Redemption - Weather Machine Solo Play Through #2 - Straight Up Solo with John LaRuffa

In this video, I redeem myself from my error ridden first solo play through of this game. Watch this one to get a full solo understanding of how the game plays without my rule mistakes from the previous attempt.

[@stephenfarrell8587]

Great monologue helped manifest your actions with purpose enough to follow along enjoyably. I wonder if you will come back for a third show later in the year once global fulfilment is complete. Maybe then, once my copy arrives, I will have something to gauge your experience against as from here it looks a long road before the flow of this game will become instinctive. The more I watch playthroughs the greater my anticipation and apprehension builds for the groovy little details and how errors can rarely be wound back because they happened soo long ago! Cheers

[@JohnLaRuffa]

Thanks for the comments and watching the video. I really hope you get your copy soon. This game takes some study for sure to play it correctly, but it is very worth it!

[@fongstar]

I always like a good ‘boss battle’ - great to see you redeeming yourself in your 2nd run through.

[@bettorapetto]

5:40 I think you must place a bot in topmost snow even if he doesn't have chemical. See note in red between step 2 and 3 in solo rules. Only the bottom part of the reference tells you that you must cicle weather types until you find a spot with your chemical(If Saboteur doesn't have a chemical he discards top card and ends turn).

[@JohnLaRuffa]

Thanks for the catch!

[@ShelleyDanielle]

I agree with John, it's a rules heavy game with a lot of interactions to remember. I did not watch the full play through but these are the errors I found just through the first 15m - Agent White's first turn of the game (around 6m?) when he went to R&D and was on the left most space. As such, the first bot he attempts to place does not require a chemical, so you would have placed a bot on the snow branch as indicated on the previous report and it would have been in the top space of the branch, as noted on the indicator of the card, not the bottom. This interaction is noted on page 10 of the Saboteur rules. Since they did not have a matching chemical, they would not gain the research though for it. You also do not take a chemical from supply to place there. The second bot would have been placed in rain as they had a matching chemical. :) - When you went to Supply on Round 2 you forgot to take 1 science for Lativ being there as well as gaining 1 voucher of your choice. - Saboteurs priority for choosing a space when moving to a main location is left most, right most and lastly middle. So when you moved Agent White to Government, he should have went to the right most space, not the middle. They don't want to help you out by giving you extra vouchers if you move to their location. :)

[@JohnLaRuffa]

Thanks. I think I caught the voucher miss later on with my character. I did forget about the R&D peculiarities which is one of my biggest sighs about running the bot. There are these very small differences that trip you up…

[@ShelleyDanielle]

@@JohnLaRuffa You did catch the gov and lab ones from R&D/Gov but I never saw you go back and take the science or extra voucher when you went to supply. It's definitely a lot of rules and easy enough to miss something. Glad you got it back to the table again and from what I've watched so far, had a more successful play. :)

[@albinoorkalbertson]

it's a complicated game with a complicated solo. It's soooo easy to make errors. Glad you're enjoying it.

[@bettorapetto]

13:20 He also discards his Current Report that becomes Previous Report for ties stuff

[@bettorapetto]

you discard later (15:14), sorry

[@wsiegel9539]

Haven't finished watching yet, but on your first move to the Gov area, did you give yourself a lab voucher for going there? I didn't see that. It's hard to play without making a rules mistake here or there. I do it all the time and short myself. Thanks for posting this. Love this game

[@JohnLaRuffa]

I catch this in a little bit and give myself the voucher. Thanks for checking though!

[@wsiegel9539]

@@JohnLaRuffa Just watched your correction... Great catch.

[@bettorapetto]

9:45 you do not get science for Lativ

[@vladycavret2886]

Mistake when fixing winter weather with a fog publication token, you need winter publication to fix it !

[@JohnLaRuffa]

If I remember correctly, I had put the wrong weather tile down by mistake and I eventually catch this and fix it.

[@vladycavret2886]

At 1:03:08 you put published fog token on winter weather to build prototype. If you want to build a prototype for winter weather, you have to have a publication on winter before, (same weather and publication). It is not allowed to use publication on different weather.

[@JohnLaRuffa]

@@vladycavret2886 OK. I just must have made a mistake then. Thanks for the catch.

[@danpalmer7676]

Just one look at main and player board is enough....gimme gimme gimme.I like a board that frazzles my brain.

[@JohnLaRuffa]

This one has that effect in spades!