Beyond the Sun Boardgame 2-Player Gameplay

in beyond the sun players represent corporations with aspirations of exploring controlling and colonizing planets outside soul system the tech tree is unique and that advancement reveals a unique event before players select a technological advancement corresponding to the prerequisite each game is set up with a number of end game conditions which when met will trigger scoring with so many space games on our shelf we'll be on the sun via unique enough experience to set it apart all right oh how do you like the events they're so cool or will the gameplay feel as cold as deep space find out now as we show you how it plays [Music] all right welcome to the table i'm anthony and i'm frances and today we are going beyond the sun i'm so glad you said that because well i was going to say that that's good i'm glad we didn't both say the same time me too that would have been awkward so we're going to um play through beyond the sun pretty straightforward yeah set up for two players and um it's a it's basically a tech game well we'll talk about that later because i know it looks i mean the tech tree is kind of like front and center on this thing but it is so much more about exploring space well yeah than you may think i would agree it looks very intimidating it is not we will take you through it sure take a look at the board so you can see this is a this is a table eater in itself um and i think it's it's actually a little bit bigger than it probably needs to be like if the cards were smaller you could probably shrink this down yeah um but it definitely has some presence here right so here you've got as we said the giant tech tree which should look like any texture if you played a civilization builder or 4x space game uh on the computer uh you also have a space system board that is you know here's earth in the soul system and it's got three randomly drawn uh systems uh from two decks from the a deck and the b deck and it has a starter system that you would also randomly choose from that we'll be able to colonize at some points because we're basically looking to um base research technology to the point where we can actually go and colonize other planets because we destroyed earth so we might as well go and research other planets so that we can advance our deck yeah big old relationship big old relationship so um simple enough is you just you set out all of your text right so you've got all your level one text that we put out uh your level two and level three text in the tree are actually events so events will occur every time one of these is researched which is pretty interesting uh before we actually go and draw out uh the technologies that would go into place uh you wanna go through the four texts at that star and these are randomly placed out absolutely so we have our narrow beam lasers which is going to help us jump and travel through space we have advanced robotics which is going to help us automate some things and gain ore we have advanced genetics which is going to help us create population and we have terraforming which will also help us uh travel around space and colonize planets so we we have like fledgling tech we're just getting into space we've got space travel down but we're we're still getting better at it right so we can go at least we can explore but we've gotta we gotta do a little work before we can really start terraforming some of the the bigger stuff right right uh the goal of the game is essentially to achieve um achievements right and there are four different achievement cards out here now in a two-player game you only need to achieve three of them correct with all of us collectively so it really could be me getting all three are you getting all three are you two and me one and me two and you one doesn't matter but any one of these that that can be achieved so uh two of them are played in every game and that's these with the orange border so colonize four systems so the first one to do that would put one of their achievement markers on that you have transcendence so research your first level four tech so as soon as you do that you put a token on there now these top two ones were randomly drawn reach the last level in your in one of your production tracks and we have two of those only one of those is available in a less than four player game and the final is cold it's two minutes post few minutes says move two or fewer supply cubes uh to have two or fewer supply cubes left in your total supply that is like really having a lot of stuff out on the board uh and that'll make sense uh as we yeah a lot of this ends up kind of culminating at the same time so yep so not only do we have a massive track on the board but we also have our own player boards which are um basically storage for all of our resources and tracking for all of our production correct so we are are lush with supplies right so columns a through f oh you only have e3e so and these are the advanced boards so they're they're a little more asymmetric for each of the uh the nations they're like corporations right yeah um so on these boards you've got like i said you've got your supplies which you will um grab from left to right unless told otherwise and you'll put them back from right to left unless told otherwise you've got a population track for food i'm sorry a production track for food which is directly related to population growth and then a production track for ore which is strict related to how much oil you can produce right we each have two asymmetric abilities um again because we're playing with this uh special um special board yes uh and you wanna go through your ability sure yeah so i have the nishida ostergad corporation and my first ability is once i automate three disks and what that means is that i'm placing these disks actually up here on the automation track and that'll make more sense as we play once i've done that three times starting the following turn whenever i research a level two or a level three technology i can pay one or to jump one time afterwards so to help me get around space a little bit more i can do that once per turn the second ability i have sentient hive mind so the first time that i reach level nine or production which means i have to come all the way to the end to reach level nine or production um i immediately use my right most supply in order to research an already revealed level two or level three technology without any prerequisites and the prerequisites we'll get into and a little bit um all right so i'm the united nations of seoul uh so my first and this this already starts unlocked for me it's a passive but i can do it once per game so once per game if i do a resource trade and that's during the production phase i'll explain that a minute during the production phase and make at least three exchanges of any combination in that trade so i make one because you're allowed to do as many resource trades as you want right and if i could do three of them shrink three together in in one production action i can automate one of my food or my metal productions to jump two which allows me to move one of these up here which is good and it also lets me move a ship around the board which is also good so that can happen at any point i just have to be able to achieve that and then my advanced one is called the android exchange the first one's called transglobal trade second one is android exchange where um if i unlock level eight food production which is right here i can pay a population as though it were or at a one-to-one ratio so it's like people for work because they're metal i don't want to know why that the other androids so i can we can recycle them to make ships because in this game food or supplies are to people as people are to ships right think about the people pilot ships the oregon ships and that's really kind of the relationship in this game and it's very simple so that is it that's the board um we've got this far left action selection space so yes um this yeah you want to go through that yeah i'll go over those so these are going to be our basic space fairing actions now as we on on reveal our technologies we'll have additional actions that we can take but these are going to be our basic actions from the beginning first we have obviously researching level 1 technology which we'll do is take our little hexagonal cylinders i guess and place them where we want to take our action and then we'll be able to take that basic action so we can research our level one technology uh we can pay to or to research a level two technology if we've met the prerequisites to do that and then we have our jumping around space action so we can jump to optionally we can turn one of our population kind of as anthony just described into a level one rocket ship and put that out there and then jump too we're always going to start our rocket ships on soul system unless we have uh presence on the the shipyard station out there right this is obviously that's on the shipyard yeah but in the beginning we're just going to be starting on soul system and then finally down here we can uh turn a supply into a population and gain one ore and we can do that unlimited time so in our in our game the first person to take this action is going to be free and then for these two second and third actions we're going to actually pay an extra award to take those if somebody's already taken them we have our terraforming guilds down here and these are going to be additional actions that we can take once they're revealed but they can only be revealed through the tech tree so like we mentioned there's events that come out some of those events are going to be reveal the professor's guild or choose one you usually let you choose one yeah usually that you choose to tier one to your so um yeah so we'll be able to do that eventually but not not right oh yeah in case you're wondering how do you get rid of those it's through the events yeah and those will happen you know because i've had to seed the event deck with with specific cars that are always in every game yeah that actually have you reveal those and underneath those what it's revealing is allowing you to do those moves so it's going to allow you to terraform larger tier actually to research larger tier um technologies um and so on and so forth so there's a lot of other things that we're gonna be able to do but in time yeah so the way that the turns work is we basically take an action which is you have to move your pawn and take an action and you can't leave it on the same hex you're in but you can move it to the hex next to you if it's available on the same action so if i had taken the research level one technology i can take it again my next turn as long as your pawn isn't blocking the other space right right so you can repeat actions as long as there's space to do that the fourth action creating a uh population and gaining a an ore as many people as one can play on that and you don't have to pay that extra or if you use it to double up on it so you could technically just stay there and do that which is kind of weak but i don't know if i want to do that so to look at the tech tree um once we do our action and the action's going to help us research going to move stuff around all that stuff and interact with the board and the second action we take so you take your action and then you do production and the production is based on your player board and at the start we each get one worker and one we'll call it a population and one or as you start to unlock these uh or start removing these disks you'll eventually start being able to uh increase that pot that that production of population and ore as you go along and that's part of the automation tracks you'll be moving them up there you'll be moving disks out onto planets and all that stuff that's how you clear that board off what's interesting about this is you'll see is if we do not move our our population and our or tracks or our food production and our our ore production tracks we may find that we have nothing left in this column and if we haven't made it to reveal this column yet we don't have access to these other supplies so that's something that we have to keep in consideration right because population growth points you to a specific supply line exactly that you have to pull from um the last bit of setup so um for our boards is every player starts with two two population and they'll have one into a rocket one more uh cube out here to put one level one rocket on seoul um these look like dice but they're technically just cubes and you don't ever roll them but one side has population one side has um a supply and then there are four sides with ship levels one two three and four so the highest level ship you can have is four and that really comes into play when you're controlling planets and you go to and you go to colonize so that's it for that setup the real quick about the production the tech tree is that you know we're allowed we don't have any text researched these are available but we don't have any population assigned to them to own that technology and to be able to use it right if you don't own and can't use that technology you cannot research anything ahead of it you just follow the lines to see what you can do some have requirements to have both lines branching off before you can do it so for example if you want to research this one you need to have both of these because it requires both prerequisites and that's going to happen throughout the rest of it as long as you follow that yeah it's pretty straightforward right there's actually a lot to this game yeah but it is pretty straightforward though yeah there's a lot to explain but i think that covers all of it and the rest is just strategy all right so with that you're player one she'll be playing one for the whole game yep um again we're going to play until we achieve three of these achievements uh and then the game ends as long as it rounds it over and that's it and then you just add up your points cool all right okay all right so i'm first yes i'm always first you are always first um all right so i'm going to go here and i will research level one tech so how i do that is i take one of my available populations so i'm not taking from my supply taking from my actual population and i go up here to narrow beam lasers lasers lasers lasers uh and that's it and now these cards here have immediate text on them it's in red here and for the narrow beam lasers i immediately gain one ore which i will take from here and i can upgrade one ship by one level so i have one ship out there i'll just upgrade that to a level two and now i can now i have available for my use that action for future turn now the second part of my turn again is production so the way we do that is we can either produce on population growth or production or we can do a resource trade now the resource trades work um by doing three or you can change a supply into population for one or you can change a ship into a population or you can completely get rid of a population or to gain an ore we're not doing any of that i am going to do my ore production uh now maybe i'll do my population growth because i need some population so again i'm going to look here at this a uh column so it's a is going to give me one population i have supplies there so that is going to give me one population but i'm done and that is my turn all right um i'll do a level one as well okay and then all you have to do it just costs a population to research and i will do [Music] i'm gonna do advanced robotics because i am a robotics company okay and i will automate one of these gears so i bring it up to the automation track and then i will gain an order okay my next action will be to gain population same as yours from the a stack your turn okay hmm i'm looking at our planets that we have over here okay i think what i'll do is go here maybe i'll use my new narrow beam lasers narrow beam lasers otherwise it's so hard for me to say um all right so i can pay one or change one of my population into a level two ship [Music] and then jump three so i'll start here in seoul and then i'm gonna jump one two three up to dx dx cancry all right um all right okay um so now you have control of dx concrete because you are the highest level ship yeah i am so you actually get to place an outpost here yes on that symbol okay and it is and all of these will tell you what type of disk you can put down some of them you can put your ore production something you can put your food this one takes ore which is why i went there so i'm going to put that there all right and it now it has this um if you put a disk here you may pay one or to upgrade one of your ships upgrade one of your ships on this system by one level so one word to upgrade that to a three do you want to do that i one two three i don't know yeah i guess uh pay the order yeah i guess i will that's fine i'm thinking yeah because the thing is i'm thinking about each of these planets has a colonization value as well and you have to have the ship value equal to or greater than the population but in a lot of cases if you have more than uh you end up losing that extra so i'm like do i want to do it but that's fine i'll do it okay so now i do my popular my um production i will go ahead and do the or um and i don't only get one or don't i you only get one okay maybe i'll do population instead i'll just drain my my population here um i'm going to take this again so if you want to move me to the other one just so that we're consistent yeah i'm going to go down and do terraforming okay so these level ones they have no prerequisites that you just do so i'm going to get to convert a good or yeah supply into a ship level one ship in deep space oh that's great so i just put a ship out there in the middle of space he just popped and developed just there he's just there all right i'll make another um population as well okay your turn all right i'm gonna go back here as well just space faring and i'm gonna go here also to advanced robotics and i'm gonna automate one of my disks i'm gonna gain an ore immediately and then for my production i will gain two more ore because now i've uncovered my second quarter all right so now that we're blocked here i obviously can't do it so i'm gonna have to move so i will go and do a now i don't have enough oh i do i have enough tech to to research that one actually so move me down to that level two sure so i'm gonna pay two or and i will move um i'll do a research action on this level too because it does not have a prerequisite for both just that one so we get to do that okay okay so first things first we reveal the event yes so we have maya chad turvetti visionary i gain one um supply into a person so my population just went up and then i can choose to remove a tier one guild cover tile below the basic space frame box each faction can now access the uncovered guild action cool so this is what we talked about earlier right and i will unlock the terraforming guild okay so now we are able to terraform uh for a cost of four ore and one give up one pocket one population i don't know where they're going but they're going somewhere so now i have to pick a level or tier two technology so there's a tier two technology deck off to the side of the board um this now which you have to pay attention to now is that the tech com that's coming off of um the level one this is going to be a scientific tech because it's blue so you've got militaristic scientific economic and commercial so you've got your four types of text so this happens to be a scientific technology so it has to be blue so i'm going to go through this deck until i find a blue tech and i'm going to start drawing cards until i have at least one blue symbol on the left side so there's one now i'm going to draw until i have another one boom so there's two so this stays off to the side for now now i get to choose between the two of these so do i want space-time anomaly studies which allow me to jump to right now and then the action on it would be pay three or jump two and then and then research a tier two technology if you control three or more locations after the jump you may do a tier three instead interesting uh or biosynaptic network all right choose one repeat the immediate bonus of any revealed tier 2 tech even if you don't have the technology oh that's pretty cool and then automate something automate something and gain two ore wow that's a pretty good one for an immediate i'm going to do that so i choose the one that i want it's going to be biosynaptic network and i'm going to take these two they're going to be randomized and then they're brought back to the bottom of this deck unshuffled unshuffled and that is it so now i get my immediate which is i'm going to not repeat a tier 2 this is the only one i'm going to automate something i'll automatically and now i get to do production which i will get two more because now i've revealed two ore your turn okay all right i need people so i'm gonna do a weird thing i'm gonna go here now again get rid of people right it optionally you can turn one of your people into a ship yes but i'm not gonna do that i'm gonna jump two all right but i'm not gonna jump two with one chip i'm gonna jump one here and one over there can you put me over there up here yeah okay um now what this lets me do is because i have control in both of these places i can get rid of a disk here and i can get rid of a disk up here up there um over there actually oh sorry that's right up here so you control the only other system with a shipyard yes which means i can bring ships out there if i want to so um okay yeah that's really all i wanted to do because i want to bring out like so i can bring out one from here and one for my b column that's correct so one yeah and one here okay okay so what i'll do then is i guess i will i'll do a tier one research if you can move me up there sure and i'll do i'll do the top one narrow beam lasers okay so i'm going to gain a an ore and i'm going to upgrade one ship one level so i'll upgrade this guy to level two and then i will produce i'll take another dude there we go your turn my turn okay so i will go here to back to my narrow beam lasers and i'm going to pay an ore to turn one of my people into a ship to a level two ship okay which i can now launch up there if i want to and then i get a jump of three um so i could go like one two one two and like waste another jump i guess hmm yeah so that's fine because here's what's gonna happen i'm gonna launch him from here um and and i could go there too that's a pretty good one so the thing is this is a great planet because it gives you six points which is cool right um but that one gives you two points but you get to draw the top card from the three deck and use it as your price yeah which is like it's pretty pretty good um so it's sort of a right now type of thing um i'll do that so i'm gonna do i'll just i'm just gonna jump both of those guys over here okay and then i get to put a chip out there a food chip and that's it um so i will produce two more population and it is your turn okay so then what can i do i can create a ship hmm yeah and then move one two three okay like a research tech i'll do a research a level two tech okay i'm gonna research this one oh okay so i'll put a guy up here and i'm gonna pay how many where is it two two two or so let's see the event is economic boom you can choose one of the following each faction gains can turn one supply into a population each faction gains one ore or each faction may kill a population to gain to or can we recycle them all right i'll gain i'll do the population so you get the gain of population i get to gain a population yeah it's an economic boom that's great because i choose what everybody gets yeah all right so i'm going to do the same thing now but this one's a militaristic so yeah i'm going to look for red so there's plasma cannons that's good mass cloning no no no no yes okay so these are going to go down here for now so we can either do exo alloy refinements upgrade one ship by two levels and then you may choose one automate or or turn one supply into a level three shift and jump one that's actually really good jump three i'm gonna do i'm gonna do plasma counter that's not that's the action i'm talking about yeah so i'm gonna mix these up randomly and then put them back under here bottom of the pile all right so my instant is i get to turn one supply into a level three shaft three ship and then jump one so he's going to jump right here no which is then going to push you out into deep space because he's higher it is and i'm going to remove this you take that back yep and replace it with one of my own um of my choice and i'll use that so now i control that planet that's good and then i do a production and i will take or two more and now it's your turn all right i'm gonna go here and oh yeah all right i'm gonna go there and go here and that's it and then i'm gonna make two more okay so then i'm gonna take this terraforming action of course you are if you don't mind okay so what i'm do is pay three more and i have to get rid of oh yeah oh i can do it don't you worry i have to convert somebody back to a supply so i bring them into the farthest right so that that's my population cost and then i can convert as long as i have enough ship strength to match the colonization level level three and i do this turns back into a supply because your ship is now gone but i do take this i also place one more token and it could be either one on top of this stack because that's like the full colony exactly and this card becomes mine and stays in my tableau so once you do it you get a reward so i can take one supply from my rightmost supply and create a level two ship automatic nice and you're gonna bring out a new bring out a new planet in a so here we have procyon draw the top card from the tier two deck as your private attack okay my production yes is now going to be to take i can take from b now because i unlock that there you go all right well i really kind of wanted to colonize as well i don't want to spend the extra hour to do it um yeah that's tough right i know it's kind of crap but that's okay um i'm gonna do it anyway i'll just take this one then this is why it's great that these this like terraforming guild comes out um so i'm going to pay for ore i'll i can pay it to my own right here and do exactly the same thing except up on wise 1541. you have to kill one of your guys too unfortunately well he's just going into he becomes a supply chain so these ships also get scrubbed back but you do get this and you get to draw the top card i sure do that's your new private tech private tech wormhole technology yes is that good uh this is great because from now on your ships only need one jump to travel anywhere except when leaving seoul or deep space oh that's cool immediately i get to turn a supply into a level two ship and gain one ore and i'll just put that up at the shipyard system up there and jump two ships to any locations and i'm going to jump both of these guys to this location can you jump him over there thank you um there we go okay um and i can put an extra thing now this planet only gets plants you could do whatever the second the second token could be yeah i think i've always done i've not always done that okay so i can do that all right that's it uh now i get to do my production i will make two more or two or two or three either four either or eek space foundry was such a good game i'm gonna do plasma cannon if you don't mind plasma cannon okay i'll just pay two ore and i'm gonna get to turn one of my guys into a level three ship and get three jumps okay all right so let's see how we want to do this so we'll go one two three nice and i'm gonna take over two planets so we're gonna go let's do food and food okay so i am done with that and now i get to produce i'm gonna produce people which will get me three uh two people one person two persons your turn okay i'm going to go here and pay two or to research this tech so tyler lee entrepreneur prodigy you gain one ore okay great then choose and remove a tier one guild cover tile below the space frank box all right so we live once we're gonna do professors guild makes sense because he's a prodigy right yep um so now we can for four or remove a person we can research level three two so we can do three times as well as we meet the prerequisites so we are going to so you've got two colors coming up here yeah so i have uh red and blue i'm gonna research blue science science so there's one there's a red and blue that's perfect nope nope nope wow wow where's all the blues right there all right cool so what do we have let's see space time anomaly studies three or to jump two wow three or to jump two then research level two tech if you control three or more locations after the jump you can jump three instead that's pretty good um human experiments i like this one i like the human experience yeah that one's a pretty good one actually um yeah that's ah it's really good i just don't like the immediate bonus on this right now for me um two people to do a level three um i'm actually going to do the space-time anomaly not the human ex well it's like it's all jump stuff you know what i mean all right here take this one i'll do human experiments instead if the thing is it lets me upgrade up to two ships by one level right which is fine i mean just up the upgrade both of those two threes i guess and i'll just hang on to that for a little longer okay and then i get to put my population out there okay fair enough that works um and so i will do um all right that's great so i'm gonna do um tier one research okay i got here automate one food and then turn a supply into a person and i'm gonna get ore so it's two war your turn okay i am going to use my narrow beam lasers again it's like my most used action i think i'm going to do an ore and i'm going to turn one of my population to a level 2 ship and i'm going to jump three so i'm going to start up here i'm going to go one two three okay and take over that that bit okay and then i'll do my production and i will make uh one person i really need to get rid of that other thing you know it's not great oh really not great actually so i'll do a two or instead all right okay all right i'm gonna take um i'll do a level two upgrade this one yep okay so i'm gonna play two or and a person will go here and i will make i'll make it a green actually that's economic uh experimental prototypes each faction picks the leftmost cube and rolls it like a die yeah all right so what did you get your one shot i got your one you gained one person okay so he becomes a person okay any other ship level place the ship as on seoul as a level two ship that's great wow as a level two ship yeah if you if you were supply you would have placed the cube back in game two or which would have been nice that's experimental prototypes all right oh i do like the events they're pretty cool they're so cool um so now i get to choose and i decided i was going to do economic green so we're looking for green so there's one and there's two very simple i may do full on green yeah cloning cloning that's happening yeah so automate that and then make a person or choose up to oh okay they're so like they're all so good and so balanced it just depends like what you're trying to go for i'm gonna do cyanidex research i love this game so much i can't keep it in all right well all right i'm gonna automate one food production you automated so many things because i'm so good at automation i'm gonna get two more your turn oh my goodness okay i really need to start automating some stuff you really do okay i'm doing this really all right i'm gonna colonize a planet a planetary system uh so three ore i'm going to colonize like la kyle is that what it says hey look 9 35. 93 52. here's some supplies for you thank you and here's a ship so now you get to move your pawn and take an additional basic spear space faring action i sure do um but most importantly i get to do this first which i know easier just came out easier and easy of course yeah um all right cool so i did that um move your pawn take an additional basic space varying action yeah okay so i could take one of these guys and do i want to turn a person into a thing um i don't really want to pay extra or to do that and i'm not oh actually i guess i could do that i could do this i'll do this it's fine okay there you go i'm gonna put this here automate this guy and then turn a supply into a person why not there you go and now for my production i will maybe create two more people okay why not you're done yeah all right can i have my pulling please sure all right so i'm gonna do some psyonix research oh so i'm gonna play two ore and then i can get rid of one person into supplies and then i get to research a level three technology what do i have a prerequisite top up here yeah right there i can do so galactic census you choose one discard this event with no effect or i could turn a supply into a population displace event near the achievement board cards for the game and effect at the end of the game each faction gains one victory point for every two population they have left so i am going for militaristic here yes that is your only choice there's one and there's two all right so i could either have a mercenary fleet which does a whole lot of things colonizes it allows me to get a tier four ship or i can do a capital ship um which lets me build a lot of ships wow that is serious ships that's a whole lot of ships yeah i like the capital ship i do like the theme on that one so i'm going to put this in the pile here randomize these a little bit right back in the stack all right so i have capital ship technology and i immediately get one supply turned into a tier four ship and i get to jump one so i'm actually going to jump this guy here and take control of that nice for now easy aquarium easy it's easy it was a pretty easy acquired it was and now i'm gonna get um people because i'm out of people so i get to turn two into people okay and it's your turn all right i am going to research um i'm going to do this boop so i'm going to get rid of two people back to supplies and research a level three tech myself over here where i have prerequisite cool um yeah yeah uh monolith construction you choose one describe this event with no effect or gain two ore then displace the event near the achievement cards at the end of the game each faction gains one for every four or they have left wow um i'll do that you wanna take that out as a yeah why not because i kind of want the two ore oh right now so yeah that was my choice right so now what color oh it's gonna be blue yeah all right so you get either planetary skill research or live mind computing i've mind computing oh wow that's one of our level fours [Music] [Applause] that's pretty cool it's a lot of ore but these so you can get all the way to the end of the game and if you haven't revealed the level four how to get tech you know um or or um for for or you can turn a person or you can research technology x is the number of your colonized systems plus one so like if you've researched five colony or five systems then you can do a level four tech i kind of like that that's pretty good that's better than this one this one you need four ore that's mean you just need like a lot of stuff researched right but this one lets you automate it's like decisions decisions all right here i'm going to take this hive mind computing instead so i can automate one of these which is going to give me another ore production and i can jump one but i'm not going to okay so um all right cool so so there's that um and i will take one of each of these populations your turn okay oh and actually look at this so i've met my third my research envoys so starting next turn whenever you research a two or three tech i can pay one or to jump one afterwards okay once per turn sure sounds great that really does sound great doesn't it sound so good yeah so i'm gonna go here and jump four okay and i'm gonna jump um one two three four no no i had an idea here yeah oh yeah one two three four so this boots you out ah to deep space tier four ship no [Music] right to deep space um oh this is a ore production it is so now i get an ore and i get to upgrade i can't even upgrade him he's too high yeah but that's it so tier four on that planet and i'll do production i'll take or i'll take three or one very good your turn well that's not great for me um i could make a class two ship though and then jump three and jump in there and take that right back what kind of wasteful i think that's not that wasteful that's fine if you really want that planet i do want that planet okay then go for it there's two more i can do i really want that planet um yeah i'm gonna go here and i'm gonna pay an ore oops to create a level two ship here and then i'm gonna jump three so i'm gonna go one two that's all i need all right that's actually pretty good for me okay well that's good i'm glad here yeah these are yeah okay and then we do my production i'll do one two three you're up all right i'm gonna do colonization yeah i think i'm going to come okay all right so i'm going to take this action okay where i spend three or and i lose a guy it becomes supplies again and uh we are going to colonize procyon so this is a strength of four so i only need to pay these two so they'll also become scrap oh i forgot that i fill it at d yeah oh actually i have to fill that f2 yeah what are you doing so many um so he's actually he gets booted out anybody left gets booted out to deep space um and i take this so now i get to draw the top card from the tier 2 deck and it's my private tech so i get exo alloy refinement upgrade one ship by two levels nice i'm gonna bring him up to two boom bring them up to four up to four up by two and then i may choose one automate or research at tier one i already have all the tier one so i will automate or production okay so that's my own put your desk on proceed on all right oh yeah i want that i want that i want that all right i'm gonna produce i'll bring this out gj one zero good job six one all right three or that's what i'm producing cool your turn all right i'm going to go here and spend four or at a steep cost you had to do it i had to do it you're a race against time there's a race against time it's a race for space it's a space race it feels like a space race um i'm going to terraform this dx these are your supplies thank you uh for now only jump effects game plus once you get yeah but i'm already like a super jumper i don't even use it there you go but i am going to put an additional one of these on there which is going to give me an extra ore production we got a new planet right and that is going to allow me to do my production of four or no one two three four okay okay are you good i'm good you're good all right so i'm gonna do jump four i'm gonna go one two three four nice okay all right so i'm going to take this i uncovered my little b so now i can pay people as if they were or that's good yeah if you can make people which you can like that's what you're you're my engineer it makes people it's what people make it's a people engine all right so i put a chip here i may put one level one ship into deep space i like that and that is it so i will do production and i'll produce people i get three people one two three wow here we go okay i'm gonna go here and pay two or to research a level two tech and repeat the immediate bonus of any exposed levels you take even if you don't have the technology um or automate one and gain two or i'm gonna do that instead and i'm going to automate this and i'm to gain two ore instead and then i'm going to produce four ore for my production your turn okay okay so then i will okay i'm gonna do terraform where is it it's down here boom three ore and crush a dude i always have to get rid of these poor guys um i'm gonna do this one okay so what what this allows me to do and this guy turns into supplies too it allows me to repeat the immediate bonus on any tier two card even if i don't own it okay i would like to automate this my last one which then if uh research the last level of a production track i will claim you booger that one the only one yeah that's good i was almost there so i got this and what you do is if you don't have any so i get to put one marker on it one additional but if you don't if you run out of other markers you actually can put a star on it so you have an extra bunch of stars that's what they're for um so that is that i'll go to b i get to produce and i get one two three that's the rose planet oh that's the ross planet yeah oh this is ross yeah doesn't it okay your turn okay um ooh oh i have so many things okay um like do you ever have like all of your moves flash through your head at one time yeah let me write that down um okay great i need to go oh i don't have that technology jump to hmm i need to make a big ship the big ship and then go three okay i'm gonna do this i'm gonna go here human experiments let's use this so i have to get i have to put this guy back right as a supply um but i get to oh wait oh no he doesn't go back does it supply he turns into a no he does turn into a supply and that allows you to create another you're you're experimenting on one human to create another one into a flying another human i only have one oh then it's funny that it doesn't say that though because on a lot of these it'll tell you like you need three people to take this action yeah and it doesn't say that yeah you definitely need two to take that yeah all right so i'm not going there you're experimenting again sporting myself it's so bad it's terrible um but i could no i can't do the plasma cannon you were just there i thought plasma cannon for you i don't have that type of oh yeah you need to research that wow that's a good tech isn't it it's a really good tuck i mean i could go back to my narrow beam lasers i have enough ore it's just like a it's only two level ship you know what i mean it needs to make a lot more ships than that i don't make that many ships uh but i'll do it anyway okay so i'll go here i'll spend an or i'll make a person into a level two ship and then i'll jump three um but i can jump anywhere for one so i jump one except from seoul yeah but i'm jumping one yeah and now i can jump anywhere yes now you can jump anywhere too for my second one that allows me to put one of these guys out right um and i can and that can take either of those yep either one i'll put this down and now you can move your right most supply into column a there yeah it's really nice because you need people i need people so now when i do my production i can go ahead and make all of these into people all your people one two three and now it is your turn okay [Music] um interesting i think i'm gonna do some research are you well we have we've been ignoring the research i think we've been doing quite a bit of research uh i'm gonna do a research on level two okay this one and it's gonna cost me two ore and i gotta put a guy out here but the event is erratic solar activity tuck this card underneath an uncolonized system card factions must pay one ore for each of their ships that ends its turn its jump there that system is worth an additional one uh victory point of colonize take this card along with this system all right i want to put that right under here so but it'll cost you one ore to stop ship there which is pretty cool that's good interesting so tier two it is an uh capital uh um is it capital markets type what is it what yellow is is commercial commercial yeah i don't know what i'm thinking capital markets cat markets the market cap market cap all right so we're gonna have modular fleets or multi-colony synopsiums so skip your regular production phases turn unless you have two or more colonized systems whoa this will research a level three build up to three different ships and then jump three what i like that modular fleet building all the ships all the ships all right so there's no immediate action so i'm going to do produce i'm going to produce people so i'm going to get one here one here with those and one here they got to go on the bottom sorry don't forget to do that they gotta go on the bottom all right so i'm producing three people boom boom boom and if i have two or fewer supplies left in my supply i get to claim this oh man oh my gosh we're so close oh my gosh we're so good yeah it just got real close i have all my moves in my head oh baby you better get them out of the table because this we're not we're not going to be able to get them out on the table i'm not going to be able to get them out on the table oh man because either whether i do that or i do that oh oh man all right well i have so many things i want to do right now and now i don't think of it now i don't know if you're going to colonize that planet aren't you and we're going to be done that's going to be it no no um oh man i need like two more turns in this game it's always the case need two more so scrap it let's do it again no we can't do that let's do it again you always need two more turns ah i'm only one turn away um all right i gotta think i gotta think clearly about what i wanted to do i think i'm just gonna go i can go here now i can do my human experiment now [Music] um and discard one person as a supply right mm-hmm to turn a guy into a ship and then jump a level three shot jump in here and do my same thing right go one two because of my bonus right yeah oh my god yeah you can't colonize it are you really going to end it right now yeah you are why not maybe i should do something else then well i don't know what you can do well because i really need to colonize that that thing i mean i could tell you why i'm sure i could figure that out but i know but otherwise i just need to get rid of this i just need to get rid of this wait wait wait oh oh oh i'm getting so excited are you really going to end it why don't you just push me off here well i'm not i could do that i could also put you off here okay right yes so i'll put you off there that pushes me off i'll push this here okay now why i was so well still not gonna get me what i want i can use my rightmost supply to research a level two or level three that's exposed without prerequisites and i wanted to do this one because then i wanted to do my level four so you get a ship at the level four yeah wait what so now you you get to create the instance you can get to create one level four ship and jump one i know so you could do that right now yeah i will do that right now not that it it's not gonna matter doesn't really matter but unless three you would like what i could have done though no that wouldn't have worked because i was like if i could jump out you know what i mean and kick you off that planet you know what i mean yeah but i would have had to you could first i couldn't i wouldn't have been able to do what i just did if you would have gotten that second action correct do you know what i mean yeah the only way you're able to bring that second chip out is by doing that yeah and this is a four yeah it's not enough to get there's not enough strength to kick me off here is it enough to keep you from colonizing though it's not you have to have more than me because i've already got my outpost you have to get me out of that i know i know yeah ah this is so terrible but so exciting none of you people want to sit and watch me make like the perfect move right now so um yeah that's really unfortunate all right well i guess i would have put him there right yeah and you could do your production because i would at least i have that thing out there would you put my for every ore whole bunch right one two three four five might as well yeah take a bunch of ore why not i hope you don't end it right now oh yeah i'm not done playing this game i'm sorry but i just want to keep playing this is the last move so if you don't mind having me in my little i can't believe this here this is happening so i'm gonna do a terraform cost me three but oh i only have two ore but i could pay people as or that's right you got me so excited because i unlocked my b that's just explaining why i can do this right so that's three or and one person i have to bring back to supplies and now i get to colonize gj1061 good job bring those supplies back you're gonna come home no come to your home i will put this here and then i get to put one tier three ship into deep space as a reward um my production i will take one two three or i'm just well played and that's the game well played that ends it um so we have score i just wanna can we just go for second winner second winner i wanna win her second dinner or like like just for example we don't know who's winning playing i didn't win the game i know i know but i just claimed i just claimed colonized four systems that's right you claimed all of those and i think third um i know this ends ends it because it's the end of the round because i was second place well here's what i wanted to do well i'm just talking up the scores first and then we can talk about that i know i'm so excited all right so we're going to do some scoring yeah um scoring is it's easy but it's not easy it's easy there's a lot of things to score and i want to make sure we don't miss them and there's no scoring pack yeah which one bad thing i don't like scoring pads i love scoring pads um which we don't have but i just follow this little thing and it tells you what score so for each each faction scores one point for each of their level one text right so we scroll the board one two three four we get four so i got four i wish i could keep track of this somehow uh each factor scores two points for each of their level two technologies right yeah you're gonna get three points for three so yeah so just count up your points basically on the board okay okay all right now count your privates i'm sorry private technology is two or three oh that's a three three points so you got that in your head you get it you know where you're going i got it okay all right each faction scores points for the level threes if they have like certain um level threes that have specified like end game points yeah we don't have any on them right i'm sorry level four level fours are all end game points by the way yep yeah each faction scores points specified on the level four so we've got that each faction scores points but so in their automation track so add however many points you got up to um 22. okay it's all in my head it's really hurting me right now you can use the calculator just we won't watch the baby for a little bit each fraction scores points for the colonized systems indicating the bottom of their system cards right okay i'm okay now yep that helped my math out a lot each goes one point for each other uncolonized outpost discs on the system each non-controllable location scores one point for the faction with the highest military power that's you each factor scores a point for the event card that provides points yeah huh that's uh four to one right mm-hmm so i get none you good yep each factor scores for each event card yeah so we did that each fight scores points for their achievements yeah you you took it away of course you won okay i have 52 points i only have 36. wow well also because i had a bunch of planets well you you had a bunch of planets you got all the things before i could get yeah that's like that's and the thing is right there i'll be honest with you the two that we had come out for the for these extras they only have one spot so even though i did both of those oh yeah i couldn't take them yeah do you know what i mean um i was just about to colonize two cysts or four systems i was just about to take a level four tech so i was right behind right there and it's a lot of points so i'm not upset about it actually you played well and um and it's a lot like there's there i just we didn't even get this whole side of the board let's talk about the layout let's go talk about it okay all right here's the thing i like you slaughtered me in points in this game okay which is fine because i won the last time you played i don't know i don't keep trying but that's okay i do clearly but the thing is like i have so much fun with this game like you don't like even though even though like i didn't win right i still look at my board and i'm like look at this yeah we all feel like we did we all feel like winners at this table right we do we're all winners at this table no we don't always feel like voters at this table that's a lie um but no like you look at your board and you're like wow look at everything i've uncovered like i did all the things that i wanted to do i was so close to meeting the goals and and like you it always comes down to this like it always ends much more quickly like just as you're just as you're thinking to yourself oh like this is coming to an end very quickly somebody plays something that like brings it to an end within the next turn so this happens all the time you kind of just have to be ready for it and i never want to stop playing like i just never want this game to end like i just want to like keep going until my board is clear the draw here's the draw of this game yeah it's that you want to finish the tech tree and you don't always finish the tech tree i know because it takes a lot because you could you could oh you know what yeah no sorry we did captain nevermind um the thing is you never really get a chance to finish it because you have to pay attention to the space board so you have to not only are you uncovering technologies but you've got to use them exactly right and by using them you're pushing the game forward right and the thing is you're not like if you're if you're out using if you're taking your turns to use your technologies to do space stuff which is what you should be doing you're not researching yeah so if you're not researching you're not uncovering the things that you need in order to actually like i was so excited that we actually brought out something that would bring us the level four tech because sometimes when we play we don't uncover the one level three card that lets you bring out level four tech we got stuck so i was like yes and i've got an ore engine so i was like i'm gonna bring out some of that we got lucky that we got that that um that tech for level four but we also didn't un uh unveil the two events that bring take out the guilds exactly which would let you do it as well yeah the medicine skill lets you bring out that level 4 tech as well for it's a little more expensive but um but it lets you do it so yeah i mean you don't always get to finish the tech tree i think that the game's a little deceiving because it on first at first glance if you don't know anything about this game and you haven't watched our playthrough um you might look at it and go well just building a tech tree like how fun is that you know because real estate wise the tech tree takes up a lot of space um and the space board is very small but very important i mean this is area control this is like your movement yeah you know this is colonization and um it's just like that piece of the game is sort of it's literally off to the side so it's easy to overlook this as just a dry i'm just gonna push cubes and turn my cube into different things and uh and that's not at all what this is about it's not for me it is not and it it's and that's where like you said it's very deceiving when you when i first saw this game yeah being played or just pictures of it you know pictures come across hear your instagram or your facebook or whatever and you look at the game and you're like these plain player boards with just cubes on them and then you've got this board that just has like that looks like a tech tray because it is and there are and people we know when you bring up this game like oh that's a textured game that does not look interesting at all this game does not look interesting at first glance at all we're not even going to sugarcoat that it just doesn't right um after looking further into it i realized there was a space board and i'm like oh that's pretty cool at least there's something else going on here besides just building a tech tree like how fun could that be but the fact that the tech tree determines how well you do on the space board and it manipulates your ships and your economy and the whole way everything works together you don't even realize this is a tech board than when you start playing because there's so much more going on yeah and so much more that you're thinking about that i look at it now and i think it's beautiful yeah and i see like and it's it's it's got a draw and i'm like i really love the way it's laid out and it's it makes a lot of sense i wish it was i could squeeze it down a little smaller you know what i mean because it does take up a ton of real estate that i don't think it needs to yeah i think you could really like just squeeze it a bit and then i'd be fine with that maybe even make the space board a little bigger right right but it's because it is small but the other side has four planets instead of the third set of three for a higher player account i get that yeah um but but what a game uh and what i like about the tech tree as well is that it's not just like a lot of times you'll get like kind of plain jane tech it's just like now you can produce five now you can produce ten now you can you know what i mean so it is a little boring but i love that in first of all you're determining what you're bringing out and there's rules about it that keep it organized and structured and but you're kind of directing where that's going right allah probably typical tech trees but but the other thing that's cool is that you're getting those immediate bonuses so you're weighing like the immediate bonus versus something that's going to be out there for everybody to use you know so if you're playing this kind of you know thinking about what's going to help or hurt other people um that you have to take into consideration as well uh so it's just um but here's the robot you create a technology you research technology you know okay so now it's available for other people they still have to research it before they can use it they can't just use it exactly right right right because you're looking at my plasma kind of going oh i want to take plastic candy like yeah i can't take it because i didn't research it like do you want to waste that turn i know researching it yeah right because it's a whole turn i know um but it does give you a lot of bonuses to be able to start taking those moves right right yeah i um i can't say enough how much i enjoyed this game and i don't know if it's because my expectations weren't super super high to begin with um but as we started i actually started reading the rule book for this while we were on our trips we were on the road trip and ice just started like reading through the book and i'm like wow this looks like a lot of game like it looks very intense um it looks very dry you know but as i'm reading the rules i'm like this actually looks kind of really good you know and but even then you still weren't sold i wasn't completely sold until we sat down and we played it put it out and you're like oh we're going to play that one i'm like yeah i want to play this one yeah because i like i really like the space games rio grande yeah i like them all yeah and i'm a sucker for them i don't know why because every time i look at them like and they look kind of dry but i play them like they're wonderful right right uh and this one doesn't doesn't even fall short but you played it and you were like that was a good game this i and i have been like like can we please get this like what else do we have to do because i really want to get this to the table yeah um to film it and to share with all of you guys um i would probably go as far as to say this is at the present moment i'm trying to say if it's my favorite this might be my favorite space game really right now what's good i'm thinking about whether because i'm also i really like alien artifacts okay um i think i actually i i like there are two completely different games you can't compare the two um but as far from just an experience standpoint i mean you've got games like like um like you have all your mars games and stuff like that and you know like our you know vidal zerota game we played on mars was really really good but in a different way what i like about this is that it's it's not overly complex to the point where i feel like i need to be like on my game to figure it all out do you know what i mean yeah um which sometimes i'm in the mood for that but i like that it like i could i can picture us bringing this out with a wide range of people explaining it so they don't have to like learn it themselves um and being able to access this a lot of times on the table yeah um and i just i just really really enjoy it i really love this game i don't know i don't always say that no so that i do so there you have it i think we we really we really kind of just committed to really liking this game i guess so yeah but i think that's fine look you saw the play through you you got to watch um and see how the game plays for sure um not sure if you still think it looks dry just by the looks of it but don't let that fool you yeah this is like a a medium slash heavier medium game it definitely leans more to the heavy in the mediums but i wouldn't say it's more than a medium weight i wouldn't say so um because it really or medium complexity yeah weight yeah um medium complexity just because it takes a little while to learn the rules but it's very intuitive extremely intuitive because there's only so many things you can do and i'd love a game where there's just a few things that you can do but there's so many possibilities that's exactly there's so many games we play anymore recently that there's been a thousand things to do and a hundred mile you know minuscule rules to remember about each of those yes thank you thank you much for me to wrap my head around and it's like i feel like i have to take notes to do things because and it makes it like the complexity of the game anymore is not in the strategy right it's in remembering a bunch of tiny little rules that you know might change and could change change yeah this is like all the rules are on the board yeah like everything's notated yeah you know i don't really have to decipher you can spend your time thinking about your strategy if somebody takes a spot that you wanted to take there's probably another spot that you can take it might cost a little bit more there's something else you can do you can shift your strategy and it won't cost you exactly like if if you're struggling on the space board just research more stuff right you're going to get points for it like yeah spend your time there right it's not going to hurt you that bad because they'll be spending all their time on the space board right so you've got to pick your avenue and you can you can win that way so you're not tied into just one thing leverage your your faction's abilities right like i had a people faction so i just kept pumping out people to the point where i was able to empty my board and start fulfilling these things right so that's good excellent so excellent okay excellent game yeah we can't recommend this one highly enough this is one we picked up at the uh at our local game store yes we did um because it was just really it's just really tough to find and the minute i saw it i was like i'm getting it like i need this game because i've heard about it i love all their other space games this is a no-brainer and this is probably the best one of the bunch yeah hands down cool so all right thanks for watching we hope you enjoyed this play through uh we're gonna leave our first comment as always locked if you if this game if this video um influenced your decision on whether or not to earn the game please give it a thumbs up yes and uh leave any questions or comments below and we'll see you next time we'll see you you

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Length: 78min 59sec (4739 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 06 2021