Crayne Fractured Empire Board Game - Quick How to Play

hi it's tyrant and stella from meeple university today we'll be showing you a quick how to play or overview of crane fractured empire so hopefully you'll get a bit of flavor for this game coming up [Music] [Music] so we do a lot of how to play overview live playthrough videos and more so if you're new here please consider subscribing and do hit the bell to be notified of when we post new videos let's get to the table to be released in 2021 via kickstarter crane fractured empire is a fantasy deck building game in which players battle each other for influence over the world of crane it was designed by christopher fielder and published by crunchy games the game plays two to six players competitively in 45 minutes and is of light to medium complexity in this video we're showing you a prototype copy of the game so the art rules and components may not be final in crane fractured empire players are lords in the world of crane battling against each other for supremacy it is a deck building game with indirect combat in which players aim to build a strong deck of followers from the game's different factions which they can use to attack their opponents each player begins the game with 60 influence or 30 in the two-player variant and the last player who still has influence wins the game as with most conventional deck builders players will begin with a deck of starting cards and will aim to strengthen and tailor their decks from the common market cards can offer revenue for purchasing more cards attack points for attacking opponents defense points for defending oneself and can have a variety of other specialized text actions where crane differs from most conventional deck builders is in its card play players will each play five cards per round but these are played one at a time from a continually refilled hand of three and with all players playing and revealing each card simultaneously before each player's full set of five cards is resolved in turn order this gives players a tactical opportunity to respond to their opponent's early cards for example by focusing on defense when an opponent has shown early attack the game's other distinctive feature is the deck management and market discount system at any given time a player's discard pile will be fanned and each card of a given color in that discard pile provides a one revenue discount on buying further cards of the same color here for example the player has a 3 revenue discount on purple cards this largely replaces the normal deck building mechanic of having higher money value cards built up in your deck as there are relatively few such cards in crane however the discount is lost as soon as your discard pile is shuffled back to become your main deck and this means the game has a push or luck sort of element in which players can try to delay their purchases until they have full discard piles yielding high discounts at the risk of having an opponent buy or sacrifice the desired card before that player has the chance to purchase it combat in crane occurs only between neighbours at the end of each round the full attack value of all of your cards is dealt to each of your neighbours leaving any other players alone likewise you will suffer the combined attack value from both of your neighbours attack points can be absorbed by any defense that you've played but the rest is resolved as a loss of influence this mechanic eliminates the possibility of ganging up on one player and makes the game more about building and playing strong card combinations than about the tactics of combat a player who runs out of influence is eliminated from the game and the last player standing is the winner the base game comes with eight different factions each of which has a distinctive style for example the servants of baron are often stronger when several are played together in a round the green skins of choc are often individually weak but tend to swarm together having actions allowing more cards to be summoned on a turn the knights of calimos are stronger than average defenders and healers and the demons of the rift are strong at thinning low value cards out of your deck in each game you'll use a number of factions equal to two more than the number of players and different combinations lend replayability to the game and a range of well-balanced strategic options and that's the quick how to play of crane fractured in fire we hope that you enjoyed the video crane fractured empire is going soon to kickstarter and so we'll put a link in the description below when it's live so you can check it out do note that the components and rules in this video are prototype and so everything you see here may not be final and if you somehow find this video useful please help us by hitting that like button subscribe to us if you haven't already done so you can also hit the meeple in the corner to do so and hit the bell icon so you'll be one of the first to know when we have new and exciting videos you can also 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