Lost Ruins of Arnak | Solo Playthrough | With Mike

[Music] [Laughter] [Music] hey this is mike with the one stop co-op shop bringing you a play through of lost ruins of arnac another new one from check games edition disclaimer i was sent a review copy of this one now this is a two to four player competitive game with both worker placement and deck building it sounds a bit like dune that we covered earlier this week but of course today i'll be showing you the solo mode i'm going to start with a quick overview of the game and the main actions you can take but if you'd like to skip straight to the playthrough just use the time stamps and if you like what you see here on the onestop co-op shop please subscribe to the channel check out our twitch feed with live plays our new second youtube channel with those live plays saved our podcast our discord channel support us on patreon tons of ways to get involved with the little co-op experience we're all sharing so lost ruins of arnak has a main board and something it shares with the other czech games edition game i covered recently under falling skies is that it is super vertical oh my gosh it's so hard to get this one into a shot i am keeping it vertical this time but i'll try to kind of zoom in on the relevant stuff as we go at the bottom half are a lot of action spaces the main spots you'll be sending your workers your archaeologists to are down here the research track that's a main source of victory points is over here and then at the top is the deck building market we'll zoom in on each of those when we get to the actions you can take there and there's also another little board you're supposed to put underneath this main board good luck with that i'm just uh keeping the resources off to the side that's pretty much all it holds so not a big deal to not use it then i've got my main camp i'm the red player here and i've got a deck of six cards i start with four cards that are kind of more positive than two fear cards and i drew five of them to start so i'm just missing one of my positive ones i also as i mentioned have two archaeologist workers i'm never going to get more of those and the game is only five rounds long so it's really really quick in a nice kind of fast pace i also in the solo game have a single starting coin and a single starting compass we'll see we can spend those on later meanwhile the ai has its own board and it uses every other meeple besides my two so six total and they don't have a deck of cards instead they have these tiles that are used consistently although in a random order each round and these are one of the main difficulty modifications you can do for the solo game you have these easier green tiles and then matching red tiles but i've won several of my recent games so i'm actually going a little bit wild and trying all red tiles here we'll see how i do finally these are three piles of assistance i can possibly recruit to help me in my quest normally they would be on that separate bottom board but they're the only component i wanted to display while i did the play through up here now to get into how a round is played the ai is always going to take the first turn and they'll flip up one of these tiles which will have them do one of the actions usually using one of their six meeples and the meeples only have one purpose in the game which is going to sights to get you resources you have these five available at the beginning of the game and in both solo and two player the second spot for these things will be covered up with a little water token so there's only one spot that you and the ai can fight over and each of these will get you one of the core resources in the game coins that let you buy kind of more normal items compasses that let you discover new sites with their own rewards and also buy artifacts tablets that let you activate artifacts and are also called for in research actions sometimes and finally arrowheads and jewels the most difficult to come by but also really really strong for research now as i mentioned you can use compasses to discover new sites you just see a few of the possible spaces down here whenever you do you're going to get one of these little idol tokens worth three victory points you'll also gain the immediate benefit depicted on it and then you'll put a new action space down here and immediately gain the benefit but then you'll get attacked by a monster you'll see all that in action but just know that you start with these five basic action spaces for your meeples your archaeologists and you'll unlock more as you go along and so will the ai now another major action you can take is research and you'll see you have this track going up made up of spaces with these little interconnecting slots there and these show the cost to move one of your research tokens up the ai just has a magnifying glass but you have both a magnifying glass and a journal now your magnifying glass has to always be the one kind of breaking new ground your journal cannot move past your magnifying glass but if you pay the cost you move it up you're going to gain ending victory points based on these purple numbers so the further you go the more you get you'll also get an immediate benefit like coins or compasses and the big thing is when you move your journal up to the first two rows going over to the rewards here you'll get one of your two assistants you can fit up to two on your player board and you can use them once per round to gain some kind of benefit and they refresh at the end of each round so if you get them early you can use them up to five times per game maybe more because some abilities will even refresh them again finally a major element of the game is deck building and here you'll see the two types of cards you have regular items on the right and artifacts just one right now on the left with the bluer color and you can buy them for the indicated cost coins for items and compasses for artifacts and as you buy them they'll get replaced now items go to the bottom of your current deck so you'll usually draw them in the following round but artifacts you get to use immediately for free and then they go to your hand you can use them a second to time in the same round so a lot more kind of immediate effect and we also have our round marker here the staff is going to move to the right each round and artifacts will fill in the market from the left and items from the right so as the game goes along you'll have more and more artifacts and fewer and fewer items and there's just a generic fear pile which are negative victory point cards you can get from different effects as you play and the general flow of around is the ai will take an action then you can take one an action being putting one of your meeples down discovering a site moving your research up buying a car those are your main options and whenever you want to stop you've spent all the resources you want all your meeples are out you can pass but the ai will never pass until you go through all of their action tiles so they'll go through every single one each round although the order will definitely affect what they do and at the end of five rounds like most of these games you're going to see how many victory points you got from the amount you increase your research from the idols you got from exploring new sites from the cards you bought from the market lots of ways to score victory points you'll see them as we go so with the basics out of the way let's explore the tombs and see if we can come out alive and maybe rich so the ai is going to go first that is flip the top tile and notice that each of the tiles has a left or right arrow on its back and that's going to decide tie breakers like if the i wanted to do something with this action and it wasn't sure which thing like all the conditions were tied they would go to the left most in this case this first style is for them to discover a new site and the little icon here is going to tell us whether it's a level one site or these last two are level two sites it's based on the round we're in we're in round one and two of the times the ai does this in round two and round four they're also going to put out a monster that the ai can kill for extra victory points or we can kill for victory points and a bonus and they always start with the bottom most undiscovered sites it's all these ones that are past this little three compass marker that's how much it would cost for us to do this so all these are available they're going to go to the leftmost one and just like us they'll take the idols for three victory points they don't care what the bonuses normally we would get this bonus in this case culling a card from our play area or discard pile but they do put the idle on the matching space on their board and why that matters is if they get duplicates it won't be worth three or three points it'll be worth two placing over on the space over here so just a very minor way for us to mess with the ai if we can set it up so they get the same thing over and over and now they're going to draw out a random site and we can see this is a new action space we could go here at the cost of a jeep icon on a card we'll show how that works in a second and we would gain a tablet and an arrowhead now the ai never gains anything they just got the three victory points from going here and now it's a spot for both of us to try to get to in the future and now it's my turn to take a main action and just to talk about my cards for a second you'll see that they each have a type of movement in the upper left a feet for the fear cards those are the worst and then either jeeps or boats on my basic cards later on you can even get an airplane and those correspond to the icons on these action spaces so if i for example wanted to send my archaeologist here to get two tablets i would have to play from my hand a card with a single boot like this fear card that's doing nothing else for me and they kind of have a hierarchy where ships and jeeps are above boots so i could use either of these to pay for a cost like that but i couldn't use like a jeep for a boat space or vice versa and an airplane is wild you can use it on any space on the board now additionally my basic starting cards have this lightning bolt that means using them as a free action it won't use up my single action for the turn before it goes back to the ai and in this case i can use them to gain the indicated token so this would give me two compasses and with my third remaining compass i could go ahead and explore a site just like the ai did you know what what the hey i'd like to do that i'm going to use the jeep one so i can only go here because i already used up my other movement options i gained this idle which is worth three victory points but also gives me an immediate coin then i flip it to its face down side of my player board and just like the ai i flip an immediate sight i'm getting another coin and an arrowhead so i immediately gain that benefit but i'm not as lucky as vai every time you investigate a new site you have to add one of these monsters and they have a few things going on they'll show you what it takes to defeat them that's a main action but only if you have an archaeologist on their site so here i would need a plane icon and by the way you can get a plane icon by discarding two coins so you can always get more movement if you need to and one arrowhead if i do that defeat the creature i take his tile and it gives me a special bonus i can use later so at any time is a free action on my turn in this case i can call a card like one of those fear cards that's negative but even after you use them you still keep the tile because it's worth five victory points and you can use it for other effects sometimes it might boost other cards so we got some giant bird menacing us let's see what the ai does all right this is a buying action in this case they're going to buy an artifact and with the easier green tiles they always go for the card with the lowest victory points with the harder tiles they go for the highest victory points but in this case it doesn't matter because the trader scales are all that's available so they're going to take this and all they care about is the two victory points this is going to go face down on their board and you immediately replace so now we've got ancient wine sounds good now look at what's left i do have enough to defeat that bird i can spend the two coins for an airplane and my arrowhead so i probably want to do that because otherwise at the end of the turn when my archaeologist comes back i gain another fear card to my deck another card muddling up my actions also worth minus one victory point not so great but i still also have one archaeologist and a fear card what should i do actually i'm thinking i want to buy an item from the market so i'm going to go here to this basic spot i just need to play one of my fear cards for its boot icon that'll get me two more coins beautiful friend of the ai is going to go to a site that's already explored this is not a new site this means placing one of their workers and the iconography is really simple here they're going to go to the best site the site furthest north on the board furthest toward the top that offers at least one of these compass icons now in this case pickings are slim neither of the explored sites have that icon and they couldn't go there anyway because people are already there you can't go to the same spot with more than one archaeologist but let's say we weren't there they would still be going to this space the only one that actually offers those and they take nothing they gain nothing it's just them blocking up spots so we can't get them all right coming back to me i have no more workers and i only have a fear card with a boot so i'm not going to do anything else with sight but i do have all of these coins and that arrowhead so let's go ahead and buy something let's see so the horse costs four i could afford him but then i wouldn't have enough to defeat the bird but these icons mean draw a card uh gain a coin and gain a compass so really nice effects there bow and arrows give me compasses for every monster i've defeated or that i'm on so that would get better and better as the game goes on the dog who i can barely afford and still kill the bird would let me gain a compass and activate an unoccupied basic campsite like the one that gives you two compasses or two coins that's pretty great but i'm kind of gravitating toward the grappling hook its power is not the best this means play a card for no effect from your hand but then lets you draw a card and trash a card which would be a great to kind of mill through my deck and have the best cards every turn so yeah as my main action i'm going to spend two coin grab that it's worth two victory points that doesn't hurt and it gets replaced by an axe which would also call a card and get me a compass and again item cards unlike artifacts which go straight to your hand and get used immediately for free go underneath your deck but what you're gonna do is shuffle all of your cards at the end of your turn and put them under the deck so i will certainly draw these two cards and make sure i get my new item okay back to the ai this means they would kill a monster if they were on a spot to do so they are not instead they will research that's in parentheses because it's kind of the backup option and we will need to know which way they're researching they're saying to the right because at the start you can go either direction so they're going to go here they don't gain any benefit they're just looking for these increasing victory points as they progress up as for my main action let's fly at that bird in an airplane and throw an arrow at him i'm spending two coins to get a airplane icon and one arrow so he's defeated and at any time on one of my turns i can flip him over to trash a card and what the hey let's do that now and that'll get rid of my fear card that's in play so now i currently only have one in my deck and that's basically all i'm able to do now one thing to note though as a free action you can move one of your idols up covering one of these spaces you lose the victory points indicated so at first you lose one then two then three then four but whenever you do that you gain the immediate benefit one of the ones indicated here so i could change a coin into one of those jewels gain an arrowhead gain two tablets one coin and one compass or draw a card but honestly i don't think there's much more i want to do this round so i'll just pass when my turn comes around so we can just kind of run through the ai things quickly we can ignore all of the site actions because then tying them up won't matter since all my workers are already out so this though is a research action remember they already researched once when they couldn't kill a monster the difference here is they'll research and also throw away one of the assistants we might want to get uh in this case going for the rightmost one and they'll look for the one in the pile that is the tallest but they're all equal right now so this lady who would have given me a ton of compasses is gone and then they'll research but they only have one way to progress in this case whenever it gets one of these bonus tokens if i had gotten there i would have gained the bonus in addition to this stuff on the right in addition to the victory points but here they just throw it away all right and that's almost everything they don't care about going to sites they don't care about going to sites once again and last thing yes should be buying an item they're again looking for the highest victory point value and in this case there's a tie axe and bow and hours are both worth two and since they went through the whole deck there is no tie breaker so you look at the original first tile it's saying left they're gonna buy the bow and arrows and that's gonna make the whole row slide down filling in so with that the round is over it tends to go very quickly the staff is going to take out the cards to each side of it and then advance one space which means you're never going to add extra items when this happens because i'm just going to fill in with artifacts this time an ornate hammer and a crystal earring all the archaeologists are going to go back and then as i already mentioned all the played cards for the turn plus any cards in your hand you don't want to keep i certainly don't want to keep that fear card are going to get shuffled underneath the bottom of your deck i'm going to draw a new five card hand there's the grappling hook i bought and good i got a fear card i can trash that we also need to shuffle the ai's action tiles of course and with that we're ready for round two with the ai again going first they're gonna take a spot that has compasses which is the main one right here kind of a bummer i was actually thinking i might want to go there well while they're busy there i'll grab one of the nice sight actions with a jeep here and i guess i'd rather the tablet in the arrow that's a little bit harder to come by and then the ai will go to a spot with coins and remember they want the highest spot showing that icon so they're going to take the other explored site for now and sometimes card effects themselves are main actions that's the case with this grappling hook here so go ahead and play that it says i have to play another card we'll use our fear for that i then get to draw a card my other compass and i get to trash a card so bye bye fear meanwhile the ai is finding another site this time with a monster but still a level one and the tiebreaker is to the right they always want the bottom most spot and in this case this one so they'll go here get rid of the idle and it's one they don't have so again the full three points and our new site who just gives us a jewel that's pretty great we got a giant scorpion guarding it they're not going to bother the ai at all so they're more there in case the ai wants to kill them which they will because their monster killing action has not come up yet now for me i kind of like to get a jewel so i can get some other stuff going on but i don't know if i have enough action so for now let's get two coins while the ai's taking a slot with tablets although again it doesn't matter because i'll both my guys are already down there are powers that let you move your guys around but i don't have any of those yet and i'll spend three coins one for my funding card to get the dog i like him giving me more uh resources so i have to keep on doing this stuff now he's going to the bottom of my deck which is just him i don't have any other cards right now so i'll certainly be getting him soon everything slides down revealing a pack donkey but with my uh deck being so lean from that grappling hook i don't think i'll ever use him probably as for the ai they are buying the most valuable artifact to the right so that'll be the ornate hammer worth two victory points and they reveal a mortar i guess no pest silver no it looks like there's a pestle there trash a card and get two coins and this one draws me a bunch neither those artifacts are interesting to me actually the one they just got was the most interesting but i couldn't get enough compasses with them taking that action space for jerks now here's what i have left i really want to get some research going and luckily my cards are going to allow it so i'm going to take this compass and this arrowhead and that'll allow me to move my magnifying glass up here which will get me a bonus of a coin immediately the ai meanwhile is going into a jewel space so that's the only one they can go to and i would love to get this guy up here and get my first assistant because that's a free bonus every turn but i don't have an arrowhead to go the same way i already went i also don't have a jewel so i will go and use one of these idle actions to change a coin into a jewel and then i'll spend that to have my journal advance remember it can't go past my magnifying glass and that'll get me an assistant let's see my options buy something at a discount trash a card or draw a card but you also have to play a card for nothing what the heck these guys suck well they i think the drawing card one could be good if i keep on buying stuff so we'll try them as for our ai friends they are able to kill a monster this time it's just worth five victory points of them so they won't advance their research and extra space as for me i can exhaust disguise a free action i get to draw a car but then i have to play one for nothing so i'll certainly do that one and then as my main action i'll play the dog that'll get me a compass and i can also activate an unoccupied basic campsite and that means my good good boy is gonna find me an arrowhead good job buddy ai's getting low on actions ah they're gonna buy the best victory point item no contest this time the axe is the only point two one there oh we got a pretty good new card gain a coin plus one compass for each of your guys already on the boards that could be three things for one card not bad as for me hmm i could advance one of my research things one space but i think i would rather wait until i have a gem to get this a bonus compass here and then i could use those to move my journal up and get my second assistant but that'll have to wait for next round so i'm going to pass meanwhile the ai it's going to go to a site with an arrowhead we don't care and do some research and once again they don't have a choice they're just moving up to the big middle spot here and another round bites the dust goodbye flask and crystal earring staff moves around three and we've got coconut flasks we just have so many uh liquids and things and a stone jar to go with our mortar what the heck and for me i've called to the point where i don't have any cards left in my deck so i'm just going to shuffle these six i like to keep buying things to make that uh grappling hook worth it i'm going to draw five nice i get both my special ones my assistant refreshes and once we bring back all the archaeologists and shuffle the ai's tiles we're ready to go again you know when i did the research i forgot to get rid of the person from the highest tile so there we go okay ai starts round three with getting a compass action again but once again somewhat lucky that is not what i was going for anyway now for me i do want to jump on this nice jewel spot before it gets taken and the ai's going on a coin spot that'll be that site and for my action i think i'm going to use my dog before too many sites are taken so i get a compass and then i think i want two tablets because i'm gonna try to get an artifact this turn and tablets let you use your artifacts as you'll see except for when you first buy them you gotta spend a tablet each time okay the ai's going for an arrowhead so they're going to cover up the last really good spot available but that's okay because i'm going to focus on researching for a minute i have to be my magnifying glass first so that'll be the jewel i'm going to gain a compass from this token plus one just for advancing so that'll be two and now the ai will take a tablet space only one available is right here and now i don't wanna let the ai get the artifact i'm gunning for because it is via two victory point one so it would be the one they prefer so i'll go and spend three compasses to grab it and i mentioned this before but to go into more detail when you buy an artifact you immediately use the ability for free ignore that little icon so here i'll get two coins and get to use one of the available assistant powers on the supply board but then it'll be in my hand for this round and i can play it again for the same effect by paying a tablet or i can use it as a plane if i'd like to so two coins and i think i'm actually going to use this lady and get another compass because i might want to explore a site this turn and we do have to fill in hopefully some big three or three point card won't come up awesome now we've doomed the ai to draw something for only one point speaking of the ai what are they up to killing a monster they can't so instead they're gonna research and they have that right preference they're gonna knock that spot out meanwhile for me hmm i do have enough compasses to explore so i'll probably do that but first i want to buy another car that's looking good to me and that's this fyodolite i looked at earlier it's going to get me a coin and two compasses if i play it right which of course i'll plan to and it's going to the bottom of my deck but with only two cards left and my grappling hook and my assistant waiting i should be able to draw into it pretty easily ah but bad luck i drew into a steamboat unless i can somehow gain three more coins to stop the ai from getting it it's gonna be all theirs and the ai buys most expensive artifact on the right in this case it's the mortar bye bye for one victory point actually wait wait i could get that steamboat couldn't i all right let's try to race for it i'm going to use a tablet to play my coconut flask again now it actually goes to my plate area so i once again get to two coins then i have the third from here and i can use an ability again and let's go for the lady who gives me a compass again now i have enough to explore a site okay now don't buy an item and steal from me oh okay no they're going for a jewel space not that i would have done that anyway no problem and now let's do this i'm going to buy that steamboat three victory points and when i draw into it i'll get me two compasses all by itself so it should be swimming in compasses theoretically and it's replaced by a one victory point card perfect now the ai will indeed buy a card right most that's the compass that just came out let's see all that's left should be discovering a site and then researching i think but i've still got a bunch of stuff i can do let's go and use my grappling hook so i need to play another card for nothing which has to be that one that's kind of a bummer then i get to draw a card which is just this funding one and then i can trash a card from my play area i think i've got more ways in my deck to gain compasses than coins so i'm going to trash one of these guys and now this one can go to my assistant to draw a different car but we'll get to that in a second first the ai is indeed gonna research they're all the way up here and they're gonna ditch the leftmost assistant this lady would have upgraded one type of these tokens so a tablet to an arrowhead or an arrowhead to a jewel speaking of i wanted to spend an arrowhead in a tablet to research then i'll give my other permanent assistant i definitely don't need culling ooh a coin becomes an arrowhead that's pretty good hmm i think i have enough ways to get extra compasses or the movement option is nice yeah i like being able to get arrowheads consistently let's go for her the ai's final action should be to get a sight i believe yes they're gonna go for the bottom most one they do get this which they didn't already have no monster just oh interesting this one would get you a compass and a jewel but also a fear card which is not nearly as bad for me since clearly i'm kind of milling through my deck maybe even a little too quickly all right meanwhile huh the problem is i don't have stuff to uh actually go to the place if i want to explore while still using my abilities all right so first let's draw into my better card so i got to play this and i can draw this i mean i could use this for the boat icon or i could put my guy down and then play this and get a coin to get an arrowhead and two more compasses i'm not sure and what sights could i go to with this oh it seems so expensive you know i think i'm just going to play this and just give up on doing a site this round but first i should clearly place my archaeologist oh i don't know how hard to do that ah what am i doing to myself oh my gosh maybe i should consider something like i guess i could get that artifact ah what the heck let's try it okay so here's uh two of those to buy the stone jar let me draw a card immediately for free and that'll get me my two compasses back if i want yeah okay i think this could still work when you get my two compasses and then yes i can use the stone jar instead of paying the tablet i can use that as my airplane to fly to any kind of site i want so i'll spend three and that airplane trash a card or get an exploration token i mean trashing a card seems dumb because i'm drawing so much so let's do that and first my bonus coin and two tablets that's cool and now my nemesis another flying guy they just don't like me okay i need a plane and a arrowhead i have neither of those at the moment but it would not be the worst thing in the world if i got a fear card i've clearly got ways to get rid of them okay now i can go ahead and play this so i'll get a coin plus two compasses and i should probably use one of them to get an arrow head there we go which does give me enough to research up that's probably a good idea let's spend two of those and the arrowhead to get up there oh actually wait a second look at this if i buy this i can research with a discount of either one hour head or two tablets sure i've got the tokens let's uh go for it so remember i immediately get the bonus i'm gonna get a discount of two tablets and just spend my one arrowhead to get up there which will get me another compass now it's a bit pricey but i can spend one more tablet to use this and then ignore the arrowhead and use my other two tablets to get that one up and the bonus there is to upgrade one of my guys so he'll get me a card draw automatically without spending anything or she can get me a coin for a jewel or an arrowhead and the cool thing is they immediately untapped so i'm to go for her and let's go ahead and use her and get me a jewel what the hell what's up there i'm going to go ahead and get two tablets i think i'll need them and i'm losing victory points by doing that but that lets me research up to here for a tablet and a jewel and i get the tablet right back plus a compass token and man you know i might be getting a little crazy i think i'm going to spend all of these to get traders coins so let's me upgrade a tablet to an arrowhead i also gained two coins and instead of spending a tablet to use this again i can use it as a plane and an arrowhead and kill this guy and hey what's up there i can trash a card let's see i crashed a compass earlier see let's trash a jeep coin this time and get my deck looking hopefully pretty good and okay okay i think i'll actually stop there so going into the last two rounds of the game we're getting rid of this ostrich and this sundial we got an obsidian earring and a monkey medallion so none of your regular items are worth more than one of these worth more than two so not too much danger for the ai getting them i'm taking my big bunch of cards shuffling them up i have no idea what i get for my five hopefully some card draw and speaking of card draw if i can advance my journal again i'll get a card without spending one all right pretty nice um mix of things only one basic card in there but no card draw yet all right after a fairly involved round three ending let's see they're going right for a item they want the leftmost one which will be the pack donkey but it's only one victory point so no worries and a watch comes out as for me ish i think i again might want to use my dog right off the bat to get some stuff i need although maybe i want to jump to one of these spaces that would give me the same kind of stuff i'm thinking i need some more tablets for all my artifacts but after the moment let's go and play the dog and get two tablets plus the compass okay as for the a.i gonna try to kill a monster clearly there aren't any so they'll just uh research and they want the rightmost spot then i cut that off man again a lot of points here and that's for me before i do anything else i'm pretty sure i'm gonna research this turn and get to upgrade this person so i might as well use his unupgraded version first so i gotta draw a card first and then i have to play one for no effect i guess i'll do the basic exploration card let's use the grappling hook i gotta play another card for no effect which i think i'll actually do the inscribed blade 4 then i get to draw a card i got my steamboat and i can trash this card for the other part of that okay i'll still get to draw for free in a moment when i upgrade that guy first they're going to go to a jewel space the leftmost one which will actually be this one with a fear that's okay with me and as for me i'd like to get this person upgraded so i'm going to spend a coin to get an head and i'll spin that arrow head and a tablet and another coin and then i'll get my journal over here getting that bonus compass and i get to upgrade my character again and remember he untaps immediately so let's go ahead and use him to draw another card oh i still have another basic card all right how about you a i go into an arrowhead space leftmost which will be that one well let's see now that i got this uh basic little boat card let's uh go ahead and use it go here and get a coin and two more tablets hey i is gonna buy the most expensive artifact breaking ties to the right that'll be the obsidian earring for two i mean all for me i have way too many tablets i could get two more of those from the steamboat and then explore another spot and i like this because that'll untap a guy to let me draw a card so okay let's choose my good cards for this let's use the steamboat to get two more so i have three compasses and then use the boat icon here to go there so i'll get to untap my card draw guy then i can either get two compasses or an item for free but both the items are kind of crud this time so let's get the two compasses out of the three i spent but i do get to see a monster needs two coins and an arrowhead i currently have none of those things but my traders coins could get me them for now let's see what my new draw is oh the coconut flask they'll give me even more coins yeah what are you doing over here go to a spot not that i care about that but it is this lovely picturesque place right there but it's my action i'm going to use the traders coins that'll cost me one tablet i can upgrade a second tablet into an arrowhead to take out that bug beetle guy and i'm also gaining the two coins it will take to kill him nice the ai meanwhile i was gonna do a level two set we gotta move this camera up a bit so it has to be one of these that's going to get them two tokens but this right one always stays face down so if i got it i wouldn't gain the bonus and for them it doesn't qualify for any of the types so it's only gonna be two victory points they're getting basically five victory points for going here and there will be a monster there oh the level two spots are so good two compasses and a jewel if i go there next round although a crazy zebra warthog thing will be waiting for me yikes but don't worry about that for now let's go ahead and take this guy out and he'll give me a bike for next turn so i'll use a card to move and while the a i will go to a spot looks like down here it looks like i'm going to use my coconut flasks that'll give me two coins i can use a silver ability on one of the available assistants which i guess i got i got a lot of coins i don't think i need two more and exiling a card won't really matter so i guess i'm just going to get a compass that seems like a bit of a waste but okay all right ai is almost done they are researching and getting rid of the left most highest pile wait those are both three so yes it would be her they're up to let's see left here 16 points if they get up here they'll take the 23 spot they'll get rid of one of these two face down ones and they'll start taking sixes if they continue exploring after that and that's for me i could spend some stuff or even get another idol bonus but i don't really want to lose three and four victory points i think i'm uh good i'll pass the ai has one last thing okay so let's go into a spot so it won't really matter let's set up for the final round so whip is gone sorry indy cleansing cauldron and this is a bunch of one artifacts plus a single two one and then no really good items for the ai to get so i'm not too worried about taking stuff before they do all right so ai's first turn to the final round going to the highest spot with tablets that'll be this nice one right here meanwhile as for me i've got all these good cards i don't want to spend on anything although ooh steamboat gets me two boats by itself that seems kind of too good to pass up i could go here and then i'm sure i can manage to kill that guy one way or another so sure let's do that before the ai jumps on it so the monster doesn't stop me from going there i'll just get my two compasses and my jewel but then of course i have to kill him or take the fear card at the end of the turn and i want to do it anyway for the five uh victory points oh you know what's silly me i might as well draw a free card since i can okay my wander that's a airplane if i don't even want to use the ability meanwhile the ai gonna buy the most expensive item there's only one it's that watch for one victory point oh well although ooh a three victory point automobile came out if i have three coins left at the end of the round i will certainly get that because 350 points for three coins is excellent all right now let's see if i kill that guy he'll get me a jeep and then i've got another one on this guy which would give me two jeeps to maybe go and explore one of these spots that seems pretty cool let's see i don't really think i'm gonna use a tablet to draw a single card so i'll use that as the foot as silly as that seems and then i can use that actually i don't have an arrow yet so the question is do i send my dog to get me an arrow or do i use her ability to get an arrow but give up on the chance of getting a jewel i like the dog option so let's use him first i'll get a compass and an arrow all right then the ai is gonna discover another level two site with no monster and they want the rightmost again which is kind of them they give me my choice of which jeep one i want to go to but sadly they have not gotten this one yet so it's gonna be another full three points and it doesn't really matter what this is because i'll never get the chance to go there but uh that was pretty nice draw a card and get all that stuff wow you know what actually i'm hoping i might get to actually use that so let's spend two coins oh no this is dumb this is dumb right i was gonna say let's spend three coins and an arrowhead that'll get me a plane to be the foot for that monster plus the other stuff i need yeah it might be foolish but i'm keeping my cards and i defeat that guy and now he gives me a second jeep meanwhile the ai is researching and trash in a person how that really matters this is the highest pile there we go and then he does get to the 23 spot and get rid of this all right let's get all the gettings good i'll use both of my free jeeps and all six of my compasses and i'm gonna go to the one that gets me a tablet to hopefully use my artifacts so there we go remember this one stays face down oh i don't really mind the fear card because i might have a ways to get rid of that but this is nice so the fear card goes straight to my play area i could trash if i get an effect but two tablets and two arrowheads yes please and there is a monster there but i have to play a card for nothing and do a coin and an arrowhead i should be able to make that happen and i can trash the fear i just got meanwhile the a i go into an arrowhead spot i mean again it doesn't really matter at this point i'm gonna get my abilities going might as well use this one now both my guys are placed so i'll get a coin and two compasses well you know actually let's use my stone jar first to see what it gets me so that's one tablet to draw a card that is not what i wanted to spend a tablet on darn it okay another spot we don't care about just because my guys are plower placed now well you want to use the coconut flats because i definitely need some more money so that's a tablet you get two coins and use a silver ability you know what i mean you have to guess i'm just going to get two more coins because again i can buy that automobile for three points worst case a.i is going to another spot we don't care i mean we might as well kill this guy while i'm remembering it so i guess i'll use this funding card as the one card played one coin one arrowhead bye bye and his ability gets rid of the fear card the spot gave me and ai is almost fully done they can't kill a monster so they're gonna research again and since they're at the top they just get a nice six victory point tile as for me i've definitely got some stuff i can research with i've killed a bunch of monsters that'll be a lot of victory points i still haven't used her either let's see i need as many resources as i can to uh research and do other stuff so let's get a money and two compasses ai's second to last action nothing important so now all this comes down to getting as many victory points as i can um i guess i'll go ahead and spend a coin and a jewel and that will get me up here i also get another one of those and as the last action is to buy the best artifact they can which is this monkey medallion for two victory points and then they are done i'm just going to try to get as much as i can sadly none of the artifacts are worth a lot of victory points but i do want to try to get that automobile i'll see what i can research more i'm going to use uh inscribed blade pay one tablet to i guess ignore both the tablets there which will just cost my last arrow then that'll give me three more three points oh and a card draw all right i got that one i'm not sure i'm gonna use it the reason being i'd have to spend my only tablet left then i wouldn't have anything to actually upgrade unless i put one of these up here and lose three or three points to get two tablets i'll have to make sure it's worth it to do that let's see i can use her and one to get a jewel and yeah if i did that oh man is this gonna be worth it yeah i think it will i think it will okay so i'm gonna get two tablets i'll use one to play traders coins it gives me two and i can upgrade one of these into an arrowhead and then here we go here we go let's see that would be tablet and arrowhead and coin i have all of those that's four more victory points and i get a compass and then yes i have a jewel i have a compass i have a coin so i get 21 points and i do gain the leftover prize which is a coin back which will lead me enough to buy the automobile awesome yeah so we're definitely doing that for those three victory points here it goes to the bottom of my deck and all i have left are these so i guess i might as well buy an artifact i could get these tiles if i had the appropriate stuff so like to get these twos i just need to pay the one cost the sixes require both costs so like to get this one i need a jewel and a compass and an arrowhead and the 11 needs everything yeah looking at these artifacts so if i want this one for three i can move one of my guys to a camp and activate it which could like get me uh arrowhead or something that doesn't really help reveal the top stack of the level one site activated then put it on the bottom well hey these are useless anyway so i might as well go for it it is one victory point regardless so it goes in my hand let's see if i have any luck draw a card and an arrowhead uh okay so i got my grappling hook so i could play the guiding stone down to draw a card and trash a card sure i'm not gonna use the guiding stone again and i do have this basic card to trash i don't lose any victory points oh and i get my automobile that's funny i guess i'll get two compasses oh man oh man look at this i squeaked my way into two more victory points with that arrowhead and that compass awesome all right there we go another big turn at the end let's see how the ai did first so first we look at their research just their one token which is 23 plus 6 29 not bad oh actually that's where that 6 would have gone but whatever then we look at their idols they've got 15 for full value and then two for two weeks that'll be 19. monsters killed i didn't give them the chance much they only get five and finally points from their deck they have 16 overall so that is 69 a respectable score but i'm pretty sure we're gonna beat it heading over to me i get the combo of my research so 21 plus four the square value so 25. i get two points for this bonus token my idol score is equal to the idols i got plus any spaces i didn't cover so i've got 19 as well tied with them but now here's where i'm going to destroy them i got five enemies so that is 25 points and i think i might have beaten them on cards as well uh 16 so actually i exactly tied them and i had no fear cards left seven unless i cheated somewhere i'm sure you all will let me know in the comments i got 87 to 69 on the hardest difficulty setting yeah i don't know maybe i messed up somewhere but either way uh feeling great i got some good combos there some really strong turns around three and five but if you want to hear my thoughts about the game my review click the link that just popped up thanks for watching so much good game and we'll see you at the next stop

Channel: One Stop Co-op Shop

Views: 29,865

Keywords: board, game, one stop, co-op shop, cge, lost ruins of arnak, playthrough, solo

Id: 76H6lnWdxRs

Length: 43min 4sec (2584 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 05 2020