Voidfall - Today Is Not the Day (Solo Hard Mode)

[@Valos1987]

This was amazing! You have a very impressive ability to articulate your trains of thought, which made this playthrough very enjoyable to watch.

[@zln25]

What a run! Thank you for posting this, and I love your Harbinger headband!

[@tristianmartinez3238]

Truly amazing that you were able to keep up the energy and polish through two hours of analysis. Such a fun watch!

[@cyphen]

Great work on this video! I really appreciated the card zoom-ins and the annotations. None of the other Voidfall Solo videos up on KZbin are willing to tackle a Hard difficulty High Complexity scenario. It was a real joy to watch this, and I'm excited to view your next Voidfall video. I'd also really look forward to seeing how you play some of the harder-to-score-high-with houses (such as Astoran, Thegwyn, Kradmor, etc.) Thanks again for making such high-quality (and high-difficulty) content!

[@martink5124]

Unbeliavable score! Best playthrough on the youtube! looking forward to next. Thank you.

[@Tabulator24de]

Great play and great video. I really loved watching it. Scoring 300+ seemed impossible to me 😄 I think you made a little mistake when using the advanced Deep Space Missiles tech in your last attack. It does only add 1 approach damage per sector(!) that has a ship yard not per ship yard.

[@utiledulci2588]

Not only are you an amazing player, you also have impeccable speech. How have you become like this?

[@Grindfrank]

What a pro! I’m impressed 😮

[@oogiesmuncher]

bro is thinking beyond on levels beyond our understanding

[@martink5124]

Finally someone playing on hard. Most of videos are tutorial.

[@neilturner5154]

This is an amazing playthrough, you are so quick at analysing the state of the board! Quick question; at 1:39:25 you don’t seem to refer to the additional fleet power that the Voidborn get in Cycle 2 and 3. Or did I get this rule wrong. And you don’t seem to add it to the fleet value when you assess the War card earlier in the cycle. If you can clarify this it would help, as I’m still very bad at the game.

[@nofriendsgg]

That additional Voidborn strength only applies in the end-of-cycle evaluation phase.

[@neilturner5154]

@@nofriendsgg Thanks. I’ve been adding it to every skirmish, which has been real tough. I appreciate the clarification.

[@dennisklang]

Great Vid! Keep it up, more Voidfall to the people...

[@tommy35hk]

That's crazily high score. Awesome!

[@TelexStar79]

Great video play through. Instant subscribe from me. One thing I noticed though at 59 minutes... If you use a catastrophe to deal with a war card, you do not discard the war card. (page 14 of rulebook)

[@nofriendsgg]

The war card doesn't get discarded because of the catastrophe. It gets discarded because it's the end of the round - in a solo game, that's just the one solo turn, whether a catastrophe was taken or not. That clarification in the rulebook is to make sure that each player has to deal with the war in a multiplayer game - you can't discard the war to stop it affecting the other players who haven't acted yet that round.

[@TelexStar79]

@@nofriendsgg Ahh of course, thanks for clarifying. I had not considered that.

[@Peter-oh3lx]

Excellent playthrough. After having played it a couple of times I was particularly interested in how a wide strategy plays out. One comment (to test my own understanding); at 1:33:00 you produced credits which I think you are not allowed with this particular house. Or is there something else in play that allows this?

[@nofriendsgg]

House Zenor is allowed to produce credits. But they can't overproduce credits - that is, they don't get the 3 influence or any other benefits from producing credits in excess of 15.

[@Peter-oh3lx]

Thanks for the clarification. Much appreciated.

[@AndresBlanco86]

Wow, amazing playthrough! I didn't know that amount of points was achieveable, you are a strategy genious! Yesterday I played on easy and got just over 200 points XD Just one question, the Improved Deep Space Missiles can fire once PER SECTOR with 1+ shipyard, to a max of 2, so you would need 2 sectors adjacent to the combat sector, with at least 1 shipyard, is that correct? In your last turn you fired twice from the same sector, which had 2 shipyards, but I guess you could only fire once? I think the result doesn't change anyway when counting the 1 x defense salvo that the carrier has. Looking forward to your next video!

[@nofriendsgg]

Ah, whoops - you're absolutely right! But yeah, thankfully we win the sector regardless, though we would lose another corvette and end up with just 2 carriers in the sector. The carriers then fend off the skirmish in Evaluation with their salvo absorption. Good catch! We then have one spare activated fleet power from the extra destroyed corvette. We originally didn't have anything useful to gain when we completed the 2nd Safe Haven in Evaluation, but now we would deploy that fleet power upon completing the Safe Haven, to score just as much with our Might Agenda. So the outcome, as you said, is exactly the same.

[@stevenokeefe2681]

Great video and explanation. You know more about the strategy than I do. Lol. I have one question. When you overproduced in cycle 2, you got the 3 points for science and food. Weren’t you also supposed to put a token into the safe havens?

[@nofriendsgg]

If I'm remembering right, I overproduced Science on my Innovation turn, and Food on my Production turn. You have to overproduce twice in the same turn to qualify for a Safe Haven. Also, building Safe Havens is optional. I'll often forgo building a Safe Haven earlier in the game if I think I'll need the fleet power for later invasions and paying for Stage III and IV on civ tracks. Then plan for ways to complete the Safe Havens once that fleet power is no longer needed.

[@Fractus]

I know the video has been out a while but I thought you could recall fleet power at will. Also I think the agenda you pulled around the 2 hour mark with maxing your civ tracks is like 40 points because you would have them all maxed. Edit: Think you forgot about the salvo defence too on the carriers most of the time for defence (your first corvette wouldn’t die). Although with carriers it’s usually a struggle for fleet power anyway so having them die is probably better than moving them around.

[@nofriendsgg]

If you can provide time stamps I can investigate if errors were made; but hopefully these responses will explain things: 1) Fleet power cannot be recalled at will, but you may recall fleet power to pay a deactivation cost if you have no activated fleet power. 2) If the agenda you're referencing is "Interplanetary Colonization", it scores 2 points for each Civilization Track in Stage I, 4 for each track in Stage II and 6 for each track in Stages 3 or 4. So maxing all tracks means those tracks are each in Stage 4, and would therefore score 6*3=18 points (plus 4 points for having 10 or more pure population). 3)The salvo absorption on Carriers only works when you are the defender (i.e. when the Voidborn or another player attack you). It doesn't function when you are the invader.

[@stevenokeefe2681]

End game upkeep, you didn’t slot in the agenda you played with Temptation/Leadership. So you had two extra food. Is that correct?

[@huynhquocsu9286]

😳 you are so good at this game ! love the playthrough

[@yusufismail1311]

Around the hour mark in cycle 2, you played all 3 actions on the reinforcement focus. But i dont recall you using a trade token for that

[@nofriendsgg]

I only did the top 2 actions on the Reinforcement focus. But I did play a Support agenda alongside it, making a 3rd action.

[@Gainward123456]

Wow. That was amazing!

[@DTeazee]

So was this considered a wide strategy since the goal was to get to the other side and take both rifts? If you play a tall strategy does that imply that you’re just leaving the rifts and sticking in your own area?

[@nofriendsgg]

Yes - you would make up for the rift scoring by developing your infrastructure to maximize your agendas and by prioritizing civ track advancement over invasion. Because of our Cloning tech + Novarchon Palace sector, we got to the end of all the civ tracks anyway, but still.

[@lordcocoon]

Wait! What was the score again??? 😲 Great play. Gonna check your other videos. Cheers from Brazil.