Kingdoms Forlorn Solo + Squires Playthrough (December TTS Demo)

[@Kiratze]

I know a lot of you have been waiting for this from me! I spent a lot of time relearning this game but as you can expect, it's still a beast. So apologies for some rules errors but hopefully it's still a sound enough playthrough so you can understand the basics! One does not perfect these rules in one session 😅 BIG CORRECTION!: It seems I forgot to apply the "True Solo" rules which are found after Squire rules. The following I should have been doing: When traveling alone (Squires don’t count!), a lonely Knight has much more freedom to focus on their personal objectives. If you play with a single Knight, when you proceed to resolve an Investigation, apply the following rules: - Ignore drawing a Clue card. Instead, collect all types of Clues - When you collect 3 Clues of any type, immediately read the Success paragraph of the Investigation you resolved and discard all Clue tokens you’ve collected. Next, choose another Investigation from your Chapter to resolve. Immediately read the starting paragraph of that Investigation, then resume your expedition. You may succeed at up to three Investigations during a single expedition this way. - When you finish the third Investigation of your current Chapter (regardless if you manage to do so in one expedition or multiple), you may immediately end the expedition by proceeding to the Full Clash (as if your current Time was 16) or continue exploring the Kingdom until you run out of time. If you are playing with a single Knight you need to apply additional Delve and Clash rules: - If an effect targets a random Knight, prioritize your Knight. For example, if an effect targets two random Knights, it will target your Knight and one random Squire instead. - Your Knight always starts a Clash with the Priority Target token, regardless of the Passion values of the Squires. - During each Clash Setup, you may equip up to three Gear card from your Knight Armory (exchanging it with the Gear you already have equipped if you don’t have any free Gear slots).

[@WojoO]

Mic and voice quality is amazing. Will watch it in few sessions.

[@DVCBear]

Looking forward to this! Thank you. KF seems very intimidating, even when compared to ATO. After I played ATO Cycle 1 and 2, I ended up going all in for KF.

[@Kiratze]

It is a lot, but you should be just fine if you've already played ATO! We don't have the full picture yet but KF's Delve Phase seems more streamlined than ATO's Travel Phase. I think it'll be the fact KF has much more variety of monsters/bosses which will be the intimidating part.

[@thebrothersslim6056]

@@Kiratze Seems like there is more sprawl of gameplay types between delves/clashes as well. Totes agree on coming from ATO likely being fine though!

[@beakerkell]

Thank you! I'll check it out when I have some time.

[@totinosmac99]

Great video! Thanks for taking the time to play, edit and post 🤙

[@Kiratze]

And thank you for watching!

[@edwardleronculbreath732]

Great to see a new video!

[@saladamista99]

Would love to see another squire playthrough using your new gear and loot! Let's see if you feel much stronger now and if there's a sense of progression :D

[@Kiratze]

@@saladamista99 I plan on recording another one soon!

[@Deltium5683]

I am really looking forward to the delivery of this game.

[@Kiratze]

Same! Playing the demo has me more convinced how much I'll enjoy the full thing.

[@Deltium5683]

@ it’s great that a working demo is available. Whenever I see that my blood pressure decreases as it is unlikely that there will be any delivery issues, haha ! 😁

[@Kiratze]

@@Deltium5683 Haha one can hope!

[@thebrothersslim6056]

Welcome back!

[@Kiratze]

Good to be back!

[@Venturello]

1:41:31 are you sure the Winged Nightmare destroys columns on level 1? Seeing the level 2 Fallible Resolve trait, doesn’t that imply in level 1 she wouldn’t?

[@Kiratze]

Ah you could be correct! I keep forgetting the Winged Nightmare is technically a "Mob" despite it being a singular monster. The Discord seems also torn as to whether or not she destroys columns when overtop. But it makes sense she doesn't unless it's involuntary movement into them. She does have cards though that move her to column terrain tiles but while grounded, I guess she just ends up adjacent?

[@Venturello]

3:11:11 doesn’t bonus attack unexhaust weapon as in ATO?

[@Venturello]

Oh yes you find that it does a few moments after, thanks

[@jasonma1904]

Awesome video, love it. You said you would make another tutorial video about this game during this video. Are you still going to?

[@Kiratze]

Thanks for checking it out! I was originally going to wait until I got my physical copy but since lots of people enjoyed this video, I may do a quick demo tutorial. I've got another playthrough planned though as well!

[@jasonma1904]

@@Kiratze Awesome! Thank you for all of your hard work and meaningful videos.

[@fredericcourcy1915]

Thanks !! Great video and as always clear and well made. ❤ Only sad thing is now... I just can't wait to receive it😂... all your fault !😂

[@xTriforce22]

Great video! Looking forward to this being delivered. How far did you get in ATO? Are you still planning with a group or solo?

[@Kiratze]

@xTriforce22 Friend's and I never finished Cycle 1. It's a difficult game to keep consistent with everyone's schedules. And because of how story heavy it is you can't really leave people out for a few sessions. We just sort of fell of it. We want to try to go back to it at some point but it's difficult 😅. I'll be playing Kingdoms Forlorn witb a full group of 4.

[@fredericcourcy1915]

Since KF is (Solo)operative it makes it a lot more easier to play with any player count without breaking the story. And the balance mechanic seems like it will also prevent someone from being underpower. Seems working weel the squire. Last video 2 years ago did not convince me on the squire mechanic

[@Kiratze]

@@fredericcourcy1915 Definitely! I also did not like the Squires in it's first iteration. They feel a lot better now by getting rid of the voting Delve mechanic and also improving their Vigor.

[@adam551982]

@@Kiratze thanks for doing this. On your comment above about bouncing off ATO... I kinda feel like the same will happen here. I doubt its any easier to keep this story going than ATO's. They do have the mechanic where you can drop in and out. I still imagine missing half of whoever's knights story was done when they weren't there will still leave the other player a bit in the dark.

[@Kiratze]

@@adam551982 It will still be difficult yes, but overall much easier. Merely for the fact, should someone be missing from a session, you can all just do Investigations or Free Roam. Can still play and progress characters without the major story beats being missed whereas that's not really possible in the middle of a campaign for ATO.

[@csonti3725]

Thanks for this thorough and excellent playthrough! Based on my ATO rules knowledge, I think you got through with minimal rules mistakes. (I was yelling at the screen when you started to talk about discarding your exhausted weapon to perform a bonus attack but luckily you looked that up. :) ) Besides some token placement hickups I only have two things worth mentioning that was not already pointed out. One: you wrongly applied After Final Attack effects multiple times during the first fight. It is only resolved once after you went through all the attacks triggered by that AI card. Hence the "Final" part. Two: as you suspected, you did miss some of the theme of the second fight. The reveal effect text's terms you were looking for all over the board are actually the titles of said BP cards (representing that particular warrior). They want to bunch up because these effects trigger around them, so the tighter their formation the better they fight. Luckily I think you did not make your life accidentaly much easier because most of the time none or only one was revealed. For me, it looked like running squires are not that hard mode. As you also mentioned, their dodge ability seemed better than the chance an avarage knight gets, and they could hit and wound quite consistently. The starting gear obviously helped some but I think you could win even without them (at the cost of maybe loosing 1 or 2 men).

[@Kiratze]

Thanks for watching! Could you timestamp an example for the 1st mistake? Not sure what you mean by the "After Final Attack" that I missed. I'd like to know for the future! And as for the second one, while editing the video I did figure that out afterwards haha. You're right though that I don't think anything came of it as we wrecked them pretty well! I still think Squires are still "hard" mode but I don't mean that as they're impossible to win with or anything. But comparatively to running 4 Knights, you're objectively just weaker. The dodging on average is nice but I don't think that makes up for the lack of gear (and stat bonuses on weapons), technique cards, heroic arc, Heat limits, and Talents. You could even argue not drawing any Mortis cards is potentially negative as you're missing out on things like extra attacks.

[@csonti3725]

@@Kiratze 2:05:51 The attack starts here but it drags a bit because of zone measuring and stuff. At the end you move the monster 2 times based on its Flee 3 After Final Attack effect. Rulebook p.54, under After Attack: "An After Attack instruction that has more than one Target is resolved against each Target. However, if the Attack includes an After Final Attack instruction, it only takes effect after resolving the Attack against each of its Targets, against the last attacked Target." As for the Squires: I think they're perfectly fine without gear and extra modifiers, as even the starting deck seemed to lean heavily towards higher numbers. I didn't count it card by card, but they seemed to have a much better average "roll" than the expected 5 and 1/2 of a normal d10. Mortis draw could indeed be beneficial but it could also be absolutely devastating (in ATO it is roughly a 50-50 ratio). So I wouldn't count that as a net positive thing.

[@Kiratze]

@@csonti3725 Ahhh ok! Right. Definitely missed that. Just one of those slight change in wordings I missed. Used to that being just "After Attack" haha. And of course! Don't get me wrong, I think Squires are fine. But again, it's more comparing them to Knights and I still think they're objectively worse looking at the big picture. We also don't have the full breadth of Mettle cards, but depending on how good they are, they also might not scale as well as Knights when it comes to improving them which is another negative as I'm sure they'll lack the tools to stand toe to toe with some of the more difficult enemies.

[@maximilianobisurgi9362]

Was hoping to get this video, I really liked your previous ones.! One quick note at the very beginning, on True Solo mode it says you dont draw clue card for your knight. It says you just collect all clues and once you collect 3 of any, you succeed your imvestigation.

[@Kiratze]

Oh good spot! It totally forgot to apply the "True Solo" stuff. In my head for some reason I thought True Solo was if you're playing completely with One Knight and no one else but now I realize that's silly and would totally be impossible to win anything haha.

[@maximilianobisurgi9362]

@@Kiratze Yeah, I still not sure if this is good or bad haha, cause it seem to make things easier in terms of investigations, like on 3 explorations with clues tiles you are done with them. But maybe its to compensate some of the things you talked about of using the squires. Also I think you played right the gold thingy, cause the rules for squires mentioned of them being treated like knights for various effects, so I am guessing that unless specify otherwise they are treated as such. Would be nice to know in an FAQ or something if gold actually goes to the single knight, which I dont think it could go anywhere else haha

[@Venturello]

Thanks!! How much worth it still is it to watch the beginner’s guide video you marked as outdated!

[@Kiratze]

@Venturello The Delve phase is quite different now but the battle/Clash phase isn't too different in how it operates other than enemies having unlimited movement now. You're probably better off just following along this video though. I've got things timestamped so people can learn still for different parts!