Mass Effect playthrough (review copy provided)

[@OneStopCoopShop]

*ERROR - Obstacles do NOT affect movement, only line of sight for attacks! You can walk through them* *It has been confirmed that I played the spawning correctly. If you can't activate any enemies of a given type because they are all shrouded, you spawn an enemy as I did in the video* 0:00 - Introduction 2:26 - Narrative and set-up 8:11 - Shepard’s first turn 14:49 - Rest of round 1 23:18 - Round 2 30:01 - Round 3 37:39 - Round 4-5 48:20 - Round 6-7 59:25 - Round 8-9 1:07:33 - Round 10-13 1:18:51 - Conclusion

[@boardgamebs]

Hey it's like you did my first playthrough for me! Now when I table it I'll be ready. Thanks for learning the hard way for us! Great video. :)

[@Ithayla]

Thanks for the effort to make this play through, man you really got bogged down there but you still managed to pull out the Paragon win. It's really fun watching people make choices as to what they upgrade, every group seems to value completely different things.

[@corgibuttz2550]

I have so many solo board games lined up to play that I can't jump into another one... but I would love the miniatures for my 5 Parsecs from Home games! :D

[@morgaknightgames]

The Reapers don't have big tentacle ships... They ARE the big tentacle ships. 😋 Thanks for the playthrough, and the error comment. It's so easy to miss rules in board games the first few times you play. Edit: I love Garrus, but he is a glass cannon. 😂

[@OneStopCoopShop]

As he should be!!

[@discipledino]

Thanks for the playthrough! (I dont know how people could ever decide to purchase a game before video review channels like yours!) Looking forward to your final thoughts. I notice i need painted minis for a game like this, as fighting flat tokens is so immersion breaking for me. seeing how much combat there is likely means the higher minis bundles, which is quite expensive for a game I dont see myself playing more than a month before shelving it for a year and seeing if it calls me again louder than other games. Your playthrough actually made me want to play Star Wars Imperial Assault and Contra the board game more, or Rogue Angels when it releases. I think i’ll play a Mass Effect board game if it has a ship phase and romance options! Thanks for giving us a peak of the game!

[@OneStopCoopShop]

I can't imagine playing with minis in this game, since every iteration of the same enemy types has slightly different stats and powers. Seems like a nightmare to deal with the miniature AND the token at the same time :) PS - I'm very excited for Rogue Angels too!

[@GreatestofVains]

Backed Rogue Angels! Really stoked for that one! Tried a fan-made IA campaign several years ago that was fun.

[@JanHavel]

That spawning mechanic is totally nuts :D ... I would expect it from reapers in some later "hold something" mission but as one of first missions its very unnerving ... hopefully there are less combat-y missions also. I do also wish there was some skirmish (or how they are named) game attached to those miniatures and dice like Elder Scrolls has to utilize those outside campaign in custom/procedural stuff ... but its from same company and this is start so there is chance to get more stuff I guess :) Mass Effect is my favourite series with Dragon Age ... maybe there is chance we will get later something more from that universe too ... that "DnD clone" was quite nice.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

All the missions have a heavy focus on combat, for what it’s worth

[@JanHavel]

I see, thanks for letting me know. I was hoping for more variety of stuff but they obviously went for more simple game than for example ISS Vanguard ... personally I think Mass Effect would deserve something more like that but I guess they are probing terrain :) ... I guess I can fix it with some home rules if it will proove too anoying ... maybe introduce "Secured" token (one per character?) to "clog" spawn points I visited or something :)

[@moo2k4]

Seeing this makes me wish more games would make their campaign sheets as dry erase sheets so you don't have to buy more from the publisher to refresh it. Not entirely sure how doable it would be for some games, but I feel like it could easily be accommodated in at least a fair amount of campaign games (already looking at you, Stalker).

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Yeah, it’s worked really smoothly here so far, and things erase cleanly

[@WolfofDresden]

Amount of enemy spawning seemed completely out of control with this game, especially since the enemies seemed to be typically spawning in range to move and attack

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Agreed, but a few things: 1 - this mission has been MUCH worse for spawning than all the others I’ve played, so it’s not necessarily representative. 2 - if I was playing a little smarter, I could have tried to stand on spawn points more frequently. But still, you aren’t wrong, enemies warp in frequently and can often attack you right afterwards,

[@Kaelor_Aetel]

Thanks for the playthrough Mike. That is a lot of spawning in this game. Glad that you confirmed that the rules were correctly played. Have other games been 1.5-2h too (I am guessing as the edited video is 1h20)?

[@OneStopCoopShop]

No, all the rest have been 45 minutes to an hour. This one was definitely more of a slog with the many enemies obstructing my passage.

[@Kaelor_Aetel]

@@OneStopCoopShop enemies… and obstacles 😉 Being able to move through these covers/obstacles should also speed up this mission.

[@raptorrancher]

No FemShep figurine?

[@OneStopCoopShop]

There is one! The Shepard player board has fem Shep on the back side, and there are two minis for the character. I was always a male Shepard in my plays though