Fisheries of Gloucester - Playthrough & Review

0:00 hi everyone my name is Monique and I'm navine from before you play and today we're going to be playing a two-player only game called the Fisheries of Gloucester yes this game is designed by Steve Finn and published by Dr Fin's games and in this game we are going to be taking on the roles of two different fishing companies competing over fish to satisfy different preservation cards yes this is a two-player only game in which we are going to be going back and forth essentially trying to fish and moving our boats along the ocean in efforts to score the most points by the end of the game the game plays in about 30 minutes and as per usual we are going to start with a quick teach of the game and then we'll go straight into our two-player playthrough and end with our thoughts so if you'd like to jump around we'll include time stamps in the description below now before I begin if you can do us a big favor and turn on your clling on subtitles just in case we make any mistakes we can add those Corrections there lastly if you like these kind of videos and you want to see more in the future please consider subscribing all right and with that we are ready to begin so if You' please direct your attention to the center of the table we're all set up here for a two player only game of the Fisheries of Gloucester welcome to glester the ocean now like we're mentioning ear in this game we play as different fishing companies and so each player has three boats that all start along the edge of the shore here and over the course of the game we are going to try to sail our boats uh further and further out uh into the ocean in order to pick up the various fish and turn them in for preservation cards which will eventually score us points at the end of the game but in order to sail our boats we'll first have to Place Ocean tiles because we cannot sail along uh the light blue spaces as it is right now and eventually we'll also be able to dock our boats along the these islands which will also score us

1:31 points now the game has played over the course of six rounds and each round has four phases starting by flipping over the topmost uh chart star chart card I believe it's called there you go and basically this card will tell us uh what type of tiles we take from the supply that round so you get one each and then I'll get one of these L shapes so do you yes thank you and this is going to be for the first round so you might as well just keep the card yeah then once that's done each player is going to get a certain amount of time depending on if they're first or second player we randomly determined ahead of time uh who's going to be the first player because that determines where you place your boats and so today naen is first player at the start of the game and I'm second the difference is whoever is a first player for that round only gets six time and that's important because every time you take an action you'll basically have to spend time for it and the person going second gets to add second seven time that's also important because sometimes you might end around with left over time and so you're just adding on six or seven time to that to a maximum of 12 then you move on to the third phase which is the actions phase so then starting with the first player we're going to alternate taking one action each until you have decided that you are done for the round now there are four different types of actions in the game the first one is very simple does not cost any time and this is charting a course on the ocean because like I was mentioned earlier we cannot move our boats across these light blue spaces of the board we have to Place Ocean tiles in order to move now when taking this action you can only place one of your

3:02 available tiles in your supply uh like I said it does not cost any time but there are rules to placement when you place uh an ocean tile it has to be orthogonally adjacent to a boat that is on the board it does not have to be your boat but it has to be a boat so something like this would be legal but you could not uh put the ocean tile over a a fish or over Rough Waters or on an island space or on the actual Shore sure and when taking this action you're only placing one of your tiles the next type of action is sailing so this is one of the main parts of the game when you take this action you are choosing one of your boats and you are sailing as far as you can slash as you'd like to and then you spend time depending on how far you went so you can only move orthogonally and for each orthogonal space that you move it's going to be one time each so if I just move forward on that ocean tile like that then that would be two time MH in this game you can move across your opponents uh ships so if it looked like that I could move uh past naven ship but you could not stay on a space that has the boat um but each time you enter a space with a ship that is two time so if I were to have moved like this that's 2 + 1 three time total moving on to rough water spaces also cost two time but the difference is you can stop in a space like that eventually we'll be able to move on these Island spaces and if you ever move a boat onto these spaces it basically takes your boat out of the game for the rest of the game because you can no longer move a boat that has been docked on an island but at the end

4:32 of the game all of these Helm symbols are points so you'll be scoring the number of Helm symbols on that island at the end of the game mhm and the last thing which is actually quite important is your boats cannot move further away than your furthest behind boat so uh we actually have this uh this marker at the bottom here to Mark how far our furthest behind boat is so with that rule I basically could not move my boat past this column over here and so we are going to be moving this uh throughout the game to sort of keep track of of what that distance looks like but just so you know you can move your boats backwards so that is the one exception to that rule if say for example uh my boat somehow is on an ocean tile over here and one of my Boats were to move backwards then that is the the only way in which um they can be more than three columns apart and that is the basics of sailing uh again we are going to be doing this throughout the game so you'll see us do that numerous times the third action is fishing so again one of the main points of the game if you happen to be adjacent to a fish let's all pretend that these are ocean tiles underneath us then you can collect each orthogonally adjacent fish for One Time Each now one action allows you to collect as many fish as you can/ are able to but you have to just pay the time and you can fish from several boats it does not have to be just from one boat when you collect fish they're going to go on your player board because they will be very important for the last type of action which is

6:04 preserving fish which you can only do once per day which is basically once per round yep six rounds six rounds and this allows you to basically turn in fish for one of the topmost preservation cards here they are in six different stacks and they're basically stacked according to what their requirements are so for example uh this stack over here wants you to have two different colored fish and all of the cards in this stack are going to have that requirement and a majority of them only have two cards by the way per stack mhm you can only take one of these cards per day so if I wanted to take this card I could discard the black and the gray fish to take it at the end of the game it'll score me two points and some of them not all of them but some some of them come with an action that you can take right away you cannot save it for later though you have to decide in that moment whether or not you want to do it and it's going to be stuff like moving one boat a certain number of spaces or sometimes you'll be able to move a boat and place a specific tile from the supply which is nice some cards will give you additional time so we will talk about those as we claim them and that's essentially it those are all the four types of actions that we're going to be taking over and over again over the course of six rounds now one last thing is the lobster each of us has a lobster that we can spend once during the game to basically take uh an action again right you basically take two turns back to back with the exception of preserving fish you can still only do this action once per round so then at the start of your turn if you've decided that you are done for the round you don't want to take any more actions then you can choose to end your day but again that is at the start of your turn and

7:35 the first person to do that will take the initiative card and you basically get to decide if you want to go first or second in the next round and again the difference is going to be how much uh time you get and again you can Bank time from round to round that's right and once somebody has decided they're done then obviously the other player can continue taking actions until they're completely done once the round ends each player Can Only Hold one of their ocean tiles uh over for the next round and then you basically begin again at the end of six rounds the game will end and you go into endgame scoring and all of the endgame points are basically the amount of Helm points that you have on your preservation cards as well as those Helm symbols on islands that your boats have docked on and at that point Whoever has the most points wins now it is important to keep in mind that fish at the end of the game are not worth any points but they are the tiebreaker so that's about it are you ready to get started sure let's do it all right so if you missed a teach we already discussed that we randomly decided that naen is going to be going first we've already done the first phase of the first round so we are now ready to get into it let's go oh and Nine's already ahead of me you already took your time right six time yep okay so we are now in phase two uh for anybody just joining us now this was the first star chart card so that is why we have so many ocean tiles in our supply already and because I'm going second I get seven time all right so here we go day one action starting with you day one action okay so I'm I'm going to be playing as the green ship so the green player I'm going to take an action that is going to be charting the Seas charting the ocean we're just going to

9:06 go ahead and just put this outting a course there charting a course all right me so again that did not cost any time and it is legal because it's orthogonally adjacent to a ship does not have to be yours mhm all right well since I am starting with seven time I'm going to do something a little sneaky a little nasty perhaps nasty um one thing I didn't mention during the teach is you can move horizontally I guess across the shore uh and you don't have to place an ocean tile to do that so I'm going to move across naine ship so that's 1 2 3 four okay cuz again moving across a ship costs two so it's a total of four times so I go down to three a lot of time yeah no time to pick up fish no time to waste but it is early so back to you very good well then if you're going to do that I will go ahead and just place this tile here oh okay well then I'm going to place this tile here so I'm also charting a course next to my ship back to you okay let's go this is going to spend three time one two three okay so I'm going to go from six down to three okay so then I'm going to move my ship forward one two two spaces this is the early round where we're basically just moving our ships along trying to get to the fish remember you can only hang on to one of these uh going into the next round yes that's true plan accordingly okay I'm just going to plop this one down right here that's going to cost me no time okay uh I think I only have one time left so I'm just going to place this here right there oops oh my gosh

10:38 I'm destroying the ocean already all right that is my whole action so it goes back to you okay I'm going to spend one time by moving this forward okay and that is a maximum now a Max so because you have to maintain your Fleet everyone has to be within a certain range of each other yes so that's where that's going to stay it's teamwork we're looking out for each other right so only have one time left uh so then I'm just going to move forward one space just to get my my piece moving here so that's one time and now because my furthest back ship is over here I'm going to move my tile to reflect that so now my ship can move all the way up to this column if I so choose all right back to you all right I'm going to NAB this fish so I'm going to grab this one right here I'm going to catch it and it's going to cost me one time okay so then it goes back to me I'm going to place this out because I don't know if I care too much about losing one one tile uh ocean tile and I'm going to go like that it is adjacent to my ship right there and now it goes back to you well I think I got to move I got to get my people moving so we are going to spend one time to just bring this ship forward one space okay so then it is back to me and I'm going to end my day now again that has to be done at the start of your turn and uh you can now choose if you want to go first or second so do I care too much about right now we're in that early phase where we're trying to get as many fish as possible so I think I will go first and I'll sacrifice that that extra time yeah okay so I'm out for the round naen can take as many actions as you'd like although you don't have much time uh well I'm

12:08 going to charge of course I'm just going to go ahead and plop this down here nice well it's the same difference right if I just go this way yeah and you can hold that I'll hold it for the next round I'll hold it okay so with that knowledge I am actually not going to spend this right now so I will just call it there okay so that is it that is the end of the round so then I have to discard one of these back to the supply because again you can only hold one for the next I have the initiative card and that is really all there is between rounds so we're now going to go into the second day so let's go ahead and flip over that card all right new oh we get the exact same thing that we had earlier so we're going to get uh one of these each and then also an l-shape nice three piece thank you and there are only six of these cards in the deck so it is a way for you to sort of track kind what what day you're in okay I'm going first so I get six time and you get seven seven so this now actually goes into the supply technically okay so starting with me actions ready mhm I'm going to go ahead and start by placing out my big L-shaped tile I'm going to place it here and before naine does anything sneaky I'm going to spend my Lobster so early so soon off goes the lobster you're taking two action I'm going to toss the lobster back into the ocean to take another action back to back and I'm just going to move this ship uh one two spend two time spending two time okay so you claimed those fish I have claimed these fish thank you for noticing dang it all right well the funny thing is I could not take that action because my arrow is here I know

13:41 but you could have blocked me I could have blocked and like made it more expensive for me to move past you all right I'm going to get off the off the board here so we're going to move one two it's going to cost me two time mhm and then now this can kind of chart forward like that I guess you could have done that if you move that spent your Lobster then you could again I the lobster I'd rather do a little bit later I guess but I don't know ah you're making me regret this I'm G to put the lobster there no problem okay so back to me y I'm going to move my boat actually I'm going to go one two for two time two time now it goes back to you ah dang okay I feel like I'm behind all right let's go ahead and I'm going to do the same thing I'm going to bring up the rear a little bit we're going to go one two another two time okay I only have two time left so I basically have to decide do I want this card which is two different fish or this card which is two of the same type of fish the difference is going to be this will let me move my boat uh up to two up to two spaces and you cannot spend time to increase that so it really is only going to be two spaces whereas this lets me place a tile this specific tile and move my boat one space mhm but where can you legally place that yeah that's the thing you don't have to do both and you can do them in either order I'm going to spend two time and uh take two fish I think I'm going to take this one nice and this

15:11 one so you can take them from different boats they just have to be adjacent didn't like that okay didn't like that at all all right you have no time I have no time but you don't need time to preserve fish Timeless it's Timeless oh okay I'm going to spend two time one two to go ahead and just bring up the fleet and then now we can say we're we have moved that's so nice yeah so now I have some flexibility to go pick up fishies yeah there we go that's great all right all right well I'm going to place this this little teeny teeny uh it's not adjacent to a boat what oh it's not ajason to a boat it need to be next to a boat oh my gosh naine y thank you for catching that I know I swear I think literally the only the only legal place is here or here no I'm not going to do it no I think I'm just going to you could put it out here I could but I think I'm just going to preserve my fish interesting no why why it's fine you can put it in front of your orange boat or this yellow Bo but I can't move there no you can't move that would be doing it for you sneaky this is how naine I'm just saying legal like what's legally available take turns that'll help him thank you for pointing that out I understand okay I'm going to discard these two they're different colored fish so I'm just going to create a fish pile over here sure because they are two of different colors I get this card so it's going to be worth two points at the end of the game and now I can move a ship up to two spaces okay I think you can you only have this one to legally move unless you want to like no you can't even move backwards trying to debate if I should move up or just move forward

16:44 one space I think I will just move forward one space it's the same horizontal distance um and I wouldn't want to be behind Rough Waters so now this is going to move right like that okay okay back to you so you have no more time I have no more time you only have one time so you could also just choose to end your day or you could continue going all right I'm going to place one of these single ones out oh you're still going like of that yeah I still have some time okay I think I will do the same I will place oh do I want to do that the tricky thing is if I put this here I don't know what navin's going to do he's going to do something wacky you know what I mean could be he's going to steal my thunder I am just going to end my day that's it huh I think so why I don't have much I don't have any time sure I'm going to end my day so I take this this moves over here okay because you can only do one per day and I have to decide do I want to go first or second second I'll go first you'll go first yeah that might be a problem we'll see first okay that changes things a little bit for me all right so if you're going to do that then I'm going to just move up one space yeah smart cost me the time like that okay okay well you can keep going yeah so one of these is going to get lost if I don't keep going uh the l-shape I don't think I can legally place the l-shape but I kind of like it for some flexibility later so you just hold on to that one yeah I'm just going to drop this one off here just like that

18:15 there we go okay that's not going to cost any time and then I will call it a day for me all right you're done that's it okay so I discard this we are just now going to move into the third day let's flip over our chart two little ones two little ones nice yeah they fill in the little gaps there you go all right so I get six time I get seven get seven okay we begin again so I guess I'll just start by placing this here okay boom very nice all right all right I will take advantage of that I guess and instead I will move forward one go back one so I'm leaving that fish behind you are for me so now I can move this forward this was really hurting my feelings because I know do spes because it's the one that's lagging behind and it was just so far so I just gave you that one extra fish as some consolation to get me moving all right I get it uh well I think I should pluck these fish so let's just go one two these two come off onto my board it's going to cost me two times so now I'm down to four all right well I'm just going to pluck all three of my fish so I have one two and and three yeah that's good that's three times it goes down to one it's going to be a quick quick round okay I'd like to get out in front of you knowing that you only have one time I'm going to go ahead and plop this one right there so it is adjacent to a different boat but it is adjacent to a boat so destroying the ocean knowing

19:46 that I only have one time yeah you only have one time no I do yes it's true yeah it's literally you have four one two oh you're going to just sneak in there I guess I'll will turn these in so two of the same fish I'm I'm preserving my fish two of the same fish for this card so this will allow me to place out one of these okay and move my boat forward one space so I guess I'll place this here I think that's the only legal spot right yeah I could place it like here it just has to be adjacent to your boat but I'll do that and I can move my boat one space I will move this boat here okay mhm back to you one 2 three four huh it's all my time all your time but if I don't do it then you get to spend one time and go there all right I'll do it I I have to get I I've been behind you this whole time and just like catching your drift so all four times drift one two three four now I've Lea frogged you perfect maybe perfect perfect why is that perfect you can do that one yeah I had to try to bait you this is Tactical it is tactical it feels the more you play it I think the more ttic so what I'm going to do is I am going to probably turn in a couple of fish two the two of the same this will give you two times right now and then you can pick up those two fish you couldn't preserve again but at least you'll have them and this is you'll be the only one who has a brown fish I can turn in two different ones

21:17 that's the thing and that gets me put on an l-shape and move one space yeah I guess this is the only spot where you could put out the L shape yeah I don't know if I want to set it up like that put put it out there for you then you're going to be give me access to those fish okay I'll do two two uh different or two of the same two of the same it's going to be worth three points at the end of the game cuz three Helms that's true and you get two time immed two time immediately and that stack is depleted so now the same color is going to be there we go not now I don't get to use the time right away but on the next turn I will be able to yeah all right back to me I'm going to just move forward one space and claim that spot now while I can that's it so that goes back to you do you have no more time left I have no more time okay I I think unfortunately this is a problem and there's nothing I can do about it so I'm going to pass right now you're going to pass I'm going to pass yeah so I'm going to take first player do you want to be first or second I'll be first okay yeah so I'll take first okay well I could keep going but I really have no time and I only have one of these left so I'm going to end my day as well okay all right that is the end of the round so let's go ahead and move our uh scoring cards our scoring cards to our our pile and then you must discard one of those one goes out there it is we have a new one just like that we are in day four we got another tiny one back uhhuh one one and then a long stick long stick there you go all right so we're going to go straight into actions so I gained six so this is that moment where I banked uh so now I get up to eight total because I banked because you banged yeah so I'll go ahead and put this back and then now you may begin all

22:49 right I'm going to go ahead and collect those two fish let's go ahead and grab both of these for two time brown and blue brown and blue okay ah I guess I might as well collect these now there's really no point in waiting so that's three three time three fish to down to four all right back to you you know I'm just going to plop this token here just like that okay back to you ah all right I'm going to place this here so charting a course very good back to you ooh boy that changed things for me remember you can only go as far as here unless I use this ship to go forward then this will all shift at the same time right I didn't think about that that changed okay so one 2 3 4 five let's do it one 2 3 four five this will all shift forward like that okay perfect so six will go down to one that's scary that might have been a boo boo yeah all right well seeing as you only have one time left I'm going to place this here nice all right pretty good back to you okay I'm not about that yeah I'm going to turn in this brown fish for that preservation card yep exactly okay there you go get this this is going to be my one that I can claim for this round and so I'm going to gain two time so we go to three it's interesting because they give you time so it gives you more action potential but it's only worth one point but you only need to turn in one fish but it's your one card for the day so it's I

24:20 don't know it's a weird trade-off but the one fish could be worth five points if you can hoard it all for the you know four different fish right so I'm going to go one two three so that's down to one a good spot back to you it's a good spot well with my three time I think I'm just going to collect one two three fish so let's go ahead and get them while I can and that is me time it's a shame that the white one came out or the gray one because there's one of each color and that's like the one that's the most rare right now well I only have one time left so I mean I guess I could take this three different oh you'd have to pluck a fish and then take it yeah I would have to pluck a fish which is the brown huh which is the brown yeah I know I'll just take this one the forward one yeah yeah so I can at least move forward so that's one time well I have no time uh I've already taken one of these preservation cards I could lay out those yeah oh you know what I did not uh change this yeah so it's supposed to be like that oh this is tough like one player sets up the the route for the next player and like I I made such a big mistake there but then like now it's like by putting this out it's like I want to put it out cuz I need to get moving don't forget your Lobster maybe putting it there is a wrong idea I I know I have that Lobster I I should have probably used it about a round or two ago but I have no time I'll go ahead and uh put this little token right there okay yeah there yeah all right well back to me and I'm going to claim so this is three of different colored fish I happen to have one two three okay

25:52 it would have been nice to go for this but this was the only gray left and it's going to be too hard to claim it mhm so I'll just take this card it lets me put out one of these from the supply and move one space forward so I might as well just go oh am I going to abandon that I'll go there and I guess I'll just move up forward here yeah totally I don't want to have to abandon that honestly okay so that is me goes back to you yeah so I have no time uh I don't think I want to put this one out right now cuz I don't know what's coming later so I'm going to take that and I will go first I will go first all right I'm going to be I'm going to go out of the round as well so this gets moved Yep this one comes on over we keep these we're just going to go straight into round five let's go and two singles two singles is that what I is that good I mean it's getting tight the we're getting to the end here you can't really yeah all right uh you get six time I get seven time and then please navine what is it that you would like to do well I think I'm going to just spend one action one time just to move forward like that real simple okay well knowing that I guess I'll just put this uh here here what am I doing here all right back to you it's tough It's so tough the time mechanic as well as this these are the two that make the game this is the ship that is holding me back from getting to an island at the end you know so if I was to do that but that's the entire round yeah no I won't do it

27:23 let's go ahead and just uh let's just place this one here there you go just like that behave your own way my own way navine your own way all right I'm just going to go one two you're like but I'll I'll do it well I put it there yeah for myself all right back to you okay I think I I'm going to just pick up this black fish that's up here okay for one for one time yep that's it now I have one of every color okay well before you take this CU you do have that Lobster I'm going to take these three so that is down to two back to you two okay uh let's just uh satisfy well I guess there's no rush for me to satisfy the contract right cuz you're not in any position to do it which contract the have one of every uh different Ty of fish no no I'm not going to be able to do that but I would like to see what you're going to do first so I I will actually satisfy this contract so I'm going to turn in one of every different type of fish okay and it's going to be worth five points at the end of the game yeah that's nice which is good that's really nice oh so this is going to actually go here one two three oh it's still the same oh yeah same stack same mhm H so now I have four time to your two time yes I am going to do this now okay so I'm turning in these three of different types okay to take this last card here that gives me an additional time that time threat is scary right when you see your opponent get an additional time yeah it's like what you going do with that you know they have some power all right I'm going to have to put out this one little single token I'm just going to place it right here

28:53 ooh too bad neither of us can get to it I I can get to it no you can't well yeah I have I have four time yeah but you don't have space yet yet yet okay well I'm going to go ahead and place this here M it's like that back to you are we playing a little chicken right now it seems like it we're playing little chicken I think that's I think that is how you you know what I'm I'm going to move forward one space whoa now we got this all the way up I I have full range now I just thought you might have wanted okay well I'm going to go one two mhm okay all to you all right now that you did that I can just plop this one here okay I'll take the fish for my last time okay so you have no more time I have no more time okay so I'll move forward for one time okay I will end my day okay so I'll take this and I'll go first okay then in the last round all right so then with my last two time I'm going to secure it while I can I'm going to go one two onto that island so it's going to be where three Helm at the end I'm out so it's just you until I have this Lobster uh but I have nothing else going for me don't use Lobster yeah so I'll call it there so I'm going to be going uh second all right that is the end I only have one of these left over so let's just move on to the final round I guess how are you feeling going into the last bit okay I I liked picking up the Five Points yeah plus the three on the island that felt pretty good so few points so it really is uh uncertain

30:24 what's going to happen here okay exactly okay final final one final C going to go okay so long stick and a tiny one there we go sck tiny one there we go all right so let's move this over I get six time and you get seven have too much time maybe so now it goes who knows too much time maybe I don't know about that okay well first of all I think this was uh I didn't that's do I didn't set that properly well let's see the only preservation cards left are the gray which is there four of different types oh my goodness am I going to try to get there I think I will start by doing this little hockey stick little hockey stick all right back to you wow that changed a little bit for me okay so with that then being there I'm going to go one two three for three time seven down to four okay I'm going to go down one two one two all right back to you well I am very glad I have my lobster right now because I'm going to pick up this Blackfish okay here okay uh for one time uhhuh and then um I am going going to use my Lobster okay to go ahead and satisfy a contract so I going to go ahead and do the three different fish do we not have three different fish no we don't have that hold on that was taken wait a second never mind I will not be uh doing that so I but I will satisfy a contract right now so let's go ahead and just turn in so you're using your Lobster I am uh no sorry no I'm not going to do that Sor oh

31:55 my goodness sorry I got thrown off yeah what what is going on I know never mind sorry if I confused anything there I just picked up a fish all right well I'm gonna pick up a fish okay for once and now it goes back to you so there you go you didn't have to use your Lobster anyway okay so now I will go ahead and um I will I will turn in two different fish mhm uh to get this particular one right here so this is going to be two different fish I get to uh put out an l-shape from the supply and then I get to move my ship one space so I'm going to go ahead and do that okay oh do I do this no you know what I'm realizing I think you technically could have picked up that fish me yeah cuz you're here you can fish from any space any type of space that's okay that's no no problem okay so I'll go ahead and do that I'll get a free move and then we are going to use the lobster now now to go ahead and go one two onto that Island go boom boom like that there you go well now you're completely I'm loaded you're completely uh you're done actually I'm done you don't really have you you have one time left over but all right um well I might as well turn these in okay so here's four four different fish for this it gets me two time goes back to you technically um I don't think there's anything legally I can do okay you'll be so I'll be done yeah okay I'm just going to give this to you I'll firster I think that might be like a second tie break or something like that I'll take it I do have a leftover fish also well I have five time I have three boats none of which are on islands and time to get

33:26 them there I guess I should just get them there so one Two Three or yeah so it goes down to two uh and I'm just going to go one and one time with yeah I I can't all right all right that is count six days are done let's go into endgame scoring shall we okay okay so it's very simple it's just your Helms so I have three 6 7 8 9 10 14 that's a lot okay so I have a five 6 7 8 9 10 11 so four to 11 14 15 16 17 that's my final score what I say 11 uhhuh uh 13 uh this goes to 14 yeah 15 16 17 18 19 wow you had a lot of Helms on island the islands you got to get to the islands I got to all of them you didn't need that white ship in the end I didn't oh the fish yeah you fished in Gloucester gler good job so final scores are uh 19 to again tiebreaker is leftover fish yeah so you would have had that had that yeah technically good job thanks yeah that was that was tough that was uh way more tactical than some of our previous plays um our first play of it I think uh we were still discovering the game yeah yeah and didn't realize how elusive you you can be or how clever you can be about you know just inching forward right eating up a time and be like okay let's see what you do I feel like that's how a lot of Dr Finn's games are we both

34:58 really enjoy Dr Finn's games if you're not familiar with some of the titles probably the most popular one is biblos one of my favorites yeah one of your favorites we we have covered I think Cosmic Cosmic run regeneration in the past uh and we we've we've done a few just random ones throughout our let stockboard games episodes but the thing that's really nice about them is they're all usually small box they're very quick to play uh there're there's a two-player line and they're all very clever in one way or another they're simple but clever and there's like a wide range of themes besides biblos that one is essentially thess organizing books yeah sure um yeah so this one uh this was uh fairly unique in the the way that uh you're charting the course and um you're you know you're you're playing chicken a lot with this particular game like yeah I saw that you were out in front uh in in in our play and I was like I I have these tiles I don't want to just lay out these tracks so you can continue to go forward but it's also clever in the the fact that the fleets have to move together so you can't just you know go see all the great fish and just take one boat and just dominate so you have to bring up the rear constantly and I feel like that is how a lot of uh specifically the two-player line games are they feel very tactical in the sense that I would love to set myself up for this thing but if I do this then I'm going to set you up for it instead right and a lot of the games are very straightforward like this game in particular especially the first time you play it you feel like okay it's very simple right you're basically just you're you start the early game by charting the ocean tiles so that you can actually move your boats and then eventually towards the mid game you're actually picking up fish and you want to

36:29 be the first person to pick up these fish but you also have to keep in mind towards the end game that these fish are not worth anything unless you can turn them in for the contract so it becomes very tempting to just try to pick up all the fish but by the end of the game you really shouldn't be doing that you should be landing your boats on these islands on the heavy hitting Islands yeah the threes and the twos yeah right so it is interesting the the sort of timing of the way that the game flows and like I was mentioning during the playthrough the game is really made by these two mechanics the the fleet mechanic as well as your time yep because that is what limits you and that's what makes the game really sort of tough when you it turns it into a mind game of sorts right it's a game of chicken like you said sometimes like you want to go first Sometimes you can see like the board State it's like oh I'd really like to go first saw bank sometime and make sure I can go first and sometimes you're like actually I don't want to go first I could really use that extra time see what you do on your first action so that I can then counter it with uh with some sort of tactics or strategy maybe you're going to build out a a a you're going to chart the ocean that's going to allow me now to spend maybe a little bit more time but I did get that extra time by going second so I can justify spending it to get a leg up um clever yeah really game and that's the thing that's neat it's it's a all the decisions are meaningful for such a small game right so anyway we just kind of wanted to show you uh one of the two- player games that Dr Finn had released recently uh this is fisheries of gler so it does have a very specific theme you know not everybody is going to sort of fall in love with like a fishing theme but at least you can kind of see how the Mechanics Work in the game M uh the side of the board that

38:00 we played with that is the standard uh side there's the if you flip it over there's other tiles that you can kind of lay out and randomize the board so the islands will be in different spots the rough water as well and I believe the game also came with some promo cards that we did not showcase today yes as well as a like a card expansion but uh just on the same note as that variant side of the board we didn't play with that because you literally choose where all the spaces are all the Rough Waters and the islands and I just felt like we didn't want to showcase that cuz we wouldn't know how to truly balance it properly so this is probably play tested the most balanced the most and it's like so we wanted to make sure there was at least a tactical game that we make an error setting if you're feeling wild you could choose all these spaces MH well there you have it that is fisheries of Gloucester thank you all so much for watching the video we hope you enjoyed it if you'd like to see more videos like this in the future please consider subscribing thank you bye