Let's Play: Scythe Digital Edition - Polonia/Industrial - Part 1 [Sponsored]

Scythe is an engine-building game set in an alternate-history 1920s period. Sponsored by Asmodee Digital.
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[@SK_2521]

BTW in Edinburgh there is a monument to Wojtek the bear, who helped polish troops during the WW2 References, references everywhere!

[@moramento22]

WOW! I actually didn't knew that! I must visit Edinburgh some time!

[@DiakronYT]

Kapral Wojtek, He's a battle proven veteran of the polish army.

[@moramento22]

@@DiakronYT That I knew, I just didn't knew he had a monument in Edinburgh

[@orangedeamon1]

There is also one in Zagan in Poland

[@BloodpactORG]

Isn't the Norwegian penguin brigade general (Sir Nils Olav) also in Edinburgh. Do they collect zoological army personnel or something? lol

[@jwilks1111]

This is one of my favorite boardgames. Excited to watch this.

[@talonsaurn5764]

Really do enjoy your boardgame stuff, Loved your BSG a long long way back, still hope to see the return of Cylon Quill

[@thesmithenheimer9026]

Oh this is awesome. I love scythe and being able to play it online sounds amazing

[@Norade]

@Quill18 Your workers can move any and all resources in a tile with them when they move; mechs can do the same. You could have moved that worker and the metal and done exactly what you wanted to do. This game punishes poor planning but not as bad as you thought it might. As far as ideas go you can either focus early production and one other action, in your case probably focus on that wood and then buildings. Two action loops are also great, especially if you can do both the top and bottom action of at least one of them each turn. Don't neglect popularity as it multiplies your points. Another strategy that can work is just hoarding money, it's literally victory points so never feel bad for doing something just for a decent return in coins. Our group has found that Polonia is a very powerful faction for novice players because while you may not know the most efficient ways to play yet, two rewards for going after events is hard to mess up. The Rusvet (sp?) are also great as they break the normal action loop and with the right economy board they can really hyper focus on one thing efficiently. From a novice Scythe player.

[@johnbuscher]

We just finished playing our 2nd and 3rd game, and we were not pleased with the fact that the Rusviet didn't have to dance the dance like the rest of us. You want to move multiple turns in a row? Go for it! Need to generate a lot of materials to deploy or build? Take another turn to produce! That freedom in economy is nuts in this game, where everyone else can almost do the same thing, but usually slower. Polonia, thematically, is my favorite faction. Meander is great, I love Submerge (walk on lakes and treat lakes as adjacent spaces? Heeeeeeck yeah!), no loss of popularity when you chase workers, and their mechs look really slick in my view. Saxony is an interesting faction if you can get a bunch of mechs out quickly and generate a lot of power and combat cards. Then you can go ransack things to get stars if you're strong enough.

[@splash1358]

I can't believe you hadn't played this before! I love this game and we own all the expansions!

[@martinkaufmann5205]

Scythe is an excellent introduction to medium-heavy engine builders. The physical version has amazing art and great miniatures, I can only recommend it!

[@Foxbat131]

Very much looking forward to this game!

[@linusn8232]

Oh my lord, I bought this game almost a year ago but have never yet played. Honestly bought it mostly because the art is so amazing, love Jakub Rozalski's art!

[@GamingWithGeo]

It came out earlier this year that he didn't do all of it, as he was using other people's art for some of it but changing parts of it.

[@johnbuscher]

@@GamingWithGeo I've seen some of the evidence of that, and I don't see why people are complaining that artists use reference material to base things on. He didn't just copy and paste stuff over and over. Some of his art is similar to itself and I can see similarities between one piece and another, but there's a line to draw between "I usually draw them this way" vs "I've just traced over some one else's art". The only "suspicious" thing is I haven't seen the Polonia mechs from the front in his art, most of them are in a similar position for each shot. But the people are in different positions, and the lighting is different in most of them, so I don't really care.

[@OneLeatherBoot]

I love the art style to this. My pc screen image comes from this universe.

[@ozsmith69]

I believe the artwork for this was by Jakub Różalski. Does some awesome work!

[@cameronjohnston3958]

It is essentially just some variation of an idyllic, agrarian scene with a mech stuck into the background, seems a bit silly and tiresome to me.

[@peacewalker3344]

@@cameronjohnston3958 I pity you

[@finalsight]

Yay you finally got it

[@kittyspam2146]

wow yeah that is so amazing art!

[@RM97800]

Polish faction is the most polished (hehe) faction out there It has a lot of references here and there like: -Wojtek bear which really existed. He was adopted by General Anders's polish army on exile at Italy and he was mascot among the soldiers, But for him to stay with the soldiers he had to become a soldier. That means the poland officially had bear serving in its millitary! There is also a myth that during one of battles he started to carry the shells for the artillery. After the war polish army on exile was disbanded and because poland was forced to become communist republic which accused the army of treason and they couldn't go back, the bear had to stay in Brittain in Edinburgh where he died and got a monument -Winged Hussars on the faction screen -On Wojtek's backpack and on Anna's beret there is "Polska Walcząca" symbol that looks like P anchor. It was created and used by polish underground during ww2 and by Warsaw uprising -On patriotic player deck there is a monument and I think it's monument of Polish Army Marshal Józef Piłsudzki, which is Polish national hero, father of polish independence, a symbol and later a dictator that helped Poland resurrect itself and fight for its territories after ww1 -The game's setting was inspired by polish-bolshevik war in early '20s that was struggle of poland and some other eastern european nations to exist and be sovereign from russia. The war was won by so called Vistula [River] Miracle (war was decisive polish victory making it one of the few that won with Russia [twice or more] and only modern nation that conquered Moscow) There is of course plenty more of these refernces but that's enough for now

[@dominikobora5385]

is him carrying shells a myth? if he knew how to drink beer (when he was a cub he was fed condensed milk from a vodka bottle) then i assume you could probally teach him how to carry shells

[@RM97800]

He might have carried those shells, but sometimes soldiers in a heat of battle or under stress can observe things that didn't happen actually or it could be myth created among the soldiers to boost morale and solidify Wojtek's place as mascot of all of the polish armies on exile. As I said, he could carried those shells, but there is not enough solid proof and most of the eye witness are dead (except of Wojtek's handler that is still alive and i think he lives in Krakow [ I actually met him once in my life! ])

[@phil__K]

I believe rather that they trained Wojtek to carry artillery shells.

[@RM97800]

The version i heard is that the bear was left unattended and started mimicking what artillerymen were doing

[@thecbrndude6208]

It was proven by members of his unit that he did begin to mimic their actions and carried crates to the guns, but it was also noted by the battery that he tended to carry empty crates rather than full ones.

[@j.j.r.6075]

Damn it Quil18 yet another amazing game you're playing. But alas I need to save up for a deposit... or do I?

[@soundcloudpandapandawa2997]

Omg I thought your channel got deleted. I tried looking for you again but. I forget your channel name. I'm glad KZbin recommendations recommending me this video

[@Apoc428]

Thanks for the video, seems like an awesome game, definitely gonna look into it

[@CarlosVedovato]

At 20 minute mark you did a move action, any unit (character, worker, mech) when it moves can carry as many resources as you want with it.

[@josheick7776]

Oh my this is sweet!!!

[@franpol9000]

Cheers from Poland ;)

[@Suvorov928]

You can take resources with you when you move. You do not have to leave them in the space.

[@CrimsonSp33d]

Desperately waiting for this to come to phone

[@Grabacr-pl3wy]

I was expecting like company of heroes but this is good too.

[@Flackon]

They didn’t bother to paint the miniatures in the digital version?

[@MurasamexD]

i love you Quill. Always wanted to play this game, but it costs soo much, between 80-100 bucks here in germany. As a student i cant afford thatt right now. Watching you play it is almost as good though.

[@moopara7991]

Wait.. you don't know the story of Wojtek, the Syrian brown bear that was enlisted into the polish army? Boy this will make an interesting Hearts of Iron IV animal kingdoms playthrough.

[@datalink7]

"I have dozens of board games in my basement here." *Looks at collection of over 200 board games* What a n00b. :P ;)

[@Ohflipsnap]

Competitive board gaming is serious business. Speaking of business: *MONOPOLY!*

[@popburnsy3207]

I thought I saw the expansion the other day, is it not supposed to be out yet?

[@fyrnice25]

Any PC board game adaptions that can be played in person locally? Steam to big screen? 2 player?

[@ThexArsenal19]

He’s playing my favorite board game... I think I’m gonna die

[@benbaselet2026]

Your life hangs from a very thin but seemingly unrelated thread indeed.

[@WuCSquad]

F

[@ambidexter2017]

12sided die?

[@Waggabagaboo]

Edgelord here: It's an OK game that ends up being 80% solitaire with some interesting gameplay in the last turns of the game. It's a hearty 'meh' from me, after playing it about ~15 times between the legacy-like campaign (8 games) and 7 regular games. When everyone knows what they're doing, turns are predetermined and there is lots of balking about getting a bad economy sheet for their faction, or objectives, the only random element in this game. That being said, this is a good game for creatures of habit who enjoy slamming out some solid, consistent games.

[@johnbuscher]

That's fair. My brother and I have just played it a few times and we are starting to feel that "Oooo, if only I had X economy" as the only downside. We did play using a Doom Clock Resolution, which kept the game very short and sweet for a 3 player match, and we were able to try different strategies to expand in a short amount of time.

[@poilboiler]

Damn it, this looks so cool. I wish any of my friends would be anywhere remotely likely to play it.

[@poilboiler]

Thank you for the offer, but after watching the videos I think I'll give it a pass. Or maybe get it as a regular boardgame. :)

[@Lucama221]

Polan can into Mechs.

[@manchesterkari]

how can I check the enemy's enlists?

[@Throku]

4:39 is that the world's largest muskox, or is Bjorn a dwarf?

[@dennissvitak148]

Is the game board always the same? If yes, how is the replayability?

[@rmvdhaak]

Only dozens ? :-)

[@zephron28]

Quill! I am making two different board games currently, when I get through some more play-testing, if you are interested, I would value you and your group of friends opinion.

[@charlesbannon6909]

Ive been dieing to get this board game in hard copy. Maybe now i wont have too.

[@GamingWithGeo]

The physical version has multiple expansions that really improve the game. The base game is okay at best.

[@Verechter]

almost seems like you didn't hear of Iron Harvest?!

[@jornzwaagstra1150]

so this is wat iron harvest is based on

[@safe-keeper1042]

Why OldManReflexes and not Quill18?

[@artemisjones4383]

Wait this looks just like iron harvest

[@Durandeil]

All Art in this game looks like it's by Jakob Rozalski

[@lukzloty]

PolAnia not Polonia, and Voytek, not that you've read :D Thx for video!

[@Choose2Connect]

I heard you say you have friends to play board games with... must be nice.

[@UGotSerbed]

The bear Wojtek ist from WW2 not alternate WW1. Immersion: ruined en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)

[@shanadir]

So jealous of quill for getting to play boardgames every week:(

[@nnelg8139]

Is this the same setting as the Iron Harvest RTS?

[@agent_immortal3376]

The art is the same

[@temiajuwon8893]

Yes

[@shadeling6717]

Yes both are based of art from the same artist

[@hasearo7405]

That art is for another game called iron harvest

[@MrRemicas]

It's set in the same 'verse.

[@general0ashnak]

Finally!

[@general0ashnak]

You are getting steamrolled... BTW I love this game and have a physical copy of it :) Planning your first 5 turns is super important. With Polonia I will always try and rush the encounters and getting to the factory.

[@DarkZerol]

Why does that artwork and settings look so similar to the upcoming RTS game "Iron Harvest"?

[@Shadowdoctor117]

Iron Harvest is based off the world of this game. Which in of itself is all based on the artwork

[@ambidexter2017]

I wish they painted the figurines though. I dunno, maybe it's because I dabbled in 3d rendering, or maybe I'm just autistic. but this lack of textures on the figurines bothers me.

[@silasknapp7391]

weiß du nicht

[@GarlicPudding]

Polania Republic = Poland Saxony Empire = Imperial Germany Rusviet Union = Russia Nordic Kingdom = Scandinavia Crimean Khanate = Cossacks/Mongols And my ideas: Federation of Columbia = United States (THIS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name) for anyone who wrongly confuses it with the South American country IRL) Empire of Victoria = Britain Kingdom of the Two Thrones = Austria-Hungary

[@Annokh]

I'm pretty sure that Crimeans is a reference to tartars. And we've actually gotten Britain, called "Albion".

[@vargurlord]

i have played the board game desent amount, and i have to say would have done things alot different.

[@oneofthepros7588]

I know how to shoot I don’t know how to fight every mech

[@Stoichia]

G O D W O J T E K H A S D E S C E N D E D U P O N U S

[@ihatekpoop6229]

Who here thinks that this game plays like total war and disappointed that it's not? Certainly I am😭

[@tkpe3699]

dab

[@vosmbz]

Wait!! there is no Pookrainian oligarchy? some folks gonna be outraged... LOL

[@johnbuscher]

Isn't that why there's the "Crimean Khanate"? It's an alternate history board, there's also no Germany but there's an empire of Saxons.

[@Phillip_of_Burns]

Get back to ck2! You can't leave us on a cliffhanger this long! haha

[@evanduril]

Wojtek = Voyteck ;)

[@aloharay]

turning off the in game music would be great in your video :) thanks for sharing the game

[@YorkshireSpud]

Scythe is an exceptional game and to be honest I'd recommend that you just buy the board game rather than the digital remake

[@Adyen11234]

I'm actually not that big of a fan of Scythe. I've won 3 out of 3 against my group. :(

[@galkanftw]

flat pictures don't look nice,they look dated.I would expect to see 3d video gaming.The game doesn't look very good either.This design would work about 25 years ago but now it doesn't look very good.I had a bad feeling before the game started because the startup had paintings instead of a video movie.

[@richardkramer1542]

this is not a video game! It is a boardgame made digital and the game is awesome!!! I guess you are a young man! ;-)

[@The7yph00n]

the thing in the background dude, is a mech. if you talk about instruction and shit, you should probably only talk about what you know. you have a good voice, try and think about what you say and why. you would seem ignorant if what you talk about you actually have no clue of.

[@The7yph00n]

i agree with that its a great game. Really.

[@rogueninja185]

My goodness, calm down... A really dull game hidden behind a salad of different mechanics disguised as complexity. Practically no interaction between players. Glad I saw the video before buying.

[@duduoson5278]

Scythe is stupidly overrated. Yeah the artstyle is cool. The rest of the game? Pffft.

[@qweqwe5186]

why do you think like that? i wanted to get physical version...

[@duduoson5278]

@@qweqwe5186 read Waggabagaboo comment somewhere down below, I share his sentiment.

[@codymortensen8691]

Submerge not river walk quicker to the factory and more encounter tokens