Opera Magna Gameplay - Are You Worthy of Contributing to the Opera?
Transcript
Hey, I'm Alex from Board GameC.
I'm Professor Mac. Hey.
And today we are playing through Opera Magna from Ludus Magna Studios. Opera Magna is a fascinating game in which we already feel our brains are broken and we have not taken our first turn yet.
But we're not singing, are we, Alex?
Are we supposed to sing? Yeah. Why would you not sing? I don't understand. Uh, this is a prototype. All rules and components have to change. And we'll have a link to the crowdfunding campaign down below. And this is a sponsored playthrough. And we are going to go ahead and across nine turn nine rounds, I guess. Nine rounds. 27 turns.
Nine turns each.
Uh, nine turns each. 27 turns. Uh, no, wait. Yes, that sounds right. Nine turns each. Uh, three turns per round. Nine rounds. We are going to be uh slowly breaking our brain as we attempt to manipulate the markets. The basic idea of a of the of our turn is you're going to every round move your merchant from one place in order to go to any other market on the board where you don't have a merchant. So, for example, I can move over here and then activate uh that spot by taking a card from my hand in order to manipulate the markets. What you're doing is you're going to feed a card into the market that you moved your merchant to. Either what that market costs or what that market gives you. Because when you're done, you're going to pay the cost at the top and get the things on the bottom, which is going to help you manage your own board. That in turn is going to lead to you producing refined goods, which are going to go towards completing your buildings, which are going to go towards unlocking abilities and carts. When you unlock carts, you now have the opportunity to send further refined goods over to the opera magna up here, where you're going to get further abilities as well as points. That's a very very dialed down aspect of what's going on here. We will walk through our first turn very slowly so you can see it all. But the basic idea is on your turn, manipulate a market, get the goods, turn those goods into better goods, build buildings, supply the opera magna, rinse and repeat for nine turns until someone wins the game. There'll be a lot of points going things to go through. Maybe as we go through the game and you understand a bit more, we'll talk a bit more about what those points are. For right now, getting things and buying things and building things is good.
That's the basic starting.
Tribute to the opera.
We do. So we can sing more. Uh to that end, I'm going to go ahead and I'm I'm working my way just to tell you like a little bit what I'm doing here as I have these two buildings here. This requires stained glass. This requires wood product. So, it's in my best interest to get my hands on both of those. Uh that's not going to necessarily be the easiest. That would give me nothing there. That's going to bump up over there, which is not the worst. That was simply going to give me a deluxe refined good, which is also not the worst. So, maybe I go there to get wood product, which would help me build that building. I like that plan. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to place that would be okay, but I can't do anything with that. And that would be fine. So, I guess I'll do that. Okay. Okay. What I'm going to do is um I'm gonna break my brain. I'm
It's only the first turn. Only the first turn.
So, here's what I'm going to do. Oh, I already have a merchant there. I had my turn locked in and I can't even go there. I can't grow go there in the same way.
It's hard sometimes.
I was so close. I was so close.
Can't go. They have a merchant there.
Yep. You see, it's a good thing we cleared this up. It's a good thing we cleared this up now.
All right. So, instead, what I'm going to do now that we
so much you guys catch up to where
to where she is.
Uh, instead, what I'm going to do is the following. I'm going to move my merchant from this zone down to over here. Okay. I'm then going to tuck this card underneath this board, which is totally not what I wanted to do. I'm going to slide that card out. Slide this card in. Slide this card in. Slide that card in. This card goes up to the side. And then I'm going to pay the cost on the top, which means I'm going to pay these two goods. So, I'm going to lower my marker by one because I have a discount. Whenever you see this symbol, that's a discount. So, I'm going to lower my cost by one. I'm only going to pay one of those costs, and I'm going to get all the things on the bottom. That means I'm going to get one wood. I'm going to get one stained glass token, which I'm going to put directly into my top center above my board. This is where you store refined goods. And then I'm also going to get a further two wood, which is going to bump up my quality marker. Whenever you don't have enough space, you bump up your quality. You're very good at working with that wood. Uh, that's basically how that turn works.
Then, from there, I can contribute resources to the various things. Now I don't have any carts so I can't contribute up here. I do have a building that wants this refined good. So I can contribute this to that building. Once I get the third one I will have built that building. Uh if alternatively if you don't contribute it anywhere it will degrade to a basic resource of a matching type. When I'm done with that if I've built any buildings I will take a new building from display without paying for it but you know having a new building I can build. And then lastly I go over here because I don't have a new building I'm going to get. Lastly I go over here and I acquire one of these cards. Whichever one I think works for me. And especially because of the way my merchants are right now, I think this helps me build both of my buildings. So, it's in my best interest to have this as something I can tuck underneath somewhere and take that. Also, it cost me nothing because the leftmost column. These will all shift down and a new card from that stack will come out to the new zone. That was a lot. That was one turn.
There's a lot to think about as you go through this. Uh, and Mag, time to see how your brain breaks.
Okay. I have had a little bit longer to think about this, luckily. So,
so many abilities, so many things. We'll cover more. We'll do a full round. I'm going to pick up this young gentleman here.
Okay.
And I am unfortunately going to uh steal your move and go to that st. So I will play this down there.
Okay. So new card comes out. Cards slide down.
Manipulate.
Lucky me. I will be gaining a stained glass. I will gain two of this which is going to increase my thing.
Beautiful. Bump that quality up. Up.
And then I also get two of this one which will also bump it up. Okay. And then this one can go onto here for this building.
Perfect.
Um, and that's pretty much all I've got besides drawing my next card.
Okay. When AP's done with his turn, we'll walk you through a few more concepts now that a bit more might be making sense.
So, let's see. I think I could either do stand or stone. Neither of those are really They're all kind of the same.
Three of the bottom. So, like if you want to like
if you have want to bump your quality marker up, that's
I do like that. Um,
it's going to cost you two resources, though.
I will take the second card. This one? So, one resource of your choice has to be degraded. Give up any one.
I will pay my wood.
I want to pay nothing for the record. I want to hoard it, but I don't think the game works like that.
I know
it does not. But these slide down.
Yes, they slide down. New card comes out.
New card.
I wanted to take that other card, but because they're two different ones, I'm just like, I don't know if I have that in me to make you good use of that. Yeah,
I will say I would love to have joined you guys down there as well, but I can't because I'm already there. Part of me wants to move around the market.
Um I do think I'm going to use my ability unfortunately just to jump from the top level down to the bottom level.
Okay.
And I am going to add this to the Okay. So, this card is going to tuck in. We're going to slide that card out.
I'm going to slide these two down. And a new card comes in, which means you're getting a whole lot of stone.
I need a lot of stone.
Okay. So it goes up three. Going to go up one, two, three. And this will move in front of it. I will also get a wood
over here. A timber, not wood. And because of that points of wood, because I have that, I will also move this over here. I will also choose a card to take. And I will take I'm going to take the free card. Make sense?
Card slide down. If you're not sure, is good.
Uh, that is one round of play. We have eight more to go.
I got this. I got this.
Now, just to cover a few more things now that you're seeing what happens over here. There's a bunch of reasons you're doing all this. You're going to be moving up your certificates over here, the quality, so to speak, because first of all, it's worth points in the game, but also because contributing to Opera Magna requires you to have goods of that quality. Level one will require certificate one, certificate two, and certificate three. Again, this will give us abilities, but also give you points. So, you need to bump up your quality markers. As you build buildings, your buildings are going to go to either side of your board you choose, which will give you further discounts on this side or abilities on this side and also give you abilities from the board as well as uh these uh carts, which is how you're going to deliver to opera. So, that's a few more things that we're trying to war towards. Building buildings is important. We can't deliver things until we have at least one building completed. Uh that brings it back to my turn, and I need to figure out what I want to do because I haven't figured out any of that. Um
I do like the idea. The problem is
there's so many problems. There's so many problems. So many problems. I could just pay two wood. I have plenty of wood.
Was I supposed to play the two wood up in top
if you if it was cost? Yeah, absolutely. Oopsies. Absolutely. Yes. Yes. That's an important rule.
Good thing Good thing it was caught now. Um I have three. I have plenty of wood, so I could go ahead and just do a wood discount situation.
I don't know if I paid my two stone now that we're talking about it.
I think they got so excited.
Scandalous. We always thought we thought we get free resources. No, I knew I
absolutely scandalous. I say
we I was just so excited for her.
I was so focused. I know. I was so focused like I need to do this. I need to accomplish this.
I am going to go ahead and I guess I want to do this. I want to do everything. I want to do everything. We're not going to do everything. We'll do a little bit. So, I'm going to take this card and I'm going to tuck it up at the top. Okay. So, I'm going to go to this market. I'm going to move my merchant from here from the top part over here to go there. Slide cards along. And I'm going to the top stone, which means you get to see a new effect over here. That's going to cost three wood when I activate the market. So, I'm going to pay three wood. I don't have a discount. I did get a lot of wood last turn. Go down to three. I pay unlike these uh Neanderthalss. And I get the bottom over here where I'm going to get one refined wood, which will go at the top. As well as three marble, which will bump up some quality markers going 1 2 three and bump that up a little bit over there. If you ever run out of goods, you can pay with your certificates. That's not ideal. And if you ever run out of that, you can pay with points, which is less ideal. But now, when you go to the top zone of a market, while you may have increased the cost, you do get the ability. So, I'm going to get any one resource of my choice. And for this case, I'm going to take uh one of those. So, I'm going to take that over here. Although, maybe I should take the wood.
Yeah,
you know what? I will take the wood. I will both They're both phenomenal. This gives me a discount of more sand.
You get a basic resource, I thought.
Yeah, a basic. No, no, that's not basic. That's deluxe.
That one's deluxe. Up here, there's cards that give you basic resources.
Okay, so that's that ability. I took my thing. I built my buildings. I do not replenish a building. And I can take a card. Let me quickly take a look at the market and see what I want. I guess I do want I want the cards in higher positions. I don't want to pay for them though. Um I my gosh my gosh. I'm going to take this card over here and pay one for it. So I'm going to pay one sand, I guess. And I'm going to take this card. Uh and then the mark is going to shift down. And me, it is your turn.
Okay.
Oh man, this is insane.
I thought I knew
you technically only have nine actions, so to speak, but there more nine turns. I thought I knew what I wanted to do, but we all thought we knew my mind.
I I'm going to copy you.
I love it. I mean, to be fair, to be fair, players are creating markets.
So, I started I started on this spot, so I moved off of it just to come back.
Yeah. So, you are green. You're popping back.
Yeah. But hold on. Hold on. Cuz I could take anything, right? Yes,
you can.
What do I want to empty out? I don't know if that's the one I want to empty. I think I want to empty here cuz remind me this ability.
This over here. This one is you lower the good of one type. You lower any one good and bump that certificate marker up three which seems excellent. Honestly, it seems excellent.
I will go to here.
They all seem excellent.
And then tomato tomato. Do I actually have to change the market?
I don't believe it will ever matter
for the sake of you know
I think it will not change for easy guys but yeah
um
because once the markets it's only they don't come back or anyway there just the markets are cycling.
Uh
everything gets more expensive in life. Your engines build up but the game gets more expensive. I will pay my three wood. I have three wood. So, one, two, three.
I've depleted a lot of my resources. Um, I will gain one of anything that I want. So, I'm going to gain the wood, a special wood.
This is my
And then I will gain all of this. So, I'll gain another special wood.
Okay.
And then the three of those.
Do we have our first built building?
Oh, and this one was depleted. So, that's nice. One, two, three. Okay.
And you completed a building.
I've completed a building. So Magna has to choose which side to put that building on.
She doesn't. She already knew. She wants this side.
Okay. So, whenever you get a bell, you're going to get an additional bell. Uh, and now you've unlocked your first cart, which means one you can deliver one good to the opera per round.
Opera. Okay.
And I think that is everything I could do. Oh, besides now, I will get my card. Just
making sure I know all these abilities of the cards. But I think that's everything I got.
I'm pretty sure it's just to deliver a bell extra. I think at this point I will just take the free card. I don't see mine at all.
Okay,
thank you.
Move it down. It's going to be my turn
with this market. Um, we are going to move.
Man, [sighs] this is rough. But we are going to move from here to here. We're going to put this up here by sliding these over. This comes out. We're going to move this guy up from there to here. And we're going to go here like this. Now, this will cost other people one sand. I get it for free. Um, because of my ability, but this will cost me two stone. So, one, two. And because of that, I will get one sand up here. I will get two wood, which goes back up here. and two of the casting irons which move this over one
casting irons.
Yeah, I still have one of these
and this automatically translate into a simple sand.
Uh yes becomes a simp. Yes,
I have nowhere to spend it. And that is my turn.
Okay, I have some hard.
I'll draw this free one.
Oh, I don't want to draw the free one. That's the problem. We need more resources, but we will draw the free one, I guess.
Okay, cards come out. new one comes along and it's back to my turn. We are on turn three, round three, whatever you want to call it.
Holy cow.
Holy cow. Indeed. Um I think that unfortunately I'm going to do something I do not want to do, but I guess it's not the end of the world. As long as you're getting enough of a resource, things will bump up. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to because I'm going to depreciate a a quality metric. Uh I'm going to pay this over here. So I'm going to move a merchant. Uh where is a good question. I think I'm going to move from here to over here. Um and then or do I want to move from the same market? Maybe I want to move to the same market to a different market. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe this one. I don't love I want to do You know what? You know what? I don't know if I want to do this. I don't know if I want to do this. Give me a second. Give me a second here. I need to rethink how I'm approaching.
No, takes these back seats. Alex,
I am
I'm just kidding.
I know. I know. I think I am moving.
I I'm going to go over here. So, we're going to go over here. Okay. Uh and then I am going to tuck this under here. So, we're going to slide that along. We're going to slide these over here.
Oh,
yes. What's up?
I believe I was supposed to take a new building.
Take a new building. Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. Pause. We can pause. Take a new building.
I wanted the one that because I I produced this really well. Yeah. So, that Yeah.
Okay. That's a good one.
That was my plan.
All right. We're going to see a new building come out. The new building type is uh whenever you would take a basic metal, you upgrade it to the advanced metal from the bottom of market, which is pretty strong. Uh which actually I like because I might do that now. Anyways, I went over here. I tucked this card in. I'm going to pay three wood up top. So, I'm going to pay one, two, and then depreciate my wood quality by one, which is kind of a bummer, honestly. But, I am going to get a whole bunch of stuff. So, I'm going to get two stones. My stone quality is going to go up by two. Uh, I'm going to get one of this over here, and then I'm going to get two of these. Oh, why did I tuck that? That That's the wrong thing. I just moved that up there. I'm supposed to put this here, and then put these two over here. Uh, then I'm going to tuck this over here. I'm going to tuck this over here. And the interesting thing is, do I want to put this on the card side? I don't think I do. But the cart side is whenever I would take sand from a market, I think I want the sand discount. So, I'm going to tuck this on this side, which means a few things are going to happen. Whenever I get sand, I can go ahead and immediately convert two of it to a resource. And over there, uh, I can pay two less sand for things. So, I upgrade that building. Uh, this token I put on here already, and this token is going to unfortunately depreciate, uh, to wood. So, we're going to get wood back over there. Uh, then I get a new building, which this one's not bad. I don't mind it if it's good for wood, but like I want things I want my sand upgraded directly to those. But none of those are in play. That's actually not bad. You know what? We're going to go ahead and take this one. For better or for worse, we're going to take this one and see what happens.
Okay,
my turn.
Your turn. Uh, no. My card. Um, I don't see a strong incentive to get one of those or the other. Uh, I will take this one.
Okay.
Slide down.
Slide down. And your turn, AP.
Okay. My turn.
Your turn, Magg.
I was a little I was like, did the turn order change?
We skipped you.
Yeah.
This is only the first time, right?
It's so far.
So far that, you know, of
Did AP go?
AP went last time and then we uh just went back to, you know, skipping you.
Okay. Okay. I had
We're all very excited.
Yes. I'm I'm like hyperfocused on this. I have two plans in my heart and they're battling each other.
I have two wolves inside me.
I feel like
they both want tacos.
I feel like
tacos.
The question is I think I should just do the thing. So, I'm going to take this man here.
Okay.
Um the thing is so I can pay one of these as a resource. Yes, you can lower your quality. People no longer trust your your planks, but like
I'm going to sell some shady wood.
Yeah, that's what it is. It's selling some shady wood. It's not it's not the worst if you can uh justify it.
Well, I get really nice wood out of it, too.
That's the thing. It it it's a weird You're playing this weird racket where you're like, "Oh, nobody trusts me to deliver wood anymore. No one's shopping at Alfonso's wood shop anymore." But wait a second. Next turn, I have so much wood people want Alfonso again.
Okay, I'm going to It's
actually really funny. Oh, if I don't bottom, I put it in the bottom.
You have to put it in the bottom.
There's an entire The question is when you go to market, are you attempting to manipulate the supply or the demand? It depends on who you talk to. So, where you go kind of depends on who you talk to. Although the plus side is when you manipulate the the the supply, you do get a little extra ability. That's kind of fun.
Okay, I'm going to do this.
Okay.
Yeah. Try not to wreck things. I find if you do the other one first, it's a little easier.
Okay, that makes sense. Okay. So, I'm going to do that.
Holy cow.
I'm going to pay three wood, which is going to be degrading this. One, two, three.
I'm never shopping at Alphonsos again.
Well, but then I will gain three.
I'm back to shopping at Alphonsos again.
So, I'll go one, two, three. And this gets to go here.
There is a little It feels a little bit scandalous, honestly.
Yeah.
But you do make good chairs. So, there is that.
Two stones. So, one, two. Bump this up.
Bump it up. And I will get this. So I will get my glass here.
Yep.
And then I get a wood
that will degrade.
Well, not technically correct.
Ooh. Timing wise.
Oh,
it degrades before you get the turn. Yeah.
No, this isn't high enough. I was thinking I could put it here.
Oh, but you lowered.
But my thing is not high enough. No, it was never high enough. It was never high enough. It was never high enough. Okay. But I will still do all of that. So now I do get to place this one in. So I will place this one on my left side. So I now have a little discount.
Yeah. After AP takes his turn, we'll go through a bunch of endgame scoring so you understand a lot more things that are happening.
And then I would degrade that before choosing my next building. Correct.
Yes.
Or would I replace my building?
You would degrade first.
Okay. So, you're going to lose it.
This becomes a wood.
Yep.
Which will actually increase
bump up the quality even more.
Yeah. See, nothing happened. It was just a little weird sale.
Like, why is it
supply shortages?
Um, okay. So, now I'm going to take a thing and I want
Which building is the most compelling?
I want the wood one again.
This one?
Yes,
that I I wanted that one. I did want that one. Well, cuz I It's cool.
Uh, you're going to get that. And we're going to get a new building.
And the new building is uh whenever you build a yellow building, you're going to immediately put a stained glass in it right away.
A blue
probably that color. That sounds right.
Card.
Yep.
Um yes. Did I do everything else?
Everything else is done.
I degraded my thing.
I did this what I needed.
It's everything I needed.
All right. So, I will just take the first one.
I'll just be cool about it. Yeah.
Okay. We did enough shady stuff this round.
Okay, my darn. I like to always pick these up upside down.
Um, I am going to move from the bottom market to the top market over there. And all on the left, I'm going to be giving this over there.
Manipulation
is costing me two wood. So, I'm dropping down two wood. I will go up two stone.
Mhm.
And I will go up three wood.
It's a good market to be at.
And I will go up a timber over here. So, I complete this. as well as a stained glass as well as I can choose a specialty of type. But first I want to see what this will clear. So stone will become cheaper for me. Okay. Slightly cheaper. Slightly.
Can you remind me, Alex? This is if I get
whenever you get from the market uh you know a traditional bell or what metal whatever it is like over here when you got these two you would immediately get them to upgrade a metal.
Okay.
Immediately.
I will also
and every time.
Yeah.
Wow.
Full on.
I will take
I thought it was just one in the bottom. But also, I think as the game goes on, I think those goods become a little less frequent. Maybe. I'm not sure. I'm not sure yet.
I will take that over here. This one over here. I will also
The new building that came out is actually I don't know that building ability for my free
my free uh upgraded resource will go onto the stone over there.
Okay.
Actually, will not. We'll go over there on the planks. We're doing our free plank over there. And then I will draw I'll draw the first one.
You know what this this building is?
What is that building? Uh, whenever you draw a card to the market, you immediately get the goods on the top. [groaning]
I want it.
I do want it.
I want it all.
I want my precious.
To be fair, the one above it is whenever you put a card into this row, you you get the top. But this one's for the It's all good. It's all good. Now that AP is done, we're going to talk a few more things about points just so you understand how points work. The first thing is during the game, you can get points through a variety of ways. The easiest way to give an example is when you go to the top zone here, you get one point for every building on the right side of your market, which means Meg would benefit from a point. that would bump her up on the point track. That's great. You can also lose points by not having enough goods. So doing at the end of the game, your points are equal to the points you have on the point track so far. You're also going to get points for all the buildings you've built. So any buildings you have on the left, right, or side are going to be worth two, three, or four points depending on the level. And you're going to get bonus points for having more buildings in different places. The more you space this out, the more points you're going to get. You're going to get points for all the resources you sent to the opera magna over here, as well as a small area majority thing. Whoever has the most tokens there is going to get bonus points. And then you get points for the level of your attributes that you bumped up the quality of your goods. If people want to shop at Alphonso in the game still, Alphonso gets a few points for it. That's basically the majority of the points you're going to be getting. And it's all the various things we're working towards. And with that, I'm going to go ahead and take my next turn.
Sliding this down. Sliding that over. Sliding that over. And sliding that in over here. Uh, and that's going to allow me my merchant. I'm going to move my merchant from here to here. Uh, and we're going to get rid of that card. And then I'm going to take the following. I'll take two wood. One, two. I will take two uh metal castings. So, it's going to bump that up by one. One, two. And I'll take one of each of those, which means I'm going to get one of this as well as one of that. But for me, they're both the same. So, I'm going to get two of those over here. And I'm paying the costs of these, but I get a discount of one stone. I get discount of two sand. And so, I'm going to pay only one stand for one stone for all that, which I should have done first to be fair, but uh yes,
they're both the same. Or do you need a two to one to
I need a two to one ratio. Thank you. Uh so, I need to pay another st another thing which for I have. Yeah. Good catch though. Okay, so that's going to give me two of these up here. Basically,
our top rows give us a one to one ratio.
Once per turn, you can convert that amount of stuff into that 3:1, 2:1, and one to one. Uh over here, I now take these two and I can choose the question actually is which side do I want to do? Because I kind of want to get a cart to send things up there because I think that's important. This one's only two points. I think I'm going to go ahead and put both of these on here directly. That's going to complete those, which is going to allow me to tuck this over here on this side. And I have now unlocked a cart so I can send things up there which is so so cool. Lovely.
Uh that does mean that I need other things in the market though. I need to buy a new building, acquire a new building. I need to figure out which one is the right choice for me.
Um I think I think that I want I think I do want that cool card. This one over here. It's just too cool.
Cards are cool.
It's just too cool. It's a strong card. It's a cool. I want it. I wants it. Um and then I'm going to go ahead and take a card from the market over there. And that's where the one that I want is slightly trickier to figure out. It's the one that I want [singing] honey. Um I will take Man, I'll take the leftmost card. It is what it is. Okay, that's my turn.
Yeah, new building comes out.
Uh new building comes out. Yes, indeed.
The new building is going to be uh this one. I don't know. I will have to check that one.
And what's the one above it? The one above it is whenever you add a card to the top row, you get to take the thing on top. I think you take it twice. When you add the thing to top row, gain the immediate that goes list at the top of the newly added card. Add a card.
Oh, on the card. The card you add.
Um, and then this one over here is going to be uh when you gain a new trade card from the market board at the end of the turn, then you immediately gain sorry, you may take it without paying the cost. So, you don't pay the cost. You can take any card.
Wow.
That gives you flexibility.
That's crazy. Crazy. Your turn next.
Oh gosh. I had a plan and I actually am ruining it a tiny bit. Uh I think actually it's not the worst though. I think I'm still okay. All right. So I think I want to I definitely want to move someone. I think I'll take this guy.
Okay.
And we're going to go down bottom.
Sounds good.
All right. And Oh.
Oh no. I might I just have to choose if I want to be on top or bottom because I had something that I really liked. I think the bottom's okay. All right. The bottom's okay.
I agree.
All right. So, now I will slide these cards down. I don't know where you've been putting them. Um and then we'll put this one in. Okay. And now I'm going to pay, you know, my dues. So, I don't have to pay this one.
Yep. But I do have to pay one sand. And then I'm going to gain a stone. I will also gain a special kind of stone. And then I'm going to gain a wood and a bell. And when I gain a bell, I gain a second one. Correct.
Yes.
Okay.
As long as you're gaining it from the mark board, I believe.
Yes. So I'm going to put two of my bells here.
Like you don't get it from like conversion, for example.
Yeah. And I will put my wood here. So those are all the things I did for that.
Okay. fully
sounds
in its entirety.
Entirely.
Um, now I'm not sure which comes first, but I want to ship ship some goods. I'm going to send this over.
Ship some goods.
Red ro.
So, you're going to have to do it through the bottom column. The way it works is in order to get sent to up here, you need three things. You need to have a uh a cart where you can send a good, you need to have the column supported. So, you can't have a go to level two until someone even if somebody else has gone to level one. And then you need to have that quality good, which I believe you do.
I do. So, I'm going to go over here.
That's going to give you two. Is that of any raw good or
Yeah, any raw good.
So, you're going to put your token on it. You get two of any raw good. No other player will get that bonus. Other players can still go there because the tokens are still worth points in the game.
And I can split it. Correct.
Yes. Yes.
I'm going to do a wood as well as the casting.
Okay. Are you bumping up the other goods you can send up there?
Sorry.
Are you pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl planning for all the other goods you're going to send up there.
I I I am. I don't have
I bet you have the sounds. Yeah, sounds like a yes to me.
I want the best guns in town, even though they're a little shady.
Yeah, Alonso, no one No one forgets the great wood crash of
I don't know what was 10 minutes ago.
10 minutes ago.
What would you like?
I like the second one better, but I don't think it's worth paying for. So, I'll take the first one.
You slide down.
That's my thought process.
I mean, if you pay in fictional wood that the markets, does it matter?
My turn now. Okay. So, we are actually going to do a very similar move. We're going to move from my top guy over there all the way down over here. We are sliding this over. Okay. Um, and because of that, we don't pay any any expense because I get resources for free cuz I'm cool like that. I get one reduction on sand, one reduction on stone. But I will get a piece here. I will get two over here. So, I'm going to complete this building. I will go one up on the wood track up one on the wood track and I will have one on the bells to be dealt with in a second. This will clear and this is a level two card. So now that when it got stone it automatically upgrades to every time or just one time.
Uh whenever you take stone
whenever stone immediately goes up to that. Um, I will then buy a building for Oh, man. They're all so much fun. Um,
this is the problem we have.
Yeah, we have to
This is the problem we have.
We live hard lives, people.
Yeah. Um, so what's what's this bottom right over here?
Uh, whenever you take a good from the market, you don't pay the cost for any of them.
You just take any of the four goods. Period. Full stop. Would you like perfect control without the cost of
Oh, that is fun.
It's not even about whether that's good. It's about the feeling of
I know, but it's it's it's so powerful. Even though how many more turns do we have?
Uh, not enough.
Not enough turns. Um,
I haven't done the math. I don't actually know.
Yeah, I I think we will take something that actually offers that ability. So, we'll take something that does sand. So, we'll take that one.
Okay. Which one?
Yeah, the one that No, the one you don't have to pay anything.
Yep.
Okay. Cool. Cool. New card comes out of the market. And the new card is Five points. Straight up. Five points in case you want it. Five points.
This goes there. I will also take the first card over here.
Let's slide mark down while I think through everything I wanted to do.
But now I have the ability to go to market. So, let's see. Can I pay something to go up on top? Because I can go to market now.
Uh, what do you mean?
I have a barrel of a
Do you have a good
Well, I I had a bell. I didn't I just put it down over there.
So, if you just place it down, in theory, you can put it to the market.
Where can I go?
Do you have the quality?
What quality? I do not have quality. I want quality.
I just went over the list of things you have to do to contribute to the opera.
It's got to be good.
It's got to be good.
It's got to be good.
Okay. Um I need to think through what I'm doing over there because I could do that. I can't do that. But I want that. That'll give me that and that which is probably enough to do that, I think. Gosh, I think I think this is going to work. I'm just going to do it. We'll find out. We'll find out. All right. I'm going to move from over here to over here. Okay. and we're going to take this out of the market and we're going to slide things down and we're going to slide this over here. So now I'm going to do a few things. I'm going to pay one stone, no sand, and one wood because of my discounts. So I pay one wood and one stone. Uh these can do over there. Then I'm going to take the bottom things. So I'm going to go up two stone right back over there. I'm going to gain a uh stained glass. I'm going to gain a wood. And I'm going to gain three wood going one, two, three, which is going to bump my wood up exactly one quality, which is exactly what I was hoping would happen because then I'm going to contribute this wood using my one cart. I'm going to contribute to this spot over here, which is going to allow me to move two markers over to the right, which I'll do in a second. But I'm going to contribute this over here and decide where that's going first. I think it just makes sense to put it over here, honestly. But maybe not. I have do I have red buildings? Am I building red buildings? Maybe I just go for discounts and stone and really lean into that, honestly. So maybe I'll do that. So I'm going to take this and I'm going to put a further another double discount over here. So we're not even getting a new ability. We're just getting cheaper even more uh as far as that goes. That goes over here. So these are going to go back to my supply. And now I need to decide um which two markers I'm moving to the right based on how I think I'm trying to play this game. Uh I don't know honestly. That
one's fine. That one's fine. Let's go ahead and I guess I will move this marker one to the right. That'll give me one control there. And I guess I may as well move this one over as well because this give me some flexibility depending how things go. Okay, that is my turn as far as those abilities. I choose a new card for the market. Uh which means I will get I will get different things. I already have that. I already have that. That one's up there. Five points on its own just does sound kind of compelling. um combined with my discount on that or just four resources. You know what? We'll take No, I need to I I'm gonna take this one. Okay, great. I've taken a card. Uh and then it's going to be your turn. Um Meg.
Okay.
No, I need to buy a card. I will take this one. Okay. Your turn. I don't want that one. I do. Okay, cool. These come down. You know what? [snorts] This life is rough. I'll take that one. Okay, cool. Uh, new card comes out and it's your turn, Meg.
Okay,
I think we have four turns left if I'm not mistaken.
If you remind me the order, do you complete the buildings first or contribute to the opera first?
Yeah, they happen simultaneously. Same basic structure.
So, you can choose the order,
I believe. So, I unlock level two
to ship to the second row.
That's a good question. The second row doesn't need level two. The question is whether you can ship two goods per turn. Oh,
you can ship to level two already, but you just if you want to ship two goods. I believe you can do it in any order, but if anything, I think the buildings happen first anyway. It's in the same phase. There's four phases to a turn.
Okay, this is going to break my brain.
That is correct.
Oh man, it truly is.
But look how much we can do. We're only halfway through the game and our engine's already halfway developed. Oh. Oh, I forgot. I I apologize. Um, I went over here, which means I get a good of my choice, which I guess I should, for simplicity sake, I should take the the good I already had. I'm going to take this and put it over here.
That makes the most sense.
Okay.
Okay.
Um, now he can go up.
Yes.
Okay. I think that is what I'm going to do, I think. No, I'll take this guy.
Okay,
I'm going to put him up there.
Great.
And I will use this card
into this market.
Uh, no, sorry, the top. Okay, so this was something. Wow, the top market hasn't changed since the beginning of the game.
I know. I know. I wanted to take advantage of it.
No one's used that market. It's a very cheap market. No one's gone there, which is a surprisingly good ability, too.
All right, so for me, that's one sand and one stone cuz I have a stone discount of one. And then I'm going to I just paid for it. Now I have the ability. I am going to spend one of these to go. One, two, three.
Okay.
And then actually I regret that. One, two, three. I'm going to do wood. One, two, three.
All seems fair.
Okay, now I'm going to take all the bottom stuff. So I get one regular wood and then I will get two good wood. the best way.
I get two of this.
Okay.
And then I also get a stone. Okay. So now the question is the order of my events because I think it was all for not. I think I messed up.
Heresy [sighs]
kind of stinks but I think there's no way around it. I think I did mess up a little bit. All right. So, I will move both of these to this building here.
Okay.
Um, which was the special one.
This is my special one.
Special one. And then I will place this side.
Yep.
Um, right here.
Unlocks a second spot as well as more points.
As well as now when you get that resource, you can convert straight to uh deluxe spells.
Yeah. And then I'm going to
Are you hitting two buildings this round?
No, I can't because
why not?
Oh, I can. There's something else that I was concerned about, but it's fine. All right. So, I'm going to place this here.
Okay.
Uh, which is I get to activate a yellow. Correct.
You have to activate an ability of one of a place where your merchant is.
Okay.
So, one of these Well, you're not there. So, these two abilities.
Oh, I can't do that one.
Yes.
Well, that's okay.
You can get two points.
No, I'm going to do this.
Okay. So, you lower a resource and you go up three.
I'll discard this and go one, two, three.
Beautiful.
Perfect.
All right.
Now, I'm going to place this one here
because you have level two.
Because I have level two.
And that ability is to build a building for free.
Yeah. Oh, that's I see the problem.
But I couldn't.
Yeah.
And I didn't want to leave it. I guess I'm not
denying somebody else that for inefficient. It makes sense.
I don't know. Um and remember this, Alex,
whenever you build a uh blue building, a green building, you immediately put the first good out for free.
Whenever I take a green building. Oh gosh.
Cuz I do like discounts.
Discounts are amazing.
But there's actually not a lot of wood out right now at all. So I'm going to
You can be the change myself into thinking that this will be a good idea. Are there a green building? Actually, I should see if there's a green building I want. That one is a green one.
Yeah, the center panel. So, there's uh yeah, one green over here.
I'll probably end up taking the green one.
Okay.
All right. So, I did all that and then my only final thing is that this thing can't go anywhere. So, it's going to go over to here.
All right. And you get buildings. Which building would you like first?
I will take the green expensive one.
And then I immediately get a thing on it.
And we get this one. And this one is three points for every blue building.
Okay. I want a two. And I want I mean I guess it's sand or sand, but I make the yellow. So I'll take the top the blue. Yeah. Thank you.
And the new building is uh whenever you build a red building, you right away put the first resource on.
And I will take the Should I double check? I'll take the free card. Actually, how much? Yeah, I'll take the first one.
I think you're taking the free one.
Well, because I wanted the like most expensive one, which is silly. So,
and AP, your turn.
Um, so what's the top row of the middle?
The top row. Yeah, this going to be for every green building is three points.
Every green building is three points. And I have one, two, three green buildings.
Uh, if you look at the bottom left corner, it shows the color.
Oh, one green building. One green building.
Yeah.
So, and
bottom actually bottom.
What's the one that What's the one that moves it all the way to the end where your marker is?
Uh, this one over here.
Oh, that one.
Uh, I think it's this top one.
No, that one lets you That one. What does that one do again? I have to look that one up again. Okay. You mean you mean advancing distillary markers? That's this one over there.
And what's And what's the coloring do I need in order to be able to build a building?
Uh, that one's points for buildings on the left side of your board. That's
So, what's the one I need in order to go to the top location? Green. You need a a deluxified uh wood, a level three wood all the way. The highest quality wood.
The wood all the way over here.
Wood that Alfonso is almost known for despite crashing the market in the great wood market crash.
Okay. So, what we're going to do because that changes everything.
Everything. Um, we are going to go with this by going from this location to the top over there.
So, you go bottom to top.
No, no, no.
Top to top.
Top to top.
Okay.
This is sliding over.
And you have a new market.
And so, what I will do, I first need to pay for this. I get one and one for free. So, but I still have to pay one more stone. I have to pay two of the sand. And then I will get automatically two of these will transform into these because my ability. Okay,
I will take my free one over here to clear this one up. I will also take a wood over here and a thing over here. And three wood will be pushed up. So I'll go one, two, three.
All sounds great to me.
Um, unfortunately we want to go a little bit higher with that, but we couldn't. But this will actually we could. I forgot that's why I was doing it. This is going to go onto the right hand side. Okay.
And because of that, I get to move six over. So, I'm going to move three. One, two. Now, this is all over. And I have another four. So, I will go one, two. Wait, no, that's not how it works because this just gets resources. One, two, three, then one, two. What do you Why Why' you do five?
I get six, right?
Six. Wait, did you just bump up your quality markers?
Yeah, but No, you're right. I'm sorry. This goes back. Where was this? This was here.
I do not know, unfortunately.
Okay. Um, this was already here. That's why I pushed it up. This was here. That's why I pushed it up.
That's why I did it. So, one, two, then I might as well do this one. So, I did
I I The problem is I don't two,
three, four. I might as well do three, four, three, four. And this will go one and one five six. And that will be that turn. Um I will this will go over here on this right hand side. So I can do two deliveries now. Um oh because I was going to do that to wood. What what resource do I need? Wood up there.
Um up there
timber or wood?
You need timber? Yeah.
So I'm going to use this timber.
Okay.
Go over there. You're going to get three points for every one of your green buildings at the end of the game.
Okay. And this will be sand. And sand will just go over here because I can't do anything with sand.
That's my turn.
You get to draw a card and a building.
Okay. So, I will start off with a building. Well, any of them gave me sand actually.
Uh I do not believe this one gave you instantaneous sand. Or so can this over here.
Mean I had this over here.
No,
none of them are resources that I pay.
What do you mean by that? You do know you can't use resources. They degrade before you get the buildings.
Oh, really? Yes.
I don't know if I did that.
It's good to know.
Um I will take I will take the top.
Actually, I'll take something in the middle. Now, at this point,
what's what do these say on the bottom over here?
This one? Yeah, this one's going to be the right ability.
Yeah,
that one's going to be two points. If your marker hit that point,
if your wood quality marker hit level one, you get two points.
Sure, I'll take that one.
Okay, new comes out. This one is uh instantaneous resources. And then you draw a market card.
I will draw a market card. I will take I will take Oh, I don't want this one. But I This cost me how many random resources. I do have the economy for it right now. I think I should take that.
Your market's all the way up to the top. Once once you get things to the top, the resources on the own are not worth points,
right? So like
I'm going to do that for two resources. I'm going to spend Oh, this is interesting. I could spend nine of these. Yes,
I can go all the way.
But once per turn, you can do it.
Oh, so I guess I'll do one, two, three. One, two, three. In order to get another one over here.
Yep.
But I still take this one and go one, two.
Okay. Card mark comes down and that mark is depleted over there, which means we're going to be drawing from the level C cards, which you'll see how that works shortly. Uh, to my turn, I will go ahead and I will move from here to over here, taking this card out. Uh, which is actually slightly annoying, but it is what it is. It's fine. It's fine. We're going to put this down over here, which means I'm paying one wood and two stone. I will pay the wood happily. I'll pay one stone because I have a discount of actually I'll pay no stone because I just discount three stone even. Okay. Um and then I will get the things on the bottom. So I'm going to I went to the top here, which means I get to do that as well. So I'm going things on the bottom. I'm going to gain one marker over here. I'm going to gain one. One over here, one over here, one over here, and then one wood as well. Uh, from those, I will take this. Let me just make sure I can do those correctly. That one over there is not bad. Um, I think I'm going to put these two over here to finish this card because I want to finish that card. Uh, then this up here, I guess. Did I not do this one? I didn't do this one. Okay. So, I'm going to do this one over here on this card. And this one I'll send as my delivery uh to here. Put on top of Mag's marker. She's the only one with the ability though. Uh and then I will over here get um I will get something. What am I doing? Oh, I'm going to build a building. So, I'm going to build this building. Completed. I'm going to put on this side. And now whenever I get stained glass, I will get an extra stained glass. Uh and then at the end of my turn, I got a new building. I will take this one over here and put a new one out. And that new one
is going to be uh whenever you Oh, immediately you can move one of your markers, quality markers, four over. And then I'll take a new card. And for my new card, I will take the leftmost marker once again.
Holy cow.
And this time we're going to see for the first time a card coming from our CEX. So you can take from there. And we have four resources.
The market, listen, you get the discounts, but everything's more expensive. When no one's paying, prices go up.
Yeah.
Honestly, that's a real take on capitalism. your neck.
Okay, I got to think about this for a second because lots of things have changed. Lots of things have changed.
Things are changing. The times they are changing. The
doesn't work anymore.
The offer magna.
Um I just want to do a lot. I want to do everything. [sighs]
The problem is is I don't think I can do exactly everything. Um, so I'm going to Oh, I guess I don't want to do that though. I am going to go
from here to here.
Okay.
And
oh, I apologize. I forgot to pay a good to go up three on the quality markers, which I meant to do. You can keep going. I just forgot you that ability.
Okay, I will put this over there. No, sorry. That's going in this room.
Oh, it was this one.
Yes, this one's the bad one.
It was bad.
All right, so I will pay a sand and a stone. Oh, I don't have any sand. It's getting a little dangerous. So, I think I need to fix that somehow. Okay. So, I'll pay those two. Um, and I went to the bottom, right? Yes. So, I am going to gain a sand and a glass. Sand and a glass. I will also gain Oh, the wood. And then for me, the paint buckets can be the gold ones now.
And here's my question, Alex. If I have a gold one, I don't get an extra though. I don't believe so. That's a good question
because it's not that simple.
Yeah, I don't believe so.
Intuitively, I would say no. Um, but so I get one, two, three, four, and I have to decide what I want them to be.
I would say you do actually. It's it's a it's one of those things. It says the warning of this says instead of getting that, you get that. And that says you get that. So like
it might not be the intent, but strict warning is fine.
That's five, but they could be the other one for me. And I guess they'll degrade anyway.
But so that would be five. So, I'm going to take three to here. Um, and um, the other two I will take is this. Okay, so that's all of that. Um, and then I think unfortunately like a lot of things are just not doing what I want. So, um, I'm going to degrade this.
Okay.
And I don't know. Should I? I think so.
You degraded wood instead of putting it on the card.
Was that wood or something else?
Oh, you're right. Why wouldn't I put it on my card?
But then take the wood back.
Yeah. Um, but no, I think I need to do that. I don't know. I just
No, no. I think I should do that.
Okay.
I I was just thinking if I could get glass somehow, be able to get this higher, but I can't. So, I'm going to do this. And I'm going to take
one of each other resource. That's not wood.
Oh, it's one of each.
Yeah.
Well, I can't really spawn them, but that's okay.
You still deny someone else the ability.
Yeah. If only I had somehow done that. I guess these could have been paint for me. So I will I mean I guess it doesn't matter because they're going to degrade. But so I'll put this one here and then this will degrade and these two will degrade which actually bump me up one. But I did complete this guy over here.
So I'm going to put this over here. This is a two.
Um is it a two? Yes, it has two. And then finally I pick my two cards. Correct.
Yes. Okay. So, I'm going to take
one card.
Well, there and then there.
Yes.
Um, I'm going to take I want something I can like not afford but that I'm good at. I guess maybe I'll do a little one for fun really quickly. So, let's take this one. Um, and then
and Mark car the market.
I'll take the cheapest one. Actually, sorry. Is the three yellow one around now? Oh no, that got taken. So yeah, I'll take that one.
AP. Oh man,
so many choices. Okay,
we need to think what we want to do here because these are all less than ideal for me,
Brian.
Yes, they are all less than ideal for me. Brian, uh, I can't do anything with that because I can't do that, which is a little bit annoying. Um, I guess we have to do that. But I can't. So, we're going to go over there and do that. All right. We're gonna We're gonna go up here.
Okay. We're not going to go up there. We're going to go over here. We don't want that one. We do want that one. We'll take that guy over there and move him over here. We're going to slide. Where are we on stone? We're good on stone. We can do stone. I'm going to do a stone.
So, it's three stone and a wood.
Yeah. I only have to pay three stone. No, two stone. So, one, two,
and a wood.
And a wood. And I will get this over here. This over here. This will go here. And it looks like another one over here. And one wood goes up. Um, I will spend a three for one on these. So, one, two, three. I will complete this card. Okay, beautiful.
And now this will give me
a discount on paint.
On paint. Um, I will also
also letting you convert stone to marble at a one ratio once per turn,
right? Which I already had that ability prior, which is less important to me. Um, but we will take something that gives me a lot of stone. Um, I guess we'll take the bottom one over there.
This one?
Yeah.
Okay,
we'll do that over here. Um, can I go anywhere on that thing? I went up here, correct?
Yes.
So, I want to pay a resource of choice. Oh, yes. I'll pay a wood.
And I move this up three.
No, you pay the resource that you are converting.
That I'm converting. So, we do a sand.
And you go up three. One, two, three. And on level two, I need a sand. I need a a sand thing to do one of those. I don't have any sand available to those. So instead, we're just going to hold off on that because we can't do anything else. But we will turn
you could send to a lower level just to get the points.
How?
Because you you're allowed to be
you don't get the ability.
You don't get the ability.
Oh, so I'll do that.
Yeah.
So which ones are available?
Well, you have you have this and this in theory if you want.
Let's do both of those.
Okay, great. And then the stone. And then the wood degrades.
Wood degrades. And you get a card.
And I get a card. And then you can see I probably should have checked if it's green or not because green gives me points in game. Um I will take any of these. Don't really This one's nice. And then the market reveals and shows us that there's three rounds left till the end game. What?
That's the little clock on those cards. Uh on my turn, I had a plan. I had a plan. I'm going to go I think make my plan still make sense. Fine. Yep. We're good to go. Okay. I am going to move my merchant from somewhere to somewhere. Uh the somewhere part is where I haven't fully defined. I guess it does make a little bit sense to go there. So, I'm going to go down over here. Um can I afford to do this? I guess so. Yeah. I'm going to go down here. I'm going to tuck this down here. So, this car is going to slide along. That's going to slide along. Slide along and slide along. Um then because of that, I'm going to pay none of that because I have discounts on all those. Um and I'm going to get all of the things in the bottom. So, I'm going to get one sand. I'm going to get three stained glass windows, which will become four. So, I'm going to get four full stained glass windows, which is going to complete this card.
Nice.
This card is going to go over here, gives me a second cart. Uh, then I'll get two of this, which is going to bump up that quality marker by one,
as well as a um wood. And the wood I can theoretically send to the market. I have level two on wood.
So, I could go to exactly where Meg went, which I don't love, but there's nowhere better to go. So, we will go up here. Now that as long as it's supported, you don't have to have you have to have someone supporting it even if it's not you. Uh so I am now on there. Uh and then that brings me to the end round where I will take I believe I will take this card over here adding to my board which means a new level three card will come out. Uh that's going to be whenever you tuck a card underneath the market you get the good shown. Um and then I'll take a card from here and that's why you need to be particular particular. Um, I think I will take this card, paying one for it, and I will pay one in stone, I guess, because I get lots of stone discounts. Um, and then this will come along over here, and a new card will come out. And it says, "Your turn, Mag."
Okay. Holy cow.
Where did you play a card?
I played a card to over here.
Oh, wow. That's a lot of glass.
There's a lot of glass there.
That is glassy.
It's a glass market.
Um,
join us in the glass market.
Remind me what this top one does. Uh the very top one is means you move you get points at the end of the game. Two points I believe for every building on your left hand side.
On the left hand side.
Yes.
Okay. To the left. To the left.
Place all your buildings to the left. To the left.
Okay. I am going.
So you look at the building count. Like we're kind of distributed. Me has five. I have five. You have four. We're doing fine on building cars. Me's dominating up there. The abilities I'm building is going to be interesting. I am curious. I think I think she's doing well. I'm not sure how well. Sh. Shut up.
I'm not scared.
I'm not scared in the slightest.
So, I'll do the great market crash with Alfonso's carpentry shop.
All right. If I want to play a card to the B. If I want to play a card to the bottom, I have to go to the bottom.
Yes.
And if I do that, I don't get Okay. Because Oh, yeah. That's important. Okay. It's important. All right. I am going to yoink. That sounds very
whom I do have two over there.
Yeah,
but this is a nice place to be.
They're all nice neighborhoods to be frank.
Let's take this one. We'll go down here. We're going to slide this one in. Oh, you know what? I do. I Because I have that. I would rather do this one. That's all.
Are these worth points in game?
I wasn't sure which one. This one.
All right. So, this is the card that came out. Now, I have to pay so much. Um, oh, I do have this discount. Oh my gosh, I have such discounts. I have to pay one stone, one sand.
That's like not nearly as much as you expect.
I know. I expected a lot more. I forgot I just got Well, I just built it's a new building for me.
Um, so now I paid all that. I get all of this. So I get two glass, one of these, three of these, one, two, three. And then I get the paints. But for me, those can be I keep calling them paint. The metal. Uh, but for me, those can be this. So I will get three of those. One, two, three. Okay. So with those three, I'm so excited about this. I'm going to place this one up here. Take this. Wait, could I do that?
Do you have the right quality?
Oh, yes, because No, so it's my choice of Oh,
you don't have all three.
I did have to have played the other card. No, I did have to have played this card. That's all.
I played this one originally and I thought the math worked out for me, but it doesn't because
cuz you need to bump it up.
This is three. So, I'll take two of them. And my final one, my third one will I'll exchange so I get two of them.
Um, even though that doesn't really matter cuz I can't spend the ball now, but I will put this up here for me.
We'll get points. Um, and then
I believe you can take those points right away because those are points. So, you're going to get uh four points for your buildings on the left.
Oh,
actually, let me double check. It's end game. It might be end game
cuz the buildings one.
The what?
The buildings ones are correct.
The I'm going to say yes, but I don't know.
I'm going to put it's immediately
over here.
Actually, they're all immediately. Um, is that true? Yep. They're all immediately.
So, then that one did.
We got points.
Isn't this one also points?
Oh, yes. You get points that right away.
Oh. Uh, see two.
Me's gonna get
this will degrade, but I have literally nowhere to even put it, which is bump four points, and you're going to go up six.
And then this will also degrade on me.
So, she's at nine and I'm at 11.
Yeah, I didn't realize it either. Um, would I have waited to do it? Maybe. I hear the difference. I guess I like it.
Um, all right. So, I did all of that,
but wait too long.
I know. No, how you complete on your board. Yeah, but I'm saying if somebody else gets there first, you get no points.
You're right.
And then can I do this twice or No,
once. Once.
I can only do the two for one.
The conversions are once per turn.
I think I will do that.
Okay.
One, two, make this.
Beautiful.
That was the only one I didn't get.
And you're done.
Um, yes.
Take a card.
I'll just take the cheapest. Actually, the next one's really nice, so I'll take that.
Then move a card down. We are running out of time peoples.
Yeah, we're running out of time is scary. Okay, my turn. Um, I am going to So, how many more turns do I have?
So, you have this turn and two more, I believe. So, that's going to finish. That's going to finish. Yeah, two more.
One, two. I think
the cathedral is almost the Opra Magna is almost done.
Okay, so we're going to go here,
but no one's working left.
We're going here to here. We're sliding this down over here. So, can I say my my starting discount is the this one. It has never been a top cost. It's never been one.
You can control for that.
I've never had the ability to make it a top cost.
You could buy for the market.
So, we get one of these.
I guess there is one right now.
There's one literally right now.
One of these.
Maybe you guys
one of these and two of these. That's what I get from down here. I have to pay one stone by the way on top because of my discount. Um, and then what I'm going to do is we have to figure out what we can afford here. I think we're just going to complete these two over here. And we're going to move this down over here to the right hand side. And now I get immediately two resources of choice, which I think I will do in this situation. I want to [sighs] They're all important.
They're all important, right?
Okay. We're move up sand in the interm. I think we'll go one sand. We go. Here we go. One, two, three. No, you need to go put the sand back. We're going to go one, two over here. Goes one, two, three. Now I can do that over there. Um, then I also have these over here. I have two of these. I can complete this or I'm going to actually go up on top to the market there twice.
Okay.
Two deliveries on on the window panes.
On the window panes, which ones?
Um the only two I can afford is the bottom.
Looks like it.
Yeah.
So this one over here.
Two points.
Okay. That's two points. And then where the second one going?
Top left.
There. Yeah. So it's going to count as two extra tokens there at the end of the game.
Two points over here on two points. Yep. So one, two. I still have a bell. Um, I guess a bell doesn't do anything for me. Can I go anywhere with a bell?
I don't think so.
There's anywhere on the board there. That's a bell. I can go up.
Oh, yeah. If they're delivery, then yeah,
I'll go with a bell, which green is on.
Mhm.
One, I guess, gives me
uh you probably want Oh, yeah, you can go up this one.
They're worth It's worth it more points cuz higher quality good.
Yeah, that's a good choice. And then the wood I don't think I can use for anything. And it will just turn into a wood down here. And because of that, I build a building. Let's see. We will take a stone base building. What does that one do in the top right?
This one? Yeah.
Uh, right away move a marker four over.
Any marker or split?
Uh, I would assume you can split, but I have to double check. If you want that,
I will take that one.
Okay.
And I will take this over here
cuz it's four times. And usually that indicator is splitting. move a thing of.
Yes.
Okay, that's clock ticking down. We have two more full turns each. Uh for my turn, I am going to move this person over here. I'm going to adjust the cost of this market. So, I'm going to move this down, move this down, and move this in. Um then I'm going to pay three wood, which I don't love doing. One, two, three, and no stone because I have a stone discount. I'm going to get the following. I'm going to get this over here. I'm going to get this. I'm going to get this, which I'll put directly over here. And I'm going to get another uh bell. No, no, another wood over here. And then one uh traditional wood over here. Uh so I'm going to get over there. None of these things help me, unfortunately. I have that to convert sand, but I don't want to do that. Uh so now I get to go ahead and spend these thingies. Um I can send some things. The wood one I already have. Level two wood.
I do have, but I already have. So I'm going to degrade. And then this over here, I do have the ability to level one and two. Level two. Oh. Oh, I can do that one. I can do this one. This one is What is this one? I get to move a marker directly to where the quality indicator is. So, that's not bad if I want a ton of wood. Or do I want a lot of sand because I can convert sand into stained glass. Give me a second. Because I convert a stand into a stained glass. I don't know if it makes a difference for me. I will wood buys me flexibility. This is my second last turn, right?
Mhm.
I think I will move my my sand up by by three by two, which is a little inefficient, but it's fine. Okay, your turn. Oh, then at the end of the turn, I don't have any buildings. I can take a card. I will go ahead and take this card. Your turn, Meg.
Okay,
second last turn.
I'm going to move him down. And
sorry, I have to do this. I do this pay one thingy and I go up one two three
which oh actually that would have happened before I did that.
So instead this would actually be over here which that's much better.
Okay.
Uh do you want to slide these in for me?
Yes. Oh and these degrade. So I got two more wood. There's nothing I can do with these.
And that's going to cost me one stone and three wood. And then I will gain um a stone and two gold. One wood. Another wood.
Okay.
I don't know why I said stone. This. And then I will do this. Sorry. you get to a weird point in the game, you get so much of a refined resource that you just don't need it.
Um, all right. So, I have all of that. Now, let's see where I can still go. My gloves, I think, is never going to be great. So, I can I can do up to three deliveries. So, I can do here. Although, I can do this. I think that's more important. So, I'm going to put my two wood on my card. Um, I am going to do a two for one to complete this card as well. I ran out of tokens, but I'm going to complete this card. I assume that's okay
that your tokens aren't. I mean, because you just have a lot of tokens there right now that are currently in progress. Yeah.
Um, this is going to degrade anyway, so I'll just do that.
Yep. To put two resources.
Um, so I'm doing these and then I have this to spend. [snorts] So I think I've done all the yellows, though. That's not great. Like
I'm kind of stuck in a I'm making too much of one thing. Too much of a good thing cuz this will go up by one.
Nobody cares about the case spells. They want wood back.
Um
poor
Alonso. So actually my glass was here and I had a glass. If I complete this, I could butt myself up to one to place a glass out.
Why? I understand.
This gives you plus two.
Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure.
Okay. So, instead of degrading it, which I did do to get myself the token back,
I'll complete this.
Okay.
So, this should be here.
Um, I'm going to put this I guess.
Well, you need to put if you're doing that.
Yeah. So, I'll do that to bump this up. One, two. One, two. And then now I have this available here.
And I also finished this building. which I really want over here.
Okay.
Um, so that's everything except I need buildings and then other stuff.
Oh wow, you have so much of that. Wow, you leaned heavy.
Yeah, I really did. I'm like making too much of a good thing.
These are your last two buildings you're ever going to get.
Um, I'll take the Will it refill after I take one?
Yes.
Okay. So, I'll take the one that cost that. Exactly.
Okay. It's almost like you have a lot of that.
And then I'll see what comes out. And I
12 points for a set of buildings. This looks like
um
Oh, no. One point per side of buildings.
I'll take this one.
Okay.
Your turn, AP. Oh, wait. Maggie, you want a card?
Yeah. I'll just take the cheapest one.
Oh man. Okay. Okay. We got this. We do have this. We know we have this.
We are going.
That was a little crazy.
We're going to go. We're going to figure this out cuz there's I got one more chance at this. Is
this a choice or is it everything? because it's a four level four card.
Okay, we're going to go
is because that's one for one. It's got to be everything plus one maybe.
Don't know.
It is.
When sending refined stopper, all certificates are plus one.
Oh,
that's interesting.
So, it's when sending though. I wouldn't adjust it.
Correct.
I see. That's interesting.
Last turn. Well, I forgot my one for one trade, which I should have done per round, but we're going to do it this round. We're going to do this because it's fine. It won't make a difference. End game the same way.
I think we're going to go up here. Going to slide this over. And because I did that, I get two of these, two of these, one of these, one of these, and two of these. We're going to immediately do a one for one exchange of Well, actually, we might wait on that. No, we're not going to do one for one exchange. We're going to do I'm going to do a one for one exchange. Put this here. I'm going to take these two. Take these two. What? What's available over there?
Four deliveries. Or do you still You saw You don't even have three.
Oh, I haven't been doing it. I've only done two.
You only have two carts. It's the carts, not the cars. What was your question?
Um, nothing. I was just trying to figure out which which way I wanted to do this. Um, I think I'll put both of these over here because this is still only on level one. There's no level one, which I'm not on over there.
I can't I can handle his turn or
what do you want?
Is there is there a wood and a bell that I'm not on already?
Um there's a bell on right here.
Okay, that makes sense to go on.
Um there's a bell over here that's worth more points.
Yeah, I might as well do that one.
Yep. Okay,
the bell for more points.
You have the quality good.
I do have the quality good. And the wood, is there a wood I'm not on?
Uh the wood you're not on is the highest wood is going to be there. You're on it. the next highest wood you're not on over there.
Okay. Where's that one? Can I afford it?
Yep.
Nice. Okay. And then in that case, I think I will do I can do one more of these because I have a third shipment. Is there a glass, which is a level
two or lower?
Yeah.
You're on this one and you are on that one. So now
And they're on all of them. Okay. So then I might as well complete this card. So I'm going to complete this card. This gives me endame points, right?
Yep. Um or what's a level two over there that I can possibly complete before the end of the next round? Um possibly complete that before the end of next round. Okay, so we're going to do this on the right hand side. Oh, if I do this right hand side over here, do I get this for the now? Four points.
No. What? Why?
Because I just
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um no, you get that for four that face. You got the three points.
So three points. So, I get three points. So, I'm at 16. Um, and that is my turn.
Okay.
Wait, I need to grab a card. I will I also need to build a card. So, I will grab a level two. The one that builds a lot of stone in like the middle, the one that gives me stone. Yeah.
And I will take over here for extra resources. This cost me two extra resources.
Sure. Um, yeah, we'll take this one for two extra resources. We'll go I guess we don't care if it's wood. Go one, two. Take this for two.
Your card comes out. And we are officially in the last round.
Wait, why do I have so many cards in my hand?
You should not have so many cards in your hand. I don't know what you did.
Discarded.
Did you just Did you just grab a card?
Oh, no. It's a sideways one.
Oh, building.
Um, on my turn for my very last trick.
No. Oh, you went first. I was thinking I went first.
No. No. I was like, what's happening here?
No.
Okay. Um I have a discount there. I have a discount there. I have enough there. I think that makes more sense to go a little higher. It's marginally more. Although maybe not. No, that goes that. That goes that. You know, I'm just going to go ahead and do the lower range because I think about it that way. Okay. I am going to put this down here. So, we're going to tuck this down here. I'm going to move a person over there. I'm going to slide this out. Slide this in. Slide that in. Slide that in. Um, I'm going to pay the following at the top. So, I'm going to pay nothing. Nothing. And then three of those. One, two, three. I'm going to gain two stained glass windows. Um, then I'm going to get another stained glass window. And I'm going to get a bonus stained glass window because of this over here. Uh, all those four stained glass windows I'm going to convert into this card, which is going to be worth five points over here. Uh, then other things I get, I get two more stone, which I'll bump up there. And I get two bells and a wood. So, two bells um and a wood. The bell will go on here, which will complete that card. And then the bell and the wood. I'll see where I can go up there. Looks like my wood is level two. Unfortunately, I've never really fully refined my goods, unfortunately.
So, that wood will degrade because nowhere I can put it. And then the bell is there. I put a bell. I put in the level one bell. And I could do the I can't have the quality of level two. So, level one it is. So, I'll send this over there. Um, not the level of Belle's quality that I want, but it is what it is. You don't always get everything in life. And this will tuck over here. Um, and that is my turn. And it's the last turn of the game. There's no need for me to draw buildings or cards.
My goodness.
Indeed.
Okay. My turn.
Yes.
Um, I'm going to Let's see. One, two. Um, I'm gonna go up to here. which feels crazy. Um, actually yeah, I'll do that. Okay, so I'm going to go up there.
Okay,
I'm going to put this card in
top.
Yeah. And then I have a two sand, one stone discount. So I have to pay one stone, which I don't have. Um, one sand and two wood. One sand and two wood. One, two. Okay, so we did all of that. Um, do I have to do this first before I do this?
Uh, I have to double check the exact order if it matters.
Okay, I will do it. So, I will spend a wood just to bump this up to here.
I believe it's the last phase. Um, and then I will gain these guys. So, I get a wood.
Yeah.
And two yellow. I get a wood and one of these.
It says at any point during your turn.
Oh, nice.
And only once per turn.
I get a glass. And then I get those two, which I can count as these. So, I get this. Okay. So, this is what I'm working with here. Hear me out. Sorry, remind me this ability. I meant to ask you.
Which what do you mean
this ability?
Uh that one is when you take a card, you're going to uh get when you place a card into the top. If you place it in the top Yeah.
And you're going to get sand.
So I should have six sand.
Uh three sand.
Isn't it times two?
It does. So the it's a tricky one. The rules say once.
Okay.
The the card says times two.
Maybe like a
one of those two is right.
Yeah. All right. So that is interesting because now I have a level two glass and I could spend this into glass. So I am going to spend four of these. One, two, three, four. Uh and build this one over here. Okay. Then I can do up to three things.
Three deliveries. Yes. And my wood is great. So I will do this one. Um, and that's the only thing that's great. But my glass is mid. So I will also do the glass. And that is not. So my next best bet doesn't matter. So I will do Well, I guess I have to do this one. Okay. So we will do all of that. And then I have this left over which will go here. Shucks. Um, but there was no other way around that I don't think. So all of that.
Uh, I'm just thinking for a second, but I think that's my whole turn. I mean, I don't I don't know if I'm supposed to take stuff now. Should you stop taking stuff?
Okay. I mean, I guess maybe I should because Oh, I guess no one could ever complete what they do. Okay. I think that is everything for me.
AP turn question. What's the top left corner, top right corner? What those two?
They are stained glass and marble.
What do they give you as a reward?
Uh the points for that color building.
Which ones are those?
Red and blue.
So which one? I have two reds. So which one's the red one?
Uh the left.
Top left. Okay. So I'm going to go that way. I'm going to go down here. And I guess I'll use this one. These all slide over. So, because of this, I get five I have five stone over here. [snorts] I I'm running out of tokens to use. Is that an issue?
No, you can just figure Make it work. Don't worry.
Make it work. Okay. So, I'm just going to use I have five of these. I'm just going to use one of these immediately.
Okay. Great.
So, then I have another four to work with. This is going to be used to move something over four. But I also have that was just a stone. I have a bell, a bell, a stained glass, and a wood. I have to paint nothing on top, which is pretty cool.
Um, and now I have
Why not the sand? Oh, sand bones here. Yeah,
sand bones here. Rock and three of those.
Okay, so I I can move something four times. We said I have more red building because I'm going to do both of these buildings. So, first I'm going to build both of the buildings before I do anything. So, I will do one, two. I guess I'll do the one for one exchange over here. Might as well. So, one for one exchange.
Sure.
And then I built this. And this will go over here. This gives me three points. This gives me three points. It's the same way either way, I believe. Doesn't make a difference. But the point is that's another red building. I get to move this over four. I'm going to make the top left corner go over one, two, three. This will go over one more for the four. This will be up here. So now I can build that red building. So I still have two more stone available to work with. I'll put for one of my actions the top left corner stone. I still have Is there anything else?
And that one is three points for every red building.
Yeah. And I'll take the other I'm going to take the other stone over there which is on a second row,
right? Cuz I can do that one.
Yeah. Second row. Other stone.
Okay. And I see is there any either wood or bell? I'm not on already.
The bottom left looks like bell. I'm not on
the very first one.
Does look like I'm not on. Those are my three actions for that. And that is my turn. Everything else is left over resources.
Okay. Which brings us to
So, you get three points for your red buildings.
Oh. Oh, right away.
Uh so, one, two, three, four.
Assuming you went there before the buildings.
He Yeah, he just did. Go, go, go.
I think you complete them in the same round, so doesn't matter. So, go fourth. 12 points.
None of it like changed into what he needed.
28. And now we're going to go ahead and we are going to go to endgame scoring where we're going to tally things and come right back with how things went. And we are back with scoring. Scoring is going to be a combination. Well, you know, we'll just walk you through it. The first thing you're going to do is on this track up here, forever you're up to, which is AP's at 28, mag's at nine, I'm at five. Then you're going to go to the completed buildings you have. just counting up all your completed buildings where AP has 24, mega's 23, and I have 22. Then we're going to move to how many spots you have filled on your shop board. They both have the full amount, which is 10 points each. And I have four, which is going to be four points. Then you have for every certificate level based on how well you move your certificates up over there. Uh and then over there, uh Meg has AP has 11, Meg has nine, and I have six. Then we have points for every uh for every one of your refined goods on your incomplete buildings, which me has one. So she has a single point over there. We have the opera magnet itself for every token you've delivered where AP is going to have 25. Meg is going to have 16 and I have seven. And then lastly, you have points for your blue buildings, all the endgame scoring where Meg is going to have, I believe, zero, AP has APS 2, and I have 19, bringing us to a total score of 63, 70, and 804. And that has been a gameplay of Opera Magna from Lun Magna Studios. You can check out the campaign page linked down below. Until next time, I'm Alex from Board Gameco
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