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Year
2015
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Description
Set in the fantastic steampunk The World of Smog created by Panache Animation, On Her Majesty's Service is a stylish board game for two to four competing players. You'll need to navigate the rotating tiles that make up the game board, trading Ethers and Artefacts in order to fulfill the quest set by Queen Victoria, all the while dealing with the Agents of the Shadow Master.
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Pros
- The game offers several different kinds of actions players can take.
Cons
- Players must pay one coin or one ether to pass through barriers.
Thematic elements
- Retrieve four precious artifacts
- Shadow Market
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Point Allowance System — Each player takes three actions per turn, with nine different types of actions available.
- Area movement — Players move their gentleman one space on the location tiles, either vertically or horizontally.
- card drafting — Players randomly select agent cards and secret combination and secret gate cards.
- Resource management — Players manage ether (blood, mana, ectoplasm, titanium) and coins, which are used for various actions and requirements.
- Secret objectives — Players have a Secret Gate card highlighting the space they need to be on to claim victory after completing objectives, and a Secret Combination card detailing ether requirements.
- set collection — Players need to collect four different artifacts to win the game.
- tile placement — Location tiles are placed onto the board according to numbers on the back and arrows must line up with arrows on the board.
- Variable player powers — Players choose a side of the board dictating their Ether expertise (brown for titanium, red for blood, etc.).
- worker placement — Agents are placed onto location tiles where trades occur, and these agents have specific effects.
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- Hello and welcome to Watch It Played
- My name is Pep McDonald and in this video we're going to learn the two to four player game The World of Smog On Her Majesty's Service
- And that's everything you need to know to play The World of Smog On Her Majesty's Service
- If you have any questions at all don't hesitate to put them in the comments below and I'll gladly answer them as soon as I get a chance but until next time thanks for watching watching
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