Merchants of the Dark Road | Solo Playthrough | With Mike

[@OneStopCoopShop]

0:00 - Introduction 0:53 - Overview of Play 4:23 - First Player Turn 6:54 - First Automa Turn 7:50 - Round 2 14:34 - Round 3 17:45 - Round 4 19:45 - Round 5 23:24 - Round 6 25:24 - Round 7 28:25 - Round 8 30:44 - Round 9 32:20 - Round 10 34:13 - Round 11 35:58 - Round 12 39:07 - Round 13 41:40 - Final Scoring

[@xradio19x]

Thanks Mike. Scored this as a graduation present and looking forward to getting to the table.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Nice! Hope you enjoy it :)

[@TheTXSaint]

This has been my most anticipated game ever since the Kickstarter came out. I’ll be playing mainly solo so hopefully you have good things to say! (Watching right now!)

[@OneStopCoopShop]

It’s a bit mixed, but you can still have some good fun I think!

[@Dungeon-crawler-guy]

Looks good, I'm picking this game up tomorrow. Great play through 🙂👍

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Hope you have an awesome time with it!

[@TheTXSaint]

I believe that for the last three turns, if you use the first move column, you have your choice of items to build as there are no dice being pushed through.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Is that right? That would be quite powerful!

[@TheTXSaint]

@@OneStopCoopShop just double checked because I knew I’d seen that somewhere. Jeremy Howard from MvM reads it from the rule book on his recent play through. Says is at the bottom of page 6.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

@@TheTXSaint cool, I'll add a note at that point of the video.

[@brandonhouston7575]

Could you have placed the staff on its side at the bottom when you got the second instrument and filled your wagon instead of losing the staff?

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Oh, maybe! I have to go back to polyomino school ASAP :)

[@penguyen25]

Question. In round 2 you crafted a potion but it looks like you used a 3 pip die? Those dice are kinda hard to read. Please ignore if I interpreted this incorrectly.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Oh man, I’m right there with you. Those pips aren’t ideal, especially the filled and unfilled 1 faces. So anything is possible!

[@JLH111176]

Round 8 you didn't need to drop the staff could have turn it sideways and would have fit along the bottom row

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Someone else mentioned that too. I am a staff failure :)

[@JLH111176]

@@OneStopCoopShop made no difference it was a curb stomp anyways

[@OneStopCoopShop]

This is accurate :)

[@Skycroft1000]

I liked this game since I first saw it... but I don't think it works well solo.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Yeah I think it works best with 3-4. A nice touch is that you can use the automa to fill out the game count, like adding a player to a 2-player game.

[@chriswinston1223]

King of Tokyo doesn't work well solo. Werewolf doesn't work well solo. This one works just fine solo. There are no mechanisms that hinder solo play.