Marco Polo 2 Tutorial & Playthrough - JonGetsGames

[@guillermoz4914]

Best Playthroughs on You Tube! Learn as you play without the long explanation of each rule but love the detail of rules when they come up. Perfect 👌🏽

[@thomasjulchristiansen8591]

Thanks for this awesome video. When english is not your mothers tongue a heavy rulebook can sometimes be a struggle. This make it so much easier.

[@lukardtube]

Excellent video. Note, at 10:00 the CC can be corrected from "for dyeing and they're gonna put it over" to "four die and they're gonna put it over"

[@Boardgame_fun]

Hillarious video and superb explanation of a great game

[@Gamster_007]

Awesome quality video! Thank you so much for teaching this game to us :)

[@prapasup]

Excellent tutorial.

[@TT-wx5qz]

Great job. I knew MP first edition, so I sped up many parts of the tutorial, but it was really cleanly organised. Exactly what I needed with even more knowledge, that I already had been familiar with

[@mikesmith9676]

This is an outstanding video. You have obviously put in an incredible amount of time and effort. Thanks. I can now play the game!

[@ecirelli]

Best game videos

[@davidbourdois3497]

Amazing explanation. So clear to understand. Thanks a lot. Potbably one of my next purchases.

[@iamspamus8784]

I can't wait for this one. I really liked the original, but thought travel was a bit tough. I think this version will fix some of that.

[@marcosandreorlando2011]

Excellent video John

[@ogretech]

Bravo on a really nice, thoughtful and well prepared tutorial!

[@keith2570]

Well done. Thank you.

[@felipealvarez1982]

29:40 you placed a black die on a stack with 1 black die. Does this violate the rules?

[@Plaksa2004]

My thoughts exactly, need to check the rules

[@seanmorgan2257]

Thank you Jon this looks really good, going over to the full playthrough

[@teekumar5056]

thanks!

[@the_luggage]

Great tutorial of an interesting-looking game, thank you!

[@bruchino]

Very very good explanation, thank you!!

[@rajkoivosevic5596]

Nice tutorial Jon, we follow you in Croatian as well

[@prashantgupta84]

Nice play through.

[@JHCallahan1022]

Excellent.

[@TyvanTV]

I really really want to watch this but REALLY REALLY can’t buy another board game right now. Thanks and will watch later! 😎🤘

[@Lizzibettthhh]

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[@TyvanTV]

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[@AndreFonseca0]

Great tutorial! I know this is an old video but @29:48 can you put the black dice there to move? there is already a black dice (same color) in that same spot.

[@JonGetsGames]

Unfortunately, it's been too long since I played this game to remember the rules enough to answer your question. Sorry about that!

[@spiozke]

Incredibly clear for understanding! Thanks, Jon!

[@estrathmeyer]

34:11 You have a 8.37% chance of rolling the sum of 15 on five dice. Three times in a row? That's a chance of 0.0586%, or roughly 1 in 1700. So, not one in a million, but still pretty special. :)

[@JonGetsGames]

That is some pretty cool insight there, I had no idea it was such an uncommon thing to happen!

[@moritzbrunnhofer7321]

Very good explanation, thanks! Strategy wise though, with your character, I would have gone down to Yangzhou ;)

[@user-ew7fx5mh5x]

12:15 Jade Rule

[@denniskiang9713]

How does the guild character work ? Can he take as many seals as long as he gives one dice ? If not then wat is his advantage? Really just using one dice for one guild seal ? That seem pretty weak ?

[@jacobjslee]

Thanks for this video, Jon! I used it to learn the game and a friend and I tried playing it today. There is something that doesn't feel right to us and, I've found, when something doesn't feel right it's wrong. My friend had Abha Basu. We estimate he must have gotten around 20 VP just from earning jade which is accompanied by points. When, specifically, does the bonus 1 VP/jade apply? It cannot be whenever he gets jade, but how else can you interpret the wording in the supplement: "Whenever you receive jade from any source, you score 1 point for each jade you received." This is way too powerful and I don't think you played it this way.

[@JonGetsGames]

Unfortunately, it's been too long since I played this game to remember the rules enough to answer your question. Sorry about that!

[@sloikalamos]

For whoever that played this game: How does the dice roll affecting your game? Is it adding complete random elements or it could be mitigated when needed?

[@TheLuminousCleric]

In the first game, if you rolled a sum of 14 or less, you get compensated with camels and/or coins, so you have a sum of 15. So let's say you roll 7, then you get 8 pips worht of camels/coins in a combination of your liking. I think they keep that in MP2.

[@Kep19901]

21:21 last time I checked 2+2=4, not 3 lol

[@JonGetsGames]

Haha, at least I moved the marker correctly.

[@steveg7000]

So, no more than two hops between cities? Looks like it's a little *too* easy to travel.

[@jwetsch]

you put two black dice onto a single stack, is black special that way or should it follow the rule of "never more then one die of the same color?"

[@JonGetsGames]

I should have been more explicit, sorry. Black dice don’t count as a color in this way, so multiple black dice can go into a single blue location. It’s only player colors that are restricted to one die per blue action spot.

[@GetReadyforGameNight]

@@JonGetsGames Do you recall if this is a change from the original Marco Polo? Or have black dice always been able to stack like that?

[@GetReadyforGameNight]

Is that a change from the original Marco Polo? Or has sending multiple black dice to a location always been permissible?

[@JonGetsGames]

I don’t know about the original game but it’s explicit in the Marco Polo 2 rules I downloaded from the z-man website.

[@GetReadyforGameNight]

@@JonGetsGames Thanks for the reply. I looked it up. The Black die placement rules are the same for both versions of the game. I've been playing the original wrong for years. Thanks for setting me straight! great video as always.

[@Avyncentia]

It looks like this video was accidentally omitted from the Game Play Throughs playlist. Didn't know how else to let you know.

[@JonGetsGames]

Ah, you are right! Thanks for pointing that out, I've fixed it.