Valenrelm - Simple action selection battle game

[Music] hi it's Henry and Stella from people University Welcome to our one run playthrough of Fallen Ram where we play a few rounds of the game and this game is designed by Kevin Rima and by published by Victorian games yeah praetorian games yep so we are going to play two players obviously yeah you can see both of us here yeah and what we're gonna do we are going to do a quick overview of the game at the start Henry wheel yeah I'll present a quick overview of valenrel yeah yeah and then we will play a few rounds let's get started yeah so excited to get into this one um so in valenrealm we are playing as various different kingdoms trying to reclaim the ancient land of valenrealm um at the start of the game we're going to get to pick Our Kingdom so for this game I have chosen this kingdom here the brown more Kingdom well I am addressing Republican yes which and slightly asymmetric power yeah so there are a total of six kingdoms in the game you've got four other ones here so um you'll get take turns picking those kingdoms and also at the start of the game you're going to pick some strategies for your kingdom so each plan has a all of us have the same tactic cards but we'll get to pick which ones we want to pick at the start of the game yep and we'll also get to pick a specialty for our kingdom as well and have that started these two cards can be changed unlike your kingdom which is permanent throughout the game yeah um once you unlock a certain certain action on the strategist advisor you'll be able to swap out your strategies and tactics for different ones and what we're trying to do in Valen realm is we're trying to be Victorious and we're going to be victorious by ending 10 Prestige I'm gonna end prestige in a variety of different ways and these are all listed down on your main player card here um common way you're going to earn it is by attacking and winning battles so if you're the attacker and you win a fight you'll earn yourself One prestige if you conquer a castle with someone else is holding you will also getting my Prestige if you you can also buy Prestige for 10 coins for one and you can also get Prestige by controlling 10 settlements out on the board there are Villages and Farms you can defeat the dragon if someone summons it and if you defeat the dragon you get two prestige and if you're pillaging settlements for every free settlements that you pillage you'll also get unpreced each so there's a whole variety of ways that you can go into three points most of them are quite aggressive and require you to attack but you can also be saving up your coins and buying them as well throughout the game uh so how about in realm works is you can see the map here and this map is going to get filled up with tiles as we play this is the two player game we're going to be playing in this smaller Square in the middle and we're going to start here and here as indicated on the board if you're playing three players you start here here and here and then four players you start on the outside layout and the four setting segments around the outside yeah start the game me still I both have five tiles each we also have some objective cards which will tell us to conquer certain tiles out on the board and also a range of effect cards which will let us do various effects on the board including doing things like summoning dragons putting demons on the board summoning plagues causing zombies there's all sorts of things that can happen in valenrail uh so it's a very like it's going to be a game that changes wildly based on what effect cards you draw each game yep um on a turn to turn basis we have a small run full of things that we'll go through and first thing we're going to do is collect resources from any tiles on the board that gain us resources plus one coin which we always gain next we've got the pay upkeep for any units we have on their board and each of the units has an upgrade cost that's indicated on this sheet here yeah and the costs for the upkeep is normally the cost as the unit so it's the same ongoing cost there are a few units where it's a slightly cheaper um once you've had your upkeep you need to select one of your advisors to activate and each time you activate an advisor you get to do the actions on it three times in the start of the game you can only do this top Banner of actions so most of these advisors have two actions that we can do the Explorer will let us draw tiles and place tiles from our supply out into the board the commander will let us move armies on the board and deploy armies on the board and also build a camp if we don't have a camp already on the board and the strategist will let us draw new effect cards and new objective cards to add to our collection um after you've to pick an advisor you will need to pay a coin on the matching advisor and you'll be able to activate its effects if you want to do the same advisor again two rounds in a row you need to pay one more coin and the amount of coins you paid previously so in this case I'd have to pay two coins do it again I want to do it again I need to pay three more coins however once I pick a different advisor I get to reclaim all of these coins back to my Supply so the coins are never lost that you put out here but they are unable to be used until you reclaim them back my faction by the way lets me collect gold from farms and you don't have to pay food upkeep that's that's so good my farmers are really good you don't have to fit the meeple yeah and also I have a specialist for fourth I'm hoping to get some farms in my starting hand and at the beginning of my turn I collect one extra food and one coin for every two Farms I occupy which is really good and I also picked the outflank [Music] tactic which will let me move my Army one extra tile if that movement results in an attack seems like a good combo yeah bombs and that one's good too mine is you can I can trade at two to one rate for any resource or gold usually four to one and I've got Scouts so my food man can actually move an extra space if the Army does not attack that turn and I've got Force much I can move each of my armies one extra Child by paying one food for each Army that you move so it's like you can get around really quick yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and because you have Scouts so your footman uh actually the alternative side of the token which is the Scout side yeah so a lot of the units have two sides like arches and longbowmen spearmon and Hell birds so they have slightly different effects based on the side that you have this is the arrow yeah the Green Arrow yeah you know the movie it's just like a hood I think like a hood over over a face yeah yeah yeah so it's like a like Robin Hood or something yeah yeah I'm Robin who is don't mess with me yeah yeah so do you want to start a Stella sure okay so I will choose Explorer yeah so before we get stuck straight in sorry we'll let's go through the collect resources we do need to give you a coin as well sorry here at the start of your turn yeah I don't have any buildings so I just collect one coin without the penny upkeep either because um there's no units on the board so I'm going to do that I'm gonna do Explorer and I will I will actually place a tile three times I think it's all almost always good at the start of the game because you've got nothing there to do anything much with sort of thing I think the Explorer is going to be a popular First Choice yeah yeah the maximum amount of tiles you can have in your hand is five as well so you do need to place the title that's all you can place anymore so that is my starting tile and I'll be placing a town out on your starting tiles that's it's good so you can build a camp on that town you'll be able to start recruiting units there and yeah yeah let me decide I want to put three this style so I think I wanna put it like something like that yeah so this is like um business to connect the rightness to connect yeah and and that so your tiles need to connect so someone with the tiles is when you place them next to each other your Landscapes need to match so this matches with this because it's both like open planes so the forest will need to have it fully forested side paste adjacent to it yes and with your road they need to lead onto another road so this is great so yeah this all lines up that's basically it my tree so that's your free actions uh it now moves over to my turn yep Stella leaves this coin on this thing until she decides it was to use a different action or I have to pay double to do this one again yes um all right so my turn I'm going to do a very similar thing Place some tiles out into the board so I've got a couple Farms here I'm gonna get my camp out that's Count's gonna let me know oh so that one has a brigand icon yeah so you can just grab a bringing out of there so brigging is like a um bat group of Bandits that have occupied this town I thought I wanted to destroy those of course you can take over the town if she's able to yeah uh yeah so I'm going to place this camp out I'm gonna place a camp out I get to place one of my occupation tokens on it straight away nice we have camps and castles you get to occupy them as soon as you place them out yep don't have those cells uh create a little road here let's get increase my movement around this bit of the board I'm also going to end it in a farm so maybe on my next turn I'll go down the road and occupy this Farm yep cool so that's my first time so instead of doing this I can also play an effect card as an action this is one of the three yeah so you can always play an effect as an action on your turn so some effects will have a blue Banner along the bottom yeah as well these don't cost an action point to play go onto the red banner on the bottom are used in battles only which we'll get into soon and other and all the fat cards have a cost in the top right hand corner indicating the cost for you to play those effects yeah onto the board you also have some objectives here and these objectives tell us to occupy certain locations on the board and when we do we get the reward listed at the bottom yeah yeah okay I will do my second action on my second turn sorry I would do this one so I'll take the Explorer so my income first right yep I forgot to get my income too so I didn't do that much so I will take that back because I'm going there this time to actually the first one is to build a camp I don't have a camp tile so I have a camp to get into place okay yeah on your starting tile which you can do and it costs you two coins to place a camp out yeah thank you and that is the first one now I want to try to deploy an army so again my footman is probably the cheapest and what I can the only thing I can afford um you see the cost is one money or one food I have one money so I'm gonna do that but my foodland's actually Scouts so it's this one yeah okay so that's my second one and the third one I am going to move yeah I'm gonna attack the Brigham yeah okay um Stella needs to have four Force to put towards pain for the Army so if you grab four forces from your collection each player starts with 20.

so you're not planning to start off however if you lose a battle you lose the forces so um it's kind of a limited resource and you can buy them back at the cost of five money for five forces during the game so you're going to put your four forces forward um at the start of a battle each player in the battle will gain five battle cards yeah I'll give Stella five and the brigands will have five which I will control yeah [Music] um and each battle we have to have a Terrain a Weber and a condition for that battle so we've sort of it's quite formatic so we see which terrain we're battling on the conditions of the battle and the current weather during the battle so um if it's playlist player battle it works slightly differently but with again spriggins we simply reveal these cards and we compare who has the better cards in the battle to see who wins so anything that can affect this is if Stella has any effect cards that have the Reds Banner along the bottom and these may cause us to draw different and more effects during the battle do you have any Stella no no okay okay I would say no I don't have it or I don't want to yeah so we're going to reveal the terrain wherever and condition for the battle we can say we're fighting in the mountains it's foggy and it's also muddy it's not not a very pleasant battle very hard terrain all right now each player in the battle picks five meter three or five battle cards in order to place forward and you're trying to match on the blue side of your cards the conditions on here that means your tactics favors these conditions otherwise the red side means you don't favor these conditions so you get a negative value on the red side so for the bot here I have muddy which is good for this card however I don't have any other positive conditions here right hand side yeah and I've got one negative which is Melton so I don't want to play that so the other two are going to be these two so yeah my strategies for the battle was to skirmish I had desert training for it which wasn't very useful in the mountains and we were oath sworn which also wasn't particularly useful in the foggy muddy mountains all right so what have you got Stella with the fog foggy situation I have out flank that helps with that it's like for the fall look for the fog and then I've got also I hired a local guide that is of course with the mountains unfortunately the local guides doesn't like the fog come on um and then I have I've actually pretty good hand and then you know what I'm also going to Ambush you're going to ambush in the mountains yeah so that that systematic sense yeah so I got one two three you got three positives and minus one minus one sorry yeah so you've got plus two actually this is this is no that's not that okay yeah plus two I've got plus one so you win the battle Yeah so you beat the brigands you get to take your 4 4 spec or your battle cards come to the discard pile and we successfully removed this brigging from the board still like occupies the town that it was on and you also should have occupied the town that you oh yes sorry yeah and um Stella also achieves one Victory point for winning the battle so we're winning straight up winning one of the tens it's in London to go yeah and then that's basically it uh yeah build a camp deploy Army and move at me and move that I mean yeah very nice very successful turn so my next turn I could build an army and move it here but that's going to waste one action because I don't have anything to do with the last Romanian action so I think I'm going to keep deploying tiles out on the board so I'm going to pay to and firstly I'm going to draw a tile and then I'm going to place a tail I'm going to place another Farm here I used to farm strategy Farm Boy Farm straps Henry the fun boy and I'm going to put a castle just over there I put it here yep yep uh so hoping oh I'm gonna place a castle I get to control it straight away yep very good and I can build more advanced units from these castles which are uh we've got Knights we've got catapults and we've got Dukes um Knights are going to let me move around the board a lot faster catapults are going to let me be able to attack castles and walls if anyone builds them and Duke's going to let me recruit where the Duke is located on the board yeah the other units we haven't discussed uh arches and Spearman a lot of these units also have an alternative side which functions slightly differently but arches is more focused on attacking that range and moving through forests forests normally slow you down but archers ignore that effect yeah and spearmen which get increased negative movement through Forest but move faster outside the forests so they're like a quick footman outside of forest but to have a slower in forests we should have resources first though yeah uh it is my turn now yes I did forget to get my income yeah no give me now I have one money and then I oh you get actually one two three money because we have three hang on to three because each Town generates you one money One automatically One automatically oh and then you do have to pay one back to me because of your upkeep for your uh that's okay for your soldier over there and then I have the two wood from your two um Lumber meals yes essentially these towns produce Lumber yay um some stuff that's nice and you can use wood to pay for arches and catapults and you can also use it to pay for your effect cards as well if you have any that require one yes so speaking about if they can't actually want to play my objective I think I conquer this I could have played it it automatically comes out this is the connection yeah um I could have played it then it doesn't really matter yeah I should have probably played it later so uh then once I managed to occupy that so I collect one money in one wood one wood so you can grab a wood move there's lots of wood now yeah so I can actually do archa if I want to or I can exchange two to one for other resources yeah that's true yeah yeah so uh I've done that so that actually goes away thank you all right I'm gonna do Explorer again so I take that and then put it there and I'll take one draw one tile please there you go thank you very much and it's not really anything so I'm gonna do put it like something like that yeah and then let's build a cup no I'm gonna put a castle right in the middle okay yeah let's have some fun with the castle Yeah so you get to control that straight away yep thank you so we've got a castle near each other that's basically three you're gonna be a little context here three actions basically yeah nice that's it that's it um goes back to me so I'm gonna gain a one coin for now Christ's richest Stella I'm gonna take these back and I'm going to use my commander ability to get some troops onto the board I'm going to hire a note one and I'm going to then move I can move down the path one additional space if I start and finish on a path nice I can move to here in one action so it's two actions I now control this file and for a third action I can move to this Farm and control this function as well so that's great for me because I get lots of nice things from having Farms nice yeah um that's my free actions done it will now go to you I'm sorry oh wow so let's do your income so you've got to gain 32 coins plus one to three minus one because of the upkeep so two coins two wood I might need some change and this one no coins no castles don't produce anything I have lots of wood now I should probably I should probably probably exchange it for yeah something that you want so let's go Commander again so you've got to spend an extra two resources because you're doing the same action twice no it was this one remember I did Explorer yeah now I'm doing Commander yeah I'm gonna first move my Army so I can um this cat can do two move so one extra space and then we'll put take control of that one forces yeah and then um I mean this thing I could have probably done earlier so I can the income but that's okay and then the next time is the next turn is I'm going to deploy an army now I can now have a castle I can deploy it right there I'm gonna deploy catapult I'm gonna go to catapult so how are you gonna buy a catapult now I'm gonna do the exchange my special ability right so what I'll do is so the capable cost to Wood and two Stone right I have got loads of wood yeah so two Woods here the two Stone I'll exchange two gold and two Stone all right two wood four yeah up to to Wood sorry yeah and um hence I got the two Stone okay and then you spend all of that okay nice one so I'll put my kettlebell down to um this castle and then my last move my last one would be to move my scalp to one two yeah cool so it's getting ready Your Castle I mean your catapults in the range of my castle which is very concerning for me uh however you can't or directly attack it it needs another unit to come in and attack it yes if it's within range your unit's able to attack the castle so you can't breach the castle walls without having some Siege weapons yep unless you completely surround it yeah in which case you can actually um Bridge the walls I think it's over to my turn now I'm going to get my income and my income's a bit better now I get uh two coins to my two Farms because of my Kindle I get one extra food and one extra coin for every two Farms I occupied so I get free coins I don't need to pay food upkeep so that's my nights actually free so I get four coins um let's start this round and I also get free food he pass me free food for tokens please Stella there you go feeling a little bit more wealthy now so I'm going to take the strategist action and I'm going to try and draw myself an effect card that might help me actually going to draw three more effect cards from this deck back over to you Stella so we're going to do your income you've got three towns so it's free coins and then minus minus one for this person we've got uh two wood and one stone you want to give yourself two wood one stone yep but then but then for your catapult we need to pay one wood and one stone so if you just pay your wooden stain back as an upkeep oh well I'm don't feel as rich as before especially looking at Henry's Henry's food yeah I'm feeling a bit better now I've got those Farms I'm going to attack this and then do Explorer now it says you can always play an effect card so out of the three actually an effect card shall we yeah let's let's do something fun so I will play a Revolt so it cost me three coins okay and one foot now I don't have food so I just do the okay and then I will then get places sorry uh which is the same with this this guy before on a player's farm and remove the occupation into account so I can do in one of these two and I will place it there okay so it's gonna remove my occupation okay that's annoying that's my lovely farm income card all right you can still start in a war god I get it peacefully stay here that was my first one yeah and then let's see and I'm drawing a towel and place a towel um I will place this one all right okay I see I think so no no sorry I need access to my castle so that's three so play this one and draw towel and then place it down it's your turn now so you know I've got anything that I can get revenge here in my hand Revenge I haven't even started anything yet oh yeah I actually did the farm thing yes so I only get two coins now three coins it went normal one and I get one food a lot less for not having two Farms payoff card to spend free coins so I'm gonna pick up pick one of these to do as well yes I want to do the Explorer go and pay free coins and one Farm to replace the Brigade wow that's turned to your advantage that's good three coins and one food yeah that's food there's coins over here that's nice well done it's a couple of explore cards out so I'm gonna draw one and we're also going to place one okay demon Falls over here one thing regarding placement as well is I can only place tiles I have direct access to so I can't place the tile with a block Stella's placements over here yeah however I can place around this Edge instead I can't get through territories I control so still I can't place anywhere along here yeah Stella yes I'll take that and then put it there and then I will get any gun please yeah so one two three and you gotta get two Stone out of wood but I mean also got a little Stone yeah but you've got to pay a wooden stone for your upkeeps you get one wood and you get some money three coins correct thank you all right so we're going to three villages and minus one for the upkeep yep I will move an army you gotta pay some extra I know you moved it from this one to that one yeah yeah so and we'll move we can move two for one action because of your Scouts that's right one two and then let's do this one I don't want to attack my castle because Godzilla has a catapult over here yeah um so we do a battle now to see if you are able to capture my castle let's do that so I need to refresh these terrains so we're going to give ourselves five battle cards each and play Let's play a battle is a little bit different to um the brigands yep so we're gonna have three tiles out here and to start the battle I'm gonna flip the terrain so we both know what the terrain is yep it's mountains again uh and what needs to happen is Stella needs to put forward a number of troops that she wants to bid on this battle so Delo can send one footman through or you can put all of her foot million straight away if she wants but after each card turned she'll get to either raise her bed or keep level and I get a chance to either match her beard or raise the bid even higher and if anyone decides to withdraw from the battle they have to run away from the space and the other person admittedly wins otherwise if both players stay in to right to the very end we compare who has the most symbols and the player with the most will win the battle and gain half of the other players forces from them all right so how confident are you feeling Stella that you're going to win this battle in the mountains don't know yet I don't know so I'll I'll start with two oh look at that I'll match your too much okay the resources are not in my favor we've got lots of battle cards we're not there yeah material to pay for it so we're going to flip the weather and it's sunny it's a nice sunny day in the mountains so Stella do you want to raise your bed any higher you're feeling more or less confident in the in the sunny mountains all right I'm gonna stay I'm feeling a little bit more confident in the sun I'm going to raise you three more forces so you can tempt you to run away from my castle okay dance game on you're not scared nope all right we're gonna do you have any cards to play otherwise I'm gonna reveal a condition to the battle no that's it oh so muddy okay sunny and muddy sunny and muddy yep all right Stella do you want to raise your bid at all hmm oh yes yes I will raise two I'm going to raise you five bid is ten at the moment gosh this is like poker now yeah all right I'll match it all right I'll match it all right well you match so now we're going to reveal our best free cards from our hand I hope you're packing some good cards uh Stella because um very confident okay one at a time no I'll just do it okay all right I have outflanked you with my lightly armored troops with a faint Retreat I like the mud I like the sand so it's two no I thought I could love I only have this these people matter you like the mud like the mud and that's it that's plus one but yeah I've got plus two yeah so I will win the fight because Stella does not successfully take my castle your punishment I get half of your forces added to my collection and the other half goes you this card and you'll have to buy those back oh okay that that'll teach me and you're all a little scared my favorite yeah it's a battle cat uh I don't get a victory point however because I was not the aggressor in the fight that's right uh sorry those will go to the pedal discard and that's how battle Works between players player so that's basically we've shown almost pretty much every well pretty much almost everything yeah maybe to talk about some of the other aspects of the game yes so um obviously there's a lot of different troop types and these trip types will move various distance based on terrain and um different effects it's all listed out on this board and pretty easy to read sort of navigation here um we've also got buildings that we haven't built yet there's watchtowers and walls players can build walls um you can start building buildings once you've had three armies deployed so we didn't get to that stage either of us but after we have three armies deployed we can start putting wolves on the board What walls do let's say Stella had a wall here and she would mark it as hers she could freely move through the wall but I would need to get either a catapult to the wall so I can attack it or have armies on both sides of the walls in order to attack it like that yep um we also have watchtowers and how what's Towers works is they offer a shortcut for your troops to move around the board so I can move a troop from two tiles away to the Watchtower directly no matter the terrain between it I can also move troops diagonally to the Watchtower like that so two in a straight line or one diagonally so it's like a quick way if your troops getting around the board so you can speed up movement and the effect cards have a whole list of effects Stella's we're lucky we're ending the game here because I had a dragon laying in the weights once I had the resources to put it out and a dragon would let me put the dragon token on the board or there's a land around it I've got this kind of like [Music] you put them on um someone's face or resources whatever the card specifies and the plagues will build up every round either spreading along the road or building up on the spot that they've been placed and once they get to free plague tokens on a spot it would pretty much end completely annihilates that tile and fills it off with all the play tokens disappearing they also follow around armies and if that Army attacks another army they spread the plague to that Army it's like just contagious and it follows paths around the board so it's pretty uh pretty cool like following the trade router routes around the map um we also have zombies which can be done for whatever effect some if some units are played you can zombies with a zombie attack in that area and yeah zombies are just tougher like brigands that you have to take out so yeah I think six or eight forces to attack uh we have the dragon like I mentioned before which takes 10 forces that you need to have in your supply to attack the dragon but it will give you two victory points if you beat it wow and these are the other tiles so pretty consistent with the ones that we've played yeah so this roads there's planes we can also form forests which we haven't really got before much of a forest out on our board yeah been pretty forestless but yeah um if we have forests they slow down unit movement so the unit moves into the forest they have to move to the border between two tiles as an action and then to the other side so it takes twice as long to move through a forest uh apart from some units which can read through quicker so it's quite a good defensive way if you want to put a forest around your town to protect it yeah opponent yeah that's true yeah um yeah so there's loads of different effects in the effect deck yeah um heaps of pretty wild things that can happen in there and players will just build out this board um gaining gold and buying victory points and fighting for victory points yeah and it's good that it's for two players it's just this smaller smaller area and then yeah and then like a bigger one yeah if you caught that castle then I was going to be on the back foot I had to make another Castle over here yeah and then slowly yeah yeah and losing these Farms would really hurt me yeah because that's your spatiality yeah um this is this was a good one um so this is just um FYI this is prototype still prototype so components artwork rules yeah they're not final correct and we will also put the link to the project page in the video description so you can check it out if you are interested like Henry said point that way that's where you look check it out check it out so that is basically fell in Rome yeah so if you have any questions please let us know in the comment sections just write us or saying hi hi to me or Henry and uh if you find this video useful don't complain about that like last time somehow useful if you find some help in your wildest dreams useful uh please hit the like button subscribe to us you can also hit the meeple in the corner and hit the Bell so you get notification when we have new videos like this one review live later on the weekend 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