Food Chain Magnate Extended Gameplay
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
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A video outlining gameplay for the boardgame Food Chain Magnate.
For more game info, boardgamegeek....
Part I: Gameplay Runthrough
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Part II: Extended Gameplay
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Part III: Final Thoughts
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Welcome back! Let's continue with "Rahdo's Goofs"
If you find Goofs I didn't notice Please leave Timestamps :)
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6:46 Forgot to the the "First to Train someone" Milestone that will give her $15 discount on every turn when she has to pay the workers
9:45 It's actually $10 +$5 because when Jen sells burgers she gets and extra $5 due to her "First Burger Marketed" Milestone
11:28 And now that he would do the $10 he's over the $20 and would receive the Milestone "First to $20" and get to see the Reserve cards
11:35 Actually Jen has 2 workers that require Salary, the Junior Vice-President and the Burger Cook... it would be $10 not $5, but she has the Milestone that gives are $15 discount on Salaries so they won't cost anything
15:36 Clarification:
Customers, when offered a choice, will go for the lower cost for them (selling price + travelling cost) , Richard got this right.
If there's a tie they'll go to the place with more waitresses (Richard again got this right).
If there's another tie, they'll finally choose based on turn order (Richard missed this part and it does affect some decisions he makes)
19:57 Like stated in the previous note, the cost of that burger for House 4 is:
Jen $10 / Richard $9 + $1 (for the distance the customer has to travel)
So the cost is the same... first Tie-Breaker: number of Waitresses:
They both have 2
Final tie-breaker is turn order, so that burger should have gone to Jen since she's first in turn order!
22:17 Again, Richard is forgetting the turn order tie-breaker and Jen has a much easier time manipulating that because of her much bigger structure
27:31 Jen forgot to Hire one more worker from her CEO card
31:00 Forgot to pay for the workers... Richard now has to pay $5 because he has 1 skilled worker!
this is unfair. After SUSD I was like Cool game, but pricey and not so great looking in terms of the dull city map. Now Seeing in detail how the game works. I WANT IT SO BAD. Dull map be damned. Though I only have one person to play it with really. And we barely can make two gamenights per year together. T.T
Tom W it's on tabletop simulator. I'll play it with you.
+Rahdo Fantastic run-through, extra impressive knowing you didn't like this game from the outset. This game is a sure thing for me;will add this to my collection. Thanks
I'd love to have this game but can't afford it :(
I love watching this 8 years later when EVERYONE knows the Recruiting Girl and Marketer strategies. You did so well here with Jen creating a good engine on first play before this game was analysed to death.
that's cool, i had no idea! :)
This seems like a game where a more experienced player can go "I WILL CRUSH YOU ON MY TRAY AND SERVE YOUR LOWER BACK AS BURGERS"
It's seems extremely crushing. I love it!
Do you watch Arrested Development Richard? "I've made a terrible mistake...."
i need to start working that in on purpose!
That sneeze alert was hilarious!
Your mistakes on this video are totally understandable. It's hard enough to manage your brain to play this game, can't imagine playing two players at the same time!
19:33 And he forgot to hire someone.
At 11:30 Jen has $10 of salaries (she has the burger cook) but wouldn't have to pay due to the $15 discount from the Milestone.
+Dean Jones noted... thanks
Great video, Rahdo! Thanks!
Am I wrong in that Jen wouldn't need to price cut at the end? She can just use additional marketing campaigns to add other products to to what the neighborhoods want.
+Edward Centofante there are several ways to go... that's one of them... what Richard was saying is another :)
+Edward Centofante jen wouldn't need to price cut because in this configuration she shouldn't be missing out on any sales.
the neighbourhood in the same space as jen either pays $10 to go to her restaurant or $9 + $1 (travel) to go to richard's. same cost, so she has more waitresses, and they go to her. the upper neighbourhood pays either $10 + $1 to go to hers, or $9 + $2 to go to richard's. some cost again, and she has more waitresses. richard isn't actually able to compete with jen's mega corp the way he thinks he is.
now, i only know as much about this game as what i've watched in the last hour and a half, but that's how it looks to me. and now i must play this game somehow :)
+Zero Bad Ideas That's interesting about the price mechanic. He never really explained how that worked. One thing I think you missed is he had the milestone that reduced costs by an additional dollar. So it was $8, not $9.
+Edward Centofante actually, the milestone was the only thing i was taking into consideration :) I was thinking that because he'd have to actually staff his pricing guy to get the extra discount, it wouldn't be as high a priority strategically with only three staffing slots available... but now I see that if he used his pricing guy and his burger cook, he would actually get both neighbourhoods (if Jen doesn't staff at least one pricing guy, which doesn't seem like a problem for her)
+Edward Centofante he had the milestone but he didn't have the price manager on the structure so the price he was asking was $9... for the price to be at $8 he would have to have the Price Manager occupying one of the slots
Can a Management Trainee manage Management Trainees who manage Trainers who train Managers?
sorry i don't know the game well enough to answer. but you can go ask on boardgamegeek and there'll be plenty of folks who could answer :)
Managers are not allowed to report to other managers, they have to report directly to the CEO
You can only have 3 "tiers" the Ceo, the managers, and then employees. So no infinite trees
Does Jen have to keep a slot open for her marketing person? the one running the "infinite billboard campaign"?
For example at 17:50 you laid out all the employees under the CEO taking up all the "open slots" but if you counted the marketing person she'd have been one over.
(I hope I'm explaining that correctly.)
I'm just curious. I ordered this game after watching these walk through because it looks so awesome, and I figured I'd ask for clarification while I'm waiting for it to arrive.
Great video!
sorry to say, i've only ever played the game the one time i was filming, and i don't really remember any more. if i was wrong though, someone would have pointed it out by now and an annotation would have been added :)
No apologies necessary. It makes sense that you hadn't been back to the game since filming since it isn't your type of game, I figured it was worth a shot asking on the off chance you happened to remember :).
I'm just grateful you took a shot on a game you may not have normally done because otherwise I'd have never known of this game, I am really looking forward to playing this with my group of friends I have a feeling a few of them at least will really like it too.
Thank you again for the great work on your videos!
No, advertisers dont fill a slot while they're running the campagin
At 20.00, the sum of distance and price is equal and both restaurants have the same number of waitresses. In this case, customers go to the chains i turn order, in this case Jenns, not yours.
+benji68 it was already noted... thank you
+Paulo Renato sorry, i don't see the notes on the ipad
+benji68 no problem... I also put the notes in the description of the video for people like you that don't have access to the notes on the screen to read so you know what goofs were made :)
you completed 50% of your sentences
so, what are
Thank you for recording this playthrough, though. It was extremely helpful for learning the turn order and mechanics!
19:38 Jenn's waitresses didn't pay out?
they did, has did Richard's Waitresses at 23:15
+Paulo Renato yeah I wrote before I watched video through. Sorry. love these videos though. must be tonnes to remember
Who is JENN????
+15RevX faq.rahdo.com :)
Totally not seeing where the direct player conflict is as you can always follow the your opponent in a 2 player game if you are second, which you could manipulate with your work slots... there's really no stealing, discarding or destroying that I see. There's more direct conflict in Forge War during the mining phase where you can directly steal miners from your opponent, right? It seems like this game would be right up your alley!
+Jared Rupprecht he mentioned it's the combination of that and the sandboxiness - which he's just not a fan of (and spoke about at length in his last podcast Talks Through)
The player conflict is more subtle, but it's still direct. You can't affect each other's companies (your hand of cards) but you can really screw each other over on the board (in the neighborhood.) The thing about playing against yourself is you dont see the holes in your own strategies, so you cant attack each other in that way
really liked the gameplay vids but could have done without most of the hypotheticals about what you could have done. i feel like most of them were pretty obvious and just distracted from what you were actually doing
sounds like my channel might not be for you, and that's okay
He’s showing all the different ways things can be done to show people who don’t know anything about the game
I was interested in this, but seeing how there is an obvious strategy ( hiring a recruiter and then a trainer ), kinda broke this game for me.
+TheGrooves most fans of the game who have a lot more experience with it than me would argue that there's not a dominant strategy, or rather the dominant strategy changes from game to game based on the layout of the map :)
TheGrooves I watched another video of board game people actually playing the game who like the game , and neither of the 4 of them started off with a recruiter.
If you get a good trainer too early then you’re going to have salaries you can’t afford
@@RichieDcik although if you train first you get a $15 discount on salaries. The early training strategy is also viable.
This seems like a very complicated version of Monopoly to me… Won't you just get to the same kind of situation where one player gets ahead early, and gets so many bonuses from getting everything first that it becomes impossible for anyone to catch up?
if you're the first to do X, then that means someone else will be the first to do Y...
I guess the important thing is not to get stuck in playing catch-up, always just missing out on the milestones. Better to go a different path. It's just that in your run-through, Jen seemed to get such a massive upper hand. I guess that will be less of a problem once all the players are familiar with the game though :)
Still, I think my best take-away from this was that it's not a game for me and my wife :)
Thanks for all your awesome run-throughs! If I hadn't seen your video for Anachrony I would have missed the Kickstarter, and since Trickerion is my favourite game I have really high hopes for Anachrony. So I'm inexpressibly grateful! :)
Keep in mind that the reason why Jenn's strategy seems so OP is because Rahdo specifically picked a different strategy and at the same time did not attack Jenn's strategy. This a game about building an engine BUT you have to at the same time keep on top of everyone else's engine.