On Mars: Alien Invasion - Playthrough & Discussion

hi everyone my name is moani and i'm naveen from before you play and today we have another plaything for you this seminar is for one of the chapters in the new upcoming expansion for on mars called on mars alien invasion this one is going to be coming to kickstarter very shortly and it's a one to five player game now there are four different chapters and it basically continues on from where we left off with the base game on mars uh and so in this chapter this is going to be a cooperative one that we're going to be playing it's designed by vital asserta and published by eagle griffin games and like we said it will be on kickstarter very shortly i believe this company kickstarter july 15th 15th so in a few days and uh once it launches we will include a link to the campaign down below because this product is not a final copy the some things are subject to change including mainly stuff in the rulebook so we are going to be playing our playthrough with the most updated version of the rulebook yes but things are technically subject to change now we are going to start with an overview of the four different chapters just so you are a little bit more informed as to what to expect from this expansion and then we're going to go into our playthrough and then we're going to end with a discussion on our specific gameplay so if you're interested in jumping around we will include links to the different time stamps down below and lastly if you do like to see content like this please consider subscribing and with that i think you're ready to begin right let's do it okay so before we actually get started with our playthrough we do want to talk about the expansion the way that this expansion works is it is comprised of four different chapters and they all follow a sequential story and you can't play them in order but the thing is they have differing player counts right yes chapter one is a one versus many game and that's why you can play up to five people now because one person is going to play as the alien commander and you can play up to four other humans who are all working together against that alien commander so now you can have a total of five players that first chapter is actually the one that is most a new component heavy it's also the chapter that has the most new uh rule set stuff and just like the most different from the base game in that mode of play scores are also calculated throughout the game and so the humans win i believe if they can cumulatively score 100 points yes and the player who is playing as the alien wins as soon as they put out all 20 of their alien troopers so it's kind of a race on both sides you can play that also as a two-player game the only difference is that one player will control the alien and the other player will control two humans two rewards yeah so it's a little bit uh difficult in that sense yeah so we chose not to do that one in particular because it just takes up that much more space yeah so we really wanted to yeah and i love co-ops so that's why we're playing the co-op version today now chapters two and three are fully cooperative modes with chapter two being considered much harder or harder and then chapter three being moderate and so with chapter two you're dealing with a virus that kind of has spread uh throughout the colony and uh it's a lot of colonists getting infected with the virus you need to find a vaccine and the colonists are able to spread that virus so it's amongst the other colonies yeah hard to put out those fires chapter three the other cooperative mode is the one that we're going to be playing today and it's called blackout and so we're going to discuss that as soon as we get started with our playthrough and lastly the fourth chapter is a solo mode it's it's different from the solo mode that comes with the base game uh the difficulty level for that chapter is uh variable in the sense that you have control over how difficult you want to make the game it's goal based and so you you lay out a certain number of goals and each a deck of cards has a specific themes goal themes and you have to complete those goals you also earn points and can kind of um see how your points rate at the end of the game to see how well you did so those are all four chapters in a nutshell uh we are now gonna get started with our playthrough for chapter three which is blackout and so we are not going to be teaching the base game right we're going to discuss the new rules for this chapter obviously but if you're interested in learning how to play the base game of on mars we made a video for it about a year ago a year ago yeah as well as a playthrough um and so we will link that up there up there but if you want a more of a formal teach paul grogan of gaming rules he's also made an excellent on mars very very good video and we'll include a link to that in the description as well so today we're gonna be playing through chapter three which is called blackout and so in this scenario the aliens by the way for this entire expansion the aliens are really mad that we've established a colony on mars yes and they're fighting back right in this specific chapter the aliens are vandalizing our colony yes and uh if they vandalize our buildings too much then they're going to be blacked out and we're going to lose right yes we're losing power to our facilities which we desperately need we worked so hard in the base game to get these all built so yeah the reason why we chose to play this specific chapter is because especially considering after we did our vital assertive series we understand how difficult the base game is and a lot of people have expressed how difficult it is to get to the table and we wanted to showcase the fact that this expansion also comes with this chapter that is highly accessible right it's kind of a nice way for you to also introduce the game to new players instead of deep diving them into the base game you can play this cooperative mode that's also challenging for experienced players but also gives new players the ability to work together with experienced players and learn really how the rules work right because you're still using the base mechanisms from the base game in this one exactly so now if you please direct your attention to the center of the table we are all set up here for our two player playthrough of blackout blackout so we've included these alien um pieces over here but they're not actually a part of this chapter we just thought they would be cute yes just so don't keep your mind on those and so for this chapter there are only a few actual physical components that are new to the game and they're all gonna be primarily over here we've replaced all of the discovery tiles with 10 new ones from the expansion and they're going to be either batteries or constructing a building right essentially we also have different bonuses for the lss area up here and it's all just going to be crystals if you notice we've also replaced this bottom area over here with the time track because this is all we really need in order to win the game as you'll see we also are not keeping track of our score because there are no points in this version of the game nope the way that it works is we now have this alien vandalism duck because at the end of each player's turn the aliens are going to vandalize one of our buildings here and that's every turn not at the end of every round yes at the end of every turn so this deck is comprised of six different cards and it's one card per type of building for one of these five types of building yep and so at the end of a player's turn you're going to draw the topmost card in this deck and the aliens are going to vandalize that type of building so in this case it is the plant type building so you're going to put a blackout token on that building in the future if this card gets pulled again and you have a building that's been vandalized then it becomes what's called blacked out and a player would have to put one of their colonists from their living space on top of that blackout token this building is pretty much considered not a part of your quality it no longer exists yes you cannot upgrade it it doesn't produce anything for you and it doesn't count as part of a um complex if at any time you have five completely blacked out buildings we lose we lose yes or if you have to black out a building by putting out a colonist on top of black cap token and nobody has one available we also lose we also lose if the game ends before we are able to win right but those are the three main criteria for losing so in order to win players have to complete a certain combination of private goal cards as well as the mission mission cards that are on the board and the number of cards you have to complete is dependent on player count in a two-player game we have to do a combination of six and that's any combination of those two types of cards unlike the standard game each player can complete all three of their private goal cards exactly each time we complete either a private goal or a mission card we move this time tracker down and as soon as this gets to zero we win the game right as long as we don't lose each time a player completes one of their private goal cards that player can either remove a colonist from a blacked out building making it just vandalized in doing so then now that building is available again or they can remove a blackout token from a vandalized building exactly buildings that are only vandalized and have not yet been completely blacked out can be undone by upgrading the building to an advanced building right using those blueprints yes because advanced buildings are completely immune to this whole vandalizing process and to be clear because this is something that we missed the first time we played it say we have two uh plant buildings here and one is vandalized and one is not if we were to draw the plant building card again instead of just putting a blackout token on this new building this gets blacked out first because the aliens want to black out buildings as fast as they can and that's pretty much everything that we need to get started so you'll notice that this uh this chapter is not new component heavy but you'll see the differences in the way that we actually play the game because it is fully cooperative like what we're trying to do together talking through the strategy together all right so first things first we need our private goal cards okay private goal cards so we have them here so we get three two and again you can still use these as crystals but we are allowed to complete all three of these each okay okay and so you actually have a choice with these private goal cards whether or not you want to play them um open communication location and so because we are filming this with all of you we're going to just lay them out yeah so i have i need to get five tactiles okay i need to find three of these uh discovery tiles which are not on the board yet and i have to build three mines and or advanced buildings i don't know if this is one's gonna get done okay but those are my three what are you so okay gotcha so i need to upgrade uh three buildings overall okay okay i also need to gain two of these different types of research research tiles okay and then also uh have four blueprints oh this one we can do probably early yeah this i'm definitely going to try to gun for this one right here so especially because we want to protect some of these buildings from the alien blackouts so we're both going to be doing some some rover activities yes so i'm gonna keep mine here i will most likely have to move these around later though so you need how many tech total five five and that includes the one that you're including my shelter yes gotcha all right and our three mission cards are uh for getting uh five sorry seven seven seven tactiles in a two player game okay um ten blueprints ten and five okay discovery tile as well quite a bit so where do you want to start yeah i'll start in orbit i think we need to get some stuff and and get pushing at that point it's going to be in our best interest to upgrade these buildings so that the they're kind of immune to the vandalism here we go uh-oh okay naveen oh no i guess i should place mine first sure yeah i know you should go first okay uh so i know you said you're getting tactiles but it would be nice for me to have at least one tech should i take the bonus here sure okay so i will go here okay okay so what are you gonna take uh i think i'm gonna take this one because i know you need to upgrade mines and so it would be nice for me to uh be able to you can use my technology so that i can get free bumps yes does that make sense yeah that's true okay so i will take this one it's gonna cost me uh battery battery and i'm gonna put it here and that is one of our missions that is one of our missions yes all right so i'll put it here i get a crystal that's gonna go into this little depot section there you go uh and then because i'm covering this up i get one of these here i'm gonna take some oxygen here because i'm thinking about building a shelter oh yes smart and that is what uh okay i think i'm just gonna go here and start off by getting another colonist because we need colonists in order to black out these tokens if yeah if we're gonna get blacked out we need colonists yeah true so i have to spend either a water or plant if we want to make in an oxygen building complex that is going to be very expensive for that tactile so then i'm going to give up the plant sure okay there you go and i get to call this okay very good sweet so now you have four you're starting with four uh all right so i guess i technically get to choose where this goes are we just gonna head back after this i think so right yeah because these are gonna start getting getting vandalized right we have to handle that that shuttle is going to start on one and then now we begin with naveen okay yeah so let us lose so i'm going to go and get blueprints over here which is going to be good for a couple different reasons because we can get moving you need blueprints i need blueprints uh the game tells us we need blueprints and we need blueprints to upgrade these buildings yeah i definitely want to do that leave this one for me leave that one for you i need to build mine oh i see okay i'm probably gonna take this one here so uh let's go ahead and so i'm taking this action so i have to place a worker yeah okay and i'm gonna take this one and so this one so you get i get a crystal pistol yeah you get two of them actually because the blueprint itself gets you a crystal yeah that's right and actually at the start of your turn this one oh yes this is supposed to come up with me yes cool gotta make sure that we are uh keeping track of our crystal currency yes yeah so i can boost it uh by uh by placing another worker into this area yeah i think i will do that i mean if you're gonna go back to the colony side i might as well have you're gonna get your worker back yeah so you're next to well we're not gonna worry about this right now i'm not next to plants so i'm thinking i'm not gonna take the plant one okay and then you want me to leave this for you right yes okay maybe i'll take the water one this one yeah it'll get me an extra water also when i take it oh this one gives you the ability to take tactiles although i need them you need them so okay uh my uh my oxygen is maxed oh so it would yeah so i couldn't take that so i think i'll take this one yeah and that's another one for you it is yeah and another crystal for you so you are going to lose those if you don't uh move my rover yeah you also get a white i do get a water for that yeah and that does not come out of here it comes off from off the board yeah perfect and in order to keep track of which blueprints have been upgraded you got to put your building on it yes i always forget to do that so here is uh building and building now i could technically do this again by boosting it because i'm just going to bail anyway and if i move this over i get them back okay you know what i i will not take another um blueprint i think i'm going to hold hold off yes uh but i will move the rover to give me some options so i'm going to spend these two crystals uh to move the rover just right onto this dead center spot as your executive action as my executive action yeah this way because i have these two i can uh start building out into this area here and we needed an excuse to spend those two crystals so that we didn't feel like you were wasting them yeah they're coming back anyway yeah i'll move into this spot here this makes the most sense for me because then i can upgrade this and that okay yep still that's good all right uh your turn is not done however no because the aliens are mad and they're ready to vandalize oh no that spot the mine the mine that's not good no problem okay still still okay at least that card is out we don't have to shuffle the the vandalizing deck until that card gets popped up yeah that that scare away the vandal then the mind will be at risk okay so go ahead and lay your piece down uh i think i came here so that i could uh take some uh tactile yeah yes i should take two definitely so i'm going to go ahead and take this action okay and i'm going to place my worker here let's just lay them down so that we can see them from above sure and i'm definitely going to take this one because i feel like we're going to be needing to move our rovers oh and i just realized that that's that's for advancing tech yeah yeah never mind i don't need to even put a worker there so i'm gonna take this action yep and take this tactile uh for free yeah the rover tactile i'm gonna place it here it's gonna get me a crystal which is nice and i since i took a tactile this is going to go down nice five and i get another crystal nice nice yes all right what building do you want to build me building i'm gonna build uh i'm not too sure i think i want to upgrade build the battery but we just can't upgrade them that's the problem yeah so the more buildings you put out there without being able to upgrade them will give the aliens more more things to vandals thanks to blackouts yeah yeah so maybe i won't take the battery one i'll take one of these two okay if you do the plants uh so i think i should do the plants and then you should build them because my bot is kind of in this northern section and yours is in the southern section so okay it'd be nice to kind of ping off you can build the water plants i can build the waters exactly and i have this blueprint for the waters perfect so i have to uh pay a battery okay i'm gonna place this well before i do it's a ductile it is so this goes down to four another okay and i'm going to place it here which lets me take a one of these resources a resource from definitely not a crystal i'm just going to take the battery back what do i need batteries for uh batteries are for building building water water and there's actually you know what a lot of these discovery tiles are batteries they are yeah so maybe i will take a plant okay for just in case if you need to build a rocket build the shuttle yeah yeah all right i believe that's it and there's nothing that costs just one crystal so unfortunately that is going to get wasted so then before i end my turn can we lay you down or you want to keep it up oh let's keep it up we have to oh yes yes we're going to vandalize the plant the plant building okay that needs to get upgraded nobody has the blueprints for that nope well we shall see what happens all right so then i'm done with my turn the shuttle will move naveen are you going to to leave to leave i am going to leave so i'm going to go here and let's get this battery out why not okay uh you are short of batteries and you need batteries to get your tactiles you have the textile mission so i'm just going to put this kind of uh it has to be three away from where your rover is which is here so one two three i'll just lay it down right there oh okay that's the same difference on both sides right yeah okay all right so then you can you have any you have any colonists in your uh i do this one right here yes and some overheads back and then what spot would you like to take uh leave this open for me oh you want the blueprint i need one i need a i need to upgrade that vine okay sounds good so since uh you have the technology now to build a water plant uh i should probably go here and then take this so that i have a little bit of something here sure okay cool so i'll do that yeah i guess there's no point really moving your rover at the moment yeah but sorry yeah because i already spent the two crystals to move it anyway okay so i too shall be moving so i have no choice here i'm gonna put this out do you want me to put this near you uh it doesn't matter you know what i'm gonna put this near me because i need i need several of these oh yeah yeah yeah so it has to go one two i'm gonna put it there there okay so you think you're just gonna kind of meander in this area yeah once i start getting my my rover going your rover can can reach it right away because it's the base two plus once i have this tactile that's not bad yeah so then i get my oh i didn't spend any call in history i'm honest though all right so then i'm just gonna go straight to here can you go and refill that for me yeah sure and i'm gonna take this blueprint because uh i need to upgrade some mines and such yeah so i'm going to go ahead and place that there i get a crystal okay again another waste of crystals yeah and i get a mineral oh nice that is great yeah that is really really nice minerals are super important yes all right it is your turn first okay first so go ahead and collect your crystals okay yep all three crystals come back in and they are usable so what are you going to do naveen uh should i upgrade my shelter what do you think and then that one is now protected and i have this uh i would have this space which basically allows me to build more shelters because more shelters means i can hold more goods yeah that's true so what do you think about that and if i get the scientist that's scientists if you get this scientist over here then yes you can we can both be using this card yeah let's do it let's do it so i'm gonna put my worker there okay and then i will do exactly that so uh i have to pay the mineral my one and only uh and i will put this building right there so now that is immune to um to the vandals the vandalism yes there is no shelter vandalism card cards so it's more like a spillover issue but it's still an issue nonetheless yes you know i i have these you could build it i could no i can't because i don't have the mineral uh yes this is exactly why you need uh oxygen oxygen yes this is exactly right sometimes that cycle of resources is a little tricky okay so i am going to be enacting my executive action here uh i'm not i'm going to i don't have the scientists so i'm going to be spending the two crystals yep so there you go and i am going to build a second shelter which is now susceptible to uh to alien vandalism vandalism but what that does is it gives me uh an extra slot for each resource yeah so i will put that out there so let's put it out and it has to go somewhere near my rover so i'm going to build it here and you spent the oxygen i'm spending it right now so that's it that goes out and there we go and so then you get two customers two crystals yep which are gonna come right back yeah that's nice okay we have something going i think that's it right that's it you have your main action you did an executive action let's try not to vandalize okay oh batteries that's not good because this is one this is definitely gonna get blacked out that's a problem or actually this one i don't know we'll see there's no blueprints to upgrade uh batteries yeah that's a problem okay so we're just going to forget about that building for now sure we can repair it later yeah maybe maybe maybe okay so now back to me um and i'm going to upgrade the mine while you can well i can i put a worker out here because um once the lady's down sure because naveen is already here i need to spend either colonists or crystals oh these crystals are supposed to boot uh yeah and then you waste the other ones i waste the other two yeah i could spend a crystal yeah you could if i want to stay here for a little bit longer i'm gonna spend a crystal to do that okay sure okay now i'm gonna upgrade this mine and my my bot is right here so that's that's fine okay so oh i didn't put my building on top i told you yeah you told me okay so in order to upgrade i need to spend a mineral which is perfect this is good yeah and then i'm going to go ahead and place this now this building is immune no longer has a blackout token so we'll lay this down it is and it's nice because we don't have to worry about points on these cards if we just take blueprints yes yeah in the base game competitive game you're worried about positive negatives on this right this game you don't have to worry about it at all and i could do an executive action but i don't really want to at the moment uh because i need to make some space i think i'm going to be uh staying here by the way okay but before we actually decide that let's see what gets vandalized yeah it is oxygen okay good building all right we have buildings all over the colony right now that just has spray paint everywhere we've got broken glass we're not too happy about this um although we were the ones who kind of invaded that reshuffle is coming soon yeah we have two cards so one card is gonna be the water building and the other card is gonna be the reshuffle we don't know the order it's gonna be in no as soon as we pull them these are gonna start getting blacked out i i could stay here and uh i have an upgrade that i can just put right on top of this oh i don't have that no i don't have the uh i don't have the mineral i can't do it you need minerals i need minerals desperately because i have these blueprints but i can't do anything with them so you need to upgrade these tactiles so i need to build okay i need to i need to build more mines is what it is okay okay so well that's my turn okay this is gonna move back are you going to orbit i just wanna let you know that i'm probably going to go to orbit i'm going to stay here i'm going to stay here until the shuttle comes back because we need to reach our goals before these all get blacked out yeah so it's kind of a race against the clock wow and uh wow i think the fastest thing for me to do since i already have this blueprint available okay is spend the crystals to build two minds because my bot is also in good place yeah good placement and i think if i build a mind my next turn it'll at least give us another building to put a blackout token on and that mine isn't going to come back until the cards get reshuffled yeah okay so if i try to do this boom boom i can complete one of my private goal cards and it would flip a problem allow me to advance my tactiles yeah that's true so i'm going to go to orbit i don't know what you want to do we definitely need to advance buildings or upgrade buildings we do but when you advance using my technology yes when i do that twice you're going to move that up boom boom yes and so then they'll get you one mineral one minute i think i'm gonna have to stay yes yeah so i'll stay okay well i'm gonna go so first uh we produce on any advanced buildings and it's just this one for me but it's a nice one it's a very nice one yeah it's a much needed mineral thank you cool and again those are wild yeah yep it's true and then i technically get my workers back but i don't have any on that side of the board or in my uh working area sure so then oh i don't know i ca so i can't take a tactile you cannot take a tactile because you're full um let me so i'm sorry uh if you if you i'm sorry yeah if you go here you have enough workers to do all the things that i think you're trying to do i'm thinking about doing that but do i spend a water or a plant the tactile for this is too difficult okay so i'm gonna send a plant yes okay i'm gonna go here to get another colonist colonists okay good colonists are necessary to do some stuff uh uh yes on the side of the board okay so then it's me first and uh i think i need to move my textiles out of the way yeah because in order for me to get two new ones i need some space yeah totally so i'm gonna go and take um this action right here okay it's gonna cost me a colonist good thing you're not there so spend anything extra and uh any resource of your choice well i'm just gonna go ahead and move these two one one two and two resources i'm gonna pay them both in minerals ooh why uh well i just you know they're so nice i don't know well i figured i'm gonna be um building yes mines that's right yes yes yes yes yeah that's your executive action that's right you had to sweat in there okay so that's my main action and so for my executive action i'm going to do my metal deposit um again okay okay for the first time actually yes that's perfect yeah and so i'm going to spend these two crystals okay yeah you have the color yes in order to do this and so you're using my tech to do this i'm using your text to go ahead and take oxygen oxygen okay and i think i'm going to place it here because i really don't want to have to waste any actions or resources to move my my bot totally so it'll have to be like this and this okay so i cost a colonist it does gosh i don't know if i calculated that well that's why you i think you earned the colonists right that's why you took the bonus here oh my god okay sure right so some crystals come out with it or do i put it here if you put it there then my rover's there so then that's one less crystal that's okay because if uh i if i come down this way i'll pick these up i can pick up this crystal okay yeah you like that yeah so i figured nobody's gonna be going down this way anyway not anytime soon i don't think yeah and then uh mines cost a colonist cool but i do get two minerals now right away yeah that's nice that is really really nice little machine you got there so that's two towards your goal right there yeah two towards my goal i just need to do it one more time okay are you i'm definitely going to advance my attack on that the one that you did so it's gonna go there okay it's gonna move this up opening up more space for me and i really need to move this in so if we can do this again lovely okay so that is my main action and my executive action actually so oh know um i don't even know what i'm rooting for here blue i think i all right water oh hey everything is vandalized oh my gosh wow wow that was a silence of sound of defeat gosh well naveen it's your turn me yeah well i think i might i might use your rover tech uh to because i desperately need a mineral to to upgrade this right here to protect this i guess sure we know for sure this is the uh because we literally drew all five cards that vandalized so we know this is the refresh card so we're gonna survive one turn but after that unless we redraw that again yeah it's blackout time okay so i am thinking that i probably want to protect this car this one right here what do you think so i need to advance this into here so i can get a free uh mineral how are you gonna do that i think i might use the rover and really just go to one of those spots and that would then advance yours uh one forward what do you think if that's the only way for you to get a mineral we need to upgrade that water building pretty bad pretty badly yeah yeah okay we need to upgrade buildings pretty bad we need to upgrade buildings so i'm gonna do that so i'm gonna take this action here which allows the rover to move twice but i'm using your technology for an extra two so you're gonna get to put that there oh great uh and so the rover is gonna make its appearance so it starts underneath this uh central mine and we're gonna go one two three four and i'm spending oh sorry these should have came in yeah i'm spending one crystal yeah to make it move a little bit further and i'm gonna take this and this is very important because it is one of my cards so i'm halfway there is very very important you can also move your your bot i can move my button i'm going to uh let me probably not just because i need to upgrade this so i'm already here yeah anytime i move further it's just that much harder to come back into the colony and help everything else okay so now you can uh upgrade a tactile twice or two different ones once you're paying the fee so i'm debating this i think i might go one yeah and i might go two out because then i can put this one in to get another one sure right so so i'm gonna i'm gonna do exactly that and i don't have to pay these fees at the top so i'm gonna go one two collecting that mineral and then that that opens up this spot for a future tech to come in probably this one right here okay so this goes to uh this one's going to go around helping you hold on to it my card here yeah exactly boy is that everything are you going to do executive action well i'm not the executive action i could take is uh taking one of these or building a shelter or building a shelter yeah so i'm not gonna do anything yeah okay yeah that's me well we already know what this is this is the uh i think this means we scared them away yes we're like we see them with the spray cans and we're like hey you aliens what are you doing yeah so we shuffle okay it would be lovely if we have that one in six chance of pulling that exact same card that would be that'd be perfect maybe it means business yeah oh the the bad if we pull if we pull that again and it would just buy us an extra round you want to shuffle it go for it okay let's try it let's let you down all right okay that's shuffled yes all right the shuttle are you gonna be uh using your oxygen that uh oh yes yes yes there thank you i'm gonna move this up and i could technically move my my bot but i kind of like where well so are you you're gonna get a blueprint yes i'm gonna get a blueprint i'm coming over so it really depends on which one you you think will be useful one uh allows you to get tech so instead of you having to go all the way back to orbit if you did this one right here you can get that tech and then have that as an executive action because your executive action here that you have you're only going to really tap it one more time right once you make that three set you're done you're over it right i'm gonna move over here then yeah and that's a good spot yeah and i did that because naveen allowed me to uh upgrade my rover tech if you're playing cooperatively this is we feel this is kind of the way to do it you want to get a tactile that your opponent that you're uh not opponent but your teammate teammate is gonna be able to utilize that that you can bump them up yeah exactly okay whoo so the shuttle moved okay now i have decided to move my whole three three orbit action plan has been it's just too much ruined so let me go here and oh do i want a battery yeah cause if i'm gonna do this action i still need to pay for the tech you do yep so i'm gonna take a battery and place it just lay it out i guess i'll just keep you know maybe you place it somewhere should it have to be three three away from there yeah one two three yeah okay yeah okay or you can put it here huh uh well we might build green here i doubt we're building blue out yeah that's why i put it there yeah and then i can take my oh no oh yes got scared there yeah i thought i was completely full here yeah but how why would i be right i haven't really acquired more colonists so can you go ahead and put a research test yes absolutely this is the part that i totally always forget to do there we go perfect all right and then now i'm gonna go and take a blueprint the one that we said was the oxygen tank uh i took a blueprint i'm gonna remember to put my advanced building on it i get a crystal and now we only need six more to complete that mission okay and i also get an oxygen you do yeah because that's that's what you get what it gets you yeah so that's it for me would you like to stand up your your flavors yeah my player piece so now we take actions yes we don't pull a card yet we take actions yeah what are you gonna do okay monique so upgrade now well now that that now that that uh rover is a three i can do literally the same thing because it's three plus base two to move it over i can go one two three four five spend crystal six and i would complete this right here allowing me to get another mineral like i said and i could then push this one as a one one and this would allow me to do an upgrade do that we like it yeah cool okay so let's do it so but the question is are you going to complete the private goal card right away in my opinion i i would like to wait for that i don't have to complete it but if i get the token the token is the same benefit as the goal card so i i will keep this in reserve until the blackout nice i like the way that you think yeah okay cool so go ahead okay so i'm taking the exact same action it's not going to require me to spend any uh any of my little citizens calling us here uh so we have a base two plus threes from monique's uh tech so we got one two three four five i will spend the one crystal i have to make it six yep and i'm moving all the way here so i can get this because i'm using your tech you now have this option option why thank you there okay my option option yeah and so now i get these two right so i'm gonna advance tech so i'm gonna move this one in get a mineral yeah and i don't have to pay that i get a mineral now i have minerals here so this is this is great this is what i needed yeah great because you're the mineral person so i ca there's no other way for me to get it i was really anxious for a second there yeah and then the next one is gonna be i'm gonna move this one in here yeah which allows me to do an upgrade yep so i'm gonna go ahead and do this upgrade the only one that i have and i'm going to protect this building from some catastrophe so i'm going to spend the mineral that cost that is the cost uh placing this building out here no it's immune and now it's immune and then uh that now you can now you can use an executive action to build more water buildings i don't oh yeah and i have a tactile for it you do and don't forget monique one of my missions from the very very beginning is to have three advanced buildings so now i'm two i have two advantages one more advanced building for this um two more blueprints two more blueprints which that that is that's the easy one yeah we need to move up this lss to get a little bit more though go on right there you can just take the last two i don't need them well you're gonna you're gonna upgrade this one right so uh yeah i need to take the plant one then is what we're saying ah yes okay so um that was all part of the well this one's complete this one's complete but i'm not gonna cash it in yet you may complete a private goal card on your turn yep we're going to choose not to because we would prefer to have a fully blacked out building yes to really utilize the effect of that that undoing yeah thing okay so my turn is not technically over uh i can break up my moves and i just exactly did that i moved the rover but now my bot has two movement points oh yes well you're technically supposed to do the bot and the rover and then do that and then do all the stuff okay yeah it didn't affect anything yeah because i know i'm eyeing that green one here and you have the that one to protect this one you gotta get closer i'm moving down one two so i can try to upgrade this hopefully we don't draw uh that green one before i can do all this stuff gotcha yeah i don't know if that's gonna happen but it at least puts me in position yes that's true yeah uh and i'm going to spend this to just upgrade sure there we got more movement points so now now our rovers can move up to six and actually i'm gonna go this way yeah so you can break off yep exactly all right now let's see what gets vandalized the water oh this is bad okay so the way that this works because there are no water buildings that can be vandalized if you vandalize shelters right and so between us it's going to be whoever has the least amount of completely blacked out shelters so far so far none of them have been and so then you go if there's in case of a tie you go in in turn order so naveen's shelter you know that's okay i think that's not too bad is that too bad because uh blackout tokens if they're not completely backed up don't really do anything yet it's when it gets hit again yes is the problem so it's just a buffer that's exactly why i built that shelter not only to get more but it to give us a buffer so somewhere where that can kind of deflect and take that yeah and it can take that hit if you take that extra hand it's not so bad if one shelter is gone right okay that's you that's me so that goes to me and i am going to do the rover actually okay you're gonna do the same thing yes okay oh that's good because i i was regretting not moving my bot actually because if i need to upgrade this building i need to be next to it you do yeah yeah and i'm not right now so let's move i'm going to move the bot first so right before you get your uh your crystal thank you i always forget that very easy to forget so i move my my bot first and then i can move my rover up to six six spaces texas yeah so that's pretty good bring my cute rover onto the board starting at the mine and i think i'm gonna go one two oh do i get a battery or do i build a building naveen uh build a building maybe um so you can build a it would be nice to build another water building but i'm so far away yeah because the bot has to build it and this advanced yeah i think i did this whole rover thing just so i can get started on these and so i can gain more crystals so that i could build that mine yeah because if you run over this crystal you'll take it you'll be able to do an executive oh you know what i can just do this to build a mine now yeah you could yeah okay that's what i'm gonna do i'm going to move my rover one two scoop three so i take this crystal nice and this is gonna allow me to build a building i'm gonna build a shelter i was originally gonna build a mine but then it would complete this yeah and if any of the mines would get taken away then that condition would no longer be true you gotta do it asap so i'm just gonna wait until we have something blacked out so that i can complete this nice nice so then i take this okay so you picked up the crystal and because that is one of these that moves down yeah another crystal and that's related to your uh your personal little objective there yeah it's nice okay so this is going to allow me to build a building i'm going to i'm going to construct a shelter okay so shelters core oxygen require oxygen so here's the oxygen and finally i can hold more people more colonists uh where do we oh it's gonna give me a ton of crystals yeah that's so funny i can't hold them you could leave this crystal here and then say you went like around it knowing that you're gonna get all those crystals there's no sense in picking it up right here yeah yeah let's not take the long route i'm gonna take the the long route so i'm gonna go ahead and place this here where you're yeah okay do we care about the oh well here you're in i'm in a position i'm gonna try to upgrade it so two shelters i'm gonna get two crystals built a building i've not built a rocket ship i know i want to i'm thinking about doing that uh for my next action okay so you're gonna stay you're gonna stay on mars i'm gonna stay on mars yeah because i need to build that mine i i feel like something's gonna get blacked out now yeah um right now actually because i'm done with my turn yeah so ready yeah i don't know here we go oh nice oh no that's oh i guess that's just not bad that's not bad the water is protected and it'll just go back in default so we we pulled the uh we pulled the shuffle so it all it does it shuffles the water back in but the problem is if you pull the water again your shelter is going to get blacked out either way no matter what we pull something's getting blacked out so yeah and i'm not like stacked with any uh you know resources here so it's getting stressful sweating all right so anyway the ship moves yes i think i gotta go i think i gotta get i gotta get this blueprint that green one because that's why i positioned this bot over here by the way uh we didn't mention this before but there's a chance that we might lose oh yeah yeah totally big chance we might lose there's also a chance that we might be making mistakes so we apologize in advance we're doing our best to keep track of everything yeah if we make any mistakes please feel free to let us know please let us know yeah okay so are you gonna move uh yeah i gotta go so i'm gonna take off so do you have advanced buildings i do so i get uh water and crystal and i can hold the water because i have two two shelters two shelters that's shelters plus one shelters plus one yep colonists this one he comes back yeah okay where would you like what kind of benefit do you think i should take that tech that green tech or what do we think in here because i need minerals to do all the blueprint and developing stuff and our advanced advanced building stuff the only way i'm able to get uh this these minerals is by me having a tactile that can slip into this spot right can you take this one yeah i think i could yeah i can i can spend this in that yeah why not okay yeah let's do it right yeah so i'll go there okay so i'll take this tactile yeah uh and that's gonna cost me battery yep and i'll i'll do a water since that's one i'm the most abundant then the one i just earned and you get a crystal and i get a crystal yeah and now we only need three more tactiles before that mission card gets completed and so uh i should probably lay this down on top of this resource i get a resource of my choice from the uh the warehouse warehouse that sounds about right yeah some sort of supplies okay so so i will take this battery here uh i definitely don't want to take these crystals because i'm out of space so i will take that give me a little option you're close to the water building yeah and it's gonna require batteries so it's not a bad idea and it would be nice to be able to move this kind of up a little bit eventually we haven't put out any other buildings that's true yeah okay i'm staying you're staying okay so there's you first okay i think it's a blueprint grabbing yeah yeah so i'm gonna go put this one here taking this action so blueprints that's a good thing because uh this will be my third blueprint so i will take that green one over there this one yep okay okay so then you get another crystal i do get another oh sorry these crystals sitting back here yeah here you go making mistakes okay you also get a plant i do get a plant which i can hold and you must place your building and i must find your blueprint i'm building on the blueprint now that we have several um buildings yeah uh do i want to boost this by spending my other worker that would get me the fourth blueprint do you have eyes on that blueprint at all i haven't been thinking about blueprints no if i take that blueprint it not only helps us here i think you should take it but yeah there yeah yeah it fits your goal card your private well definitely do it so the question is do i want okay maybe i don't no no you should and the reason why is because we won't get new blueprints until the lss marker moves and nobody is constructing oh and you're blocking the blueprint spot there had you not been on there i would have convinced otherwise but you're right because i'm planning on going back to mars and if you're covering that spot that gets me a blueprint right here i can't get it so yeah neither of us have built any lss buildings so far we've only built mines and uh shelters shelters so the blueprints aren't coming they're not coming i'm gonna move this over into here i will take that last one so that means if we get a blacked out i have to send one of my colonists to it you do yeah so okay so that's going to go there a little bit building on top i do however get a little bit of oxygen for doing that hey hey and you get another question you get another crystal which is a little overkill i think oh man we are not going to complete this mission goal card unless we yeah we gotta move that up uh i don't know i feel like we don't maybe we don't move it up maybe we'll see we'll see how the blackout situation is because we definitely need to uh protect ourselves against that right you can build a water building yeah i could do this right here right yeah you could and then that'll get you more crazy crystals and uh one of these you can get another mineral let's do it i'm sold sold okay i got that that's how you get my minerals okay so i'm using this card that i have here this is the uh the moisture uh vapor vapor vaporizer yeah that was for this advanced building yes so two crystals out two crystals go out executive action this is why i built these right to do this totally so uh i am going to crush this crystal unfortunately we left it there and you crushed it maybe yeah things changed in this game so fast so uh so let's go ahead and build it uh there are no crystals to be laid out and then we are gonna put that down there you have to spend a battery i do which i have so that goes out you're using my tactile to do this i am using your tech tile to do it okay which i will just uh i guess i'll just i would get the oxygen but i'm going to move it up to get a mineral okay which i can now hold because i have two shelters perfect in addition that is an lss building did you get two waters i uh did not take two waters i can only handle one more water okay so one more water and that's because you built you increase the size of this complex exactly and this is the first time we are building an lss building so it goes up you get another crystal i do i have one over here okay and which one would you like i'm thinking the mineral totally mineral yeah mineral heavy well there you go that was our first lss building yeah congratulations thank you and now i have uh stuff that i can kind of help do stuff stuff and stuff well let's see what gets vandalized this is shuffled what do you want uh i want water oh i want the shuffle card yeah but water would be fine because that water would be fine i bought some time with water i want something to get blacked out i wouldn't mind let's see that's okay that's that's that means nothing got blacked out so this is gonna go right on the thing i just constructed yeah that is okay hey okay right because we don't have any plans on doing stuff i don't know the reason why i wanted something to get blacked out was so that i can undo it and and complete that already but well go ahead and lay down here oh yeah let's lie down good piece go to bed so i was going to build a shuttle and that would be able i would be able to unlock a new executive action because it would be nice to just be able to rover my way around well you got it you got to move your crystals uh you're going to lose a crystal oh yeah yeah unfortunately thank you naveen can you just i'm on top of the crystals yeah even though i don't do it for myself yeah so i'm thinking my options are going to be either i still can go with my original plan okay building a shuttle or i move my rover over rover and move get myself a battery are you not gonna upgrade this thing and protect it from from disaster here's the deal okay it looks scary because everything's been um vandalized but if i were to upgrade this yes it would take out the vandal vandal or the blackout token sorry but if we were to pull that building and this is immune our shelters would start to get damaged yeah okay if we were to wait for this card to get pulled and this would turn into a uh fully blacked out then you claim right then i claim it remove the person and now we have all these cards to get through all these turns before that building comes out yeah okay so that's that's my thought process right i just say hey let these things get vandalized and just undo it okay yeah right by completing my completing private goal yeah goals and missions okay cool i think i'm going to build a building okay um you pulled this new the new cocktail we're gonna make use of it yeah give me a free boost give you a free boostie boost okay i'll take it okay i'm gonna go here then and nobody is here so i don't have to pay anything extra and i'm going to construct a here is this a good spot uh yeah so yes i'm going to use your text so go ahead and give yourself an oxygen in order to build this building i have to pay technically i have to pay a plant yes but i think i'm going to spend a mineral because i have so many this is a good opportunity for me to use them before i build my third mine right and like get a ton of minerals yeah because they'll come back to you so okay so then uh that is the oxygen one so it's gonna go there once upon a time we knew what all these buildings were actually called i don't want the greenhouse oxygen generator probably yeah maybe generates oxygen yeah yeah so i'll put place that there and i get two oxygen resources which i can now hold and you just contribute to the lss i did thank you i've contributed to the lss yes that is an lss building this goes up i get another crystal and you get one of these benefits here and one of these benefits i'll take a mineral yeah i can i can hold one more universal yeah yeah cute this crystal's gonna get wasted unfortunately all right let's go let's see what gets vandalized you know that is our first our first blackout it has to be you want to be at you because oh i would like my workers for when i go back this is bad when i go back i'm going to claim uh one of my objective cards to undo this this so you'll get your worker back let's do that okay remember if you cannot put a colonist out onto a blacked out building you lose the game and it has to come from somebody's living space it doesn't have to be the person who's whose turn it is this has to be from the living space right yeah we gotta be careful so yeah all right anywho that's me no executive actions for you no i already took my turn in full okay so the ship the shuttle goes back yep are you coming uh yeah i'll go so we're gonna go here what would you like me to lay out because i'm thinking i'm gonna lay it out construct the building construct the building okay so here we can go three way one two three i'll put that there can you go oh it's three different from from my rover right oh from your rover one two three it's the same difference i just want to put it next to you so you can just start just grabbing them okay yeah yes cool i always forget to do this but this time i remembered okay so that's that and then now we are gonna go uh to this spot i get my worker back and then we are coming back so i get this guy back yeah okay what's what are you going to take maybe a resource grab i mean he's a resource grab resource grab oh rude just going to grab from the warehouse huh yeah what are you grabbing uh well [Laughter] i i maxed out on water so definitely not i'm pretty much max out on crystal so i i think i'm gonna take a plant why not okay i'm staying okay cool so you're first oh you have to waste the crystal too uh yeah i do so one two one out i'm going to claim which one can i'm going to claim the blueprint one okay same difference right but yeah i'm claiming this i've completed this objective right here so one two three four yep so i'll turn that face down and i'll just put this kind of that is one down one down all this time and this is the first first one getting completed yeah exactly so because of that we have a blackout here uh so this undoes the blackout it's still vandalized still vandalized but i get my work but she gets her worker back which is good and then now i think i will uh go ahead and well you actually get benefits from for completing the thing i do don't i yeah you can either upgrade a building or you can upgrade a tactile twice so you're oh when you move the rover right yeah i'm supposed to claim this yes okay so this didn't happen earlier so this was supposed to be claimed yeah it doesn't really technically affect anything yeah so so i'm gonna clear out the space because i i spent that right so i cleared out that space and then i have a double upgrade one two to get the mineral that makes sense that is that what that was from yeah when you move your rover or not the road no no no it was from when i built that so so doing that requires you to move this you have to move the tactile that's gonna it stands yes it's gonna be the same difference again this one moves not this one yeah and then now with the two i go one two perfect okay so that's just for right housekeeping and accounting yeah because you have to if you're going to gain the benefit from somebody else using your tactile you can only i just got excited i felt it yeah the energy yeah yeah okay so uh that was uh claiming that yeah that wasn't your turn now it's time to take your time now it's time to take the turn okay so with this worker i will go here okay i will do the upgrade to this one yeah and so that's going to cost me that mineral that i just earned and then now i'm going to clear this out and now we are safe there cool so that's that and then that technically completes this one here are you gonna hold off uh i think i'll hold off until we see if there's another blackout and that could protect us from the blackout okay so technically we haven't gone down the track but technically we have three of these completed yeah so i've completed all three of my private missions right now nice and uh i think i'm not gonna do an executive action i don't really i don't really know what i'm doing so uh all right you know what let's see let's move the rover yeah let's get this because this rover is not building anything so we're gonna uh bot bot okay yes it's gonna go uh one two so maybe i can help build something here if we need to okay why not let's see what gets vandalized oh this one it's dead yeah yeah oh who's worker uh yours i only have one yeah that's unfortunate okay so then on your turn i can do it yeah i can do it it's fine cool i'm gonna get that worker back okay so too okay so for my turn this gets wasted fortunately and uh i'm going to i'm going to build a shuttle and the reason why is because i would like to unlock this executive action that allows me to move my rover since this uh private goal objective wants me to take these how many of them do you need i need two more two more okay okay so i have to build a shuttle and um it's gonna cost me a water and a plant i'm gonna spend two minerals since i'm going to probably build another mine yeah and it lets me take this do i'm gonna take two colonists because i don't really have any need for another bot at the moment yeah yeah okay so there's my two colonists cool and then i am executive action right you're going to do this executive action yes i'm going to take this executive action to build my third mine so that uh oh and that's gonna let you do that sure so that i can complete this card right and get my colonists back maybe okay two crystals tapping this executive action building uh the third mine building my third mine over here okay so that's going to let you yes yeah so uh let's just put an oxygen for me knowing that that's an option and i have to place my worker there so this one's gonna go and then those workers that you just got from the rocket ship yeah it displaces my bot uh you don't have to you can displace to any other section it doesn't have to be right there do we care about where i feel like you're on the outskirts there you might as well at least be on the interior here so worst case scenario something wild happens you can at least try to get to it maybe you want to hang out here all right i guess i'll just hang out here yeah that way i can still upgrade this if necessary if maybe so i built another mine you have three so i get i technically get three more three minerals but i can only hold two more okay that's why you spent the two on the previous turn yeah because you knew you're going to get them back nice and i complete this objective you do which is to have three advanced uh building and or mine so you have so they're all available three they're all yours yeah so that's gonna bring this down okay you're gonna clean it now yeah i'm gonna claim it now so that we can remove this right i can get this back so we've undid a completely blacked out this is now just vandalized perfect and this can now be upgraded because previously we couldn't upgrade and i'm in position to upgrade it perfect and now i can up i can uh move up two tactiles oh i can upgrade it you can do an upgrade yeah you should do it you want me to do it yeah totally because then as an executive action you can get the tech that you need as part of your other uh but i was just gonna move to oh you're gonna go back yeah i'm gonna go back yeah okay you know what okay i'm gonna i am just going to so i'm gonna do the upgrading protections twice okay so this will go here which allows me to upgrade that uh building technically nice yeah and i guess i'll move through the space yeah water over yep there so i'm gonna go ahead and upgrade this building since that's what i have a blueprint for sure costco so there's that good places here so now this is no longer vandalized nice and uh i have access to this which helps me get tactile detected what i need exactly so that's my executive action uh that's the end of my turn so let's see what gets vandalized ready yep it is battery oh battery is you want me to do it yeah can you i have no workers battery has been blacked out it's blacked out so we only have one blacked out five blackout is a loss or if we can't place a worker flash colonists on a blackout that's the scary part but you have cards i have cards to undo yeah yeah so we have basically there's money in the bank there's no shuffle so far so one of these two cards is the shuffle card so and the other card is oh my my you're mine but the thing is you claim that mine uh none of them have been vandalized so far so yeah cool so yeah yep that's it all right are you moving um so i'm gonna stay i'm gonna stay yeah i'm just gonna stay yeah your private goal cards are kind of done they're all done yeah and so i can just kind of put out fires you can try to get these done maybe if those get done before i finish mine yeah uh yeah i don't think i'm gonna build there's no blueprints to grab right now so the only way blueprints come out is if the lss uh we bumped it up but you can start working on that i have the stuff to do it so i might be able to okay well i'm moving so you're gonna stay i'm gonna stay i'm moving so i get oh no i can't hold can't hold it more oxygen all right so then i just get three minerals i can hold one more you can hold one more okay yes cool just just the one then i can take back this colonist i don't have anybody in my working space and i'm going to go ahead and uh attack tech tuck it up which one you want uh just the free one really because right now i just need this neat stuff okay so i might as well take a crystal sure go ahead and place that there i get a crystal from the supply it's also another tactile so this can go down one nice and i get another crystal for that okay cool huh and now it's me yeah so i keep forgetting i have this thing right here oh yeah yeah i should totally uh um what was that for again i think it was when you built your a third uh mine so i could just move this out i might as well okay let's do that cool yeah not that these matter anymore because it's not worth any points yep okay so now i'm over there and it's me next okay so this is technically gonna end or this can potentially end next round you could yeah yeah yeah so okay i'm going to take uh this action so go ahead and grab all your crystals yes thank you yeah crystal police here i'm gonna take this action okay and i'm gonna take my my fifth and final tactile i'm just gonna make it the cheapest one cheapy place that right there and i have to spend a battery to do that so let's find a mineral instead um are you gonna take one of these crystals well i get a tactile benefit that's right so i'm gonna crystal oh if i take a second one i can we can really be done but you can't because uh they're blocked up oh yeah yeah they thought of everything yeah they did how could they well that is my fifth tactile one two three four five so this is technically done yep okay i might as well complete it okay and i get to upgrade attack twice so i just let's do that get myself a mineral mineral and then upgrade this as well please yeah okay and uh i'm not sure if i could i know that you can kind of complete those at any time during your turn but i'm not sure if it can interrupt an action because now technically i have another space here right right but and that would end that that mission interesting because we're not sure about that and i feel like that's probably illegal we're not gonna do it so yeah yeah that interrupts the action yeah that makes sense yeah so now we only need three more until the game i need to start claiming these i wish i had a four that's it i'm not gonna take an executive action i'm just gonna be done so let's see what gets vandalized re-shuffle oh that's okay i think that's when those shuffle cards yeah we're doing fine we're doing fine we're about we have enough colonists if we get completely blacked out this game will end next next round turn yeah well so i still have a turn to take so i'm gonna leave you down thank you there's no way that we're gonna get five blackouts no i think we're doing okay by next turn yeah assuming we play this game correctly right that's the kicker yeah all right so it's your turn okay can you complete i'm done i've completed everything but you haven't claimed them i have not claimed them so you can claim two more yeah you really just need one more can you somehow take a tactile um no oh you should have come with me uh i should have come with you yes and davine gone to the orbit orbital side of the board right we could have ended the game to sean but i was just meandering here just doing nothing so well you know what i'm gonna do i think i think we're gonna protect ourselves if i do this i'm gonna build a rocket ship and i'm gonna spend these two and get a rocket ship okay and so let's just go ahead and build um this rover rocket ship why not okay so this is gonna come over here and i'm going to take two colonists just to kind of protect ourselves from any crazy blackout stuff which is about to happen it's just going to happen cool are you done yep all right vandalize this where i am yeah okay yeah this one has not been vandalized yet that's okay that is fine that works yeah okay okay so so should i start claiming these by the way be so that we don't uh find ourselves not having a turn to close oh yeah before we end the veeam's turn you claim those so i'm just gonna claim these uh so let's go ahead and uh take any three resources of my choice i'll take uh three batteries okay one two and three and again i'm able to claim this because i have one two three uh advanced buildings nice so that's that's what you did that i did the bottom yep three uh three batteries okay and then this one uh this one requires me to have two of these tokens which i did when i went here and here yeah i can take a scientist without paying anything uh but let's just go ahead and move up on these tracks have you uh have you taken it have you taken a um an executive action nope okay so technically we've done this kind of out of order but just to kind of move it along here you do this vandalism card last that's a lot yeah so naveen's like wait dice wait i still have my stuff yeah okay so that's kind of full of that so okay so i'm gonna take this bottom uh benefit here yeah and i think i'm gonna get that free scientist uh which scientist uh works with you over there the oh i don't remember i don't know what they're called this that one uh the uh geochemist yeah the geochemist all right so i'm gonna take the geochemist for free for free and so that's going to be working with me here okay and so we need one last claimed and then technically i never did an executive action so i could do this right now i can i could uh send my geochemist over to monique's oxygen tank oxygen tank over here to take this action it's gonna either cost me two crystals or that particular individual that's free so it's free and uh i'm gonna take a tactile i'll take this tactile here which cost one of these yeah and any other resource and those are gonna go there i'm gonna place this down here getting me a crystal and because i took a tactile this moves down getting me a crystal it's done and it's done we've completed we did it it was kind of a puzzle we were like wait but we could do this we can do that lots of options but it does it got a little messy there but technically it was all there so yeah hopefully that made sense yeah i should not have pulled we should not have pulled the vandal card i should have claimed everything yes done everything and then ended the game hence no no vandal card would have came out yeah yeah had had we not done that and we just like pulled the vandalism card and said well it's too late we still still would have been fine because it would have gone to my turn i would have done uh the rover actually and then completed my private goal card and then it would have been your turn you just completely it would have been the same thing yeah so we kind of sped it along yeah we spent a lot yeah that is the main idea yeah and so these six uh cards that we completed were my two private objectives for five tech and three of these mines left advanced buildings yeah so i had the four blueprints which i have here i had the three advanced buildings we talked about earlier and then of course the two research tiles by moving my rover to the side so the tops because you had that tech of the the rover so i was able to use that and then we depleted and then we took all the check all set up yeah we've been seven and two player game and it's done that's it yeah well done nice good job did it all right so let's talk about this this is chapter three of this expansion because i kind of got lost in the game and i forgot that we're actually talking about an expansion for this game yes so this is considered moderate difficulty and uh you know we were when we were debating which of the two cooperative uh modes to play we thought you know that chapter two looks fun it's it's very uh it's very exciting it's very stressful but we didn't want people to watch the video and think like oh it's already a hard game if i get this expansion it's just gonna get harder like why would i do that right right so we wanted to showcase this chapter so you can see that there is a wide variety of experience levels of difficulties that that you can play in this game right in this expansion i mean so if you are someone who just wants to get better at the game or to understand the rules better this is a great scenario for you or if you're an experienced player and you just want to introduce this game to more players this is a great option yeah it does uh do certain things that don't really require you to worry about certain parts of the game like we didn't really worry about scientists scientists are still a viable option we need to get them but you can use them instead of paying for crystals instead of having to worry about like this crystal engine that we were worrying about and there's a very valuable option to do that when somebody else like monique has that uh that car that blueprint card and then i if i got that early enough we could have just constantly both had that for free for free yeah and i would always be able to just do that so there is definitely a viable option there we didn't really highlight the this this area here but you know no reason for you to get contract cards so that's something that you don't really have to introduce and the lss moving up on the lss track is not i feel like it's not as integral in this specific chapter because uh this chapter is all about uh upgrading your buildings it's all about timing of when you upgrade these buildings and you know we've played a game our first game where we were building more buildings because we're used to wanting to up to go up on the lss and we're realizing that that's how you these aliens have access to more buildings so if you can protect the buildings that you have if you can complete these mission cards so that when they do get overrun or blacked out then you can finally claim it when the opportune time is there and then you can now you know kind of undo what they just did exactly it's especially fantastic like i was mentioning if you want to introduce this to new york players because it's not it's not easy like it's not like a walk in the park no but uh so for experience players you'll still feel that challenge but at least you can talk to these newer players and kind of uh show them how you're supposed to strategize with illusory game in general yeah and with this one in particular yeah because you can you can uh kind of converse about the life cycle of different things because there's a cycle this converts to this which is that and that and so in a competitive game you kind of have to keep it all buttoned up and kind of like know the rules by yourself yeah in this way it's like okay i have a battery what can i do with this oh you can do you can build the water okay great sounds good so and they also don't have to worry about scoring points so you don't have to worry about the points on the blueprint cards or the ones on the scientist cards or you just have to worry about that part of it that's something that that they can kind of focus on later when they actually go into the competitive mode right and for people who do want a challenge that chapter two is really difficult yeah yeah it is so for people who do want to kind of step up uh the base game chapter two is a great option because uh it involves a spreading of an infection and so your colonists become infected and kind of wherever they are it they infect the rest of the colonists in that area and if you hit a certain number of colonists infected then you lose the game right and so you want to vaccinate them it's it's tough it's a tough one now we haven't played all the chapters in this expansion uh if there was one that i would say i would probably be most excited about it would probably be chapter one the one versus many the one versus because it is a very kind of different spin on this game and i really wanted to make a video on that yeah but it's just so many so many pieces and yeah kind of a lot of rules to learn but again if you have any questions about what you saw today about this gameplay or if you saw that we made a mistake we would love to know so anyway thank you so much for watching the video we hope you enjoyed it uh if you do have questions like we said please leave them in the comments down below and there is going to be a link to the kickstarter as soon as we have that link uh and if you'd like to see more videos like this in the future please consider subscribing stay tuned for the kickstarter on uh the 15th 15th yeah thank you [Music] thanks [Music] you