Tom Teaches Space Base (Rules Overview & 2-Player Gameplay)

[@AlbinoMissTwilight]

Thank you for helping a couple of people from MN learn this game! My Husband won during my turn and I was deploying so many more ships throughout the game then him... just like you and Chester said, in the end it doesn't even matter. ☺

[@zoonambulo]

From Spanish native speaker! Nice pronunciation!!! Just add an S at the end of “mucho” :) “muchos puntos” (in spanish, if it’s plural, both parts must be said in plural). Great video! It helped me to understand the game!

[@redchuchee]

Thank you for explaining the cards so well. I bought the game yesterday and those charge cards were very confusing to me. Keep up the good work! 👍

[@TomTeachesGames]

Thanks so much for such a nice comment! It's greatly appreciated. I hope you enjoy your plays!

[@iamignored7052]

Thank you for the time and effort taken to record this! I can totally understand how hard it is to do this.

[@TomTeachesGames]

Thank yo use much for this. I'm sorry it took me so long to respond -- I had to step away from the channel for a while... but I saw your username, and then I felt extra guilty for ignoring you.... for what it's worth, I've been ignoring everyone for many months.... But, I saw the comment and wanted to say thank you for leaving it.

[@iamignored7052]

@@TomTeachesGames hey no problem i am used to it. Thats why i am using this nick. Just kidding! Totally no problem! Thanks for the great effort!

[@jeremyfox2443]

Thanks for both videos. I appreciate the style!

[@TomTeachesGames]

Thanks a lot! It’s not a style that everyone likes, but if it works for you, welcome to the family! I’m way glad to have you around!

[@rmsgrey]

Not a game I'll be rushing to add to my collection (though I might play it if someone else offers). Terminology note: the rulebook refers to the yellow sun symbols as "credits" though once they've defined the term, they consistently use the yellow sun symbol rather than ever using the name, so it's not exactly crucial to use their name for it. At 27:38 you used a 2 die on sector 3 gaining an extra energy (which was eventually spent at 33:27) At 38:25, the dice totaled 7, but were used for sector 8 (which cost 7 credits) to gain extra energy which was spent immediately At 42:14 (and on future rolls of 6) you should have given yellow a credit as well as charging up the ability (not clear from the rules, but confirmed in the official FAQ). The first time, the credit would have been lost to overspend anyway, but I didn't track the remaining missed credits. On Yellow's penultimate turn, you explained how you'd reason about which option to pick, and then chose weirdly - the choice was 5 points, or 1 income and 7 credits, which converts at 3 credits per point to 2-3 points. So, having explained that you're effectively choosing between 5 points and 2-3 points, you chose the latter? On the controversial card: "All opponents lose 4 points" is pretty similar to "you gain 4 points", and even closer to "you gain 4 points and the game end trigger increases by 4 points" (if someone has less than 4 points at that point, then they only lose what they have, while increases to your score and the target score can stack indefinitely). I can see the argument about it dragging the game out, though on average it's 2/3 of a point per round while on station; 1/2 a point per opponent (so up to 2 points in a 5-player game) per round while deployed. There are other cards that can combo with it to make it more likely to charge up, and sometimes chance will make it come up more than it should, but it's still not too terrible. It's less game-breaking than, say, using a 2-card combo to get the You Win card in slot 7, or to charge it with 8s and 12s (or using a 2-3 card combo to swap it into a single-die slot). I can see two genuine issues with the card: A) Because it's phrased as a negative effect, it feels bad, even though it's objectively better for the opponents than a similar positive wording that wouldn't feel as bad. B) Because it "wins" by slowing the game down, in games where it's a significant factor, it's going to be a long, drawn-out affair rather than the quick kill of a "you win" or constantly rolling a high-points card.

[@TomTeachesGames]

Thanks! I appreciate it! I’ll get things annotated ASAP.

[@duckafro]

I just played a game with that -4 victory point card and it pulled so much progress back for everyone on the table. Its worse when they combo it with other cards to charge it every time its their turn. Effectively -4 points every round.

[@oldskidgrey]

Brilliant teach

[@FrancisPelletier]

How do you call an area meant only for playing the base game of space base? A base Space Base space.

[@TomTeachesGames]

I don't know how you came up with this..... but it seriously gave me a laugh. Thanks for that!

[@theunamiable]

27 + 6 = 34, eh? (1:13:14) Then again, I lost my ability to count when I did maths at uni, so y'know... Really interesting final comments, btw. I haven't seen this before, but I agree with you about the theme, and also about the acceleration of pace, based on this playthrough. I didn't do any analysis of the dice rolling, but I was noticing you rolled really, really few 6s (maybe none) until you bought the card specifically because of all those 1s -- at which point there were a lot more 6s. Such are dice.

[@TomTeachesGames]

Math is SO hard!!!! 😂 I swear, if my students ever find my channel, I’m screwed.....

[@theunamiable]

Hey, it works in base 9...

[@TomTeachesGames]

Good point! And I love modular arithmetic....

[@lynnburke2266]

"Also I think tom teaches is a silly name" Haha.. maybe.. but it sure makes it easy to find ur videos 🎲😀

[@TomTeachesGames]

Well thanks! I literally have almost changed it so many times....but it does make for a quick KZbin search.... so that is basically the primary reason I keep it.... hahahah

[@dshannon23]

@38:55 "Assuming I didn't make a mistake." You did, you put the 2+5 on the 8 sector instead of the 7 sector, should've been 3 energy.

[@TomTeachesGames]

Yup, you're right -- don't forget to get those Klingon Subtitles turned on -- I did address that mistake there. But I appreciate you pointing it out!

[@zilvinaskraniauskas8441]

Nice video.. but so many mistakes

[@TomTeachesGames]

Yup! I make mistakes on my channel. It happens, and not everyone likes that. I personally feel like people watching learn more by watching me make mistakes and hopefully they make fewer mistakes when they play. I will always try to annotate as much as possible before publishing - and anything I don’t catch is in the Klingon subtitles.

[@peterh5732]

With two dice, 7 has the highest probability. Not 6.

[@TomTeachesGames]

That is definitely true when only looking at the sum of two dice. But when picking only one die is an option also, 6 can be chosen in more ways than 7. It took me a while to get my head wrapped around that one too....

[@peterh5732]

@@TomTeachesGames Hi, thanks for your reply. Yes, you are absolutely right. My apologies. It actually says so in the rules book too.

[@TomTeachesGames]

No worries at all! I’m a middle school math teacher, and so I talk about that exact thing. It seriously caught me off guard and took me a while to get away from the usual 2-12 model of dice rolling.