Eclipse | E1 Turn 1 | Red Plays

[Music] hey there this is red it's time for another episode of red blaze so if you've noticed can I get this whole Eclipse thing going on here so that's what we're gonna talk about today is we're gonna go through some Eclipse 2.0 I just did a video on the set up which gets us to this point where everything's out here so I'll put a link up in the corner there about the setup process and how to get to where we're at what I think we're gonna do now is we're gonna go through round one of Eclipse and just kind of fill out the basic start of the game so I would not use this video in any way shape or form as the amount of time that it takes to play eclipse because I'm gonna be talking a lot during these two kind of pointing things out and walking us through what's going on so I will say that I don't think the game the time notes on the box are generally accurate use early games of eclipse take longer than it looks like from what the boxes but this will probably be an extreme case of how long eclipse will take so anyway we've got everything set up like I said video was up in the corner about how to get to this point we've got an epic battle between Beatrice and Jocasta going on here I think Beatrice thought going into this game is she wants to go back and explore and do more of an economy type takeover Oranje Kostis thing and she wants to head towards the center and maybe fight more with the the ancients and the Guardians and do more of trying to take over towards this center so that's how I'll play the two players is a little bit different I think it's tough in a two-player game to potentially try to take the other players out because they're on opposite sides of the board it takes a while to get that far so let's take a look at so starting off we're gonna have a set of actions that the players can do so I want to go into those real briefly what you're gonna see a lot of usually on the first rounds is there's going to be a lot of explore actions going on and that allows you to place more hexes and try to influence them and build up your Galactic Empire right the other things that you can do is there's research which allows you to get items that are out here in the tech track based on the cost that they have in the corners of them right use your science that you have as resources to pay for things from the tech track the next option is to upgrade which allows you to the ships that your players have which are here I'm actually with grab another player sheet so if we were to take a look at like this interceptor here right we can upgrade their parts which means that you can take these tech tiles and then you can after you research the technology you can get those technologies to put on your ships and make them into better ships so you can go off and fight these different things that are on the board or other players alright so that is upgrades builds allows you to you're going to use your materials that you've gathered to buy more ships or potentially monoliths or star bases or other things out there on the board move allows you to move your ships around and influence is an interesting one and then when you do an influencer action it allows you to take your influence markers off of sectors or place them on sectors that are that are open that you could potentially influence in addition to that you have colony ships each player has a set of colony ships and some of the races get more or less and the influence action allows you to unlock all and ization during my turn and I want to further put population on planets I can use that in order to refresh some of my population allowed me to place more population cubes and thus get more resources come the end of my turn so that's the final action that you can potentially do during your action Faye's okay so trying not to get into too much detail there because it will play out as we play and I go into a lengthy explanation we'll be here for hours so let's get going as I talked about Beatrice is gonna be our start player she's decided she wants to head towards the outer rim and explore what's going on on the outside of the galaxy in hopes of finding some good sectors there and setting up an economy so you will notice in a two-player game the number of outer rim sectors which are the ones that are gonna go around the outside here this third layer are very limited so there's not a whole lot of exploration to do there so she's gonna want to snatch them up pretty quick this is the level two sectors and these are the level 1 sectors here in the middle right so there's only one two three four five in a two-player game so the first person to grab them is gonna get him pretty quick and Beatrice wants to be that person so Beatrice is going to decide she wants to explore this turn so her first action she's going to move one of these markers here over to explore now what you see on here is these are the cost this is at the end of the round once we get further down there's going to be this action phase and there's a combat phase when we get into upkeep you're gonna have to collect income and then pay your civilization upkeep cost the numbers that are here are your civilization upkeep cost right you're going to potentially earn money on your turn according to what is revealed on this track so at this point I'm gonna earn three dollars and I already have three dollars in the bank right so I could theoretically a total upkeep of six and that one costs five so I could go up to there easily I might want to not go that far in order to bank money I also have the ability to use my trade ability which if you look on let's bring the character character she pack out real trade so I can spend two for one right so while I may only be earning three and have three I could trade in like let's say two of my materials take me from four down to two to get another one which would allow me to pay for that seven cost so there's other ways to get to that cost too if you can't pay that cost and there's bankruptcy which involves you giving up sectors which is a whole other thing and we won't get to there hopefully well maybe you'll get to that during this game but let's not go there yet so anyway okay let's get back to Beatrice doing something cool all right so Beatrice wants to go exploring on this third outer rim sector now where she can go is she can only go through these two wormholes that she has her so she needs to pick which one she's gonna explore and we'll go straight back so I'm gonna grab one of these thank God that this sector tiles are the same I printed these offer the first version of Eclipse and the second version fits right in the same to the same slot so that's great I love that thank you makers of the game for having things are the same okay so if we're gonna explore out here we're going to sector three we're grabbing a scepter sector three Thailand Oh what we see is that that is going to be two ancients okay so when you explore you have the ability to decide I don't want that tile and discard it and it goes into a discard pile which once you go through all of them and those get shuffled back up and become part of the selection pile again so Beatrice wants to explore into the third area she does not want that tile so we're going to Wow actually yes she'll take that tile and we'll decide that we'll probably go there later alright so let's go ahead and place that out there it's not what she wanted but well flush that area out if we end up with another one that's got a bunch of ships on it and we will definitely not place that one all right so we're gonna do is that says what we need to discovery to go on there and we're gonna need to agent ships to go on there so if we look these ancient ships right now way the reason I say that's a rough tile if you look at the ancient ships this is the blueprint for the ancient ships they have two ion cannons they get a plus one to hit and they have an additional hull and they've got a speed of two so what we're looking at is they're gonna hit on fives or sixes and they get to dice that do one damage the only ship that we have right now is our little starting interceptor the interceptors are pretty weak so if you look at interceptor it's only got one so it's only it's got one shot so that's gonna be one die it only hits on sixes and it doesn't have any hull so if it takes one hit it blows up so we're not equipped to go fight something like that so we'll need to build up before we can do that but that sector has a lot of nice resources on there so if we can get built up then going after it could be a good thing so no well place it out there and hopefully we can get to that later and don't feel like we've wasted that Explorer okay so Beatrice's don't turn is done we're gonna go over to the Jocasta so what's Jocasta wanted to head towards the middle so we've got an option we can go get this sector one or get this sector two I think we'll go after the sector one maybe it's something great so she's gonna do an explorer also and want to pull a sector one tile whoo that's a decent sector one tile so let's look at what we got here we have a science and money on that one so how do we want to play this we need to orientate our wormholes to match up so right now we can get over this direction by going through this wormhole we don't have anything that leads us over here so let's let's go like this all right so if we orientate like this that opens us up that opens us up for going to these two sectors if we take this sector plus here we can already get here through this wormhole that sounds I think that's good all right so what we need to do is decide whether we want to influence this and we do want to influence this so we grab another disk and we go here all right the next thing that we can do is because we've influenced this we can colonize these two planets so we need to have colony ships in order to do that and we have three open ones right now so we're going to use two of our colony ships to colonize our money planet and our science planning right so I'm going to take one off the money cube track drop it there take one off of our science cube track and drop it there now the way that I feel is that was an outstanding action for Jocasta usually these Center tiles are pretty tough to get to there's kind of a high-risk high-reward thing and I think that one worked out pretty well for her whereas Beatrice ran into one where she didn't get anything on the outside and there's some pretty tough ancients out there all right so we're done with jocasta she's happy it's Beatrice's turn so Beatrice is gonna go we're gonna go for this sector three right here and hopefully get something that helps her expand your empire right so we're gonna do another explore if I can get them to stack up right alright so we do another explore it's a level three explore so I'm gonna grab the next off the stack here and we get alright that's a better one okay some of the things that we're looking at there is we have one of these great planets so that means I can put anything I want there these ones with the stars are advanced and you have to have the technology that allows you to go there that's something you need to research is advanced this would be advanced materials gathering I guess which we don't have out there yet so if I look at our technologies we don't have any of the advanced ones out there yet so double check in nope okay so we need to figure out how we want to drop this out there we can drop it either like this which is useless because the Wormold doesn't connect we can drop it like that which will allow us to redirect back in towards the middle but we're kind of cut off from going after more threes at that point some ruins our whole plan of doing three exploration we're gonna have to explore this too probably and then maybe shoot out or this one and then shoot out well see how that goes okay so we've got the ability to influence that lets influence this one and then have to determine what it is that I want to drop on there so let's use one of our colony ships and I have the ability to use any of them I think what we'll do is money so ideally that gives us a better cushion to go after more planets okay so Beatrice has done for this turn we're back over to the Jocasta and Jocasta Stern went really well we're really happy with that so the next question is do we think we can go two for two on sector one tiles and come up with something else amazing so we can go in both directions let's go for it let's see what we come up with so we're gonna do another Explorer we're gonna go right here for another sector one tile let's see if we can pull something we can influence and get amazing resources from all right so there's our sector one tile we're gonna grab it I got two let's get one and we get Oh yep it wasn't quite that way so we're gonna go ahead and drop that one out there cuz we don't want to waste it how do we want to place it so let's place it like this so what we need is a discovery on there and then to ancients the ancients are out in force OOP her eyes light up Oh guys I'm not the great boon that we got last time but that was our that was her hope was to get some resources and be able to build up and then have some good stuff to fight in the middle here all right so the cost is done because you can't do anything with that sector cuz she definitely can't take on those ancients so all right we're back over to Beatrice so Beatrice has kind of gotten she's gotten the shaft at this point in that she's blocked off from the rest of the level threes which is what she wanted to go after so she's thinking about at this point let's go after a level two maybe we can fill in here and then go out to a three or that would potentially give us a doorway maybe to go after the ancients that are over here or the Guardian that's over here later in the game so let's go she's gonna explore again and go after this level two right here so we do another explore this time we're gonna grab a sector two tile just one of them and we get Oh more ancients she's not drawing very well um does she want to drop that one so I think the thing to look at at this point is she would she's coming through here so she would still be able to explore here and here maybe she can take this one and take that out to a three there's only one ancient on there which isn't that bad she could build up to take him out she's not gonna have a whole lot more she could maybe do one afford one more explore we'll go ahead and keep this one I don't think we'll discard it whoa creating disaster here okay so the next becomes how do we want to place it so we need to link up with that wormhole I think at this point because it's gonna have ancients on it well go ahead and go like this and not worry about connecting it to the outside world and the reason I'm thinking that is if we go this route we're gonna want to take that ancient out by the time we do that we may want to go over here and take out that Guardian all right so we're gonna drop a discovery tile on there whoa and then we need an ancient on top of there okay Beatrice's game plan is not going as planned it's over two Jocasta back to Jocasta stern look at her third action that didn't net what she wanted let's go ahead and explore over here cuz we have that ability cuz we've got a wormhole that goes through here so you can take another gamble on a level one tile all right oh it totally works out for all right let's figure out how this one place is so the good thing is we have a oh no it's an advanced she can't take that one yet because it's advanced but it's got a discovery so let's let's drop that we have to figure out placement so one of the things is we can place this in such a way that it gives her access over to this person and helps with getting over here all right let's do this so when you drop this tile like this that's an advance so we can't get at it that's an advanced that's annoying but we could put a discovery on there no there's no ancients blocking that so we can influence that so what that's going to cost us is we'll have to use our other one of our influence disks we're at four it's gonna would cost us five to upkeep but we could get something really cool so let's do that we're going to influence this sector which gives us this discovery we can't take over use population to take those over because those are both advanced we need to figure out what this gives us so we have the option of sticking with the two victory points or we can get five science so I think we will take the five science will go with the five science so we're gonna go from three up to eight on the science track so we'll be really interested to see what comes out this next round probably not this round because with it would we'd have to spend a lot to get seven we're not making enough money to justify that but we could potentially get orbitals which may be nice next round all right so if your cost has done her exploring she's done we'll back over to Beatrice at this point so what's Beatrice looking at she's she's up at three it's gonna cost her three influence right now she's making four so she could go after another one maybe she wants to explore another sector or she could try to build but she she hasn't really expanded her empire well enough to build I think she's gonna explore this too right here let's see if we can get something that can rotate and get her back out to the outer rim there and explore the outer rim so we'll do another Explorer this is probably her final Explorer we're gonna grab it - Oh more ancients okay so she's going to not use that tile and just let it go at this point so this level two is just gonna drop here in the level to discard pile because she does not want to be surrounded by agents starting to block her off pretty bad she was looking for an open tile so she's just gonna let that one go so that turn is pretty much spent for her there's variant we played in Eclipse one dot oh where you could trade in once per game you could trade in a tile and pull another tile not using that variant in this game but that's another way to play is you get one free redraw per game which makes it kind of interesting it helps people from getting shafted kinda like Beatrice has gotten she hasn't gotten that bad but it's it's not great I would say all right so we go back over to Jocasta at this point in time so what your Casa is looking at is she's at five on the cost track and she's gonna make four so doing another action is gonna push her up to seven which she could pay for by that two-to-one trade-in but that seems a bit expensive and excessive at this point and she doesn't anything that she thinks is worth that so she's gonna pass so when she passes that means she's gonna be the start player next turn and this is a new thing work she's gonna get a couple of a couple of cash when she's the first to pass so she's gonna go from three up to five that's cool alright so Jocasta has passed we go back over to Beatrice she's gonna earn four and it's gonna cost five it's too expensive for her at this point to go after yet another action so she's gonna stop further round two so she's gonna pass now when Jocasta passed her card here should have actually flipped over to the other side once you pass what happens is you go into a phase where you can only do reactions so in this example Beatrice after Jocasta passed and Beatrice passes in the round ends if Jocasta had passed and Beatrice didn't action then Jocasta would have the option to do one of these reactions that's listed here so rather than being able to use her bottom track she would have to use this track what that enables her to do potentially if she wants to if she could do an upgrade to build or a move so let's say we were in a situation where Beatrice had more actions and Jocasta had passed and then Beatrice moved a bunch of ships into de castas sector which acosta could potentially do is do an upgrade where she gets one upgrade and could upgrade one of her ships or do the build or maybe a reaction as a move but you see the upgrade the build in the move only get one action on each of those she only gets one were that's opposed to if you were to do that normally grow upgrade in builder to in her move is a three so these are greatly reduced but they give you the ability to react to what's going on on the board even though you've spent you've it would cost you greatly but gives you the opportunity to react to things that are happening after you have passed all right so what you cost the past and then Beatrice passes and that's going to be the end of the action phase of round one right so you gone through all of action phase alright so we would look at combat phase there's no combat going on right now so we're gonna go to upkeep phase so we could potentially use colony ships at this point to go after stuff that's not happening the reason that's there is combat phase can change things so you may want to actually do some colonization stuff after combat phase now we're going to collect income and pay civilization upkeep costs alright so let's look at what we've got for collecting income and doing civilization stuff so taking a look at Jocasta here the amount of money that she's gonna earn is over here it's four is what it shows so she's gonna get $4 you up to nine from five to nine right now we need to look at the cost to maintain her economy and it's at five from nine all right so we're good well now we take a look at Beatrice so Beatrice is also gonna earn for there you go from 3 up to 7 and then we need to look at what it's going to cost her to maintain which is 5 so we're going to go down to 2 alright so now we finished that piece you've done the collect income pay civilization's now we're gonna receive our production where we get our materials in our science so again looking at Jocasta she has 3 materials and for science so materials will go from 4 to 7 and then and then our science is going up for so it's gonna go from 8 to 12 ok so now we take a look at Beatrice Beatrice has got a 3 and a 3 so imrat aerials go up 3 from 4 to 7 and our science goes from 3 to 6 okay so now we've completed our receive production so now we go down to the cleanup phase so now we're going to return influence disks and so what that means is the ones that we have the ones that we've spent here or potentially on your reaction track are going to go back to here so beatriz drops hers and Jocasta drops hers down now if you take a look at this what you see is where Jocasta is starting out is further along the track than where Beatrice is starting out at and that's because the number of sectors the Jocasta is influenced is greater than the number of ones that Beatrice is influenced so that's a very interesting aspect of the game because it manages you have to keep and check the amount of money that you're making versus what you're doing for actions and allows people that have that have taken that have less to do more essentially alright and if you expand your galaxy out greatly you really have to have a good economy rolling in order to support your galaxy right so well right now is a bomb we've done our return influence disks next work to grab more technology it's also one of the favorite parts that they came so we're gonna go into our little bag here and look we were at two players so we're grabbing out five technology tiles going through the bag of fun and I've got five tiles alright so let's see what we've got here we've got an artifact key which we've already got out there we have a plasma cannon so plasma cannons are neat and then when you hit you actually do two damage so that's that's pretty cool drop those out there we have a second plasma cannon so the way that works is if beatrice were to buy a plasma cannon she takes the one tile that's there and Jocasta could buy the plasma cannon where if you just were to buy the tachyon Drive there's not another one left out there so it's a cost it wouldn't be able to get that technology all right so the other interesting thing is we have a couple of these other technologies out there which they go down in this section and because we drew those we need to draw two more tiles alright so we now have a star basis which doesn't do us a whole lot because we start with that technology as Terrans we have a fusion drive all right let me technologies for the rounder okay nothing all that exciting improved logistics for the additional move action it's kind of nice so when you buy these you can put them on any one of the technology tracks so if I were to buy improved logistics I could put it on that track or that track or that track whereas if I were to buy Goss fields it would need to go on this track alright I'll probably talk about that more during this next round of play cuz I think there's some technology buying it will be going on during the next round of play alright so we have we turned our influence disks now we need to flip our colony and some retails so some retail OOP backup and our call any ships go back up alright and then advance their own marker and we're into round 2 all right so that's round 1 I think we'll stop there with this video and then we'll jump into probably maybe we'll do round 2 and 3 next video and I think we'll probably it looks like we make it into some fighting next round I think we will definitely get into some technology buying and potentially upgrading ships and buying ships will do more than just the explore actions that we did this round for sure let's see a little bit more of the game what I'm looking at right now is Beatrice has gotten kind of hosed Jocasta is doing ok she's kind of gone where she wanted to we'll see if Jocasta can build on what she's got and we'll see if Beatrice can recover rounds two and three so that's it for now looking for looking forward to playing this out a little bit more and seeing how far this goes we've kind of got my table taken up at this point in time so before I play any more Marvel champions I'm gonna have to get this game done so I get on top of that and get the other rounds rolled out the interesting thing to note is in this version there's only eight rounds where previously there were nine so I'm also interested to see how that affects gameplay because usually about round nine we were kind of getting to we're finishing off knowing what we were doing I think only having eight rounds is gonna be tough and that I'm not going to be able to fully realize some of the plans that I used to get done during the first version of a clip so we'll see how that goes so thanks for watching and be sure to check out round 2 which will be coming out in the near future thanks [Music]

Channel: Crazy Jackalope Games

Views: 2,140

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: Eclipse, Eclipse Second Dawn for the Galaxy, game, tabletop games, boardgame

Id: IjwFwOkqkwk

Length: 32min 51sec (1971 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 05 2020