Twilight Imperium 4 Faction Guide | The Yssaril Tribes

A component review and in-depth look at The Yssaril Tribes faction from Twilight Imperium 4th Edition, upgraded by the Prophecy of Kings expansion, designed by Dane Beltrami and published by Fantasy Flight Games.
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00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Component Overview
07:54 - Analysis
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[@davidsteffensen4230]

Discarding an action card to stall is already strong but getting a free mech too is crazy.

[@andrewhoffman1087]

"Clever Ssruu use stall tactics to win the game!" This was the first faction that I won a game as, pre-Prophecy of Kings. They are one of my favorite factions, probably tied - if not slightly ahead - of Xxcha. I still don't know how I managed it, but that first game as the little green men, I wound up with 4 of the other 5 players support for the thrones! This is the faction that made the green tech tree one of my favorites (I know it's probably the weakest tech path overall, but I love action cards, and neural motivator is just a pet-favorite tech of mine). Due to my trying to play every faction at least once, I have yet to replay any factions, but the Yssaril are certainly top of my list! (The leaders in this faction are right up my alley!) Great review Ethan! The one tech I'm surprised you didn't mention was Psychoarchaeology. If you have a tech skip planet, especially if it's not green, you get the extra green needed for Mageon Implants, while actually being able to research unit upgrades or blue tech. I used to sleep on Psychoarchaeology, until it skipped a total of 4 techs for me in my Muaat win.

[@23Silverknight]

Playing through an all the factions is an incredible journey if your life situation allows. =-) If you only play once a year these, guides are great get a feel of the personality of the factions. But yeah good luck on the adventure of exploring the tip of the ice berg. X-D Definitely worth it!!!!.

[@ilovecokeslurpees]

Yssaril Tribes in 3rd edition were so strong I found many people banning them in games. Not as strong today, but still fantastic and one of my favorites.

[@RaK0]

Hey there! Finally won my first game of TI with this faction and your thoughts and advice were a great help! I only realized during this game how powerful and well rounded this faction is. They really have a lot of powerful perks with only little downsides to them. Having this many action cards in my hand opened up so many options that made it completely impossible for my enemies to predict my next move. And being able to EFFORTLESSLY stall every round so that I could just do my thing with everyone else only being able to watch almost felt a little unfair. You don't even need to think about how you lay down the best strategy for researching techs because their faction techs don't require any odd detours to get. You just stay in green and get everything you need and it synergizes really well. I'm not qualified to judge of they are a top tier faction but it is at least very straightforward and easy to understand how to play them and this already helps a lot in such a complex game. Fantastic faction. Now that I know what they can do, I hope that nobody will pick them in a future game against me. :D

[@timamartinchuk9504]

Thank you so much for making this video. I've been wondering about the angry Yodas for a while now. I wanted to understand them without getting stuck playing them for 8 hours, while my friends beat the sht out of me.

[@ImperialGit]

The Yssaril are quite capable of standing up to others, even more so with their hand of action cards; give them a go in your next game: I'm sure you'll love them!

[@ayogruenbach]

My prayers are fulfilled. Thank You.

[@CardboardCrashCourse]

You are very welcome 🙏

[@MrDeuit]

Great content! Going to play them this saturday in a 7 player game. I was compelled to leave a comment, because of you microphone mention. A better microphone is half of the task. Try to normalize your audio mix, because the cuts are noticable. At 0:38 i almost lost my composure with the volume change xD Another suggestions is adding some eq and/or compression, to make the s-sounds and following distortion less jarring.

[@clavain2458]

Great video just watched it to review for post Xmas game...we have Mahact in game as well so should be spicy. Keep up the excellent videos.

[@waves2loser]

Fantastic video, as always! Really glad to see that you're still improving, and passionate

[@CardboardCrashCourse]

Always!

[@mitchellkopitch]

Really love your videos, great work! Hey, did you have music for this one? Also, where do you get your music for these guides? I love hearing the different themes/ideas you attach to each faction that way.

[@christopheratkinson6444]

Can you describe how the The Yssaril agent can interact with the Mahact agent?

[@minerrobjojo6775]

Your description states that you are talking about the Mentak coalition, not the Yssaril Tribes. Always enjoy the videos!

[@CardboardCrashCourse]

Thank you!! Whoops, you saw the behind-the-scenes 👀

[@athullnexus5450]

How exactly does the Vul’Wraith Cabal agent work when you use it? Do you take the ship or do you do play that agent on behalf of the Cabal player and give them the ship?

[@asb2s]

Why not bio stims?

[@ImperialGit]

I'm sure he'll update the description or pin a comment citing the usefulness of Bio-stims for Mageon Implants ;)

[@cmdrTremyss]

New to PoK. Can somebody explain to me the Yssaril+Mahact or Naalu synergy? why is it good?

[@CardboardCrashCourse]

Yssaril's agent can copy any agent in the game. And Mahact's agent is disgustingly powerful.

[@cmdrTremyss]

@@CardboardCrashCourse Thx, I thought there is some hidden mechanic I'm not aware of.

[@FriendlyOne_]

I'll be honest, the only reason I'm repelled from playing them, is because I don't like the idea of playing something like literal cavemen. They're incredibly strong, and I understand that, but just don't like the flavor