Dark Ages Extended Playthrough

Here is my Dark Ages extended playthrough! Paid sponsorship by Board&Dice.
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Final Scoring - 2:11:24
Wrap up - 2:16:04
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[@JonGetsGames]

CORRECTIONS: 58:40 - You gain items at the end of your passing turn, so all steps must be completed for passing before gaining the resource.

[@pierrewhite2062]

Wow what a nail biter! Good playthrough as usual.

[@raz6321]

Wow, a 2 hours+ video with editing, this must have taken a lot of time. Good job!

[@JonGetsGames]

It did! around 40% longer to make than my average video.

[@Talisman_227]

Solid play through Jon. Certainly helpful. I just had my first grind through and I think this game is terrific! However, I just have a few random questions came to mind during my session. Feel free to answer at your own convenience: 1) do transient units you earn take on your current tech level of that unit or stay basic level? 2) Kingdom of Italy is labelled on the map as a 3+ player game but it's Title card reads 4+. Typo? If so, what do we go by? Card or Map? 3) If you maneuver an army into a province with a city but without anyone's settlement or unit, is it an automatic take-over with out a fight? 4) what exactly constitutes "control of a province"? Your colour settlement and/or any of your military unit(s) occupying the province? Can you gain resources from a province during passing (step 8 ) with only your military unit(s) in the province and with out any of your buildings? TIA 👋

[@JonGetsGames]

I'm glad you enjoyed this. Unfortunately, it's been too long since I played this game to remember the rules enough to answer your question. Sorry about that!

[@wicek3d]

EXCELLENT playthrough. Amazing work Jon - thanks for showing how the game works and preparing this video for us. GG

[@davidhytch2065]

Great job on the video, that looked a pain to film, though I did wince every time you said calvary instead of cavalry.

[@JonGetsGames]

Huh, I suppose I am saying that incorrectly aren't I. That's never been brought to my attention before, sorry about that!

[@davidhytch2065]

No worries. Sorry to pick on you like that. If that’s the worst I can say then you’re definitely doing a lot right 👍🏻

[@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx7312]

Pls add solo playthrough Video. After play my thoughts : or balance is not good or i don’t understand something

I have question: Is possible for White player in 33:30 to sacrifice his Light Cavalry instead of Heavy Infantry? It would give him 4 points in battle result instead of 3. On there is some rule saying that slow boys must die first?

[@milanstevic8424]

5:29 you flipped the order of the tokens, as you have changed your mind about the placement but played with the kicked out token which you didn't kick out :) that's my main issue with this kind of mechanism, a mis-planned move can invalidate the state.

[@milanstevic8424]

15:06 "so that's 3 light cavalry in total" not a light cavalry, but a light infantry :)

[@nanorider426]

A minor goof: 1:45:12 - Yellow got 4 VP from the battle with the barbarians. It went from 28 to 33. Yellow got 5 VP not 4.

[@JonGetsGames]

Good catch, I've added a note about this to the Klingon subtitles. Thanks for pointing that out :)

[@crescentiastegner-freitag2101]

This must have taken forever to film! This setup is huge. You seemed to be changing camera angles more times per turn than usual.

[@JonGetsGames]

This one certainly took longer to make then my average playthrough. They usually take about 8 hours to film and this one took 12.5 hours! Certainly lots of camera cuts due to the incremental nature of the small turns in this game.

[@nanorider426]

@@JonGetsGames Very well done! It's so easy to follow the playthrough the way you have done it. :)

[@Dre2Dee2]

Looks cool, I do like the idea of a light euro combined with a light RISK style game. I'm not sure it's one I would need to own, but I would be happy to try it out

[@nanorider426]

I like the turns are so short but there's a lot to think about. Like: do I give my opponent a reaction, do I attack over here or should I develop a tech and so on. And so many ways to end the game, I like it. ^^

[@antonnieuwkoopable]

It looks like something went wrong at 1:26:55 (or something) you say it's the white players turn, but put an yellow disk on the board and build a city for yellow? Excellent video again btw! Really get a feeling of the gameplay.

[@JonGetsGames]

Dang, it looks like I decided to redo the yellow players turn (build instead of recruit) and I missed this when editing so the first version was left in. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll add a note to the Klingon subtitles.

[@antonnieuwkoopable]

@@JonGetsGames it doesn't really makes a big difference but I'm glad it's not me :) again: great video, now I'm really sure to back it

[@shannonsmith9316]

What a superb playthrough Jon, thanks heaps. I quoted at about 1:10:33 this game is setting up to be the most amazing game and so excited to how this plays out. Then it happened again, like “MY”previous issues with other games. When your ready to reap the rewards of your engine and see a whooping exciting finish with fights, drama, and death to all,. The end point trigger happens and game to a hault and point calculation happens. I wish the creators of the game instead of ending the game at one of those triggers gave further advantages to that player. Such as culture max, gave an advantage of all barbarians joined your side. When all churches are built, weak adjacent towns joined your side etc. ahh what could’ve been to create a Great War game, not a point grab excursion. Just my opinion, on what I was hoping for in a game. Awesome awesome playthrough Jon, whenever you do a playthrough I grab my wallet.

[@JonGetsGames]

Interesting points, I'm glad you enjoyed this so much :) I do want to say that this one was quite difficult to try and simulate 3 different players for. Obviously a big part of the conquest here is building up and the threat of invading, and I clearly got too in my head about being safe from myself and then realized I could capitalize on that with the white player's invasion. I suppose that could happen with multiple people around the table, but I just want to emphasize that plays with other people could very well be more dynamic than this.

[@GSpeare]

56:00 I believe you could have used the keep in the melee phase to get 1 hit, winning the battle against the barbarians (you had a 4 which could become a 5).

[@JonGetsGames]

I looked back and I don't see any adjacent Keeps to this battle in Austria so I don't think we'd get any +1 modifiers.

[@tonybowers9490]

Thanks for sharing. A lot of points in a lot of ways. Not sure if that's a good thing. I was surprised to see the final scores being so close,

[@JonGetsGames]

I was pleasantly surprised at how close the scores were. Thought "we" had lost badly due to being complacent, I'm glad we had a competitive 3rd place there at the end.

[@thegametrainer9004]

15:11 Light Infantry! You play correctly just said the wrong unit

[@evatar4052]

Wow quite a play through

[@Skycroft1000]

Hmm, I like the theme but something about the way this plays out doesn't sit well with me. It does make me want to see you play the Crusader Kings board game, but I bet it wouldn't work well with your setup like most negotiation heavy games. Speaking of which, can you trade with other players in this game? The way the resources are spread out makes one thing that would be a thing, but it appears to not be.

[@JonGetsGames]

There is no trading as far as I know of in Dark Ages.

[@jamessblues]

what's your honest opinion of the game? Rating form 1 to 10? thank you ! I need to decide to buy the pledge of a friend of mine

[@JonGetsGames]

I never actually played a full game of it with others so I can't really say what my actual opinion of it is to play.

[@jamessblues]

@@JonGetsGames at least please can you tell me what are your feelings of about the game ?

[@JonGetsGames]

@@jamessblues I'm sorry but I just don't have relevant things to say. I haven't played a real game so don't really have an opinion. I am curious to play a real game of it someday, so that is something I suppose.

[@alexthorne6996]

@@jamessblues alot of content creatures cant express their true feelings about games they show in case it damages their relationship with companies. As much as its annoying it's just the way it is. Jon's videos I find great to get a taste of how the game works and the mechanics, he doesn't hype games alot which is also good IMO but like all creatures you can't get an honest answer either alot of the time.

[@yrusomad6]

Man, this looks like at least the components are good for some good designer/developer to come in and actually make a good game with it. haha.