Nidavellir - Tutorial Playthrough

[@david10101961]

I dIscovered your channel only recently. This is an extremely comprehensive explanation of what is in my humble opinion, a very solid math/strategy game, with an interesting auction mechanism, and also the concept that you must find the optimal compromise between building vertically to increase your score, while also building horizontally to recruit heroes. Many thanks for uploading. Please take care and stay safe.

[@JonGetsGames]

I'm glad you enjoyed this, it is a very cool game.

[@chriswoosley4525]

Can I just say I love looking up a playthrough and seeing that you've done a playthrough. Thanks.

[@chris92116]

Wow! This is my first time on your channel and watching your Playthru, you did an amazing job. I can’t wait to play this game!

[@conatser]

My English edition arrived today along with the Thingvellir expansion. Would love to see the expansion touched upon. Very grateful for this video so thank you and the Patrons that voted for it.

[@tapoweify]

My copy should be arriving soon, your playthrough is the best I've seen, keep up the great work, you're quite talented at this!

[@susanscandles]

What an excellent game explanation. Bought this because it was mentioned many times as fun. I bought it and after watching your review, so glad I bought it!! Thank you!

[@JonGetsGames]

I'm glad you enjoyed this, hope you like the game :)

[@pierrewhite2062]

Great stuff as usual. I liked your surprise at revealing opponent coins.

[@terrytoriq]

I love, love, love this game. ❤️ It’s quick and snappy. Fun theme. Lovely art.

[@teekumar5056]

i only really learned this game as it's done by jongetsgames - the best tutorial vids out there! and have really enjoyed it!

[@jaspervanimpe5010]

What an amazing game! I look fwd playing this right away. As always, so well explained! This a great channel & it really makes it easy to kickstart playing the game. Thanks once again! 👍

[@JonGetsGames]

Thanks for the kind words, I hope you enjoy it :)

[@gaberobison680]

This is a very well made game! While it’s relatively easy to get a commanding advantage early on in two player, it’s very easy to change strategy on the fly and adapt. It definitely rewards keeping on top of bidding power and definitely has enough depth for more competitive people like me. At the same time the Norse and dwarf theming and quality art make it easy for to add a little bit of roleplay or narration and it’s super satisfying. It includes extra bags for storing everything after initial setup and is overall a very well put together product! Only drawback is it can take up a lot of table space, but you can always place dwarves on top of the taverns and not place heroes on the stands to save room!

[@timjones990]

This is the first of your videos I have watched. I had this game delivered today, so excited to play and your instruction and play through is the very clear and concise, the best I have seen on you tube, Thanks you, looking forward to getting a game in now.

[@JonGetsGames]

I'm glad you found it informative :) Hope you enjoy the game!

[@gaberobison680]

My tips: Draft defensively, especially early when you don’t need to commit to one strategy. This lets you get bidding advantages to lock out your opponents. Think about what cards you would be happy with, rather than which is the best. This gives you more flexibility and helps you bid low to combine coins early. If you are going to take a Royal Offer, upgrade your 2 since there’s no way to upgrade it by combining and it only beats 0’s. This is a great way to counter the player who gets the Hunter Distinction. Heroes are the powerhouses of this game, my first priority is always going for heroes if possible before bidding solely on strongest card. Lastly, don’t focus on the numbers of your coins. Track highest coin to highest coin, next highest to next highest etc. (who’s best coin is highest? Who’s second best is highest) Having the best second coin is often more useful than the outright highest because it’s rather easy to predict where your opponent will place the highest bid, allowing you to bid low and thus ensure you pick first on a different tavern while finding the best place to play your 0.

[@azariusflashfang5716]

This is a rather interesting take on the set collection game with regards to how the different 'classes' of Dwarves score differently and the coin collection. There's also a major potential for head games as players try to figure out what they're opponents want most compared to what they also need. Great work as always on this one.

[@JonGetsGames]

I've found that AP when bidding isn't actually that bad. I've focused on what I care and don't care about more than what each other player will likely go for. I give a bit of thought to my opponents of course, but I try not to tunnel down into that analysis.

[@ericbess5917]

@@JonGetsGames Depends on the group you play with I guess :D. I agree that there isn't a ton of analysis paralysis, but there are definitely rounds where I have to figure out which tavern I think is more important to the other players so that I can make sure I get first pick in at least one tavern. For example, If I have the 24 and 22, and my opponent has the 25 and 23...matching the 24 with their 25 and the 22 with their 23 ends up with me being very sad...If I can figure where they are more likely to put their 25, then I can often pick first in both of the other taverns and just stick my 0 where they have 25. Gets a bit more complicated with more players, but same principle applies.

[@gaberobison680]

@@ericbess5917 that’s arguably the most important thing to track, not coin values themselves but relative coin order. IE if everybody makes their max bid when do I pick? This focuses you on the important stuff since it’s easier to deduce an opponent’s most wanted card, allowing you to bid your 0 their. (Most powerful in two player games, but the principle stands)

[@bendutoit5371]

great game. easily my fav game of this year. and yes the app is also on iOS and is so easy to use.

[@williwanderer]

As usual.. best explanations !! Thanks from Strasbourg, France.

[@AdamEschborn]

This explanation was excellent!

[@ralfk.4019]

It's so funny how you talk about the other players as if they were other people 😄

[@JonGetsGames]

Hehe, it's a habit I picked up over the years and I don't even notice myself doing it anymore.

[@ericbess5917]

35:50 - The difference between the 3 and the 2 is, as mentioned, pretty small. However...there is an additional consideration here. Putting the 3 and the 9 in the pouch adds to 12 so, as stated, this will give the 12 coin. However, the 2 and the 9 make 11 and there isn't currently an 11 coin in the supply, so it will ALSO give the 12 coin... Yes, there is a small chance that an 11 will be put back into the supply, but I believe there was only 1 11 with 3 players and since you have it, that isn't a consideration. So that being the case, there is really very little reason to put the 2 into the tavern instead of the 3...unless you are trying to avoid tying because you would rather go last than risk tying on something you don't care about and having the trade off the 5 gemstone...but again, that seems a minor issue.

[@SkyLordPanglot]

Just one thing you missed. The gold jewel can never be swapped. If you tiebreak with the gold jewel it stays with you. Meaning you will always win ties.

[@nipzie]

Great video! There's an app in the Play Store that will tally up your score. It's messy otherwise and with a fairly big setup for a shorter game it simplifies the ending for you

[@kmontzka]

Thanks for the through play through! Looking forward to this available in the US

[@Pensandoci9]

this is now available on boardgame arena :)

[@minahabibi4446]

Thank you! I really enjoyed watching the tutorial

[@winklestiltskin]

Thank you for this great tutorial!

[@utubingit357]

Amazing tutorial! You really do great tutorials!

[@ericstandaert8002]

I wanted to check if money + warriors wasn't a broken strategy because your highest coin gets counted twice which feels like a huge swing and noticed a small mistake for the final scoring: Green actually ended up with 129 points (12+9+36+12+29+31) so only lost by 1 point.

[@Sagartkothari]

Excellent playthrough. Great game!

[@tosteson1]

Love your presentation, so professional!

[@vincefarina8381]

Great job. Thank you.

[@jr7077]

Outstanding - thank you.

[@magdakee]

They HAVE to publish an expansion where you actually FIGHT that dragon, right ? I want to fight the dragon ! Great playthrough, I'm really keen to get this one (especially if I can fight the dragon ;-)

[@JonGetsGames]

Ha, I made sure to be clear that you thematically fight the dragon later and NOT as part of the game. It does seem like a good idea for a follow up game :)

[@xshadowscreamx]

Then it turns into a 2 hour game.

[@skipmcilvaine]

Thanks Jon! Well done, as always!

[@FranzBazar]

Fantastic teach

[@PMMagro]

A great game! Good video on it.

[@troynewhoff9542]

Absolutely fantastic game!!! My #1 thinky filler!

[@theballmittpodcast5734]

Great video! This looks like a lot of fun!

[@erwinherwindo4492]

I would prefer Battle for Greyport can you show that Jon ( is that youur name ? )

[@JonGetsGames]

I've never played any Red Dragon Inn games, so at this point I think it's unlikely I'll cover that one in particular.

[@zippystar]

How are you ever going to upgrade that 2?

[@JonGetsGames]

There are cards that let you add to the value of any of your coins, so you could add to your 2 in that way and potentially upgrade the new coin later.

[@xshadowscreamx]

I replaced the hero stands with business card holders real quick. So you can use a 3+ card on a coin that is not revealed yet in that round? Really? So other players could deduce what coin you traded with the bank just before the reveal? Actually yeah, makes sense.

[@JonGetsGames]

Good idea with the business card holders.

[@dansioui9819]

This looks amazing! Not available in Canada yet though.

[@Pensandoci9]

this is now available on boardgame arena :)

[@Pensandoci9]

this is now available on boardgame arena :)

[@Pookiebear]

Jon pumpin out the content

[@JonGetsGames]

This has been a pretty intense month as far as my schedule is concerned. So far I'm keeping up with it :)

[@Pookiebear]

@@JonGetsGames you're awesome Jon!

[@joaogomes4669]

You forgot to add 3 points to the midle player

[@erwinherwindo4492]

And a thanks of course

[@rob__rob_5131]

The bravest Dwarves are the drunkest Dwarves!