Maracaibo Uprising: Solo Playthrough

[Music] [Music] right and i think we are live good evening everybody good afternoon wherever you are in the world uh as always please let me know if you can hear me and you can see me okay and welcome to a very uh very rushed um solo playthrough of maracaibo with the expansion and i will be honest with you i run out of time i didn't realize it was 6 30 um and i wasn't ready whatsoever uh so i i'm not fully i'm not fully prepared thank you very much matt for letting me know that everything is working okay so we're not we're not fully set up yet so if you want to see how how the setup goes then then you can i've done bits of it uh we are we are going to dive straight in uh this is not a sponsored playthrough uh if it was i would have spent more time preparing but the reason i'm covering maracaibo tonight is every month i do a poll on my patreon page and my supporters my patreon supporters vote on which solo game i will play and last month the vote was that australia got won the vote but maracaibo came close vicky is away tonight uh her sisters i love maracaibo so i figured let's do it so this is this is why although it came second in the vote i i always try to get more in if i can um so yeah thank you very much um and yeah just so you know uh all of my advertising revenue goes to charity it always does but this month uh well certainly until further notice all of my advertising revenue is going to charities supporting the crisis in ukraine at the moment so yeah a big thank you to everybody who is watching this video your money uh the advertising revenue is is going to a good place so yeah thank you very much for that right we're going to jump in we're going to be playing tonight the rescue so the the um the the the expansion for this game comes with lots of different variability it's got cooperative modes it's got a new competitive mode it's got all sorts of different modules and it's a little bit confusing i'll be honest but we're going to be playing uh we're going to be playing the rescue which is apparently really hard but we're going to try it now the rescue uses home ports so i know how they work i'm not set them up yet jacques i vaguely remember how he works the search which i've never used before free in the caribbean which i have used and the resistance tile which i have used before so the objective of this particular scenario the theme behind it is freedom fighter looser has been taken prisoner you must find and free her before it's too late okay now if you're playing the campaign thank you very much to peter for helping me out with this um if you're playing the campaign it would be card 185 we're just playing a standalone scenario so it uses scenario card 193 and it does say it is particularly challenging i've also lost my metal money i can't find my metal money for this game so i'm using uh i'm using iron clays tonight as well so we're we're halfway through the setup and we're going to be using card 193 and it says if you're using card 193 oh well let's do the start place quest tiles on the board as shown on the reverse side of the scenario card okay so the scenario card is 193. um nations control the following locations quest tiles here we go quest out let's get these off the board i need to do the city setup as well um so quest with one to four players there is a quest in 19 so i'm going to take that quest there and put it in camarco there you go that's that done if we were playing with four players we'd also have a quest on nine and then free the fight free the freedom fighter place card 191 next to this card or solo 192. so i'm using solo so it's 192. okay right uh then we need two nations control the following locations so in the cooperative version of the game and when you're playing with the free the caribbean freeing the caribbean module the nation starts off in control of the cities and you've got to fight against them so that's what we're going to be doing so france starts off in control of am i taking these from the right place yes i am um locations two to seven and in the solo game it is one cube per location other than nine to sixteen so frank the the french start off in control of petitgov uh tortuga um santo domingo puerto plata well that's porter plata where's tortuga there's tortuga um not santiago san juan and also sent kits okay spain starts off in control of eight to thirteen however in a solo game not nine to sixteen so nine to sixteen are unoccupied and then england is 17 18 and 19. so england have porto cabezas uh lasiba and komarco okay so that's that setup done um oh yeah the app for this is fantastic yeah the nation cube tray this came with the um the insert from who was it from i can't remember um wooden insert polish company i can't remember really nice but uh that don't need glue somebody somebody reminded me i did a video for them um i can't remember now no raptor e-raptor that's it e-raptor remembered um and chris has just put it in the chat there okay there you go right so if we were playing two player it would be simply one cube per location in a three player or four player game there are more cubes on the board right legacy tiles so what we need to do is we are using legacy tile l1 so these are the legacy tiles that come with the game which modify the the way the board is and there's loads of them now so we're going to be using legacy tile l1 which is where is it it's the first one that comes out when you're playing the campaign brilliant can't find it there is l1 so porto cabezas has actually become a city rather than a town which means we need another quest tile there okay and then there is a random setup to choose other ones now do we need to do the deck first yeah if you're using card 185 remove the legacy tiles that are described on the card i'm not using card 185 i am using card 193 so when using card 193 i shuffle 90 to 106 which are these cards with the number on the bottom so i've got them all out ready these cards are going to get shuffled in with the b cards before counting out the 40 cards okay and we put legacy tile l1 on the board so legacy tile l1 has gone on the board and these are going to get shuffled in with the b cards even though it's interesting because some of it is a little confusing because some of these have got the dark the dark brown border dark brown border means that they are normally um c cards or a cards whatever anyway i'm going to shuffle these in this is the one downside of the game i love the game from a mechanic's point of view uh and the way that it works but the setup in order to have the variability is a little bit of a beast because what you need to do before the setup of each game you need to shuffle this big deck of b cards and you need to take 40 of them out at random and then you mix them with the a cards but i believe your starting hand of cards comes from the a cards okay so this is the b deck this is going to get a big shuffle and then we are only going to use 40 of these cards and this is where the variability in the game comes in we're only using 40 of these cards so you always use all of the a cards because they are staple cards that are needed um but there is the there is the b cards as well um and they you don't know which ones you're going to get and they'll provide some extra variability okay so we're going to do that now so i'm shuffling the b cards and then i'm going to deal out 40 of these that should be enough okay right okay so one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen 16 17 18 19 20. unfortunately the backs of these cars are a bit different one two three four five one two three four five thankfully i'm just sort of doing things at random one two three four five cut one two three four five okay so they are the 40 b cards that i'm using okay right next i know no sleeves crazy isn't it considering how much i've played this game yeah it's shocking okay that doesn't look like 40. one two three four five six seven eight nine ten yeah it is just doesn't look very much right so they're the 40b cards right now the a cards of which there are this many however many that is um i take all of those and then i believe tell me if i'm wrong but i believe that i get eight of these six seven eight and that's gonna be my starting cards that i choose from and then we shuffle those cards with those cards um and i remember the last time i did this there was a little bit of a confusion and i did ask the designer and i can't remember what you told me of when we now go through this deck um so i'm going to do it i'm going to do it now because what we do is we're going to go through a process to add legacy tiles to the board and it wasn't clear exactly when you do that the nation you battle for always wins all you do is you choose how much stuff you want yes basically um yeah when you when you fight in this game uh when you're not playing with the free in the caribbean you basically choose which nation you're fighting for and and yes you always win and you just choose whichever rewards you want it's exactly the same with free in the caribbean um you are you're just trying to remove the cubes rather than adding the cubes it's a nice little thematic twist okay so what we're doing is we are going to reveal a card and then we're going to put a legacy that is basically a random setup for the board so the card is a periscope which means we are using legacy tile l33 okay so l33 then we're going to look at another one and it is another periscope so we're using l37 and then the third one is a book which is l18 so it's basically a nice little uh random setup to determine uh which cards get used so that's the discard pile we can put that off camera and i think this is going to be my market now if you know the game you will probably have noticed already that the cards which you normally put at the top there i've actually got down the right hand side i'm also going to have to raise me up a little bit because oh no where's my cushions gone i don't have any cushions oh dear that means i'm gonna be leaning forward quite a bit uh but they're the cards there and i think i've got a camera point set yes so they're the cards in the market that i can buy from there's the deck discard piles over there right okay so let's do the cities next oh no let's do the legacy titles right okay so we're using l18 l18 basically means there are storms brewing there which means it's going to cost three movement points to go that way that's not going to affect us that much because we probably won't go that way very often but if we do it's going to cost us three movement points to go across there the next tile is this one now this is a new one i don't know this one so i'm going to have to look this one up this is from the expansion this is blue fields um have i got a zoom in point for that i don't i've got this one i'll move it across there you go so this is the legacy tile that we've just added on there and let's find out what this one does so this is a new one this is legacy tile l33 okay if your ship's movement 33 33 if your ship's movement ends on this space you may before your main action reveal the top card of the project card pile and receive the reward corresponding to the object on the card discard the card afterwards okay so if i end my movement here before my action i basically reveal the top card of the deck and get either three money two points an assistant or two combat points okay nice right there we go uh let's move that back over to there right next l37 now this is also a new one and it says dennis beck on the back so thank you dennis for this uh and i know what this one does i've had this one before this basically means once per game whenever i am going to l13 not l13 into space 13 port royal i can actually go back on myself and i put a counter on there now the benefits of that are that removes one disk from my board so it is useful to do if i do get a chance to do it but it means that yeah i'll be taking longer to do it which means jack is probably going to get more turns okay so that's the legacy titles now to set up the cities how do you do this you have to use the ones with the that symbol on how many do i need i only need four so i use those two and two other ones chosen at random okay sure sure he's my own form with his uh with his puns one two right okay and then when we've got these tiles we give these issues there's so much variability in this game okay so port royal is spend a corn get a combat point remove a disc uh porto planter is spend a coin get two explorations uh spend a coffee get two money do a village action and spend a sugar get three combat points so nothing special in any of those right what else do we have to do with the setup read the reverse of this card quest on 19 we've done that free the freedom fighter we use card 192. we'll go through that in a minute how that works and then we're going to add quests at the end of this round now this is my first request if you're watching this live i always forget to do this so remind me at the end of each round i need to add quests to the board we win the game if we freed the freedom fighter along with the rest of the caribbean and jack was last so we've got three objectives we have to free lusa uh lysa lusa however you pronounce her name we have to completely free the caribbean so we've got to get rid of all of these ownership cubes and jacques we need a counter for jack jack has got to come last so we're going to track jack's victory points with the green marker and we've got to beat jack so there you go we've got three things that we're trying to do right what's next let's get these legacy tiles out of the way we don't need those um home tiles let's do the home tiles so when you're playing with the home tiles what you do is you give them a shuffle and you pick three of them at random well i'm glad i've helped you find a game paul missed a joke about the resistance yes i did i did was it a good one was it a good joke right so we got three home tiles and out of those three i pick which one i want now do i pick home tile at the same time as i'm picking my cards that's a good one let's have a look when do we do that when do we do the home tiles that's from this expansion home ports game setup during setup shuffle the homeports face down and deal three of them to each player while choosing project and career cards okay so i don't have to choose my home port now speaking of career cards i think we are limited so we're using the module we're using is the resistance tile so yeah we're using the resistance our all players should turn over the resistance tile on their ship boards done that there are several ways to liberate a location project cars that show the symbol depicted to the right by using the village action of the resistor as well as l40 from the module uprising okay i don't think we have l40 um yeah uprising is l40 i don't think we're using uprising no we're not that's one of the modules that we're not using okay but we are using three in the caribbean module which is so many modules here we go uh all players turn the combat action tile over which i've done right here we go instead of choosing between two random career cards randomly give each player one of the following now i'm going to just use the fellowship one because it is the special gaming rules uh promo card so that's the one i'm going to use so if you've bought this game if you've bought the expansion for this game you do get a special promo card which unfortunately is misprinted but that's what we're going with we're going with the gaming rules promo card which is fellowship and unfortunately yeah the misprints are the the bonus there should be two money and two points three money and three points and four money and three points uh it's just printed with points but it should be money as well so yeah an unfortunate misprint on the card but that's the one we're going to be using right what else have we got to do from setup i think we are almost done oh i'm playing on not the easiest difficulty but the next easiest difficulty so this deck is made up of uh one two three four five a cards and two b cards just so like you know got something let me throw and we need to go through uh we need to go through this as well we've got one more bit of rules to go through and if this looks painful and taking a while to get into it is because i haven't prepared normally i will spend like an hour or two preparing for this and i just run out of time today because i thought oh yeah i'll do it at seven o'clock instead of eight o'clock and then yeah completely run out of time i'll blame the cats there you go um so we've done jacques what else do we have to set up free in the caribbean so yeah i've done that done that done that liberating city done that influence scoring done that the search here we go so one of the other modules we're using is the search so we we've got card 192 in the area which is this one so this is called 192 because we're playing solo it would be 191 with two to four players um and we need to mix up these tokens so we have a whole bunch of extra tokens that are only used for this particular scenario okay so i'm going to mix these up put them off camera so i need to sort out the red ones first okay take out the green ones there's not as many of those so these are the red ones okay give them a give them a shuffle um so mix up the remaining hints and stacked oh no no it should have been all of them oh now that i've separated him out i shouldn't have done that so with two and four players you put some of them on the card already with one player you don't do that you just you just mix them all up so these are the hints and in locations 2 3 6 8 10 14 15 16 17 and 18 and 19 we stack two of them face down okay so these can come off the board and i need to put two of them in location two in petty guard okay board's gonna get busy uh two of them in location three in tortuga so we are going to have to go there two of them in location six two of them in location eight uh two in location ten two in location fourteen two in location fifteen two in sixteen two and seventeen two in eighteen and 2 in 19 right so they are hints basically we've got to travel around and we're trying to find clues so when we end our movement in a location with at least one hint you may before your main action draw and reveal one hint if it's a red one we put it on a red space on the card and we get the indicated reward you cannot reveal hints if both red spaces on the card are filled okay however any time on your turn even before movement you can remove hints from the card by paying objects that match those on the hints all right okay if we reveal a green hint we put it on a green space and we get two points and once the last green space is filled we have found where lusa is being held we remove all hints from the board and we flip the card over and that will tell us where she is and then i've not read the other side so that'll be a bit of a surprise for us oh if you're playing solo then you have found looser once there are exactly 11 hints left on the board okay is that instead or as well all green space is filled or exactly 11 on the board right we need to try and remember that uh now you must free her right okay we'll read that we'll read that later i think we all i think we are all ready to start apart from the eight starting cards so here we go we've got we're now choosing which one of these cards to plan which three to discard and which four to put in our hand and when we're doing that oh gosh we've got three harbors while we're doing that we can also choose a home port so the three home ports we've got are orangisted or understand which sounds scandinavian once we've unlocked this we can spend three money to get 10 points and then as a village action we can spend two corn to gain three combat points okay the next one jacqueline formerly for ten points whenever we do combat we can spend ah now this one is no good because it gets influenced with spain now influence with spain is two points because we're freeing the caribbean um but yeah i think i think okay i say it's no good it might actually be okay let me just check home port tiles they are all explained in the rulebook yes so when you fight for the indicated or when you fight against the indicated nation you have a new combat action available to you which is basically uh two combat points to get four money and instead of getting influence with spain you get two points instead and the third option and feel free to let me know in the chat which one you think i should take uh orangistad jacquemel or rossu russo um when you stop at a french location take two money now that's actually going to be quite good at the start of the game and these these these abilities will only unlock once we've removed the two counters so we do get two counters on there so that one i'm not sure is actually going to be very good because we're going to be removing these blue cubes as the game goes on so it might look good at the start but if we have it it's it's actually locked we don't get the ability until we've unlocked it so i'm i'm thinking not that one um yeah yeah definitely go and watch um definitely subscribe to tom from slicker drips tom's a good friend of mine and we do a lot of um i'm in a lot of his streams and he pops into a lot of mine and we're both patreon supporters of each so yeah if you like the kind of games that i like and you like live play throughs on youtube definitely go and check out tom's slicker drip's channel um he did tapestry solo this afternoon um i'm not sure any of these are actually any good i think i'm going to take this one i think i'm going to take jacqueline has anybody else in the chat had any uh other preferences no right excellent we're going with jacqueline so that's what we're going with i've not played any of these three before if you wanted more variability right now choosing starting cards and then we're almost ready we are almost ready to go so we've got three harbours it all depends which route we want to go down now my fellowship card is i want to be doing quests i want to be taking combat tokens and i want to be getting assistance on the board okay these two cards no these three cards will get us assistance on the board oh yeah now we've also got this one now these cards are a little bit good in this expansion because normally there has to be three french cubes on the board in order for me to be able to play that card which means you can't play the card at the start of the game when playing the normal game however because in this version of the game we've already got three french cubes on the board at the start of the game this is quite a good card to get out because it's going to increase my income and my points so i'm tempted to keep that in my hand and i think that's going to be the first card that i'm going to play which means i'm actually not going to keep it in my hand i'm going to plan it so that's going to be the card that i planned now which four cards am i going to keep in my hand i also need to decide where i'm going to go first oh this is tricky because we've now got these extra tokens on the board this is this has thrown a whole extra dimension to the game now um and we've also got quests to consider and the quests on the board right now require two periscopes and two books but that's going to be ages away so i i'm thinking of keeping the two periscopes in hand and then using them at porto cabezas because that's quite nice but i also need a call so there's that and there's that which means i'm only now keeping one card in hand and it all depends where we're gonna go are we gonna play the sailor let's play the sailor right so they're the four cards i'm gonna keep in hand okay these are the three i'm getting rid of all three harbors is that a bad idea it possibly is but because if i'm going to keep a sailor and i'm going to play a sailor oh i've got two types of sailors no no i'm going to i'm going to do it i'm going to get rid of the three harbors right we are ready to go i've got my starting cards and yes planning cards is an amazing part of this game that i always forget to do so i've got my cards down there that you can see let's make me a little bit smaller uh where's me i can't find it we can't see where i am there's me i'm gonna make me a little bit smaller and put me down there there we go okay right we're ready to go i think we are ready to go now we are playing with jack who is the solo player and it's been a while since i've played the solo game with jack um but we've done that jack's victory point marker starts on space zero and basically every time i've taken a turn we're going to reveal the title we're going to reveal the next card and then we'll see what jack does so we are off it took longer to set up than it probably did to play the game but that's just because i'm a little bit rusty with how to play what are we going to do as my first oh i start with 20 money as well and again i'm using the iron clays because i can't find the metal money from this game i don't know where it is i've put it somewhere safe and i could plan some more cards as well that would allow me to draw some more cards we got a new one here an archaeologist that's a new card from the expansion okay that's interesting that is interesting but it's very expensive 15. oh and we've got the prestige cards if we if we needed more things to think about we've got the prestige cards for end of game scoring so that one's going to give points for combat tokens which is something that i want to get anyway points for synergy tokens points for quest and points for moving on the exploration track and if you're confused as to why all four are revealed it's because i'm playing the variant rule where they are all revealed at the start of the game but we are in round one so we can only do that card these cards are not accessible at the moment but i always like to have them revealed okay so where are we going to go are we going to go to santiago first i don't think we are are we going to go to petty guard and start the search i'll get to do one village action while i'm there which could be to play michelle de gramont that seems like a nice start so let's do that trying to remember how to play the blooming game yeah i'm just going to move two okay and then i get to do one action however um i have ended my turn where is it where is it when ending movement in a location with at least one hint you may before your main action draw and reveal one hint i'm totally gonna do it okay so we're gonna have a word have a chat with the people to see if they know anything it's green excellent so that goes on there and i get two points now if all three green spaces are filled i found out where she's being kept now we get to do the action the main action and because i moved two spaces i only get to do one action i'm going to spend 10 money and i am going to play michelle de gramonte now where are my cards going to be that i've played hmm i don't quite i don't quite know where to put stuff to be honest um yeah so cards that i've played actually i'm going to put cards that i've played here and this is going to be my planning area is that going to get confusing i think that is going to get confusing so what i'm going to have to do is i'm going to have to move this up i'll move that to there maybe and i'm going to keep these off camera and cards that i've played are just going to go here there you go um oh miguel's in the chat thank you very much recently started watching the video too many bones yes i need to get back to too many bones i will do at some point this year but with the with chip theory games getting hopler marcus out and burn cycle and i want to play clown spire more yeah it's just a case of time it really is i've given up the rule book work this year in order to have more time to play games to produce more content and i will get there i will get there eventually anyway we've played this card um so it gives me an extra compass and it increases my money income by two and my victory points by two done i think that's it yeah i moved there i got one main action i played a card okay so now we're on to jack's first turn and the way that jax works jacques is you basically this is jack's first card so you look here to see what jack is going to do and that is basically he's going to put a disc on location number four so we look at location number four and we put a disc on there and that simulates that jacques has moved there and used that location so jack doesn't have a boat like gene does in the first game but that's basically what jack does now when the end of the round happens jack is going to score points based on how many cards are in there so you want jacques to have as fewer turns as possible um yeah did i want to plan a card that's a very good point yes as i'm always forgetting if i planned a card it means i could pick up something else now i'm thinking of playing this sailor now i need to make sure that i keep the right things for this but where am i going to go next that's the question am i going to go to maracaibo next i don't know can i get to maracaibo next one two three four five six seven i could get to maracaibo which means i actually want that to do some fighting so no i don't want to plan a card just yet yeah no i think i'm good right it's back to me and i think i'm gonna rush i'm going to skip past all of these spaces and we're going to go to maracaibo and we'll see we'll see what happens is that what i want to do or do i want to play this sailor and get the sailor out no i want to play the sailor because if i play the sailor then while the sailor is in play every time i do combat i get a free combat point so i probably did want to plan never mind never mind right where are we going to go we could just move one no i think we're going to go to a village yeah we're going to go i can go to caracas so i go one two three four let's just do five six so if you move six you get two actions no let's make it four because four is still two actions i think yeah four is two actions okay so i've gone four spaces i've landed in martinique and i'm gonna look at the token and it is oh look at this okay i've been quite lucky because there are only six green ones mixed around there you go got two points and then i get two village actions the first village action is to play sailor there you go most of my money's gone now that increases my income by two and it would increase my income by another two if i had a port synergy token love this game if you have a drink at home and you are going to take a drink every time paul says i love this game there's the first one but i do i really do it's probably in my top 10 games of all time this game i just i absolutely love it and i've played it what 25 30 times not including the app i've played the app about 50 times and i still love it okay so that's my first action my second action what am i going to do with my second village action it's either play a card take a money or discard all the cards in your hand to get two money well i don't want to do that and i don't want to play another card so i'm going to take a money okay there's my two village actions next jacques so this is turn two jack is putting a disc on location number five so he's not gone very far this time he's basically gone from four to five how can he do that that's cheating but anyway that's what he's done okay now it's my go again i'll try not to say i love this game too many times how's that so we're going to go two we're going to and we are going to oh i get to draw up i get to draw up at the end of my turn now i need a salt a sugar for this so i would have spent one to take that card just so that i have the right card in hand that's what i would have done oh there's lyster there she is see that's the weird thing how when we're supposed to be looking for her how is that card shuffled into the deck because she's there look i've found her i win the game but it did say to shuffle cards um 90 to 106 into the deck so that's what i did okay i'm going to activate the city by discarding a card with a sugar on it and put a disc on the board now we're going to do that one are we gonna do that one oh i never know which one of these to do because they're all good they are all good they're just in a different place on the on the thing um yeah the one that gets five money is gone now because that was a really good starting one i'm gonna unlock that one actually yeah let's unlock that one and i get to do a combat so because of my sailor before combat i gain a combat point and we take a combat token okay now the combat tokens in this game work in exactly the same way but the opposite way so you basically get the combat token um and you choose who you're fighting against rather than who you're fighting for and you ignore what's printed at the top i believe yeah so you you you don't do whatever's printed at the top and basically you choose who you're fighting against and then you do the actions based on what you've got here so i can fight against the french and i will get and you don't get influence so that will be two points and two combat points uh two combat strength or i fight for the spanish and get one point and three or a fight against the english and get four um and it's gonna cost me five to remove a cube from a city and three to remove a cube from a village and am i right in thinking that i can do i can do each of those once can't i so and i can get the bonus from the city as well and i'm gonna get to put the cube on here which is gonna be loads of awesome stuff okay i'm gonna i'm gonna choose to fight against the british that gives me a base four combat points i'm gonna spend that to get five and then i'm going to use the five to basically free porto cabezas so porto cabezas is freed and what i can then do is i can put the cube on this tile so the bottom part of this tile can be used even if you haven't unlocked it but you can't put two cubes of the same color next to each other but i'm going to put it on there which means i get to remove another disk from the board which means i have oh yeah i need to put an assistant to play the sailor thank you very much um so i'm going to remove that disk which means that is now unlocked and i get the benefit from removing the cube from that place which is an assistant there you go so i get this system back i think we're done i did five minus one i've removed the cube from a city i get the bonus of the city and i put the cube on there and i get the bonus yeah we're done and that's one combat token remember i need three or four of them i also need assistance on the board right i'm going to draw up money is so tight at the start of the game i don't really want to pay for taking a card so i think i'm just going to draw one off the top of the deck although i do need a smuggler so i do need some assistance out at some point i've drawn the governor it's a really powerful card can i fight the french and still remove a white cube no no you can only uh remove cubes from the nation that you are fighting against and claire's just bought the app let us know how you get on with it yeah i love the app i think it's really good we are done it is now jack's third turn how long did it take me to learn the game solo well as you've seen tonight i was quite rusty um but the the reason why tonight has taken a long time to get going is we're playing with five modules all of which i needed a refresher on and one of them i've never played before but the actual solo rules for jacques are relatively simple what's made tonight complicated is all of the other stuff and all of the extra rules anyway is jack's third turn he's putting a disc on space eleven eleven eleven eleven is that maracaibo it is right so he's arrived at maricopa i'm already there so he doesn't do anything right my goal we probably want to go to porto cabezas so i'm going to move and i'm going to go the short way round because it doesn't actually matter one two three when we land there we're going to reveal this and it's a red one so i can either have two money or two points well i'm going to take money because money is important now here's the thing i want once both of the red tokens are out i cannot go any more i can't search for hints anymore you have to pay what's printed on the title in order to remove that token from the board token tile and then you can start searching again okay now we're going to visit porto cabezas we are going to discard that card uh for corn in order to now which second one do i want to unlock i really like buying cards for free from up there i'll tell you what i could have done that as well oh no i've only just unlocked that um i'm going to take this one off this is the one that increases your village action to get combat points i do like that one and i'm going to activate the quest tile so i've got these two periscopes i'm going to discard both of those to do the quest i get one point per compass i have two composition scissors two points and i get two exploration points now you don't have to use all of them but i'm going to for another two points and that is that quest done that's my first quest done nice okay right now all sorts of things are going to happen i don't believe that refreshes no it does refresh it does refresh um i've got one card in hand which i can keep or i could plan i don't think i'm ever gonna play this it's a really powerful card uh but other than that i i mowed three cards so i'm gonna draw one to ruin i still don't understand i've never played this card ever so i don't quite understand how it works mercenary okay and another mercenary okay so they're the cards in my hand now we are jacques fourth turn and jackie's going to location 13 which is port royal and then it's my go now here's the thing do i want to end the round or do i want to do that quest that quest requires two books i don't have two books ah maybe i should have drawn another book interesting interesting i'm i'm now tempted to go with a complete change of plan and really slow down and get these two hidden tokens and do that quest because i want to do quests and that quest is going to allow me to do a combat as long as jack doesn't take it before me hmm yeah let's do it okay i'm going to slow down we're going to put the brakes on and we're going to move one space to laceba and then we're going to take a tile take a token take a hint token and it is red so i do get two points for that however i now can't search again uh i can't get go searching for clues again until i've removed one of these two tiles which requires either two parchment scrolls or two herbs um and i get one action but i am gonna plan this is the thing we're gonna do i've got the two scrolls so i'm actually gonna do that now i am gonna use those to remove that token so that's gone um do i want to plan this mercenary i think i do okay so i'm going to plan the mercenary um i've still got i've still got my action i haven't done an action yet have i i need the books i'm not going to plan the mercenary i need the books okay so the one action i'm gonna do is take a money right i've got five money now i've got six money okay end of my turn i'm going to draw cards so i'm going to draw one first from the deck but if it's not a book i'm then going to pay to pick a book up it's not a book so my second draw is spend the money to pick up a book okay and then the offer refills don't like going this low makes me uncomfortable jack's fifth turn right jack is exploring one so i forgot but jack needs an exploration thing there you go nice and easy jack moves one space on the expedition track if he reaches a quest he takes it right back to me i move one i'm gonna get this because i am allowed to it's red so it goes on there i get two points i can't search again but now i am going to do the quest so i spend two books to do this quest now this quest allows me to gain combat points equal to the number of compasses i've got which is two and i get to do a combat so let's have a look at what we've got right now because i've unlocked this i can do both that and that and i believe i can also do that so if i had the strength i could do everything but remember you can't put two cubes next to each other on here they're the same color now i need to check the rules does that mean i can't take the cubes if i can't put them on or can i take them and throw them away let's have a look if you are unable to place an ownership mark and remove it from the game and get no reward okay so i can i can take two white cubes and put them on but one of them would be thrown away or i could just fight against the french i think let's do that let's fight against the french so if i fight against the french i get an extra worker but i get two combat points that's not a lot is there but let's do that now where's my extra workers there off camera so i get an extra worker i get two combat points oh my sailor adds one okay so i've got two combat points i am going to spend one two three of them to give me five five of them is going to allow me to allow me to remove a french cube from a city and get the bonus of that city so i'm going to remove this one which gets me three money and i'm gonna put this cube on here which gets me another three money thank you the french okay now i can still do the bottom part which i'm going to do so i'm going to spend one more combat point and one of these workers for two combat points and use the bottom part of the ability to remove a french cube from a village uh might as well be this one petty guav and i can't put it next to this one so i put it there and i get a point okay that was quite a productive quest i got the quest and i got the combat token so i'm happy with that however it is now jack's sixth turn wow normally jack stops on like five six or seven but he's still going so he's removing a quest from the lowest numbered red location indicated why is it a red location are these red locations i guess they are okay uh so somewhere between 2 and 19. there aren't any and i've had this before i don't think it removes the one from porto cabezas so yeah it basically does nothing or from the supply if not okay so we take it so there is none so he takes a quest from here and i don't quite know where you put that so i'm just going to put it there jack has done a quest did i need to draw up to four i absolutely did need to drop four other things i keep forgetting um did i want to plan the sailor no i didn't uh yes i did i'm gonna plan the sailor to draw three cards okay mary reed which i can't play anymore now quest hunter and cartographer yeah so mary reed to play mary reed requires three english cubes on the board and there's only two now so i can never play that because there will never be any more going on there okay and then it's my go my seventh turn i move to here i can do combat or two explorations and i think at this point i think i'm doing alright for combat so i'm going to do two explorations and move to here which gets me to remove a disk which unlocks that ability okay and then jack's seventh card is basically he doesn't reveal a card next turn he triggers round end if no other players have done so first um he's gonna get a bucket load of points huge huge huge amount of points anyway i am ending the round by going to there i get three points and now we do all of this stuff so basically um yeah what's this i can play a card or get two points so play a card and draw up or get two points now do we want to play ah see i've got a quest hunter i'm quite liking the idea of playing another sailor so i'm going to do it i'm going to spend seven i'm going to play another sailor so that's going to increase my income by another two there we go i think that's it yeah okay then we do green stuff which is income so i get 14 money and two points dip one and 14 money okay and then unfortunately we do income we do we do points for jack so jackie's going to get all of the points from all of these cards it's 20 25 30 35 45 points it's always the way it is always the way and then because we went through all of jack's cards do we shuffle them or do we just flip them face down i can't remember surely we should shuffle them um ultimate card explanation end of the round uh shuffle the or revealed autumn cards and add them to the bottom of the autumn apart yeah so if you've gone through the whole deck you're gonna shuffle them and start again i can't remember how many points jack gets for those okay are we ready that was round one we're going to move on to round two these discs come off the board yep i can't go searching again oh we're supposed to refresh the offer that was it let's get rid of those loose has gone get four new cars we've got the expedition another card i don't have ever played the drill master the pioneer and another pioneer done that done that done that done that done that moved to havana right off we go round two what's my plan do more combat definitely do more combat i also need either two herbs or two periscopes i have the two herbs so i am going to get rid of those two cards for two herbs to get rid of this token that's going to allow me to go searching again but where are we going to go searching that is the question oh quests thank you round one add a quest to 15. there goes the quest there that needs two periscopes okay so where are we going to go it's a good question i got no combat points i need to get some assistance on the board i have no assistance on the board i need to get some for my um career card i have them two quests so i can complete that whenever i want but i wanna i wanna get a third quest that's actually an amazing quest that's the same as the one we just got rid of so i definitely want that i need another periscope and then i'm gonna try and do that quest so i want to get there before jack does but we've also got this now that needs two periscopes as well i haven't got two periscopes yet but is there a periscope on the offer there is it's the drill master the drill master general where are we going to go where are we going to go indeed did i pay for that sailor because i seem to have an awful lot of money can anybody remind me if i paid for the sailor or not it was seven but i i seem to have 18 money maybe i did because i got 14 money yeah maybe i did i paid for the sailor and then i got 14 money so i've got loads of money i'm alright for money um i don't know where i want to go if i was to go one two three four i could actually go the long way around one two three four five six seven that's seven movement points that gives me three village actions we'd end up in san juan let's do that let's do that i'm gonna move seven one two three four five through the storms six seven so these storms has actually worked in my favor because i've now spent seven movement points so i've arrived in san juan i'm going to take one of these search tokens or a hint token and it's red so i put it on there and i get two money thank you for checking lord pericles striker and david as well um what am i doing i've got three village actions and i'm going to use all three village actions on this newly unlocked ability which is three combat points and three more money who said money was tight i've got 23 done i'm going to draw up now i really need assistance and i'm thinking that this drill master is actually really good but also i want to do this quest and i need another periscope so i'm going to draw two cards i'm going to draw one from the deck it's not a periscope so then i am going to pay one money to take the drill master i mean i could have planned but i don't think i want any of these and the master builders come out okay that's my go done so jacques first go round two and jack is going to location five santa domingo done my go are we going to go to maracaibo use the cartographer as sugar yes we're going to do it so one two three four five um i'm going to use that card as sugar to take a disc off now what disc are we going to take off this time i think i'm going to take the one off my special home tile that's actually really bad why did i pick that home tile because that home title is for when i'm fighting it against the spanish and that's only going to happen once in the game bad move pool really bad move let's take the one that allows us to buy cards for free yeah that was that was silly that uh that's going on there and now we're gonna do combat so because i'm doing combat i get two combat at the start for my sailors and this is the tile i could do england that would get rid of this yeah that would absolutely get rid of this okay so i think we're gonna fight against the british we have three combat and i am gonna boost it by another two to make it five i'm gonna use this ability and this ability to remove these two cubes from villages because there are no more british cities so the first one what happens is the first one goes on there i get the bonus that's printed on it which is a worker these then clear i get three money and one point per combat title now i don't actually have this combat tile yet so that's just two points so that's three money and two points and then what happens is these clear and then the second cube goes on and i'm going to put it on there and i'm going to remove this disk i think that's right yeah i took the home towel because the others were just as bad for me except this one is terrible uh i think so anyway right so that's quite good we fought we fought against the british we got some stuff that flips over i now have three combat titles which means i can do this whenever i want to if i really need these but i'm going to wait i'm going to wait and get some extra bonuses from them that is my go done jack's second turn is going to location five he's already at location five he was at location five before okay so he stays where he is has a cup of tea my oh i need to draw up do i want to pay no i don't want to pay because i'm stingy ah we got the innkeeper excellent right where we're gonna go now i think we're gonna do this quest yeah we're totally doing this quest oh except i can't search unless i get rid of two periscopes and if i get rid of two periscopes i'd call them to do the quest ah right okay we might just not do any searching at this stage we might just do the combat thing and get the whole combat thing out of the way because i'm almost done i've only got five cubes left on the board and we're only halfway through round two i need points for clearing the disc by the draw for free uh where do you mean points for clearing the disc by the draw for free ah yes you're right i do thank you very much three points one two three yeah i forgot that that ability was three points and the ability to draw for free oh i've got the ability to draw for free forgot that uh okay so what we're gonna do is i think i'm going to do the quest i think i'm just going to move here i can't search because the two red tokens are on there but i am going to spend or which two do we spend i'm gonna spend these two i'm gonna spend these two periscopes to do this quest so i get one combat point per compass which is two and we do a fight okay and that's a third quest done and that's a fourth combat token done so i've done both of these top two things on my fellowship right what we're going to do here is we are going to fight against the french we've got four i'm gonna boost it to five six seven which gives me a city and a village so we're gonna get rid of santa domingo and tortuga so i get two money and then i'm gonna put that on there for three money and that on there for a point one point and another three money i got so much money this is ridiculous i got 20 i got 30 money didn't the fight with england have a victory point that i didn't take it could have done let me just check oh it did well spotted thank you another point right but that's it i fought for fought against the french i've freed those i put the cubes on that's that done so at this point in the game i am going to complete this top one because i've done three quests so again remember there's a misprint on this that's too many and two points and i've also got four combat tokens which is three money and three points so basically i get five money and five points five money five points i'm catching up right now drawing of cards and i can now draw from here for free so what do we want to take uh where am i and what am i doing i'm here i need periscopes there's a periscope there so i'll take that and then can i literally do this now can i do it in the middle of my turn let's have a look however at any time on your turn even before movement you can remove hints from the card by paying objects so i'm going to do it literally in the middle of drawing up new cards i'm going to discard two periscopes to remove that one okay and now i'm gonna draw some more so i draw three more cards one two three oh that's a new card voodoo oh interesting well i'm going to show you this on camera this is one of the new cards from the expansion set oh you know i get the assistance as well yeah you're right so yeah so it costs three books to play you lose two points by doing it but you immediately take one of those three rewards so yeah very very different card and these names on the side i assume these names are people who like help design these cards or something i don't know but yeah lots and lots of variability i do love this game time for a drink oh i'll have some some vodka it tastes very much like water though this vodka i asked the cats earlier on to get me a drink and they said oh yeah we'll get your vodka and it's yeah tastes very much like water meanwhile the cats are acting quite drunk so paul's rambling to himself randomly okay where are we up to lost track i was doing that wasn't i was drawing up cards i was clearing that it is jack's third go jack is going to location 11 maracaibo too late mate already been done it my go now we've got all sorts of things here we can do another hint now because that is that is cleared up um so we could we can definitely go hinting have i got two herbs to do another quest i don't um one two three four that'll get me two village actions i think that's probably what i want to do yeah let's do that so i'm going one two three four i'm going to take this hint it's green wow we found where she is okay so um when all green spaces are filled read the reverse side of this card we found where she's being held nice uh lisa is being held at the location you currently find yourself okay so she's being held at camarco try to free her at l39 to this location okay we've got another another legacy tile that i need to find that's the problem with this many of them l39 there we go okay nice to free freedom fighter looser you must at some point during your turn bracket also before movement fulfill l39 alternatively you must pay 15 doubloons ransom at the end of the game well that's fine remove all clues from the game so the clues can go we don't need them anymore we found where she's being held and we've just got to spend 15 minutes at the end of the game or we have to basically spend four fight points and get yeah full combat to get six points or 15 money for four points that's what it seems to be at the back of the rulebook it mentions that the cards with names on the sides are cards from fan submissions and they gave their permissions to have their names included right thanks very much brenda monica's in the chat as well hi marco uh right so we'll leave that there i mean i could do it now i'm gonna do it now i'm just gonna do it now i'm gonna spend two combat points and two workers done six points so the main objective of the scenario is complete or one of the three objectives is complete i have freed the freedom fighter that is done what i've got to do now is remove the rest of the cubes easy easy absolutely easy and then i've got a beat jack so that's going to be my main thing now is somehow getting more points than jack right okay let's do a bit uh where are we up to that was my go i believe so is it now jacks go oh i've lost track i have lost track i did i've done three things this turn or i've done four i think that was my fourth i think it's jacks go yeah i think it's jack's go tell me if i've got it wrong jack is going to 17 there okay so then i go to here and what do i want to do do i want to do combat or do i want two exploration points i think i want to do two exploration points do i have two periscopes i don't so i can't get the quest i'll tell you what i could just go one and then wait till i've got two coast goes but jack isn't moving very fast jack isn't really exploring that much see the ai is quite interesting because of the cars that you randomly took out at the start of the game they're going to mean that the ai is different every time you play really good variability in that as well i'm not sure what to do i could do combat and just get this combat over and done with yeah i think i'm going to do combat okay so we'll do combat i've got two sailors which gets me two points two combat points and oh now that's an interesting one because if i fight this against the spanish which is what i was going to do it cost me two coins but i get six combat points which is total overkill because i only need two because it's that there this is this is overkill this is very much overkill um i think i'm just gonna fight against the french yep and i'm going to spend one combat point to make it five and i use three there and two there to take these two blue cubes but i can't put them on here now that's a waste isn't here that is a waste no forget that i'm gonna pay the two coins i'm gonna fight for the spanish so against the spanish total overkill but i'm gonna put that on there that gets me one worker and then i clear these i get three money and i get one point per combat title and i have four combat titles one two three four i now have five combat titles okay and jack's fifth goal is he's putting a disc on 17 but he can't because i've already been there and then i end the round i get three points i've caught up there you go did i want to plan any cards i don't think i did no i did i wanted to plan that one because i need to be playing things and let's buy that one for free okay right end of the round yes i get to play a card uh we can play the vice admiral oh that's quite good yeah i'm gonna play the vice admiral is that a new card no it's not see i'm still discovering cards from the base game that i've not really used before this is a vice admiral so it's going to cost me 11. and i put one of my assistants on location 19 on camarco see thematically this is great because i've been to samarco i've had a big fight i've freed the freedom fighter and i'm now friends with the vice admiral awesome stuff that's my one card uh i get to take a replacement oh now i need to be looking over here as well don't i yeah i want to be getting on that military barracks thing um i'm just going to take a card it's a native i get income which is 14 under two points so 14 money yeah definitely got loads of money there you go discs come off two three jack's going to get a little boatload of points but not as many as last time in fact he's only 25 that's nice so 25 on to 45 is 70. okay then these get shuffled and these get placed on the bottom of the jack stack right done market refreshes we're moving on to round three and another new card wandering priest and you endure movement in an enemy village take one coin per each movement point spent max five okay and a pin ass two points per compass immediately under two points income that's they're all nice all these cards are nice done that done that we're moving on to round three that's quite nice for me as well back on havana off we go quests i remembered this time we have a quest at 18 which is here okay yeah i got 10 20 35 39 money i don't think i've ever had 39 money in any game of maracaibo that i've ever played right so it's just reminders of the three objectives free the freedom fighter done remove all the cubes from the board i've only got two left i can do that in a breeze not a problem get more points than jack that is my new objective and the way that i'm going to do that is i don't know how many upgrades have i unlocked one two three so i can't unlock so i can do that and i can do that i just need to get as many points as i can and i need to stop the jack getting points by moving quick so where are we going to go have we got two periscopes we don't have two periscopes so i'm hanging off with this quest i'm hanging on with this quest for now until i've got a couple of periscopes we've got an explorer up there that i need to play i need to play the vice admiral as soon as possible really um no no the vice admiral is in play it's the explorer that i need to play as soon as possible yes so i'm going to go and visit my vice admiral i'm definitely going to visit my vice admiral i had a quest i did add a quest that's the bit i remembered um and that's a quest for two parchments and that's not really that important where are we going to go what we're going to do cubes off the board is good so let's go because i don't want to play this this voodoo i don't want to play it so i am going to move one two three three to santa domingo i am going to play the voodoo as if it were tobacco to put a dis a cube a disk i know what i'm talking about i mean that's four milli for ten points so even though the ability is rubbish it's ten points ten points is nice hmm okay let's do that let's remove that disk and put it on there and i get two money and a village action okay two money and the village action is gonna be to play an explorer which cost me seven and i put one of my assistants in kumana that's where the explorer is oh and i get a synergy token i've just realized i'm old synergy tokens uh where have i put the synergy tokens nope that's chinese beef stew slightly off camera i'm a little bit worried that the cats are going to come in at some point and realize that just off camera i've got some very tasty chinese stew so i should have that and i should have that do like the synergy but bonus token things is that going to give me any bonus no okay right so i went there i did that i got me two money i got i did an action which was to play the explorer do i want to plan i don't think i do i don't think i want any of these cards but by planning them i get them out of my hand which means i can take better ones because i do want that explorer i'm just going to take this actually this conker village might be quite nice yeah i'm going to plan the conker village card i'm going to take that from the offer for free and [Music] i'm actually going to take i'm going to take that as well because that's an interesting card the carpenter since i've got loads of money let's try that okay two cards will come out that is my go done now it is jack's first turn he's going to four he's going to location four going to puerto plata right that is jack dunn my go so here's what we want to do i want to play my other explorer before going to commander no yes can you use no you can't use both your assistants but if you don't use one of them then you'll get two points for not using it i think if you've got two assistants in the same place you can't use both of them let me know in the chat if that's right i think that's right david is saying that his cat banshee loves to sleep in the maracaibo box when you play nice typical cat i mean thor's a typical cat as far as boxes go loki's not interested in boxes at all but yeah hmm so that's what i'm tempted to do but that means going slow how am i doing for periscopes i don't have two periscopes i think we're just gonna have to miss this quest it's fine i'll go for this one instead oh that's nice do i have any bonus movement points i do not can i use both as you use one use your action you said yes thought so so you'd get two points for the one that you didn't use right i mean that's six points for crossing this it's it's three influence and it influence when you're playing the so you don't need these yeah so whenever you gain influence in this particular scenario you just get two points instead hmm oh it's tricky it's tricky because i don't want to hang around i don't want to delay too much i just want to move quick and get as many points as i can but i think moving across this barrier is actually going to be quite useful i also don't have any sugar in hand at the moment so i can't use the maracaibo ability to do combat that's fine i can do come back at the end one two three four five six seven i could go to santa marta i'd get three actions let's do it let's just let's just zoom ahead so one two three four five six seven so i went past my explorer friend um edwin edwin the explorer i went past him he waved at me as a sail pass so i get two points for that and then i get to do three actions at santa marta so i'm gonna play some cards right okay so here we go the first card i'm going to play and i need to set myself up if i want to do any more of these quests and i don't think i do although quests are points quests are points but i don't think come on it's all time isn't there it's all time okay i've got three actions my first action is to spend seven to put a second explorer edwin's twin brother edward on there okay that's my first of three actions my second action is to play the carpenter for 15 running out of space so we're going to go on here that allows me immediately to remove a disc from my board which will be that which immediately allows me to spend 4 money for 10 points 59 right i've already got eight money left now um and my third action so i'll tell you what i'm actually going to do i'm going to play the master builder first so it actually gives me a discount on the other two because it's actually worth three points there you go so there's my three actions was purely just playing three cards okay right nice next drawing up planning and drawing up is that any of those that i want let's just have a look at synergy tokens i'm going to be getting one of those synergy tokens soon once i've got the money i need the money yeah should have got that one that's my objective now just get lots of money um i'm not sure i want any of those one two three four five six seven i want to go and visit him definitely want to go visit him um okay i'm going to take the missionary and i'm going to take two cards from the deck i just realized i need 20 money over there as well oh another new card an attache that's quite cool there's lots of variation in this now okay we're done jacques second go were there other bonuses on the carpenter says ian yes my income goes up by four two three four thank you yeah that's it thank you for spotting that but i don't have the other token yet so so jack second go jackie's exploring for two one two done nice and simple right my second go i think we're going all the way to kamarco let's go the long way round one two three four five six i land at camarco i speak to my vice admiral vincent i get one point for each combat token which is five and i get three village actions well i think at this point i am going to take three money and three combat points i think hmm no i'm going to take two money and two combat points and then i'm going to bin my cards for two more money because i don't think i want any of them and then i reset my hand and i'm going to take some chase pirates and that's it i'll just take three what we got a pioneer another sailor and a erect ford might be useful might be useful right i think we're done cancel that's good once i've got this out but i don't think i'm going to be able to afford it right jack's third turn he's going to 11. he's going to maracaibo okay now i i'm going to end it um it's going to be combat yep i'm going to do combat with the against the french uh it's four i need to boost it by one so i will accept i'm not going to use combat points i'm going to use a worker yes i'm going to use a worker okay it'll be obvious why in a minute so i've got four five which is enough to remove two villages which is these two uh i'm going to get three money or do i want to remove a disc i've done four one two three four oh i do like this one i do really like that one okay let's let's remove a disk and get a point so remove that disk and i get a point okay and that's it for cubes i can't now take um any of the cubes the caribbean has been freed need to have workers to put on the bonus card at the end of the game yes you're right i'm gonna have to get more workers on her how many assistants have i got on the board three it's not enough i was planning on playing the chase pirates that's what i was doing but you're right i'm not going to do it i'm going to spend that instead oh a minute ago i had 39 money and like five workers spent it all bought cool stuff okay so i'm not going to play the chase pirates card no and i'm not gonna have enough to one two three four five six seven eight i'm not gonna have enough to play that oh it's all gone wrong i'm really hoping to get that out because that would have got me a zillion points maybe not quite a zillion but close to a zillion okay we're done jack's fourth go he's going to 13 doesn't matter because i'm ending the round so i get three points right play a card or get two points i don't want to play a card because i'm saving up so disappointingly i'm just gonna get the two points but look at this i am tied with him again uh we get income i get 18 money and two points now this is where the money comes in okay um i think that's right yep remove the discs from the board and we're going into the last round of the game i'll put a quest on there's a quest coming on to 12. i'm not really bothered with these quests commercial expedition is another new card is it another new card or is it an old card it's an old card but it's another one that i haven't seen before still cards that i haven't seen before and i say i haven't seen it before i probably have seen it in some of my games but i i just don't read it because there's too much on there um jacques is going to score five ten thirty points oh no right he's on a hundred i've run out of space 100 points brendan's popped in we are in round four we're about to start round four thank you for watching the perseverance video i will check your comments later and i might fix it tonight depending on how many errors you've found so we've done that we've done that we've done that we're moving on to round four so we take that off now and we're back in havana we've done the market we're ready to go so my objective is i've got to get lots of points that's my only objective now is as many points as i can get that can go because we've done that we have freed her um and we know that jacques is probably going to score about 20 points at the end of this round now how many points is he going to score at the end of the game for his quests um i can't remember because he's he's collecting quests is it five points per quest oh if he ended the round he also gets 15 points ah each player whose explorer is ahead of jacques loses scores or loses five points and the same with the quests so we're fine as long as i stay ahead of jacques on here i'm going to get five points and as long as i've got more quests than jack i'm going to get five points so i'm actually a net 10 points ahead of where i am okay so both marks had a bunch of comments as well brilliant okay thank you very much for checking that i will definitely have a look at that after this stream for those people who don't know what we're talking about i'm working on the how to play videos for perseverance and i released a first draft of episode 2 video today to patreon supporters and they've been checking it for for errors so yeah thank you very much for checking that i need to stay ahead on here i think i'm all right for quests i don't think jacques is going to beat me on quests but i want to unlock that i also want to play cards i also want that because that's actually going to get me 12 points that's going to get me 12 points that's going to get me the moment 11. that's going to get me eight and that's going to get me nothing at the moment so the top one the barracks is it the barracks the military base that's probably my favorite one i mean going and seeing my explorer friend that's going to move me up on here quite a lot but have i got any corn in hand i do so going to pull to platter that's probably what i want to do first okay let's do that i go one two three four five six to put a platter i use that sailor as corn to remove this disk and put it on there getting me two exploration points one passing the red lightsaber which gets me six points and two moves me onto there getting me an extra point but i have now unlocked this ability so i can either get three explorations um or i can get four and four or i can do nothing so i get four and four so one two three four and four money okay i'm happy with that i'm very happy with that i'm now refilling cards in my hand is there a particular card that i want yes oh but then i need more workers how do i get more workers i'm going to get a worker for doing this aha as soon as i get my fourth assistant on the board i can remove this one and then that will be the one that i need for that done right so i'm going to take the shipbuilder oh it's clever clever clever clever i needed three three explore combat point was it three oh you mean for that yeah i could do but no i've chosen to take the four points instead i think that's probably better for me i needed three combat points to play the chase pirates card but i think i've i've scrapped that idea i'm doing something different right jack's first turn is going to his favorite place he can't go i'm already there but he's going to get five points right my goal so do we want to go and visit the explorer and get three exploration points and that will get me to here i think we do i think that's probably the best move okay so one two three four i don't see one of them so i get two points and then i see the other one i get two money three explorations but actually i'm only going to use two of those to get three points and three money okay we got loads of money now we got 10 20 30 we got 35. that's enough to play the conquer village and the military base jack's second turn is exploring one that's absolutely fine okay my turn i am getting a little bit excited i need lots of village actions now but i'm going to get my village actions when i go and see my vice admiral and i think that's all i want to do or there's a quest here i don't have the scrolls that's a shame because that would be quite nice okay one two three four five six seven i should we should do it am i gonna have enough okay so it's going to be 15 for the conquer village no it's going to be 14 because of my master builder it's also going to be 19 for that so 15 20. i've got two i've only got too many left if i want to play the ship builder as well the ship build is going to cost me seven which means i'm five money short i'm gonna get to play a card at the end anyway i can't do the combat so i'll be doing the exploration which will be an extra two money oh this is tight this is very very tight i'm not sure i'm gonna have enough to do all of this why did i go on there instead of there that was a bit is there any way i can get money from here yes if i remove two disks from here i get four money i'm not going to be able to remove two disks i mean i could i could have a stop off at port royal but i don't have any corn um right oh boy oh boy oh boy i i've got to math this out are there any quests that i can do i have two herbs i could go here that gets me everything i need okay so we're gonna just have to take an extra turn i think it's worth it so i go one two three four five we go to puerto cabezas i don't have any corn i can't i can't do it oh no you can do it you can still do the action yes one two three yeah the major rule of the game that i forgot earlier on you do not have to deliver to do the action so i'm not going to deliver corn because i don't have it oh no hang on a minute the herbs is the shipbuilder no no rats i need the shipbuilder oh wow this is insane so i don't think i can do it if i had a corner i could go there and i could remove those two and i could get full money and do that okay let's let's go back to plan a which is going to the vice admiral and getting three actions they are the only three actions that they are my last three actions of the game and then at the end of the game i get to do a card okay so i've effectively got four actions and i want to use three of those actions to play cards which is conker village the ship builder and the military base that's going to cost me a total of 7 21 hang on 7 14 21 and 19 is going to cost me 40. so the total cost is 40. i've got one action left which i can use to get one money okay and i have 10 20 30 5 6 so that's four money short okay just have a look at the chat so paul kelly is right for my ship what's paul saying about my ship ship should be starting at your explorer's one space back okay thank you that mean i can't actually make it one two three four five six seven no i still can okay three explore three combat points no that's the other thing um so there is money here if i can get three exploration points i can land on here which is going to be great because i have the spare combat points i get four money i get three points and it's my fourth quest which is another three points if i can get three exploration points that's really good however i don't think i can get three exploration points no so we've worked out we've done the maths we can't do it if i go and see my vice admiral this turn we can't do it so we're gonna have to just stop at a village first and and get some extra money on the way i think i think that's what we're doing and is there any corn up there there is right okay so we can do it wow using action to discard and get two money but it doesn't help no no because i need the shipbuilder okay so here's what we're gonna do i think this is right one two three four five six we're going to blue fields we're using this special super ability that i've never used before legacy tile l33 if you end your ship's movement on this space before your main action reveal the top card of the project card pile receive the reward depending on what's depicted so i'm revealing the card and it is it's a scroll which is a worker okay doesn't really help me but how far did i move one two three four five six i moved six so i've got two actions okay so with those two actions i play the ship builder for seven which requires me to put that on location 10 now do i get the two points for that because i've passed it and didn't use it i can't remember i get a token that i've already got and i now have four assistants on the board which means i can complete this which gets me four money there's the money that i forgot about i could have done it i could have done it i completely forgot i was gonna get four money from that plan the ship builder i didn't want to i wanted to play the shipbuilder so i think i'm all right now i've got the 15. uh i've got the 14. let me just change some money up yeah i think i miscalculated all of this after all that oh no i think i can just do it now yeah okay wow uh and yes oh and now the card is complete absolutely okay maybe we do want to undo this then yeah i'm going to undo it let's forget that worker that i got from going here let me do the one two three four five six seven okay so instead of the one instead of that and doing the actions there i'm doing the actions here now you're gonna have to remind me on this because i now get i now get three village actions how many actions did i get here two how how many of those two actions have i done i think i've just done one of them which to play the ship builder so out of the so forget the actions there i'm actually doing the three actions here instead and the first one was to play the ship builder which i've now done i am now admiral gaming rules grogan and i believe i still have two actions left yes now i haven't done the two points yet from flipping that over so i'm on 90. guys it's close i think yeah so two actions left and one of them is to take a money and a combat point and the other one is to spend 14 to conquer a village okay so when you conquer a village i get this synergy token now that synergy token is going to do all sorts for me my income goes up by two these aren't mine oh i say all sorts maybe it was just that oh no because of my carpenter my points goes up by three okay so i think that's right you don't put a cube on a village when you're playing the thing so i think we're done i think i've done my three actions did i not take the two money from flipping it okay i'll take the two minutes i thought i did because i now i now do have enough money to buy that card there okay we're done oh and i get uh five points one two three four one two three four i get six points i've got six combat titles six points i'm on 96 catching up this is great game 96 okay right okay are we done i think we're done jack's third turn jack is going to 11. this really doesn't matter sure goes to maricopa right my turn i land here oh actually jack's gonna get to do some extra stuff so it's a combat which is useless or it's two exploration points which is also useless hmm oh metal synergy yes i've got the metal synergy as well thank you well now it's only when i do that no oh medal synergy on the conker village card yeah ah yes so another four right okay i'll check those in a minute yeah so either combat auto exploration points both of which are absolutely useless that's a shame yeah that is a shame so i'll just move two and get another combat point yeah slightly inefficient but never mind right jacks go which card is this jack's fourth card jackie's taking a quest it really doesn't matter take this one whatever's uh and then my go i moved to there for three points one two three jacks go jack's fifth card uh jack is going to 20 and then i move there get five points and the game is over okay i play a card i'm going to have that one thank you please cost me 19. i have too many left that gets me the crown now what does the crown do for me um that gets me an extra two points i believe okay now before we do income i'm just going to check that i've got it right so my income should be one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve twelve up from eight which is twenty yep and my point should be one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven which it is right okay so we get final income but you don't get final income you get points instead one two three i get my points which is eleven which is eighteen um that's that we then get points for cards so i've got six tokens which is twelve points and points for all of my cards so that's one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen nineteen putting me on forty nine i've got a good feeling um that doesn't score but now we score for jack jack is going 10 20. 35 points okay but then i'm ahead of jack on the exploration track and i've done more quests than jack so i get an extra 10. and i think i think that is it yeah we won we had to map it out at the end a little bit there and we did it i think that's right now that's interesting because i've only done one prestige card i normally like to do two of those but yeah we've got four synergies tokens that was a fantastic game i love this game it is such good fun and he's so variable did paul just win a live stream of maracaibo solo yes but i did play on the not the easiest difficulty setting but i did play on the um i did play on the next one up but it went well i mean i mean i did win it does look like i won by a lot of points what did i win by uh 24. that's actually quite a good victory i think and we're supposed to read card 187 at the end of the game but i'm not going to read it because card 187 this particular scenario we've done freeing the freedom fighter is a story that's part of the campaign um we've just played the standalone version of it so i'm not going to read this story um because it is basically a little bit of a spoiler about the actual campaign itself um but yeah we're done wow it's going to take me half an hour to put it away now but yeah brilliant game i i mean i'm not i don't make these videos to make people buy the games but people said in the chat earlier on that they've seen me playing games and have gone out and bought games because they've seen me playing them and as long as you are having as much fun as i do when i play this game but my my whole idea of doing these videos is obviously i like playing the games and i want to produce content for patreon supporters and a lot of my patreon supporters like this game so hopefully you've enjoyed it but also to show you how the game plays and to show you the kind of thought process that that goes on in this game this for me the solo mode in this game is brilliant um i don't like complex solo ais and in this game jacques is fantastic the solo mode for this game is really really good it's really simple it just does something little that can interfere with you and then it it scores a boatload of points at the end now as i mentioned earlier on there are extra solo cards these are these are all of the extra solo cards that we didn't see and depending on which cards are in jack's deck depends on what jack does so for example if if we were if if this card was in jack's deck jack would have been exploring a lot more than he was so once you have been through jack's deck the first time you will get an idea of what we what he's going to do and in this game he wasn't really bothering with exploring um and he kind of wasn't bothering that much with the quest either so that gave me a bit of an advantage because i knew that i just had to get a little bit ahead of him on there i mean i was quite close on the quest in the end i got three and he had two um but yeah it's a fantastic game the replayability is just through the roof i think um because yeah jack's ai is going to be different every time you play there's a huge amount of cards in the game you're going to get different cards come out every time you're going to get different prestige buildings come out you're going to get different quests come out you're going to get different cities that come out it's just a massive amount of variability and you're going to get different legacy titles that comes out so the game's got like 39 legacy titles all of which change the board in some way um that one didn't really affect us that much this one i didn't use and this one i almost used but then didn't in the end but i have played some map setups with other titles that have have changed it quite a lot anyway we are we are all done so just before i disappear big thank you to all of my patreon supporters for fun in the channel as i mentioned at the start this isn't a sponsored playthrough so all of these videos that i make are purely funded through the patreon campaign if you do like the content that i create and you want to support the channel directly you can do so there's going to be a link appearing in the chat if this works right now um yeah you can support the channel directly at patreon.com forward slash gaming rules and if you are a supporter of mine you get to vote on what games i'm going to be covering on the channel and this is the game that got the second most number of votes for last month but i had time to fit two in so i did australia a few couple of weeks ago and we've done maracaibo today maracaibo was very close in the votes i will be putting up another vote probably this weekend for which solo games you want me to play this month and i will be adding a whole load of them to the list but for now i'm going to say goodbye i'm going to go get some food and i'm going to finish the perseverance video thank you very much for everybody for keeping me company and for watching and pointing out the little bits that i missed take care i will see you all soon cheers [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Wed Mar 02 2022