Tutorial & Solo Playthrough of Oros - Solo Board Game

In this video, I play the solo mode of Oros by Brandt Brinkerhoff and Lucky Duck Games. Oros is a tile movement and action selection game where you are trying to build mountains and sacred sites to gain the most wisdom and victory points. In the solo mode, you play against 2-3 automas.
Note: I did make a few errors that may have changed the result of the game (I would have lost anyways LOL), but I put in text captions to show my errors.
Disclaimer: I received this copy for review from Lucky Duck Games. I have not otherwise been paid for this video.
Music by Paul Shapera
00:00 Intro
00:11 Overview and Setup
03:07 Rules and Goal
10:06 First Turn
18:26 Moving and Colliding Tiles
29:02 Building a Sacred Site and Wisdom Bonuses
35:29 Unlocking Another Follower
38:52 AI Removing Opponent Followers
40:57 AI Choosing Between Two Build Sites
48:12 AI Returning Two Followers
52:02 AI Ascending to the Top
53:43 Final Score Tally
56:09 Final Score
56:28 Outro
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[@TheHexyBeast]

nice video man! my review should be out in the next week or 2 (depending on life lol ) for me i quite enjoy the game but my main critique is the fiddlyness of moving tiles and knocking other tiles and setting up ect or elbowing the table and having my wisdom tracks get messed up... it defo feels like a game that was designed using TTS imo but it is good fun once u get past that stuff Thanks and Stay Hexy!

[@tabletopforone]

Thanks so much, Jonny. I agree about the fiddliness of the tiles and tracks. It's a cool mechanic to collide lands together, but may be too fiddly. I look forward to your review. I still have to play it more to review it.

[@TheHexyBeast]

@@tabletopforone im at 40 plays atm lol i was trying to test one of my critiques :P

[@tabletopforone]

Haha, oh wow, that's dedication.

[@ericritenour9002]

Excellent video and great demonstration. I got the game, now im just trying to figure it out lol. Point of clarification. When you move/shift the map tiles for the automa player, you were doing it from the perspective of where they would be sitting (hence you turned the card and did it that way). The rule book says that the movement should be from the viewpoint of the one operating the automa, which makes me think that in a solo game, its the same viewpoint for all three players (which is from where we are sitting). Does that make sense, and what is your understanding of that rule, and does the perspective even matter? Thanks for helping me with that.

[@tabletopforone]

Thank you. As for the automa cards, where it says "Orientation should be from the player managing the action," I probably read that wrong. I think you are right that it is from the perspective of the player, not the actual AI character. And so, if there are two players and one AI, whoever operates the automa performs the card based on that player's orientation. Now, whether that matters I think is a matter of consistency. Due to how the board game state changes constantly, I highly doubt that the card design was balanced with one direction in mind, especially since the AI's position to the board is not determined by rules. So, I think as long as you are consistent with how you orient those cards, then it doesn't matter. That being said, it's probably easier to read and apply the cards from a normal/neutral point of view, than the way I did it.

[@ericritenour9002]

@@tabletopforone this is helpful. Thanks so much!

[@tabletopforone]

@ericritenour9002 no problem 🙂. I hope you enjoy the game!

[@rampantfox1]

39:00 You moved green down the ascension track when it should have moved up, and so in actuality the game ended a turn or two sooner...

[@tabletopforone]

Huh, nice catch! I fell prey to the way the ascension track is designed. My brain in the moment must have thought "move right to increase." Thanks for pointing it out, and sorry for the mistake.

[@bankingonmoney8224]

Sorry this one didn't do it for me. Thanks for the presentation! Until next time....😊

[@tabletopforone]

It's definitely one of those games that will either be a hit or miss. Thanks for watching!

[@boriskirov3953]

hmmm, not really digging it - bots feel too cheaty to my liking 😂

[@tabletopforone]

Or, more likely, I'm just bad at the game 🤣