Nautilus Industries Board Game Review

0:07 hello everybody I'm John Carle my name is Erica not Felicia and this is our review of Nautilus Industries that's right I got nothing witty to say about this like Nautilus Industries like what what can you like nothing America I don't usually have anything to say anyway so you're fired I got this far

0:34 players will take on the role of pioneers in the nless world by mining for Rare Minerals in the ocean depths buying stocks in company requiring those minerals and controlling the price of those minerals with supply and demand each player will choose a player board with three of their matching subs and place a die with a one side face up in the warehouse capacity space the randomly chosen first player will take the first player marker place all the coins in their respective pool and place all the stocks in their respective pile with the stock value showing lay out in the middle of the table mining tiles equal to the number of players randomly place the order chits on the corner and then flip them up place all gems in the bag and draw five for each tow placing them in the respective spaces now count each same colored gems on all tiles and place the same colored cubes on six on the commodity value chart for the least common five for the next least common and so on if gems tie place them on the same space lastly in the stock chart Place each colored Cube on the first space you're ready to play end the game with the most money and you'll win each turn consists of three phases in this order action market and upkeep this is also conveniently listed on each player board during the action phase players will take three actions in turn Order each player performs one action they may also choose to repeat previously done actions placing a sub will let you play the sub token on a mining Zone next to a gem this will mean you'll be mining two gems in the coming phase also when playing a sub you may choose to upgrade

2:05 it to do so pay $5 when placing it and choose a gem of any color from the bag placing it on the sub later on you'll also mine a gem of this color should there be any left in the mining Zone the upgrade Warehouse action will let you move the die on your player board to the next highest number to a maximum of six this cost is free but requires you to take that action switch gem action lets you move a gem from a mining Zone and ex change it with another gem from a different mining Zone place them in their respective space a player may also choose the action switch mining Zone order they'll take two unlocked chits switch them and flip them to their lock side lastly a player may choose to purchase stocks they can also choose any type stock and any numbered share as long as they can pay the cost listed at the bottom right corner here yes we initially had trouble seeing them too when all players have taken three actions we move on to the market phase this phase will happen happen on the mining Zone with the chit order number one first players will first collect Commodities minerals are always collected with the gold first and going clockwise you can also see the order as indicated by the number in the banner for the mineral when it subc collects the gems it'll take two of that gem or less depending on how many are available if it was upgraded it'll take a gem of that color on that top provided there's one there regardless if it passed or is before the usual turn order when done the upgraded gem used to denote the color on the sub is returned to the bag and the player takes his sub back on his player board when all mining is done

3:36 players in turn order decide which gems to sell and or store for each gem sold the player will receive money equal to its commodity Value Place the sold gems next to that area here you may also store any number of gems as long as you don't go over your Warehouse capacity when all players had a chance to sell we adjust stock and commodity values for each Cor responding gem type sold you'll decrease its commodity value that many spaces to a minimum of one if none of type of gem was sold increase its commodity value by one then adjust the stock chart unlike commodity value these values never go down when done return all the gems sold in the bag now repeat the market phase for the next mining Zone when done we move on to the upkeep phase here players will draw five new gems for each of the mining zones the first player marker goes to the next player clock clockwise and a new action phase Begins the game end triggers when a stock reaches the time 10 multiplier continue adjusting the commodity and stock value for the current mining Zone as normal for any other zones not yet resolved collect Commodities as normal without adjusting their values any longer each player sells all their gems we then go to final scoring each player multiplies their total shares with the corresponding value totals them all up and adds all their cash the player with the most wins okay so n in this shees obviously is a euro game but that's not to say there is no theme quite the opposite the game has quite an original one the artwork from the player board

5:08 and stock certificate really captures it and the era however what we didn't like so much was the design choices made we couldn't figure out and we were four of us how buying stocks worked we kept thinking the cost was the value of shares it was actually this number here that looked like it was part of the background artwork another example is the component they themselves are actually quite good but um how do we fit these cubes on the stock chart track we thought we had the wrong components as the rule book showed different ones here speaking of components the count is off as well either our copy was missing nitronium Gems or they're meant to be rarer we're not sure and the internet didn't shed any light on this moving on to game playay the mechanics are fine but they are not without problems first off it's very tedious and finicky with every Market face putting the gems next to the board counting them moving the values of Commodities and stock wash rinse and repeat secondly it didn't really offer any surprises occasionally when someone switched a chit mining order but it wasn't really fun enough for us to be invested in the game of course we continued and played a couple of few games but that sense of repeating the same action was constantly there felt more like an accounting or math class than a game and that com from us who prefer Euro games says a lot making replay value very low play it a couple of times and I'm pretty sure you'll get bored very

6:39 quickly both games the scores were very very close between all players but in this case it wasn't so much as players doing the right thing but the game taking its course tactically even though there's choice there's really two essential actions you need to do buy as much high value stock and as fast as you can and play your subs our four player game had almost all stock pretty close to the end of the chart simply put the more multipliers you have the more points you'll score one of the few games I was looking forward to play this year but sadly it left us disappointed Nautilus Industries gets a five out of 10