just needs one last one more i can try to do that um at some point so i'm going to gain more clay when i uh go fix it so it can be either one of us and then i take a person back from prison so i'm going to take my artist yes take that one back for sure can you go and refill that yeah okay that's me perfect my artisan that's what we've been missing that's nice yeah the artisan gets us like a lot of stuff at once okay we're gonna make that work for us all right overlord time oh yeah yeah there we go so they go to the taxi down and okay so there's not a whole lot in the taxiden at all it's good nothing happens and then the silversmith which is right there that's good this is great because they're not wrangling anybody and they're accumulating more of their own people in areas so we can wrangle them all right yeah so do you want me to do that plan where i go wrangle them the problem is i'm the one that gets most of the money but uh you can give me money although it's a it's it's like one coin correct yeah okay i'm gonna go to the workshop and uh i'm not gonna hire this one so i'm gonna bypass one two and then go to that one so it's gonna cost two to the tax stand two out yep and then i have to put a coin on the ones i'm skipping over but i'm taking this acolyte right here so this acolyte right away gets me a virtue and so this bottom portion here is any time i go up on the cathedral i gain a card so going up on a cathedral cost me a card but then i just get it right back which is great because i don't have the benefit like you do yes so i'll put that down there yeah that's me all right so this goes down and now we have the gatekeeper all right so during black market reset you get two uh workers back okay so i think that i need to go to the town center uh so i can wrangle up some of some of their people and i can turn them in for money yeah silversmith has three of them there so that's pretty good i'll just do one location yeah so let's go here and then definitely that's silversmith right yeah we'll take everybody from the silversmith i have to pay a coin to the tax stand to do this which is good we can rob it you can rob the tax end i don't want to lose too much of virtue yeah that is my one issue right now yeah okay so back to the overlord and let's see the merciful overlord the guild hall anybody there didn't know they just got oh okay oh yeah yeah yeah we're all there so that is another 20 points with points yeah it's going to be 40 points minimum right now as a threshold and then at the king's storehouse so nothing happens right now but they are very close to taking back all of their workers if i want money for these people you need something i need to go i need to jail them to the guard house right away all right back to you oh my gosh okay okay i'm gonna go to the workshop okay and i'm gonna get uh building cards some building cards yeah so i get one plus one for every two that's out there so you get two two oh a grand total of two yeah unfortunately it is what it is i will do that you can do it yeah one two i need some i need some cards to help me build some stuff are you saving your artisan just for the future yeah i am actually yeah all right so back to me and i think that it's pretty obvious i have to go and turn in this overlords workers for some sweet silver all right so i'm gonna go to the guard house and i'm gonna put all these three in here so i get six silver total so here's four let me get you two more thank you and that's all i can do because i only have uh one worker in there so if you do go to the workshop uh you can get a discount by buying one of those people so that's that's kind of nice that is nice if you're gonna go there it's really nice i think they're turning the wood in for gold is kind of nice and this black market makes it cheaper yeah i really like this illusionist maybe i will yep so back to the overlord here we go do nothing the workshop oh that's gonna be you that's me so they wrangle up for all three dang it because they were already there yeah that's unfortunate uh then they flip over the third demand card oh no it's a stone stone they want five stone they do they want five stone all right yeah okay maybe i should maybe we should have just yeah oh that's interesting so the higher you go up in the demand cards the more points you earn and the less points you lose so it's okay to kind of forego yeah later on yeah i guess they also put in two coins yeah thank you and that's a future scheme card yeah oh here we go our fate in the future oh oh it's another oh it's a mine's tax stand so it's just another one of those okay and another one of those results the future these are terrible yeah they are pretty bad well we still uh we have a lot of two turns so we're still live back to you all right i think it's time to build a building so i will go to the guild hall and now okay so at the end of your turn we are going to refresh now my illusionist are you sure you want to do that now oh okay fine fine because you're going to do that you want the illusionist specifically or the traitor were you going to take i like the illusion oh you want to go to the black market and not lose any virtue all right i'm going to send my artist into the quarry so because of my special power it's not just two it's actually worth three so i get three stones all right it's good because we're going to need stone over there yeah can you work on the stone uh i have the clay and i'll try to contribute some uh building cards one of my buildings that i really want cost stone but maybe i can work mark wait see we'll see i don't know all right that's it yeah that's it okay so now i'm gonna go and uh and fulfill my promise yeah i know if you did something else i'd be like what no i go to the workshop i have to spend two money to the tax stand we really need to clear out the tax end and two to the supply two display yes but you get one and i get one back because i'm taking this illusionist so this is cool so right away you lose a virtue i do okay that's okay but now whenever i go to the black market i lose one less virtue meaning you don't lose any virtue because they all are only one one virtue yes that's great that's true that is great these virtue you don't lose virtue at all i'm an illusionist it's like i wasn't there [Laughter] all right so that's me oh let's roll this movie's down yes okay we have the the pickpocket it's another base game one that's uh you get a gold whenever you go to the next stand oh that's not bad either nice yeah okay here we go overlord what do we have the workshop [Music] oh they don't have any people they take all their people back they get to take everybody back with the exception of the ones in the guild hall and the ones in the black market so that means that you're in prison one's in prison wow and everywhere else essentially that's terrible that means we can't go wrangle them up anymore for a lucrative amount yeah oh you took them from the black market i did yeah we just talked about what did we just talk about i wasn't reading okay okay so everybody's back and then now they go to the workshop and somebody loses an apprentice well so this is the card that i've been dreading okay i'll lose the apprentice this strong man that i first drafted even before the game started it's not happening yeah it's just not happening it's only during black market refresh yeah i don't know i don't lose the tool which is good so that goes out yeah you can relocate the tool and this the only time you can relocate a tool by the way i'm gonna put it under this clergyman i mean every time i take a guild hall action which i plan on doing i get a coin so yeah that's good it's pretty sweet okay two coins into the tax stand well that's nice and one future scheme card into the discard so it's another one of those priority order uh uh we need to finish the game this is the race we gotta race okay back to you we gotta we gotta end the game as quickly as possible that's what this means so are you okay with me now going to the guild hall to build a building that you have to discover yeah i took the illusionist okay you are you're all good i should go to the tax standards what will happen next we're gonna lose all that money why can't you go to texas because if i do i won't be able to build a cathedral ah you need to become virtuous monique you should build a cathedral first yeah all right go ahead sorry i didn't mean to interrupt you okay i think i will uh contribute to the cathedral right now so i'm gonna go up here it's gonna cost me well you have to put a person in the guild hall okay that's right so it's going to go there so we can discard these two people at the end of your turn okay let's not forget okay then uh i have to discard a card i think i will get rid of get rid of this card over here this one's out and then it's gonna cost me four resources so i'm gonna go one stone and three wood one to three wood one stone and three wood all right let's go out uh and because i did that you have to flip this we do get to flip that come on something good two virgins hurt you hey you wanted that you're oh that's great i'm close so if i hit another virtue i get to discard this uh debt that's right so then because i i went to the guild hall yeah i can do a trade so do you want to wrap up this uh yeah well i get i get two of them right because i'm on two on the cathedral now so i can do you can do one and then i could technically put a card down here or i can uh do a stone which one would you prefer i think the card is gonna be harder card is going to be harder to do so do the card or don't do the card if you can do the card that would be great let's do it so i'll put a card here right down on there so we have one card towards that and then because i uh attach this tool i get like a silver yay and then now we do this yes those go out so unfortunately this money goes out as well so it gets discarded we move these down okay we're going we have the debt collector and the enforcer this is an age of artisans apprentice when you place workers in prison you're in a virtue yeah it's that wow hey that's cool this is done by the way we we completed it yeah we did we completed that card that's nice so i'm gonna go up the cathedral then okay so that i can go to the tax stand hopefully so i'm gonna put a worker in the guild hall oops just like that and so you don't have to discard a card i don't have this guy got to go up there i spend my marble i'm going to flip the last card oh wow money for you that's perfect three silver and i go up a virtue please thank you yeah that is great since i went to the cathedral i get to clay nice and then because i went to the guild hall i you have three oh i could take a person back get a person that's cool and then i get uh yeah three donation actions so then i'm gonna donate two cards two cards and so we just need one card left for this and i have uh one more donation action right yes so i'll just oh i need this too yeah it's okay do you have your artisan you still have your artisan so if you go to the quarry that's true you can donate a stone yeah there that's it that's it okay all right then back to the overlord so we really want the overload to not take too many more actions yes so they go to the silversmith fantastic that means they can go to the tax staff yes still they put all of your workers into prison and then everybody either gains a debt or loses two coins i'm gonna take the money go ahead take it there you go and then they flip over and resolve the next card and it's the town center so they take these two i don't know and then everybody has to lose a worker forever in prison uh that card was coming it was coming so here's one and one they can just go out yeah just go out of the game that's terrible that's terrible terrible it's not too bad though i've never felt we're like oh no i have no workers so yeah you know what that's kind of nice for me honestly because it puts me one less than the three that's true when we have to get a lost virtue and this is seven points for here i'd like to just kind of camp the seven points all right and then they're going to place another worker in the location with the most uh people of ours is either tax stand or the guard house and by priority order it is the guard house yeah tax stand's not even an option yes that's good that's good because i want that money so they go here and they take us which is not as good and that's it that's it for the overlord back to you naveen we need to rush the game you know what that is the name of the game you know what's interesting i can afford to take the debt every single time if i cruise here i can just bing bing bing and i can be the shield that takes all debts and then i can just i can just discard them and maintain the seven just just going up virtue that is true do we like it all right so do you want me to do the the reset i can go here back to the guild hall yeah and that also uh speeds up the game it does yeah we definitely should be speeding up the game yeah because the longer you wait the worse the overlord gets so i will go to the guild hall okay so we're gonna have a reset after uh this okay right perfect so i'm going to build the we're going to build a parish here so this is a uh this is a uh expansion card nice expansion building it's going to cost me so you just have to have um the yellow symbol which i do yeah okay perfect yeah so yeah i totally freak by the way when i when i had to discard my worker yeah i totally wasn't paying attention to that but it worked out this way so there's two and two wood we would perfect okay so then uh right away i get virtue so bing so you could discard a debt part of debt yes because i'm going to trigger myself getting the debt so the other thing is when we do donation actions we can donate debt uh i can hand me your debt yeah that'd be great i'll take it and you get this credit for me and then now i gain one card per uh level so i'm gonna gain two cards perfect for being there yep so this goes here it's worth four points that's nice i take two cards oh and you know i realized when i went up this cathedral on the last turn uh-huh uh i had this acolyte so i was supposed to gain a card for uh for doing the cathedral action oh okay i'm supposed to have an extra card so because of this one right here i can do one donation action per level i'm here so i can donate the two stone i i need it but i'm willing to get get rid of it um well we have some time i guess for that do you want to just donate the last building card yeah sure okay okay yeah okay why not let's see so okay i will donate one stone okay and a building card what oh i'm okay a dungeon i'm definitely not going to be building this plus four stone two gold and two with a lot of points we also don't want a dungeon in our city so that's done right all four of those are yes these two are done so that's gonna be one plus two points three points each at the end of the game just for these which is it doesn't sound like a whole lot but it's still something it's something yeah and then uh i get a coin perfect i like that right there that coin right there it's good placement yeah it is all right back to me yes so we're doing that stuff maybe i should go to the tax stand take it now yeah right okay i'm gonna go to the tax stand it's going to cost me two virtue but i get all this money i want to say moolah but i got caught and just said moani instead so that's a lot i don't even know how much silver this is but i guess who cares right pile it up right there okay overlord time this is the last card in their deck no okay they go to the mines nobody's there so then all of these people oh no wait we were supposed to do a black market research we're supposed to do a black market before i did my turn so knowing that let's just do the reset real quick all these guys are supposed to go in there into the prison and uh we flip this over yep so that it is a different offering now let's look at the double oh two gold that's great and then anybody who has three or more loses over two which is nobody whoever has the most which is naveen and i we tied we both get a debt so that is two debt for me now naveen send them to me donate your debt to me i will try uh i will try to be virtuous and that's it okay so now fast forward back to the overlord's turn they placed a worker in the mines and then all of these people are gonna go into prison uh they also fill up this last spot here at the black market and nothing else happens because it is a two-player game okay back to you okay i will go to the guild so this is still a guildhall action right so i still get all these benefits here what are you gonna do i'm gonna adorn yes you have to go to the guildhall go to the guildhall i'm just gonna stack on top of my first person okay and then you have to pay five coins yeah it's gonna be uh two to the tech stand and three to the bank two to texan three to bank i'm now i'm now i'm poor so well you're gonna gain points for this i am gonna gain so which adornment would you like to buy so i even though i like the idea of getting two marble this one's three points which is the one point i i really only need one marble because the card that i that requires another marble requires a assistant who i don't own like i don't have that type of so i'm gonna take this one so it's gonna be worth three points at the end of the game i'm gonna adorn the one building that i've constructed fantastic there and i get a marble perfect and because i did all that stuff because i went to the guild hall yep i can do the donation thing yup and you get a coin i do gain a coin so i'll take the coin and then uh you can do two two donations do you can you donate to me one clay one clay yeah here's one clay i need to clean a stone if you're willing to do that and then i can build this building yeah here's the clams done perfect so you donate it to me do you instead of the demand card it's co-op that's that's clever this is cool so go ahead and refill that that's perfect whatever you need you do so i'm gonna i'm gonna go to the black market then and i'm gonna gain um two gold so if you need a gold i can give that to you oh yeah so let's do that it's my turn now right so i'm gonna go ahead and go to the black market here i have to pay a coin but because of my illusionist i don't lose a virtue so i might as well uh you know like really tap into that i gained two gold you're getting two goals yeah perfect so i will be able to build this building on my next turn and doing so will allow me to give you the gold because yeah i have one building that requires one marble and one gold it's only worth four points but uh it gets me resources back i'm also going to give you my debt at that time okay yeah well so from now on whenever we go up the cathedral we're only going to be gaining virtue which is great because i just want to tap one virtue every time i go up so i can get into the deaths so i can only do one at a time anyway well before we get into any of that it is the overlord's turn would you care to shuffle this i trust you go ahead and terrible i don't want to touch it i don't want to touch it all right all right ready here we go the town center so they go here uh everybody loses a person in prison okay so this person these two go out forever and then uh they go to this location and take all of our people so we just need 40 points total as of right now as of right now we just need 40 points total yes 20 points each so it that's why it really we really want to speed up the game and even though the tax end is not part of the priority list we assume that they can still steal from here it's just they're probably last in priority is what i would say i would imagine yeah so we went they went ahead and captured our people so now it's back to you okay so i'm gonna do this while i can i'm gonna go to the quarry here and get two stone all right some stone is needed for donation and it is needed on a couple cards i have here there you go and since i gave you my stone that's true that's it all right so back to me i'm gonna build this building since you gave me all those materials in order to do it so i'm gonna go to the guild hall okay let's go do that right now speeding up this game we are one away from doing a apprentice reset that's okay and so i'm gonna build this building which is a clay market if i have the most clay at the end of the game i get two points so the overlord is not uh does not earn any resources so i just have to have more clay than you i'll dump my clay if i need to make sure i'll donate mike ladies perfect that's a two that's a two clay swing if i do that two okay so this cost me um i have to have one of those workers here which i do my acolyte then i spend three clay it's two stone and one gold oh so there's my one gold this is gonna be worth six points and i can also put an adornment on it which i will consider doing later yes uh because i went to the guild hall i get to take a worker back from prison and i get three donation actions because i'm on the level three cathedral so i'm going to give you two deaths okay and my clay oh sorry my gold okay because you needed my gold right yes i can use your gold so no i don't have any resources i don't have any building cards i just have money so i'm looking at these adornment adornments three debts huh the only problem with doing those adornments is you lose workers and i'm already kind of low on workers so we'll see it's me all right so we're gonna flip over the card priority order okay they're gonna go to the quarry actually yeah because there are two of you there yeah i'm gonna capture you that was nasty i'm going to the town center for sure and then they flip over an event card come on be be kind oh these are terrible everybody loses a building a building yeah and to be clear i think that is discarding a building card yes not a built building i just realized thank goodness we came to that realization so i don't have any building cards in my hand okay i'll discard this one and the reason why is because i don't have the uh the assistant to help build it so it would have been nice but perfect it's gotta go so that's that is out that's it for the overlord back to you okay so i'm gonna go back to the guild hall okay this is good this is good and so uh i will be building a building so i'm gonna build this one here it cost me the gold that you gave me earlier and one marble it is worth four points at the end of the game and immediately i get one of each basic type of resource so a stone a wood and a clay perfect stone wood oops stonewood and clay there you go cool i'll just put it up here yes and so you get a coin i do get a coin uh and then i could do the donation thing uh what's our we need three more stone to fulfill this one um i can here i'll i'll donate one stone because i need that stone for this next this next thing i'm going to be working on here you need your wood yes i i need four wood total oh okay never mind yeah you want to donate the one stone yeah one stone and then the other one uh is going to be just unfortunately wasted so then we do i believe this is an apprentice reset yep okay so i'm going to go ahead and describe these move these down we are almost there kind of kind of yeah so we really don't want them to put on another uh uh token or person here because then it's 20 more points there we have the jeweler and i always love the jeweler's image and then we have the trader so all right uh back to me hmm what do we do i don't have any cards so maybe i should gain some building cards because that next level on the cathedral is gonna be eight you know what i'm just gonna get building cards so i'm gonna go here to the workshop and i gain two building cards so one plus one for every two people you have there yep interesting anything good uh we'll see these are kind of tough forgot how tough it is to build these buildings i need some money so maybe i should just snag them what do you think well i think it's the overlord's turn after their turn okay let's see we have the guard house oh send me to jail so this is good they go to the guard house and they are going to put everybody back and one coin in the tax stand they take all of their their people back yes you put the coin tax down they also go to the mines and nothing happens that's it now it's back to you what would you like to do it is maybe it's time for you to get your people back so what i'm thinking i'll do is i'll go i'll get myself out and then on my next turn i'll go to the town center wrangle him up and because i'll have one person already in the guard house i can drop him off get the money and then save you out of there because i'll have two people there unless i get cleared out somehow but but yeah that that that a good plan yes go for it let's see it let's go there uh everyone comes back this is a good time to get everyone back though like this is a worthwhile yeah time to go when everyone's just there you're gonna waste the whole action going over there might as well be for all of that all right so back to me let's see if i want to go back up on the cathedral i need eight stone and wood yeah you need to load it up and survive all right i'm gonna go and put my artist in here okay and gain two wood since it is my artisan it's just two wood and that's me so back to the overlord ready yeah here we go tax stamps that stand okay so there is so they go here there is not four or more so nobody loses the virtue because there's only three silver but all of those go away that's okay it wasn't that big of a tax and then they go to the silversmith and that's it that's back to you okay so i said i would wrangle them up right that's that was the plan yeah so i'll go here uh i will pay one to the tax down good thing it did now after they carried the text in so i'll just take these two guys from the silversmith and then i'll pay i think you can only do it once right no i have the uh antagonist oh yeah so the antagonist so to pay one extra i can take another two uh let's take them out of the town center here nice and so now when i go back i spent two but i'll gain eight so very good and i'll free you from prison yes that would be awesome hopefully they don't yeah mess that up and then i can and then we can progress the guild hall again so that we don't have issues okay okay so i still have my artisan in the forest i might as well continue trying to get more wood as much as you can yeah another two wood just like grinding it out perfect all right and now it's back to the overlord don't do anything here we go to the workshop oh no this one where you have to lose an apprentice ugh maybe i'll just get rid of my acolyte but they do go to the workshop just like that and they're going to wrangle me up and then somebody one person has to lose an apprentice are you in love with your apprentices well the town center is uh that person i just use the antagonist is nice to make money do you is there anybody that you're like yeah i i do get the two clay for for going up the cathedral but maybe it's time so if you lose that that person do you have any buildings that require a yellow this yellow symbol to construct because if that's something that you have to think about no no not not my hand so the acolyte goes out again this is only one person has to lose uh an apprentice not not everybody that was sad i didn't like that yeah they put two in the tax stand though that's nice yeah thank you over there and then one more forever or future future scheme card oh it's a black market card okay somebody loses a virtue we need to get you out of this negative one by the way this this is i i need to build a cathedral in order to do that that's the problem you do yes okay so it goes to you yeah what did i say i was gonna do oh yeah i'm gonna go and free you so we're gonna go to the guard house okay so i have two actions here first action will be to put them in the slammer getting me eight coins and then the second action will be for you to retract everything yay thank you yes three four five that's great so what am i doing here one two three four five six seven eight okay done so i should have nine coins yep all right that was good huh that was good we did something yeah we did something that we tried to we actually tried to plan yes to do and it worked out so i'm gonna buy an adornment i'm gonna build an adornment by going to the guild hall i'm gonna place this worker up here okay and this one this one yeah because this lets me start i spent spend five points to do it so here's two in there yep and three three two so is it from those eight i'm assuming you take any one from those eight okay so for this adornment which i'm going to place behind my clay market it says to wipe all the apprentices refill them and then i get to take one at no cost so that's great and it's worth three points that's nice and you just lost an apprentice from that last uh exactly i was thinking about getting an apprentice anyway by going to the black market but this is where your money we don't have a black market reset yes save the money so we actually saved the debt card so here we go anybody anybody cool so far yeah there goes this wrong man oh no no no the strong man says when you place out your artisan you have to pay two less silver so that's cool and that is the only one from the age of artisans deck everybody else is kind of uh from the base does anybody just straight up get you oh when you go to the oh you go to the forest you get an extra wood oh and you're already in the forest that's nice but this person will get me out of the uh no if you have nobody in prison you gain a uh you gain a marble but they gave me a virtue immediately maybe yeah i'm going to take this one yeah this one is nice because when i go to the forest which i'm probably going to go to again in the future i gain an additional wood yeah so let's do that and these slide down i hope you survive this whole forest thing right here oh the labor okay this one of each symbol is what they have that's not bad all right so that is me i went to the guild hall to do that so because i went to the guild hall i get to take oh i don't have anybody back there so that that didn't work out but i have three uh technically three donation actions do you want anything is there a card in your hand that you see i have resources that i can build okay you can have this one okay perfect take that one okay i don't know if i'm gonna build either of these it requires me to have an apprentice that i just don't have i need a stonemason for both so well at least you can get that as a benefit right yep so can we refill the craft market oh that's nice so this has four points it's essentially the same thing as this card except if you build it as a tool then you can lose a virtue to take a marble all right so we are in the final quarter of the game yeah this is getting kind of snowball as long as we can try to put more people in the guild hall yeah we really want to rush it right now they only have two workers in the guild hall so that is 20 points per player 40 points total 40 points that we have to hit yeah which i don't know i don't even know if we have them but oh my god points for satisfying these cards and if you don't expose this card then we get an extra five and everyone that you don't expose on those events you also get five points so we're we're we're in the wheelhouse i don't want them to build the guild hall though that an extra 20 points to come is tough all right then it is time for the overlord let's see okay the workshop oh no it's another demand card okay so they go to the workshop uh this is where again here uh yes they put me in prison and then they flip over the fourth the final demand card marble oh my god marble forget about that one okay no no no no i'm gonna adorn i'm gonna adorn this okay that's two marble yeah we need three that's two you can just go here and turn in three resources we need to have a black market reset so that i could go back to the black market is what needs to happen mm-hmm so now they turn in two two two money to the tax standards gain another one of these future cards so it's another priority order uh discarding a worker out forever yeah oh no this is bad this is bad all right back to you i think i'm gonna adorn to pick up this marble it'll get us an extra point i have the money to do so okay so i'm gonna adorn let's go ahead and put this onto there so i'm going to the guild hall yep it's going to cost me five to adorn so two two two and then i think i'm gonna take this one right here and i'm gonna adorn this courtyard perfect and so that gets me two marble immediately yeah and the two marble is what i need to either donate here or uh to move up the cathedral because it requires marble and one of my cards here that i was planning on building which is worth eight points uh also needs one marble so you should go up the cathedral i should go up the cathedral right because then not only that you should just say this is only gonna be worth minus two if we don't fill up per player but it's minus minus two points versus everything else you can do with that two marble yeah yeah okay go up that it would be nice also to get a black market reset so that i can go here and take two marble and two stone and finish up both those cards that's true that would be nice so because i get to i'm doing the guild hall i can donate now you have that car you get a silver first i do get a silver yeah now you have that card that says clay is valuable to you both my uh both of these yeah don't have anything to do with what i have you don't need them no i will take them yeah thank you was there anything else i'm supposed to do other than refill i think that's it that's it if you can't donate look at that adornment stuff it's six but you lose two oh my gosh okay well then um i'm going to go i'm going to go hit that forest hard to the forest yeah i'm going to the forest and that's going to give me four wood because of one two three plus wood cutters so now you have enough now you have enough to move up this track i do i need to do it i need to go there and it gets you out of the hole on the virtue i need to make sure that i go up the cathedral before we have a black market reset so that i can take one worker back and not lose a virtue doing it yeah okay overlord time the overlord cannot go to the guildhall i think the forest oh my gosh my people the forest and the quarry so it's going to be forest they take they only take two people but if ever they're given the option of an artist and they always take the artist in doing it so that's that and they also they also put them back into prison so that just takes away everything that i just said i need to remove these people from prison that's what that means yes and then uh they go to the quarry so one person goes to the quarry and that's it it's gonna say you should go to the guard house you should gain you should go to the tax stand and you should go to the guard house if i go to the tax stand i lose all this and all my bump on my next cathedral hit which is exactly what i have the marble would mean i would not be able to get rid of one of these this is better go to the you go to the tax defense you lose the two virtue then you go to the through the guard house you take one action to get back my people okay another action to spend six coins to flip a debt another action to spend six points to flip another debt and that way i think when you flip the debts they're worth points right let's find out uh okay oops i knocked you off here we we have to make sure that they don't take you from the guard house that's the only thing tax stand yes tech stand okay so we're going here uh i don't have anything that mitigates this so i will go down one two okay i'm so close but i guess you'll get it back all the cash hopefully do you have at least 12 i think so so it's five and then this feels like more than seven so six seven eight nine yeah perfect yeah you're gonna have a lot less money but two of the deaths will be squared away we'll be gone yeah okay so it goes back to me and uh it's time for me to go up the cathedral right uh yeah then do you want money since you're gonna be short on money yeah are you gonna donate can you donate my money yes okay i'm gonna go to the to the cathedral then okay so i'm going to the guildhouse mcgill hall sorry and i'm going to go up the cathedral i have to all spend resources all eight of my wood all that chopping okay it's worth it eight wood goes out you do not have to discard a card no you're frederick i gain one virtue so i'm finally out of the hole that minus one point hole i went to the guild hall so i gained one worker back i'm gonna take my artisan back yeah might as well and i can do four donation actions i don't have any stone i don't have anything for any of that stuff but i can give you money sure because you're only only gonna have how much money left i think two bucks left so yeah it'll be nice here i'll give you four just give me all the money four coins sure right sure there so you can still do stuff afterwards i have five coins yeah five coins is like yeah so they only have one worker so i think they're going to get a free re reset yeah in their turn which is very unfortunate because they clear out of the prison but i'm going to get you out of that prison thank you because i would like to do a black market reset uh and if you're going to go if somebody's going to go to the guildhall again it's gonna do it anyway i plan on doing that um at a certain point yeah so overlord's time here we go and it's the minds okay so this last person goes here all right and then they put out they're gonna recall all their people yeah it's unfortunate this is super unfortunate because we go we're not going to win this i'm just troublesome for the the hilarity of it i think right now yeah because they had four people in the prison and then they got a freebie out of prison get out of jail free right here they're the worst overlord ever the king is bad because they're black yeah exactly because it's a black market they put in the right most meaning they're gonna trigger a black market right now meaning monique is going to have the most in there getting another debt yeah which is going to be a big problem and i'm going to lose a brand new virtue that is so funny let's do it so uh we're going to have a black market reset all these people go in here i have the most so i lose a virtue and i gain a debt oh sorry i have at least three so i lose over two and again a debt because you have the most they're the most that's your debt right oh thank you well then uh this is going to flip over so at least we have a new offering here sure the problem is don't go here before the next person does this because then you'll get trapped and get sent over there it's true so now it is your turn please bail me out please all right let's go so we're going here okay so the first action of three is uh you get to remove yourself from perfect thank you yeah no problem it's nice and then uh like we said um i'm gonna do this twice so six is gonna go into the tax stand three yeah sigma tax and you're right four five six so it's a good time to rob it okay six and then six are gonna go out one two three four five and six leaving me with five points and you get to flip over two dots two dots get to flip which is great because that means i get uh two virtue one two so that was a big that's a big swing back at the top that's gonna go out and then on my next turn i definitely plan with this marble to try to move up here and because i would be here moving up i would get to get rid of this one i wouldn't get to flip it but i'd get out of it so now i can go to the black market because uh i'll only have one person in there so this is good because this requires now three uh marbles three marble which i could do at the black market you know what i think if we were to satisfy this here that's eight points yeah right so eight points is better than uh how much how many points is that card worth seven so it's it's plus eight or minus four which is a 12 point swing so just do that i think just do that right okay well either way i'm gonna go to the black market so i'm gonna go here okay and i have to spend three uh silver i don't lose the virtue but i do get all that stuff so it's two stone one wood and a marble nice perfect there you go and again you don't lose uh because of your illusionists i believe correct yep so that's it for me okay so overlord here we go ready so they go with a silversmith they go there nobody to pick up everybody either gains a debt or loses two coins let's just lose yeah forget these two coins see you later and then we flip over the next one oh no oh no this is gonna do it again so they go to the mines uh nobody gets picked up they also go to the tax stand are they gonna rob the tax stand everybody loses a virtue i can't build a cathedral i'm going to lose the virtue oh no the thing i was about to do yeah the thing i was about to do oh would you empty this all that money that i was going to do and then we flip over and resolve another one oh my god uh i feel like they're gonna get they're gonna do it again okay so they go to the location that has the most people so it's gonna be the guard house yeah they take all of you that's okay they bail their people out of prison that's terrible for you oh my gosh oh what a whoa everybody has to lose a building card so that's my building card anyway so never mind about that so ah because i'm gonna go up the cathedral i need to lose one of these building cards it's a terrible overlord right i'll build uh that oh my gosh wow and then they put in two money into the taxpayers oh my gosh which is the guild hall oh no so now we had to score an extra 20 points where's the oh they guild they're gonna cause it to have a market oh my gosh that means you are gonna get put over there another dad we're gonna lose this game holy two loses oh we're gonna lose and they go to the king's storehouse nobody to pick up so naveen goes to prison oh my god i hope we're playing this person right and because they did this monique there's a black market right at the end of their turn meaning i'm taking on debt and losing virtue which is bad in points so this is the black market we said i go in here naveen uh you have three or more so you lose a virtue we also have the most so you get a debt card yes oh i thought it was going to be i guess it's you no no no oh my gosh well we are that's a four-point loss a lot closer to ending the game that's good i think kind of maybe so we're gonna do guild hall okay okay it's gonna cost me the marble yeah and the one card i have in my hand that goes out okay uh so then that's going to progress me up here which is nice you get a virtue i do gain a virtue which is good um and then because i did the uh guild hall yep you get a silver i get a silver you get a building card i get uh i get a building card per no you're just going to building just one building card yeah oh okay it would have that would be nice good yeah so okay it's worth four points it's uh it requires three stone and a um a marble marble oh you need one more stone but i wanted to donate the marble right away wait did we do the black market reset we did yeah yeah we're way past that we didn't flip this oh yeah yeah a new uh black market offering just one one marble i mean hey and we also have the two two wood a gold and the stone huh interesting okay so let's continue to resolve this so i can donate uh up to three now yes so if i donated these two stone we can clear out that yep stone issue let's do that so that's done perfect so that's now that's a huge swing for us uh so that's one two donations i'm gonna donate the marble okay do we are we can we're going for it let's go for it okay yeah because i held back my marble anyway so let's do it and then you have resources that you can turn in here at the king storehouse to get it or i can just go here that's true although i do need money that's the only thing you'd you don't have any money yeah uh i don't want to go to the tux stand either to do it so i'm gonna have to wrangle up this guy he's got nothing on the board he's got yeah he got a freebie all right so back to me i'm gonna go and get some building cards let's go to the the workshop and i'm going with my artisan so i'm gonna get two cards because my artisan counts as two and that's okay so i'm gonna shuffle down interesting all right so back to the overlord here we go newly decked new deck newly shuffled workshop workshop oh they're gonna come and arrest you oh no my artisan uh they cannot flip over the last or any more demands they've all been flipped they put in two according to the tax stand and the last future scheme card goes goes in that is a king's storehouse card okay all right that's it back to you that was uh not so bad not terrible but well i have i have this so i i will use this to gain three of a resource so let's go ahead i'll go to the quarry let's get three stone okay that's that's great hey that's really good yeah three stone for you how do we get you some virtue i can't get money really the only problem is um i can pick uh the overlords workers but there's just like one one everywhere you can't even no you can't even pick up the first one because uh when you have no money it at least cost you at least one yeah to the tax stand so i go to the silversmith for two coins you know what you could it's that's why it's there unfortunately the overlord's gonna be mean okay two coins two silver please two silver all right and then the overlord goes here we go oh come on okay they go to the forest oh they're gonna arrest you yeah oh good i almost went to the forest with this oh i almost did and they put and then they they're going to go to the quarry they go to the quarry and they take naveen no taken all right well i i really wish uh i wasn't kicked out of the quarry so the plan was to go back for more resources so i'll just take one stone it's late in the game one stone is brutal oh my gosh oh are you to go back to the silversmith and compound your money yeah maybe yeah let's go there again three more silver so i have no money to do what you got to do so i could technically now go to the black market and gain some more resources okay so we have something and you can also go to the king storehouse uh to turn in your stuff for that that last uh marble you need all right let's do the overlord first okay here we go so they're gonna go to the tax stand and oh are they seriously going to the tax standards yeah we both lose a virtue by virtue this is i think i think we're so done i think we're i think we're going to lose this minus five i'm at minus five i need to gain virtue somehow but how do you even gain virtue at this point i'd have to hire this person that's what i have to do i have to hire i have to hire one person all right well then yeah they clear out the decision they also go to the silversmith and arrest my my two workers that i had here uh and that's it this is bloodshed total bloodshed um we need to we need to rush the game we need to go just go go go go go back to you all right i'm gonna have to hire somebody that gets me virtue when i go to the king's storehouse i'm going to go to the quarry now so i have can i get two more stone please yes so now i have at least on my next turn i have the eight resources needed to move up this cathedral uh and that'll put one person out in the guild hall okay so that's something and then on the next one we can try to end it all right i'm gonna i don't i don't know if we're at 60 points that's the problem we're not yeah you'll see oh my gosh this is terrible i'm gonna go here i'm going to the black market i'm spending my three coins i don't have to lose the virtue which is great and i get all those resources i'm just you get a gold also yeah i get a gold stone just whatever you do hang on to that clay because if you have the most clay at the end of the game it's an extra two points so that's me uh unfortunately that was it so back to the overlord who's gonna go to the silversmith okay and put everybody back here we have to spend two coins or take a debt i'll spend two coins uh but i won't be able to hire that person uh well you can uh yeah but what are you gonna do in your turn me yeah uh i'm gonna go to the cathedral and i'm gonna spend all this and then i'm gonna give you my two coins perfect so i'm instead of doing that and then they resolve the next one oh come on which is going to take place in priority order it looks like it's the quarry quarry they're taking naveen the problem is that bell was five points for us are you flipping that everybody loses a virtue oh man not so okay so you lose two points here i lose one point and we lose five points because that bell flipped and you know what to be fair i think i was supposed to lose a coin when i lost virtue whenever that was we didn't do that so this is a big no no no no this means anytime you have to give money to the tax stand so when you go to this workshop yeah you you're paying one less because you're so oh you're so scummy that uh that you don't pay as much so now i can gather people for free yes or i can gather my first together i can do yeah your first gather is free maybe i'll do that maybe yeah well we're running out of time okay your turn sorry uh let's go i'm running out of people also this is bad yeah you gotta go here well let me do this first okay so i'm gonna go to there i gotta go there i'm gonna go to the guild hall and uh now that i have eight resources so we have six uh stone yep and two wood so now i'm basically i have nothing to show for my for this after this so i'm contributing yeah you have to discard a card i discard my one card so look at this i have no cards i have no resources and because i'm doing all well you get a virtue i do get a virtue and because you're doing all this stuff you do it i gain one coin i can do up to three donations you do to four now yeah i have nothing to donate other than my money here's here's a the two bucks that you wanted to give how much money did you need huh do you want me to give you all three well now i don't know what i'm gonna do so we just need one more well you're gonna hire this person right so here i'm i'm gonna give you all three okay and because i'm in the town center uh oh no no i need one i need one button yeah and get one yeah okay that's it that's it okay we need one more person in the guild hall to technically end this game to trigger the end and then they'll still get one more turn i don't have i can't build a building i need to get right here i don't even have building cards oh no because i went up the cathedral yes i get one building card oh that's right you know what i could technically build this building the only problem is i'm gonna spend so many turns to do this because i need to hire one of these people and then tap tap tap you know i'm gonna do my original plan let's just see if this can work out because this can score more points if i do this so i'm gonna go to the black market i have to spend two coins two silver and i'm gonna hire this person the patron at least the patron's another axe and so that's gonna score an additional point oh nice at the end of the game so now i can go to the storehouse and spend a wood for a virtue at least there's that i don't know i don't know what's right and wrong anymore uh we have to do the overlord who is going to go to the mines and the tax damage so they go to the mines so they're going to just throw me in jail right throw you in jail they're going to go to the tax staff and they don't take you from the tax standpoint that's nice they just go there and if there's money in there and there's no money so nothing happens oh they go again though they go again don't go again and they go to the town center so they're going to take you from the town center and everybody is going to lose one worker from here which i guess we don't really care too much about anymore that's not too bad and then uh in priority order they're just going to go out to the tax stand because that's the only other location that has people right and they're going to take you well at least i guess that's eight coins for that person uh yeah i could and that's it for the overlord back to you so i could go to the town center here let's do this also by the way so another enforcer oh uh this one is when you put people in prison you gain a building card okay so back to you i'm gonna go to the town center i mean i only have one coin i got really nothing else going for me right now uh this card that i have in my hand is is virtually useless to me because it requires resources that are not gonna happen so yeah i think i have to go to the town center uh spend my one coin to the tax and then i'm gonna take all these people here even though i have this antagonist over here uh i don't have the extra coin to grab and gather anybody else all right i'm gonna go to the guard house you know i'm just gonna free my people early yeah i'm a little bit too worried about this let's do that all right let's see we have the workshop okay their last person their last person goes to the workshop right there okay good at least it wasn't a doubler your people back one person loses an apprentice uh who's that gonna be do you have an apprentice that you don't care about yeah you know what i mean i could lose my wood cutter but it's one point less for me you know i can just get rid of the antagonists i don't think i'm doing this much anyway okay yeah so i'll just get rid of the antagonists okay they're gone that works yeah perfect let's slide that in there two bucks in the tech stand and then nothing happens for that okay that was virtually that was not too bad yeah so now for you okay so because on their next turn they are gonna strip off all of their pieces on the board i'm gonna go ahead and go to the guard house the guard house and i'm gonna drop off four of them and get eight bucks yeah nice good timing there yeah that could have been terrible otherwise four five six seven i don't know what i'm doing with the eight dollars but uh it's something you know yeah so all right back to me um i am gonna go to the king storehouse yes so i'm going to king storehouse so what i'm going to do is i'm going to do i'm going to take this action which is 2 2 donation actions and the first thing i'm going gonna give you is the silver market building card so that is a building that i would like for you to build so i'll give you that card and then i'll also give you this marble oh the marble okay yeah because so we're not get we're probably not gonna do the uh i'm gonna try because i can try to go to the king's storehouse again okay i guess i'll turn in three wood to go uh to get a marble let's do that okay let's do it from marble thank you well that's it so now it is the overlord's turn so they are gonna go to get all their people first yes they have nobody left so they get freebie free return home yep and then they're gonna go to the mines so mines nothing else happens they go to the rightmost spot of the black market that is going to trigger a black market reset oh horrible yeah at this point we're just kind of rolling with the punches these all go in here amazing and uh whoever has the most which is you you lose a virtue i take a debt oh yeah three or more it's a virtue whoever's the most takes the debt oh my gosh here you go you're dead i don't i don't see a way out of this this flips marble now there's tons of marble but you have no money there's no money and i'm too virtuous to to go get it oh my gosh there's nothing you can do well it's back to you i'll take one wood please are you sure i think what would be a better idea is if you get you and me out of prison because you get two actions here and then i go to the king's storehouse and do more stuff do more stuff sure because i can do more i can do two more donations yeah that's fine so we're both out yeah so at least that way you have your artisan now and you're not doing one wood yeah one wood was was pretty terrible well there there will be a one wood so well you have your artisans it'll be three wood you know yeah but then the card you handed me if you recall it required gold so the artist i'm gonna give you gold you're gonna give me gold yeah okay feeling better a little bit better yeah hello all right i'm going to the king's storehouse so i got two actions again uh i get my two donations so here i'm gonna give you gold what else do you need for that card do you have wood no you can get wood with your artisan i can get wood what else does it need just two wood okay so you are set yes i gave you the one gold i'm gonna donate a marble then to there and then for my second action i'm just gonna turn in all three of the stone for another marble okay okay here we go this is okay there you go if you can give me wood when you build a building that would be fantastic i can because then on my turn i can uh as long as they don't mess me up i can go up a virtual no idea what they're gonna pull right here so we're making plans like if we can control it all right ready yeah uh okay here we go so guard house barn house okay guard house they take all of us that's fine i guess you take their one person back they put a coin in them in the mi and uh yeah talks down they go to the mines and put all of us in the slammer into the slammer that's it they are a strong overlord that's for sure that's it okay so artisan gonna go to the forest because of my special ability it's three yes three is good one two three so i'll keep all my resources here like i had earlier back to me yeah oh i needed that wood for the next time i go to the storehouse i'm gonna get one wood give me one wood sure then i'll then go to the storehouse and assuming those people are there then i can try to boost up my virtue okay let's let's do that so i'm gonna go to the forest just for one wood if i had money it's over there then i would be able to well there's actually not much more than one wood over there anyway yep so that's that nope and that's it that's it for my turn oh leave it to the overlord so he triggers the end he triggers the end i'm gonna continue and i'm still gonna do my turn i have to donate that marble this is terrible because now they put a worker out in the guild hall so now we have two and the trigger is the end of the game and we have to hit 80 points we're going downtown oh we're going down there's no downtown okay there's no way and then they go to the king's storehouse they take me they wipe you out yeah so all my plans everything that i just discussed i'm so proud about foiled um but that's it that's it for them and so because they we have filled up the guild hall we each get one final turn including the overlord themselves yes because i started the game yes so it's an even amount of turns now so i know what i'm doing on my turn i have to turn in this last marble so you do something great well i can continue to go to the guildhall so i will so i will go here and i will build that building that you gave me a long time ago so the good thing is if i have the most money at the end it's extra two that's great that's nice so it's uh two wood yep there you go and you have that apprentice perfect i do have that uh uh which one i'm sorry the the yes i have the yellow yeah the yellow that's right there so a gold and a orbital gold and a marble which i can turn in here and so that's worth six points something plus yeah uh so i can now do i gain the coin yep i went to the guild hall and then i get donation actions for donations do you need any money to do whatever how much money do you have one two three four five six seven eight nine no because on my turn i think i have to just donate like that um you're just gonna go there and drop it off yeah okay uh you have nine what's that yeah oh my gosh you're one silver short of a point i know anybody took this silver i did just yeah that's it that's that's that well i'll donate this wood to you for fun oh okay yeah well thank you you're welcome all right then back to me so i'm gonna go to the king storehouse for my final action and i am gonna donate this marble so at least we've completed all the demand the demands we have three marble fives yeah yeah we've got all of that stuff maybe we did a little too early maybe maybe no idea yeah maybe yeah could it could very well have been so that's it for me and now the overlord will take their final turn i wish they didn't have to take a turn i know what are they gonna do to us we have a priority order okay then they're gonna go to the area with the most which looks like this one forest the forest they take them they break their people out of jail that's nobody somebody loses or everybody discards a building card which is why i discard my card fine two coins into the tax stand and they flip over the next card which is again priority order so it's either town center or king store house so it's king storehouse go there they take me uh everybody loses a worker this is excellent because at the end of the game for every two workers you have in there it's minus one point so we he helped us uh everybody loses two two so well yeah it doesn't work it also doesn't matter yeah never mind that was great and then you do the last one oh my gosh oh no and you keep going okay so that's it though right they go to the black market somebody loses a virtue it's got to be you because if i lose another virtue it's minus oh no i guess it's the same difference yeah so it doesn't matter uh let's make it me okay and then we shuffle this this is like adding so much insult to injury it's the final if you pull the guild hall it's 100 points it's over we better not pull either the guild hall or the event those are the only two that really matter here let's give it a really good shuffle yes there we go last card hopefully would you like to flip it yeah sure okay good luck okay at least it didn't compound okay so they take you come out right there we lose people but there's nobody there anymore and then uh they go to priority order nobody's on the board we've taken so many of our people so then they go in this order mines and they're gonna put all these people oh gosh they're gonna put all these people in prison so that's going to be minus two points for me and one point for you minus three points oh that's like another d i would have rather taken the debt well good news the game is done good that was atrocious is that weird wow well let's do the math let's do the math the game ended with the the guild hall filling up so the overlord has one two three four four people in the guild hall so we have to hit 80 points because 4 times 10 points each time players yep so minimum 80 points let's count up our points shall we let's do it all right so we're going to use the app again and the thing that's nice about the app is it has an option for the age of artists expansion as well as the tome saga co-op mode so this is a really good app very good app yeah and for anybody who's curious it is the garpal games garfield pill pill yes so you can look that up in the app store and it's it's uh it's free it's great okay so first things first is the buildings uh how many points did you earn from just buildings do we count the adornments i don't think so it's just the printed values and any bonuses eight plus six uh that's 14 and then this would be the bonus at the bottom i do have the most silver yep so 14 so 16. 16. yeah that would be 16 there so 16 for naveen i just have these two so it's 11. okay i have the most clay yes so 12 13 and it's one point per uh these guys so one two three four nice so 13 plus 4 17. 17. so 16 and 17. okay okay that's gonna happen well not getting gonna add up to 80. uh next thing is the cathedral final positions we are both in the 12 point positions 24 points more to us that's okay that's pretty good i think it's these negatives that are killing us final position on the virtue track for me it's gonna be minus seven points i know i'm so sorry no it's okay plus one for me oh my gosh uh that's the negatives that are killing us for us plus one yeah plus one okay unpaid debts i have one i have three oh gosh yeah that's what's going to get us it's yeah it's the the minus points so it's minus six minus six yeah okay gold and marble do you have any no we had to spend it to get to get through the stuff one point pretend silver we already discussed that you have nine yikes uh one minus one point for every two workers in prison minus one for you and minus two for me gosh minuses overlord adornments okay yeah i have two adornments so it's a one plus three four points okay perfect and i have these two also four points for me tools do you have any tools uh yeah i have one okay so it's one point for you i also have one so one point for me okay demand cards so we fulfilled all of them all four of them yeah so we each get so it's four seven eight nine ten ten points each and then the event cards uh there are how many likes two event cards when they pulled that third one i was like no so another 10 and another 10. so another 20. okay our final score they don't add them together so i have to do that okay our final score is 90 points whoa we were successful wow now i feel bad we were whining the whole time well we're very newbie to this version of playing the game so we won the overlord was not what did not come out on top in the end i don't know it felt like it felt pretty bad we were getting crushed from like turn one it felt pretty terrible i put my artisan out in the forest on turn one and he said nope and that was the way i just felt the entire i mean that's how constantine worked as well yeah but the overlord is like constantine on like four cups of coffee yeah right just like steroids they are ready for business let's talk about it sure uh this was a bonus playthrough we were gonna do this as like let's just gonna be fun right let's just show off the age of artisans expansion a lot of people are asking about it and at the same time we get to play art architects co-op yeah how fun does that sound yeah it was yeah it was hard it's like this is very hard i will say there are a few caveats or there's one caveat and that is that this is our very first time playing this yeah you know we don't really have a ton of time to put out um an extra video this month and so we said you know let's just learn it and just understand how it works and then just play it play it film it so this was our very first time playing the co-op scenario and the age of artisans expansion by the way so we kind of threw it in there yeah so we have two things to decompress about um and so maybe it's not as hard as this because most of the time your first time playing a co-op game is probably is usually the hardest right yeah yeah yes yes for sure yeah if yes the inexperience makes it harder yeah yes because you don't know how it's gonna truly happen you don't know how difficult that scheme deck is going to be and so i think that in future turns it won't nearly be um as hard as this and so we do have a couple of of things that we've learned from this play through yeah let's talk about the age of artisans expansion yeah and then go to the the tome saga co-op what do you think about it yeah so i could i interesting the age of artisans expansion in the co-op and the way the bot works i don't know if adorning is yeah it's distracting i think it's a little distracting i don't know the co-op scenario uh as needed or you know it's it's just um you're getting like one or two points here and there but you're spending time and doing actions when right that one action that overlord's coming back and he's gonna do something really bad you know on his turn so it's like was that one action to get those two points yeah really worth it so so speaking just on the age of artists and expansion then no no co-ops like in the competitive what you would normally play yeah i yeah i actually do i do like it yeah i think it does add a little bit extra it does make it a little interesting because you do have to uh put one of your meeples out into the into the guild hall so it kind of freezes you up because towards the end of the game as you can see you know you'll most likely find yourself in that situation where you're like i ah i don't want to have to go to the guard house but i have to because i'm on like like my last two workers so it does make it still interesting there where you're like okay is it worth it to waste or spend a worker out in the guild hall because down the road maybe you know i won't be able to use it so um i think it is interesting though i like the fact that you get bonuses uh aside from just victory points so it does influence your decision even more but yeah i i do enjoy it how about yourself yeah i think the age of artisans expansion is excellent it does a few things that it does a few subtle things that uh just improve the base game and for me i'm not big on expansion content these days that just like turn the game into something new i really really really love expansions that just enhance what i love about the base game and just make the base game better and i feel like in some ways the age of artisan's expansion does that because it adds the the guild hall overlay it does add the ability to reset some stuff in the apprentice which i think was really good um i really really love the artisan the artisans yeah because you know you're so it's so frustrating well it can be frustrating when you just put out one person for one would yeah and this is a way for you to always get at least two in the first time you place it and you can kind of make a machine where you can get the artisan back you know and just keep putting the artisan out uh we didn't do that clearly because we were so distracted by the co-op scenario but that is kind of what you can do um just playing with the expansion there are also apprentices that like least the strong man the strongman apprentice makes the artisan better right yeah so and there are three of these strongman cards i believe and they each do something different with the artisan so i really like how that works i think the coolest part about the expansion are the specifically the tools in the the craft cards because you can create like really cool combos with your apprentices and those tools we did not do a good job showcasing that today no i mean i got a point every time i did the yeah and i guess pretty useful i did have that one uh that one that let me take my worker back from prison one worker back in prison every time i went to the guild hall after a while i slowed down by a lot and going to the guild hall so i didn't get to continue doing that but that would be a good way for you to continue getting your artisan back from prison to be able to put them back out again so that's really cool just the fact that you can create stronger apprentice bonus combos it's really cool and that's pretty much the extent of the age of artisan's expansion it does add orange which naveen's happy about i love orange yeah that's playing his origin as those two new player boards uh including wall rick over here which you were playing as yeah i think he was a cool uh he was a cool guy because uh your meeple the artisan is now a three value versus everybody else's two yeah but that's that's your only benefit you know so you got to get that that artisan that can be pretty powerful yeah if you have a way to get your artisan constantly moving and flowing then yes for sure so in terms of the co-op scenario how do you feel about it oh man i i don't know how we won honestly like i i could have swore we were we were done i think that's the funny part about it i think it's made to make you feel like you're losing and it's just so punishing because in this game you you know you really want to compound workers in one spot in order for you to gain so many more resources in one go and this overlord is just taking you off it's just not gonna happen yeah so you're not doing that and they're also i guess because in in a co-op scenario like when are you ever gonna go to the guard house right so they really made it so it's like you need to go to the guard house you are required to go there at some point to get people back to get your opponents or your other players who are working together with you to get their workers back so i can understand why yeah even when they work that way i'm sorry i even went there to flip over some debts which i almost rarely ever do in the game so um yeah you're right it it definitely makes you have to go there yes so i think it's more of a they're leading your behaviors in the game in a certain way and they want you to go to the guard house they want to take your people off the board because or else it would just be really really too easy i guess yeah because you don't have your opponents uh tossing you in yeah only only they are tossing you only they will do it and it's not only a co-op scenario for two players like you can you can play a three four player game right with this co-op scenario so um in two players it just seems pretty tough yeah because the turns come back around to the overlord pretty quickly yes if it was like a four-player co-op if it was four players like okay i'm gonna mitigate then you then you then now it's back to you now it's just this one turn yeah even though everything scales so like all those cards to get those uh those achievements you know um a two player game is five but a four player game is like nine for the stone i feel like you can still i don't know maybe a higher player account you can just like sw stomach the storm a little get away with it a little bit more i think so higher player counts yeah uh and also because eventually you know the overlord the way that they work is they get stronger as time goes on and so part of the reason why we weren't really uh you know using some of the tools of the awesome expansion is because we after a while realize that we need to rush to the end of this game you need to end the game because the overlord just gets really strong and at some point they just keep on you just keep on flipping their scheme cards that that has the symbol that says flip over the next one resolve that and you're just now you're just resolving the entire deck yeah i think at the very end they took like four turns in a row yeah yeah so that's really scary when that happens but going back to what i was saying earlier i think the overlord is makes you feel like it's like way hard but the actual endgame scoring conditions is not strict and so that was with the standard scoring condition of this uh of this overlord there is also the advanced board or the harder board with the other side that's right and that's 12 points 12 points okay it's 12 points per person that they have in the guild hall that's right and it's only four event cards so uh we didn't it didn't happen to us but if you flip over the last event card it'll end game it ends the game immediately right right and it's minus 10 points per player and they they flipped over four on us so we would have lost yeah so we would have we would have lost if we were playing the harder game yep i think it's a little bit too stressful of a play for architects i i feel like with the the co-op i i don't know if it kind of makes me lose a little bit of what i enjoy about architects because architects out of the three games for me was like the silly light-hearted freewheeling of the three games right like you you get thrown in prison every now and then but not like every turn yeah yeah gosh it is right almost every single turn yeah so i think this co-op scenario is good for people who want just like this challenge they don't mind that stuff and they really want to play this game with like with a good challenge i think this that scenario is made for you yeah uh i i totally agree with you on this uh i think in the as we were playing i was just like gosh this guy is just like beating us down constantly like kick yeah i feel the same way i know exactly what you mean about that um and the term saga does come with a co-op mode for all three of the games so if you get the tome saga not only do you have that that campaign thing that we did but you also have co-op mode for paladins and for by accounts so we don't know how the other two plays no idea i am interested though because this is like i i don't know i to design this and to put this kind of stress on you i am very interested to see what it's like in the other two games yes i now would really really want to play those two co-op definitely not on the channel i think this is going to be the extent yeah trilogy yeah yeah but uh but yeah i am very very interested in the other two right yep so in the end how did you feel about this experience levine uh i feel like we shouldn't have won i don't know how we won um we're gonna have to do the math again probably but uh yeah it was it was fun in the end but uh but for me i i like i said i don't think i'd be itching to play this particular version of the game i do like architects but uh in terms of the co-op i'm not sure if i if i'm ready to jump back into it play the competitive mode yeah exactly for me i i thought that you know in the end now that i know that we won it feels a little bit more fun than maybe it was in the moment but but age artisans expansion is fantastic yeah highly recommend so if anybody out there wants to try this co-op expansion some recommendations for you are if you're going to play with the age of artisans maybe try to avoid willy-nilly building adornments and tools because you probably just want to rush the game yeah as many points as you can as quickly as you can and fill up the guild hall before they do yeah cause every turn you are spending building a a tool or an adornment is a wasted turn doing something else towards just getting that guildhall time is of the essence yeah and use your artisan to the best of your ability uh because they're going to keep on putting you in prison yeah exactly and also work together i felt like we could have improved a better you know approved yeah at the beginning of our game play yeah more than that at the beginning i think we didn't play as well uh cohesively we didn't discussing because we were so used to playing this game competitively that you kind of like look at your buildings and you plan rather than realizing like hey i can donate my building card to you you can use your apprentices for it instead of me trying to get my own apprentices for it right right so communicate work together on donating to each other and then also work together in getting building each other out of prison yes so if you can do that properly then you'll probably do better than we did yeah it'll be less stressful yeah so anyway that was the architects co-op scenario with the age of artisans expansion well thank you all so much for watching the video we hope you enjoyed it if you are interested in seeing any other videos in the west kingdom series uh we will leave a link to the playlist up here and we will be back with a wrap up of the entire series and we'll talk about everything and then we'll go from there thank you so much for watching thank you bye [Music] you

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Length: 111min 30sec (6690 seconds)

Published: Mon May 03 2021