Learning To Play BlackStone Fortress

[@971zero]

After that huge bit about rules as written, I just got to ask where in the rule book you found that it's written that you ever remove Hostile groups from the Initiative track. Because I can't find it, and that might be why you found it easy. 3 Ur-Ghuls jumping out of a portal and attacking you 9 times is deadly.

[@GoldyMcGoldface]

Yeah. I'd like to see this rule too. We've been playing that they reinforce every round until you get on the maglev, haven't seen anything that ties reinforcements to the explore tokens.

[@misomiso8228]

Yes you do not remove hostile groups from the initiatve track. Reinforcement never stop happening.

[@silvarknite7]

Moar Blackstone Fortress please! =D

[@acortes916]

The answer to the healing grievous wounds is in the wording. They don’t make it clear, but it says that ‘Grievous wound counters are treated by explorers in the same manner as wound counters, except they cannot be healed during an encounter’. In the section covering ‘recovery rolls’ which happens outside of the encounter phase in the recover step, the can make a vitality roll eliminating one wound counter for a success and 2 wound counters for a crit success. Since it is not during the encounter, the wounds and grievous wounds are treated the same and therefore healed accordingly.

[@misomiso8228]

Think its been clarified that the vitality roll between encounters does NOT heal grevious wounds. I believe that at the moment the only way to heal grevious wounds is to 1) return to precipice, 2) The robots ability 3) The resource card 'Remnants of the Technomontyr' (spelling).

[@raedkhalil6937]

One thing, if there is a fifth player he sadly does not get to choose what each enemy model does. That player still has to roll and follow the actions according to the table at the back of the hostile cards. What he can do is choose the targets if there are two players in the same hex or adjacent to him, so he could purposefully try to kill the squishy rather than the big unkillable robot.

[@timseyer6769]

Kenny needs to get a Job with you guys. Even if He doesnt want to He will adapt ;)

[@ScilentDeath]

maybe add timestamps so you can get through a bit of the banter.... this is like 5 hours...

[@TauShasla]

Blackstone Fortress stuff starts around 17:45

[@spocky7305]

Announcements over and game starts at 17:20 for anyone who wants to get into the action.

[@Demurr]

Thanks a lot =)

[@spocky7305]

53:00 is close to when they are placing minis on and are actually rolling. Everything before is some banter, back story, and game prep (punching out game tiles, shuffling cards, etc.)

[@12neef]

Josh Ray you sir are a king

[@Firedrake18]

seeing this later. It looks GW put up a Faq and it says that they do heal their grievous wounds when they return. I'm sure they saw this later.

[@JasonWolfeYT]

Bottom left paragraph in first column on page 3 of the Precipice book: "After mounting an expedition, the explorers can return to precipice and the meagre safety it offers. Here they cna heal any wounds ..." And the FAQ confirmed it. This was not a real argument if you read page 3 of the Precipice book.

[@XTr3m3b4sh]

Thats not rules, thats fluff. Just like they said: If a codex says: "The Power Armor of a Space Marine is impenetrable.", does that mean Space Marine models are invulnerable ? No. And the faq came out after the lifestream was recorded. But yes, they would have healed all wounds.

[@RogueLeader21]

@@1981troyboy You cannot heal grevious wounds during the recovery step. The RAW says make a vitality roll. The Vitality roll raw says remove a "wound counter" on a success, and up to 2 "wound counters" on a critical success. A grievous wound is a "Grievous Wound counter". The text on page 14 of the Rules booklet under Wound and Grevious Wound Counters states that "Grievous wound counters are treated in the same manner as wound counters.." However, in the Healing Wounds section it states "Note that grievous wounds cannot be healed unless noted otherwise." The vitality roll of the recover step does NOT explicitly say that it can remove grevious wounds, and therefore they cannot be removed in the recovery step according to the RAW.

[@AsgeirrSpjuth]

Chad Michels yes you can. It says during recovery that you can heal ANY wound.

[@RogueLeader21]

@@AsgeirrSpjuth No it doesn't. It says right in the description of "Wounds and Grievous Wounds" that you cannot heal Grievous wounds during an encounter. It literally says word for word under "Healing Wounds" "Note that grievous wounds cannot be healed unless otherwise noted". If you want to play wrong then go ahead, but the game is already unchallenging, why the hell would you want to trivialize this mechanic is absolutely beyond me.

[@RogueLeader21]

@@AsgeirrSpjuth And in the Official How to Play video Becca specifically states you can only heal Grievous Wounds at Precipice, so if the Official GW How to Play isn't good enough for you then I can't help anyway.

[@SkaredCast]

Bringing this back let’s go !

[@jacobthompson1682]

Talk about rules lawyering this was ridiculous by the end.

[@earlgrey2130]

One question: Is this game a one-time experience like Pandemic:Legacy or can you play it multiple times?

[@Winter1338]

You can play multiple times. No component destruction

[@mati12554]

Steve making faces to the camera and nobody notices :D

[@sarahhillary7698]

Mateusz Pelc Steve is so adorable when he makes worried faces. 🥰

[@socalastarte6727]

Holy hell, 5 hours!!!! This game is mad complicated ya'll!!! Can't wait to get it and then waste a significant portion of my life.

[@sjewitt22]

Is Blackstone Fortress the same as 40k roleplay?

[@michaelalbright8611]

Thank you Matt I had no idea I could subscribe for free with my Amazon Prime account thank you again

[@jeanmanguy7900]

do the rulebooks printed after FAQs are edited with the changes and ruling? Is it worth waiting a bit to buy rulebooks with clarified rules?

[@RSenior2107]

Jean Manguy I doubt they will be, the definitely don’t do it with codexes

[@MrKkrraattooss]

What happens if you are out of Exploration cards

[@AldousC]

Will you upload your streams here?

[@miniwargaming]

Some of them yes, and others will remain Twitch VOD and Silver Vault level.

[@UnregulatedChaos]

Wow 5 hours great for painting XD

[@Cworls]

In the first few seconds, I have to say you need to turn your mics Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay up. To give some perspective on this, I listen to most youtube on 20 with my setup, I had to turn it up to 54 just to be able to hear Matt.

[@peppermintshore]

Are cam would be great. Would let us see the whole table

[@mikebooth603]

1:36 Steve you kill me bro!! :D

[@mikebooth603]

1:36:01

[@benedmunds1884]

That was epic..long but worth it. Love the heal discussion 😂😂

[@Hellfirematrix]

Wrath & Glory for the win!

[@nielssmed2388]

Major mistake. You need to rool reinforcement even if there are no hostiles left on the board. There cards stay in the initiative deck, and if reinforcements appear, they do so at the closest portal. Its plain and simple in the rulebook, Come on guys 😑 Page 13, combat book, second paragraph under the reinforcement table. "if there are no hostiles from their group on the battlefield (because they have all been slain), deploy the hostile adjacent to a portal and as close as possible to an Explorer".

[@Sharingandud]

Yup, which is pretty rough when you're about to end your expedition and all the groups decide that they`re not done with you yet. Had that happen to us.

[@michaelalbright8611]

Omg matt I didn't know you liked trogdor

[@warpaint9385]

Sorry hard to watch because the tiles are just lost with that dark space mat underneath. Odd looking room lol. Looks like an old cabin.

[@swampdonkey152000]

Shamu Soleary approves.

[@jeremytravis7485]

Had to turn it off, 40 minutes before they got to the first line in the rulebook. I hung on for about 10 more minutes and the idiocy was just too great.

[@stevenhudson632]

28 minutes in and they haven't discussed the game. Nope.

[@ZubbaKon]

I'm gonna share a secret with you: You can skip ahead.

[@CaptainSkylocke]

To where? They didn't time stamp it.​@@ZubbaKon

[@Gatecreeper69]

Kinda feel like steve and luca should have been replaced with cullen and josh on this one. Love the guys but man, I was getting more frustrated than Matt trying to watch this

[@roll6d6]

Is the a UK penny or US penny?

[@jessecrider9767]

for the idea of playing grots, why not just go fullblown Rebel Grot with it heh... Viva la Grot Revoshusion!

[@TheMaleRei]

TROGDOR!

[@BigMekDanskull]

Epic stream guys

[@jasongrundy1717]

It takes 5 minutes to learn Blackstone Fortress, not 5 hours. WTF are you thinking lads?

[@manschristenssons6116]

Yes! 5 hours? What the....

[@andrewwybert9976]

Jason Grundy it’s cuz they are learning how to do twitch and how to set up the cameras and all that stuff

[@FFMajorEMT17]

Matt needs to chill out. He is so impatient. You look up the rules if you want to know it....