Eastern Empires - Tutorial & Playthrough

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@GettingGames 3 жыл бұрын

CORRECTIONS: 11:41 & 27:23 - If 1 or more players have 1 or more cities while being in the Stone Age, phases 6-12 are not skipped. Those players draw the trade card or cards, the Market Board is filled, players may trade if possible, after which the cards from the Market Board are discarded.

@spectralboardgamer 3 жыл бұрын

Also at 41:31 ! Thank you for this video - it did evoke pleasant memories from more than 30 years ago when I played the predecessor (AH Civilization) for the first time. That was basically my door-opener into the world of the more 'eccentric' board games and has influenced my life in a major way. I will definitely have to get Mega Empires - even if just for nostalgic value...

@moes80 Ай бұрын

I'm so excited for this game.

@wimdehert1631 2 жыл бұрын

The beneficiary in case of a calamity card (exept Civil War and Tyranny ) is the one who gave you that card in a trade, if a trade was made otherwise indeed check stock for cities and so on.

@mastermafyn3996 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for creating one of the best board games channel :)

@spr5x4 3 жыл бұрын

What a game! Loved the play through. Entertaining and informative as always

@Shoitaan 3 жыл бұрын

For JGGs ten year anniversary, you should do a 10-18play playthrough of this game. With you as every player XD

@trixbunnyman 3 жыл бұрын

madness

@GettingGames 3 жыл бұрын

Haha, that would leave me a wreck :P

@Shoitaan 3 жыл бұрын

@@GettingGames it would be a gameplay vid that would be spoken for for ages :)

@steveg8984 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing job on this video, very clear. Thx

@gobohenry835 3 жыл бұрын

Woah the map expanding took me by suprise. 18 players with both games would be crazy!

@GettingGames 3 жыл бұрын

I felt it was important to start with emphasizing the overall potential scope of the player counts before focusing on the comparably smaller 3p map for the rest of the video :)

@Ebergnerd 11 ай бұрын

Just me ore is it a game of tetrist to store it

@litphaniusmcmelloy4275 3 жыл бұрын

Looks pretty cool to me

@brickisland6353 3 жыл бұрын

This game is very similar to the Avalon Hill Civilization, also GMT have released a game called Ancient Civilizations of the inner sea.

@2ndPerk 3 жыл бұрын

It's essentially the same game as Civ. Primary differences are that there are about twice the number of advances, more calamities, and some rules are more streamlined. The other half of the game, Western Empires, is on the same medditeranean map as the original, but expanded to encompass almost all of europe and north africa.

@StevenStJohn-kj9eb 3 жыл бұрын

Is there any particular reason you decided not to show an 18 player game?

@mattlowder 3 жыл бұрын

They tried to call fifteen other players about their car's extended warranty, but no one picked up.

@GettingGames 3 жыл бұрын

I'm having a hard time remembering why I didn't go that route :P

@SuperRobert56 3 жыл бұрын

Jon, if you did a 18 player playthrough i think I would book a week off to watch it all!

@timoseppa9124 3 жыл бұрын

Ooh, looking forward to this... I had the original AH Civilization. Really unique game when it came out. Maybe the first civilization themed game? Would there have been a Sid Meier's Civilization without that game?

@bendebec 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing how the population spreads across the map is really interesting. Very cool game, but I'm not sure if I'd ever get the group/time to play it.

@Skycroft1000 3 жыл бұрын

Great job on this complex game, Jon! Personally I don't like the random element of calamities at all, and so much of the game revolves around them. I love civilization building games but not moving troops on a map, and this game has that too. So even leaving aside that this game is something I will never have time for, it's really not for me. A pity, there is a kind of draw to 'event' games like this you can't get anywhere else, but I would much rather play Twilight Imperium than this if I did have ~8 hours to spare (and people who would be willing to play it with me).

@GettingGames 3 жыл бұрын

This game certainly won't be for everyone, it's true. I'm glad you found the video informative :)

@Thesussysuscat 3 жыл бұрын

Nice tnx

@2ndPerk 3 жыл бұрын

I think it would have been valuable to explain the normal trade round, for 5+ players, as that is really the best and most interesting part of the game.

@GettingGames 3 жыл бұрын

I contemplated it, but I saw the goal of this video being focused specifically on showing how the Advanced Civ / Mega-Civ framework can now work with 3 and 4 players. Perhaps I should have added it in there afterall, but that was my thinking at the time.

@2ndPerk 3 жыл бұрын

@@GettingGames That's fair

@Sir_Yaro 3 жыл бұрын

@JonGetsGame, are you absolutely sure about not drawing commodity cards until not in early Bronze Age? I don't remember that rule at all. Or maybe it's a 3-4 player variant rule only ?

@GettingGames 3 жыл бұрын

This relates to all player counts as far as I can tell. The rulebook says "If all players still have zero cities (Stone Age), skip to phase 13." I suppose that can be confusing since you can build cities during the stone age, but you can't leave the stone age until the end of the 5th round at the earliest. One of the game's designers watched the entire video and gave me some rules clarification feedback for a couple points, and they didn't say anything about this being incorrect. That leads me to think that I interpreted that rule correctly.

@Sir_Yaro 3 жыл бұрын

@@GettingGames I did not play MCIV for over 3 years now :( , so details are a little fuzzy, but if someone would ask me I could swear players can get commodity cards while in Stone Age (providing they have cities). So I think you should start drawing cards since 24:30. Otherwise, it would be VERY hard (if possible) to get 130-150 or more points to buy 3 cards in 3 rounds. And I don't remember having to wait on AST in that pre-bronze age spot like... ever? :)

@brianmccarty3615 3 жыл бұрын

You don't draw cards until you have cities -- this is the same as Advanced Civ. You could have a city on turn 3 (I think) but that would be very sub-optimal, For what it is worth, the Mega Civ rule book (v1.2) makes no reference to "Stone Age" in step 6A -- it just says "all players draw cards equal their number of cities on the board"

@GettingGames 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm, now I am worried I got this wrong and it wasn't caught. I skipped all card drawing even with cities until I actually performed a Step 6 because it was my understanding that Step 6 was fully skipped until at least one player was out of the Stone Age.

@2ndPerk 3 жыл бұрын

@@GettingGames I am almost certain that is incorrect, and commodity cards are drawn as soon as cities are on the board. This just tends not to happen until after the stone age, do to the optimal play being to build 3 or 4 cities on the last turn of it.

@2ndPerk 3 жыл бұрын

At about 17 mins you could have demonstrated a very bad play made by the Indus civ. They moved 1 unit onto a 2 pop tile, adjacent to multiple Parthian units. If Parthia moves 2 of its own units on, they eliminate and Indus unit, while incurring now losses - a major advantage at that stage in the game.

@GettingGames 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, that is true. This goes to show my novice level of understanding the game's strategy. I was figuring things like this out as I filmed the video, in fact I went back and refilmed one movement step because I'd accidentally made several very stupid moves where Indus in particular would have lost many population while the attacker wouldn't have lost any. I think I was alittle careless with Indus overall.

@Thesussysuscat 3 жыл бұрын

Seems like a somewhat simple game for how much is going on . Would you say this is harder to learn then say eclipse or gaia project?

@GettingGames 3 жыл бұрын

I was surprised at the simplicity of the overall design, despite the fact that it has a massive rulebook (it has lots of good illustrations). I'd say the overall rules would be actually easier to learn for Eastern Empires than Eclipse, and probably even Gaia Project as well.