Ahhhh! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I got the expansion 3 days ago and my group plays Friday! I will be sending this to all of them. Keep doing what your doing Shea!
Quick note as it may have been missed due to the speed: Heroes unlock when you score 3 objectives. Not gain 3 victory points, score 3 objectives. That can be any combination of stage 1, stage 2 (if you are REALLY doing poorly) or Secret objectives.
Also the rules reference a couple times where the Wormhole Nexus activates if you gain control of Mallice. Not 100% sure on how that can happen without moving ships into the sector through the wormhole, but I'm sure there are ways -- I'm thinking actions or an agenda. :)
@@Athenor Correct on both accounts. I'll add a note for the objectives thing. I consider taking control of the planet as falling under the realm of "getting there," but if people get confused I'll correct that too. Thanks for the spots!
Looking forward to trying out the new factions, but very interested to just go back and play TI4 base factions with the new tidbits! Thank you for posting this! 🖖
I considered it, but the thought of writing 74 more epilogues for a fan-variant that very few people are going to play in the grand scheme of things just didn't add up for me. I'm very proud of the 50 that I did write though!
As I find your way of teaching games to be very clear and fast, I would have loved seeing a tutorial about Pax Emancipation, Pendragon: Fall of Roman Empire, High Frontier 4 All, Struggle of Empires, Imperial Struggle and/or Forbidden Stars. I've watched so many tutorials by a ton of different people here on youtube and I still cant find any better than yours for these types of games. JonGetsGames and WatchItPlayed (which usually are my go to tutorials) are mostly about non-confrontational games and they use at least twice the time you use. The fact that you teach Anachrony in 18 minutes, and they use almost an hour to teach something simpler is proof enough...
Thanks! And while I don't know some of those games, the ones I do, I'd be happy to teach. Right now I'm letting my Patreon backers choose which games I cover though.
"You can't keep using board games to escape your problems." Ugh. I felt that. :P Thanks for the great video. I think I'm ready to get destroyed by the other players in my 1st game of TI4 now.
Great video! I'm so excited to get this to the table even though I can't do a normal 6 player game due to COVID. Now I just have to wait for my preorder to ship.
I've thought about it, but as far as I know they don't really change any of the rules. They just replace cards and tokens. I figure people don't really need instructions on that. They are cool though.
@@RTFM I've been struggling between the nomads and the Titans too, but picked the nomads as they use other races as their agents, and it has a hacan commander, who are my all time favourite race. For next game definitely will pick the Titans.
To be honest, I haven't actually had a chance to play it yet. I can't really get into online board gaming, and my quarantine bubble doesn't include my regular players. I can tell you that the element I'm most excited about is exploration, and so I'm most eager to play as the Naaz-Rokha. The Titans of Ul also look very fun to me.
@@RTFM I'm so sorry you can't get into online board gaming. I totally get the allure of playing in real life, but I have to say that the TI4 Discord and community are so much fun to play with and retain that social atmosphere! Its the best of what I can find here where I live, so I'll take it, but I'm having a blast playing TI4 online!
@@RTFM the naaz rokha are extremely fun to play. If you can get the promissory note from the titans you can explore 1 of your planets but gain 3 exploration cards. I was also able to sell my agent ability in cases where I didn't want it, which was rare but did happen. We ran out of time for the game but I had a pretty clear lead
8:43 When you gain planet cards they are exhausted. But I have 2 questions (1) If you take a planet from another player, and the planet card is unspent, will it become exhausted when you receive it? (2) Are legendary planet cards received exhausted or unspent?
1) Yes, no matter what state it was in, when you take a planet, it becomes exhausted. 2) legendary planet ability cards come into play unspent, but if you take them from another player and the card was exhausted, it remains exhausted.
I'd like to request Star Trek Ascendancy with all 9 factions + Borg NPC and Alliances. A video like the TI4 & SW Rebellion vids would be ideal to forward prior to introducing to new players 👌🏻
So I actually let my Patreon backers request and choose which games I teach, but you're in luck, because the next one they've requested was Star Trek Ascendancy. I'm aiming to have all of those videos done by the end of the year.
Really nice overview.. Very helpful. I'm a bit surprised they abandoned the modular approach. Not sure some of this added complexity will enhance gameplay (especially the wonky capture stuff).. Some of it looks awesome. It'll be a while, but happy that ffg is fully supporting the game. #distantsuns
Can you just add the new tiles to bring the player count up to 7 without the other additions in the expansion? Asking for a group of 7 who have little experience with the base game
I'd love be to know how you organize your game box. Your videos are succinct and to the point, curious if you have similar organizing skills and if so, please share.
Right now I'm just using both boxes and their inserts, though I've seen people store it all in the base box. I am pretty specific about how things are separated, but I don't usually go in for custom organizers or anything like that.
@@burghman81 I just try to keep like with like. There's enough space for everything with the inserts, but the faction tokens do have to be crammed into some of the pockets.
So this is a weird comment, I know, but... where can I get a shirt like that? The Orville is one of my all-time favorite shows! Also, great job on the teach! ;)
Fantastic explanation. Cannot wait to get my group together to play! What is the title of the music player during the transitions? It sounds perfect for a game!
There were four tracks on the video and I'm pretty sure I got them all from UA-cam's music library Moonrise - Futuremono Sun Awakening - Futuremono Side Scroller - RKVC Time's Up - Loopop
Sounds like my 83A90J won't be replaced by a better 83 or even 97" anytime soon. Good for the wallet but would have liked to see better brig screen oled TV's.
Good luck! The cards are all pretty well written, so they shouldn't be too hard to get. There will be a lot to take in though, so don't worry about getting everything perfect. Hopefully the other people you're playing with are experienced and can help guide you through it a little bit.
I like it a lot, but I also don't mind that it adds a lot more unknowns to the game. Some people don't like that with all of the new faction-related abilities, it's a lot harder to know what your opponents are capable of, and thus determine an optimal strategy. I don't really play the game with optimal strategy in mind though, so it doesn't bug me. I like hearing an opponent go "and now I activate this ability and everything in this sector is dead" and you just have to go "lol, ok." Hopefully that helps your decision.
I actually let my patreon backers choose which games I teach though a poll. Voidfall just barely missed out on the last one, but it got close enough that it'll definitely be on the next poll I put out.
Rule 17.3 in v2.0 of the LRR reads "If a player captures a fighter or infantry...", though the Learn to Play section is titled "Fighters and Ground Forces".
@@xfgjnsfgj Hmm, so it does. I filmed this before the LRR 2.0 was released and in the physical rulebook it says Ground Forces. Oh well. It's a little clunky, but it's still accurate.
I'm confused, did you want this to go longer or shorter? If longer, there's only so much in the expansion to teach without wasting time. If shorter, you can always skip the intro sketch and end credits. Then it's just 7 minutes.
@@RTFM I guess I should have taken the time for a clearer response. Sorry. I think it could have gone longer with your classic playthrough examples and comedy that everyone has grown to love. POK is a complete game changer and you kinda made it seem like a tack on to TI4, which imo no longer exists.
@@DadGotGamez Fair enough. My goal when making videos is to make them as easy to digest as possible. When tutorials run long, comedy and more extensive examples are required to hold people's attention. While I believe that this video still had humor and displayed the new mechanics well, because there was so much less game to cover, the script didn't need to be quite so involved. tl;dr I'd rather make a video that's a little less funny than one that goes on too long and outstays its welcome. I'll keep your feedback in mind though.
@@graehamwatts Yeah, the three dollar pledge and up gets you the epilogues, and once you're there, there'll be a link to the place where you can download them in a couple different formats.
A TI4 video thats not half an hour long? Heresy I say
Yeah, I had trouble believing it too
@@RTFM was a little sad that it was over so soon
@@thisjust10 I considered going longer, but figured I'd stick to the game at hand.
@@RTFM I'm so hype to play this 😅
I feel gipped.
Seriously you guys need to do like.... everything. I love Rodney Smith, but you guys are the golden standard for teaching games imo.
Oh wow, thank you so much!
Indeed. Criminally under appreciated channel imo. Sub count should be at least 10x.
Rodney just hasn't been covering many fun games lately :(
I agree, except some videos are sl cringy i cant watch them. Still i sub and come back :D
Opening sketch is *chef’s kiss*
:D Thanks Paula!
That intro was brilliant and hilarious.
"No eyes. No mouth. Just stars....."
Thanks!
Ahhhh! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I got the expansion 3 days ago and my group plays Friday! I will be sending this to all of them. Keep doing what your doing Shea!
Quick note as it may have been missed due to the speed: Heroes unlock when you score 3 objectives. Not gain 3 victory points, score 3 objectives. That can be any combination of stage 1, stage 2 (if you are REALLY doing poorly) or Secret objectives.
Also the rules reference a couple times where the Wormhole Nexus activates if you gain control of Mallice. Not 100% sure on how that can happen without moving ships into the sector through the wormhole, but I'm sure there are ways -- I'm thinking actions or an agenda. :)
@@Athenor Correct on both accounts. I'll add a note for the objectives thing. I consider taking control of the planet as falling under the realm of "getting there," but if people get confused I'll correct that too. Thanks for the spots!
@@Athenor Oh wait, I said three objectives, you were just making sure people knew. Still a good point to make.
@@Athenor Ghosts can move to nexus turn 1 :D
@@BLABLABLA-kl8eq Got to love the kings of the Wormholes.
"You can't use board games to hide from your problems!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 had me laughing hard
Looking forward to trying out the new factions, but very interested to just go back and play TI4 base factions with the new tidbits! Thank you for posting this! 🖖
No problem, glad to do it!
Great video Shea. Thanks so much for making the rules fun, fast and easy to understand. A real talent!
Thank you so much! Happy to help!
Hearing about the epilogues made me excited, but I'm playing with discordant stars now so I'd love to get some of those as well
I considered it, but the thought of writing 74 more epilogues for a fan-variant that very few people are going to play in the grand scheme of things just didn't add up for me. I'm very proud of the 50 that I did write though!
As I find your way of teaching games to be very clear and fast, I would have loved seeing a tutorial about Pax Emancipation, Pendragon: Fall of Roman Empire, High Frontier 4 All, Struggle of Empires, Imperial Struggle and/or Forbidden Stars.
I've watched so many tutorials by a ton of different people here on youtube and I still cant find any better than yours for these types of games.
JonGetsGames and WatchItPlayed (which usually are my go to tutorials) are mostly about non-confrontational games and they use at least twice the time you use.
The fact that you teach Anachrony in 18 minutes, and they use almost an hour to teach something simpler is proof enough...
Thanks! And while I don't know some of those games, the ones I do, I'd be happy to teach. Right now I'm letting my Patreon backers choose which games I cover though.
The explaination from the King.
Excellent and entertaining summary. Can't wait to play! Thank you very much!
Just arrived on Friday. Can't wait to break it out.
How did I miss this when it came out. These are the best
Thanks!
Exemplary work as ever. I love the shaved look at the start of the teach! Succinct teach, great diction and clarity, with the best humour.
Thank you!
Haha, thanks Monique!
"You can't keep using board games to escape your problems." Ugh. I felt that. :P Thanks for the great video. I think I'm ready to get destroyed by the other players in my 1st game of TI4 now.
Great video! I'm so excited to get this to the table even though I can't do a normal 6 player game due to COVID. Now I just have to wait for my preorder to ship.
Just bought the extension, can't wait to try it
Very useful video! Nice quick refresher for a great game
Thanks!
I bought it about a week ago. Can't wait to play it!
Hey, my automatic generated subtitles told me that the Mahact are the jeans sorcerers.
With all the codexes that have come out for TI4 you should consider covering them for an TI4 update video.
I've thought about it, but as far as I know they don't really change any of the rules. They just replace cards and tokens. I figure people don't really need instructions on that. They are cool though.
At 9:40, "military" should probably be "hazardous".
Haha, yup. I always make that mistake. Thanks for the spot.
I played the nomad against the birds and the dinosaurs today. All were fun but I won.
Nice. I'm most excited about the titans and the alliance, but I haven't gotten to try them yet.
@@RTFM I've been struggling between the nomads and the Titans too, but picked the nomads as they use other races as their agents, and it has a hacan commander, who are my all time favourite race. For next game definitely will pick the Titans.
Stellar as always. Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
Thanks for ur tutorials! I hate reading and am a slow reader so this helps so so much
Hey, no problem. Glad I could help!
Fab as always. Thanks for making!
Thanks! Happy to help!
Loved the sketch!
Thanks!
Thanks! Note that the Diplomacy update applies to the base game as well. It is in the living rules reference.
Sure, but without the new physical component, I wonder how many players found out about that in the first place. I'm glad they included it regardless.
Your sketches are cringe, but the content is so helpful, I’m sitting through them out of respect
Love the shirt!
Thanks! It's such a good show!
This is some academy award winning acting.
Oh my god you read my mind! I'm playing saturday and needed help! Any hope of a session report?
To be honest, I haven't actually had a chance to play it yet. I can't really get into online board gaming, and my quarantine bubble doesn't include my regular players. I can tell you that the element I'm most excited about is exploration, and so I'm most eager to play as the Naaz-Rokha. The Titans of Ul also look very fun to me.
@@RTFM I'm so sorry you can't get into online board gaming. I totally get the allure of playing in real life, but I have to say that the TI4 Discord and community are so much fun to play with and retain that social atmosphere! Its the best of what I can find here where I live, so I'll take it, but I'm having a blast playing TI4 online!
@@jajohnson310 That's awesome! Glad to hear it's getting to the table, even if it is a virtual one.
@@RTFM the naaz rokha are extremely fun to play. If you can get the promissory note from the titans you can explore 1 of your planets but gain 3 exploration cards. I was also able to sell my agent ability in cases where I didn't want it, which was rare but did happen. We ran out of time for the game but I had a pretty clear lead
@@geneeinabottle8809 Ooh, very cool!
8:43
When you gain planet cards they are exhausted. But I have 2 questions
(1) If you take a planet from another player, and the planet card is unspent, will it become exhausted when you receive it?
(2) Are legendary planet cards received exhausted or unspent?
1) Yes, no matter what state it was in, when you take a planet, it becomes exhausted.
2) legendary planet ability cards come into play unspent, but if you take them from another player and the card was exhausted, it remains exhausted.
Another well described game! Great job!
Thanks!
I'd like to request Star Trek Ascendancy with all 9 factions + Borg NPC and Alliances.
A video like the TI4 & SW Rebellion vids would be ideal to forward prior to introducing to new players 👌🏻
So I actually let my Patreon backers request and choose which games I teach, but you're in luck, because the next one they've requested was Star Trek Ascendancy. I'm aiming to have all of those videos done by the end of the year.
@@RTFM perfect 👌🏻👌🏻
It isnt a proper teaching of Twilight Imperium if someonw doesn't try to eat tokens
I wish I had people to play this game with
Same
Awesome keep it up dude!
Will do, thanks!
Finally more TI4
Really nice overview.. Very helpful. I'm a bit surprised they abandoned the modular approach. Not sure some of this added complexity will enhance gameplay (especially the wonky capture stuff).. Some of it looks awesome. It'll be a while, but happy that ffg is fully supporting the game. #distantsuns
Yeah, I kinda wish they had taken the modular approach too, but I bet it's a lot easier to balance when you need everything in the game.
Can you just add the new tiles to bring the player count up to 7 without the other additions in the expansion? Asking for a group of 7 who have little experience with the base game
I haven't tried it, but I assume so. You should probably remove the legendary planets though, or at least the wormhole nexus.
I'd love be to know how you organize your game box. Your videos are succinct and to the point, curious if you have similar organizing skills and if so, please share.
Right now I'm just using both boxes and their inserts, though I've seen people store it all in the base box. I am pretty specific about how things are separated, but I don't usually go in for custom organizers or anything like that.
@@RTFM nice. How are you keeping it integrated with the two boxes? I've found the standard inserts to be cumbersome but also hate purchasing add ons.
@@burghman81 I just try to keep like with like. There's enough space for everything with the inserts, but the faction tokens do have to be crammed into some of the pockets.
So this is a weird comment, I know, but... where can I get a shirt like that? The Orville is one of my all-time favorite shows!
Also, great job on the teach! ;)
Haha, thanks! I wish I could tell you where the shirt came from, but it was a gift, so I don't know. Sorry!
Damn it all, Friday cannot come fast enough.
Fantastic explanation. Cannot wait to get my group together to play! What is the title of the music player during the transitions? It sounds perfect for a game!
There were four tracks on the video and I'm pretty sure I got them all from UA-cam's music library
Moonrise - Futuremono
Sun Awakening - Futuremono
Side Scroller - RKVC
Time's Up - Loopop
Mall Ice... thanks now I can't unsee that.
Sounds like my 83A90J won't be replaced by a better 83 or even 97" anytime soon. Good for the wallet but would have liked to see better brig screen oled TV's.
In the background, what's the board game stacked on top of TI4?
Anachrony. I'd recognize that box anywhere! haha
I was invited to a 12 hour 8 player game... I'm nervous going in blind, I get the general phases but I hope reading the cards will explain themselves
Good luck! The cards are all pretty well written, so they shouldn't be too hard to get. There will be a lot to take in though, so don't worry about getting everything perfect. Hopefully the other people you're playing with are experienced and can help guide you through it a little bit.
Ive seen mixed reviews of this expansion, what is your personal opinion, do you usually play with or without it?
I like it a lot, but I also don't mind that it adds a lot more unknowns to the game. Some people don't like that with all of the new faction-related abilities, it's a lot harder to know what your opponents are capable of, and thus determine an optimal strategy. I don't really play the game with optimal strategy in mind though, so it doesn't bug me. I like hearing an opponent go "and now I activate this ability and everything in this sector is dead" and you just have to go "lol, ok." Hopefully that helps your decision.
I hope you can do voidfall someday..
I actually let my patreon backers choose which games I teach though a poll. Voidfall just barely missed out on the last one, but it got close enough that it'll definitely be on the next poll I put out.
At 7:24, you say "non-mech ground force". Is there a particular reason you didn't say "infantry"?
They say ground forces in the manual, which I assume is to leave room for future expansions. Figured I'd follow their lead.
Rule 17.3 in v2.0 of the LRR reads "If a player captures a fighter or infantry...", though the Learn to Play section is titled "Fighters and Ground Forces".
@@xfgjnsfgj Hmm, so it does. I filmed this before the LRR 2.0 was released and in the physical rulebook it says Ground Forces. Oh well. It's a little clunky, but it's still accurate.
Naalu are able to commit fighters as ground units, and Titans count their pds as ground forces.
RTFM, are you interested in upcomming space exploration board game ISS Vanguard from Awaken Realms?
How to play in 7 minutes? You can't play Twilight Imperium in 7 minutes! I call shenanigans.
...the expansion not whole game
what's the song at 1:56?
It's called Time's Up by Loopop. Pretty sure I got it from the youtube audio library.
Your stuff rocks, but this was a letdown. 12 mins for the POK expansion?
I'm confused, did you want this to go longer or shorter? If longer, there's only so much in the expansion to teach without wasting time. If shorter, you can always skip the intro sketch and end credits. Then it's just 7 minutes.
@@RTFM I guess I should have taken the time for a clearer response. Sorry. I think it could have gone longer with your classic playthrough examples and comedy that everyone has grown to love.
POK is a complete game changer and you kinda made it seem like a tack on to TI4, which imo no longer exists.
@@DadGotGamez Fair enough. My goal when making videos is to make them as easy to digest as possible. When tutorials run long, comedy and more extensive examples are required to hold people's attention. While I believe that this video still had humor and displayed the new mechanics well, because there was so much less game to cover, the script didn't need to be quite so involved.
tl;dr I'd rather make a video that's a little less funny than one that goes on too long and outstays its welcome. I'll keep your feedback in mind though.
@@RTFM right on. It seems like others felt similarly from the comments. It wasn't a bad video, just seemed far different than your usual.
Cheers.
Kingdom Death:Monster
Maybe if the reprint actually can get into players hands...
guys plz make high frontier, Learn to play.
How do you get the epilogues?
That's something that's available to my Patreon backers. There's a link in the description and instructions on the welcome page.
@@RTFM Thanks, Does it matter what level of backing to get the epoligues? and once signed updo you email them or are they avabole for download? Thank!
@@graehamwatts Yeah, the three dollar pledge and up gets you the epilogues, and once you're there, there'll be a link to the place where you can download them in a couple different formats.
:O
:D
"in 7 minutes"
Definitely "Mall-ice".
Ok good. Glad that's cleared up. :D
Mate you should try to slow down. You talk way too fast for me to process things (as a non native, even if I consider myself a great English speaker)
this is not how to play the game in 7 minutes, it's how to play the game explained in 7 minutes