Expeditions Gears of Corruption: Solo Playthrough

The Mill shows off Gears of Corruption in action through a solo playthrough. If you are curious on how the Corrupted Mech functions in general, it is the same in solo play. Carol plays through about half a game highlighting differences the expansion adds and how the Corrupted mech works at any player count.
Carol rules clarification: On my first turn I get a map token that says get a benefit from an adjacent tile. The only tile adjacent to me has the same symbol and I mistakenly take a meeple adjacent to that tile. I should have taken nothing because I still should have been looking adjacent to my mech.
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[@ianwilz1979]

Why didn’t you start your token on the Refresh space and take all 3 actions on your first turn? You should have been able to gather as well. Am I missing a change somewhere in starting spot for your action token?

[@TheMillShow]

Honestly, because I set up from memory and had not played in awhile. I was too focused on reading the Corrupted mech module multiple times and did not re-look at basic set up. So, I shorted myself an action. I guess I was trying to go easy on the automa. Thanks for the catch! I'm learning it is very easy to miss small stuff on solo play throughs.

[@ianwilz1979]

@@TheMillShow Done that many times at setup. Yep definitely shorted one of those first move actions. Great run through though. And good luck with the future of the channel. If you are ever looking for ambassadors to interview I love talking about SM games and run my own channel. I do the Rolling Through The Realms videos.

[@pFe1FF]

11:10 is this token really play a card, looks more like "get a card"?

[@TheMillShow]

I actually paused filming at that point because I was not sure. Based on the iconology card, it looked like play a card. Since the symbols are so similar (just a matter of the icon being at an angle), I have a feeling people are going to have to decide at their tables which way they want to read it. It is hard to decide if something is at an angle on a circle.

[@MaarekDavion]

@@TheMillShow The map token was "Gain a Face-up card", the "Playing 1 card from hand" has the loop design within the card icon. You should have been playing with 3 cards.

[@TheMillShow]

@@MaarekDavion From the back of the rulebook and player aides, the only difference from "any card you control" vs. "any face-up card" is just one being at an angle, which does not translate well to a circular token. However, at this point Jamey has clarified in the forums that it is take any face-up card, which I would have much preferred to do in this case. The disadvantage of filming from an early copy: no forums yet to check if the designer has clarified these little details.