GenCon 2018 Twilight Imperium Finals

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Putting the planet cards on the hexes before they are taken. I can't believe it's taken me this long to realise you could do this, great idea.

👍︎︎ 8 👤︎︎ u/faiek 📅︎︎ Jul 28 2019 🗫︎ replies

Wow. Wouldn't have expected the guys in the finals to place empty tiles close to Mecatol. Why?

👍︎︎ 5 👤︎︎ u/Anirel 📅︎︎ Jul 28 2019 🗫︎ replies

Thanks for making this. I don't know if you will read this but I will give a little bit of feedback. This is the first time I have actually watched a game you have posted, as I have just not been able to get into the streams or the simulator tournaments. With this video you really captured the human element of Twilight Imperium, which at the end of the day is why I love the game. I don't really mind that you can't follow every move, or know exactly what tech people bought, because that isn't crucial to my enjoyment. On the streams you devote a lot of energy and screen real estate for all the data, but skip out on capturing that essential human element. It is difficult to hear what people are saying and since you are only seeing a few people at a time it makes it extra hard to follow any conversations. You do a ton of work, and I just kind of feel bad that I can't enjoy it.

Despite loving TI, this new video of yours and the one Shut Up and Sit Down did have been the only videos of people actually playing the game, that I have been able to enjoy so far.

I really love the podcast, and I think your games of TI would reach far more people with a different approach than your regular streams, but as a video producer I am fully aware that the right setup can be really difficult and sometimes expensive. Looking back though, I personally feel that your very first stream with a single camera shot was more interesting than your current setup, that feels overproduced in some areas and underproduced in the most important areas.

Please ignore me if none of this is helpful to you, I only mention all this because I really want to see you succeed to the degree that I feel you deserve. Keep up the good work, and thanks for making content about TI. Love and kisses

👍︎︎ 4 👤︎︎ u/SwordMaidenDK 📅︎︎ Aug 01 2019 🗫︎ replies

Finally got around to watching this. This format--edited video with commentary--is the best I've seen so far for covering a TI game. I'd love to see more of this kind of content in the future.

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/setzer529 📅︎︎ Aug 13 2019 🗫︎ replies
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welcome to our Gen Con footage of the jet Con tournament this was in August right August of 2018 yeah and then me and Matt are just sitting here and we're gonna just kind of record a DVD style commentary track - this is kind of the best way we could figure out - to give you the game to deliver it what you're seeing right now is just kind of they're like us really just getting started go over kind of all the rules set up the date they did I just compared to our like patreon tournament this is by the book this is 100 percent as written everybody's already got their faction and their color assigned to it so they just straight-up picked the fact yeah they just picked it I think they did pick them in order I think they rolled dice but speaker got to pick first so speaker has been doing everything first all the way around and now they are just placing tiles per the standard rulebook competitive build this is at Lucas Oil Stadium where where the Colts run where the Colts play where the ending at Indianapolis Colts play football we've played plastic and cardboard may come ups pretend to be space people yeah they play football which is that's a big one we weren't the only people planes some fake um ups in this here stadium writing this day right a lot of people were playing making ups it was and forgive the term a lot of nerds yeah I love this what what purple just did there throwing barrage and letter for down right in for another like it was like the first opportunity that they had to throw down like a Home Slice spot and they just went right for barring alerta' for right there at the yeah and they also got to lead with checker on tour can right next to mecca at all which is I mean that's three hazardous already yeah no loose slice and and not a bad like spread of numbers now I will say the direction of the text being all different right now I remember it then and I remember it now gives me a little bit of a panic attack yeah I'm freaking out but uh so purple is played by the knowledge or is the not Luke collective very very good player they're they're all great by the way they all had to win a game on their round yeah um yellow is the barony of Latin EV not my favorite color choice for our berry that's what they went with and that's fine green is playing us the clan of Tsar in the prelims this was one of our favorite players oh this was this was our favorite the this game he had in his prelim game was like oh man really was that he's in the running for for taking the whole thing same goes for our black player the L ones thank you sorry I was looking at all yeah why Claire how was it we have a blue soul which early on I'm from being like Woody's competitive competitive side there's the first block right there and I see an empty space getting thrown right in front of them just to keep them from having the highway to Mecca tall and in red is the Hakan so that that rounds out our six players we're seeing another block for barony get in the asteroid field right in front of their home system all the players who opted to not get good stuff right in front of them are getting punished for it right away right and competitive style you really got to throw that best that best space down the second you get access to the ring yeah in front of you you really really do and I will say I feel like a very much affected soul not to not to give too much away but this this is a very painful thing to do to federation of so who do you remember who you felt strongest about going into this game if you had to tip it to say who who you were like oh I think I think they so really have it our SAR player played a star in his first game too right yeah well actually a lot of them played a lot of them played the same factions but the star player I remember every time I got to look over he was doing crazy stuff and then what you talked about in his game and the fact that he was picking SAR again and he got decent planets right in front of him I mean there's still more to have happen but I just remember at the start of the game thinking SAR has this in the bag there he's just he's already proven to do really well with SAR and he's got a great slice to do more with sorry yeah the green star player was very I would say there was some anticipation for for their game black-black Lisak was kind of the same way because their game was super buck wild they they actually played in the game against our frequent frequent listener and space kitty Jimbo V yeah and like Jim Bob was running away with it until this blacklist explained right and just did some damage it was pretty nice I feel like this this map ended up being it's really kind of all over the place like it's kind it's kind of messy in a lot of ways I like that mech at all did not end up becoming a graveyard but it just it did clearly favor some some factions had clearly better slices in particular I would say greens green stars slice was it was good enough to where I just wrote in my notes that day Green has a crazy grid slide yeah and especially for star you like he's got what five planets five planets adjacent and then another one equi distant and a pathway into Berenice it's like a clear path to just swallow up there any now bare knees a tough one to do that against it's it's convenient that it's barony and not someone like with a weaker start barony can kind of keep up economically with SAR in the beginning so that was that's a little bit of a fear but i think generally speaking SAR has a really clear avenue to where if they decided to just swallow barony up they could push and maybe make that happen yeah i would say in general though it feels like a majority of the high-value systems are between purple and red slices right which is kind of kind of rough for everybody else of black in general if it looks like blacks doing okay but if you take a good look at black slice it is not great I remember noticing that at the time so I would say what would you say came out the best in this competitive well I remember liking the pecan placed the supernova like next to themself clearly setting up for a defensive position and they got Aaron M Mir I liked pecans Matt build for what Hakan specifically needs putting a wall between them and someone else getting influenced so that they won't run out of that and then being able to set up there's a lot of wealth between them and their other neighbor so if a con wants to treat them kindly and make deals and have them be their main trading partner there's actually some good reason for that to happen because there's a lot of room for that to go down the first two objectives are spend three command counters and three text specialty planets and I remember being really bummed at about the three command counter one because it always makes for a slow round one yeah that's slower it's a bummer when that comes out early I don't mom I don't hate that objective I know some people really don't like that one but for it to come out round one from a game that we are like so hotly anticipating it was a little like I hope this doesn't end up being a really slow slog which it is not overall know that yeah so we're starting to pick strategy cards now and SAR as the speaker which is the worst thing in the world for this table this the other reason SAR is an amazing position starting out SAR gets warfare with their good system start I mean that there's a lot that SAR can do now he's got a few options there's the spread super thin and just get every single planet imaginable or there's the like go straight gung ho for Mecca tall Rex or there's the ghost straight gung-ho into your neighbor right yeah I mean what he he ends up picking warfare is what he goes with and then yeah there's this really great moment here where l1 is like wanting to take tech you can literally see him right now being like I want to take tech but the victory point for yep he's looking he's checking the VP right now he doesn't have the influence is the problem his slice does not have enough influence for him to be able to accomplish that VP kind of ever I mean like it's gonna always be command counter storms this sucks it's this moment is so rough because already he's having to make like a super difficult choice and he wants to just take tech and play and play a fun l1 and he ends up taking leadership which it just it's it's a smart decision said but and then and then toss down Hakan does something really funny we I'm not seeing it just yet but akan takes construction round one which I'm actually starting to see a lot more of right lately in general but a consequence of that is I just I just feel like it helps it helps solve your problems but I almost thought that at this point in the game politics would have maybe been a better pi think so and letting Nalu get politics was was a little bit yeah cuz like like it I don't know yeah I mean you'll see how kind of how the game having as the game shakes out but the speaker token movement does get kind of just kind of travel along a very specific quadrant and sometimes doesn't really really go as far as you would like or just like we felt like we weren't seeing a lot of movement of it yeah and here's our first action of the game we see Nalu obviously taking burglar 2 for this first round is gonna be a lot of just expanding everyone taking the most obvious planets in their slice yeah l1 is kind of already if you kind of look at his body language he's already realizing like that he's got kind of a tough slice well just kind of a bummer for me because I really you know I I was a big fan of El ones play style look at the way he talks whatever air they go band so we've seen two players opt to not go towards the center Baron he doesn't have a choice but a con went for AB is free instead of Aaron named Mir first I think their goal was to start setting up trade relationships with Nalu right away this player played John are in his first game and was super diplomatic in that game and I went into this one expecting him to be just as diplomatic he does some really smart diplomacy even in yeah around we will we will see some of that coming up I was excited for barony round one trade barony was last to pick and still got stuck with trade which I thought was like a really a lot of money won for them we're being last right like for being last and then getting to go likely second yeah and that's not you know I don't want to give it away by but in his head right now you've got to be thinking like oh this is not a bad start for me at all so look that's about a full round of just basic expansion who do you think has the worst slice hole is exposure l1 Z 1 slice it I mean Baron ease is annoying Baron ease is super annoying but he's barony so I'm kind of like in that situation I think he'll be ok yeah but yeah I mean that it's a pretty awful funnel on Barney's right side having to go between a gravity rift and an asteroid field to only have two blank spaces on the way yeah like you've got wormhole sitting there and then on your leftists are so that's really really tricky but I do think l1 slices even more just barren of anything I mean there's he's got four planets to his name oh so this is what I wanted to call out so Hakan does some great negotiating for the speaker token and gets it and the way he bargains for it is really interesting is basically just him being like I'm just gonna take a I think he just says he's gonna take him jack he once speaker so that he can definitely get construction and knowledge like well that doesn't I definitely don't want construction so I'm cool with that I remember since like I I had actually never seen someone bargain for speaker token that simply I think in our group we see a lot of like people come in and really hot and heavy yeah for the speaker token but his his play was so simple that I was just like oh this is like this is genius yeah and the other part of that offer I think was just them being trade partners was just like keep let's keep the peace you let me get speaker I'll take construction construction isn't offensive towards you so let's just let's keep this easy and breezy right there's a really good quote at when when that when that moment happens that we probably don't really have so I'll just tell you he says we he says Sonali whenever they negotiate this speaker token trade he goes we can have a friendly game I remember just been like wow okay here we go here we go but I do think some early construction pick in Hakan like at the time I actually didn't know what he was doing and I didn't really love this but now I've kind of come around on it I think it's actually sort of buying his stuff right right it's all about just like I'm not gonna be an enemy I'm gonna stockpile my money until I can strike out with everything all at once and I think I think what it can cause I'm not I'm not sure that's how it plays out today but but what it can cause to happen is for Hakan not to get that super early lead with trade goods and so they can still do some trading in the middle if they decide to take trade later right so we see sorry valve with their Tsar ball and he's clearly now he hasn't warfare to anything yet but he's his options for how to like do the crazy wide split are quickly getting limited into the number of spaces he driving he's trying to play off of construction secondary which i think is going to work out for me yeah yeah I I wanted to say back when we were talking about slices I actually think the worst slice is souls oh and it's true because soul really is is hurt by this a lot and yeah specifically soul needs a highway to somewhere and he's got I mean look at that wall yeah the nebula supernova so that supernova was able to get played by Hakan because it was the last tile left and that means like Hakan is a hundred percent protected from soul there's just like nothing soul can do about it right so souls on the other direction is liz --ax which Linux also has a bad slice so souls options for the type of game soul wants to have have been drastically like completely cut off and look at what the the already you can just kind of see l1 and soul are like they they kind of their body language is a little more like us this is rap because they're not they're not having a great start they don't have they don't have great slices out this is a construction time which is just perfectly time for Italy you can even see him taking his secondary writer just like yep here we go um what did he get he gets a PDA two PS outward systems yeah which is interesting I thought for sure also when he - I wrote it down right here no no space talk I thought he was going yeah more production in his home sauna biz but the thing is he knows he's gonna get it next round so right maybe maybe that's maybe it settle the defenses first and then let's start we got to just got to have the run of throwing his their anger but this is where I think it's strange cuz he puts his space stock in his second set he doesn't put a space luck on the same system as his other space stock which if he did he would be able to unlock it and have a space stock to go one direction a space doc to go to a second direction and a carrier to go a third direction I just don't think he needs to go that many direct no he doesn't have enough planets near him to really I think that's where he makes that choice is to just you know what I'm not actually gonna go that many directions yeah and it's wise to have a space doc there adjacent to barony cuz that's probably gonna pop off I think I want to say that trade that was funny to me Barry I'm sorry like like barony refreshes a lot of players for basically no reason which is refreshed everybody he refreshed everything refreshes every player which maybe maybe going into this high of a game he's maybe just thinking like I just want maybe some goodwill so the mid game might smooth we're already seeing also a ceasefire getting give bare knees handing a ceasefire to SAR and I think SAR is doing the same it's a ceasefire trade and a to trade good trade do we know that do we know that it was trading cease fires I'm fairly certain it was ceasefires I think it was a ceasefire for a ceasefire and to trade goods for to trade goods yeah and then here goes the warfare poll for that outward most system first SAR what one thing that I think is really interesting is that I would say the two richest factions in this game purple and red slice wise and just like well mostly license yeah potential wise they stayed very cozy yeah Hakan did not trade with soul hook on very much blocked soul out of this soul at one point tries to get a three for three with a con and a conscious straight-up denies it one thing I don't want to do too much rethinking for these players but one thing I think maybe should have happened really early was a soul l1 like complete complete like we're just cool and we're gonna help each other either of us aboard yeah yeah yeah I agree almost even support trades I don't know what I mean of it look at how crazy this this purple red area looks it's almost it is almost a perfect triangle of all planets between them there's only one space in the entire triangle that from their home systems to Mecca tall to the other ones home systems there's only one system that doesn't have a planet which it's smart that Hakan is investing so early than in PDS to just be like listen like I'm gonna be a difficult target you're gonna want to just let me have this stuff that I have and leave me alone based like ya know I think this is it this is where they their blues trying to bargain with the con blues basically like hey let's let's let's do some trig because you're trading I don't know why blue isn't just cozying up to l1 it probably is because l1 only has to make sure his money's worth he's trying to get his money's worth which is rough and then there you go see that it's denied it does not it does not end up happening what Chacon is just I think really smart like Mehta wise is just kind of like well like I don't know I've no reason to be your friend and as long as I don't help you you're probably gonna have a really rough game so so we've seen Tech pop now and where everyone's getting their tick we see soul get gravity Drive which is huge hustle yeah l1 gets our wing tool surrogates are weaned tools so some kind of just basic economic stuff Lisak Skanda hinting it maybe going down a yellow path for inheritance systems I don't know if we see that pan out but that's kind of the first move for them yeah yeah I mean I I really cuz this was more when the l1 episode was pretty fresh on my mind and I was really excited to see somebody going for inheritance systems after all that guff I got after the sole move Nalu and l1 have both already passed they are they are done for the round which l1 and left themselves to be able to get the point and they are the they are the only ones so far with enough command counters to get that point right well no none of the other ones are going for it but what but what's a such a bummer is to this early not getting to invest in the in the future rounds and basically l1 just being like I just gotta flip this strategy card so I can get the VP and that's basically yeah I mean they haven't even yeah he doesn't really have a plan going forward at all right he got his one point and it's kind of hard to deal with the lack of plastic that he has compared to I mean it's basically like blue and black just look really meagre and then yellows really filled out Purple's really feel about purple hasn't even fully expanded yet I don't even remember I don't remember why that's the case but maybe maybe it was a timing issue oh I remember Nalu had to activate their home system to build yeah so he's locked down anyways and so there we just saw this is an interesting play to me Baron he moves a huge flee into the asteroid field just like no other option if he's gonna go for a mech at all or anything he thought he just knows he's got to get the fleet out there so he just parks it in the asteroid field even though that even that asteroid field is mostly surrounded by junk yeah I I'm gonna because of all of the skilled retreat hijinks that we've been seeing lately what Ferren I didn't notice this at the time but now I feel like when I see this I'm like uh-uh no no no no with the bullet I would have been really concerned that Green was going to skilled retreat into the home system right right so this is sort aching the equi distant playing it is the first kind of what I would call aggressive move from really anyone on the table take taking it's just a small it's what tar man or something or thibaux but the only equities that moves so far yeah I mean it contrasted with like Nalu that like really very very slow opening from knowledge yeah I actually think it's kind of interesting the way Nalu is kind of like I'm gonna hang back I've got I've got beragon Letta for for next round that's gonna be enough to stay competitive with a lot of these people's slices yeah and I'm not gonna over expand I'm gonna keep my stuff really focused how you just saw an action card played by Sol that was a war effort to place one Cruiser in an in a system so that's just a little small thing for for Sol and then this is SAR expanding to the last possible planet he can expand to so sorry I've got every plane that he needed to get God every this this is more of the oh man we're gonna watch this SAR run away with this that's what was going on in my mind for sure what I really what I really liked about the way that he played at the his first round is that is that his space docks are poised on either side so he is currently a little bit threatening to l1 or barony they both kind of are looking at him like what is about to happen I honestly think l1 is probably the better target at this point like if I was playing a Tsar I would be like oh I know so much previs dating right for l1 right barony you're gonna have to fight and fight and fight and it may never work out and he's so he's building right now and he kind of doubles down a little bit on I'm because he's got he's now got a bigger fleet on that side yeah and in addition to souls war effort he builds two cruisers right now in his home system as his final action yeah round one what do we think in general kind of kind of books there's some there's some traditional obvious stuff that does not happen the way you just normally see I feel like hakan's play was really interesting this round I feel like nalu's play was really interesting there's a lot of kind of weird choices you don't see a lot sorry I feel like had a great opening a kind of typical opening of likes argot warfare yeah and super expanded already things seemed a little bit bleak for l1 and Seoul it's funny that it things are bleak for l1 cuz here's l1 scoring the only point for the round right that was taking a little bit but proof is an added cost yeah at a cost and the new objective that gets revealed spend five trade goods spent five trade goods the other thing to note I think like you were saying strange plays I mean we just saw sold do like a basic expansion he didn't really gun for anything he built a bunch of cruisers mmm-hmm which i think is kind of strange we're soul yeah oh and a summit coming out first opportunity very cool so so Hakan did stay true to their word yep their diplomatic relationship between red and purple is very like it's very good it's it's really the kind of that classic type of Twilight Imperium game where it's like these two are hard being playing very nice it's very helpful to the two purple and yellow are kind of like their diplomatic relationship kind of goes a little more rocky but they also have this really awkward border of all empties in a gravity river we see Nalu take warfare which is huge for them having a really slow around one clearly they're investing their time in making up for lost time in round one to do some working around to oh and there's something that happens and this strategy face that made me so livid and I'm still upset about it and I wonder if you can catch actually I wonder if you see what what makes me so mad that is about to happen so weird the Chitti weird Imperial came out no no the traitor a good VP and he could have taken trade and nobody know I'm not necessarily putting that on sold he's he's definitely looking at that being like I gotta make a crazy play I've got a horrible start but the fact that none of them picks trade Yeah right after trade goods comes in yeah so I mean at that point I remember being like I mean I wrote it in big big letters trade not Pig so I don't know I mean I guess I guess they're all looking at the Doritos one they're just like we're gonna have Doritos one the sorry I'm using old some old silly parlance but the command counter one and being like I guess we're gonna do that so we're just gonna have a slow game regardless and we see Nalu move out with warfare adjacent to Mecca tall Rex so Nalu in a position to potentially take it mechatronics this round not only doesn't have the influence though I don't think maybe I'm wrong actually I might be wrong about Thank You Ross because they've got bear glare before they'd be spending a lot of they be spending a lot of money enough to take it well how much influence is very little for work that was only worth like two or one we cease our pop leadership right away already command counter star I've got to fix that I'm not sure where Tsar goes from here I don't know what's going through his head but like he's got everything he needs to get so now it's like time to make some play I mean sorry is already in position where it's like you got to do something you can't just sit so I I remember being a bit nervous well Tsar had lowered their fleet pool gets it back up to three right here so there's some sort of some sort of bargain going on right now what is this l1 is messing with the speaker he was kind of offering some speaker token stuff but he decides to keep it and then sorry sorry sorry try and buy speaker from him yeah right now which I'm telling you that was like the theme in this game was there was more speaker bargaining yeah this is more than what was crazy what we saw before was l1 offering it to Seoul l1 was saying what deed how much is this worth to you but of course it's not worth enough for what l1 needs to get in return I don't think well one was trying to get a support for the three yeah I think he was because he's he can he really tell that he knows he's in trouble yeah so so yeah SAR SAR does not end up bargaining for that speaker token now gonna have to pick last the conscious does some moving out pushes into our nm here just reinforcing a slice again makan not doing anything threatening to really anyone but just building up for a strong mid to late game on prep work yeah all prep work but they don't have the things the thing that's frustrating is as far as I can tell oh well they do they do have enough enough Doritos to to accomplish yeah an errand a mere helps them score two more that's yeah so here's tech from the barony player Barney does double tech they gets our wean tools and gravity drive which puts them in position to also take Mecca tall Rex right L one has a yellow skip and guess what inheritance systems round two out of the Lisak school and soul get scary or to the con gets plasma scoring to bust boost these these doubling down on the PDS now Lou gets anti-mass deflectors now in range for fight or two and SAR skips to space talk to with his yellow skip a big tech round this is a huge tech round I remember the next time I played hit con after after watching this guy I was like I'm gonna do PBS icon and it didn't work out that well for me it worked out a lot better for him in this game but it was not so good for me it's just a bad tech path that's a problem yeah so at this point it looks like purple is gonna warfare to Mecca tall but who I mean I wish I remember at the time Farah is also in ranged with gravity drive from the asteroid field Oh true true but those are the only two that are really in Rea that really have a show your soul moving next door but with no warfare there's not really any other options unless we see an unexpected sub um er is that they had just bought carrier two and what gravity drive could have gotten those dude oh you're not you're right I think they didn't have the influence oh oh yeah they spent a lot to get the text so they have nothing left and they have such a bad slice there wasn't enough influence see that right there is just like that's a bad slice right there because if soul could have got in underneath out this would have been a completely different game completely different and Nalu just does the warfare pulls that token adjacent to Mecca thar X so we're even closer to seeing what's gonna happen near Mecca tal I mean spoilers I think Purple's got this but barony maybe could oppose but probably can't get enough they're really Knollys got a pretty sizable fleet right there and it is knowledge so even if for some reason they you know aren't gonna win then they'll probably just retreat you know I just realized for l1 I feel like the plan from here could be since they have inheritance systems they could potentially grab tech and research to unit upgrades with is correct you exhaust I ask totally you can only use it once but let's see what they've got they have to yellow so they could get space talk to and anything else they want to get I want to point out how scary barony slice is looking he just built another dreadnought in to more ground forces in his home system he I mean he looks he's sitting pretty I think it's something that an advantage that barony has that doesn't get brought up a lot because of our cooperative build but in a competitive map build the fact that your home system is so great is more important yeah absolutely their your ion yeah okay here we go this fight first blood right here SAR is invading the l1 Z 1 X adjacent to their home system it's a destroyer and three fighters versus a dread in the space combat looks like they're trying to kind of make a deal over like what is gonna happen with it mm-hmm what is he trying to get at this point I'm not really sure so this this is this is rough this is an l1 dreadnought basically caught unawares yeah with no however I will point out this SAR has not left a way for himself to retreat right so fan I believe that l1 fleet in the home system is unactivated because I believe they were made off of the second area of warfare yeah so here we go first fight and l1 did declare a retreat so they're gonna roll one round of combat but if if he survives the dreadnought will escape one hit looks like it's gonna leave one of them 1x a fighter with him we don't see a direct hit know about it and he heads not home of course he heads to the right place yes and leaves the ground forces behind to defend yeah so it looks like saris just going for one of those planets Wow and wins the to be won and of course the scariest part of this is that the space lock is there so sorry is now gonna build adjacent to Ellen's home system which is not great all he has to do is build a fleet I would say evenly matched with the fleet in Ellen's home system and that might be enough to be like well and l1 Stern is immediately next mm-hmm so we see a carrier two fighters and two ground forces come out for SAR so clearly reinforcing the planet not much el one's gonna be able to do on that front but just a carrier in two fighters in space might be enough for l1 to attack back yeah it'll be a close call I suspect that l1 doesn't have the hits for it can't just can't doesn't have enough fat damage they can take that's funny SAR asking how many action cards l1 has so what's about to happen has a lot to do with those action cards so Allen ones turn is up he's he's just been gutted he needs to do something and he needs to do something big he can either push with everything in this big fleet but instead he activates adjacent to make two stars home system and his scarcely defended fleet plays a flank speed but just as luck would have it czars got the sabotage with her that's a costly sabotage costly but completely negates Lisak PSA's options to do anything he can anything such a rough game so l1 just burned a command counter for effectively nothing clearly disappointed - that's a rough go that's that's yeah the odds that SAR would have already drawn sabotage and the con place construction and of course sar is gonna take advantage of that and so is Seoul we see the third space stock come out for SAR kind of a naked SAR dock sitting out there a little bit a little bit dangerous but not really bunny in striking distance so not not the irony would have to silence a space right of it it is safe for now but we'll see so I don't get when when barony does this actually don't get why I don't get why Baron II did not run I mean they maybe they didn't have the influence to take MEC tall Rex no I don't think they do because they spent I mean they they did buy to tech earlier and they built that dreadnought this round I believe so they've amassed is this huge right right by man what what Barney is saying is I'm not taking mech at all first but I'm telling you I'll take it second that's the way I look at this is he saying ya know who's gonna get the the custodian point but I'm gonna take and keep mega tall Rex later on so it's kind of frightening how open he has left his home system at this point it's true that's a big gap but the other thing is that that fleet is I mean that's the biggest fleet basically on the board right now because that barony fillet yeah that's two dreadknot three dreadknots a carrier and a destroyer that's so soul plays imperial claims three command counters objective and we see a bunch of secret objectives get handed out I am confused about why they took Imperial because they don't have they don't have us they don't they're not gonna be able to use it they would have gotten to claim that public objective anyways maybe they just want the free secret maybe that maybe smart and here there's no ego with a personal take mix mix wrecks right now spend too much planet and he spends one trade good to take it that's how he pays for it yeah at this point it's looking like there's gonna be some issues between yellow and purple yeah especially with just how undefended purple is right now with that loan Spacedock that juicy Spacedock just right there the barony has already committed their forces all right they're locked down for this round you just couldn't get enough there he could only get one dreadknight and that would have made a difference so sartet 'kx an interesting move to bring a bunch of stuff over to kind of start backing up this fight against l1 partly just to you know gum up those works a little bit but also there for some retreat possibilities giving them somewhere to go to also it's an asteroid field so if he parks here he's safe I mean that he doesn't have chaos mapping yet but he's not far from getting it right and once once he has that it'll be you know it could be basically lights-out for l1 with with a fleet like that sitting right next to your home yeah yeah well this this game was never was never el ones game just always look bad for them barony fleet is really scary right now Nalu has mecha tall Rex but I would not say that fleet looks like no I mean that Baron a fleet will will certainly crush it and with three bombardment even the two ground forces on the planet or not enough pretty much damned feel like Hakan is now kind of seeing kind of eyeing the territory being like well purple has expanded all the way to Mecca tall regs I can probably push this a little bit farther I feel like purple finally expanding filling out the rest of their slice they seem like they have not built enough compared to these other factions which is crazy it's crazy house how thin they are spread currently everyone else has focused less on victory points and more on establishing a footprint and Nalu seems to be the only one who's like trying to set themselves up for for victory points but uh I don't know it's it's led them to be very very stressed and I mean look at that if if barony had there was an opening there I'm actually not sure the barony had a turn so I don't want to be certain but there was a point that well Baron he asked yeah Baron he passed I said yeah that barony I mean that very very carrier could have gravity riff didn't landed there or with gravity drive gone to the other space dog mm-hmm they could have done some damage yeah there was there was a moment there where Nalu was very very open you know hindsight's 20/20 we're not trying to do too much double thinking for these guys they were playing an actual game and we are not we are just sitting cozy looking at it afterwards so star claims points first they actually have free space docks on the board secret objective which is a hugely lucky pull force are yeah so another reason to just think oh my gosh sar has this in the bag yeah I mean everything's going right for stars Oh stars playing a great game but you're like there are some known issues already there's the barony flee mm what is going to happen with that it doesn't look like star currently has an answer to that fleet really on any level sorry is committed I think possibly a little too early to attacking a neighbor so there seems to be I feel like even at this point there was a little bit of risk in my head for SAR yeah l1 not looking great not a lot of scoring background we see SAR at two points Nalu Sol and l1 at one point and Hakan Ambani are scoreless yeah yeah and the only the only points scored in that are the only points scored in that round was all by Green just the two points they took and so they're all refreshing their stuff but we will be going to our first agenda phase around to agenda phase yes sar does a lot of all over the table negotiations some of them fail some of them succeed it was actually legitimately hard to keep track of how much negotiating who was trying to do I don't even remember what this is for he's bargaining something I think mostly what stars doing here is just coming to market he's got an action card he's got a promissory note he's willing to sell he really just wants to know what Hakan has there across the board from each other so there I think he's just trying to see if they can establish some sort of trading relationship based on action cards that he needs to make big plays I think this is really smart because like we were just saying if things look a little perilous for a little dangerous force are going into round three he has angered both of his if both of his neighbors seem kind of poised to strike so it is really smart for him to go all the way across the table and be like well hey what's up with you can we can we talk here yeah we're about to do this first agenda the gender phase first agenda is swords to plowshares this is the one where if you do the four everyone loses ground forces on a planet but you gain trade goods equal to the number of ground forces lost so you you actually make money back but the alternative is to gain a ground force on like every plane that you control it's basically a rise of the Messiah right which force are against would be huge Zara's stretched all over the place and if he could get a bunch of ground forces down on all those planets he's very reinforced right so I think green and red negotiated something already and we're gonna see their negotiation come from purple says something really funny coming up here where he goes I'm trying to get bribed he says once are says he could go either way which is valid in that that's how this one always goes it's like man I could just make a bunch of money right you know to to ground forces to to trade goods is not the worst thing in the world but for a stretched thin as is I know I certainly would I think it's just hard to know yes it's I think there is an answer it's just hard to know for sure what is the right right way to get on this one most of time I think honestly Nalu probably does not want this it's funny that not like purple is the one that says that they're trying to be bribed because honestly I would hate to lose my infantry on metal Rex right now are ya lose even a single one I think would be strategically right not great but not only might not be thinking that they're gonna get to keep McTell anyways also we missed the the new BP which would spend an influence which is obviously gonna be super easy for purple to accomplish so purple does a really good job of like working this agenda and getting something out of it there it is right there I'm trying to be bribed so Sorrows up his faction promissory note for Berenice votes but barony doesn't look especially interested in it you know it's kind of a it's always kind of a weird one that one thinks ours should have bargained a little more intensely I think I think SAR should have recognized that purple was the one to bargain with but at the end of the day he did already say as well that he's not that interested in it and what is warranted we go Saur Saur in Hakan trade support for the friends which is what they were talking about earlier actually SAR gives up a trade agreement and the con gives up the support for the throw so only SAR goes up a point oh wow oh so that's what it was as SAR had already promised their trade agreement to Hakan interesting and this agenda goes four which means people are gonna lose ground forces but gain a good amount of trading yeah whoo yeah it's that's a pretty brutal first one I feel like I've seen that one come up first like several times and every time it's like yeah I think you lose more by losing the infantry frankly I mean I think it's good to get a lot of money but that money takes time to turn it back into infantry that you had spread out yeah I mean this hurts our the most but this hurt everybody a little bit including purple including Nala and the beautiful irony is that our second agenda is economic equality isn't awful that this everyone will lose their trade goods and either be set at five or lose all their trade goods altogether which means all the trade goods everybody just gained are completely meaningless so this is a horrible agenda face force our basic mm-hmm it's very very lost a lot so at first they're all kind of assuming that it's gonna go for which is essentially gonna guarantee everyone a VP at this point I was kind of like well this game's kind of been moving a little slow maybe they up maybe they will go for that maybe they will be like let's let's move it along a little so stars trying to bribe the veto but he's the only one that has anything to gain by vetoing it so essentially this is that this the best type of agenda we're really only two people need to agree but they do need to agree yeah and I think this this one too is where czars gonna get in trouble because of voting order soul has been kind of adamantly just like wanting soul wants to vote against they've got eight votes and they want to get paid not to vote against now the problem is they're like the first person to vote and it's always hard to pay the first person that you're trying to bribe right because you don't want to pay somebody and then saris more worried about Nalu and barony paying them off to get their votes so it kind of has to let the sole votes happen and hope for more luck later down the road sar is having so much trouble negotiating with nalu's in general Nalu is very very friendly with barony and Conwell definitely a con bare knee a little less oh but but yes art SAR is kind of falling victim I feel like to that early lead kind of leader bashing stuff that people like that it's kind of common with SAR there's a lot of meta against him right now lots he's also the only one that's that's really attacked anyone else right so Hakan did eight against null who's kind of already decided it's over folks ten against and it's it's over it is done so sorry losses all big basically all of their infantry and then has to give up all of the trade goods late so their trade good lead that they got what a horrible one-two punch for so yep pretty pretty rough pretty rough worth it pretty rough for them again if SAR had pushed more I think gaining the ground forces would have been a better play anyways I think so tin I think it might no way of knowing right no there's no way you know ii know Jenna's gonna come out that way but no one takes a trade no one takes trade going after that five points another situation where it's kind of the only thing he can do rain he can hope to trade with this is ice are or soul this is like just like that situation in round one where he's literally taking a strategy card just to do a VP right that's it that'll be his only action this turn basically if he can you know his other actually be just trying to get some ground back okay so it's soul that take stack yeah so now we've been we've got this situation where Holly was about to get Imperial yeah and it gets missed yeah a context leadership and although just easily interested takes Imperial obviously just a bummer yeah nobody vocalizing that enough to push against it yeah and what so we've got barony with warfare warfare and of course star is I'll just get in split before you stars gonna take politics right choice but yeah the so so wild what's disgusting about this too is its Nalu it's not loose so there's nothing there man and right now he's doing Imperial and he's getting the points he's done that's it he spends eight influence so purple is now at three he gets a mecha top point yeah means of the community into the pack basically but I mean this isn't looking great this is looking like they're not going to get to keep I mean I could maybe see them making argument like if we're gonna let him get in fits now we let him get right and then we never let it happen again right because I think at this point my prediction would have been like well barony is about to crush him I remember being really interested to see what Hakan was going to do this game this round with with leadership they were gonna they were about to be able to get so far ahead and command counters rights and enterin em near no need to go for Mecca tall so much potential in that and you go ahead and finally takes basically the only other equity stand planet in the game right load or so Hakan finally taking a little bit of aggressive action towards knowledge now I don't doubt that there's probably a deal I've been been a handshake deal between them it looks like they're literally exchanging right now they're exchanging something I bet it ceasefire probably ceasefires I think they're both players that are interested in just letting I mean basically this protects Nalu on Mecca tal wrecks it's like yeah okay you take load or you get that three one this does two things a it protects me from that alpha wormhole because anybody has to go through you that's to get to my stuff and be I was having the ceasefires means you're not gonna be one of the people I have to worry about right neck at all or taking anything from me behind my mech at all so I think this is a great give by Nala saying no you know what I don't care about that equities I'm playing it I don't need to be that aggressive I've already done my aggressive play let's make a partner in crime yep now who is so good at like being really friendly to the factions that they need to be friendly to and with the people that that they don't need that they're just like whatever okay like they they play hardball when it suits them it's great so here we go what is about it what is actually going to happen with this sorrowful eat yes basically three options it can jump on the home system where there's only one dreadknot and two fighters and it could just ruin absolutely crush Liz --ax basically knock them out of the game but they'd be doing it with carrier five fighters in a destroyer which is is enough I mean six fighters that's that's plenty but what does that get them I don't know the other option is to takes out or and crush elizacass other main fleet and continue taking planets and the third option is to take VESA too and just kind of get ready to make some plays on Mecca Tom yeah I think I think that agenda phase was so devastating for SAR that they're just in a completely different place now so whatever they whatever plan SAR had before this was not the imagined situation right so now there's lots of and I think he's made a deal with Lisak sexually I think blizik is so desperate to just get territory back that SAR decides to push away from l1 take metha too so clearly a deal has been struck between the two of them SAR trying to be a little bit kind to l1 mostly because SAR himself has to tuck us tail between his legs and he's he's in danger of losing a lot of stuff a lot of a territory he spent time claiming barony could easily walk through and take a bunch of very wisely leaving that destroyer there to kind of ensure that there won't be any striking at his is actually yeah what's Aras set up really well here is a lot of retreat paths there is at least one ship in every single system that's our controls yeah we saw a lot of that in the in the first game that this player played in have just like very smart retreating and after taking bit foot two he builds another carrier two more ground forces and four more fighters so the fighter ball in this star ball is getting very huge yeah I think he's already up to ten fighters and he's mean he's recovering from that the the infantry problem but it's just all they're all in one place now which is I think kind of part of the eventual issue not that having one infantry on a planet is such a great defense that you can't stand to lose it but if I had gone for he could have had two right and that is a huge deal yes and if anything to it the more ground forces you have on SAR planets the more valuable that SAR promissory note becomes yeah it's kind of a good strategy to boost up the amount of ground forces you have on each planet because then people really don't want to fight through two or three ground forces you can offer that up and actually get some money for it yeah his faction promissory note is basically useless right now okay looks like l1 is trying to negotiate something with blue he offers Sol a trade agreement and he wants oh he's trying to get the the commodities that blue yes sitting there right he doesn't want Sol to waste commodities before trade gets played so he's saying give me that's do the trade agreement so you can do it then you'll refresh again and we'll do even more commodity trading this is really smart honestly this is more like what they should have been doing from the beginning right maximizing their money between each other between the two of them because they are just they're not living in the greatest so they go for he gives a trade good and his trade agreement for for commodities then flips trade so he nets seven trade goods immediately gets his trade agreement back and soul gets two three total trade gifts purple purple wants a free refresh I love I love Lisak PSA's why jest yeah but clearly Nalu has a plan here he wants the three fresh berry badly and he's got something he's trying to do with and it's not just one of those like I just want to be able to somewhere he has a plan he's a smart player and he's he is a negotiator sonal who does pay to refresh and is gonna do something with him which is a super interesting to me I mean you never see people pay to refresh the trade we are at that contentious point you know we're at that point where the players are looking at they're trying to possibly avoid all-out war yeah Marigny reveals to the table that they have each other ceasefires yeah barony tells them and soul souls a player who really tries to control the table the problem with this game is he was never in a position to do so but he tries to met at the table a lot and in this situation he's like telling barony you need to pop that ceasefire right now he basically constructs barony to pop the ceasefire yeah honestly I think this game would have looked a lot of different and flu if blue had had more of a fair slice of fair shake I think blue would have come off as a very different player yep whereas they're they're really fighting an uphill battle so much SAR hate though that like them they're the meta is just clearly against him after like such a devastating agenda phase 2 it just feels like it's starting to that point where the tables just kind of talking about SAR as if sorry is the big bad basically just sad because Nalu has just set themself up in such a great position right now knowledge now all's got a weaker home system but I mean if you look at technically what would be SARS home system its weak as well but nalu's not getting any heat and they have the same deal with their neighbor yeah there's a ceasefire trade between the two of them of offensive position they took Mecca tall but they're not the ones getting talked about because SAR is the one making attacks yeah it's that like classic like kind of shadow negotiation like type of play barony ups to build in his home system instead of popping a cease fire he built a carrier a cruiser to ground forces and two fighters he's clearly building that that is clearly the type of fleet you build if you're ready to expand into something else why cease basically just being like I'm gonna clean up that that's our sorry that's our business we're gonna go through that and it's fair stars a little bit thin here and with l1 having such a rough game barony is just kind of the overall best aggressor yeah and he's not really checked by anything not only was too slippery I think for barony to be like well like at this point Baron II could take Mecca tall but I'm not sure they see the point yeah and at this point with the assumption being that Sora is going to take a speaker token Nalu is gonna be picking second-to-last so hopefully they will get imperial blocked I don't remember how it turns out but hopefully they won't get that again there's lots and lots and lots of talking happening it this is Scholz turn and Seoul is looking to me so much posturing and maneuvering at this point Seoul ends up doing an orbital drop but in the meantime he makes a bunch of offers around the table I hate as a 2 for 2 trade good trade with Hakan just just some extra money but what's more important is he manages to pull off two rounds too late I would say l1 and soul trade support for the Thrones yeah so they both bump up the point but it's kind of at this point the damage has already been done to hell 1 so at this point l1 and Saul have traded supports and SAR and Hakam correct I believe so so now because of all the support for the throne trades Nalu and barony of the last two left so they're now negotiating how they're gonna go ahead and swap their cuz they just can't they can't be left out of these free points there's yeah yeah there's no point in not doing that at this point goddamn what a timely support trade for Nalu bout because now barony cannot brought him down on Mecca Tom I don't know if I would have taken a deal had I been I would have waited I think I would have been like no I'll take Mecca tall first no we could dream but I think going through his head he's like what you were saying before he's actually more concerned about just taking all those empty star planets at this point that's true I think he's decided the Mecca tall play isn't as good as the like a six - yeah yeah with purple support he's basically guaranteed to not be back door - mm-hm oh I see and he's leaving Megan all so they must have negotiated that out well he debates it here Baron he says he's concerned about Seoul taking Mecca tal Rex oh wow he convinced a deal yeah so because of the support for the throne train the two of them are kind of linked to each other and so they're starting to work together so and all it was just kind of letting barony dictate what he should do but it's in an effort to kind of keep the peace with barony in addition to the support for them now I would have been a little bit I would have grieved a little bit about that moment in general because that was kind of a lay it you play it blasphemy very sure but it's it smart what barony does there to to convince Nalu to basically stay two blocks all right because sold definitely would have gone in there and then that would have been basically really good at this point it's hard to tell who's gonna win out for mech at all yeah all right so some more trading happening Hakan bought a promissory note off of SAR Hakan just doing like the having the best type of like I'm friendly with everybody everybody needs to deal with me kind of like really fun game he's been like an open door to for people wanting to make offers he's always willing to hear an offer and that's good because it means people are never looking to attack him first it's always like well if he's gonna make me an offer let me just talk to him right and that's a great meta position to be in that's a great way to carry yourself as a player it's kind of been a weird round for SAR obviously oh so Sark um Zout with an action card reactor meltdown which is great that Tsar had it because the worst thing for a Tsar is to have a plate against you but they blow up the space stock that soul just recently put adjacent to Mecca tall Rex so further quashing Souls Mecca tall dreams SAR makes a pretty strong move against them yeah and it's just kind of the only target - because bare knees only space stock is in their home system so the only thing was purple and Red's space stocks outside of their home systems or blues other one and at this point I feel like star isn't necessarily trying to anger a purple or red right that's what blue just seems out also blue is kind of meted a lot against SAR right so I feel like that's a direct response from that just kind of a like hey leave me alone leave me alone this is kind of that round where like everybody is trying to still play nice but there is just not going to be possible ya base if they're against each other now they need to turn so here's Seoul again digging into Baron he's saying Bernie you're the one with the big fleet you have to do something about solar he's not even though he lost I mean probably he again in response to losing his space dog he's like especially worried about what's ours potential is and he's saying Bernie you have to attack him and pop that ceasefire because we need you to start doing some damage to him because he's gonna run away with it if you don't the barony does activate a space duck in a fighter of stars and Sarris to decide whether or not it's worth it's not a space stock it's a carrier and I say space I'm sorry yeah carrier fighter and Karrie fighter an infantry and they do all day a poppet they they're not they don't want to lose it right now so the ceasefire is gone from SAR just as Sol orchestrated all right so we are for sure going for tech it looks like Sol finishes out his uh his you know the perfect soul thing and he takes Jack Civ and infantry to barony gets dreadnought to a Colin finally gets PDS to which he's kind of been posturing for ball game SAR gets his chaos mapping so he's now protected in those asteroid fields and l1 jumps and grabs hypermetabolism because he's just been starved and he's again this is not a this is a good play from him but in a in a way that is sad to see it's a I have to do this I'm trying to catch up nada I'm getting ahead tight play but that's I mean at this point like black is not out you know no like that this the late game could shape up and be quite different and I feel like that's what he's playing for that's what he's hoping for as far as this is concerned so our nose they're gonna get attacked by a better fleet so sir might as well take the fight to them right and also get more opportunities to retreat very good sorry using chaos mapping house perhaps a destroyer oh very cool that is so good moves the fight away from the adjacent to to barony so he's forcing their need to come kind of further out of their shell than they want to come so good I even haven wrote down my note right here was just green doin chaos mapping right so he took it with a space stalker carrier one ground for some one fighter and he builds two more ground forces for more fighters and one cruiser so ends up having a pretty good fleet adjacent to Barney's home sister right right pretty pretty smart play from SAR mm-hmm considering that they are basically out outgunned I would say this kind of definitely was smart enough to even the odds there so l1 just plays an action card it's ghost ship he sets up a trade alliance with Nalu and barony he just pops a little destroyer over there in between them and says hey I just want to be peaceful here you leave it there no worries right what's there they have a support for the throne there's no reason for them to go into that dead zone anyways so so I feel like thus our play was so good that Baron he's literally like I'm not sure how I want to do this now yeah basically cuz now Baron II could yeah he's kind of counting it out right now deciding how many things he can get there what that means for the fight and if it's gonna be worth taking Quan I love that little tent yeah here we go it's really he's really thinking about it so he drops it in Quan and he's ready to bring the fight so what he does is he brings two Dreadnoks two fighters one carrier and two ground forces which honestly is not quite enough ground forces to take the ground combat he would need some some lucky bombardment for that to become a favorable invasion combat but he has enough to take out the space combat I think he's still close though even there I think barony does the right thing though overall which is being like alright well I still want to be able to warfare and you've made it where that I won't be able to do it to the maybe effectiveness that I wanted to but I'm still gonna take for my big fleet yeah and we're just gonna play along a different line there but so yeah really great play from both of them they're they're playing against each other very smartly and sard declares a retreat they've got an available system because they're a very smart soccer player he leaves a loose an opening for himself to get out of there but we got to do one round of combat and there's a lot of things a lot of dice that have to get rolled right looks like he's leaving three infantry element it does look like it that's what it looks like and we got oh I I forgot to mention there's a destroyer in this fight as well so there's gonna be something to fight abroad looks like he decides to not okay now he does oh thank you so he takes all three gives up Quan which he didn't have before so this this ended up being otherwise he would have likely lost two of his planets you know now he's losing one system basically right only one hit on star side we tap a dreadnought sar loses three fighters and retreats into rare on kasemir so sorry basekappag at this point but like you said not even in a way that actually counts as any losses right but besides the three fighters he lost the planet he never had in the first place he forced barony - oh I do think I'm messes up his fleet supply right here and he's gonna have to lose something else lots of anti sorry meta in general though the con builds at home and then we cease our poverty politics I believe right now SAR is maybe trying to bargain with barony to give barony the speaker token I feel like that basically breaks down to just like no pecan is just very set up but I'm not sure what where it goes what we're doing like what what's what's the next move i remember feeling that way when we were there just like why why is a con playing it so close to the chest so slowly just building up yeah l1 has to pass calling it early on this round just another sad kind of weird awkward round for l1 yeah very limited options really got messed up I cooked by the community counter economy it's just kind of the story here but l1 does have hypermetabolism now so hopefully that will be shifting barony pulls the token adjacent to saw our system so obviously telegraphing what's to come I can't believe that SAR was not able to bargain him to like stop for the speaker token or anything like that barony is just very much like I want the double I want a bigger slice on one a giant slice and what's interesting here is in all the moving around the Nalu is done they've left a system open and instead of leaving Mecca tall opening for Seoul Seoul decides to jump on the system that Nalu left open so kind of a yin and yang here for for nalu's decision-making I don't know what Seoul does from here this is stretched pretty thin for Seoul like he's surrounded by huge fleets so it's not like this is gonna last yeah like Nalu doesn't have a lot of bombardment right I think the likelihood I think what Seoul's thinking is like I got I just need more territory yeah no matter what that means if I got an orbital drop to keep those those planets they're probably figuring that they can maybe get away with it it looks like it's gonna be tough though cuz actually not only does have some dread-nots right there now it doesn't at them torque han which is a 0 3 so it could just also be an extra command counter for Seoul next round right and it's a it's their third cultural planet so maybe they're pushing for some look like that but I think this was a weak force to push this far oh yeah I'm nervous for Seoul I agree but worth noting that that chaos mapping from earlier leaves SAR another retreat available so it's SAR has an alt to keep just jumping away if they choose to use it so I really looked ahead and saw how this was gonna go down never great never never gonna be fun a barony just charging down on you like that and I really even at this point don't even see how house R is going to cut back for this but I also don't think that that stars goal anymore I think if I were sorry right now the goal would be to slip by to escape not necessarily to flashback mm-hmm I don't know why he's not taking the two ground forces why he would have any of them stand together that's three bombardment for bombardment with plasma scoring and three infantry there he might have a parlay that I don't remember so our does declare the retreat so he takes the two hits but the rest the two carriers will get away that's all but one of his fighters left so his huge fighter screen has been reduced by quite a lot just in all of these attacks that doesn't have a significantly and I think his fleet supply is about to become an issue again here comes the bombardment yeah just devastated him Marin he gets both planets and this is the first actual loss for SAR two planets down from where they were at the beginning of this round mm-hmm which could have been four could have been worse yeah Lee could have been four planets so I think I mean I think SAR just had a rough timing it was a barony with warfare what are you gonna do yeah that was kind of a very round three round three you know much so so we see some victory points come out here Nalu takes the three command counters for their fifth point a context the three command counts for their first point l10n expense five trade goods like we said that was kind of their only thing they were gonna do and that's their third victory point Seoul has the two faction tech secret objective so lucky lucky draw for Seoul and in addition to five trade goods they get up to three points so at the end of this status phase we're looking at Nalu at five solet for l1 and SAR at three Akana two and barony at one yeah so at this point I remember thinking why is everybody still having such a hard meta again sar because clearly clearly purple is the leader right and also like blue makes a lot out of their really bad yeah like start sitting okay despite having very little to work with mm-hmm that's sold for you I guess it's good faction it's a real good faction the final stage one objective I reckon not a monument spend eight resources fun fun fun so our first agenda up is minister of peace but of course sometimes kind of confusing one of someone gets to call off an attack from someone else Thanks right which Tsar had placed there right this is what's are put on top which I think was wise maybe possibly should slow down the aggression yeah and here's here's some confusing that the players discussing a block not giving his ruling it has to be two different players so the idea being that this doesn't really operate like a ceasefire done I've seen it go both ways I don't even know if I've seen an official ruling but the ruling at this table was you use it against two other players you broker a peace between two players I think this is another situation where I would like to see saw trying to muscle in a little I mean the last thing SAR wants is for their knee matter right they would rather have it to where someone can call off their knees aggression against him if you can give it to Nalu or let l10n excerpt maybe not l1 but but anyone else I think right is who start would rather have it no there's still that aggressive Metta against against our when I don't think he'll like overlays yeah and I think Starr is rolling over and do it too I think he should be pointing a finger more at Nalu I agree and getting some of the getting some of it off of his back and also just like from a standpoint of he's only at three points he doesn't have any sort of discernible lead he just has a big SAR pie slice that is already getting jumped on right I think he could I think the problem with our star player is he's very tactical and he's not being vocal on him not he's not much of a meta gamer as compared to like the sole player the sole player is almost the opposite you rarely see the sole player thinking he's talking through everything trying to like Vinay a lot of it he's above the table it is we it's so weird to me that they that they just gave mr. peace to barony yep and they pretty much right away say to minister exploration obviously can't be song which generally I agree with I mean to trade goods complain if they take a con argues that he's not planning on going anywhere so if you want to negate the power of minister of exploration he's a great choice it's very good argument which is also an interesting tell on his part of like what so then we have already said once what what is a con doing to win this game right but in his defense the objectives are spending main counters spend resources right and they are passive objectives there's not a single control objective oh yeah so he seems to be just reading the board and saying you know what I don't need to make any enemies and I can just sit here and hopefully said casually enough that I can kind of cruise to right there like at this point what we need to what what Hakan should do is take trade and make a lot of money well right before we get into what people are getting into arrangement like this is the time now to do that yeah this would be the perfect round for the trees right the current vote right now is Seoul has voted for barony ten votes the con has voted for himself eight votes and Nalu is trying to see if a con wants to have him swing it in his favor right it looks like to trade goods go towards Nalu for 14 votes towards a con putting about 22 Baron he brings himself to 18 so sorry once to see if there's anything he can do here but not a hard sell yeah and I think he should be pushing for cuz the one person he I don't know he doesn't actually want barony to get this it really comes down to it so I it's actually a little weird that he's trying to make a sale but I think he's just trying to see what he can get out of it cuz he mean if he doesn't see it maybe big yeah he abstains and Hakan gets the minister of exploration so we made two ministers we made a minister of peace out of yellow and then we made a minister of exploration out of red both kind of like like barony is the only one that minister of peace will be used against right right so they're both kind of cancelled out exactly they're not there but more or less they're not gonna get used right and again it continues all of the anti green yeah and he is just not finding a way out to just negotiate or beyond the even footing but it is strategy phase and he's got the first pick so have the first pick okay so Green took Imperial look at the magnet push on the Mecca tall or maybe just looking to claim a bunch of objectives hard to say exactly what he'll go for he's got he's postured for Mecca tall max all makes sense black takes diplomacy with other sad no what's up yeah I think he's just worried takes construction red takes trade there you go difference on this is the time to do that I actually kind of want to copy this almost exactly am i next akan game yeah to not take trade until four and four that sounds good easy to note no tech objectives so far so tech is very quickly getting devalued ya Tek Tek is not super important at this point so we have purple taking politics and yellow taking leadership which they actually agreed to do which I think was actually honestly just really good for purple if yellow had maybe been a little more stonyface yellow could have gotten away with forcing purple to take leadership yeah and then taking politics for themselves but now we're going to be the situation where purple might retain control of Mecca tal wrecks and does have politics now it's almost it's not it's almost imperative that song take Beckett back at all from just sort of round five is not as dangerous as it could be and it's weird that they're not calling more attention to this the person in the lead has makoto rex and politics the command counter economy for most of all faction side is pretty cool yeah we're in the tank so Nalu just builds a home I'm not sure what nalu's like game playing I mean Allah's got enough stuff he's already claimed eight influence I need to do eight resources this point which he's got plenty of so I think he's just kind of wanted to sit pretty and I think he's also building so that he can then move the big fleet out to attack Seoul but not be leaving anything behind it's not wise to move that fleet forward and then have your home system empty so I think he's just trying to play in ahead a little bit and honestly purple kind of it's kind of in a bad spot right this second not for the fact that they can retreat to because of foresight they can retreat to any space right any empty space alright barony is still chasing down Sarge a singsong now it's worth noting thism yet again there's two spaces he has options to retreat to and he's known to retreat so he's got Welling and he's got the asteroid field he retreats to the asteroid field he lost pretty much everything he's got down but with each attack that barony is doing a he's getting planets and B he really is whittling away at this fleet because SAR has routinely not been getting very many hits and now all of our nice dreadknots are reframe the fact that this happened across two rounds is really good for barony cuz all of his dreadknots refresh and he's you know he's back up at full health whereas this whole time SAR has been losing a lot of its stamina yeah good close up on Connor Palmer's on his phone very good thank you for a first day in the game okay so he is not retreating him to the asteroid field he's retreating back to his cruiser right so we're treating to Ellen looks like there was one hit lost the fighter great kind of casualties there there and he just having it so easy with sorrow yeah and he's actually cut off a halt there's another SAR planet there that he's cuts are off from so he can just take that whenever he wants at this point well he's let he's even he's left a carrier behind yeah so really cleaning up SAR at this point which I realized what's right right now SAR is still potentially a threat to the entire board with Imperial but their game I would say is on the edge of a knife yeah just barely good yeah blue appears to be leaving made an agreement I guess of some kind so that purple can retreat now but that's so weird I wonder what he got for that we have we didn't if this was some sort of agreement we did not pick it up yeah it makes taking that planet really questionable in the first place - like his last move of last round was to go there in his first move of this round is right so is he even going to get to spend it before Nalu takes it back if it was for influence it doesn't look like it looks like Nala is gonna have an opportunity right we'll see maybe they've negotiated this out we'll see how it goes down all right we are doing trade right now it looks like l1 making some sort of trade with a con given him yeah I promise right note for something it was I think he gave up his trade agreement for some amount of trinkets yeah this is this is where Hakan is really working the tango he refreshes soul he refreshes Nalu he does a three for two with Nalu and a four for four with soul there's just an absolute pile of trade goods I'm finding a very good III really I really like the way that he plays remember I did not get it the first time though not focusing on trade out of the gate focusing more on your construction issues yep with actually being able to build stuff and just kind of hanging in there yeah and getting trade agreements from people preparation for a giant trade swing right we need to see him take Imperial or something next round because we didn't I just coined a new term the traits when traits link the trade swing it's the Contra meaning he did it read here did it but I coined it a trade swing okay this is really making me want to play hit call and watching him do this right now but shouldn't be overstated he has one point to his name he's got a lot of stuff on the board he's got a lot of peaceful negotiations but point wise he hasn't accomplished much that's true so he needs a heavy swing in his late game to be competitive he does he does currently if Nalu does take politic or does take the speaker token he'll be going last so he's a long ways from any sort of swing yeah and here's the big play here comes sorry so you're having on a magnetar yeah I see the soul got out of the way and now purple has a place to retreat to which is confusing so I really wish that we knew what so got for Nalu essentially getting to the skate this doesn't well this looks pretty bad because there's that's a lot of fighters so not only was definitely gonna lose this fight right he needs to Richard honestly I was sorry I wouldn't even I would bring that fourth infantry just out of fear because I'm always afraid of losing infantry combat even if it's like really stacked in your favor he's coming with three ground forces against one three guys one it should be fine yeah I'm just saying I'm just saying that in my Wilson the other thing too is that you don't have to worry about soul after that so but let's not forget this a star with the Spacedock ran all the deciding if he wants to go ahead and use the foresight or if he thinks he can fight it out for around don't see why they shouldn't they should retreat yeah especially since blue left gave them the open yeah be honest little confused by blues play right here blue will not be able to take macit our exes round they already activated the system that would be able to do it right and building a space lock there will be useless now too so if they were gonna try to build something right yeah I'm not sure what blues I thought the play was that blue was going to converge on mecca tall Rex before yes our could right get get in there then everything from both should have sent and then yeah you construct but me I don't know maybe he got talked out of it or maybe he saw that SAR was coming with too much stuff and just decided it's not worth it would have been that classic thing that we're soul so loses the base battle keeps the planet just no way sorry would have taken that from so Saul has four ground horses in range so sorry does a devastating first round of combat and completely wipes out all the ships he gets a really lucky roll on all those nine but sonali does not do for sight and all he doesn't do for sight and it costs him dearly he loses the whole fleet in one one go one round the combat his purples command counter situation is actually pretty dire right here i forgot how bad this i have this written down i didn't see it on the video but on green rolled some nines that got 50% of the heads so now we're doing invasion combat this is gonna save greens game right here beam has not been having a good time what's what's kind of a bummer is that green did not get the meta back on their side at all yeah and this is just to be more fuel for that fire so purple and yellow are just gonna continue to succeed in painting green as like the bad guy right meanwhile both of them have very legitimate advantage race it's unfortunate for green because this is putting him in a better position but that means he's also looking even more like the enemy yeah yeah if only he was able to get the heat off of them before he had to make this move he has to do this now yeah he does I'm not disagreeing with the timing at all this is the time to do so here SAR is now asked me before he builds he's kind of checking in with barony to see if Baron he's done with this like basically saris deciding if he spends all of his resources here on Mecca tal wrecks and dig in or does he need to spend them elsewhere and keep doing stuff so he's trying to figure out if he can broker a new piece with barony barony is done aggressing on him maybe he can just be done with that and stick it into Mecca tal and based on Barney's answer he he decides to build six ground forces on mechatronics and that's all but that makes it nine ground forces on that guitar Rex he's not going anywhere for a while right so in all who's first action this run was two buildings home system in his second action is to play a repeal on hakan's minister of exploration which to me just says that must be a stall because what purpose do you have to repeal it like I would say that repeal for a scarier law later down the road unless some sort of is playing I would be more concerned about yellow having Minister at peace if I was saying rights like I don't want any of my yeah you know him to have that just even that that bargaining chip on I think maybe he's just concerned about scaring barony into thinking they're you know combated I think he's trying to just stay on bare knees good side that's probably accurate and Hakan just made so much money that no one's going to and like right him having access to possibly more right and also red said they didn't really care to have it so that's probably it's a probably you're probably right it probably is just a stall l1 finally yeah getting there wow it's been so long what is his play with the crocoseum it might be to refresh those plans so he can just use that money slays our Sachi leg and he just needs to get stuff on the board at this point yeah so I could see it being more about just like I'm taking those planets I want to get them back right away and use them I can't waste time and at one point in all these actions and all who actually came over to Hakan and was doing some whispering he offered the Hakan the speaker token so that on this next turn he wanted her Khan to be the person to take Mecca tell Rex he was saying hey I'll give you speaker token if you jump on Mecca tell max right now and crush Shawn but uh akan declines I mean there's too many ground forces there at this point is just there's there's not enough for it to be worth I don't think Molly could offer you would need to do more than speaker token and I just don't think there's enough to offer and especially it's just like kind of the wrong target for that sort of deal a Khan has made no aggression towards anyone all game and this certainly wouldn't be the opportunity to do it so instead Khan builds in a system adjacent to knowledge which also happens to be adjacent to nalu's new flagship Khan is just so poised but again still not sure what poised to do what is sort of the question like quite curious as to what else are kind of has he has Imperial so sort of a debate of do I need to pop it right now while I still have my cold or do I think I'm gonna be able to hold it for longer and do I need to get some other stuff don't I would you don't know what people have I think it's about a timing attack of is there an opportunity to slash back at barony or do something l1 but I think it's too costly and either direction and he goes for the Imperial play which is smart get those points and and if anything every option SAR had was in some way aggressive got a bunch of points or attack one of his two neighbors and I think he went for the one that is technically least aggressive yeah despite putting him at five points he claims three command counters and a mech at all point and that puts him at five tied for the lead with Nalu so again SARS got all the heat but sharing of a lead with null who has basically nothing yeah no heat at all basically so now who finally takes back to Quran and torque and moves a decently sizable fleet adjacent the Mecca tal wrecks but has to leave enough behind so that he's not too threatened by the Khan I believe they still have each other cease fires though but you know those could pop at any moments and don't want to leave yourself to them it does look like blue did get to use before all was said and done leadership was pop before purple took it back yes I do feel like there must have been some sort of deal I'm tightening agreement there and that's why he's not allowed to stall earlier to was just opening up that window his leadership was played immediately after he played that so that's probably exactly what it was all right so yellow going further and further taking yeah this one was empty but yeah it is it is stars home and further cutting off any access points Saar has to getting out if anything this this further pushes sorry either into l1 or he has to put up a fight against barony so I think SAR is quickly running out of options here he'll be protected in that asteroid field but he's got to choose we do something drastic if he wants to come back just yeah as far as raw combat ability was concerned right cuz at this point I don't even know that he has enough in resources to ever claim that and I don't know if he's taken enough planets or say it looks like he's got no trade goods currently so there's a lot of points he doesn't have access to unless he takes more stuff but he's surrounded by big fleets Czar's trying to negotiate some sort of trade with akan probably giving him his trade agreement for something in the and l1 was just trying to stay relevant he's building his home system soul plays the action card mining initiative for for trade goods and akan decides to also just build so a lot of just reinforcement happening they surround this is kind of one of those calm before the storm where everybody's building up after the mecca talk I mean it was a calm before the storm round where somebody took max yeah it's a little bit of both will stormy the status quo is kind of returning I feel like for blue and black they're finally starting to give you like kind of the point that they should have been at the beginning still very curious what Seoul's plans on I mean Liz's plan is just to get back into fighting contention but soul I don't know where they're going in with what SAR has already passed even yeah so the deal is Nalu gives up speaker token but because Hakan wants to take trade again which i think is brilliant trades gonna get a double or cons gonna get a double huge trade rounds but the idea between their deal is not look it's a refresh no matter what if he gives up that speaker choice and all who agrees and so far he's been a he holds two deals so there's no reason for these two players to not so now yella is kind of being pulled into this deal with the con I remember this is the point where it felt like purple had made so many deals that people were starting to like get kind of all over the place about I actually wrote that down purple has made a lot of deals so there's some sort of and I'm not sure exactly what it was but basically Nalu had promised something to barony already and Baron II was like hey wait now I'm not gonna get that because of this new deal you've made with the Kali I also have written here I don't know if we're gonna get it on the on this camera but he discarded in the silence of space yeah I had that same thing I think he's he's finishing drawing his action cards and clearly he's got a good hand cuz he gives up in the big one in the silence of space which is completely the negotiation the friendliness is actually kinda starting to break down a little bit feels like they're starting disappoint her a little more every time barony does anything with the commune counter it gives her a little double tap of machine I love it what style and he moves in on the final it's finally mopping up that yeah final plan of his stars um taking this leaves star with four total planets Wow so oh how the mighty have fallen now one of those planets is Mecca tall Rex but one of them is a weakly defended betta - in Lisak Civ space and then as two other fleets are completely outmatched yeah it's literally just a matter of time so Lisak swans to refresh his home system this is the planet he opted to use twice clearly he's just trying to get back on top of this fleet problem he's been right he's gonna build a big fleet so that going into the next round he can do stuff or actually know more like actually what I think this is he's trying to get his resources this is to get a point this is for the point very smart right three he's kept free resources somewhere else and the five from his home is gonna help him score eight resources so again this is what I love about our hell one player is he despite being constantly like against the wall he is the most objective focused person this tastes very not all is getting a decent amount there's been a couple rounds where now who could have gotten more objectives and did ballistics every time gets every point that is possibly available yeah yeah a barony next to us are it's gonna always going to turn out like the star really focuses on them honestly star having the star having the neighbors that they had are not I'm just on paper are bad yeah well what's what's unfortunate is I do thinks are made the wrong call going for l1 the decision was well l1 has a little bit less money and a worse slice but the big problem there is you have to jump the gap to get to them if they they have a clear line to barony and the in Barney's case the asteroid field is adjacent to the home sister right so I could have gone there with chaos map you could have done a lot more damage to barity yeah and and l1 may have never come at it because that wall is still there there's there's a wall of empty between them so he could have been protected on the l1 side and just done away with there and I agree angry someone hands SAR an apple that he bites into instantly without even looking at it just puts it right in his mouth Apple still got the sticker on it hasn't even peel the sticker off he might eat the sticker well alright this calls for a sticker watch sticker watch 2018 will he eat the sticker we will find out yeah whatever the only thing that the only thing that matters to be a sticker watch at 2018 is that sticker the one in this tummy if it does I know for a fact that it's not the biggest deal I have eaten a lot of stickers of my time a lot of a good sticker love a good scratch and sniff I say scratch sniff and taste get all three of those senses in there feel touch it scratch it sniffing it you do see it I forgot about that you get four in there just a good sense seem dead pips people does remember that movie the fifth cent so here's the sticker isn't it weird to the sixth sense is just another seeing it's not a new sense it's just doubling down right it's just an expanded sense that already exists yeah that's pretty dumb that's pretty dumb yeah the sixth what should the sixth sense actually be like laser vision no that's a vision though that's like I shoot things with my eye models I think it should just be like a little like something is that what grokking is what's rocking rocking is a term from the stranger in a strange land and it's like more than no way yes what's happening on this game uh well sticker watch is well underway and I can't see the sticker currently so I can only assume it's in Tsarist um II cannot see the sticker on that Apple must be deep inside the tummy I think we're at the end of this round actually yeah everyone has passed yeah we are scoring objectors so we see Nolan score 5o L once scored a secret of some kind Nalu scored five trade gets Barney scored eight resources and one scored eight resources Sol got a secret of three adjacent to an anomaly so that helps explain kind of pulling back as well as eight influence a Khan scores eight influencer SAR scores eight influence and that leaves us at Nalu so land Tsar at six points l1 at four points akan at three and barony at two so despite barony having a really good round didn't really met them very much yeah barony and Hakan are kind of having that the similar games in that they're getting a lot done but they haven't been so objective focus to the point where now they need to pull a swing right now the difference is that Haqqanis already pledged to take trade which I would say the smart play for Hakan now is Imperial yeah sure I think but they've already volunteered to not do that which means I wonder I don't know I don't know where pecan makes it happen at this point yeah and the new objective that comes out is the first stage to control someone else's home system which is well Baron he's already doing it right and the rest are gonna be quite difficult yeah so that's quite good for barony but luckily luckily for everybody else Baron has been so far behind right no all this will do is put Barney kind of on equal footing sure and it's not like he has it on lockdown there is a Starfleet next door but there's a barony foot I don't know that could be a contentious point this yet they can't be fighting over star system a lot but all-star would be doing his point denial so it's hard to say if that's even worth it yeah then doesn't look like there's a lot of home systems that are right the entire Apple has been eaten and never was there a shot of the sticker being peeled off the sticker is inside starts coming deep in stars tummy from now on all fan art of the sad boy weird bears variant of plaintiffs are requires references to Apple stickers like I want I want the bear to have little stickers on his lips like we've just got done eating a bunch of apples and all the stickers have collected on his upper lip all right agenda phase I'm excited this one's gonna be buck wild I can feel it I know it somehow how would I know how would I know it completely regulations comes out to either lock everyone down to four which is a is a terrible thing for Tsar in almost every situation yeah great for barony to write this just guarantees that barony will always have an advantage or everyone gains one in food supplies so most of them this is not going to affect hugely it does make the situation moving star in very specifically mortgages yeah I agree except for the fact that star actually doesn't have more than four right now apparently it would have to be building the star has been just flying real loose with only two and they're fleas they're really at this point trying to they're trying to do that thing that's like always kind of difficult to do which is feel out the vote before you play your rider which is smart that they're trying to do this I would say in our group nobody ever gets away with this this is we've now gotten to that phase of the game where people are just standing up randomly like people are just standing and playing now señal who offers up a political secret to Tsar to keep the votes staying against which will net him three command counters which he desperately needs it's yeah so he's more in it for his writer than he is for the actually yeah he doesn't care an agenda the agenda plays for these players is really a time to talk about everything yeah it's not as much talk during the round anymore but they really talk about the entire next round during these engines they they use the agenda phase to do all of the major deal making against habits and all those gets three command counters and everyone gains a fleet supply he's purple is such a good negotiator yeah always I feel like the key is purple never really asked for too much right never really pushes it too far and is willing to give so it's like I get this little boost and I'm gonna give you a little something it's always been kind of small yeah oh no here's what's wrong man already if the artifact comes out this is the one that drops a nuke on Mecca tall or people gain text or nothing happens so it's a pretty big deal Sarris sitting on Mecca tal Rex and I think almost everybody has some sort of fleet adjacent and so everyone's gonna lose something commentator really bad first SAR yep this is a really really that this could not the agenda face has been so durable for song yep and barony just not that long ago pulled their fleets away from it but also Baron II won't get hit at all and star will lose essentially half of their overall fleets so star plays veto but el ones Wow so l1 sabotage is it okay so it is going through l1 kind of getting their vengeance of that moment and it is gonna be good for l1 because it's basically gonna open up Mecca tal to possibly this big fleet they've been alright so much table play that has come out against SAR so Barney assassinating all those representatives so Nalu no longer has a vote the Tsar does a brilliant play here of topping his Imperial rider on the four so if they decide to nuke Beckett Rx he's getting a point out of it he'll lose a big part of his fleet most of his ground forces may be working that point you will be I believe that will put him in the lead yeah that would put him at seven points that's two people out of the vote l1 plays a politics writer against very smart try to get the speaker token and some action cards barony and soul and Hakan are the only three players at the table voting on a con and barony don't have any fleets adjacent to Mecca tal Seoul is the only one who stands to lose anything and the Khan will be the last one in voting order so it could all come down to Oliver I think Allen played this brilliantly actually because I think that there I don't know I forget even what they do but l1 is definitely right that they cannot give him the point because I it would put him at seven he gets to keep his ground forces there only destroys chips does not destroy units because this probably the best one of the best of Jinnah phase is that we've ever captured on film this is great I mean we have we got a lot of them mm-hmm during this trip and this was probably the most interesting so sorry is looking to make some deals with the con and kind of everybody's looking to butter up a con because they're the last in the voting order worth noting they could vote for and that doesn't necessarily mean targets Newton right he could gain to tech out of it right it could be all net benefit for first are there's like a 50% is for sure what they need to do for is such a huge risk because they could actually add they could be putting SAR basically in such a good position they could give so our tech and a point yep all he would need is a secret objective or no you need a Mecca to a point in the tooth and to take a home systems yeah and he's done and he saw so he certainly has the tools to do that guarantee votes 6-4 Wow Imperial writer is so cool for this just making it we're turning turning a agenda on its head and making it where what would have been just pretty much bad for saris now kind of a win-win yeah so so I believe it's already voted nine now so it really is up to knock on to finish this deal thus are immediately jumps on it and runs over to hook on to start make an offer Hakam is the only one that's really add any kind of hardcore anti star meta yeah Hakan is basically been willing to deal with everybody including SAR so star is literally walking over to this side of the table with all of a pretty much everything he has the l1 is even offering up action cards because the l1 so badly does not want SAR to gain this lega so l1 despite not having well yeah he does I'm a dog in the fight but he very badly wants the against a four-speaker which would also put start picking last he's this is a very hard play against summer ml1 yeah so now it's just up to everybody to court upon for basically for which her conscious for all yeah SAR literally showing his entire hand of action runs to hook on that's how desperate the situation is now one just like slid over one like hey look at this and saris just like what do you want and he takes out one takes Owens deal one action card okay so the again Warren it l1 gets the speaker token into action cards and nothing else happens so now think about all the deals that purple had made right about the speaker token yeah that's the beat yeah such a huge wash so l1 is looking to finally have a good habit of you at the after so much just turmoil and being behind so we will just kind of see if l1 can really turn it around I mean Ellen's not in a horrible place at this point l1 is about you know probably probably needs a green and purple in Cluj all pretty much have yeah I'm not great game but if they if they make the right moves yeah in addition what's funny here about the action card that l1 gave to hook on that came with a promise the promise was for l1 to move that loan destroyer on the wormhole out of the way and and I don't know how audibly he said this but the deal was that Hakan wants to take bearing his home system and he needs that wormhole opened up to do so pecan is sitting on low door and is part of the reason he took that single action card from l1 was more about l1 opting to move that destroyer later so Hakan making his big plays now with the fleet's and everything he's been building up for all game negotiation that's the that's the name of this game this is not a tactics game nope this is a this is about talking okay so we're going into round five now Elwin literally just has all of the strategy cards laid out in front of them looking at every possibility what they what would be nice it doesn't look like they have a way to do this but if if l1 could have taken Imperial here and swung mmm had a swing around it would be big yeah but I think he's still not sitting on enough I don't I don't think he has it I don't think he has very likely what he's counting out right now too is just trying to see if there's even a play and also thinking about who you're giving Imperial up to but Sarah's dead last so it's not gonna make it to him he does take warfare he needs to make moves so it makes sense yeah it doesn't make sense probably this market blue at this point II feel I could maybe do the same he's sitting right next to it but again there's so many SAR ground forces there that honestly just doesn't feel like Imperial you were only taking two blocks are at this point is my opinion and to claim the public don't think about Imperial as a Mac at all play anymore so you'd have to move a lot of stuff over there his flagship saw on the board he's only got three carriers and they're all a little bit far away if he if he orbital dropped and then moved in and could win the space battle that's six and then he brings four from there okay so he could bring ten it would take a couple turns to do it it's actually the space battle that I think would be this slightly top part I think it's what I was dying but yeah every every these players are thinking about every single like option and at this point the one thing that can't happen is for start again he's dead last so he shouldn't but you know if he keeps he gets it that's a free point and he's three points away from long delivery all just to take all the rush instruction he's taking L ones there for a second I wonder if they just have the secret objective for PBS it's very possible it's just that probably any popped in to sit back and wait this round now the condos take trade as promised I only wants to take politics again which basically forces Bera need to take material but it's not a horrible pick for Bernie considering they can claim the two-pointer right now their first point or their first play can just be to get that out of the way and then go worry about the rest of the round so it's not really has to think about what is gonna happen here now the leadership seems like the play I see five total command cameras oh yeah it's pretty dire it just depends I I think he's got a gambit in mind otherwise he would just take leadership yeah clearly it's really gonna do some weird stuff and I'm not I'm not burying the lead right don't romancer yeah scary though because there's no tech objectives this is clearly got something else in mind but it's hard to yeah he should have taken I'm almost willing to say unless he does something really weird he should have taken leadership now it's worth noting he definitely has at least two BlueTEC he may be opting to try to get a light wave deflector out of this yeah it's gonna be fun he's a fun guy sar is a fun guy don't you know I'll never not say that because this guy's a fun guy but what that leaves him with is one opportunity to make the play nalu's just kind of consolidating forces Oh No Nalu finally plays upgrade correctly yeah activates plays upgrade and abandons Arnor lure to try to I don't know defend closer to his home system defend burglar before against this oncoming Collin fleet Hakan gets really greedy with SAR here and star doesn't really have anybody acetate else at the table that trains with them so yeah Hakan is really getting greedy the cons trying to negotiate a bunch of three four twos finally the con turning on what I would say especially at this time you know this was August last year I think it was more common for hakan's to get really greedy and I'm not seeing as much as often but this was more the Hakan I was looking for all games I think there's something really cool about what he's doing and I realized victory point wise he's not cleaning up but this this smart like early construction into mid game trade and starting out really friendly and then kind of tightening yeah is actually quite cool I think if he had spent a just even a tiny bit more time to get some of it because not all of the objectives were especially hard he could have built up I think almost just as much and still been scoring some objects I think I want to try and do what he's doing but with kind of a is a touch more addictive thing yeah and sometimes it's just if you get a lot desperately trying to get like not get cut out of trade right now yeah but Hakan is doing a really good job of just negotiating with everybody and I'm actually afraid stars about to get completely left out here he's just holding his commodity yeah all right so sorry takes star takes two three four two he gets a three four to out of star a three four two out of Nalu and he gets a two-for-one out of l1 so he nets eight trade goods very good that across the five so he should have one more commodity sitting there no one goes with another flank speed same system trying to do another attack on Wellman this is just a repeat from round two okay well that's like it's like it's like we said before basically l1 has come around full circle and yeah now finally and with to sabotage is definitely gone SAR doesn't have anything to a stirring after saris home system yeah everybody's gone exercising yeah that's five dreadknot he finally has a real fleet but he's completely emptying adjacent to his home system so he's leaving him he's living his own home system incredibly Bowl the world yeah possibly to Seoul but I don't know this is yeah listen to me like if Seoul had not focused so much on construction maybe Seoul would have a shot at kind of oh remember oh okay I know why he's doing this black and blue have traded support for the throne right they can't there's no not options for each other right right so could sole could be mean and take the planets yeah which we actually might say Sark could take them just as easily though star decides well and isn't worth it but sir might turn that same fleet that took over as our second girl dismissed green skilled retreated to the asteroid field which is what what a perfect time to use that yeah but also locks that down so you won't be able to take anything back with that big fleet on the asteroid field but I also think at this point stars probably just more interested is making it to the next round mmm it's funny about this is Sark tech with the intent of getting light wave deflectors but now the major fleet in his way isn't in his way and he's locked down his fleet that he would have been making the game flat for so he what is the point now yeah he sort of got to just come up with new options he probably should have just taken that loss there honestly it was a skilled retreat he could have retreated to the empty space adjacent to that one's home yeah we see tech get flipped what we're gonna see here is of course targeting gravity Drive and light wave deflector mm-hmm l1 gets dreadnought to with these five dreadknots he just started moving in on l1 space and keep in mind l1 has warfare so those five dreadknots are not done right then nalu's gonna pick up fight or two finally crystal fight or two a con gets gravity Drive and barony gets fleet logistics which i think is really interesting what is it what did Hakan get gravity drive that's interesting every con has been very behind in the tech game but I think that's smart because this has not been a tech objective game so you know you don't need him unless you need him for plays he's just now getting gravity drive which it sounds like this is possibly the round that he'll need it I've wonder how much home system invasion we're actually gonna see right czars fleet on Mecca Tallis poised to strike it something mm-hmm l1 is clearly moving in on SAR this is great no no because now we're finally sinking l1 and barony flash so Baron he actually skips to fleet logistics so very intentionally hidden fleet logistics I'm not sure what the play is but I think maybe he just sees the utility and doing two actions behind their back especially with his upcoming turn being that he's gonna flip material he could ideally do two things at once get his point and make a move so I think it's more of a short-term timely goal than it is a I need fleet logistics team to accomplish a lot of things right he does do Imperial first he's got the home planet of SAR so he gets his two points that moves him up to four I assume he's gonna try and move out of the way of Ellen's fleet so he got the point already so now he can just leave mm-hmm barony fleet logistics to go ahead and move out of Stars home system they argue a little bit over whether or not bear and he should take raagh take the ground forth on rod do you mind if I take Rock yes I mind so these two players although he's getting out of L ones way he's certainly not just conceding the point he's kind of saying well I don't want to lose a carrier in a fighter right now who flips politics for the second round in a row and once again gives the con speaker jumpin Wow at this point Nalu comes to the table comes to Hakan saying hey I know you like to buy the speaker token what are you gonna take what I like about this play from Nalu is it always gives him the option to take politics again if he needs to if he needs to write if you know this person ahead of he's not gonna take anything back right right you get what you want and then you did not ever has not ever taken for themselves I don't believe so yeah I think it's been a deal ever given it I thought everything which honestly I mean I think I think we can all learn a lot from that from I see people do speaker token deals every once in a while yeah but not as literally doing it every time single time I think he could be getting more out of it he's kind of just let he's letting it be part of his relationship with a con but rarely is he making a con by it it's kind of like it's kind of a little bit similar to the strategy of the trade triangle though where it feels like the goal is more to just keep the speaker token on his side of the table not necessarily specifically in his hand right right so Hakan claims to do they're gonna take trade or warfare so that it's clearly enough for nalli to be willing to give up speaker and soul draws some action and he both on bottom so we'll be going into the next agenda phase completely blind Nalu says out loud he burned a victory point agenda didn't want to see that happen mm-hmm souls turning has clearly kind of stumped on what the perfect play is I just think that their side of the table has just been both black and blue they've still just been kind of playing like behind even though like victory point wise blue is caught up mm-hmm it's still white as board present slacks severely yeah his port is port present slacks I want to see him makes him sort of swing here yep try something audacious you know yeah you're probably right he probably has this PDS thing in his pocket is there a way he could get something bigger something bigger black has is clearly swinging he's trying for something but black has had the problem all game of just needing to use the strategy card to do like this get one thing and the one thing is the only thing that they can do and it's never to help them in be in a better position it's always to get them into just a okay because again yeah so here we go blue cleaning up some of SARS planets Aras gonna be down to two planets two planets now I'll have one of his home planets which he won't have for very long we are fixing to have a Tsar that only has Mecca tall rats yeah a mecca tall Rex are I should be noted at this point because we are getting we are in the late game I don't know if you guys can feel that yet there will be a first second and third yeah it's not a winner-take-all game mr. winner takes the best trophy but yeah it's a winner takes that whatever trophy they want would wish the best one is obviously the glow-in-the-dark okay so guess what saw one that Alby and here comes a con since so they clearly negotiate had to have my fist set but they definitely negotiated because otherwise not only would not have cleared everything else I don't know what the deal could possibly be it looks like he's only taking one he's opting to just take one planning so that must have been part of the deal yeah I'm wondering if makan that puts him at for industrial people are gonna feel about that that there's some point trading happen yeah OCONUS three hazardous planets to industrial to any one culture so this must be the secret adjacent to home system must be yeah that's got to be that's got to be it so l1 digging further into sorry plays invincible nation on SAR Wow he must see the play so he is just playing fierce oh so sorry that was devastating our losses his command counter in his tactics pool to an insubordinate begs for a sabotage there's not one to be had and forced to pass without going to pull off anything this around SAR so l1 and Saul had unlucky starts SAR just had too many enemies at the table basically which is classics are it's like thematic there they're disliked they are you know they're the sad boy weird bears so we see a bunch of building at home barony builds at home lalu builds at home everybody's getting ready for what they think is going to be the last round which I mean at this point it feels pretty safe to say that the next round should be the last room like this is about this is about as fast as it goes twilight imperium but it did not a say for long if next round isn't the last round it will certainly be the most explosive round and it won't be the last round because too many home systems are taking thats that'll be the net result it's just like oh four of us lost our home systems and so none of us can claim the points we need to win yeah all of the home systems are pretty well defended at this point there's only yeah no one else has light weight besides saw Rick and Sarge just was so thoroughly trounced there yeah sr will not be able to do anything funky yeah everybody's just got you know Hakan and Nalu are just like bleep we it's worth noting here that uh l1 destroyer is still sitting in the wormhole so that deal the l1 made the con betrayed oh right Hakan said he was gonna make a play on Barney's home system and lost his opportunity because l1 never moved the destroyer so I wonder if that's a huge deal for her Khan of his whole plan is that gonna come up is l1 going to actually move it or what it's black going to change the deal right soul having another tough decision clearly has a big play in mind but can't decide if now is the opportunity to pull the trigger I mean I think it's now but I think I think so I think Seoul should have taken different strategy card I know that they're going for video the PBS secret that sucks but I feel like you just got go for more points yeah the most points you can get in one round but it does I do keep forgetting that he has blacks for the firm's very candidate you cannot go after L ones home system so maybe maybe there just isn't a play maybe it's that he's too far behind and the only the only option is to betray somebody that he'll lose a point for betraying that's not a good option so salt decides to just take a build action in their home system can't find can't find the right play there's just too many things that he doesn't have options for again that nebula and supernova is killing him on one side and honestly while he did need to make that deal with l1 that has forced him to have basically no options right in this game he needed to make a put he should have stuck with that pushing to Nalu earlier on mhm and not taking any deals and that needed to be his mid game play yeah but I don't think he sent enough initially for it to actually work out it should have been a much bigger investment so that it could have panned out cuz right now he's you can tell he's just like looking for any possible yeah he's looking for something and there's not really there's not really anywhere to go he just needs this - he's in the worst Hindman and barony are essentially in a similar boat right now they just need this to go longer great then you just go longer than this is and then basically SAR Nalu both kind of need this to wrap up soon especially Saur Saur needs to find some Hail Mary play because in this game needs to be over because Hart doesn't have anything left it's ours basically running on fumes borrowed time an l1 having already warfare the fleet now moves in on stars homes DeMille has not had yeah so now he's gonna take it he invades everything onto one planet rather than making any attempt clearly a deal between him and Barry to leave one ground force on the planet I think it's a dangerous play to do that yeah III think he had plenty to wipe barony out and there's no reason to have any sort of deal with barony in this situation at this this at this late in the game but yeah so it looks like you're right that Hakan did not get to do their point right so Hawkins big swing round or big big moment to shine got completely crushed just because one deal didn't get followed through on so must be hard for a deal making kind of player yeah and with with that home system take everyone passes and the Nalu claims eight resources as well as the five dreadnought secret so that puts Nalu up to eight soul does not claim the pds objective not sure where we're at maybe he hasn't done enough maybe he still needs one more I didn't get a fishel count but he only claims one for three point four eight resources akan also claims a resources l1 has the home planet objective claims that SAR gets four tech of the same color all blue another lucky grab I would say for SAR he's he said he's added good at secret objective game that's what's kept him in this game lucky secret objectives barony does the eight resources as well and also a secret of his own which is for cultural planets so that puts him up to more points that puts him at six from two so if we started this round right he had a four-point swing this so he had a swing round just just so just to be clear it is purple eight blue seven red four black six green 7 yellow six going into what is probably the final right the next public objective that comes out is spending 16 resources so what seems to be the most important thing at this point we've got a Nalu at eight yep which is that's bad I mean that's bad yeah also now Laura seven is bad sorry I said I mean it's the same problem honestly for sorry is that he's still close enough to a victory position that I bet the table will still work against him despite Nalu being right there right yeah I just think I think Hakan missing out on that opportunity to take a home system has really changed the dynamic of this game because he would have been up to six points or five points I suppose and and barony would be down a home system you've even been able to make that attack in a completely hell one I don't really tore that out from under him so it looks like nalu's claimed all of their secret objectives yeah so it's really not like Nalu is just having such a great late game right now yeah and again the theme is unchallenged so the new victory point has spent 16 resources which we initially we went right away to accounting it was obviously very good for Hakan yep a Khan is still sitting on a just a bevy of trade goods and with an economic equality already done those are locked in there is no other thing that can take it away so Hakan basically has a sure shot at getting 16 resources [Music] okay so fairly certainly nothing agenda this is the it'd be good for Nalu his fighters gain a bonus but he always has to build fighters but that's not a hard task for Nalu to hold to its yeah obviously about the best for Nalu at this point it's not gonna be this isn't even the other thing - that sucks about this is a is a lot of them really need to make a play happen here but Imperial riders already outright and politics rather both all the major writers are just so so there's not really any writer plays left that are significant right so Nalu and barony are already starting to make some deals right talking through it Aaron he brings up the gift of the prescience so bare knees kind of looking ahead yeah barony sees a play that they can make to possibly pull out a victory but only if they can get that zero initiative order mm-hmm what I don't think I've seen any of our players doing despite we were doing this at the table none of the players are counting out everyone's resources right for this two point swing so a lot of them are just have gotten tunnel vision which is very common especially under the pressure of an event like this you know you just get really focused on what you need to do to accomplish that victory because everyone's within striking distance I mean we've got multiple players at eight and seven right and so they're all just looking to see what crazy play are they gonna pull off to to gain that victory well I actually think what barony is doing is really smart because I think what barony thinks is that Nalu has Imperial and will and rightfully but so barony is trying to get gift of the prescience on the off-chance right that Hakan does not honor the deal right and take some burial in title so it's very very smart what barony does and I'm not a and actually I'm not even sure if that's exactly like what Baron II was thinking but if if for some reason Hakan does not honor the deal which I mean Hakan obviously should not get a deal but I've part of this deal is to trade goods so Nala gives up to trade goods I mean Barney gives up to trade goods for nalu's gift of oppressions and the guarantee that barony will vote for nominee right so where he gets the better side of that I would say except those true trade goods if those two trade goods were for this for the 15 and 16 so we get 23 votes total on Nalu the rest of the table they don't want nolle to have super super fighters they they have to do something together they also have another agenda face to get through I mean if I were them I probably would just sit it out I would just completely abstain and be like we I don't know what's coming out next to the right not going to swing things either way so Hakan gets six votes from tsar l1 abstains it's up to seoul on the khan to take this away from Nalu which would also make the deal between barony and Nalu in a way sort of meaningless Nala will have spent a lot just to give barony gifted oppressions right it's Solon Hakan do it so Hakan actually does win so Nalu basically nets to trade goods right and that's it right so the Holi planning a mix comes out this is voting on a cultural planet to become a victory point so a victory point is now on the table you can't build on that planet but a contestable victory point is about to hit the table so we're coating the fun play with flaws like this or if you repeal them you keep the point yes I lose the law but repeal has already been burned in this game nah we burned a repeal very early on and kind of a waste so no no chance of seeing that play right they really that a lot of the fancy action cards are out yeah Public Disgrace is not know there's still a public disgrace which would be huge right now right public disgrace would completely change the Pecan honors the deal you still need a public disgrace to stop not only taking Imperial right el one drops a warfare writer on a planet controlled by barony barony 'he's got all the votes basically everyone else spent too many votes and except for l1 but l1 is opting to just get a dreadnought instead right so he's kind of making a deal with Farah need to say which planet do you want and just let me get a drink it's like the least consequential little writer I could do and you're still gonna get what you want so barony gets the victory point he's now at seven so again going into this round six our point totals are Nalu at eight SAR soul and barony at seven l1 at six and Hakan trailing it for the question i have is what is where does Lisak scoff rum here when he moved a major fleet into a home system for the point he got those two points and now what I mean now he needs to clean up all this barony empty space I guess and try to get enough resources I want to do 16 resources idea was to I don't I think in his head he's just like he he's doing I gotta bring all of it because otherwise bare and he's just gonna destroy right that's to be a big this point it's big enough to where Baron he's not gonna rest destroying it so at least he's got a fleet somewhere otherwise he was enough to split up not hugely to smaller ones right I think he's just it's it's hard to know every round has been about only that round for l1 he's never been able to look to the future enough tonight to be able to have a long lasting strategy he's just trying to stay alive yeah I do think now that we're at the end of it I think Saul had the worst slice that wall plus the yeah he's facing friends yeah I think that that was the he burst I almost think Seoul would have been better served to make a deal with saw then Seoul he needed to leave his options open and he should he should have gone to saw early on and said hey the two of us can swallow him up and share this slice neither of us look as dangerous this is not one person getting two slices it's two people getting one and a half and that saves his game a little bit and and gives gifts are an out as well it's quite a big do de guiche yeah I also feel like the way it played out SAR and Hakam were actually the first to trade support roads right well it makes sense for them because they have no reason to cross their barrier that that was just a sure thing from the get-go mm-hmm so Baron he doesn't miss his window for gifted oppressions I know as a player I probably would have yeah I am always bad about forgetting those things and then I kicked myself but barony is officially going into this round as the zero positions right so he was four first has everything to gain no matter what now this is kind of the big moment and I don't even know if we got it a good picture of it but the con can block an aerial and it doesn't happen does not happen if I were at the table I would be you would be screaming reading and paying a call I mean I can't pay other analysts as your face but a con gets Imperial so suddenly the table starts going a we we should probably count this out so currently as of this that moment that just happened Nalu will win on all those first turn no that's 16 is the fact because dollar does not have gifted oppressions though everyone will get a turn before not right so it is essentially no table up to the table all they needed to is take some plaintiffs now we were going nuts at this point yep me and you and I wonder if there's any of us anything of us just like walking around a little bit but it doesn't feel like they all see it quite yet no I don't think again I think they're in tunnel vision I think there should be looking for it especially that Imperial take in the lead but everyone's just so focused on their own goals and tasks that they're not looking at their neighbors it's also it hasn't been a long game but it has been a taxing one yeah for for a lot of them l1 Sol SAR they've all had like kind of difficult games where there's been a lot going up against them basically half the table has had a pretty rough go of it right the other half has had a pretty like just kind of you know fun and fine game right the calm in particular even though Hakan hasn't done that well victory point-wise has had a fun ride a red picked warfare which is right for what yeah I wanted to do yeah last round right now who gets the Imperial yeah purple has Imperial barony just took diplomacy deep diplomas which is huge especially given that ground force that's sitting on stars home right so el ones so which is why you should never take that exactly never ever don't leave a planet or if you have the option to kill all the ground forces below you you've got to do it never do it even if you don't invade the planet you can keep letting keep the planet and just kill the no no no you could still diplo it if you control the planets right you should just always wipe it out you keep said you can't green is taking green took leadership has been dying for community on the right day which is only option really black I think he took politics going to take politics soul takes trade here to finish things off so again at this point none of the players seem to be looking at it but all that needs to happen is taking one planet from Nalu right otherwise he wins on his turn yeah but there's a home system objective out there so they are all just basically dark right now just like in all in their brains I'm sure some it I'm sure at this point some of them see it I think barony is fully aware yeah bear I think Baron II was aware in the agenda phase I think barony I think that's why he knows what he gave him mm-hmm I think he was maybe relying on somebody else to do something about it okay so barony does do the this basically crushes l1 yeah so L 1 has no this is the round for l1 never ever ever let someone do that to you ever people always try to make it sound like no no just let me have that one plan and underneath it it's not worth the risk work through it to say I'm sorry like I that that's not a deal I'm willing to yeah to intentionally when you bring that many dreadmill you're guaranteed to bombard yeah in my mind I mean you're not and l1 had no opportunity to grab warfare so that was just a done deal reporting on conclusion right there all right so now we have the ixora stern coming up which by the way I mean this everybody's doing what is essentially their last turn so that was that was all barony had in Bernie's pocket which is a shame because it looks like Baron II could have absolutely he could have dived on not have thrown everything through the right the gravity rap but and this is maybe a part of the tournament itself I think Baron II looked at it and said you know I can get second place here mm-hmm I could throw everything at Nalu and crush both of our games and then somebody else completely will win that's true and maybe I will end up in fifth place or something yeah or I can just lettin all we win it and get second place that's kind of what happens when you offer for a second and third right that's people take that and and it means something to him so right well I wouldn't think it's worth noting sorrow also has an opportunity here he's got Lightwave deflector he's got a fleet on Mecca tall racks that could jump onto any other planets and Ollie's and win yeah but sorry I think has a little bit of tunnel vision yeah I think Tsar is especially considering sour only has one planet he's literally only looking for what objectives he could school mm-hmm that's all he cares about cuz that's all he's got left right some of them are seeing it some of them are I'm actually not sure anyone sees it besides barony you think Barrentine might be the only one that's truly aware okay chaos maps a fighter and then was an interesting trade but it's it's mostly I think because he just doesn't have a fleet supply if there's nothing else he can he's still sitting at two fleets to Brian I believe so he is activated l ones home system and he does he goes the opposite direction thank you fee fun time play this is probably the wildest play that happens it's just a shame that it got delayed had it happened last around I think this game would have been gone really differently because it's just kind of too little too late yeah this is also I wanted to do last round and he got completely it's heaven knurl you know he getting having a reaction card at the right time is so huge of insubordination right when you needed it BAM also Sarge's had such a horrible may encounter our economy game so they're fighting that out right now he actually only brought four fighters and a cruiser and the rest is all space locked in ground forces so he's he's kind of bringing as little as possible to kill this dreadnought and destroy it right like it's it's pretty close and I wonder what the odds are on that I looks like the ground combat will come down to a PDS of for infantry versus six infantry so even the ground combat is a bit of a close call with with two shots from the PDS four plasmas right right yeah this doesn't look good this doesn't look like he's so Hakan and Nala are having some sort of negotiation which is like I think he's probably just trying to figure out if akan is on to him right I think he goes if Hakan takes probably any of his planets he's not gonna be able to win this osburgh right his best option is to kind of just like make some strange deals that akan is willing to take so that it diverts a Khan's attention away from yeah he's definitely cuz Hakan has the most opportunity to take Christ about Baron he's already out Sahra was kind of the only other one Ellen's I could be able to get their souls not gonna be able to get they're likely actually still could get to like a planet maybe nailbiter space battle yeah cruiser and two fighters versus a destroyer and a sustained dreadnought at this point and it's upgraded dreadnoughts of a no direct hit right see a one in a while okay all right threes are in fighter is fighter versus one dreadknot this is just needs one hit he needs that cruiser to do what it was born to do anything all right cruiser hit okay so the inventory invades this is basically he'll marry yeah this is 6 B 4 with 2 PDS Jones used some morale boost so it's 4v4 now after everything okay so we not couldn't be worse for sorry l1 turns it into a 3v4 so sorrowful II and the true disadvantage they both got two A's so now it's a wannabe to SR loses the ground so that's it what's really fun about this play is l1 space stock is attached to L ones home planet and there are two SAR space dots floating above L one's planet so there are three space stocks in one system belonging to two different players I have never seen this before whole life yeah that's probably the he's blockading a space dock with a space dock right down right really wild you can just you can feel how much people are like kind of at the end of the game and yeah they're playing pretty desperate we seem interesting play from l1 here and it's purely because again his whole entire fleet was locked down he does decide to move the destroyer out of the Alpha and he moves it into the beta this is in the intent to open up the door to talk deal right which now I guess a con to probably make it all the way you see a very anxious Nalu player yeah he's wanted turned away he's wandering away by the way it literally just comes down to does Hakan SIA is a con gonna do something about it and it was hard to not yell hmm I will say that it was hard to not say look count count it's not just a con either it's soul to soul yes always trade souls playing trade so also like souls most certainly not does not see it at all all he does is refresh l1 does it quick - for - and everybody else gets cut out but yeah soul not making a play l1 couldn't make a play SAR missed their opportunity barony missed their offer there's at least one system that soul couldn't make it to and it would be like a Hail Mary to stop Nalu but they're not they're not seeing it yet yes look at all of us standing around and I'm like it's almost like like that I feel like would have been the only hint is there everybody every sort of gathering around every because everybody's like well it's almost over here we are so con moves into barony and not nollie and unfortunately for Hakan baron he's been sitting on a minister of peace all game a long time and all who had the option to get rid of it in the early game - right right not that knowledge cares in this moment but he blocks second round in a row Hakan loses opportunity like the cons time to like make some points just didn't really work out and here you see all accounts it out for everyone a few of the players are stunned baron esau and knows but everyone else realizes they've just been had and that's the game that's it that's Gen Con 28 literally it so those two trade goods were for the win now and you needed those two jackets later which means if he had lost a single planet it just goes to show you like you need to watch the other players a lot I don't put too much of it on sar really at all SAR was having set you up wild crazy star walks away in third place here right that's true so first place ends up being Nalu second place ends up being there near enough guarantee light enough and all this I mean interestingly enough all of us is just determined by the initiative order right final round so barony with that zero guarantees him with the tie for a second he's first and sarra with leadership takes third place right which at least SAR could get that with the crazy rollercoaster game Sarhad I was really glad to see him in third place the table playing against SAR lots of agendas SAR had the most difficult games yeah we're sure Nalu certainly played the most diplomatic game and it paid off yeah Nalu played so just so much about negotiation so much about talking to every other player and also being careful about diplomatic relations Nalu did such a good job of like always staying true to their word making good deals that were fair fair deal well and we'll say this all of the good fair deal she made with a con are what made her con reciprocate in the end yes hakan's honesty is what one nollie this game Hakan could have taken imperial the con could have innovated not in anything could happen a con would have been the dirty player in it because they all who never never memorize anyone ever so it would have required her con to be like well I'm gonna go back on my word yep something me and you would have probably would have no I would have had no hesitation you would have done it in a heartbeat yeah but there's a different meta it's just different so yeah this was crazy this was a wild thing wonderful games wondrously players and we'll see you all next year yeah yeah we're gonna do well do this forever as long as as long as they do this we'll do this [Music] [Music]
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Channel: SpaceCatsPeaceTurtles
Views: 155,283
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Keywords: Twilight Imperium, Fantasy Flight Games, 4th Edition, Space Opera, Grand Strategy, Board Game, Epic, Tournament, GenCon, Finals
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Length: 152min 56sec (9176 seconds)
Published: Sat Jul 27 2019
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