Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas Expansion - How to Play. By Stella & Tarrant

[@MeepleUniversity]

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[@JohnDoe-bq9tq]

Wow. I think that was flawless... I recommend anyone going to play with Ketchup watch this instead of stumbling through an explanation of your own. Just noticed the timestamped indexes in the description... perfect!!!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Thanks so much John, glad you find it useful 🙏😄. Hope you enjoy the game!

[@DodgerB763]

@@MeepleUniversity No, distance to house 1 with kimchi is 3 not 5. That's incorrect.

[@wichhouse]

I have to say, you guys make the best Food Chain Magnate videos out there. Fantastic!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Hehe thanks so much! Hope you enjoy the game, and expansion 😄

[@AlexTheUruguayan]

@4:30 the distance to Duck Diner from house #1 is three, not five. The point about sales with kimchi remain accurate though.

[@zaviaaaaa]

A couple of minor clarifications: 1. When playing with any of: Kimchi, Sushi, or Noodles, you add one luxury manager to the game 2. Coffee is not considered a drink for the purposes of any milestones referring to drinks

[@MeepleUniversity]

Hi Walker, yes that's right, something that are not included in the video. Hope you enjoy the expansion!

[@Aaron637]

I just bought both FCM and this expansion because of this video. Splotter should be paying you. Great video.

[@MeepleUniversity]

Thanks Aaron, hope you enjoy playing them :)

[@Aaron637]

@@MeepleUniversity played 3 nights in a row so far... my wife broke down after playing with original milestones. Man they are a punish. Especially the free cfo one. Ouch. The expansion is a great improvement. This is my favourite boardgame.

[@MeepleUniversity]

@@Aaron637 WOW! Milestones are so good, I try to always be last player at the start of the game at least, to see what other players are doing, so I can follow, so I don't miss out on milestones! Good thing the expansion adds improvement :)

[@unrealed]

Timestamps for each module: 6th Player - 1:26 Food modules Intro - 2:24 Kimchi - 3:16 Sushi - 5:17 Noodles - 6:52 Kimchi + Noodles + Sushi - 8:05 French Fries - 8:55 Coffee module - 9:41 Map modules intro- 16:07 Appartements - 16:43 Lobbyists - 17:27 Parks - 18:06 New Roads - 19:09 Rural market - 21:03 Expeditors Intro - 23:19 Night Shift Manager - 23:36 Mass Marketeer - 24:54 Employees Intro - 26:05 Gourmet Food Critic - 26:15 Movie Stars - 26:51 Reserve and Milestones Reserve - 29:00 Hard Choices - 30:14 New Milestones - 30:35 Ketchup - 31:16

[@MeepleUniversity]

Aha, I have that already, but forgot to just "trigger" the linkable link, it should work now, just added 00:00 as Start. Thank you

[@Naniguitar]

I just got the pun about the "catch up" mechanism 😅Amazing video! Thnx

[@MeepleUniversity]

Hahahaha great idea right! Thanks so much

[@sloikalamos]

My god, playing it with 6 people must be a mayhem!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Haha it would be

[@imaan8298]

WOW, these are flawless explanations and very helpful. Thank you so much!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Glad it was helpful! :D

[@TheIngPin]

extremely well explained both visually and with words, thanks!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Thank you so much! :D

[@RedEyedGhost1]

Excellent video! I'll probably ending watching it half a dozen more times when my copy arrives!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Hehe thank you, and hopefully while planning your strategy too :D

[@moo422]

Great thorough recap of all the modules! This helped so so so much. Thank you!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Glad it helped friend! :)

[@Santanilla]

Wow excellent explanation once again! Thank you!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Glad it helped! :) Thank you Angel!

[@MeepleMentor]

I keep waiting for my tracking # for this expansion. FCM is so good!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Yesss it is! And the expansion could be game changer 😁

[@dave0754]

This was a fantastic video to watch, very clear and concise. It made me realise that this expansion is probably a bridge too far for me and that I will stick to the base game.

[@MeepleUniversity]

Thank you so much Dave07 :) Haha you can always play the base game first a few times, then add ketchup to your... uh.. burger later ;P. Thank you for your kind words!

[@rubensnasciment]

Hi, firstly thank you for the great work! Secondly, I have a question about the ketchup milestone. Does it work as any other milestone? I mean, once someone receives it, then it leaves the game for the other players? It looks so OP. Cheers

[@MeepleUniversity]

Yes, it works like any other milestone - (we only separated it from the rest because it was the game's namesake).

[@theinnerparty5295]

Excellent and well presented. Do take a breath in between though !

[@MeepleUniversity]

Thank you! What is breath, no time for that! LOL

[@theinnerparty5295]

Please can you tell me why, at 25:15, you would add burgers to houses 13 and 15 ? As its a mailbox, surely it should only be number 25 ? However, does the rounded ending to the road mean the mailbox carries on around to the other side of the road ? Even if it did though, it still wouldnit pass house 15.

[@MeepleUniversity]

Hi, The Innerparty. The mailbox drop advertises to all houses inside its area enclosed by either roads or the edge of the map - its area of influence is not impeded by buildings of any type. So, in the example at 25:15, every house on the left-hand side of the map (except for one in the 2×2 square at the bottom corner) is inside Mailbox 8's area of reach.

[@alejandroriveros3297]

Hi! In the first marketeer milestone... The - 2 distance is for any house or apartment in the map or only for the one you put your desired marketing and pick 5 dollars per each token?... Amazing video, thank you!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Thanks for watching and your kind words :). Distance to any house.

[@135Pandemonium]

So I'm guessing selling to rivals at the very beggining can be good to get the ketchup in purpose right?

[@MeepleUniversity]

Indeed. Like many of the milestones in the game, you may end up contriving your first few actions for the sole purpose of securing your preferred milestones.

[@greginfla_1]

Another great video, so is there a consensus if this is a must have expansion?

[@MeepleUniversity]

Thank you! I would say yes, it is the only one, for now, and can just use different modules each time, coz there are a few, makes things different :)

[@seanmorgan2257]

Hi Tarrant, thank you for this video, was beginning to think Stella had done something to you as you not been on video for a while :), but don't let Stella know that I said that

[@MeepleUniversity]

Hi Sean, HAHAHA, it's Stella here MWAHAHA.. I am doing most of the communications here. He is fineeeeee.... I have also asked him to appear in some future VLOG videos, so that's coming heheh. But I told Tarrant this. ALso, he is around, we do how to play on The Dice Tower channel as well, so a few of them uploaded there instead :). Have a good day!

[@bullseyebond669]

I may be wrong but I think you have explained the 1x card rules incorrectly. My understanding of those rules is that, for games involving 2 or 3 players only one player may own a 1x card. In games with 4 players, up to two players may own a 1x card and in games with 5 or 6 players up to three players may own a 1x card of each type. No player may ever own more than one of the same 1x card in any player count but there are multiple copies of the card for the higher player counts. This rule outlined in the base game rules and it applies to all the cards with the 1x symbol on them.

[@MeepleUniversity]

Hello, thanks for watching. Have you go the timestamp please, we'll take a look. Thank you :)

[@bullseyebond669]

@@MeepleUniversity it's at about 26:58.

[@MeepleUniversity]

@@bullseyebond669 Thanks for clarifying which section, as the Movie Stars do work slightly different to the other 1× cards. You treat all movie stars as being a single type of employee when setting up (i.e. for determining how many are in the game) and for 1× restrictions (i.e. each player may employ only a single movie star). The distinction between B-Movie, C-Movie and D-Movie stars is necessary for breaking ties; and, as such you set it up so that there is no more than one of each type in the game. (So, in the 4p game, you'd set up with just a B and C Movie Star, for example).

[@edwardjackson8629]

At 4:35 you say the Blue restaurant is 5 away from the house. Does the road to the left not count? I only ask in case I missed somethign in the rules. I was counting it as a 3 distance, going left then down.

[@MeepleUniversity]

Hi Edward, thanks for your comments. Oops our bad, should be distance of 3. Hope you enjoy the expansion! :)

[@edwardjackson8629]

@@MeepleUniversity Thanks, I've only played once, so I wasn't sure. It didn't affect the example at all! I came to the video for the overview, which was great. I want to get the xpac while it's available, but I hesitate since we've only played the one time. But after watching this, I now know what will come in the xpac, thanks a lot!

[@MeepleUniversity]

@@edwardjackson8629 No problems! Glad we can help each other :D

[@WorkingRitualsOfHumans]

Are you sure on 8:21 the order. Seems that both noodles go to the bottom of the list. Only a minute prior you stated “only if they cannot get their entire demand met...”.

[@MeepleUniversity]

Hi, Jesse, thanks for the question. Yes, the order as given at 8:21 is confirmed in the rule book. The key clarification is that any valid set of foods including kimchi will outrank any valid set of foods without kimchi - even if that means noodles + kimchi outranking the as-advertised demand.

[@dougradcliffe1466]

Fantastic video!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Thank you Doug😁

[@jazybluestudio]

Thank for the review, really appreciate :))

[@MeepleUniversity]

You're welcome 😄

[@drbasseri]

Perfect!

[@MeepleUniversity]

🙏😁

[@TheGunslinger019]

And with this video I decided to not get this expansion... FCM is complicated enough as it is for my friends if I add any of these modules their brains are gonna explode!

[@MeepleUniversity]

Aww sorry to hear that. That's fair enough, different game is for different people 😁

[@Poldy1981]

In 16:00 - wouldn’t the green player sell coffee too? Because there are Coffeeshops on both routes?!