Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy - Tutorial and Playthrough

[Music] and we are live i think we're live hello everybody thank you for joining in if you can hear us hear us and see us please let us know in the chat we've got quite a few people in the chat so yeah thank you very much for joining us tonight we're doing a live two-player tutorial and playthrough of eclipse second dawn for the galaxy or second dawn as i've called it on there because i didn't think the text would fit on so i've just called it eclipse second dawn um yeah various people are in the chat you very much for joining us all good says chrissy excellent so eclipse second dawn of the galaxy is effectively the second edition of eclipse um it was on kickstarter and it's being delivered tobaccos over the last few months so a lot of people have actually got the game it is a two to six player epic 4x space game exploring exterminating what are the other two exes ex-wife not sure yeah yeah there's four of them explore exterminate expand there's another one i can't remember what it is anyway it's got all of the stuff that you would normally find the xylophones yes definitely definitely space xylophones in this one um and what we're going to do tonight is it is going to be a tutorial and play through but i'm not going to explain all of the rules up front because nobody wants to listen to me talking for 45 minutes so we're going to start playing and over the over the start of the game certainly i'll be explaining every part of the game as we do it explore expand exploit and exterminate that's it exploit doesn't sound very nice no it doesn't that's that's what we're going to be doing that is what we're going to do um so yeah effectively this is a game that plays over eight rounds we have a round tracker here and we have got a marker that goes to one two eight i will i will point out some differences between this and the first edition of the game uh because there's a few people who are watching this presumably who have got the first edition who want to know what's different original game had nine rounds this one's got eight rounds there you go so we're going to be progressing through the rounds in each round we're going to be taking various actions uh we will take it in turns to take actions if there were more players in the game it would go round and round the table when you are done taking actions you pass but that doesn't mean you're out for the round you can still continue to take actions even after you've passed but they are reactive actions reactions so they're not quite as good at the end of each round once we've all taken our actions combat will take place if there are players from two opposing sides in the same sector on the board and when i say player there are some non-players on the board as well we can see that the the gcds the galactic central defense system is here and there are some guardians here as well and we're going to be finding some ancients along the way um plus we'll we might be fighting each other as well for control of the various sectors succeeding in fight in a fight or winning in a battle will get you reputation titles which will be worth points at the end of the game and then at the end of the game we add up the points you will get points at the end of the game for controlling sectors so each sector you control is worth a certain number of points usually between one two and three although i think the middle is worth four yeah the middle is worth four so just having control of a sector is worth points uh you would have gained reputation from having battles that's worth points that's kept hidden uh and we're limited you can have four rick actually starts with two i can only have three we are playing tonight with the alien races so the game comes with six different player mats each one is two sided one side is the human side or the terran side so for your first game it does recommend that you all play terrans no special rules um but we're playing with the two elite two of the alien races tonight um and you can mix and match one player could play humans if they're new to the game and another player could play one of the aliens they're all they are all balanced um anyway yeah you do you do points at the end of the game which you will get from various places you can build monoliths which get your points technology which you will be researching during the game the more technology you have at the end of the game that will get you points lots of things you will do in the game will get you points right that's a very very quick overview as i say i will be going into more detail uh as we play now there are also people in the chat who are more experienced with this game than i am i'm hoping we don't make any mistakes but i would recommend if you are watching this video live and you spot us do anything wrong or you see that i've forgotten to pay for something please let us know in the chat and we will try and keep an eye on the chat messages um and if you're watching this not live i would recommend you turn on the klingon subtitles because tomorrow when somebody sends me a message and says paul on round five you forgot to pay for such and such a thing and we missed it during the game i will annotate the video with klingon subtitles so if you pop your klingon subtitles on if you're watching this back uh i will add any corrections into there right okay we need to decide who the star player is now officially you because i'm the youngest you have been on this planet less time than i have this is my third life okay so that is you and this is the technology board in a two-player game you will start with 12 tiles on here we have a technology bag with all the technology tiles in and at the start of the game you draw a certain number of tiles out of this bag depending on the number of players so we have drawn 12 tiles out of the bag because it's a two player game with more players it would be more tiles some of the tiles in here so most of the tiles in here come in three different categories which is uh pink green and yellow yeah military yeah i can't remember the other two pink green and yellow engineering but there are also some special tiles oh it says on here military grid and nano that's it these black tiles here these are uh rare technologies when one of these comes out you place it in the bottom of the track and that does not count for one of the tiles that you're drawing so therefore this came out so we've actually got 13 tiles in total also and you can't see this on the overhead camera but there are two of these okay two of these and two of those so there are multiple tiles of each type in the bag and if you do get multiple tiles you stack them up so yeah you can't see that on the camera but we can see here that there are two positron computers there um that's that setup each of us has one of these player boards this is set up um for our factions if you were playing terrans they'd all be set up the same hours are slightly different rig for example starts with 26 money because he's robbed a bank loaded um whereas i start with six science and we also start with some other asymmetrical powers as well loads of money right so the setup is done let me just check the rule book and we've done the preparation so draw textiles do you do that on round one i don't know whether you do because we've we've drawn those ones we've drawn those but do you do it again for round one that's the first thing i need to check fallen at the first hurdle game round one action phase two actions okay so on the back of the rulebook oh no on the back of the rulebook preparations is what i've just explained yeah okay so we start off round one with the action phase it is rick first mm-hmm what action would you like to take i'm going to explore okay so there are six possible actions you can take in the game they are printed down here on your player board which is a bit small i know let me just see if my zoom in system is working okay yes my zoom in system is working right okay it's a little bit of a zoom in but you can see this is my player board here and you can see down in the bottom left i have six possible actions that you can do and these are your action disks that you have on your board to take an action you move the leftmost action disk onto the action that you want to do and then you do it you can do more than one of an action in a round so if i wanted to explore i could then explore again i could then explore again so you can do the same action multiple times but the more of these disks you use you will notice these yellow numbers here when we get to the end of the round and you have to pay upkeep basically the more actions you've taken you're going to have to pay for them okay so you it is a bit of a balance um i'm quieter compared to rick apparently well that's why i start with loads of money but i start with two less discs so the chances of me spending more money is higher no apparently i'm quieter and muffled i don't know why my microphone is on testing want to yeah yeah i don't want to turn it up much louder because it might flip out could just be you're loud you're normally louder than me i'm normally louder than you according to the levels appearing on my thing here i'm i'm quite project more i don't right okay so i'm exploring you're exploring right exploring is one of the six main actions that you can do and this is the galaxy this is set up for a two-player game so we have the the galactic center in the middle we each have our starting sectors which is unique for us have we got the right side i've got the wrong side for me oh is it this number it is the number ah me too i had the wrong side i wonder what that oh oh this is different yeah mine says two two four minus two three one and this is two two two on here yes you should have two two two i haven't it's either two three one or two three two oh you've got the wrong one right there there's only one in the box yeah i've obviously got the wrong one in there so that needs to be there that needs to be there have you got the right one i've got the right two four oh yeah where's my two two two then just checking that this is right yeah that's right okay so bear with us a minute we've got the wrong thing tell rick to stop shouting yeah ricky's just loud i mean let me turn you down a little bit but you don't look too loud i don't i don't normally act too loud it's my normal calm voice right so what that means is whoever did the unboxing of this game and put it away put the wrong things in the wrong place what do you need we had a yellow one didn't we that was in the box we did i need two two two two two yeah there you go there you go i put the wrong ones in the wrong box okay oh yeah because i was going to start with the brown i no longer start with the brown yeah me neither that's sad sad times so yeah just to show you that all of the starting sectors for the terrans are all the same so it wouldn't have mattered if we were playing terrans but for the alien races your starting sector is is different ah interesting exploring right so when you explore and i'm just going to zoom in on the part of the board where rick is there you go okay so you can see rick is here these here are wormholes or half wormholes and and they basically tell you where rick can explore so at the moment you can explore them either here or here or here now this tile was placed at the start of the game with the arrow pointing towards the center so you you're not allowed to rotate it however you want it does go in a fixed location um the sectors there's one which is this ring here two and three and they are more dangerous but better the closer you get to the galactic center i say more dangerous because there's a chance that you will find ancients that you have to fight and things like that so the three sectors are safer but some of them are not actually that great no um but which one would you like to expect i'm gonna go for three because the three is only a limited amount of them yeah so there's a big is it off camera nope it's not right so there's a pile of ones which you can see there uh there's a pile of twos you shuffle all the ones and you put them in a pile you shuffle all twos and put them in a pile but the threes you shuffle them but then you only deal out a certain number based on the number of players in the game and in a two-player game there are only five three sectors which is not a lot okay so only five of these three three sectors and although this this this map that we're using this was an add-on extra from the kickstarter although the number threes are only on these hexes this is all three as well he says he says pointing where nobody can see all of this is three as well so you can actually branch out and go over here if you wanted to right so you flip it over yeah and i'll whack it here okay i'm going to zoom in again now you notice that this sector that rick's drawn only has two wormholes on it and you must line it up so if you just rotate it 60 degree clockwise you can't do that right it's got to go you can't do that i can't do that it's got to go either like that or the other way in fact on this one it doesn't actually matter because it's there is there that's a shame really somebody wants to go that way but yeah sometimes be the brakes that is how exploration works you don't actually need to move a ship into there you just say i'm exploring now notice the icon in the middle is a kind of square with a rounded corner that's a discovery title symbol so every time you find one of those you take a discovery tile which are just off camera and they're shuffled and you put it on there and then i get it you get it and speaking of differences from the first edition of the game to the second edition of game this is the big difference in the original game you had to take control of that sector by putting one of your influence discs on it to take the discovery title now you don't need to do that if there isn't an ancient there you can actually just take that tile right now without controlling the sector taking it okay so rick's taking it and then you look at it oh it's a dream you're gonna keep it six materials six materials yeah okay so let's just have a look at this so this tile that rick's taken that's changed my mind about what i was gonna do here we go right okay so on the other side with six materials and he can take six materials instead of taking that he could i've just kept the tile and it would have been worth two points at the end of the game so all of these titles are worth two points if you decide not to take it for its ability but rick is going to take six materials so you improve increases these materials by six so there are three types of resources in the game your pink is your science your yellow is your money and your green is your materials you might be looking at my board and thinking well wait a minute paul you don't have any materials yeah because i actually have the two counters are on the same value they're stacked up so again we can see them here i have a yellow counter on top of a brown counter right the next thing ricky's doing is he's controlling that sector now you don't need to do this if you don't want to he's got the discovery tile but he can if he wants to take uh the leftmost disc from his influence strike here yeah and put it into the middle of the board now doing that means that it will get the one point for that sector at the end of the game but that's not why you want to do it during the game you want to do it during the game because if you look at that sector there is a white planet the white planets are special planets come in three different colours normally they come in yellow pink or brown depending on what type of resource they create so the yellow planets will create money the pink planets will create science and the brown planets will create materials the white planets are wild you can use them for for anything you want and in order to colonize the planet you need to control the sector so rick has controlled the sector and now because he's controlled the sector he can actually colonize that planet now just show people what you did to colonize the planet yes i took a cube out of my science trend before that how about this before that what did you have to use to colonize the planet a token from here no that's for taking control of the sector i'll give you a clue it's one of them oh of course okay so each player has a certain number of colony ships the terrans always start with three the alien races sometimes have three some of them have four i think one of them might have two and that limits the number of colonizations you can do per round so you have three colony ships you flip them over and every time you flip one of them over you can take a cube from here on the appropriate one so if it was a yellow planet you'd take one of these if it's a pink planet you take one of these if it's a brown planet you take one of these it was a white planet so it you could choose whichever one you wanted and you chose science one of these that then goes on the planet like so um and that is basically how it works now what that's done you probably can't see this but if you look closely you will see that there are numbers here when we come to production which happens at the end of the round the highest visible number tells you how much of that particular type of resource you produce so if you just put that red cube back a minute at the moment rick was producing three science at the end of the round however because he's taken that cube and put it onto the planet he's now producing four science at the end of the round so basically the more of these cubes that you put on the board the more you're going to produce at the end of the round and i think that's it i think that is the exploration action now that was a fairly simple exploration action because there were no baddies which was nice which was nice and that that's you done i've already five things in there you're already five things in because although you start with loads of money i think it's effectively a loan in a way in a way because you start with loads of money but i'm going to use it by using user you yeah it means you're going to have a really good early start but you're not actually generating that much money yourself no right okay so me um i think i'm going to explore as well so what i do is i'm going to take one of these disks put it on here you want a three or two or one before before i do there is one more thing i just wanted to explain rig rick explored and he explored once i'm exploring and i'm exploring once and the reason why we're only doing it once is if you look carefully there's a number one here so some of the races might have a number two here and if they do whenever they choose that action they can do it that number of times so you don't just do each action once you do each action a number of times equal to the number which is printed below and the races are all different so yeah so i'm exploring i'm exploring once and i don't know do i want to go for a three or do i want to go for a two early doors for two well my race is all about the science i've got advanced labs unlocked at the start of the game so i'd like to go to here but i can't get to here very easily very well i was hoping there'd be a one which i can i was planning to go over there yeah so i i think i'm gonna take a three and i'm gonna put it here you have to declare where you're putting it beforehand let's see what we've got okay well it yeah it's not great it's not great he's got an extra wormhole compared to mine yeah because there's no planet planet there bullets you get a thing i do get a thing so i'm going to put it there i get a thing which i take straight away now i just wanted to check one thing nobody told me that i've done anything wrong but i just want to check that you get to look at the title before you keep it yeah i would thought so must reveal the tile and then decide which side to use yes okay okay so similar to yours it's stuff i found three money two science and two materials which is one better than mine because it was mines of six materials yeah at the start of the game i think i'm going to take that's pretty good okay so i get two materials go to four three money yep so that goes up to five sort me out for a while and two science goes up to eight okay so i found some stuff on the planet job done you're not gonna influence that area well i don't really want to it's not great but you can only explore from a sector that you control so if i don't control this sector here i can't go here and here's where i want to go okay so i am going to control it so again to control it you take the leftmost disk from your action board here thing and you put it on there yeah you can discard the explored header you can discard the explorer hex yeah you're absolutely right uh brett um in that if i really didn't want this and i didn't want to put it on there i could actually just discard it but then effectively you've you've wasted an explore to be you've not explored so sebastian in the chat were you so sebastian thank you for joining in were you here five minutes ago because um the rule that you've just explained is the change from the first edition to the second edition uh and i talked about that just a few minutes ago second edition of the game you do not have to control the hex in order to take the discovery title you just get it yeah it's it's the only big rules change really between the first and second edition there's been lots of other tweaks some of the numbers have been tweaked some of the balance of these have been tweaked but the only actual real rules change is that one yeah right so yeah so yeah so although we did control it i didn't have to control it i could have still taken the title there you go cool no problem that's what i'm here for right rick you're going to pass nope sure i'm going to explore again explore i'm trying to use my bluffing yeah it's good where's the scale scales um you know what i might go for a tour okay or maybe even a warner i'm a sort of tempest for i wanna at least with the ones you know then what's there so you can yeah i'll get a wanner where's my water here we had a curry earlier and i'm really thirsty i'm going for a wanner and i'll whack it in between here and the big death star which links them up nicely it does doesn't get me a discovery tile no so there's no discovery tile there but the important thing is there's no bad guys yeah so i'm whacking that there yeah i'm getting uh using both of these you're gonna use both your other colony ships to get a pink and a broom yeah but so just a quick note about the colony ships i mentioned that you've got three of them rick's got three of them i've got three of them and you can only use them once per round which is true but there is a way that you can actually flip them back over okay the influence action will allow you to flip two of them back over which means you can use them again we'll come on to that if it happens rick you might want to use that if you find something else yeah because i think you can use the influence action to just flip over two colony ships okay i don't think you have to actually do that unlikely you're gonna find much else you never know you never know right well i am going to explore again as well and this is what normally happens in games is that you do a lot of exploring at the start can i have a two please you can two please bob ah is it a good two it's possibly the exact perfect title because not only does it link up oh those two it's also got a double pink it's got a science planet which i can actually use nice okay so i am going to control that sector okay yeah and i'm just going to zoom in and i'm going to show you why this sector is so good for me and it's only good for me at the moment at the moment in fact just bear with a minute because that that color there looks a little bit a little bit bright i'm just fiddling with the colors let me know if this is any better because it looked a bit it looked a bit bright yeah how's that right okay so this planet here has got it's one planet and it's got two science symbols on it but you'll notice one of them has a star in the corner so that's an advanced production site and at the start of the game you can't use them unless you have the appropriate technology and my race because i'm all about the science i actually start off with the ability to put colonists on those places so normally you don't start with this it's quite an advanced one but yeah i i start the game with it so that's why that planet is actually really good for me scientific elephants you've got i yes so you would probably think at this point in the game i am gonna i'm gonna flip over two of my colony ships i am going to colonize that planet i'm not going to okay and i'll tell you why later on because you can't do it anyway yeah i'm not i'm not going to do it right now normally when you're playing this game the temptation is to do exactly what rick did if i find the planet you colonize it okay but i'm not gonna colonize it and i'll explain soon why i'm not gonna do that better colours says paul thank you hope you're feeling better paul he wasn't feeling well during the week my turn your turn i pass okay so when you pass you fl you've got an you've got a reference card here which lists all of the different actions that you can do what you do when you pass is you flip it over and printed on the back are the reactions that you can do so rick can still continue to take actions but only these three and they are reduced versions of i get two money and the first player to pass gets the start player title and gets too many this is also new in this version of the game the start player to pass gets an immediate payment of too many right what else do i want to do okay so i can't control this can't fight against that guy can you yeah so this sector here i can't control it because there is a guardian in there okay in order for me to control that i need to defeat the guardian at the start of the game each player only starts with an interceptor there are four types of ship interceptors cruisers and star bases uh neither of us can build star bases at the start of the game the terrans can't but we can't there is no way that this interceptor is going to be able to fight that guardian and even if it could it would actually take me a couple of actions to move it yeah okay so i can't take that at the moment the question is do i want to take any other actions and i think i do i'm just i'm just working out which actions i want to take i think i'm gonna take the research action yeah okay so all we've done so far the only action you've seen in the game so far is explore right there are six actions you've seen one of them i'm now going to show you the other action so i'm going to take the disc from my board here and i'm going to choose the research action and for me i'll show you my player board again you will see for me the research action is two that's not normal it's normally one mm-hmm and it is one for all of the terrans but because i'm a scientific race um i get to research twice okay so every time you research you're looking at this research board here remember tiles were drawn out of the bag at random at the start of the game and placed in here and i can now buy two of these tiles to buy a tile you have to pay science which is this pink one here i have eight science the cost to buy tile is printed on here in pink but the cost can be discounted and i'll explain that as i buy them the first thing i'm going to buy is i'm going to buy this gas shield okay so this gauss shield costs me two signs to buy so i spend two science i go down to six and what i do because this is a a grid technology i put it on the leftmost space of my grid take so it goes there right it's very simple what this technology does is it allows me these are my blueprints of my ships i can now start installing gauss shields onto my ships so having the technology and then actually upgrading the ships is a separate thing okay i can now upgrade my ships with gauss shields but that would be another action to do the next thing is i'm going to do another science thing and this time i'm gonna buy the fusion source okay and again the fusion source i will pay for it with science and i will put it here but notice this minus one this means that i get a discount of minus one onto the title so the more technology titles you buy of the same type the more discount you get but notice on the fusion source there is a smaller number here which says three that's the minimum cost okay so even if i had like a minus eight discount the minimum cost you pay for a fusion source is three so thankfully i've been played it optimally i've got minus one so i actually only pay three for that so i go down to three there you go i have those two so i can now put fusion reactors on my ships as well as gas shields but that'll be something else for another day for another day in fact oh i don't know whether to do that no i've done it and yeah i'm gonna stick with that that's fine okay so that's my research action done back to you so i could do a reaction you could do a reaction if you wanted to not get there okay so you pass so i'm going to carry on or not no no i'm done i'm not going to carry on so that is the end of the action phase for the first round now we do the combat phase there is no combat in round one because neither of us have left home so we're not fighting each other and we're not fighting um the npcs so now we go to the upkeep phase at the start of the upkeep phase anybody who has colony ships left not used may now use them and this is why i didn't use them earlier on and this is a little bit of a tip for me when you're playing the game you might want to not automatically colonize the first planets you find because if you then explore later in the round you might find a better planet so because you can colonize at the start of the upkeep phase in in most circumstances yeah hang fire you know especially if you go into a sector colonize it and then another player comes in and blows you up you're like oh why did i bother colonizing it okay so wait until the end of the upkeep phase and and then colonize it unless of course you're going to colonize and use the influence action to flip them back in which case you do want to do it so i'm going to flip these two over and i'm going to place two science things on there nice okay cool and i think that is it that's it can we get our resources i think that's it now what happens is we collect uh income and we pay civilization costs so you always do your money first and very simply you look at the number here to say how much money you're generating three and then you would add three money but then what you do is you look at the highest visible number here five and then you pay that money so you always generate money before you have to pay money and if you don't have enough money at this point you go bankrupt and you have to start giving up control of the sectors on the board in order to put discs back on your track in order to reduce your expenditure is it the upgrade action to install tech says brian yes it is and you'll see that soon ish maybe right and the next thing that happens is we both gain science and materials based on our diet so i get six science and two materials two and six seven six you're getting sick science as well yeah nice there you go six science nine uh that is the upkeep phase done then these go back yeah then we have the cleanup phase so what happens is your influence discs that you spent go back to your track filling the right most spaces uh and then what we do is we draw new textiles from the bag in a two-player game that is five any rare ones that come out getting in yeah where ones don't count yeah so one two three four five no rare ones so it's just these five and these go in specific spaces on the board so we have that there we have that there advanced labs which is no use to me because i've already got that or a glue on computer another glue on computer and a tachyon source right okay now it's really interesting these texts that come out really limit what you can do in a six player game there'd be loads of these and if you were going first you'd have a big choice in a two-player game you're like oh well the ones i want haven't come out so yeah colony ships flip back yep uh we advanced the round marker we are on round two if you have any questions let us know but we have only explained two of the actions so far you will be seeing the rest as the game goes on interesting interesting rick took the start player title i did so you go first yeah i'm going to uh probably going to allow you to explain the rule okay i like explaining rules i know you do but whether i need it or not maybe i won't i know you like explaining rules but i don't think i allow you to explain that rule yet but i'm going to do the materials have you got oh you found some didn't you six you found some on the planet i did so i'm going to research you can only research once can't yeah yep okay so again some nanobots nano bolts for a cost of two because it can't get discounted can't get discounted so although rick would he has a minus one on his space the minimum cost of the nanobots is two and that's your writing done now do why research again green ones are getting cheaper the green ones are getting cheaper i have nine science it would cost me exactly nine science yep it seemed like the right thing to do it will line it up nicely wouldn't it it will so that's what i'm going to do i'm going to research i'm going to use my ability to research twice i'm gonna buy that for four and that for five spending all of my science down to zero that goes on there that goes on there now at this point in the game there is something i'm going to mention to you because i now have no science so you probably think paul can't research again sort of true you do have a conversion rate where you can convert the resources into another if you're the terence that's always two for one my race is three for one that was going to be the one i was going to potentially do what should you explain minus three to one three to one so although i have no science if i really wanted to i have six materials i could convert those six materials to two sides into two signs you you would only do that if you were really desperate like if i needed seven materials to do a particular thing i might spend my money three for one just to get that material but yeah you you don't have to do that that's easier too it's definitely easier yeah right i'm done i researched yep i'm gonna upgrade okay so the upgrade is the third action that we're gonna explain and this is where uh is he gonna do it oh no i'm sorry let's oh no he's not oh how much you've seen i've got 13 no let's build he's going to build we're still going to explain a new rule sorry right so ricky's building what's the number below two three well no he's two so rick's build action allows him to build two things but because he's got nanobot technology it's plus one built so rick can build three things i'm just gonna zoom in on your player board yep uh there you go so this is upside down but we're going to show it because this is what rick is building the the four things well there's actually six things in the game that you can build okay but at the start of the game without the appropriate technology you can only build interceptors which cost three cruisers which costs five dreadnoughts which cost eight if you have the appropriate technology you can also build star bases which cost three and then there's other technologies which allow you to build orbitals and monoliths okay so there are six different things in the game that you can build rick you only have the technology to build the three main ones so what are you going to spend your 13 materials on you spent all 13 is it a dream and an intercept two cruisers in an interceptor okay thread knots yeah i can build three things um three things okay so each race has their own particular design ships i haven't painted these yet i might do at some point because they do look nice and we've got the plastic stands add-on as well which is you know just makes them look nice um so let's have a look there we go right so what have you got you've got two cruisers put them on there so you can put them in a place where there's influence yeah you can put them on any sector you control you don't have to put them up in your home you can put them wherever you want so that's quite nice you've got two cruisers and an interceptor are you going straight for the center it's got seven shields isn't it four dice and it's got plus two so not yet plus you want to upgrade yeah because i can upgrade my things because i start with a bunch of upgrades yeah uh mikey's here um yes mike yeah so you can play eight rounds and you can use the tweak where you can take the discovery tile without controlling the sector you can you can play first edition with that rule if you want to absolutely no problem right so you've built mm-hmm i'm glad that that is between me and you because yeah you're getting all those materials straight away exactly you're having two cruisers and i can get a plasma cannon at the start of the game is is is quite nice indeed so what am i gonna do um i mean i don't have much in the way of materials and i've not found much in the way of materials planet i need to explore because i can't take this i cannot take this sector at all without better ships interesting uh i've only got six i could build two interceptors but what are these guardians that's these isn't it i've only moved two kind of yeah oh two different things yeah oh no so you could move the same thing twice yeah but i can only move two ships in if i'll go in there still two cruises yeah i'm looking at this guardian this has got three hit points yeah so the guardians are pretty tough let's get the shield uh i mean yeah i've got improved hull i've got positronic computers but i i don't have the materials i think i'm going to have to explore again yeah i'm going to have to explore so i'm exploring um can i have can i have a number two tile please i'm going here oh yes was it double science it's not it's not double science oh but it's got the it's the second money that i can't have yeah but you only but importantly you're only six sites away from getting money yeah i think i'm gonna put it there like that okay yeah and i yeah and i am going to take control of it okay these sectors are balanced you might think oh paul's just got lucky he's got a really good one there was no discovery tile on it nope okay and not very many what points really yeah is it pity that i can't he needs some ships get directly across yeah that's a block it's blocked off it has not that that place is any good to me at the moment yeah because i can't go this way no all this is blocked off for me i'm gonna have to go this way all righty me again i believe so oh look at this it's costing me lots of money it is i've started a whole bunch of money so what can you do upgrade okay so we're going to explain the upgrade action so when this game first came out there was a huge amount of excitement over it because of the comparisons to masters of orion 3 which is a computer game from a long time ago where basically you could design your own ships and that was the cool part of that game and this game captures that so what you've got at the top of the player boards here are blueprints and rick currently has two cruisers in the game and these are his cruisers so let's just explain what what is rick's cruisers because in other games like this that cruiser would have an attack value and a defense value and whatever right in this game that cruiser is defined by the blueprint and as you upgrade this blueprint during the game by putting extra stuff on it you are changing the build of that auto upgrade it auto upgrades as well it's extremely cool part of the game so let's go through what rick's got at the moment right first of all all ships need a power source that is normally some kind of engine no well not engine to power the not not movement thing but a power source okay and rick has a nuclear source that he's providing in three power but a special racial bonus he's got an extra one power for free so his ship is producing four points of power some of the things on there use power so for example this nuclear drive gives him one movement point and uses up one of those power he's also got an iron cannon on the front of the ship which uses up one power and in combat that will allow him to roll one yellow dice he also has an electron computer which doesn't use any power that adds one to the value of every dice that he rolls so in combat he will roll a yellow dice and add one to it and finally the hull is how many extra hit points a ship has so all ships have one hit point by default but this extra hull box means that that ship actually has two hit points and finally the other defining characteristic of a ship is its initiative value which is these chevrons so you can see here that this ship has a default of one chevron but because of the nuclear drive it has a second chevron so it has an initial value of two that's the ship at the moment but rick has chosen the upgrade action now rick's number below the upgrade action is two that means he's allowed to take two tiles from this this is off camera okay this is a big tray full of tiles that he can use but you are only allowed to use the tiles that you have researched so let's just have a look at your research rick you have got plasma cannon gauss shield and fusion drive to start with yeah which you start with that race starts with those so out of all of these tiles in this tray here ricky's allowed to take the plasma cannons uh the fusion drives and the gaskets and the gauss shields and basically you can do two upgrades so we can take two pieces and put them on the ships there you go and you can put them on the same ship or you could split them up all right so let's now have a look at rick's ship and see how much better it is the iron cannon has gone it's been replaced by a plasma cannon which uses up to power but in combat it allows him to roll an orange dice instead of a yellow dice the orange dice deals two damage it hits the same amount of time but it deals two damage when it hits instead of one he's also got a gauss shield which means anybody attacking him gets a minus one to their roles okay and that means that rick's cruisers on the board have now been automatically upgraded um this is what three energy and i've got four yeah you are never allowed to exceed the power capacity of your ship you just can't design it so that it would have more power than it's using okay so there you go can i have a yeah one two three four now be too much and say if i was instead of doing a plasma kind of glasses could i do two plasma cannons you could do two plasma cabinets but that might be five power yeah okay now these ones that are printed on there you can overwrite them but you can never overwrite a drive on an interceptor cruiser or dreadnought yeah okay it must have a drive to be able to move and you cannot have a drive on a starbase which is what that icon there means yep okay there you go so that is rick's upgrade action and it's back to me i should have been thinking what i want to do now what are you saying i'm only six away from this double money yeah which i'm gonna get six next turn and then i can take both of them yeah because i'm gonna take three of that that one and that one this turn yeah so my money's getting done yeah that's the problem i'm only generating three money i've got three money left over and i'm currently spending five mm-hmm so if i if i do one more action i'm going bankrupt but you get two things oh sorry yeah i'm gonna do that well if you get that uh i've got no science to do that now but you're right no you're right i am going to colonize that which gets me four four plus three is seven i could do one more action without going bankrupt it's do i want to do one more action because if i explore and find something good that's actually two action that's two action disks ah i desperately need some materials i could just explore and not control it and discard if it was rubbish or just if there's a discovery title yeah i'll give you six money six things i did to me i think the money one's eight i think the materials won six and i think the science and the well the triple one you had was sevens worth yeah but it was mixed um i am going to explore again oh what do you want one two three um not a one i can't take a two it's gotta be a three there so i'm gonna take a three and i'm gonna put it here be good it's a thingy it's actually all right because it's a discovery title it's in fact it's perfect i put it there i take the discovery title but i'm not going to take control of the sector because i can't i've got eight money we did shuffle these did you lucky monkey yeah we did shuffle them eight money's good eight money or two points eight materials are doing better for you there isn't there's only a six now six i think that's gone do i want the eight money oh yeah i got the six matures do i want the two points eight money two points and when it protects you doesn't it for a few rounds yeah may never be without a drive correct um i don't know what to take because i know what the victory points are in this game and i know yours now i know that two points is actually quite a lot of points yeah there is that but no i think at this stage in the game i need to take the eight minutes we're only in round two two yeah so i'm going to take the eight money guess what i'm gonna do you're gonna pass i am gonna pass making me two mice yeah because if you didn't i was about to yeah i could do something else now now that i've got the money yeah you've got loads of money now but this is exponentially increasing in yeah i'm up to 10 on mine so so nope i think i passed as well okay no combat no comeback you didn't go for it not yet because if i did it just okay it's gonna spiral out of control yeah so no combat so be so in the upkeep phase i flip over these two colony ships yep so i can take that planet and that planet um it should certainly help yeah if i really wanted to i could have used the influencer action to take that back because this is not doing anything for me giving me one virtual point at the end of the game yeah but right now this is actually draining my resources by being a permanent action disk yeah so i want to keep mine on there for that because you want to okay production so money money first i gain four and i spend seven so i go down by three i gain three but then i go down by ten i get two materials and i get eight science oh wow i've got eight of everything i get six sides up to 12. there you go uh can you downgrade a drive to free up power for other systems yep you can you can downgrade you can take the weapons off drive so i mean if rick had the power he could have taken he could have overwritten the computer with another weapon yeah because the plus one yeah is good but double damage on a computer oh yeah yeah yeah possibly if you have the power you've had the you might want to do it you can really customize the ships however you want and there's loads of stuff that you haven't seen yet there's missiles there's anti-matter splitters there's all sorts of things back we got things back new text how many was it five seven five 57 advance the round mark is three give these a shuffle take out five one two three four five oh well there's three rare tapes and a bit of string and a bit of string the string is extra so one two three there you go so we have lots of stuff we have another gas shield at orbitals yeah and starbases starbases uh advanced robotics haven't explained them right so we have the uh soliton cannon the absorption shield and metasynthesis i have never seen that one before oh that's a free cube yeah free white cube okay right now these rare tags because they don't have a color you can actually put them in whichever row you want on here right sulton cannon of three uses up three we've got the solitaire cannon when we played the other day i had my interceptors had them oh that was it yeah and they had three shields killer interceptors six of them rocking around yeah so colony ships come back round marker has been advanced round three off we go there's still some actions you haven't seen yet and you haven't seen combat yet so now we will get to that maybe sooner than you think if i do that though that'll be good for future hmm decisions i should put that that way round i've realized it now three yeah i don't know what i need to do i'm just going to swap these around so that they're in the order of dangerousness yeah i can't do that can't do that [Music] interesting now do i do that or do i do that i think i'm going to research that's that's a given but i've got 12 science and the yellow thing and have a minus two on and the other two here minus one on do i get the advanced economy to stop me getting it um what do i get the advanced robotics gave me an extra disc two to start with where are my extra discs in your tray probably i mean the orbital is also a uh uh-huh you can build them wherever wherever one per place you're you're an influencer i think so yeah which is pretty good isn't it but you need the materials to do it obviously yeah to build minecraft sport yours cost four yeah so although i'm spending a disc to get a disc this turn it's a permanent disc it's a permanent exercise for other turns so i think i'm going to get that one okay so let's just explain how this works and what you've heard people talking about is you you realize by now these disks that you have here these action disks they're limited and the more of them you have on the board it represents the fact that your infrastructure is getting harder and harder and more expensive to maintain there are ways of getting extra discs and that technology is one of them so by taking that technology which costs you six basically you get an extra disc so you take an extra disc from your player tray which was off camera and pop it on there there you go done so you didn't buy advanced economy no i mean i've only got one i mean i i have to i've only got one place with it yeah so i'm going to research i am going to take advanced economy which costs me six and i'm also gonna take uh neutron bombs for two now don't worry it's a purely defensive measure yeah i'm buying it basically to make everything else cheaper done i am now allowed to colonize the yellow planets with the star on them which is that one and this one that i've got over it is that it yeah i know that's why it buy it oh and and if i do take this neither they've got a star on them which i was happy about the yellow ones are both maybe i don't want to do that then i was like sweet i won't take it there well maybe i won't do that sorry i thought there was loads change that right no no it's fine so i think he goes on there well we get a discovery tile but there is also an interceptor is it one of these ones isn't it an ancient connection so i'm not allowed to take that tile because this sector is protected by an entrance now i'm going to put this i am a bit concerned by you i'm going to put it there blocking my access that is blocked off unless i buy this um no yeah because doesn't that go over no no that allows you to teleport to other tiles with warp portals on you're thinking of the there's another tile that is here yeah it allows you to move through a half warp uh half wormhole that's it that's my exploration done i took the tile i put it there i think this is why this this is where you might want to just discard the tile and say i don't want that and then explore again to find one that you do want but i'm i'm okay not too bad i'm okay with that you upgrade yourself and get that that's my plan is i'm now going to upgrade my ships and actually go in and try and take this because it's got there's quite a few hit points hits on a five yeah it's going to be this fella yeah the gcds is dangerous it is but you only live once uh you can flip your player tiles back to oh yeah thank you oh yeah yeah thank you we knew about that cheers gary thank you for joining in we knew that right we totally knew that well still got 19 money i have six science which is interesting oh there's one short honor to get there advanced labs but the advanced labs will be good for here and good for here if i take it if i take it so my cruisers minus one only one hull but i'm just thinking this is four dice with a plus two i mean hits on a four so it hits on a five so four dice hitting on a five yeah but i've got two hits and it's got an initiative value of zero exactly so you go first two of them hitting on a five or six to do two damage each no it's not good enough no chance to be fair you shouldn't be able to take on the gcds on round three i mean i could be really lucky but you could be crazy lucky it depends on yeah yeah more cruisers more cruisers and then you've put the dreadnoughts on yeah yeah you've used the wrong miniatures oops they look similar there you go that's better so i'll tell you what then i'm going to explore okay where are you going to explore it's a good question i might go for a one here okay because this is open this is open this is open yep let's see what happens survey says oh baddies yeah there are buddies on most of the ones ah look that's really awkward oh that's not too actually like that that's all right there you go so sticky discovery tile there yeah and also a an action ancient well that's all right i could take it on the ancient yeah well you can yeah that's probably better for you it's better than you're going there yeah although i haven't got the yellow moneys the other money no then i'll go here but i'm using more discs okay hold on yes i'm glad of all that extra disc i think i'm going to see build these build is it too i need more materials but all the planets i've found just yeah just don't have materials on it's all rubbish i don't do i want to explore again i think i'm going to have to oh because your starting planet didn't have no i think i did i am i am but then you're science up i am i am all about the science yes this seems to be okay at two players doesn't it wasn't asking is this game okay so yeah i mean yeah yogi bear asks a very good question this is a two to six player game this game comes alive at four five and six players because you have so much interaction between the players you have ambassador tiles that you don't use until you're playing with four players so there are some people out there who say don't play this game any less than four players and i will admit you get the full experience when playing with four uh unfortunately due to coronavirus i don't really want to have four people around at the moment so we're doing a two-player play through what it is showing you is this game does work with two players and it is perfectly enjoyable and it works and it's fine because of these yeah these weren't in it yeah look at the ai kind of monsters it is better with more players okay that that's that's just a fight but it still is okay with two and it does work um and from the rules point of view a two-player game basically allows us to explain the rules in a lot less time than it would with full so back to the dilemma i'm going to explore all right i need a materials planet what do you want one or three it's going to be a i don't think i'm going to be able to colonize a 1 so i'm going to take a three and i'm going to put it here if this isn't a materials planner i'm going to link from from this side yes there's going to be tears the white ones okay so it is and it's a thingy no tears so i will take that tis for bedtime five sides okay these discovery titles are really interesting and there's lots of variety tonight maybe we didn't shuffle them enough just give them a shot give them a ruffle give them a shuffle it's five science or two points i'm going to take the two points i'm gonna go to this and mix them all up i am i am totally taking the two points because i don't want the science at the moment so they can get some big things anyone is artifact key who knows immediately when you buy it you get five stuff for each planet with a star in it which for me is three of them fifteen so if i got that i'd get 15 stuff top 16 science or eight science fiction discounted that much for 15 years i'm going for that but yeah that's pretty good um so i've taken that and i am going to colonize it because you want to put a material thing so bad it's so so slow yeah i'm gonna there you go right that's me done two explores okay here we go then another fifth action fifth action that we haven't explained yet is move okay now movement is relatively simple but there's a lot of exceptions and there's a lot of quirks to the rules first of all let's zoom in on rick's board you can see that underneath his move it says two that means he's got two activations and each activation can move one ship so you can move the same ship twice or you can move two different ships so which ship would you like to move first i'm going to move the cruise now my cruiser can move one space so if we have a look at the cruiser the cruiser has one movement point so by activating that cruiser it moves one okay if the cruiser had two movement points it could move two it is almost as simple as that however there are pinning rules so let's say that rick's cruisers had two movement points the first one that you move into here would be pinned because there is an enemy ship each enemy ship pins one of your ships so what could happen in that case is if rick's ships had two movement points the first one to move into here would be pinned but the next one could actually then move through okay that that's how movement works um so rick has basically activated both cruisers got into here that will start a fight at the end of the round there will be a fight there at the end of the round does it move yeah that's how movement works right i'm not having a good well i'm having a good start in terms of science but your character will do that won't it yeah but i just feel this round all i've done is explored twice and i'm going to get one planet because i'm i'm being greedy i don't want to build just one dreadnought i want to build two but to build two i need 16 wow i don't want to build cruisers two five cross cruises are for losers is what they say in this in this part of the galaxy um so i think i'm going to upgrade i'm going to start upgrading the dreadnought ready so i'm going to choose sources oh i got a minute are you going to pass no i think you might you don't idea because you've you've done that i might want to move my you must keep doing no it's okay yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna upgrade so i get to do two upgrades and i am gonna put um i am gonna put a positron computer oh and it's going to go here because i might as well see your plus three now on that one yeah so i'm at plus three to hit but it's got four energy so you need a better energy so that's the fusion source yeah basically i do don't know so that's generating three power and i'm using four so i need to take a fusion source two dice and where am i gonna put the fusion source over the top of the link i could or i could put it there that gives me nine power but i don't think i need the nine power no i'll put it there so my dreadnoughts that i don't have any of you can't afford them have two items hitting no three four five or six because you need a six to hit and a plus three so i only miss on a one or two yeah nice yeah i could do the computer really and if i've got the initiative what is my initiative it's one yeah so i need the initiative so i need a better initiative do you win ties on initiative defender wins ties so he's going to shoot first yeah exactly yeah uh you'll go a bus oh surprise [Laughter] so you get too many i do and i pass as well i've been passing like the turn before you every time okay combat so now we get to explain how combat works now if there is multiple combats going on in the game you do them in order of decreasing number of sector so all of the sectors are numbered there's a tiny little number on the side of each one and you do them in decreasing numeric order this is sector 108 but it's the only place that there's a fight so here's what we're going to do we're going to take these ships off and we're going to just put them here this is the fight that's happening this is the ancient uh-oh okay and rick's ships are his cruisers that are there okay we have the dice rolling tray thank you very much to jason dinger for the dice rolling troy it's very good it's very bouncy roll the baddies i'm going to roll for the buddies so initiative i've got two initiatives well you your defense i've got two okay so i roll first i've got two yellow dice so we roll the dough so it's only hits because he's got plus one and i've got minus one plus one minus one so you only hit on a six on a six but these are fancy dice these are special dice um the six is actually got a damage symbol on it because a six always hits so yeah i need a six no three and a four good news no damage okay my guys sometimes we can we can put this put this there so i hit one oh is it five or six yeah for two damage but you're only two damage will kill it two damage will kill it nope a three and a naught now whenever it is your turn to activate a group of ships you can retreat no thank you the other team gets one shot at you before you go i didn't think you would it's a miss come on five it's a hit two damage so that kills the double hit oh yeah you did right the ancient is gone um right the combat is over now obviously that is a tactical advantage to rick because he's now got the sector but every time you do combat you get to draw a reputation ties out the bag so you can passes the bag so there is another bag in the game which has got reputation tiles in it uh these are they've got numbers between one and four there's a lot of ones there's less twos there's less threes and there's some falls yeah for being in the fight you get one yeah there's basically a chart here and then because you killed an ancient that's another one and you add up based on how many things you destroyed how many you get to draw out the bag maximum of five and then out of all the ones that you draw you keep one of them and he puts it face down on his board here now you can't really see this because it's black on black but you're you're limited to how many you can have right can i have four i can have three but if you ever draw one and it's a higher value than one of your other ones you can replace it okay so rick has there anywhere between three and 12 points i don't know i don't know what he's got so thematically you started the game with two of those tiles and 26 money so yeah i think you robbed a bank so i get this which was on there you do and you can also immediately colonize the planet five science we did shuffle these didn't work five times i can assure you these discovery titles they are really interesting some of them do a lot of different things i don't get five science i mean two itchy points you don't want victory points victory points are over i'm getting two for getting the sector you are so 11. that goes we've got a part of that you've got over here and then i put one of my things yeah now if that was somebody else's sector if that was my sector and i'd controlled the planets rick would then have to start rolling dice to try and bomb the population unless you have neutron bombs so you don't automatically destroy all of the opponent's planets right combat so we'll come back down that is all the combat done using colony ships yep i guess you want to certainly do two i want to use this colony ship on yeah so i think i'll go for a money on that one because there's nothing else i can control rubbish i mean i still only generate three of that why didn't i take that i should have taken that because i taught myself out of it well it's good it's only one money no two for me it would have gone from 4 to 46 yeah but still it's only too many still it's too many yeah anyway anyway right that's that done so upkeep eight money minus ten so my money goes down by 10 money minus 4 so i'm going to go down by 6. my science goes up by 8. and my materials goes up by 3 19. go in i don't think you need to take these out and put them back in i think you just slide them that's probably easier yeah yeah okay and five new tiles and round four and these things back and you are the start player again [Music] i think because you got that extra disc it's allowed you to let's help stay in for a little bit longer yeah another plus one disc okay so we have a positron computer uh we have an anti-matter cannon uh we have sentient hull monoliths you can build monoliths which are basically worth points advanced robotics and a fusion drive i'm going to rearrange these in order in order of cost right i'm going to let you to get i put onto my turn round four yeah did you flip your thing back over can you guess what i'm gonna do you're going to pass no you're going to research i am what am i going to get uh you're gonna get i don't know advance the economy you're gonna take it oh yeah because it's worthwhile now yeah from nine to ten yeah he's quite nice look at that anti-mata cannon yeah oh actually i'm down the green route oh no you are it's four damage though four damage is a is completely overkill for ancients it is definitely that's what i'm thinking about i like rolling lots of dice this fella is a is a bit of a strong guy aren't they these yeah these photos there's only one of them but i don't kill it and want it either so how do i upgrade my initiative it's ships uh drawings drives yeah better drives is better initiative tachyon driver tachyon drive i mean that's that's next on the list isn't it that's three there's three movement which you don't need power it will take three power which i've got do i have three power spare you do because if you swap a nuclear drive for three that makes six which you've got a fusion source of six where's the tachyon drives but it just means you won't be able to wear anything else on your what's this transition drive something else i think these are ah there you go tacky on drive so actually that should be there it's a rare one there you go tachyon drive so it's got three initiative but it takes three power that's fine isn't it and that will give me yes just remember any other anything else no but that's fine that'll give me three initiative which is enough yeah so first action upgrade oh no no no i haven't got it yet first i should research um so i spend 16 lots i spend eight science on that now i did mention at the start that having research is worth points at the end of the game you can see now on my board that there are these yellow shields let's just zoom in so you can see them there you go you see these yellow shields with numbers in this is victory point so you can see right now i'm getting one point at the end of the game just because i've developed four green techs actually i'm spending eight science i'm now getting two points at the end of the game just because of that so what was that eight yep and because i can research two different texts oh oh hello um that absorption this rare tech looks really nice the red tech is very good isn't it it is because it adds things multiple things together is that four power and a thing four power and the gas shield built in yeah there's loads better than my gas shield what does this investments do then i need i need to look that up is that what it says investments uh metasynthesis medicine close yeah close uh i assume it just gives you a it's like having metasynthesis a white planet but it has got a star on it maybe are there maybe there's white places with stars on it because it's like i'm just trying to labs am i treating them that's what it looks like there we go you may place population cubes in any population squares sorry in any advanced population squares with your colony ships oh any oh any of them oh so in other words if you don't have the advanced whatevers yeah that allows you to put it on anywhere instead of that you should do them did you want to change it if you want to now we know what it does now we could have i could probably afford it you can't i could put it there then instead yep then you'd buy that i might not because i've still only got one of them so that instead of being there we go now we know what that does awesome so i'm buying a second tech yes sorry that's all right um yeah because that'd be most better for me because i got that one that one i've got three places to put things on oh this is so interesting these special techs i thought that's gonna be one cube but it makes sense now yeah yeah it does um i do quite like that sentient hole it's clever it's alive because it's an extra plus one you can put that on top of here quite easily swap one for one just giving you an extra hull or one of the hulls yeah if that's you'd have plus two yeah you're basically gonna hit every time i think the treadmill is getting very powerful yeah it's it's either that or some of the pink text but no i think i think you're right i think i'm going to go with the sentient hole so that actually cost me six so go down to two so that's my two researches done done my turn your turn i'm to research for a cost of five i'm getting another disk don't think you can have two takes the same sure pretty sure can you check i can check but i'm pretty sure you can't do that no i should have taken that one actually but that was my plan yeah no i don't think you can have two texts the same okay i can't learn advanced robotics twice to read the book twice no uh fair enough probably you are not allowed to research a tech already present on your species board nor are you allowed to discard a researched textile from your species board okay that answers that question oh why didn't i take that one i wanted another thing though that would have been good no fusion drive i've already got it hmm [Music] well well enough science for anything else so maybe we want research then question is what you're going to do instead what else can i do yeah i mean this fella he's pretty tough isn't he going so he's going to hit on a five or a six or six i've got minus one oh right yeah hitting a five or six three dice so on average it will do one point of damage per turn two shields so i won't have two hit points necessarily die but i've gotta hit him twice with my double double hit yeah so it's close but you only live once he's doing it moving the cruises in let's go let's go for it it's not gonna work caution to the wind he's not he's gonna kill me but he's got three things else he's gonna go first i'm gonna upgrade so tachyon drive i love going with the luck of the dice goes here and then the sentient hole goes here so energy wise you're at one two three four five six which is fine yep now you've got three hull i'm just gonna build one of them so i've got four hit points one thing just go around killing everything yeah i could do i could build one of them this time yeah in fact i've got eight resources there on a three for one that converts to two that gives me thirteen things still sixteen of them um i guess i'm gonna i'm a pass do you get too many yep um yeah i mean i've got nonsense rubbish um oh um can i do these any time you do them the side of the upkeep phase but when can i flip them back again when you choose the influence action nobody's taking the image so i'm going to do i'm going to do this yeah and put three things on yep that's okay because i can now put uh one science there and two monies there and there because if i do win this i want to be able to i'm gonna flip two back how are you gonna flip two back do the influence action is that flip yeah you can't do influence as a reaction and you can't do influence after you've done combat oh okay well well i'll pass through on the next time yeah oh why not try oh if i if i build a dreadnought this turn and then move in and then control it 17 months 17 money my income would actually be six i'd have twelve i'm a def deficit of five yeah it's not good it's not good is it i'm now going to be a plus one because i'm seven money oh and then i'm getting eight income yeah but then if i take this place if i do succeed yeah i mean i've only taken two actions that's yeah i know that's awful none two actions attorneys it's cause i've got these rubbish sectors and i'm not expanding i i probably should have built the influence to take them back yeah so yeah i could do an influence action and take them back but i don't want to do that yeah i definitely have played this sub optimally i don't know whether to explore again and just see what we get i think i'm going to i'm going to explore can i have a three ken the last one i'm gonna put it here this is the last three oh it's a white somewhat planet i mean you could discard it but there's nothing on to get no i'll keep it but do i want to then put a white plan if i control it that's an expenditure of 13 but put that on [Music] yes we do got it here's what we're going to do i'm glad this happened brian says paul was open to say but yes that's what i'm doing okay but here's the thing i am going to control that sector i am then going to flip a colony ship and i am going to populate it because it's a white planet i can choose any of these three i choose money i'm going to put a money cube on there right i'm done i'm already passed and you're continuing to pass yeah high pass combat so this time we have a guardian yeah wish me luck this is the guardian the guardian has three dice and i'm on initiative three yeah so you're starting you run three dice and you're winning i'm hitting on a five either or six yes all misses right but i'm gonna have to get two successes to kill it yeah i know success on a five or six i think the odds are against you here i don't know i think they are but where's the yes that's the fun on it i don't [Music] is that three hits that's three hits it is three so each dice is assigned to a ship if i can destroy a ship i will if i can't destroy a ship so you've got to go for the biggest one yeah so that goes there then that goes there that dies yeah then that goes there it's got damage on it actually it takes the damage no damage will heal at the end of combat you need a five or a six i do five or a six chance tactically bankrupt yes that's what i'm doing bro missed oh no yes oh no all right gotta get him this time gotta get him yeah yeah yes there you go right uh well that's only one damage and yeah i've only got a hole of one of now it is one dollar yeah yeah there you go oh so close so close so the damage heals uh that goes back now do you get reputation for that i think you do i don't think you get it if you run away no but i i continued with the battle didn't i but i think you got reputation for brutal it was brutal yeah damn it that'd been really good if i succeeded it would but you did well but the the odds were a bit again i know but after all battles are resolved um i like doing things a lot against me repair damage retreat penalty you do not get a reputation tile for participating in the battle if you retreated but you still draw reputation tiles for defeated ships so yes each player who participated draws up to a maximum of five so you get one for participating in the battle which is whatever it is i'm going to take it because i've got the slot for it yeah there you go the dice tray yeah so this dice tray is handmade by jason dinger who is a games designer and friend in america um and yeah he made it for me as a gift so yeah i don't think you can get one yeah he he doesn't make them to sell he hand makes them and gives them as gifts so become friends with jason and then you'll get a dice right so it's the end of the comeback that's the end of the combat upkeep phase yeah last chance to use culinary ships no it'll be used done so i'm going to read the rules on this to make sure we get this correct because what's happened is i've gone bankrupt but tactically because i deliberately wanted to remove one of my influence disks so bankruptcy at no time may your money storage market move below zero you must trade materials and or signs for money to pay your civilization or abandon control of sectors until your civilization upkeep cost is small enough to be paid using the money you have so i currently have six money i am generating six that puts me on 12. i need to spend 13. i don't have 13 so i go bankrupt what i'm going to do is i'm going to remove this disk put it on here so actually my expenditure is only 10. if i can spend ten okay now what that does mean is i've lost the point yeah i would have to use an influence action to take control of it again by the end of the game but right now i think that that's probably the right thing to do because i cost seven and i get eight so i got one so my science goes to 10 and my materials goes to 14. my science goes to 15. there we go that comes back my materials goes up to 9. alrighty check round five [Music] oh my ship's died the ship's died sad and let's see if i know one more thing on there loads of pink loads of pink so we have another phase shield we have another phase shield that's i guess the downside to player because we've drawn multiple tiles out of the same type and of course you can't have the same one twice so we're actually getting just a lot of duplicates oh wormhole generator there we go that's the one that allows you to go through half wormholes oh i see and the improved logistics that means every time you move you can move one extra one extra that's good isn't it your goal yeah i need more materials as well um what's exciting out there i'm not fast for that don't need that potentially that but no that's not exciting we're both not getting very many materials aren't we uh no why is that um well not finding enough brown planets has been the biggest problem and for me not starting with the brown planet has really helped yeah um that's it we're halfway through the game and i've not built anything no if i built things i've lost them all well i've still got two interceptors they're not upgraded i'm gonna explore okay two here oh ah that's got a wormhole on it it has so you can use that wormhole i think to teleport to any other wormhole so get one of these a really exciting one this time well we'll see oh what i've had two of these this is this is i'm gonna have the six things i want to get my ships back all of these things that we've found are all just resources now i think i'm gonna have that one yeah i would let me just look at the wormhole because it is an optional thing that you don't have to play with but we are playing with it where are they it might be in those extra rules that you've got there lift cannon minor species and galactic events no no have i got galactic events apparently i don't know whether that's a nebula supernova in a black hole oh they must be mixed in okay if they come out warp portals optional module that opens up the galaxy making it possible to move influence and form diplomatic relations across the board the warped portals consist of three sectors uh one middle and two outer a discovery tile a rare tech and a warp portal tile to use the warp portals shuffle the wall portal components into their base game one middle and two outer yeah so what have you found and this is the middle isn't it two no three's in it is that two three it's a two i put it there okay yeah so you found the two so there are two threes but there aren't any all sectors with warp portals are considered to be adjacent to each other sector and have a full wormhole connection between them so you can move influence and do all of the other stuff through warp portals okay okay six player game massive map warp portals everywhere yeah there's only one there's not going to be anything which is why the warp portal generally so i could get that and put it somewhere you could get that put it somewhere and then jump between them yeah yeah james is here james uh you can also put a disc on an uncontrolled sector if you have a ship in it at the end of the combat phase ah thank you instead of having to use an influence action that's useful i wasn't aware of that okay thank you gary it's really useful i'm going to build and i'm going to build two dreadnoughs that cost 16 materials i only have 14 yeah so i need two extra materials so i'm going to trade six science to build red knots boom there you go gosh i'm okay though because you've you've blocked yourself off because i'm scared of you so i'm okay at the moment unless you come this way and the thing is they move three so i could actually go one two three i could go over there and beat up this i do move through yeah but i think i might just take out the interceptor first that's your goal done that is my go i built simple as that okay i'm going to research i think i want some better computers so i hit a bit better computers booters for sick science so i'm on initiative three and i'm hitting i'm at plus three so i'm hitting on a three i'm going to be rolling four dice and i only need two hits i've totally got that um they move i have i have absolutely got three spaces don't they say so one two three well no i'm thinking oh you going one two three no that's still a bit no that that would go first no i've got to go for this one yeah cause you've only got three initiative i've only got three initiative yeah yeah i'd like to get a full finish do somehow i mean i can put another drive on a ship you can you can add because there are basic ones that you can add without canon so yeah there are there are basic researches that uh basic upgrades you can put on your ship without having any tech which are these five so these ones at the bottom that you can't see because they're off camera um yeah these basically in fact it's these basic six no not that one these five here these five you can start with the fusion driver plasma yeah so i could put another nuclear drive on there just to get me an extra one initiative and that would be four movement points depends if one needs to go first that desperately you've got quite a hull yeah so i'm gonna move and i'm gonna move these two ships into there okay finally gets an action no worries so you're gonna do a combat in that respect i will um well why don't i get money in this phase because 21 money that's a lot on it if i do another three actions harl out is there no no hulls no there was only one improved hole and i took that yeah yeah it seems a bit of a shame if we're going to be upgrading i'm not going really much okay so go upgrade mm-hmm you're going to upgrade can i have a positron computer please uh can we get a close-up of the dreadnoughts says brett yes is it going to focus is it going to focus too positively sort of so yeah these these are the dreadnoughts for mine they're they're they're pretty cool what you doing paul's dragon computer on both mindsets on cruiser you got the power for that yep one two three and that's got four yeah that's one two three four and we've got the full yeah okay i've built i've moved i don't know whether i want to do anything else again i'm taking two actions a turn that seems wrong in a game an epic 4x space game i'm taking two actions attached two actions doesn't seem that many but i don't think i can explore i don't think i can explore from here because no no but you can explore from here to here okay onyx you know what wormhole so i don't actually think i can explore again i could upgrade but i don't want to i could research but i don't really have enough science so i'm going to pass i know what two money but i go first any more the tighter turn carl's here from n20 games hi carl impressive looking game yeah and this overhead camera is not doing it uh justice the game is gorgeous the components are amazing the graphic design is gorgeous the figures are really nice as well yeah it's just a really really nicely produced game i know um you know how long they spent on this and the amount of effort they went to with it but they've done a an excellent job and these miniatures are really good quality miniatures as well not just the sculpts and the designs but the plastic used um yeah it's really good if only i had time to paint them all how much my other 18 and i'm gonna tell you what because they look so nice i'm going to get 10 money maybe i'll just paint one of them that's how it starts i say i'll just play and then nine months later i'm going to research another action how much resources have you got loads that's insane i'm going to get improved logistics yeah for well six and that's a minus four discount where did you get all of those resources from those totals oh yeah those tokens yeah so now i can build next time i'll build three trees here i'm inhabited thank you for tuning in right now vengeance rick i'm gonna pass yeah i know i'm gonna take this guy out i might take him out for you no you're miles away yeah i'll get him done you done yes so yeah i was continuing to pass combat first oh yeah come back first so my two dreadnoughts me this weekly this is this tiny little ancient right here [Music] so these guys did i tell you about these earlier on i was reading an article i thought the fact that they've put the damage on the six and the blank on the one yeah is just fancy and not really needed wrong a six always hits so that hit is telling you that's a hit forget the number that's a hit and the blank is telling you that's a miss it's a miss even if you've got plus yeah and if you've rolled a number that's when you add up the things so it's actually quite intuitive if you roll the blank it's not a one it's a miss so i'm going first i'm rolling four dice he passes another clear yellow one so they are pretty so your initiative is four three uh three yeah okay yeah so that's a hit another hit he's dead uh and that's a hit and that's a hit he's dead boom just like that so i get two reputation times and you get that as well i get that so i get two tiles but i only choose one of them you can explore from any sector with an unpinned ship says gary okay thank you so oh you were on pinterest i could have done yeah i didn't want to but i i it's useful to know that i could have done yeah okay so i'm taking that one putting it there that goes back in you've got that which was oh you're kidding i don't know what it is with these tiles but we mixed them up we've mixed them up literally there's so cause there's loads of really cool things like weapons and loads of stuff shields and loads of stuff and we found eight money now do i want this money eight monies i tell you what i'm not gonna take it you get too rich i'm gonna take it as pointless look at you you're stacking up those points but then there's gonna be only one of these i'm gonna take it as points yeah you've got on your space i have one of these you have space for three as well as i've got space for okay and i am going to control the sector and then i am going to use two of my colony ships then i'm using two of my crawling ships as part of the thing as well science money science money done right so upkeep four money plus eight is 12 minus 10. i've got a profit of two i've got a minus of seven science goes up to fourteen materials goes up to three cheers goes up to eighteen eighteen materials science goes up to fifteen what uh 12 comedy ships come back action mark has come back let's put these ships back here generating 12 science now okay done these go back dreadnoughts say goodbye ancients yes overkill it was overkill i i learned from the other species in the galaxy [Music] one other one yeah on espn i saw some uh some news headlines and i thought i don't want to do that right let's have some texts yes let's see what happens oh are we on round six yes we're on round six one two three four five plus splitter another one so what have we got now we have a second source no flaming trust economy hulls monoliths oh advanced mining there it is yeah you want that all right absolutely one more because you can get that one and that one and that one yeah yeah i absolutely need that what about you i'm going to come over to me now so my first action is to research yeah i've got to take it it'd be crazy if i didn't take it um but it's it's do we take something else first because you can take two things because i can take two things and it would it's a pinky so it's full i think it gives me a discount but no yeah no discount on your pink no i mean if i bought something else first i'd get a discount on it but i well don't think i want anything else you've got 14 sites yeah so i'm going to take advanced mining which is going to cost me 10. the green things get a minus six discount yeah but what can you buy uh i could buy advanced economy for six science hmm oh no that's gonna cost me ten so that gives me four yeah um orbital that's what i was looking at fusion drive there's no point by anything yeah i think i was looking at orbital so i'm going to take orbital for another form because i do get a discount of two on it okay so yeah orbitals the technology of orbital allows you to build can you pass me one of those orbitals there are these things and you can basically build these in sectors that you control and you can put either a money cube or a research cube on it and yeah it's like a it's like a what do they call them dyson rings nice and rings yeah not like dyson spheres but anyway it's a space station that does stuff but not a star base you're going first you just went though i went first i did research and i took that which is going to be an absolute massive now boost to my economy this is where i might use the influence action to control to colonize three places and then flip them over and colonize again potentially yeah space for it yeah definitely have right i'm building brian says new tech tiles yes i almost forgot but i just about remembered building three cruises three cruisers because two wasn't enough no 15. okay i'm exploring can i have a one please bob let's go in there oh he's not an ancient i wanted it to be an ancient you can kill it's actually not great see that's the white planet of the star on it it is it can have anything but but you have to have this no i think it it can be no you don't have to have that it means that can be anything but it's got to be an advanced thing right so for me right now i could make it an advanced lab but i can make it anything you can all in advance mining but you can make it and i don't think i'm going to put it there could i have a discovery tile please you can would you like this one depends what it is it's something different it's a free tech connection it's a free tech of uh the lowest thing that's available i'm going to say no no stuck up that's the way i wanted to put it um now you're linked to me i need to get to there uh oh now you're listening to me um but you have to go through that do i want that place at this place he's interesting well he's very interesting i don't think i do got the brown thing now i i do but i'm gonna control no i'm not gonna take it not going to take it i'm just going to read up on the influence action to just double check that i can do what i'm planning to do in future because the last time we played we didn't use the influence action at all modify control by moving influence disks to or from sectors you get a number of influence actions for these two um each influence activation allows you to move a disk from your influence track or a sector you control to an uncontrolled sector where no opponent ships are present and a wormhole or warp portal connection exists with a sector where you have a ship or control or an uncontrolled sector where you have a ship or the right yeah okay so basically i could take it from here and put it on there with an influence action but you can do it for free now i can do it for free now but i don't want to because when you do the influence action you also flip over to the colony ships so i want to use all three and then use the influence action to flip them back never played with two usually three or more yeah and if you play with four you use the ambassador rules which are cool because you make alliances and then you can break the alliances and you get traitor cards and yeah loads of extra stuff move move in with three and i've now got a plus two positive computer right much much better odds yes although i'm still going second i'm gonna move as well i get to move two things and we're gonna go one more one into there my turn yep i'll pass i have too many i'm going to use my colony ships and then i'm probably going to pass so where am i using my colony ships one two three you know you're not gonna pass the x you're gonna do your influence right yeah you're off money well i i can't control that or that so actually i might not and actually didn't buy that no not anything did you that'll do um no no no because if i ah yeah if you win that if i win i then can't control it because i don't have any colony ships left nope you can control it but you can't put the so i think i think you're right i think rather than passing i will do the influence action this is gonna bankrupt you again bankrupt anything that bad though do it so i'm gonna flip over two of these colony ships and i'm gonna place well you can't place here you have to win the combat they oh yeah so actually just not so do the influence action but not actually yeah get them ready to place after the combat is it after combat that you can do them no i think i'm gonna be sneaky because there are there's clever things you can do with the white planets i could lose control of this sector lose this y cube which was brown but forget that put it back so put it back somewhere else yeah i think that's what i'm gonna do okay you're going to move that one i think i'm going to my first influence activation is going to be to lose control of this and this and this can go back wherever and i am going to put it back where does your token does your token go back to here i'm going to put it back on the brown what do you want to put it back in the pink i'm going to put it back up oh this is tricky yeah i'll put it back on the pink and then i'm going to take control of there because it's two points and i've got two colony ships i think that's right jimmy's curious how the new components and the trays handle and work really nice really really just yeah it's yeah i mean it's not a cheap game but quality production really really good that's a lot of stuff yeah i mean we're playing two players there's a box here full of stuff and expansion plays up to nine players well no no there's only stuff for six in this game in the box but the play mark seems to go up to nine and i'm not sure why ah so i don't know if anybody can mix two games together yeah if anybody knows why the play mark goes up to nine players let me know because the original game did have an expansion that took it up to nine right maybe they've made the play mat for the people with the original game as well maybe who knows or maybe they intend on doing it explaining this right are we done uh yes i think so i mean two seven three i'm two seven one so first first is it lowest first or highest first i think i said lois first reverse order eventually descending numerical order descending so so maybe you first yeah okay so it's two of my dreadnoughts against this fella you got no shields have you so you hit sonnet four five or six oh wait a minute i think i might have messed this up i think i meant to do an upgrade a bit late now oh damn oh well yeah i i got cocky but you hit first it's a chance like no i don't go down hey no oxy's defending but you've got i got three you've got three he's got three yeah he's at us that's the problem i meant to upgrade and put two more sentient holes on my mistake oops attention health won't give you more no but it'd mean i would i would hit them but anyway cool three dice you're hitting on a four five or six only one damage and you've got yeah lots of getting excited that's what happens i stopped paying attention hit hit two hits two hits so that's two damage uh-huh i mean i'm all right because they've got four yeah exactly okay so that's taken two he's only got three health this guy so oh that's true yeah even though i'm hitting on four dice yeah i'll be fine uh oh there's only two hits only three hits three yeah you've got plus three so three hits dead he's dead hey just like that don't know what you're worried about okay so reputation tiles i get three one for the combat two for two yeah so i'll have three titles take the best one yeah johnny's saying for the next kickstarter expansion who knows who knows one two three let's have a look at these let's take that one let's put them back in and a bit string right there you go right so he's oh i know i got ball oh okay you gotta take this oh special stuff special stuff and it's good stuff oh so nice and it doesn't lose the power it doesn't take power a double yellower but you can take this you could take that easily to be honest i don't know what do we do do we keep it for the two points or do we take this iron turret i measured it with my six inches up to two dice i mean what i could do what's the um initiative of the gcds zero no [Laughter] and i do take control of it yeah you're going to buy this if you basically if you didn't i will yeah and i'm going to use my two culinary ships you've managed to get loads of those star places yeah so that goes on there and i can't take that one i could take that one i mean you've got no ships left have you i've just flipped two over absolutely one goes on there and the other one the problem is i am money yeah i'm gonna have to convert or i'm gonna have to lose something yeah there was no point in taking that so i'm just gonna put a brown cube on there okay done yoga yes so he's got initiative you're fighting against the guardian yeah he's got initiative i've got a shield so he hits on a so plus two minus one so it's a plus one so a five or a hit is a hit yeah one hit one hit one damage and one on the fellas right i will now three orange dice but i hit on a hitting on a four four five or six would you like a nice let's see three one dead yeah two hits gone okay so you get three reputation tiles you also get that and you get lots of other stuff there you go miguel's here hi miguel crowded table yeah and this is only the two-player game we discussed earlier i've got a huge gaming table and it wouldn't we could just about get four players on here with a side table really hard but we couldn't get any more than four not on here i mean to be fair we're not using a lot of this area but still but it looks very impressive so i'll swap one over okay what you got is a cruiser it's a free cruiser in that sector if you wanted it the thing is i can only move three ships at a time so one will be lagging behind i have to spend actions to get a move over two points two points okay do i take that location yeah you got any quality ships left one okay upkeep so ten plus six is sixteen minus twenty one negative five thirteen has twelve minus one 12 science 27 science and three materials at the six materials what am i going to do um yeah this is i need that tech that gives me more discs yeah the only one came out no you can look at this one i could take that one i'll take that next turn i'm just desperately short on discs there's the plus two one isn't it which hasn't come out yeah we might do in a minute i'll get it if it does so i'm gonna have to lose control of this sector there was no problem taking it that was just silly right so now you're 16 i'm still minus one still have to take another one back or i trade three for one that has materials i have three materials i could trade three for one you're about to get ten materials i think that's what i'm going to do so i'm going to spend this is why you have to do money first yeah you can't get the other income first so i spend three materials as one money and then all of my money right then i get eight science and ten materials so eight science ten materials and i have no money okay colony ships flip back over move to round seven disks back i did four actions that turn that's where it all went wrong five technologies would this be bigger than twilight imperium on the table at equal player counts that is a very good question i haven't played twilight here in fourth edition i have played third edition i mean this looks big i think they're comparable i don't know i don't know the exact answer to that but i think they're about the same one two three there it is there it is there it is the quantum grid four five with another one okay so transition drive has come out which is cost nine still no flaming hearts i took all the halls out once i got one i took the rest there yeah advanced labs and nano robots okay you passed i did round seven two rounds left two rounds left having a look at the points situation yeah it's interesting is he because i because i've got plus four on you here i think i have more on the board but you have four reputation tiles and i only have two and i don't know what you've got but i know what i've got so i i think it's close this game seems to be always close doesn't it um yeah because we're both up to the same level there i'm getting two two points from my tech you're getting two points from tech yeah well here we go then right research okay for a cost of 14. okay that gets you your remaining two discs that's gonna hurt oh that does hurt so i've had on three extra discs but i started minus two yes you did so i needed to get them absolutely did so i'm going to research as well because good things you do research twice that's right and i'm going to take nano robots extra upgrade then extra build i'm buying these for the points and i'm taking advanced robotics at a cost of five nice okay which gets me another disc a disc okay i'm gonna explore a tour where you're exploring yeah okay can't attach that one that's really annoying of course you can't because there's a blank side there i know but i still can't and only one point on it as well i was having something better than that yeah i mean it's a good sector to have got at the start of the game because it's some nice planets but no protection but it's no good now i wanted protection i want to know you wanted an ancient city i'll go there and fight then blow it up that's exactly what i wanted so how many treadmills do you get in the game two yeah so you've got all yours out no more building more dreadnoughts for me though i can only build one more cruiser as well yeah jimmy's saying twilight imperium four might be more but this definitely moves on faster yeah i think eclipse is is halfway i'm gonna discard that oh right you are gonna do it because i can't build here yeah and there's no more threes okay you just discarding it i want to get a better too okay boom gone just take it just so you can't see it seems to be a waste of a turn but it depends what i'm gonna get if i go all out well i'm gonna explore can i have a two please i'm going here don't get a good one yeah you can't link to that either can you what no i don't know whether i want to but if you want to go and then blow it up and get victory points and stuff yeah it's more actually no no take that back i've not looked at it because there's only two rounds left if i'm gonna go for the gcds i need to be thinking about that now and i'm going in with four yellow dice hitting on a three one damage sorry eight yellow dice hitting on a three yeah i'm not going to blow it up on round one is then going to attack me it's rolling for yellow dice it's probably going to do three damage that might blow up one of my ships then you only got one left hitting with four dice it's relatively close isn't it it is me having the plasma you want a better gun really i do i do i do but i like my eye on cannons will you eat my own where's that tech that gives you extra movement you got it i got it but yeah because you've only got two ships anyway and you can't build another one and we've got 10 materials 10 materials you two cruisers kids be your cruisers on that road like a build two cruisers upgrade them move two cruisers move two dreadnoughts the cruisers would just be cannon fodder yeah they won't they don't take you can't put them in front can you it's the strongest thing first it hits something that it can kill right and if it can't kill something it hits the biggest thing so actually it wouldn't be cannon fodder no because the cruisers have got one hull it one whole extra so they got two hit points so it wouldn't go for the cruiser first even though we had the fewest hit points i could upgrade these and make them even better you want more hulls i wish there was a three-year-old there's this and i've not used it i know i needed it it's one thing my cruisers are lacking okay so if i was to upgrade and put two improved holes on there these would have one two three four they'd have six hit points easy enough to take that yeah okay so that's what i'm going to do i am going to upgrade i know i'm going to take two improved holes both on there and i'm going to put one over the original hole no it doesn't no and i'm going to get rid of one of the irons you've got your bonus because that's three iron cannons hitting and you've got loads you've got five health six health because of that sentient hull yeah okay got pretty powerful done yep right i'm gonna second time's lucky um i'm gonna explore same place yeah okay that's better better that is better what have you found so that's a thing in the jig here move flying in there you feel you beat that guy which you more than like you will things you've still got round you didn't buy those neutron bombs did you good you can still come in and terrorize me if i take that middle and you i think that puts me ahead on points yeah so you're right if i had the opportunity to go into one of your sectors and destroy it i would but i don't think i need to you'll go yeah i just moved move you'll go again pass get too many wow so if i research oh i've passed a solitude cannon for a cost of seven science down to six upgrade oh no actually no can't upgrade that because there's not enough power on the cruisers we haven't got the power captain absorption shield yeah special tech yeah so that was instead of seven it was six then upgrade so you want some absorption shields yes please nope where's the absorption shields there how many that's a good question oh just the one i guess you might as well do another upgrade of something else yeah because i'll get to just just while you're i'll do the dreadnought yeah just stick yep uh i continue to pass this is the other thing that you're not seeing in a two-player game once you've passed you can still react and you do find that happening in a in a game with more players but in a two-player game i think once i've passed i'm not doing anything i'm gonna go for it okay research that cost seven yeah maybe she'd done that the other way around yeah go on i'll let you do that the other way around instead of doing that you take the solid tank i'll take the solder can on that yeah yeah that's fine and then i've got the energy to do it yeah cause that makes more sense okay now i'm done right come back do you first yeah so you got three super cruisers against poor little ancient the ancient has got of two so have i so he uh goes first plus one one hit one damage okay it's fine and now kaboom i hit on a four five or six yeah and each one that hits does three damage ah miss miss miss miss oh can you believe it one hit two killed one of my guys have you only got two health yeah because the flaming holes aren't coming out two blue dice oh can you run dead flinging flanging four five or six so yeah it's dead boom right okay so you get two reputation tiles and you get that interesting [Music] don't want either of them i get this where is it how tall is special where with one initiative two points yeah this stage do you want to control it and colonize and stuff 30 money right i'm fighting against this thing which is another it's a very impressive model this let's just let's just zoom in and show you this so this is the gcds which is like some death sphere thing yeah very cool model so which one is fighting against that which is this extra and i have two super drug nuts um no i'm not gonna i'm not going to colonize it so my initiative is three that is tight what am i attacking with three yellow dice could have another yellow one three yellow dice i'm at plus three so hitting on a three three hits two three hits three hits on gcds okay gcds attacks me isn't that three yellow dice per ship oh yeah three yellow glass per ship yeah of course three more six damage six damage to the gcds your attacks back four yellow dice four yellow dice hitting on a four two hits two damage we've got six hit points yeah okay okay i think i was a little bit nervous on this over nervous i think i've got it i need two hits yeah yeah three hits 73 you've got three misses there you go it's gone it's gone so you get this uh i get that it's a soliton charger oh it's like a solitaire cannon but it only requires one energy yeah hello uh oh i've only got one round left hello you can run all over the shop that's crazy yeah okay um i am going to control that sector oh yeah and whack three things on it and then i will use my three colony ships to put two money things on there one two um and the science thing that's another diamond one it is another diamond there's two in there so i can't stop you taking that yeah but always get loads of resources yeah done that can be removed we don't need that anymore um i can't get there unfortunately we're done we are done last chance to use colony ships nah uh yeah and yeah yeah i think that's it okay upkeep so 15 right yes 13 i get two money 25 12 12 24 so i'm one money short which i'm going to use three materials yeah 10 materials and then get okay we'll move on to laughter 15 science and and technology titles right we're on the last round murder sphere says brian yeah that's probably jim says death star no no no jim we can't call that death star the borg queen sphere it's just a sphere yeah one two three four no holds did you take them out i did take them out plenty of neutron bombs coming for you yeah that's worrying as well oh cloaking device which means i mean there's loads of improved holes in here nope not that right so action discs go back last round of the game you start uh yeah i think i'm okay just turtling at this point i don't think i'm worried so i take research hey excellent loads of points i take this artifact key which i get a discount of where you put it it's yellow on it discount of six i get a discount of six so it cost me ten and i have eleven cool so that goes down to one but now when i take the artifact key immediately upon taking it i gain 5 10 15 20 25 resources of your choice of my choice which is crazy for me to have got five with a star i know i've got two yeah it's just the way they've come out yeah so i thought i'd buy a monolith so that's what i'm going to do yeah so 25 resources 25 results well you need something well no i need the science so i'm actually going to take the science now live science and then spend that science yeah so i i take five seconds when you get it five no more than that wouldn't it six science would you need an eight discount is a minimum six okay yes so six so six science and 19 19 materials which means you could buy nearly three of them okay and your build is your class one as well uh this isn't fair with my sixth science i take monolith and put it there which cost me six yeah double research now i think i can do that the artifact key i think the artifact key kicks in as soon as you get it i am just going to look that up to make sure i'm not cheating i'm getting the impression i'm not going to win this now for each artifact on sexes you control immediately gain five resources of a single type so i think it's okay and somebody will tell me in the chat if i've cheated that i can actually use the resources that i've gained from that immediately to take another tech so yeah carl's got to go thank you carl for joining in yeah jim said his wife is a huge pinball fan yeah he's really cool explore okay uh-oh now is this where i have to move in and pin your ships just as a defensive measure okay um so i'm gonna build two monoliths so i spend 20 resources you can build three if you like kind of i'll build three then yeah thank you can we have these nice monolith miniatures um so yeah the game comes with uh nice little 3d miniatures for monoliths uh i think these might have been an add-on extra i can't remember but i i have them and you can have one in each sector so and they're basically worth three points at the end of the game yeah which is gonna yeah so yeah that's nine points there then you could get another one let's just do that three to one i i couldn't that's only one yeah but it's three points um right research i'm not gonna have money am i to do all these things if i bankrupt the last turn jerry 12 oh maybe maybe if i'm lucky right research pacquiaon drive for a cost of nine how many materials you've got seven [Music] okay here we go yeah i'm just how much you can decimate me by no no no no i'm thinking defensively i'm thinking of uh pinning your ships so that you can't come and attack me but if i do that you could just sneak into here with your interceptor having researched neutron bombs and blow up and take the center with one interceptor so we can't have that uh and the other option is that i just built three little interceptors 369 but your your interceptors are a lot better than my inceptors got positive compute right yeah that should have been flipped over but if i pass i can still move as a reaction okay so what i'm going to do is i'm going to flip my three colony ships over and i'm going to go on there and there yeah and i don't even know if there's any point in doing this because i don't think resources are worth anything at the end yeah i'm going to generate them either oh you don't actually regenerate them do you you do the money but yeah okay this isn't actually getting anything then which one did i just put on that brown one here did i just put that one on yeah okay hmm okay um can you influence as a reaction you can't you know i am tempted to pass i mean i've got 10 money i've got 15 communions i've got 19. i can afford to take other actions so yeah let's do it let's build let's spend my nine remaining resources and i'm going to build three interceptors pew pew we're gonna put one here uh we're going to put one here and we're going to put another one here yeah done here we go uh ah xonia says i need to take quantities of five on each star of the artifact key [Music] i didn't realize that is that in the rules oh it says five it says five for every star immediately gain five so okay for each star immediately gain five resources of a single type so i cheated used six science i did sixth science i mean so yeah but it means i should take another four science and have four fewer materials so instead of having nine i should only have five materials so i'm not going to do that build action then thank you thank you for correcting me step back all three wasn't there yeah um so instead and when i could research for an extra point these two extra points i don't know very much science i'm currently going to it would go up to three have you got these cheap things uh yes yes yes oh yeah that could go in there that'll cost five yeah i've only got four it's probably not worth it to be honest it's a point true yeah the other thing i could do is i could just influence this which is two points yeah let's do that i'll use the influence action so yeah i am going to use my colony shapes i'll use two of them and then the influence action will flip two of them back and i'm going to put those two there and there so before i do that i am calling it two oh yeah two because it's two things isn't it um so yeah before we do that i will put that on there again not as much and i will put that on there no it's just because i might as well oh there you go and then i flipped my colony ships back and then i flipped that one over to put that one on there and i flip that one over to put that one on there i think that's it i don't think i can take anything else gosh no we're all good right you'll go it's the money thing i'm worried about here i'm running out of money i've never done two actions i'm still wearing a money you mean how much money you got so right now i'm i'm at plus one okay but i can just about afford something actually gonna put one here no no no i'm at minus sorry i'm a minus three which would leave me with one money right so i'm at the point where i can't really take any other actions so i'm going to put one here i can't put one here yet so i've got one on there which will make me up to 15. i've already got 10. remember you could just lose control of uh yeah i might have to lose control of that but is there any point getting one point to lose one point i'm going here oh okay that's my plan with these two guys depends on win this combat right and then you get two points plus another two points yeah that's my plan but the question is do i'm gonna have to upgrade first so i'm gonna have to upgrade and then move yeah knocks me up to 17 but then i can use these as actually i think you'll be fine right upgrade yep tacky on drive how many tachyon drives would you like that's good one that's three six seven and i've got four eight so that's fine um i might as well have an absorption shield i can't fit the tachyon drive on there and absorb some shield on yeah okay okay so i pass i move i get too many i think you think yep anything else are you done uh i'm done okay uh oh well i can do these kind of any time yeah sometimes i'll do one of these to put the money so yeah so as a reaction to that i could have moved in but i i don't want to it's just me we're fine that's just me yeah also also i don't have neutron bombs no so you could take the place that was that yeah it gave me three points yeah it would have gone in i could have blown the planet up so i wasn't going to but actually because that's after i after i pass you know another job so i passed yeah you moved yeah i can now react and then i haven't passed yet have i no you might as well come on let's do it so i'm reacting because we haven't seen enough money though no it'll be fine because i've got a colony ship left to put money in there so that goes on there and i move so you haven't passed yet nope so i but you don't have new yeah the thing is if you had neutron bombs i wouldn't evacuate that area but you don't have neutron bombs so in other words if you went in there you would not be able to well you could just move one of your ships i could but i want to be sure of it what am i going to do i'm going no it's i only get one shot at blowing the population up right okay and if i don't i can't get i can't take the place so yeah it's just me i'm moving there it is mean but a lot of this game is about seizing the opportunities i think yeah they're okay they're well i'm in combat now yeah one of them is pinned okay so there's a reaction you so as a movement you absolutely could send one back into there with this one but then would that on its own kill that guardian i go first it's yeah potentially i'm only rolling one dice but i do three damage you got too much shields yeah i got six hit points yeah i got no actual shields i just got lots of whole thick big metal lots of lots of well might as well can't find this guy so you're passing two and two in it if i succeeded at a loss of three so do you get one yes you want two blue dice because my thing is four you've got a high initiative half initiative before okay hit on a four five or six four three damage three damage dead dead okay done you get three reputation tiles plus one two three survey says that little that good yeah that must mean you've got threes and fours uh and i get that whatever it is a rift conductor a bit of hole yay and a special rift cannon or two points the thing is if i put things i can't well you're gonna if you deploy that up i haven't got the money anymore that token you can colonize two money planets i've got this place it's this place oh sorry it's that place one money planet yeah if the if you blow up that place yeah where does that token go it's a yellow one so it goes back to your yellow my disc oh the disc goes back to your track that's good okay right so reaction move action is only one ship thank you hugo of course it is would that have changed what you did absolutely right it's one ship certainly is all that discussion we had about it yeah well i thought the combat now yeah but i made a mistake so we can do that combat again if you would have sent one back that'll cost me an extra thing would it cost you an extra deal i won't be able to afford the question is would your cruiser would one of your cruisers against one of my dreadnoughts would you beat me unlikely not with that much hull no so we've not done this before so i'm just going to check yeah thank you hugo because i do want to play correctly um yeah i forgot that i mean it is it's right there right there yeah it's just my silly mistake um so after combat we didn't do reactions at all last time did we uh maybe once i've only done it once in this game so at the end of combat remaining ships attack opponent population cubes in their sector each ship may attack once with its non-missile weapons yeah we haven't seen missiles in this game um come out no uh using normal rules to hit each damage inflation destroys one population cube if you research neutron bombs you don't need to bother with that um so you don't attack the disc as such you just take the population you take the population and then what if then at the end of the combat phase if you have at least one ship in a sector that has no population cubes remove the controlling player's influence disc and place it on their influence track but you don't put one on you may then influence it yeah okay so that's what i'm going to do i am now going to attack and i've got three dice one blue two yeah and i'm hitting on a three yeah yeah so that dies goes back to your yellow track then i remove that which goes back to your track and i put that on there and then i use that colony ship to put that on there okay done oh the reds don't look like they've done very well so upkeep yeah 21 plus six is 27 i need to spend 30. so i'm three short and i can spend i need to spend two for science and five money i have literally nothing left yeah i've got seven materials left and then well we generate these but later you don't need to do it okay i think paul built his mvp starbase as a reaction oh in the last game oh yeah yeah i think you're right yeah yeah we're done so we add up the points so let's go through the points because they are printed on here scoring here there is a scoring tile i believe yes scoring so reputation tiles oh hang on i did a combat i didn't yeah you did and you think you drew i did and i did yeah but i didn't do a combat nope so i was i was lucky you were lucky i was very lucky i didn't draw a single four and i drew like about 20 of the flaming tokens so seven eleven okay so seven eleven next ambassador tiles we're not playing with ambassadors controlled sectors so seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 23 21 up to 25 plus 7 28. okay included then 25. so you got a lot of points from sectors i'm 25 including these yeah but i'm now only three point seven oh no i was behind wasn't that yeah oh okay right so what am i on 28 yeah i'm 25. okay next monoliths yeah we've got nine yeah none so 28 37 yeah discovery titles i got six so 43 you must pay in three the same resources because you mixed yours up do you i did three and six on the science oh in that case we did it wrong earlier i thought the three for one is that a mixture of it but maybe is that mean three i i thought the three for one was whatever now where is that in the rules oh it's going to be tricky to find trading where is trading tech ships ship parts anybody tell me where trading is and there's a content index no it's a no it's not an act it's not a it's not an action it's just a thing you can do on your turn and i don't know where the trading rules are yeah anybody know where the trading rules are i would have thought it would be near the start when trading resources yeah trade at any time as many times as you want you may pay the number of one resource indicated by the trade value to gain one resource okay thank you so what did i do i spent five and four to get so which i can't do so i'll just i'll just remove that which is one point there yeah and just remove that there you go thank you very much keeping us honest so what was i on 28 a 37 see now so 36 25 plus this 42 31 43 44 49 31 36 37 yeah 49 so there you go 37 i did better than last time score boys and so did you yeah but two play again two play again two play again so yeah i didn't need to take that in the end what was it 49 37 37 if i hadn't taken that it would have been 46.40 yeah yeah so i took it just i thought i was winning anyway yeah i wanted to just show people how you attack um yeah a planetary system and if because that's why this was safe if you didn't have neutron bombs you'd have gone in there with the interceptor there's no way you destroyed all of them yeah and you have to destroy all of them in order to take control of the sector so there you go yeah thank you very much for all the help with the chat because they were yeah you getting the star places and then getting that getting loaded up to build these three monoliths that's like well that's it that's game over i mean yeah i mean when these sectors came out i was like oh that's got a star in it that's got a star on it as well oh that's got to stop star star star stars like five of them yeah whereas these were these were all these were all pretty rubbish um so does this game work see if you'd have offered me to play two-player eclipse i would have said no because the game is best at more players four five six players right um obviously because of coronavirus louder pellet wanted me to do a play through and didn't want to wait for lockdown to be over um so we did two player and i'm thoroughly glad that we did because this game absolutely works as a two-player it's like the fun decisions and things to choose and excitement it would be better with more because you'd have the interplay of yeah you know or if you move in there then i'll move in there and everything else but yeah does it work as a two-player game yeah i think he does i think he does i think me dying as well against those things and losing two cruisers a bit you shouldn't have gone into that fight yeah but i'd have been really good if i won if yeah but your chance of winning was less than so long and the problem is it's not only that you didn't win the fight you lost the cruisers yeah exactly and then all of a sudden you were you were tweeting behind with the cruisers whereas me i i did it the other way i did i did nothing for five turns built up got major and then eventually built two dreadnoughts and then it turns out i you know because i don't like not having a very good chance of winning in terms of the fight i like the excitement of yeah no because i know from experience in this game if you lose the ships yes that's just that's just the last game of big interceptors this game bigger cruisers next game dreadnoughts yeah i mean i i did absolutely nothing with these ships at all all i did was build two dreadnoughts there's so many ways you can play this um you know depending on which technologies come out there are missile technologies so you can have all right my interceptors are going to be missile ships so i'll have a few interceptors and they fire at the start of combat but then they don't take part in the rest of combat and then you'll have cruisers and you can actually have all three different types of ships being able to move not very many at a time yeah it seems a bit after there's loads of move actions and obviously starting with minus two actions for your race i managed to get three back again yeah and all the different races play different ways yeah they're all very well started very different risk averse that's me jim yes that that is absolutely me i am risky yeah um but yeah thank you very much we're all done we're going to head downstairs now and finish our game of marvel championship we started this afternoon yeah we'll get that done um but no thank you very much uh for watching this if you are watching this afterwards obviously thank you very much but a special thanks to the people in the chat that have helped out with the couple of rules that i got wrong during the game um so yeah thank you very much for that because i do want to play games correctly and it was nice just to catch those little things that i that i wasn't sure about the trading resources spot in the fact that i moved the one yeah but it makes sense yeah it makes sense i just i just missed it out so yeah excellent thank you very much and uh you did a six player game in less than five hours um yeah this is one of those games that i would happily put aside it's a day well yeah a five or six hour stint and play a six player game of it because it would be epic and the turns are relatively quick and you can plan ahead you could like oh this turn i know i want to research upgrade and i want to move that as long as you're not fourth or fifth in the line out of six people because the tech by the way you draw a lot more out yeah and the planets you might want to go to might have gone and research tiles yeah we're all done yeah thank you everybody for joining in and i will see you i don't know when another time another time i might do some live streaming over the weekend not sure yet i've got all the stuff to do but for tonight what time is it 10 10 to 11. we'll say goodnight thank you very much for watching and we'll see you next time [Music] gaming rules is proudly sponsored by game toppers upgrading your gaming experience visit gametoppersllc.com

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Published: Fri Sep 18 2020