Pax Pamir (2nd Edition) | Rahdo Runthrough by Shea

[@DooDooDaddyTV]

Your camera setup/production for playthroughs is the best I've ever seen

[@WimTheWebmaster]

I don’t know how it’s possible, but I get the Rahdo vibe from this. Easy to follow explaination, my compliments.

[@pubbles3229]

I really like that you switch the camera for right and left brain!

[@RTFM]

Thanks! I kinda came up with it on the fly, but I think I'll keep doing it.

[@greginfla_1]

Bring Jen back

[@rahdo]

jen would not have had much interest in this game :)

[@mauriciogerhardt3209]

little rahdo style review tip for Shea: When choosing a card, Rahdo would've gone through many card choices telling us what was the thoughts on why each card would be good. The way you did it, I was like: Is he choosing randomly?

[@RTFM]

Fair enough. There are a lot of cards in the market and I had quite a bit of game to show off, so I didn't want to spend too much time going over each option. I'll definitely keep that in mind though.

[@Domi_Asmo]

I was wondering "what? Rahdo is playing Pax Pamir??" Everything is more clear now ;)

[@rahdo]

i'd definitely be keen to try it solo someday!

[@jonaskissling8343]

Oooh, solo is so much fun, you should def do it! And enjoy the componants!

[@vinnieyang5422]

How did you reply 2 days ago when this video shows as being released today?? lol

[@PauloRenato23]

@@vinnieyang5422 because Patrons have access to the videos before it's released to the public

[@matthewlittle1595]

Before I saw the face, I thought it was some weird fast forwarding glitch that had Rahdo playing at 45 instead of 33 RPM.

[@Hahahahaaahaahaa]

I really love these additions! Shea, you keep so much of the spirit (the self-banter between choices being the best!) of Rahdo's runthroughs, but add a nice personal touch. Really clear set-up, and explanations. Hope to see lots more of these!

[@RTFM]

Thanks! I should have a couple more coming up soon.

[@deadsquirrel7256]

I'm so glad games such as Pax Pamir 2e are able to get some exposure on such a prolific channel. Great job Shea and I like the camera shifting a lot.

[@RTFM]

Thanks you so much!

[@anonymousforensic]

Great breakdown! I found this game much more accessible than my early struggles wrangling Pax Ren (1st ed). Now that we’ve played a couple games of Pax Pamir though, we’re getting overconfident and feeling ready to tackle Pax Ren again.

[@ethanbarton]

Excited to see games like this being played on this channel!

[@bievanwoensel5828]

very well done this video. The switch from left to right makes it easy to follow the game. Excellent explanation. Good job👍👍

[@MrVurtan]

The camera switching is great. It helps a lot to keep track who is the active player (mabye for you as well?). Great runthrough Shea! Very well done.

[@RTFM]

Thanks! And yeah, it definitely helps keep the two "players" separate.

[@dylansouthward2233]

Fantastic runthrough video for a game I'm so keen to try. Bravo! Very happy that you'll be doing runthroughs on this channel.

[@RTFM]

Thank you so much! I'm very happy to be here!

[@ArnoVdVelde]

That's not one I ever expected to show up on here. Good! This is excellent. I think there are som mistakes here though. You won't rule a region unless you got a tribe and the majority of armies there, if there are just tribes you don't rule just yet.

[@RTFM]

Thanks, I had a lot of fun playing it. Regarding the potential mistake: the rulebook says that you need "at least one tribe and a plurality of ruling pieces," and that both "tribes and loyal army units are considered ruling pieces." So if you have just a tribe there, you still rule so long as nothing else blocks you.

[@GrahamDacres]

Am I right in thinking the left most cards should be discarded at the end of a players turn?

[@PauloRenato23]

what does it say in the rulebook? am if that is correct, please give me the timestamps when the mistakes were made... cheers

[@samsmallvillefan13]

@15:45 you use your march ability on the blue suit card when the favoured suit is still purple.... is that allowed? I thought you could only use those bonus actions if the favoured suit matches the card? Also, those abilities that are in their own boxes (i.e. right brain's tax ability) you can use those whenever right? They don' have to match the favoured suit.

[@RTFM]

The abilities on cards can be used regardless of whether or not their card's suit is favored, it just costs one action. If blue were favored at the time, I could have moved those spies as a bonus action, meaning I would still have had one more action in the turn. And yes, those special abilities in the boxes are always active so long as the card is in your court.

[@AlouTheGreat]

Very well done, good job! just to be sure, at 36:40, you said you would like to use the tax ability but cannot because you don't rule anything. You could still tax the market, right?

[@RTFM]

Yes, that was a bit of a mistake on my part. You can tax the market regardless of ruling the region on the card.

[@AlouTheGreat]

@@RTFM that's right. Even more, you don't need to the rule the region on the card. you just need to rule A region, and another player has a card of that region in his court.

[@RTFM]

@@AlouTheGreat Haha, yeah. The brain stops working a bit after being split in two for a while.

[@Airbot80]

At 31.20 you bought a second card with one action, but you had previously gotten a card and put it into play, so both your main actions were taken already. Am I seeing it wrongly or did I miss something?

[@PauloRenato23]

It was already noted on the Klingon Subtitles at 31:02... Like Shea asked at the start of the video, and pretty much all other videos on the Channel, Turn ON the Klingon Subtitles to be notified on screen when a goof has been made. Cheers

[@MrSwitchbeat]

So nice to see you run through this game. Also, awesome Yoda pillow. Where did you get that?

[@RTFM]

It was a gift, but I think if you search "yoda pillow" on amazon, you should find it.

[@bose5160]

Such a good game. If you buy it, try and get the metal coins. So very worth it!

[@-Ambos-]

I want a with many people enjoyable but still quite deep strategic and well replayable board game with great communication that won't take longer than 3 hours. What would be your No. 1 Pick? This one?

[@RTFM]

I'd say Pax fills those requirements for sure. This game isn't my personal fave in that regard, though that's mostly because there are other themes and settings I prefer. I have a hard time identifying favorites, but a game I really like that definitely fits those categories is Root. It's by the same designer as Pax Pamir 2e, and while it has a bit of a learning curve, it gains a lot from repeated plays.

[@TVBerg.]

I think this game looks very interesting, but could someone tell me why the dominance check at the end was successful? Isn't that only the case when a faction has four or more blocks on the field compared to other factions? Because at that point in the game there are only seven British blocks versus four Russian blocks on the field

[@mapanzer]

There was an event card in effect reducing the number to two.

[@TVBerg.]

@@mapanzer Thank you! I figured I missed something :)

[@vinnieyang5422]

Around 35:00, your left brain/blue player could have taken another action because the betray action was on a political card and the action could be taken for free, unless you didn't want to do anything after that. Besides that, it was a very good play through and explaining the reasoning for your decisions!

[@PauloRenato23]

note added... thanks

[@AltarenGalil]

Seems like a cool game but checking the kickstarter it was 70$? That seems like quite a lot for a game that isnt that component heavy ... or am i missing something?

[@ArnoVdVelde]

I think that is all part of a expected print run issue and the component quality being great. Hard to really say much about it, but for me this is excellent, hard to put a price on design. I get the feeling but there are so many worse games for a lot more, or 60 with more in the box, but It's excellent. And the most approachable pax game that this is probably the only way a lot of people are going to get into the pax series.

[@bratsche1980]

Was looking for rahdo runthrough of this...

[@rahdo]

and you got one, with a slightly higher vocal pitch but still the same hairy forearms :)

[@Hardcorestilllives]

I love this game so much

[@aswton]

37:20, Why don't we use tax action to take coins from market? No need to rule the region to take coins from market. then we would've got 2 coins instead of 1 by taking a card there.

[@rahdo]

fair point! :)

[@xChikyx]

The game looks so interesting :o

[@davidhubbard61]

Nice work, thank you.

[@enricofrancese2883]

Amazing video, thanks!

[@stewste4316]

great video

[@mr.nelson9481]

Thanks for doing these videos.

[@RTFM]

No problem. Thanks for watching these videos!

[@JJ_TheGreat]

Right brain and left brain... Lol... You crack me up, Shea! Are there any implications - more regarding this? For example, do you play differently with your right brain as opposed to your left brain (for example, more creative play/thinking with of our your brains [I forget which one])?!

[@RTFM]

I'm aiming for that to be the case, left brain thinking things through a bit more and right brain going off of gut instinct, but sometimes I just go with what's best in the moment. It's hard to separate your brain in two for a whole game.

[@shlomaster1]

Is Rahdo expanding his channel? please summarize what is going on here.

[@JohnLudlow]

Rahdo covers a lot of games and a lot more games don't get covered, either because Rahdo doesn't have time or because some potentially interesting games are not a good fit for Rahdo and Jen (Rahdo's wife and most regular gaming buddy). So Rahdo has partnered with a couple other channels for them to cover some games on his channel. This is Shay (spelling?) from the RTFM channel.

[@shlomaster1]

@@JohnLudlow thanks for clarifying, i like this idea.

[@RTFM]

@@JohnLudlow It's spelled Shea. Thanks for asking

[@JohnLudlow]

@@RTFM thanks for the clarification

[@ThomasLiljeruhm]

At 31.00, hadnt you already done 2 real actions

[@PauloRenato23]

it was already noted in the klingon subtitles

[@richardshort2001]

Wait, if your left brain is controlling the blue player then your right hand should be taking all it's actions.

[@RTFM]

Ah, you got me there :D

[@briansmolinski5154]

FYI The people are called Afghans, the unit of currency is the Afghani

[@PauloRenato23]

note added... thanks

[@RTFM]

Ah, I had a feeling I was getting it a little wrong, thanks. However, while the Afghani is the current currency, the currency at the time this game is set was the Rupee.

[@zakkoehler6820]

ummmmmmmmmmmm……… whaaat

[@WhatsDaveUpTo]

game looks good in terms of production quality but looks dry and boring in actual game-play. think ill pass on this overpriced, overrated game