Baghdad: The City of Peace | Solo Playthrough

0:00 hi everyone I'm Tom and today I'm going to be playing Baghdad the city of Peace which is a new game from Favio laano and nesto Manon and it's published by alicat games it's on Kickstarter right now I'll put a link to the campaign page in the corner of the screen and the description you can check all that stuff out there but for now right here I have got a prototype to play with quite representative the final things some things were printed out on my printer excuse those but we're here to give you an idea so in this game we are viers that are traveling around Baghdad we are writing books we are funding students we are Healing The Sick we are building the palace doing all sorts of stuff and through our efforts we are defining our scoring too there are eight scoring tiles four on the river four at the palace building section and as we get boats to port or contribute to the Palace in the particular column that a scoring tile is in we will get more and more points for every time we have done the thing in the objective tile but we'll talk about the game as we get into it I'm playing the solo game today uh there are four levels of Bot I'm playing against level two which is intermediate difficulty but you can step it down and you can bump it up a couple of spaces as well there are going to be some optional modules you can include I haven't got those in the prototype to show you but you can check out the kickstarter page for those I recommend you turn on the clling on subtitles if I've made any mistakes they'll be corrected there thanks Steve and there are ways to support the channel in the description if you are so inclined thank you so on your turn and everything that I do is the same as you would do in a multiplayer game as well it's just that the the B is different of course in the solo game so we will have a hand of cards that is defined by the board that

1:30 we are randomly dealt so I have got the C board I've got the three starting C cards your turn always goes like this you slide any character cards that are already in your board one space to the right eventually they will slide off your board and they will give you a reward you starting cards quite easy they just give you the reward it's not a big reward but you don't have to do anything later on we will pick up cards that want us to have done things by the time this character slides off so have picked up two artifacts when this card slides off and you will get yourself a wild token for example and the cards have more symbols on them as we pick them up and then even later than that we will pick up cards that will when they slide off if we have fulfilled their requirements we will get endgame scoring points too for now we just have these so we slide a card along we play one of the cards in our hand and the length of the game is until the cards on the board have run out the cards are reduced for a two-play game which is what we're simulating here when all the cards on the board have run out and we've played all the cards in hand that means it's the end of the game and then we are going to do things with the symbols on our card let's get started before we see the rest so I am going to play a card in here so there's nothing to slide I play a card into my left most slot then we have the move boat section if the card you played had a move boat icon on it then you get to move boats this turn you count up all of the move boats symbols that you've got across the cards that you have played so at the start of the game we're limited with the icons and this is true for the other actions as well for the rest of the game after the

3:01 third turn onwards you're always going to have three cards worth of symbols to hopefully build up some of these bigger requirements so I have played a card with move boats on it the total across all my cards is one move boats symbol so I'm going to come over to the river here we each start with one boat in the starting space of the river these circles are all of the spaces that you can move to here and you've got to pick a path so it can be defined by kind of the goods you might want to pick up but also the ports you want to go to because the ports I said at the start they are are going to give you points at the end of the game for satisfying their requirements so there's eight scoring tiles randomly put out so I want to either fund a lot of students get a lot of boats to Ports complete a lot of those endgame scoring cards or get a lot of different artifacts at the moment I get no points from any of these because I haven't got a boat in any of these ports but through movement if I get a boat over here I would now get three points at the end of the game for every boat I put in a port if I get more boats later and really stack them up in here I can make that worth a ton of points for myself if I want or I can diversify at the few different things that I'm good at hopefully that is the direction I'm going to go anyway so I've got one movement space I'm going to go there the space that you end your movement in is the good that you get so I'm going to pick up some leather here and if You' got multiple movement you can split it across multiple boats it's a free action to buy another boat they're a bit covered up but it costs starting with two money all the way up to five coins we do start the game with three coins so I could buy a new boat now and start at

4:31 the starting space you can split your movement between boats but you have to finish moving one boat before you start moving the next one and it's the final space that you land on which defines the good that you'll get if you get to Port you can sell and buy Goods too but we're ways off from that so we've slid we've played a card we've checked for move boats then we get to do our main action so through the other symbols that you have played on this rounds card you will choose one of them and take that action as it is I'm going to have to write a book cuz it's the only other symbol that I've got if I played of the other cards that I've had a choice we have our vazir over here at the start of the game he isn't on the board but that's going to change we can put him anywhere right now but in the future usually he'll go from the quadrant that he is in he'll have to move one quadrant along he can go on any space in that quadrant but that's the main restriction we can earn step tokens that we can spend to move an extra quadrant each time as it is I think I'm going to start on this space right here so I want a book cuz that's the action symbol that I've got we take the tile and put it in a space on my player board I need the number of symbols to qualify for that space so I can put it here or here I think I'm going to go easy and pop it here now this book doesn't do anything for me right now but if I was to give a student tuition and I chose this space I would have put things in both these spaces and I get the reward that links those spaces up if I write another book in future I'll qualify for one of these bonuses and more and more three is a permanent symbol of that type so whenever I do that action it counts as having an extra symbol for the rest of the game and bigger and bigger

6:02 bonuses as we go along if I really want to focus on books you then resolve any building bonuses from buildings that you built in the quadrant that you're in right now I haven't built anything then you pay tuition and gain shame as viers we need to help people out we are here to pay for tuition we are here to heal the sick so any time that we're out and about and see not doing that it's not going to be very good for us so I chose this way specifically cuz it's the only book I think in the city right now where I don't have to pay anything but let's say I'd chosen this book this would be next to a student so I chose not to help that student that's connected to the space that I took an action in I would have to spend a coin to pay his tuition a bit in the meantime before I actually do an action to help you so you have to pay a coin for every student connected to the space that you took an action in if you can't you have to lose two favor each that's not good because you'll get negative points but also favor is a really good currency can spend a favor for a coin two for any good three for a wild symbol to help you get more action symbols or if I chosen this book it's a double wary because I'd have to pay a coin for this student and also I am not helping this uh patient so I have to lose a favor so that's why I went for this one it's nicely connected to two artifacts and nobody that can be annoyed at what I did right now maybe I've just written a book about educating and helping people the last thing I need to do on my turn is pick up a new card so the cards are providing you with symbols for the future but will also come with

7:34 an expectation a requirement you don't have to do this but ideally you want your cards to slide off your board and give you a nice bonus so I think I'm going to go for this person here cuz it's some more move boat symbols well one more but I'll have two more boat movement when the two are together I would like to construct a building but then I'm going to have a kind of mini goal that before he slides off the board I want to have cured two patients and I haven't cured any right now but yeah I'm going to take him so if you took the card from these spaces it gets replenished from the day deck and the Day cards are all the ones we can see right now where they have a requirement and you get a reward if you take a card from this side at the start of the game they're all day cards but if you take one from this side you replenish from the Knight deck which is the ones where if You' fulfilled that condition you will get points instead that goes in my hand and is one of the cards I can play next turn probably is the card I'll play next turn I think and we can move on to the bot that's my halter the bot has got a special deck of cards that will help it make decisions and stuff said all this bot stuff was printed on my little printer so hey this one side it printed really straight but as we reveal the active bot cord it is not so lined up on the other side that is a combination of my printer and cutting skills so this is the active cord we then look at boat movements symbols so is there any on the active card and the back of the card on the top of the deck yes it's getting two boat movement right now so the bot makes a decision it wants to go towards the port with the fewest boats there okay

9:06 well that's all of them it wants to go then for the port that it would score the most points for well it's done nothing right now so still nothing then the tide Port whose symbol appears first on the active card well the active card at the start here it's got artifacts okay there is an artifact symbol here so here's going to go his one two spaces towards that artifact goal now the bot does not gain or at the same time spend coins Goods step tokens wild tokens shame tokens favor it gets bonuses those as we've seen it's got to move twice at its first turn then to move his visier again he gets to choose anywhere on the board to start with we look at the symbols on his card out of these four symbols so we've got artifacts books building in the palace or patients what have I done the most of out of those and he will choose that thing getting right in my way so at the moment the thing I've done the most is the one thing I've done which is books on his first turn he will choose the quadrant clockwise from the one that I'm in again getting right in my way if there are multiple so there's two books here it chooses the one connected to the fewest things obviously it wants to leave me with the one that's going to cost me the most so he'll go here he takes a book and when he takes tiles they go left to right on his board and he will get bonus actions for covering symbols on here if he needs to make decisions we'll see this later the card on the top of the desk has got a load of things helping him out of like quadrants to choose from if he's got a choice of like the book bonuses for example hey here he'd take number one

10:37 but later in the deck uh he'd take number three as a priority first this symbol at the bottom tells us which card the bot is going to draw from so he's going to draw a card from the day section and we use the numbers here too so he wants card number one as a priority if he chooses A Day card it is just discarded from the game if he chooses a night card he will put them in a big pile and if he qualifies for them at the end of the game he gets the points he doesn't have to score them in the middle of the game like we do so he took from the day section so we refill from there the requirement here is have two boats on the river that would cost me two of my three coins but I could do that just buy a boat not even get them anywhere doesn't help me heal patience though right we're back to me then so I was going to play this guy I could pick up a different card couldn't either that help me heal patients or we just kind of forgo this bonus let's play I don't know that I can make it happen but I'm blame him anyway right so we've got two move boat symbols and I am going to use them to just keep going towards here I'm not going to buy a new boat yet it's a free action I can do it when I need to uh and I get myself some cloth here a nice red towel there's probably some silks and stuff right uh so then the symbol I'm choosing I could do another book now the downside is it would cost me a favor and a coin to get this book but I would qualify for a bonus I think I am going to go and build instead and kind of to show off more actions so I'm going to do a building so you put your vizir in a building slot uh these slots are reserved for that Play

12:08 account so we can only go in the blank spots in a two-play game which what the bot game is simulating so you go for the level you haven't built yet so starting from number one as soon as you've bu a level one building next time you do one it'll be a level two and the cost increases from one to five coins so the cost of this is coins one coin to build the level one but also uh you need to have the symbol still depending on which of your houses you want to put out uh it's going to cost you more and more building symbols so I have one I can do any from the top and I've got a choice so I could either build the sailor's Guild or the Stables Stables will get me a step token so whenever I move my vazer one step clockwise I could spend that to move an extra one instead or spend multiple of course if I've got them uh sailor's Guild I would get an extra boat movement I think we're going sailing so I'm going to go for the Sailor Guild so I pop that where my vzer is I put the house on it to show that that's mine because any turn that I end in this quadrant including this one I'm going to get the bonuses from any buildings I have in here and that's now actually we've done our action resolve the building effect I get one boat movement well I'm going to go here then and it's going to give me another Goods token so hopefully we can make some money when this boat gets into Port which only needs one more boat movement and then I'm going to have to buy one so I'm going to need money then pay tuition and gain shame we only have an artifact linking from the this space see the other spaces I would have had to uh lose a favor for the patience that is linking these two spaces but right here we don't

13:38 have anything so nothing to pay bonus gained draw a new card let's see I really like his bonus he would let me move boats more and heal a patient so healing those two patients might be okay but then his requirement is fun to students and in the next quadrant let's see healing this guy he is linked to this student so I would have to pay a coin for the student tuition I mean doing another building is the only free thing in this quadrant right now you can also go to the Palace space and that's how we build bits of the palace and I can spend Goods to do that but that would cost me a coin right now so you're trying to think of what you want to do what symbols you want to build up but also how I'm going to fulfill these you're probably not going to be able to do every one of them but you want to try and do as many as possible I'm going to keep going with the boats and I'm going to try and heal people and then we'll worry about educating people later I'm going to take that so we restock from the Knight deck so he'll give you a lo oh a load of healing patients symbols you want to have built three buildings to qualify for three points at the end of the game when he slides off so another thing that happens is this spot has now been vacated by my vizir so we need to get a random tile from the ones these are all the starting ones there is a load of ones and then when they run out there are a load of twos so a a student has filled in in that Gap and that's my turn I think so over to the bot we reveal a new card and he has got one two boat movements and is he going to keep going

15:09 towards this one well I think so you can't backtrack he has to keep going this way that he decided last time so the thing he would score the most points for right now they're both tied uh the symbol that appears first on the active card well actually it doesn't appear on this card at all and then it chooses in this order ships scoring cards houses Architects buildings so it's going to go for scoring cards okay so it's one two movement doesn't get the good doesn't arrive yet when it arrives in Port he immediately gets a new boat and then if he's got any remaining movements keeps moving with that so his four symbols what have I done the most of I have built a building and I have written one book so if there's a tie he chooses the one that's highest on the card so he's going to choose a book so he would need to go to the next quadrant there are no books in this quadrant though so he gets to just skip for three to one so let's see the cheapest book that would cost a favor one favor one coin so then we need the top card on the deck so is he going to choose outer quadrant or inner quadrant outer there's only one book in the outer quadrant we've decided for him if then there's still a tie it would be the first one clockwise so he pops that on his board and doesn't get a symbol on his board yet but that's two books so he qualifies for a reward so he wants reward number one according to his decision over here which is another two boat movement unfortunately for me he wouldn't be able to resolve some of the other ones so he's having two boat mov I would probably choose that but I veed off from books so he uses one movement to get to the first space in here he

16:40 immediately gets a new boat and then he's got to decide which way he's going so what's he done the most off boat's in Port right now so he'll go this way he's chasing me down so then he draws a car card it's going to be from the Knight side and it's going to be number one it's a night one so it goes here and might score at the end of the game for him and we refill from the night deck if you have fed four students then get Five Points he's probably going to have got three books he's got two already and then it's back to me we slide everything along no one's falling off yet and I'm going to try healing some patience yeah I think we're going to have some money this is going to be okay so I want to spend my two money getting another boat cuz my boat is going to arrive in Port as a free action I've got three boat movements so I definitely want to spend one getting into Port here ahead of him so I'll get three points for every I had in Port when I get here I can sell different goods for a coin each plus a coin on top so three different Goods would be four coins for me you can also buy a good for two coins or two different goods for five coins because you need particular Goods to build things in the palace but they can qualify you for big big points I'm going to sell them all right now for four coins so one for every different good you must sell different Goods plus one extra just cuz we're going to need some money for all of this so i' still got two boat movements so I think we're going to go one two we could even have gotten that and gotten an extra coin if we'd moved this boat first do you know I'm going to do that or I could save a good for a billion in the palace potentially yeah I'm going to keep this

18:10 good let's be satisfied with the money I did before but I could have done it that way around and gotten extra money so we've moved boats now the actions I have to choose from I can heal a patient or I can grab an artifact anything I do is going to be costly I don't have a step token so it's got to be from this quadrant let's go with the plan healing the patient we are not funding this student so we've got to pay well we are funding him uh we we didn't do the action on him so we have to pay and the students are useful as well you can spend them to get extra action symbols so I can put him in a space where I only needed one symbol Cu that's all I've got so let's say there and the patient oh I think he was the wrong way around on the city uh he rewards me with a good some paper and then doesn't anymore uh we need to also refill the city where I ated so I've done that I've healed a patient I've paid my penalty no building bonuses to be had and so we need a new card so I would like more ship symbols the only one is this I've paid for four students so I think we're going to have to do without boat movement immediately next time I think I already have two boats but you don't heal patience three artifacts you really help me do patience and I might have built three things probably not though I think I qualify for this bonus right now I might play one of my starting ones next time I could heal the patient with him yeah I'm going to do that take another day card and I filled up the spaces it's time for the bot and what's he up to just one boat movement this time and he is going

19:40 to keep going towards the thing he's done the most so he will keep going this way then the action so I have healed one patient done one building one book so it's one of those the highest one he is going to heal a patient uh which one you would cost nothing you would cost nothing which quadrant in a quadrant this one is the patient that he will heal pops him over there he's taking a day card he's taking Day card number two which just gets removed from the game and refilled oh two books it's got a movement on it I probably want you and I believe that's it we need oh we need to top up the space that he just vacated and it's going to be a student and so Slide the cards along so he slides off and goes into my face down Discord pile it's not going to matter he's just gone from the game you don't reuse these cards uh gets me a coin starting ones just get you a little something uh then slide everyone along and I need to play a new one I'm going to play you so I can heal somebody and qualify for this I'm probably not going to be able to qualify for the two students cuz I haven't done any can't qualify for them all so I don't get any boat movement which is hurting me but we're going to heal a patience it's got to be in this quadrant and it's you're the only patient you're going to cost me a money cuz there's a student not getting helped you are going to get me some silks and I have two symbols so I could put it in this space because later on if I do another patient maybe I'm only going to have one like I'm not matching anything up right now unless I get artifacts so that's just going to be that I think no

21:11 building bonuses new card so I don't have two books but I could have two books I'm taking you we're going to want to Pivot to some scoring at some point so we get some points and he isn't just get them all but yeah I'm happy with that I've left a space so fill up with a patience expensive to do anything in these spaces uh and we go over to the bot who is doing one boat movement and they still qualify most for the ships so they're going to keep going that way what have I done the most of one book one building top one is books so he wants to go to the next quadrant and do a book is it inner or outer inner going right there taking a book that's going to get him a wild symbol which for me would be take one of these and you can spend it in the future when you do an action to pretend you had one more of that thinging that thing but for him it's do another whole action but he ignores the thing that he just did so the thing I did the most of is it building artifacts or Palace it's buildings so let's see he'll go to the building spot that costs the least and when determining which one he builds it's based on the symbol he's going to choose the inner one it doesn't really matter because I've I've built mine and he can reveal symbols from getting these out too so he's built the Stables he doesn't take step tokens though so that doesn't affect him and neither of us can build level ones anymore but there you go there's the other ones if you want assume uh so then he's taking a day card and it's going to be card number four that isn't possible so card number one oh that would kind of have been nice I probably would do two buildings he just

22:42 removes that and so from now on when we need to refill from this side we use night cards too because the days have run out back to me everything slides along you have slid off so have I cured two patients yes I get myself a coin and a step token so I could go an extra quadrant along if I wanted to and then what are we playing this time I want to keep moving boats yeah I've got some coins as well if I wanted to get an extra one so two boat movement please I'm going to go one two and get myself some papers hopefully I'll end up in the dock so it'll be ahead of him and I'll get this extra wild token the downside is the symbols that I've picked for this card it's either pick up an artifact or educate a students oh we need to f in some tiles don't we you are a student you are a book oh you're a student that doesn't cost anything to educate and you give me a ship symbol when you're the one way around we should see your symbol you're free as well and you would give me an extra building h but I think and I don't know if this is wise I kind of want to get ahead of him if I spend my step token and and heal the p and am I healing patience no I'm educating students in this quadrant I'll get my extra boat movement and then I'll get import ahead of him and I've got a wild symbol for later I will have to pay a favor though cuz of here might have to just give up on the wild symbol yeah let's just go here cuz there's no extra cost for this I have got one Abacus so it could go in any of these spaces so I

24:12 think we're going to go here cuz that gets me a coin who doesn't want coins no extra cost to pay cuz we're next to artifacts fill up a spot with an artifact and then what card do you want have three favor three patients is possible isn't it three buildings I mean it's it's possible I don't know if it's likely I've still only done one I want to do more and you would help me right yeah let's go for you you help me get a student we could get three favor we could get three favor I'm taking you now the night cards come out I've healed four patients it's it's possible right that's all of me isn't it but is moving one two three times with the boat so one two gets ahead of me doesn't get wild tokens it just gets the bonus actions when it covers things on its actual Board gets a new boat automatically and which way is it going to go what's it done the most two boats in Port 0 0 0 so it's going to go this way and then action what have I done the most of one student one building two patients zero Palace so patience so it wants to go one quadrant over and do a patience it can't so it gets to move one extra quadrant there's the patient pops him on the player board Beed a building space so we don't need to top anything up he is taking from the day side number three that is a Day card oh wait you're a Day card why are you over here I thought you were a night card has he not taken a night card I think he just took it from the night section of the board and I've put it in the day section it been a subtitle he hasn't taken a night

25:43 card yet so we're balanced in that sense okay so Slide the cards along have I helped two students no so I get nothing I want to write another book and I qualify for your bonus so I kind of want to get you out but I could also do a building I've got two blocks there and could maybe we could get something that helps me write for next time and then do a student yeah do that so we will construct a building even though it's going to be in this same quadrant again that's not terrible but we want to have favor for you so I don't want to do a building then let's see artifact cost me a favor book cost me a money that's not as bad hi Marty Marty's joining us here slinking under the monitors about to knock every little thing over covered in fluff from his special blanket you going to join us Martin Thanks Martin okay one fuss later and we're back uh but I've completely forgot what I was doing why did I play this card I know it's only been a few seconds for you you could tell me if all you were here right now oh what if we do some building that could get me yeah this could work out oh I think I was writing a book but it would cost me stuff wouldn't it well that's okay let's write a book we just have to pay a coin for being next to this student we have got only one book symbol so it's going to have to go there but but that's my second so I can either have two favor a Stephan a coin or a wild token let's take the two favor so two favor that's two points at the end or it can be swapped for coins and goods and that okay new card five Architects you

27:14 get Architects for building in the palace which I haven't really done any of yet three buildings maybe healing and we'll keep going with one of the last day cards and then filling stuff in we get a student over here and then it's the bot's turn so two boat movements what's it done the most of it's boats in Port still isn't it hasn't got any artifacts and there any of these cards yeah one two if books was down here it would be doing that but books is in the palace section this game at least so I have done one building one student two books two patients books is higher so he's going to go for a book he'll do that one that's his fourth book and he'll stop going for those soon oh he needs he should have taken one of these oh when did he do a book last I think it was this turn so this would have been on top he would take number four he would have taken that away cuz now he's got four books and he's going to choose number two which is going to be to grab a student we need to top up spaces student artifact and he needs to get something from the night section number two which actually The Last Day card well this is an eight pointer have five ships out there I mean no I can't I can't do that I need one money so slide you off and I get a favor I have three favor but I haven't even played the card let alone got it to slide off but I think I am going to play this one cuz it gives me a building symbol and I can show you some building in the palace oh I didn't have my boat movement did I from the building last turn that would have just gone in there and I was going to sell this just

28:45 this one for two coins cuz I want to haul into the goods for doing some Palace building that was the plan so yeah I've got the two books for when this slides off it's all okay so I've got two building symbols so I'm going to grab an architect from the two building space so building in the palace you need to spend Goods depending on where you want to go uh you can't build the Dome or the cap until the four space is in the middle they go on top and in a game with more players they are separate building spaces but in a two-player game it's the most whenever the third thing from any of the rows is built a neutral architect comes in and takes the last space doesn't score or anything just means that last space is inaccessible so what would I like scoring on so I'm going to gain myself two points for every either building constructed patient healed which I've done two of I'm gearing up to do another artifact in the palace section or books so I've done two books and two patients right now I don't have leather unfortunately but I have silks and fruits so I think my architect is going to go here and I'm going to build this wall and it can go on any of these spaces I like so what I like two boat movements stepan a coin two favor or a wild we're going to go for boat movements so I'm going to need to to pay three coins for this boat and I'm going to go one two and get myself a leather oh I need to actually move my guy onto the palace space which is going to cost me a coin for not helping that student I think we're all caught up so you need something which is going to be a book and the foest bit of the palace is constructed bot is going to

30:18 go one boat movement oh that's a little bit annoying cuz I went this way knowing for sure that he was going to go and take this space from me but maybe no I don't think I could have got removement if I'd built a building the level two building has boats on it but I haven't got a oh I haven't taken a card skipping ahead of yourself here four books four patients five boats four Pat four patients is possible isn't it I've nearly done I'd want to do three so four should be doable and three boats I've got three boats uh watch him take it so he's moved his boat then what have I done the most of two patients one Palace no artifact one student so he's going to go patience next quadrant take the patient off me goes in there no bonuses he takes a card from the night side number three have three buildings and he keeps that card which he well he's only done one building so far maybe you won't score it okay we slide along have I done two books yes so I get a favor and a coin and then oh healing patience is miles away I'm going to have to spend a step token at some point to get over here probably but what are you going to do do now then you're my healing card so I don't want to play you yet but when you slide out I want to have healed four patients he going to have to get another card for healing okay we'll play you so moving boats we can go one and spend the student for another one cuz the student had a boat symbol on one two and get the silks so we've either got three students

31:49 or three buildings actually I'm going to spend a step token we're going to do student and I'm going to go here because I don't have to pay anything extra for this student and he's going to get me a uh doctor symbol for later put you here and that'll get me another boat movement which will get me a wild token and qualify for that scoring so spent me step token have a wild token and then we can heal a patient next time and maybe the time after that all the time after that two of those three next three turns has to be healing patience and I think oh I need a card that's going to help me heal patience have four have three boats is done that's three points in the bank and will help me get a book three patients is done and is in the bank doesn't help me heal anyone could get me an artifact maybe a student but gets me boat movement I'm going for it new card comes out three students I have done two now bot is moving just the once and then what have I done the most it's definitely an artifacts I've done one building two students one Palace so it's students in the next quadrant along please and it's the first one clockwise if there's no quadrants to choose from tops it up with a book not many patients coming out there's his second student he's taking from the day side and number one so he wants to have four books he's already qualified for those five points and that's that okay slide off have I got two boats on the river yes so I get a step token and a good of my choice ooh

33:21 we should just get something that I haven't already got let's go for the Jade cuz like maybe we could build up here later and really Pile in on the points for the I could get six points for every patient and I have five patients potentially healed don't know if that's going to happen but it could right so then I want to play I've already got the favor so we can play you I can get the other good from this ooh so two boat symbols oh did I want to sell any Goods going up here maybe just the paper so when was that that was last turn yeah I had the paper don't forget to sell Goods sometimes yeah cuz I need to buy a boat now so four to buy a boat and we're moving to where do we want to go this way so maybe instead of Jade you want diamonds so I was thinking to going this way but I've got no artifacts one two that will get me some fruit right now a lot of different stuff then we're going to treat somebody we've only got one symbol so it's going to go here cuz I can't get three so oh no I do want Jade I want to keep keep Jade you're going to get to move one more in a minute so it's going to have to be here there's no additional cost for that which is good or it could be here you get me jade you get me leather let's let's go for leather so you go there I get a leather bonus one movement which is a diamond so I have got all the stuff to go up maybe here later uh fill in a gap hey there's a patient and I've now done the three patients so when this slides off I'll be able to uh educate someone right card I need a card that heals yeah I've I've got to heal next

34:51 turn so have three students is going to be possible cuz I'm going to get student next time so you're looking like the best Prospect four AR five Architects no chance I've got one five boats I'm not far off but you don't heal people you do loads of boat movement for students though I don't know how likely that is I like your symbols better you help me write books more I'm going to go for you we we don't need a a billion boat movements there's not a ton left that I can do so yeah we'll go with that new one comes out but is moving a boat oh should immediately get one which way is he going to go so what scores him the most you're full so we disregards you he's got two students he has got two scoring cards no artifacts so one of these which symbol appears first on the card uh it is the students so we'll go this way then what have I done the most of two students one Palace two books three patients he is going to go patience so over here snap that patient away there's not a lot of patient patient out there he's he's taking them all and we have an artifact coming out so this this is the only patient out there oh which actually ruins my plans doesn't it I wasn't going to be able to do this one anyway oh that sucks yeah I've only got one step token so I needed a patience to be in one of these quadrants and they haven't been coming out I don't think I can do anything about that right now so he is then taking from the day side card number

36:23 three I don't mind that going and he's not done ARA any architect yet maybe because I haven't focused on it very much but I'm pivoting and you can see now there are six cards left to take there's there's nine turns left basically no not nine six turns left I will take three more cards there are three cards left in the hand there are six turns left and I've just realized I've messed up with me actual points one I've done this one get a students if I'd done books a bit more I could have got to this bonus getting me a patient I think perhaps helped me out getting more students cuz I've got three symbols right now and I've got a wild could put them here but I haven't got anything really else to go here let's go for getting a bonus Palace action would be quite nice let's go there right so that was clearing a card off playing a card it was going to be you I have now got three students and I could write a book that would be two symbols get a permanent other symbol it's not connected to any penalties but students is going to score me some stuff and I could have four symbols yeah let's go here so that's three boats one two do we want to do some trading I've got a duplicate here and you're kind of easy to get yeah three money I do need it don't I but I need to sell something else to afford the next boat leather leather's the thing I need to pay the least of though you okay and then we pay it all to get the final boat and I have one

37:54 more boat movement left so we're going to have the most students aren't we and I get the oh you should have sold the instead of selling the silks sell the leather knowing that you were getting it right back okay that's boats and then we're going to go students I've got four symbols we're going to go over here and entally help me with building why not uh but since I got four symbols you might as well go in the most difficult space it's already it's three points for each of these guys I feel all right about that then there is the matter of getting a card so I have three boats I have five boats I should surely try and qualify for that there are no Cars left to top up with there are there are tokens hey here are the patients we could still maybe get five of them but the actions left are dwindling but two boat movement one two I could maybe get ahead of him with that although I don't have any boat movement so no I can't I was worried he was going to take it away though maybe should have taken this one with a couple of boat movement right I can still get there just won't get the wild token it'll be fine so what does he want to do I've got two books one Palace four students with a sudden pivot from me doing loads of students so he's going to go for students uh there are none here so he gets to skip a quadrant and take this one and then something new comes out in his old space no bonus just yet and he's taking from the night side number four no number one yes he might very well get four students okay did you

39:24 cure four patients no so this gets removed from in the game we are going to build so we can do students at anytime we're going to build in the palace here spending the step token only got the one symbol I only need one symbol and we're going to go cheap with patience cuz I think I'm still going to try and get more patience just spend the leather to go down here and build this do I want two favor because we could Al always spend the favor to get a different good or a wild or something two boat I can't get ahead of him with that stepping a coin I haven't got any money but I can get money from favor yeah I'm going to spend two favor to get two money and then I'm going to gain two favor back or maybe a step and a coin is more important yeah I didn't do anything with favor and got a step in a coin yes happy fill in the Gap it's a book what card do I want so artifact is bad I could get three books I have three ships I don't need very much help sail in though I'm going to take you so bot is moving once on the boats and I have done the most students so he is going to try and take a student away again first one clockwise and he is getting a bonus action so next up is patience so there is no patient here so he gets to move one ahead which isn't too much of a problem for me and he gets his fifth patient which gives him a

40:56 bonus Palace action which I think is his first and he doesn't have to spend Goods so he wants the piece that would score the most points he has got one building five patient so surely that yeah he's going to take the last patient base from me which is unfortunate cuz i' saved up for that I've spent me paper but I could turn that back uh and and then out of that he would go for the cheapest space make it more expensive for me so that's him I think with his two actions and then he's taking one from the night side there is only one from the KN side and that's have a load of artifacts so hopefully I can take that and then he won't qualify for some scoring things hopefully okay then it's going to be slide off have I got three favor yes got four uh so I get a wild token so I want to get a patient and I am going to spend one two three symbols so I've got four effectively so we're going to come over here no one's annoyed at me in this space you get me a jade we're going to go in there I don't know how yeah I I could get a four artifact and I'd get two Palace actions at a discount and I could hopefully qualify for a load of scoring next time that would be good that's why I'm putting it there so you go there and you get me a jade right now I'm in this quadrant so I get a movement so I get uh fruit I've left a space which is getting topped up with a patient and I need to take a card and I don't want the artifact card like I am going to get an artifact I'm not going to get three I could potentially

42:27 get three books I don't know if it's going to happen it might but I think that's all of my stuff uh he moving his boat once so his last boat should come out what's he going to score the most for well it's not artifacts he's got 1 2 3 four five scoring cards though so it's going to be that over students then I've done two Palace four patients four students he won't choose what's full though so he'll go for students the next up is oh you should be filled up an artifact he can't go that one so he gets to skip one so he would take this student which is going to give him another Palace action so what is he going to score the most from he's got four books probably that it's not Architects and it's not buildings patience is full oh this should have gone out oh and he should have taken the space uh four is the space that would earn the step token and the coin so he' pop it there so now he wants books so takes his AR architect goes in the cheapest space for books and Pops this out priority is three which is the ship movement space we do get the bonus from he's probably going to get there anyway okay I think that's it for him we need to top one more thing up and what do I want to do are you slide off first which card does he take this one and that's it for taking new cards so this slides off have I got three patients yes I scor three points then I want an artifact but

44:00 I don't need it right now I could get a student this way two ship movements one two The Last Ship movement I need can be from this building again so get a Jade right now or maybe I'll get it as a bonus from something else get a students oh but students aren't for ages you can't do that okay that's going to have to wait so he might oh he's not going this way so nobody's getting ahead of me cuz that's his last boat right park that idea building what about fa architect you you'll have three already yeah play this oh no maybe we want to boot with you keep playing that and move the two and get the Jade I think I already have and then we'll do building one two three building symbols save this in case we do a cheap build later and I'm going to spend a fruit down here for number of Architects we've got three so that's going to be six points maybe even more later pop this up get a wild and when you've done the Third one a neutral architect blocks that off well it's a bit dangerous because if he does a palace action now which he very much could by getting a book he's going to build this cap and get 15 points and you have to go in this space to do that maybe maybe I don't want to do that maybe this whole thing is getting taken back cuz I haven't even thought about the space I'm moving to yet maybe we want to just get in and get the artifact CU that's where I am on the board right now I can't heal anyone again with the cards I've ended up with by writing book could but I can only write one more book okay artifact will go here cuz you're free

45:31 and I don't need a load of different ones cuz that's one two three four artifacts pop you there o we could maybe do the cap here's the two discounted Palace things mind blown right so this with a discount we've got loads of Jade I've got the diamonds I've got the silks so the paper is a discount so in keeping with the plan I've already spent that fruit I didn't take it back we have got one building symbol oh and Wilds didn't we we had Wilds spend the wild there to get three just like you were going to do oh you should be two back and we should have one less Jade cuz we didn't play him we'll play him at some point yeah so I can do three builds go there just like you were doing before pay the fruit that's in there neutral architect comes in and you got a wild from placing it where you did I know I didn't have the wild did I I'm going to have to have spent three favor to get a wild to be able to do all of this I think cuz it relied on having that building symbol the first time so you can't you you're just going backwards and forwards and confusing yourself getting the artifact has given you these things so now you don't have enough symbols you don't need to change the card you're playing get it straight in your head please paying for that has giving you the wild you needed to get one two three yes and now all of this is fine he comes in and builds that and now you can build the cap you didn't even need to pay the fruit because one discount and then you can come in only needed one building symbol for this guy build it up here there's them with a

47:03 discount and you get to build the cap on top because the four bases have been built boom 15 points I think that's going to be huge can't take a card oh top up a space bot is moving his boat one doesn't have to decide where he's going yet he has to keep going that way uh and then he's ignoring patience I've got no artifact I've got one building and two books so he's going to go for book books and complete that and get to do in the palace but he's too late books he gets to go in a take this one what scores him the most is books he's got five books so he goes over here builds this number two is the wild token space and he's he's going to qualify for a load of points from them like 10 points each that's for 15 hopefully that helps and then he has vacated a space it's the last number one but here's the last turn so is it there you go play all the cards you slide off have you got five boats on the river yes eight points then I am going to write a book oh no I can't I was going to write a book to get a discounted Palace action but I need four bricks and I would have one two I could like as long as you're in positive you can spend and put yourself in the negative I could get one more more wild but it won't give me two and after this turn the books are sliding off or can I what if okay play go and

48:34 get a book somewhere free 1 2 three four books right there third book qualifies me to get a token bit late but you know I've been Doling so do a palace symbol with a discount and I've got one two three spend to get an extra wild four brick symbols and I'm going to put this on number of Architects cuz that's five Architects right there discount of a leather pay the Jade done feeling good about that and that was done from getting a book brilliant last thing probably be a student just to get the fifth one right didn't think I'd do anything in this column how things change and that's a fivepoint artifact for getting in that space But I think I need to fill in a space too it's an artifact I have a loot uh no boat movement I also need to spend my step token so I end in here oh how am I going to get yeah cuz I'm going to get two three boat movement but are the students aren't in there oh that's rubbish what's he going to do then no boat movement for the first time maybe U I've done one building he's full up on them one artifact he full up on books so it's going to be building so he's going to go over here build the inner ring one cuz he doesn't really care about these bonuses there is like there's a buildin bonus somewhere there you go for his fourth guy I there for like Architects no not for Architects okay pop that there please

50:06 doesn't need to take a new card now to do this completely fairly a student would get me a lot of points how many times did I do this how many times how many takes is this it is not a student it's a patient unfortunately and I can't do patience so you are sliding off I have done three students so you're going to be worth three points play you for two boat movement one two gets me a Jade and then action we could do a building yeah oh but then you wouldn't get the student if you do a building and buildings aren't worth any points to you or you need to slide down and buildings cost money that you don't have students on the other hand aren't adjacent to each other and aren't annoying each other so it's going to be students what's worth more points getting a student is another three points whereas moving the boat is another like two four 4 68 points but it's irrelevant cuz I can't afford to build a building in here can I I can't come here and do an action I can't build in the palace anymore oh I am stuck wait a minute yeah I took a wild token from there and then I bu a c oh wait I didn't put this down I didn't put this down so you can get the boat movement from there you can have the best of both oh no it's walls two favor thing and a step you can't have the best of both worlds well two favor is going to be worth some points at the end isn't it two favor or get you out of negative points because you you're now positive so you could do the build come over to the building space pay one pay a favor for another coin two coins build this

51:37 bit late have the bricks required and you get the bonus right away which is two boat movements only need the one can sell these two different goods for three coins actually what's what gets me points at the end do they apply for anything actually it doesn't matter because they're not worth any points but might as well do some wheeling and dealing so I have play all of my cards the bot like if you have qualified for them these are going to score too bot's final turn he is moving twice on the river that's not quite enough is it h the way it shuffled he didn't actually get there uh so he is ignoring these Palace I have done the most of by far now so he skips straight to Palace he is putting somebody out what's going to get in the most points he's got two buildings that's full he has got three Architects so he's going to go here isn't he pop this out doesn't matter where he puts it because I'm not going to get a bonus that is going to be completely it oh he needs to he does need to move in the quadrant to go to the Palace space but that's it so oh and this gets blocked off not that it really matters but they build the last wall when three have been built okay so the game will come with the scoring Pad but it's calculator time for me so let's see first up let's do the boat objectives so we'll do my scoring first we'll do boat objectives so number of student I'm going to get five points for every student I successfully taught so that is going to be four students 20 points boats in the docks again five points for each I've got all five to

53:08 docks so that's going to be 25 completed scoring cards so let's just work out quickly have I got three books yes have I got three boats yes so how many cards didn't get discarded for five not T but that's some so I get two points for everyone so that's going to be another 10 then over here I get four points for every architect I got all five out so that's going to be another 20 I get four points for every patient I did four of them so that's going to be 16 now we didn't really concentrate on buildings but the buildings later on like they get you bigger and bigger bonuses and can let you pick tiles up off the board and that then get coins for every one of this thing you've done so if you're really focusing on something else as as well as you're building you can get a ton of money from that every time you go around but these level five ones are also endgame scoring for each of the categories as well three points for each one so they don't trigger when you go around but they're going to score at the end of the game nobody did a load of building did a matter in that enough uh so no level five buildings if you built the do and cap uh so it's 15 in a two-player game they would be separate things in a higher play count 15 and 12 points each uh but I did the do and cap which is going to be 15 then it's going to be the points on the night characters so that's 11 14 17 20 and the points on your favor which is a big fat zero for me but it could have been negative so that's all right

54:38 no shame gained shame you gain when you need to lose favor and you're already at the bottom of the track they're the minus threes that were here I think Marty might have swatted things over them which giving me a grand total of 126 now let's do that for the bot so ship's import is just three points each and got four in Port so that's going to be 12 uh P students is two points each and he's done five of them so that's 10 completed cards is three points each and he is going to qualify for like he didn't do artifact at all so he's not going to qualify for them everything else I think he qualifies oh did he do five Architects no he didn't so he only qualified and did he do three buildings no so he only qualifies for two of them so that's only going to be six points I'm feeling better now over here he is getting four points for every book and he did five of them so that's 20 he gets two points for every architect he did four of them so that's eight he gets two points for every patience he did all of them so that's 10 so actually and so actually by picking all of the wrong cards and he just managing to swoop in on things he's lost out on a ton of points there hasn't he and by like him getting here would have scored him what a few more points maybe he gets the three points for these anyway but he's ended up with like about 70 points cuz oh and I'm missing I should have five more points for this artifact the artifact are worth points based on the spaces that they're in so I think an absolute demolishment absolute destruction of the bot in this particular game anyway I'm pleased with that I felt like I'd lost track of my goals in the middle but yeah

56:09 there was just a couple of people that kind of slipped by didn't they that should have scored them but messed things up or people weren't out at the right time I needed them to be but as it is it went okay uh there are like there's two more difficulties above this as well where the bot will get more and more benefits for things earlier on like you see there were only like a few spaces where they get completely extra actions as I say there are extra modules that you can play with and the bot is compatible with them as well you can see stuff on the campaign page to know how that will interact with all of the game but I hope this has given you a good idea of how the game plays whether you're worried about multiplayer or solo like hopefully it's shown you both I'm doing the multiplayer stuff still the link to the campaign page is in the description thank you very much for watching there are hundreds more playthroughs on this channel if you'd like to see more from me but but for now I'll see you for the next game bye everyone