When you use the landing pot action, you skip step 1... but do you still get the bonus from the turn order spot and collect your workers from the surface?
Thanks Chris. A few people have said that. I actually feel that with my last few videos, each one has been my best yet, but this one certainly required a lot of effort and I'm very happy with the end result :)
This has been one of the best board game tutorials I've ever seen. I got On Mars a few days ago, watched one other tutorial and still felt lost. This video was so well structured and paced however, that I feel completely confident to set it up and play a game. Thank you so much for how much work this must have been to make!
I've always been a fan of Vital Lacerda designed games. Man, this really is shaping up to be another fascinating brain-burner for sure! Great video on teaching the game.
Fabulous! I love how the movie on the shelf changes constantly too. That’s a great touch. The rulebook was great as was this. Thanks for all your hard and great work Paul!
The best explanation of On Mars that one could have ever made. After trying to figure out how to play the game myself and to teach my friend later on, I realised how much effort was put in to make this video, The explanation is so streamlined and answer all of the questions that I had when I was reading the rule book myself.
I like reading the rule book as i play through the game for the first time. I follow that with watching a how to play video to see if rules were missed. I will admit... rules were missed. HAHA! Great how to video. You and Watch it Played are always the first channels I check for a how to.
Seriously well done. I just played this game at PAX unplugged and was totally hooked, and this rules explanation is phenomenal. I’m just going to have my friends watch this, no way I can teach it this well!
Thank you so much for your videos. While I get everything I need from reading the rules you take my confidence in interpretation of them from 10 to 100 every time. You certainly are not the only one making videos like this but you are by far the best hands down.
You made this game SO understandable. Thank you so much, looking forward to playing this soon, and I was initially quite intimidated... until I saw Paul Grogan was on the job! Keep up the excellent work!
Very well done video for a highly complicated game. Thanks for taking the time to do this and clearly pushing through the process of wrapping one's head around all the intricacies.
My compliments for a thorough overview of the gamerules, good pronounciation, useful examples of a action and a good video montage! Seeing an image with the status of things before and after the action really helps out!
Thanks so much! Not every detail sunk in, because I'm tired from work, but I'm excited to try this game with friends tomorrow. Changing films and books on the shelf was a nice touch, I appreicate it ;]
Brilliant stuff Paul, just about to play for the first time. I have not felt so intimidated about learning a game for years but as usual you've produced a brilliant tutorial. Intimidation has turned to excitement.
Thank you so much, Paul. Awesome explanation! Amazing how you manage to structure this huge amount of information in a way that (even) I can follow. Great work! :)
You Sir, are a machine :) Such a complex game explained crystal clear (as always). Each aspect is shown in great detail. I'm getting my copy tomorrow. I enjoyed this video a lot, and will probably be coming back to it for reference a lot. Thanks!
WAW !! You always find a way to explain very well and very usefull, even a such complicated game as this one.... it seems more complex than Lisboa... But now everything is clear in my head.. ready to explain to my mates !! THANKS !
I would say it is more complex than Lisboa. Thanks for the kind words, videos like this take a long time to create, and a lot of the time is spent in the planning stages, scripting, storyboarding, etc.
UA-cam could implement an LTU-button (Lacerda Thumbs Up-button), which you could klick any time you watch one of Paul's videos to refresh the rules of a Vital Lacerda game and which increases the Thumbs-up-count by one.
Walked past you at the UK Games Expo and bought On Mars right at that stand you were near :) Didn't say hi, as I didn't want to bother you. But I'm definitely watching your rules explanation. Good stuff.
Thanks for another great rules video. Imagine, I spent maybe 2-3 weeks on and off learning the game. Than Yesterday made my wife play it with me. She freaking beat me 135 to 83.
Paul, thank you for the terrific video. I've read the rules which are well done, but this video really makes it clear how to play the game, although the strategies will be an ongoing discovery. I did have one clarification though -- when we first build a mine complex (2+ mines), we get to put a progress cube down in that fifth column showing the mineral, correct? However, that does not advance the LSS. I think that is right, but it is not really mentioned in the rulebook or the video, so I wanted to be sure.
I thought I did mention that in the rulebook and video, but you are correct. The first time you create or expand a mine complex, you get to put your Mine progress cube into the progress area. The LSS doesn't change, as Mines are not part of the LSS. So yep, looks like you got it right :)
Great video. Also, I do believe I saw the cover for War of the Worlds, as narrated by the one and only Richard Burton. Classic. Let’s go Thunder Child.
I like to work the other way around. I love the video to have a quick feeling of the rules and then I will dive in the book to let it all sink in. This video is also great to have a quick update on the rules if you haven't played the game in a while.
Amazing. I'm gonna need to use this to make teaching notes. Usually I have a strict order I like to teach thing in but this game requires some sidebars, and you chose them perfectly to make this make sense.
13:11 I've notice one little missing thing Paul, maybe i'm wrong but it seems to me you did not mentioned it. You say that minerals can be used as wild card resources and can be used as anyone of the 4 other resources. It's true but there's an exception to that. It's when you complete a contract. You must have exactly the resources required to do so. I think it's not possible to explain everything but i think this is important :-)
In the setup - how is order for placing and revealing starting buldings? First reveal starting building on the map, or first players places their starting shelter (and starting buildings are unrevealed)?
Paul, sorry if this has been asked before. When the end game is triggered you say finish this round then play another round. Does the round consist of one turn for every player or does a round consist of a number of turns depending on where the shuttle is positioned. In other words if the Shuttle is at 3 do we each get another three turns after the end game was triggered or do we only get one more turn no matter where the shuttle is? Thanks in advance.
Hi Paul, Thank you for an excellent video. About to play my first game soon. Did you make a mistake at 30:28? You are efficiently upgrading 3 buildings but is the Aqueduct upgrade correctly placed? It is a level 3 blueprint but you upgraded a single aqueduct. Thank you again for your excellent and very clear tutorials.
Been writing down the rules for a week now, just starting to under stand how the buildings work, and bot/rovers. Now i must understand executive actions, cant wait to terrorize my family with this game.
I have never seen such great tutorial videos for boardgames in my whole life! What do you think of Gaia Project? Ever played it? Also, the British accent sounds so wholesome to my German ears! The guys from the US always sound like a bunch of dying frogs in a pond. Keep up the great work!
I've been really hit-and-miss with Vital's games (CO2 being the real low point, sadly, as I love the theme), but thought The Gallerist was alright and really enjoyed Lisboa, and this one looks pretty good, but just a matter of finding a victim or 2. Great job with the video as always!
wow, amazing rules video for an amazing game.. can't wait to play it! got it two days ago.. :D I hope it won't burn my brain too much though.. ^^ love it already!
Thanks for the great video! I got a question regarding R&D action(14:36), if developing the same tile twice, does it have to move to an empty spaces on each step? Let's say column +3's two spaces are both occupied and I have a tile at column +2, can I move it twice to column +4(if there's an empty space at +4)? Or I need to move one of the tiles on +3 first? Thanks.
Hi Paul, I have a question on the rules: I dont get how colonists work. I understand that if I gain a new colonist and there is not enough space in my living quarters, I have to put it near the player board. But when does these new colonists come into play?
Your unused colonists stay by your player board in your own supply. If you gain any colonists in excess of your capacity, you put them back in the supply where they came from. You will need to gain them again through some other means.
@@GamingRulesVideos thank you! And another question if I may, when I put a colonist on a mine built on the planet surface, is there a way to take it back?
@@gitubesmo only with abilities that say "remove a colonist from anywhere on the board", but then it wont produce resources when you travel from the colony to orbit.
1:14 set up
7:22 game overview
9:12 main action - general rules
11:16 orbit action - resupplies
12:26 orbit action - get new technology
14:34 orbit action - R&D
16:33 orbit action - get a blueprint
17:38 orbit action - landing pot
18:16 colony action - control centre (move robot/rover)
20:18 colony action - construct building (resources tile / shelter tile); includes LSS
28:52 colony action - upgrade building with blueprint
30:47 colony action - unlock spaceship
32:25 colony action - hiring scientist/claim earth contract
34:30 executive action
38:01 shuttle phase
41:38 mission
42:21 private goals
43:33 end of game
Thanks. Beat me to it!
@@GamingRulesVideos can you pin this comment please?
When you use the landing pot action, you skip step 1... but do you still get the bonus from the turn order spot and collect your workers from the surface?
@@GamingRulesVideosCan you copy these to the video description for built in chapters in the video player?
@@coreyredmon5611 That has already been done (years ago), but it doesn't appear to be working. Not sure why. Let me try and fix it.
Vital Lacerda and Paul Grogan: name a more iconic duo. Thanks, legend!
I am so impressed Paul. You did an outstanding job. You always produce top notch work but this might be your best to date. I can’t wait to play.
Thanks Chris. A few people have said that. I actually feel that with my last few videos, each one has been my best yet, but this one certainly required a lot of effort and I'm very happy with the end result :)
This is a masterful explanation! Perhaps the best board game how-to I've ever watched!
I personally think I could never got how to play the game without this video, just by the rulebook. Best regards from Russia!
This is one of the best online gaming tutorials I have ever seen for any game. Great job.
Thanks!
Agreed. For the first time ever, I used this video to teach a game rather than do it myself.
This has been one of the best board game tutorials I've ever seen. I got On Mars a few days ago, watched one other tutorial and still felt lost. This video was so well structured and paced however, that I feel completely confident to set it up and play a game. Thank you so much for how much work this must have been to make!
Easily one of the most underrated channels for tabletop games! Succinct and easy to follow even for a monster game like this. Very impressive Paul!
Alex Tyson thanks!
Excellent coverage of the rules for an extremely complicated game with top shelf cinematography and editing as always. Keep up the great work Paul!
I've always been a fan of Vital Lacerda designed games. Man, this really is shaping up to be another fascinating brain-burner for sure! Great video on teaching the game.
Thank you
Wow. I can’t WAIT to get my copy. Every time you explain a new rule I’m like “oooooh that’s so clever”
I like the Easter eggs on the shelf in the background. Some nice mars related films you got there 🤓
Want to know a secret. I own none of these DVD's :)
Fabulous! I love how the movie on the shelf changes constantly too. That’s a great touch. The rulebook was great as was this. Thanks for all your hard and great work Paul!
the DVD's change?
Must have been the cats :)
@@GamingRulesVideos HA! Clearly... those mischievous little sci-fi fans them :)
Got this a few weeks ago, and am planning a learning game soon, and this video is excellent! I love how the Mars references in the background change.
The best explanation of On Mars that one could have ever made. After trying to figure out how to play the game myself and to teach my friend later on, I realised how much effort was put in to make this video, The explanation is so streamlined and answer all of the questions that I had when I was reading the rule book myself.
Revisiting the game and astounded how good this tutorial is. This one deserves some sort of Gaming Video Award!
This 45 minute video just saved me several hours of pouring over the rule-book. So excited to now to jump right end and start playing.
I like reading the rule book as i play through the game for the first time. I follow that with watching a how to play video to see if rules were missed. I will admit... rules were missed. HAHA! Great how to video. You and Watch it Played are always the first channels I check for a how to.
Thanks Jimmy!
Re-watching this again in 2022 for my 2nd game after a long search for my own copy! Thanks Paul for the rulebook as well as the tutorial!!
Seriously well done. I just played this game at PAX unplugged and was totally hooked, and this rules explanation is phenomenal. I’m just going to have my friends watch this, no way I can teach it this well!
Thank you so much for your videos. While I get everything I need from reading the rules you take my confidence in interpretation of them from 10 to 100 every time. You certainly are not the only one making videos like this but you are by far the best hands down.
You made this game SO understandable. Thank you so much, looking forward to playing this soon, and I was initially quite intimidated... until I saw Paul Grogan was on the job! Keep up the excellent work!
Really good How To Play breakdown. Nice work. Love how the movie on the shelf changed. (The Martian, Total Recall, Red Planet etc…) Nice touch! :)
Thanks
Very well done video for a highly complicated game. Thanks for taking the time to do this and clearly pushing through the process of wrapping one's head around all the intricacies.
That's a lot of different Mars movies on the background of each section! Amazing video as usual Paul!
Thanks!
@@GamingRulesVideos I feel like you should have used Veronica Mars...
Brilliant game-Brilliant teach!!
U've really taken tutorial videos to another level with this one, Paul...
Bravo!!!
Thanks, I had a really good feeling about this one, which is why I took my time :)
My compliments for a thorough overview of the gamerules, good pronounciation, useful examples of a action and a good video montage! Seeing an image with the status of things before and after the action really helps out!
Thanks. This video took me ages :)
I watch a lot of channels and this was the most concise explanation of this game.
Thanks. And yeah... it is concise, but people don't think that because the video is sooo long :)
Thanks so much! Not every detail sunk in, because I'm tired from work, but I'm excited to try this game with friends tomorrow. Changing films and books on the shelf was a nice touch, I appreicate it ;]
Amazing rules! Clear and helpful!
Amazing comment! Very nice and complementary!
Excellent Tutorial. We just recognized some mistakes from the first round we played. Thanks Paul.
I’m so glad I don’t have to learn solely from the rule book! Thank you
Karaoke Videos although I think the rulebook is good ;)
Great job Paul. Exactly what I needed to get started! I also appreciate where you put an emphasis on the strategy - why X is important.
Brilliant rules guide. The strategy tips and hints on things to watch out for are also greatly appreciated! Thanks, Paul.
I had the advantage with this game of being one of the developers, playtesters, and having demoed it about 20 times to various groups :)
Marvelous Paul! Another outstanding rules explanation. Thank you. Nice twist with the changing Movieboxes in the board behind you 😉
Thank you!
Brilliant stuff Paul, just about to play for the first time. I have not felt so intimidated about learning a game for years but as usual you've produced a brilliant tutorial. Intimidation has turned to excitement.
Yup amazing production! We also learned about the BBC T.V. series "Life on Mars" :) -- mainly because my daughter insisted the prop was a board game.
Thanks for the tutorial. The game really looks hard to learn even with the help of this video, so I guess I will need to watch it several times.
Thanks a lot for the video, it's the best video for learning how to play "On Mars".
It's clear, and visual.
Thank you.
Paul - Top video! I dread to think how long it took to do, but quality as always!
Thank you so much, Paul. Awesome explanation! Amazing how you manage to structure this huge amount of information in a way that (even) I can follow. Great work! :)
You Sir, are a machine :) Such a complex game explained crystal clear (as always). Each aspect is shown in great detail. I'm getting my copy tomorrow. I enjoyed this video a lot, and will probably be coming back to it for reference a lot. Thanks!
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave me a comment. Hope the video helps. I recommend watching it again after your first couple of plays.
Brilliant - even more excited for this one to arrive now!
Well done! Well organized, clearly presented and full of helpful visual cues. Excellent work, Paul!
Thanks for the great video. I know this had to take a lot of work to make. We are playing this tomorrow and you have got me ready to play!
Yep, a few weeks of work :)
Phenomenal rules video, Paul! Thank you for your passion. It shows!
I'm glad it shows as I'm extremely passionate about what I do :) Very often too much.
WAW !! You always find a way to explain very well and very usefull, even a such complicated game as this one.... it seems more complex than Lisboa... But now everything is clear in my head.. ready to explain to my mates !! THANKS !
I would say it is more complex than Lisboa. Thanks for the kind words, videos like this take a long time to create, and a lot of the time is spent in the planning stages, scripting, storyboarding, etc.
I found this game far easier than Lisboa. I feel like the iconography and flow of this game is better.
UA-cam could implement an LTU-button (Lacerda Thumbs Up-button), which you could klick any time you watch one of Paul's videos to refresh the rules of a Vital Lacerda game and which increases the Thumbs-up-count by one.
Thanks to this video I'm more than willing to power through for this monster of a game. Just waiting for my copy to finally arrive. Thanks!
Walked past you at the UK Games Expo and bought On Mars right at that stand you were near :) Didn't say hi, as I didn't want to bother you. But I'm definitely watching your rules explanation. Good stuff.
Stop and say Hi next time :)
Thanks for another great rules video. Imagine, I spent maybe 2-3 weeks on and off learning the game. Than Yesterday made my wife play it with me. She freaking beat me 135 to 83.
Paul, thank you for the terrific video. I've read the rules which are well done, but this video really makes it clear how to play the game, although the strategies will be an ongoing discovery. I did have one clarification though -- when we first build a mine complex (2+ mines), we get to put a progress cube down in that fifth column showing the mineral, correct? However, that does not advance the LSS. I think that is right, but it is not really mentioned in the rulebook or the video, so I wanted to be sure.
I thought I did mention that in the rulebook and video, but you are correct. The first time you create or expand a mine complex, you get to put your Mine progress cube into the progress area. The LSS doesn't change, as Mines are not part of the LSS. So yep, looks like you got it right :)
Dear Paul! You did an outstanding job. We learned the game from your video. Thank you! :)
Great job Paul ! Well done.
Thanks Paul, appreciate it.
Great job. Detailed but clear rulebook but you smoothed it out with this vid
Thanks for the comments on the rulebook - I worked on that too :)
@@GamingRulesVideos Oh that's awesome. I've set up the game... now taking a deep breath to dive in :)
Great video. Also, I do believe I saw the cover for War of the Worlds, as narrated by the one and only Richard Burton. Classic. Let’s go Thunder Child.
The orchestral version of WotW is one of my favourite things in the whole world.
Tremendous video! Big thanks for the excellent breakdown of this complex game.
Freaking master! After reading the rulebook your video is the cherry on top! PERFECT!
thanks!
I like to work the other way around. I love the video to have a quick feeling of the rules and then I will dive in the book to let it all sink in. This video is also great to have a quick update on the rules if you haven't played the game in a while.
Paul Grogan rules! Eternal thanks for the best explanation videos ever. Cheers from Brazil. 🎉
Amazing. I'm gonna need to use this to make teaching notes. Usually I have a strict order I like to teach thing in but this game requires some sidebars, and you chose them perfectly to make this make sense.
Thanks. I spent a long time working out what I thought was the best order to teach things in.
You’re a legend, Paul! Succinct and detailed 👌
Thanks!
Really a very well done video Paul. Thanks for that. P.S. I liked the dvd’s changing all the time :-)
Nice a clear as always, ok time to dive in, thanks for the virtual teach
This is a great explanation video for a very complicated game. Nice work!
Echoing all the comments here. Fantastic tutorial. Thanks Paul!
My pleasure!
Very well explained...as usual...i still need holidays now to digest the rules 😀
that box is either massive or its a forced perspective hahaha very excited for this to arrive! great video, paul
It's the same size box as the other games from Vital and EGG (i.e. massive) :)
It's massive
13:11 I've notice one little missing thing Paul, maybe i'm wrong but it seems to me you did not mentioned it. You say that minerals can be used as wild card resources and can be used as anyone of the 4 other resources. It's true but there's an exception to that. It's when you complete a contract. You must have exactly the resources required to do so. I think it's not possible to explain everything but i think this is important :-)
Yes! This is the kind of content I like :)
It's good to be back. Just gotta work on my marketing :)
This was an amazing rules explanation dude, nice job.
Great video. Monumental feat for this game
Absolute legend Paul! Absolute legend
Well done Paul!!! Looking forward to my copy arriving!
In the setup - how is order for placing and revealing starting buldings? First reveal starting building on the map, or first players places their starting shelter (and starting buildings are unrevealed)?
Paul, sorry if this has been asked before. When the end game is triggered you say finish this round then play another round. Does the round consist of one turn for every player or does a round consist of a number of turns depending on where the shuttle is positioned. In other words if the Shuttle is at 3 do we each get another three turns after the end game was triggered or do we only get one more turn no matter where the shuttle is? Thanks in advance.
1 round is all players taking a turn and then the shuttle phase.
Great explanation for this complex game, I'm supposed to receive this tomorrow. Just curious how likely is it to get the LSS lvl 5 to end the game?
Elijah Fuller it’s rare
Brilliant video. Thanks!
Wow, Paul what an outstanding teach. I feel like I could play this game now
great video . Clear, precise, even for a french player not totally fluent in english. hold on!!
Olivier BON en même temps la vidéo est traduite en français donc j’espère qu’elle est accessible pour un français ^^
Hi Paul,
Thank you for an excellent video. About to play my first game soon.
Did you make a mistake at 30:28?
You are efficiently upgrading 3 buildings but is the Aqueduct upgrade correctly placed?
It is a level 3 blueprint but you upgraded a single aqueduct.
Thank you again for your excellent and very clear tutorials.
Excellent video! Thank you!
Good job....Damn good, bloody good , damn good job!
I don't even want to play this anymore based on the sheer amount of setup! XD
Been writing down the rules for a week now, just starting to under stand how the buildings work, and bot/rovers. Now i must understand executive actions, cant wait to terrorize my family with this game.
I have never seen such great tutorial videos for boardgames in my whole life!
What do you think of Gaia Project? Ever played it?
Also, the British accent sounds so wholesome to my German ears! The guys from the US always sound like a bunch of dying frogs in a pond.
Keep up the great work!
I've been really hit-and-miss with Vital's games (CO2 being the real low point, sadly, as I love the theme), but thought The Gallerist was alright and really enjoyed Lisboa, and this one looks pretty good, but just a matter of finding a victim or 2. Great job with the video as always!
Read the rule book. Watched the video. Ready. Set. Solo.
Thank you for the best explication for this game! It's very clear and this is a good access for a great Game!
Hi Paul, can you give me any good tips about writing a rule book please. I'm always creating new games but struggle to write the rules properly.
wow, amazing rules video for an amazing game.. can't wait to play it! got it two days ago.. :D I hope it won't burn my brain too much though.. ^^ love it already!
Changing movie covers... clever
watched this a few times now and only just realized the little movie box at the top right changes
well spotted!
wow that was a great explanation!
Thanks for the great video! I got a question regarding R&D action(14:36), if developing the same tile twice, does it have to move to an empty spaces on each step? Let's say column +3's two spaces are both occupied and I have a tile at column +2, can I move it twice to column +4(if there's an empty space at +4)? Or I need to move one of the tiles on +3 first? Thanks.
Each movement is a separate thing, so yeah, each move must be to an empty space.
Amazing excellent tutorial... thanks a lot for that!
Thanks so much for this great explaination!
You're very welcome!
Hi Paul, I have a question on the rules: I dont get how colonists work. I understand that if I gain a new colonist and there is not enough space in my living quarters, I have to put it near the player board. But when does these new colonists come into play?
Your unused colonists stay by your player board in your own supply. If you gain any colonists in excess of your capacity, you put them back in the supply where they came from. You will need to gain them again through some other means.
@@GamingRulesVideos thank you! And another question if I may, when I put a colonist on a mine built on the planet surface, is there a way to take it back?
@@gitubesmo only with abilities that say "remove a colonist from anywhere on the board", but then it wont produce resources when you travel from the colony to orbit.
Thank you for this! We will play this in the weekend!
Perfect explanation, thanx a lot!
I got the game but what they didn’t tell me is that it would come with missing pieces a true work of art