Tekhenu Tutorial & Playthrough

Here is my Tekhenu tutorial & playthrough! Paid sponsorship by Board & Dice.
Click here to watch the rest of the playthrough - • Tekhenu Extended Playt...
Teaching Timestamps:
Introduction - 0:00
Game overview - 0:47
Starting cards explanation - 3:38
Dice drafting explanation - 4:44
Dice balance explanation - 6:38
Production action explanation - 7:17
Manipulate dice with scribes - 11:48
Osiris god action - 8:53
Horus god action - 12:10
Thoth god action - 17:25
Hathor god action - 22:52
Ra god action - 26:26
Bastet god action - 30:07
Anubis special action - 31:52
Rotation phase explanation - 33:00
Maat phase explanation - 35:04
Scoring phase explanation - 38:45
Game end & final scoring - 41:10
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[@danpalmer7676]

When Monopoly only players ask me what's so different about board games nowadays,i will show them this board.....Now that is a board game.

[@shortydancer]

Yes! So looking forward to this whole thing!

[@ilqrd.6608]

Oh yessss! Been waiting for this for so long. It looks amazing. Thank you Jon! You rock

[@justinburns1286]

Great video! Like the overview at the beginning

[@VuNguyen-uc7xe]

My god, the gameplay looks fantastic! It's a must buy for me! Thanks for the playthrough Jon!

[@vil7310]

When it comes to tutorials,you are my go-to guy.Well done and thanks

[@Socksrule3032]

Great teach! Thanks Jon!

[@NickMcNabb]

This was excellent! There is a lot going on but you explained it really well in a logical order. Many thanks :)

[@feliks1365]

the combination of mechanics in this game just speak to me. i can't wait to try it. i hope the solo mode holds up.

[@kayvallance9560]

This seems complicated to learn,but it's also very appealing to look at! I enjoyed this a great deal.

[@Gathanokos]

This helped me so much for me to teach and play the game in my group!

[@MortlachNL]

I am waiting for my copy to arrive, and boy, it looks like a complex game. But your video on it is excellent and I feel like I am now somewhat prepared to tackle the rule book.

[@johnwheeler6839]

Yes, You know I have been waiting for this one for a while. You are probably glad I won't be bothering you with so many Tekhenu questions.

[@JonGetsGames]

Haha, no worries John :) I hope you enjoy it.

[@johnwheeler6839]

@@JonGetsGames I will, I already know how to play it, but I love your playthrougs and I know you will show three different "strategies" so that is always interesting.

[@AdamSpanel]

In midgame scoring you forgot to mention 3 points per pyramid symbol reached with happiness marker.

[@JonGetsGames]

Dang, that is a big miss. I'm sure I recorded that but I must have accidentally cut it out while editing the video. I've added a correction to it that points viewers to the timestamp in the extended playthrough where this is explained. Thanks for pointing this out!

[@pierrewhite2062]

Cool playthrough, lots happening

[@6mortE]

I've played my first game last weekend, then the second and a third... This game is awesome. I already enjoy Teotihuacan and Tzolkin but this one raise the bar to another level. Thanks for the video good tuto before we played.

[@JonGetsGames]

Glad you enjoyed it, you've played more then I have now :)

[@zerathul13]

Excellent tutorial. Can't wait to sink my teeth into the game

[@williwanderer]

excellent

[@redstation9765]

Oh my GODS !!!

[@juliakonowrocka9564]

That was a great intro! Only thing you missed is that during scoring, each player gets 3 victory points if they have the most resources (papyrus, limestone, Granite or bread) if tied, the person with most buildings wins.

[@JonGetsGames]

I do believe I covered this at 39:01.

[@NickDavies75]

Thanks Jon. Nice & clear as always. I noticed a minor mistake though at 34:54 - you said the brown and yellow dice were tainted, and you meant pure :)

[@JonGetsGames]

Glad you liked it, thanks for pointing that out :)

[@uxjared]

Don't take those statues for granite.

[@salty-horse]

Jon, thanks for the video! Please consider reformatting how you mention timestamps in the video description. KZbin can now read them and display the section names and times in the video player, but I think they need to be in a specific format. Instead of "Game overview - 0:47" try: "0:47 Game overview"

[@JonGetsGames]

I don't actually think that matters. It seems they haven't consistently rolled out this feature as some videos show that information on the play bar and others don't. For instance I don't see it in this tutorial video but using the same formatting it does show up in the extended playthrough for Tekhenu. I love the new look of that information in the play bar, I just don't know why it's so inconsistent.

[@MyKonaRC]

The more I learn this game, it feels like im playing 6 games in one + learning solo mode!

[@JonGetsGames]

It certainly has quite abit going on :)

[@philippereekie9625]

I love you

[@Feldingor]

Hi Jon, Greta video thank you. I’m looking forward to gameplay videos until they release the game on Tabletopia so we can all try it firsthand 😉 Just one small question: I’m pretty sure you can use faith tokens only to move the scales towards balance, you cannot choose on which side to put them

[@JonGetsGames]

I suppose you are right regarding faith tokens. It says you use them to offset any imbalance, so that does infer you'd want to bring the balance closer to 0. You'd almost never want your balance to do something except for go lower, though I think there is a technology where perhaps that'd be good due to what resources you'd get.

[@Feldingor]

JonGetsGames if I’m not mistaken it was David himself who said so during his tutorial & playthrough video on Tabletopia. The rulebook actually says to use them to offset an *unbalance*, seemingly hinting to moving it towards balance, not offset if even more

[@Raysax92]

Thx for the vídeo and i have only 1 Question: If you perform an Anubis action (2 scribes) only the "die value" counts, then does that mean for example that you could use a "brown" die to produce "x" resources of another kind such as papyrus? Since even though the die is brown and would normally produce bread, here the color is theoretically omitted, so I could produce any resource I want at my choice, right?

[@JonGetsGames]

That is correct, you can produce X of any resource type when you do an Anubis action.

[@Raysax92]

@@JonGetsGames Ok, thank you very much :)

[@ryanamos3665]

Jon, the obelisk looks really wobbly. How is it attached to the board? How do you store the obelisk in the box? Do you disassemble it each time? Thanks.

[@JonGetsGames]

It has a hex shaped base to slot into the rotating disc and under that a circular shape to go into a hole in the game board so that it can easily pivot. I didn't think it seemed wobbly to me. It does all come apart to go back in the box but that takes minimal time to put back together.

[@ryanamos3665]

@@JonGetsGames Thanks. It's hard to see from the angle I guess. I appreciate the response though and if you didn't feel like it was an issue in real life then I am reassured.

[@redeyedghost1406]

@@JonGetsGames How do you think the size of it impacts the game? Just watching the play through makes me think it's way too big (my copy hasn't shown up to my FLGS yet, hopefully next week). I'm already looking forward to smaller replacements popping up on Etsy.

[@kennytee5975]

Do you only potentially change the player order once during the game?

[@JonGetsGames]

The player order changes during each Maat phase and that happens every 4 turns. This means the player order changes 4 times, though the 4th time only impacts endgame scoring.

[@emanueladadarlat3159]

Why did the score start from 10?

[@spr5x4]

6:04. Yellow and brown (not orange) dice

[@cronkitepercussion]

Is the whole point of this game highest score wins?

[@JonGetsGames]

Yep, that's how you win.

[@shortydancer]

I just wish the resources weren’t cardboard chits. I would have preferred wooden cubes a la Tzolkin. Kinda bummed since BnD has really good production quality in some of their games.

[@johnwheeler6839]

Well everything else is really good quality, my guess is that in order to have the Obelisk,,wooden pillars and houses and still be able to keep the game at the same price the usually do the only way to do it was cut cost somewhere else and I guess that was the resources.

[@PMMagro]

Looks very complicated, not a bad if it is good enough (justifying the har learn) but I fear teaching this game. Your tutorial is clear and good and still I doubt it is worth the effort...

[@roscol9135]

Please enable english subtitles 😭

[@JonGetsGames]

I have the auto-english subtitles enabled for all videos but sometimes youtube simply doesn't do it which is aggravating.