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The Monolith Gameplay - The Battlefield is Strewn with Corpses!

BoardGameCo Aug 18, 2026
Transcript 1:29:18

Hey, I'm Alex Rack from Board Game Co.

I'm Professor Mag.

And I'm Joey.

And today we are playing through the Monolith from Plaid Hat Games. The Monolith is a game in which we are going to be uh attacking, destroying, fighting each other, all those good things. There'll be a lot of attacking going on in this game. This is a prototype. All rules and components have to change. We'll have a link to the crowing campaign down below. And this is a sponsored playthrough. In this game, I'll give you a light overview and then we'll dive into things. But the general very light overview is we are going to be playing across four rounds in this game. Four days effectively. In each day, you're going to go through three phases. The order phase, the action phase, and the rest phase. The order phase is mostly where we spend our hearts. We have an available pool of hearts. We'll be spending them into our spend pool in order to move around, position, do all the things that set ourselves up for success. When we're done with that, we're going to go ahead and commit our remaining hearts, dropping them into the monolith, which are going to fall into this little action tableau, which will define the available actions we have in the action phase. Once all players have committed, we're going to go ahead and go to the action phase where we're then going to spend our our hearts from the monolith in order to take key actions, which mostly involve killing each other, but it also involves bragging, boasting, basically saying, "Hey, this is a really cool place that I'm going to stake my claim on this hill and destroy all of you." And then other players come in and destroy you. Like I said, lots of fighting will happen. When we're done with all of that, we're going to eventually move to the rest phase where we'll go through a sequence of maintenance and just actions, giving things, event cards, all these various things, recovering our hearts before proceeding into the next day. There are three general decks you should know about. There will be event decks that trigger during the rest phase where the player who has the least favor in the game is going to choose an event.

There's going to be objectives which you're going to be drawing. If you control various uh where are they descriptors? If you control the scriptors on the board, you'll be able to go ahead and draw up uh to getting um more more objectives. And then there's the divination deck which include a ton of strong abilities to slowly augment that tableau and grow more powerful as we play through the game. That is the basics of the monolith, which means it's time to do our random because we actually said we we did the whole thing of like a random player first, but then we didn't actually choose who's going first. So, we're going to go and shuffle this up and we're going to drop a token. And Meg, you are starting us off.

Me. Izzy hates me. So, I feel shocked.

This wasn't this wasn't.

What a what a privilege. All right, I [clears throat] am going to start off with a divination.

Okay, [clears throat]

so I'm going to choose this card over here.

So, the way divination works, just so you know, there are there are four well five actions technically you can take during the order phase. The actions you take are you can move your shaman around the board by spending hearts. You can move your units around the board by spending hearts. You can recruit, which adds more units to the board uh when you go ahead and um by by spending hearts to do that. Then you can divine over here divination which is where you basically stake a claim on a card. Other players on their turn have a chance to out bid you but if it gets back to your turn and you're the highest you take the card and then lastly you commit. So me by spending a hard on that effectively set the stakes of we have to either out bid her or let her take that card.

Yeah I which one does that

it's not that good.

It's not that good. That's the one where basically uh if your shaman is living, you can spend anger from your anger pool to basically just shoot people uh in your zone.

Well, I am going to spend two hearts to move uh

putting the pressure on me to stop her on that.

Yep.

I mean, I'm actually just trying to spend

one there. Okay. She spent two hearts to move around the board. Well, staking some claim. You want the mausoleum. You're on the tunnel. Tunnels, by the way, board states, just so you know, tunnels are adjacent to each other. So, we have a tunnel, a tunnel, and a tunnel over here to jump around the board. Uh, but you also have these mountain ranges which you can't go through. So, the board is not as easy to pass through as you uh as you might think. I don't like either of you. You've put the pressure on that. I could go ahead and use that. I could do that. Blood lust feels like it feels too too much to go ahead and get blood lust. So, I'm going to go ahead and outbid you on blood lust. And now it's your turn. You can raise as a free action or you can recall the heart. I kind of did want to make you just spend it,

but now you want it.

Well, I want it for two. Getting it for two is

two feels like

What was I thinking being the first to bid? I should have let someone else bid on it first

cuz two is a reasonable number for me. Three feels.

I'll let you have it for three.

Um,

gradually you could always pull back, see what Joey does, but then if Joey outspades and you have to pay four if you want that card, so like, you know.

Oh, that's true. Yeah, sure. I guess I'll rate maybe. Okay. Do Joey's turn. Wait, no. No, no, that's not even Yeah. Yeah, that's right. You're right. That's not an action. That's That's um

Okay,

that's a freebie.

Um, what do I want to do?

What do I want to do? Sorry, not sorry about those guys I killed. I just want to win the game.

So, the maus the temples are what I want to own for points.

For points? Yes. Temples will give you points. Muslims give you extra recruit actions and scriptorums uh give you extra uh objectives.

Okay, I am going to go crazy.

Crazy.

Okay, so here's the thing. If I'm out bid on this bloodless, I just get my hearts back.

If you are outbid, you get your hearts back. Yes.

Okay, I'm going to spend just one.

Okay.

To march. I don't have anyone over there. Correct. I'm going to march these guys to the temple.

Okay. Nothing crazy about that. It seems like honestly just quite reasonable.

Yeah.

To you, Joey. All right. I [clears throat] am going to spend three to recruit four because I control this mausoleum up here.

Okay, that seems reasonable.

I'm just going to put them all on that mausoleum.

Okay, Joey's played this before. Joey has played this before, by the way. Uh I think that I will think carefully and then do things. Um one, two, three. I don't know. There's cards over there that I want. I do want cards.

Do you want to bid for blood loss?

Oh, it is your Yeah.

It's my turn. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um Oh. Oh, no. I'm going to recall. I'm going to recall. You can have them.

Yeah, absolutely. That's for three. You can have it. I need I have too many plans. Um, I think I think I will go ahead and maneuver action. That's not helpful at all. That's a march. All right, I'm going to spend three hearts, I believe. I'm going to spend three hearts and I'm going to wander uh taking my my units over here and we're going to go with four units. I guess we're going to go one, two, three. Okay. And actually, you know what? I'm going to go here with another one. Why not?

To you, Meg.

Are you sure that's what you want to do?

Yes, that's what I want to do. [snorts]

Okay.

Actually, you get the card now. Yep. You spend your heart.

I get this card. We got blood lust now, which is I had forever, right?

Okay. You have You have blood lust forever.

I mean, I always have. I feel like I was born with it. Um, okay. You could put it down here if you want. That's your divination spot.

Okay.

Just to separate from those if you want. However you want to do it.

I want it for until I lock it into my brain.

But in an interesting turn of events, I'm going to choose to commit

because you're committing early.

I love extra actions and all that and I feel like I'm set up pretty well.

Basically, Meg's going to drop her tokens down here, but as the first player to do so, she gets this surge card, which means she gets four actions normally on a turn. Oh. Oh. Oh. You lose it, by the way. That's the rule. That's not true.

Normally, normally on a turn, you get two actions in the action phase, but if you have surge, you start off with a nice strong four actions.

So, Turks has surging blood lust in this round. [snorts]

Okay, cool. Cool. All right.

Now, she happens to be first player, but surge makes you first player uh in the action phase.

In the action defined. Okay, cool. I couldn't recall.

All right. I think I am going to use two hearts on that top divination card. Top divination two going straight to two. Wow, you guys are you guys are fun. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Um, I in that case will go ahead and do a recruit action. I will spend two hearts and be able to put out four units because of the way that works. Uh, so I'm going to put out two over here and two over here. Okay. All right. Uh, I get that card. Oh, yes, you do get that card because you're the only one left here. Beautiful.

And it's your turn. I spent. And then

I don't know if it's going to work out for me or not.

That's kind of where I'm like, do I want to just commit or Yeah, we'll just commit.

Great. Uh, with that, I will then go and spend one on this reinforced card cuz I'll give you that one card for that. I'll go ahead and get the card. Um, and then I'll commit with my remaining five. I just feel like that's too strong a card to not get for one. All right, we're going [snorts] to dump these in. Uh, and then we are going to proceed to the action phase. We now have everything locked. We are going to reveal, see how things spell out over here. And we have the following. A whole lot of maneuvering, not a ton of slaying. Uh, although there are options. The way it works is during the action phase, we're going to take two actions a turn. Meaning get four on her first turn. And you can take actions from boasting, maneuvering, and slaying. Maneuvering is moving around the board. Slaying is killing, as you might imagine. And boasting is going to be basically setting down one of your hearts on that heart onto a spot and saying, "I have this spot." and you get extra favor if you do indeed get that spot. Uh, but you can spend warriors, dead warriors from your anger pool. You can spend them to move from one spot to the adjacent spot.

I have a whole lot of boasting going on and very little slaying. I'll say that. Your turn, Meg. Four actions.

Okay. And so if I boast here now, what will happen

if you boast where

in the monolith? Uh, so in in if you control the region at the end of the action phase when we get into rest, you'll get an extra three favor. And if you control the monolith, you get an extra four favor per instead of three. So the game really does want you to like, you know, aggressively boast where where the monolith is.

Okay. Okay.

But she also is going to be slowly spending her hearts to kill us all.

Yes.

So there is that.

Um, okay. So, I am going to But okay. Okay. So, I'm going to boast. No, I shouldn't. No, that's fine. Okay. I would spend one of these people to move it.

You spend one of those. Yes. Yep.

You don't even need to. Yeah. Why would you do it now? Wait till you need to. And that's your extra kill.

Protected myself. I'm

Yeah, those are your extra kills. That's a good point. Yeah, that's fine though because mathwise, we got this you guys. I'm going to boast in the monolith.

Okay,

please.

We're going to boast in the monolith. Okay,

that's one action. You have three actions left.

And then I'm going to slay and slay.

Okay,

but my ability is if this action kills an enemy warrior on Turks's space, I can kill one additional enemy warrior there. Yep.

So for each slay, I'll kill two of you. You're gonna get four kills right now.

Yeah.

By spending if you spend both your anger.

No,

no, no. That's your Oh, what's your ability?

If I kill any more warrior on my space, I kill one additional warrior there.

Oh, that's

I'm angry. I'm blood lusting.

That's That's why I didn't think I could get this one.

So, I will kill two blue and two yellow for these two slays.

So, they just die. They don't actually

And these go to my spent, correct?

Cool. Cool. You're going to get four. We're going to wait till your turn is done, but you're going to be getting four favor.

Yes. Cuz I'm going to spend one of my anger guys to limbo. Is that where they go to shift to things? Yep.

And then I'm going to slay one final time to kill the last two men.

So you're saying you want the monothe?

I just want to kill everybody.

Okay.

I want you to come to me.

Okay.

All right. So that's six points.

That is six points.

Okay.

That was all your actions. I Joey to you.

Well, that's [sighs and gasps] unfortunately changes a lot of

You mean having three of your warriors in a central zone changes your plans? I can't imagine why. slay.

All right. Well, I will use one for maneuver and just move this lonely guy here and then use one sleigh just to kill back. That's going to be one for Joey up here.

Okay.

Um, which brings me to my two actions. I I don't know what I want to do because there's lots of options on the table. Uh there's I can boast. Boasting seems like you know what? Honestly, I feel like boasting in this zone over here where I have tons of presence feels like a good strong starting move.

I don't know if you can boast there if someone's not there.

Oh, someone's not there. You're right. You're right. That's a good call.

I can't. Nope. That's a good call. That's a good call. So, I can move. Um what I will do is I will actually go ahead and control. You have no more slay. You have boasting maneuvering. You have one more warrior. So, you could do some killing. I don't love that. I think I have nothing maneuver and I all my actions are that's rough. I have nothing in maneuver.

That's I have nothing in slaying. So I think we are going to spend one anger over here to move to maneuver. Um and then from there I think what makes sense is to then do that was a freebie. It's not an action. Um then I'm going to go ahead and move uh by spending this over here. I'm gonna maneuver by moving one over here as action one. And then I'm going to boast as action two. And my ability is ax as action. You can move three of your warriors from an adjacent space into that zone.

Nice.

So, I'm going to move these three warriors over here.

Okay, that's my turn.

Wow. Well, I wasn't planning on that.

I I wasn't either. I totally forgot the core rule that you cannot boast where other people are. I had this whole plan of just dominating an area.

I didn't want to have to kill you, Alex.

I mean, that's okay. You don't have to. Because all all I'm saying is if you vacate here, I'm totally moving in here.

Well, how how

just lots of moving.

How would you move in

with another spend another anger to maneuver again

to move one person?

Yeah. [gasps]

Um

Yeah. Did you

What's up? How many people did you move with that move?

I use my reinforce action. Okay. Yeah. Reinforce lets you uh jump three warriors to space where you boasted from adjacent space. I am going to So I can kill a person to move a thing as well.

Yep.

So toxic.

All right. So I'm going to maneuver first.

Okay.

And I'm going to move big daddy over to here.

Okay.

Then I will So I'll sacrifice one of these people.

Okay.

To move my thing over. So where does he go? to limbo.

She's doing the sacrifice action to place thunder a thing from any action zone to place a living warrior. Okay.

Into your anger pool. Oh, so he goes into my anger pool.

Yeah.

Okay. So then I'll put this over to slay and then I will slay

slay queen.

So I will kill two.

Okay. They stay there.

They stay there. And then I will use my blood lust to spend this to kill another one.

Okay.

That's my turn. Gosh darn it. Your turn, sir. Yep. I am going to spend one from maneuver to move my shaman over here. I'm going to spend an anger to move this maneuver to a sleigh. And then I'm going to slay with my shaman. And this divine munitions says during this action, if your shaman is living, your kill effects may instead target enemy warriors adjacent to it. Okay. So, I'll just kill one of these guys. Okay. How to do this? I have three core actions left. I have to move one. I can maneuver, slay, boast. You guys are maneuver, slay, and boast.

Maybe just set yourself up for an extra.

Maybe. Maybe you have a boast. Um, I think given the situation, I think I have to do this. I'm going to uh move this guy to move a maneuver. Um, then I will go ahead and That's not even an action yet. Then I willh one second. I need to do that. I think if I do that, I think I'm going to Yeah, I think because you only have a boast left and you do you do have the ability to make it a maneuver. So, I'm going to go ahead and I will maneuver spending this to jump to over here. And then I'll boast to jump these two over here. Actually, do I want two? I might do one. I might do one. Uh cuz I can move up to three warriors, not whatever. But I'm going to take a boast marker. Where's that boast marker? I'm going to put it over here.

The only question is whether I want to leave one behind. Um because you could at most move, which I'm not opposed to. So, I think I'll stay I'll leave one behind. Okay, that's my turn.

One man left behind. to your turn, Meg. You can boast.

I can boast. And I actually pretty good place to boast.

Yes.

Um Well, yeah. I think there's not really a better option, so I will do that.

Okay. To you, sir. I am just going to relent cuz I don't want to use my anger to move. So,

okay. Uh and then I will use my last action to slay, which will

kill this guy, giving me three experience, three honor.

You give me one, too, for killing your guy. Oh yes.

Oh, I don't think I took

the two more

the points for that. I killed six and then seven, eight, nine.

Okay, this is working out well for me.

I think I should get nine.

Nine. Yes, you did one more. Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Okay, sir.

Ma'am. Ma'am,

I'm slaying so hard. You're calling me sir.

So, that is basically the board state right now, which we move to the rest action state. We clear any blood markers on the board. So, blood markers are removed from the board at this point. They go back on the board soon. Players are going to score for divination events and objectives. So, if it has objectives, they want to cash in. Great. Otherwise, no events right now.

Score two points per temple and three points per boast. So, right now, I'm going to score, for example, uh one, two, one. I'm going to score five. And I think that's my only things that I get cuz I don't have this temple along the way, which I regret now, but whatever. So, I'm going to score five points up here

to blue.

To blue. Yep. Uh Meg, you're going to score for this boast over here. That's going to be three over here, but you control them all, so it's four points per boast. So, you're going to score two uh two points per temple. two + 4 plus 4. Well, I'll leave them off for right now. So, you score 10 points. You are crushing it. Um, and then we get to the next step, which going to be players drawing objectives. So, players are now going to draw objectives per scriptoran they control. We have nothing over here, nothing over there. Scriptorans are no objectives are coming into play. Then we're going to place all hearts from spent into available. So, all your hearts are going to move to your available pool. And we're going to take get another two unearned hearts.

Sorry, was supposed to go planes? Nope. Nope.

Does he not have any temples? Nope. Nope.

I took the temple from him.

Yep. Um, you take two hearts from your

Maybe he's going to come. Maybe we should gang up on you, Joey. Let's gang up on Alex.

Yeah,

let's gang up on him.

I know what your character can do. Uh, then we resurrect any dead shaman. So, if your shaman died, they do resurrect. So, you can go ahead and place them back out. Uh, we're going to empty and refill the divination route. We bought all the cards. Me, if you want to refill fill the new cards, we will read them all out shortly. Uh, we are then going to pass the first player marker. So, Joey will be first player. Uh, and then we go ahead and advance to the next day.

Uh, I think that is Oh, wait. No, I skipped stuff. We place all spent. We also all warriors go from limbo to your uh reserve

and we gain two.

Gain two. We did that part.

Oh,

okay. So, we advanced the next day. We did that.

Blood tokens now.

Blood tokens. Yes. So, we're going to put blood tokens in replacing the boast markers. You can't boast where someone already boasted. Yeah.

Get these back as well.

Thank you.

And I'll get that back. It looks like I'll have to move around

and I'll get that back. Okay,

that one should have another boost, too.

This one? Yes.

The last thing we do is we are going to go ahead and read these divination cards so we know exactly what's in play. Uh because we'll read them in order of how less ideal they are.

An event first.

Oh, yes. The event. Do the event.

Yeah.

All right. So, the quickening reveal. Place this card on any space. When any player executes a recruit order, they may deploy here at this end of the next day. Do you pick two and resolve one or no? You just draw one. Okay. I just get to choose where to put it.

Draw. Yeah, you you choose the vent. Okay.

You're from the bottom.

My monolith.

Monolith. Monolith.

Monolith. Monolith.

Okay. So, what does it do?

Um, it just allows it basically turns a spot into mausoleum, but anybody can uh recruit there.

Place this card in any space. When any player executes a recruit order, they may deploy here, discard this card at the end of the next day. Okay, cool. So, one spot will be mausoleum. Yeah,

but just anyone. Oh, it's going to be a fighting place.

Yeah.

So,

well, it's going to Mex's temple

or mech monolith. It's not bad either.

Me monolith.

We'll put it on the monolith.

That's not what it's called. It's not what it's called.

Uh then we're going to read the various uh cards. We have chain lightning, a three strength card. Uh it's going to be burnt and cost anger. This is a onetime use. Target a contiguous string. This is actually important, guys. Target a contiguous string of five spaces starting with space adjacent to your shaman. For each target of space, you may kill an enemy warrior there. Yes, that's the right face right there. Uh we're gonna be bidding for that, my friends. Okay. Uh then we're going to go ahead to the general. Doing this order, you may deploy one additional warrior and you may uh deploy it to your shaman space. So, it's a recruit order. It just lets you uh recruit more in the game. So, you know, chain lane is not so bad if you can recruit with more warriors, but your dead warriors are dead. Then you have shaman orders. Kill each enemy warrior on your shaman spaces. This is a burn card. It costs three anger. Kill each enemy warrior on your shaman space.

So this is straight up just kill everyone there. It's a massacre. My gosh. Okay.

And what is that?

Uh it burn it when you use it. One time use.

So these two are both one time use. Just you know chain lightning is not crazy good. It's just very good.

Really good.

Okay. And Joey, I believe you are going first. Yes, I am going to go first. So first thing I will do is just do a shaman action to move my shaman three spaces. He's just going to come into the monolith which cremates these three guys. Okay.

And they go to my anger.

Yeah. I I think I'm leaning towards the same general idea, but I think I think it's also worth um Yeah, I think we are going to go ahead and start off a nice bit on Chain Lightning. Let's force the Let's force the action. Let's Let's just see what Let's see what we're up against so we can make decisions accordingly.

Well, obviously I would pay too for it.

Sure.

Look at the picture.

Yeah, look at the picture. Just look at the picture.

Joey to you.

I am going to bid on the massacre for two. Massacre. Okay. So, you're leaving that alone. I will up my bid on chain lightning because I think three is worth it to get five kills. And I'll also place a bid on the general. So, we're like getting these cards out early. We're trying to see what playing field we're dealing with. Massacres. Strong. Me's like, "How many fights can I have at the same time?"

I'm not going to. [gasps]

So, this goes back to available for me.

Yes.

Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. And sorry, what does this thing do again?

Uh, you can recruit there.

Anyone?

Yeah. Anybody? Yeah.

Including me?

Yeah.

Okay.

It's just It's a It's the quickening. Bad things are happening.

Bad things are happening. My the mausoleiums would help me.

They get you extra recruits if you control them.

Okay. Um, and there's Where's the third one? I assume somewhere like over there. Okay. But the tunnel is connected. I'm technically connected there.

You're connected to the space next to it.

No, isn't it the same space?

I think the tunnel's in here.

Yeah, it's all one spot. Not to the mausoleum.

Oh, no. No. This. Sorry. This

Oh, yeah. This was this one. Yes.

And there's only one person,

correct? One dead person.

So theoretically, you can only do one order per turn. So you guys are going to know what I'm saying. But I can tunnel there with two people. Then I would own it.

Yeah.

And then I could summon more people.

If you still own it at the beginning of your next turn,

right?

Which is definitely a question mark considering you might be chain lightning by the end of your next turn.

What? How?

No. What? You're right. It has to be a shaman's order. You're right. No. No. That's a shaman order. No, it's shaman order. Yeah. My shaman moves and goes.

You don't have any

out. Oh, you're right. The shaman can pick people up along the way.

Okay, calm down.

How about my point down?

Um,

I'm just trying to save you as well.

The shaman can pick people up along the way.

Dead people. Dead people. So, I can move my shaman, create my anger pool, blast off my chain lightning. I am very upset after last turn, guys.

My shaman doesn't beat your guy. He doesn't outrank him.

He doesn't outrank him. He's tied

for control. Okay, then I'm going to

Okay.

Oh gosh, I don't want to do anything.

I know.

Freaking me out.

All right,

you should out the Joy and Masquerade. You see how good that card is?

I'm going to march to here.

Okay, totally seems reasonable.

I don't know. I should I march those guys? I guess mine.

Abandon the abandon the monolith. It's no longer Meg's monolith. It's

I'll have it later.

All right. That's what I did.

It's you, Joey.

So, I get massacre for two.

Yes, you do. Which feels like a good price for that.

Yeah. Yeah.

You can basically uh spend three anger uh burn the card and kill every enemy warrior on your shaman's face. Seems good.

Yeah.

Especially because your shaman's in the monolith. Yeah.

But it has to be doing a shaman order. So you can't do it, you know, doing the action phase.

Yeah, but there's nobody else in the monolith. I mean, except my guy. So,

although Alex is going to get both of these cards if you don't do anything, you could take the general if or like try to.

Here comes the general

if you care.

Sure, why not for two?

So, you're going top of the general space. That allows you extra recruit.

Um, at the start of my turn, I will retreat this. You're right. That's the furry action. I forgot that how that works. Yep. Yep. No, that wasn't the free action. You weren't on the general.

Yeah,

that's your but if you don't want to do that, then that's fine.

It was free.

So, an extra recruit.

Uh, yeah. No, I won't do that.

We'll just spend those.

Um, I'm spend these two and maneuver

all of these guys. One, two.

Okay. Is it my turn?

Mhm.

I will take these cards. spending a whole lot to gaining some valuable cards. Um, and the chain lightning does feel like a good thing to do.

Yeah, it feels really crazy.

But I do have to first actually get some I have to get some anger. So, I think it is in my best interest to my action to be spending this and going one, two, three, gathering a whole lot of anger along the way.

And the question is, can I do an uninterrupted chain of hitting everyone? I think you benefit cuz does it have to be does this chain lightning work through tunnels? Do you know uh that I don't know.

We have a handy dandy.

It says adjacent.

Yes, tunnels count as agency. See, they have a handy dandy rule thingy under page 14 for valid. Unclear. I'm going to go with no for right now. Tunnel. If this card place tunnels type of space tunnel spaces are considered adjacent to all other tunnels. Chain lightning. See the contiguous string of five spaces. uncertain and not in the clarification. I would go with no just thematically, but uh technically rules-wise it might be yes. Asteris on that.

Um so in that case, if I try chain lightning over here, I could go bing bing bing bing. I could really destroy Joey, which is not really what I want to do because I want to kill your stuff more. Target a contiguous starting with the space adjacent to your shaman. So I could go one, two, three, four, five. I can kill three of Joey's and two of yours. Again, it's not

Yeah, I clumped together on purpose.

Yeah, you're too strong right now for me to waste chain lightning on Joey. So, you you you get off scot-free. Plus, there is a benefit to having something dangerous in the reserve. Okay, so in that case, if I'm not doing that, I am going to do a recruit order while it still makes sense to do so because I'll pay two.

Didn't you do a shaman?

You moved.

Yeah. In my head, I was doing something next. So,

that's great.

Yeah. Yes, sure.

Are you sure you only did one action that turn?

I'm sure doing one. I'm sure doing one.

Okay, I am going to recruit cuz that's why I grabbed this mausoleium. Although, I could try to grab another mausoleium, but I don't think I'm going to. All right, so I can spend Okay, so I get one regardless for the mausoleum.

I have to spend at least two, but how many men do I want? Um, can I go there or no? Because I don't have anyone there.

You wouldn't go there.

Can I recruit to there?

Oh, you could because the quickening only because the quickening card is there this turn.

Nice. Okay.

Normally you cannot.

Okay. I'm going to do one, two, three. I will spend five to do six guys. Okay. Because I get plus one. So,

one. No, I'll spend four to take five. Okay. And I'm going to put them all here, I think, cuz I think if I spread out, you're going to nab me.

Okay.

So, I'm going to wait.

Yeah.

All right. I will. Two, four, six, eight, nine left.

You could blow her up.

Me?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, the the the downside and if you up if you want to change things, but the chain lightning spreads, whatever. If he moves his person,

he took the card that kills everyone in one spot. I don't care if I spread out a little bit. I forgot about that card.

I would just Can I Could I recruit to both places?

Yes.

Okay.

Including your stronghold.

Fine. Oh, and my stronghold,

which is further back from the action. not as cool, but you know,

but you want to kind of in a hard spot of I kill everybody in one spot, he kills them when they're not.

Yeah.

My best guess is even two spots is probably your best guess.

I'll do

four spots makes it two times a bunch.

Yeah.

Okay. Sorry. Thank you. Yeah,

I forgot. What does What's the other card you got?

So, he he has massacre. Kill any every enemy warrior on your shaman's base and divine munitions is doing a slay action in the next round. He can do an extra he can just kill adjacent. extra Jason.

I liked that one.

I had that with your guy last time I played and with the killing extra people in Jason's base was

very powerful.

That's why I didn't want you to get this one.

All right, I am going to recruit two, three, three to get four more.

Okay, I'll give him a second. I'll put them two. Three.

I heard the wall. Ah,

okay.

You got my turn. All right. Uh, I will go ahead and spend two and I'm going to recruit four because I got plus one from my general and I get plus one from the mausoleium. So, I'm going to put those guys into play. And I think I will do these two over here. Um, and then I think going to the adjacent mausoleum over here is probably not the worst, but I'm not honestly sure if it's the best either. We'll just do it and we'll see how it goes. Your turn, Meg. I'm going to commit and let's see how this goes. It matters if you shuffle.

Okay.

Okay.

Committed,

Joey. I am also committing.

I am also committing.

Even during the action phase, if my shaman walks through, I can pick up.

Nope. Nope. Only doing the uh order phase.

Okay. Well, I only have one, so it wasn't really worth.

And with that, we are going to reveal just how much damage me is going to do this round.

Oh, and I need the thing.

Uh yes, you get the four action surge card. And as far as the pool, it looks like we have a nice distribution.

I mean, it does feel like you have two attacks there. That's still a lot. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I am going to think this through. I will

cuz so he can't use his massacre and I can't use my chain lightning. You are safe from that now.

Yeah. I will boast here please.

Okay.

If you can reach my boast for me. How what does it take to kill you?

My shaman.

Yeah,

you'd have to kill all my other warriors first.

But it's just a slay.

Yeah.

Okay. So, I will slay twice

and it's two and then two.

My gosh. You

slay. Slay.

It's so hurtful.

So, that's six points.

Yep.

Okay.

Uh, six, four, six, six, six. Yes, it is six points.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

You have one action left.

No, I have two actions left.

You boasted and slayed twice.

Oh, I did slay twice. Oh. Oh. Who's taking extra actions now?

That's crazy.

Crazy how. Let's just look. There's a little extra action game here going on here.

I will.

I'll give you the six. In the meantime, I will maneuver. No, I won't. I will. Oh, this is so tricky. I can't boast anywhere else. Is it It's so silly to not use my final action.

You can boast over here and hope it doesn't cost you anything.

I guess I could boast there.

Yeah, you probably won't win cuz I'll probably kill you. But you could you can boast.

Yeah, I'll boast there. Why not? Cuz I'm not going to end up using that as many.

All right. I am going to Did you spend two? Oh, you did that.

Did I get the points or did I Okay, great. Thank you.

Just got to make sure I get the points for my blood. I don't think we can let her surge. I'm beginning to realize this. I'm beginning to believe this. This character should never surge. This character needs to be killed before they surge.

Yeah,

I am going to do a slay action. And here.

Okay.

And my ability is if I kill with my uh shaman, I can place a heart from my spent pool on a boast space in that zone.

So, free boast or in the mini zone. You can either place it here or go get an extra maneuver. Whichever one you want.

Interesting. Well, I'm going to do that again. Then I'm going to slay another one and then post a bit of maneuver. So, you can wander around very easily.

Yeah.

You know what my ability is, guys? If my shaman's alive, I can do stuff.

I think it's actually all their abilities. Um, that's your turn.

Oh, I I do get two points.

Okay. compared to Megs. I Yes, you get two points. Yes, you are up there. You are yellow. Okay. Um I need to think about all my actions that I can totally do with all the stuff that's totally not going to hurt me. Um I don't see the best way to do all the things. I guess I will be I don't know, man. I guess I'm going to go two. I'm going to spend. No, let me think about this. I'm going to spend a maneuver and I will wander down here. That's one action. I could slay Meg, which is a point. It does help hurt her a bit. Alternatively, is there any else I'd rather go? I don't I don't know. I could go into the central zone. That doesn't help me at all. I could go I have one more maneuver. I have boasting. I have two slays.

I have a whole lot of anger. I have a whole lot of anger.

Same.

Um I think I will My gosh, give me a second here.

I realized I think I should have I forgot I've had this since the beginning.

I have this thing. Topple slay action. Score two for each enemy shaman that was killed during this action. I might as well use it. Do you care if I cash in?

I literally remember cuz I've had it for so long.

Cash in.

Can I have two points? Uh, I have a similar one that I'll just cash in just I get one more.

Yeah, I totally also have a similar one. One more there. Okay. So, my extra action that I have that I totally am going to use is I will go ahead and move this guy down here as well. Okay.

Actually, give me a sec here. I want to leave that there cuz I'm losing that. I think I'm going to go here with my other guy. Okay. Done. Your turn, Meg.

I was going to kill him.

Were you?

Yeah. You just saved his life.

But how are you going to kill him? You don't you going to do it myself?

I was going to change it. I was going to slay with one of that. I was just going to change one and slay him.

Cool.

But

save his life.

You just saved that guy's life cuz he's not worth it anymore.

I don't know about the boast if that stays or not.

The boast this her bow stays only if you leave the zone.

Cuz she gets rewarded for that.

Yeah.

Okay. [snorts]

Cuz she scared him.

I Yeah, I wandered away.

Okay.

Otherwise, I'd be running away from every boast.

You lose points.

Can I do just one action? No.

Uh, your last action is is relent.

But that's that's that would be the last action. Yes. [clears throat] Relent is theoretically.

I'm going to maneuver them in. And

she moved two people into the zone where Joey is. And Joey still has two kills, right?

Yes.

Cool.

Interesting.

Kill her. She's over there in points.

Yeah.

You and I You and I combined are less than her. I'll I'll slay two more times for her. And you get to I get I think you put these in maneuver. So it's it's building up cuz you're a person.

Yeah.

If this action kills enemy warrior in Berock space. Yeah.

Oh

yeah. You can just keep turning slaves into more movement.

Oh, as long as I have

people I can move,

which I don't love, frankly. I'd rather

mean lessons.

Yeah. Okay. Um then I will go ahead and I have two actions. I have a maneuver. I don't want to do these things. You sir have maneuver.

That is kind of nice because it extends my action phase as long as

Yeah. The launch of maneuvering is not not what I'm loving honestly. Okay, if I have two maneuver, one boast, and two slay, this not enough time to do everything I want. Four actions in turn is actually a really good move, by the way, guys. Um, I will go ahead and maneuver into this spot over here, paying one maneuver, you know. No, one second. I'm I'm doing I'm so much antiness, I try to figure out how to not lose this game. Um, I think we have that that that doing a recruit action, a boast action.

Oh, I could do that, I guess. Fine. I will maneuver. So, I'm going to spend the maneuver to go onto here. And then I'm going to boast and use my boast action. I can pull in an adjacent guy. Okay, that's my turn. your turn.

Okay, I just use both maneuvers. Um,

I will move him to here and I will move him to here.

Okay. All right. I think I'm going to boast in the other spot up here and then maneuver into this. Well, don't want to do that. Yeah, I'll maneuver back here.

Okay, my turn. Yep. I think I think I have to. I'm going to double slay. I figured

slay.

So, that's going to be four points to me and I will go up from 8 to 12 and then it's back to you, Joey. Oh, yes. Oh. Oh, in that case, uh if any opponent's token is removed, uh doing the slay action, uh then I score two points.

Nice.

So, you did get a score of yours. I did just two turns later.

Yeah, I probably shouldn't have done that. All right, I one thing left. You have maneuver, you have boast, you have four anger. The interest thing about anger as well is spending your anger just to for the sake of spending it is not always the worst because then it puts it back into your limo pool where you get it back. Especially have your recruit actions. Like I have a whole lot of anger. It's not doing a ton for me.

Yeah. I'm just going to move two back here with maneuver.

Okay. Um so you're moving two back there. Um and that's you still have one in the board there. I don't love that. Do

you have anything you can do though?

Yeah, I could I could hurt him, but he could hurt me back.

How would you hurt him? Uh, I can use the maneuver, pop it over there, and then kill one.

I'm looking,

which I think makes sense to do that. I think I am gonna, in fact, I'm actually gonna cycle. I'm gonna play this weird game of going here to go there, and then there to go there, and then there to go there, and then there to go there, which I think it's more angle than I need. I'd rather have my pool.

Um, and then I'm going to use that to slay you uh for one

point. Oh, that's Wait, he stays there, and I go my point instead of me, which is probably better. Um although um give me a second. I know I just killed you, but I'm realizing maybe that's not the best move.

I know I just killed you.

I'm going to spend two more people to jump around to one to maneuver. So it there instead of killing you, I will just move one of these people out to here.

Okay. Then this goes off the board.

Okay. Uh and then I'm just going to boast back in that spot.

Oh, you can boast again. Oh, interesting. Yes, you can do that.

Okay. and kill them.

Could

Yeah, but boasts more points.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um you control the monster with only two, which is kind of nice. I'll say that.

Anyways, we go to the rest phase. So, we're going to clear blood markers on the board. So, previous blood markers free up those spots to be boasted in again. Uh then we're going to go ahead and players are going to score for divinations, events, and objectives. So, if they have an objectives, great. Otherwise, events not really relevant right now. This event will actually leave the board. Uh we're going to score for our divination cards, not relevant. Then, we do the uh scoring for uh everything else. So scoring for all the stuff we're going to get as follows. Um up there you're going to get four points per boast marker. You get one there and one here. So we're going to replace both of these with blood markers. But basically that's going to be eight points for user. So eight points for yellow.

Um you don't believe you control any temples. So that's going to go back to your available pool. Um well technically you spent but it's all going to come back in a second. Uh then over here this marker is going to be removed from the board as well but me will not get that marker. Uh then over here, Meg's going to get two points. Three points for this marker. So you have three points to white up here. One, two, three. Um and then I don't have any boast markers on the board, but I believe I have Mega has another two points for a temple. So one, two. I have two temples, so four. So I go from 14 to 18. Um we are making progress at this point. If you combine our scores, I think we might actually be beating Mag.

No, we're not gang up on Alex. Alex.

Oh, no. We're ahead by one point. We should gain up on Alex.

If we combine our scores, we're a point ahead of you. Um, anyways, that's going to be that. Place all the tokens, all your hearts from spent into available so you get them all back. We are also going to take two from your pool of hearts off the sides. That's going to further escalate uh how much we can do. Then you're going to gain two unearned. We did that. Resurrect dead shaman. So, I'm going to get my shaman back. Shaman back. Uh, and then we are going to empty and refill the devation row. Me, if you'd like to refill the devation row, I become first player. Uh, the player with the least points, which is still Joey, draws and resolves an event. Um, and then

Oh, objective markers. That's correct.

Scriptorum.

Yes, I have. Um, you have the scriptorum. Oh, I don't love that.

I don't love that at all.

Resurrect your dead shaman.

Okay. I think I want to do other things in remembrance. They had other plans.

Yeah. Okay. Oh, this mark comes off the board as well. And I put that there. And I put a blood marker on the spot. Okay. And you get an event. Sorry. I'm just putting them together.

Event. Place this card next to your player board and choose either temple, mausoleium, or scriptorum. This might be an objective. Oh, no. Each player scores two favor for each space of the chosen type they control.

So, you choose the type of this card.

Enter.

Right now, we're at that.

He's No. So, he's choosing the type now. Yeah.

And then during the scoring phase, we're going to be fighting over that type of zone.

Gotcha.

Um, temple, mausoleium, or scriptorium. Choose temple. Choose temple. I might do Mausoleum because they're the

There's only two. You get one and Mega's the other. No. Oh, I have one. Mega's the other.

Yeah,

right now. Why not scriptorum?

Oh, yeah. I could have.

Yeah, might as well.

All right. So, Scriptoriums are currently contested. An extra two points. An extra two points for Squariums at the end of the round. Uh, and then we advance the next day and I believe

it might be right now.

No. Each player scores two favor for each space they the chosen type discard this card.

That's what that looks like. It's the event.

What's the event called again?

Uh edict.

Edict. I don't know if it's in this particular batch of cards. Jud right away. We do the No, because you score the objectives doing step two.

Oh yeah, that is the score step. That makes sense.

Yeah. All right, cool. So, we know for next round that uh maustoriums are in contention.

Uh and now I believe I get to start off with

Sorry, what did you pick? Well,

uh, scriptoriums, this guy over here, and one up there.

Interesting.

The cards we have are we have haste doing maneuver action. Doing this to action when moving your shaman, you may move it up to two additional spaces. That's pretty, uh, useful. So, that's doing the maneuver, your your shaman can move around the board more easily. Necromancy, uh, deploy up to three warriors to your shaman space. So, doing a shaman order, deploy three warriors to your shaman base. These warriors may also be deployed from your limbo pool. Oh, speaking of which, all limbo warriors should be freed up, which I did not do yet. Um then uh the next one over here that's going to cost you two anger, but it gives you some flexibility. And out of nowhere, deploy up to one warrior to each space you occupy. That's going to cost a whole bunch there. It's going to be I mean it's going to cost it's going to be a burn card. They basically get a warrior everywhere. Okay, that is that which means I think it's time for actions. The only dead people I have are once again in me space. She just likes destroying me over there. Um, I think I think that right now that could be useful, but I think recruiting is also useful. I currently have the mausoleium side. Got two for four on recruiting. And I have six people.

I think I will go ahead and spend two to recruit four people. Um, I can my mausoleiums. I can where my shaman is. So, I think we'll go ahead and throw We don't have another spots, so we just Mausoleium, Stronghold, and Shaman. Um, so I think we'll go ahead and put those out on the Mausoleium base. I guess we'll see how this plays out. Okay, that's my turn. Your turn, Meg.

My turn. My turn.

Indeed. Okay, I'm gonna spend two to go one and two.

Okay, actually I'm going to move you two here. That's okay. Sorry.

And that is my turn.

All right. I am going to spend two to move these guys. Go one, two.

Okay.

Is Joey, are you in the monolith phase?

Uh, yes.

Can you put them like Yeah.

I'm going to spend

I thought it was way more men.

I'm going to spend one.

Sounded like a much bigger army.

That's the scriptorum space right now.

Okay.

I'm putting one on haste.

Okay. Oh, it's your turn.

Yep.

Okay. Um, I am going to spend one to do my shaman. Um,

this is day three, people. Day three. We're halfway through.

Where are you going to put a

I'm sorry. I'm thinking. I'm sorry because I regret what I did last round already.

I regret many things.

Many, many things.

Several things. Yeah. And the first round I did pretty poor.

And then after all those things, we played this game. And I got a bunch of stuff in this game, too.

Well, like I moved these two through here. Do you care if I just left one?

I don't care. You just that last

You don't care if Yeah, it was the It was the first thing I did.

It was like four turns ago. No, it was. And it has nothing to do with what you guys did. It has to do with my own math.

Yeah.

Okay. So, I'm going to move one to move my shaman. And I will go one, two, three. Cuz that will pick up all my

Yeah, that works.

Okay. And now I have all my

anger. Correct.

These are all my dead ones.

Yeah. Yeah.

All right. That was my turn.

Your turn, Joey. Interesting. Um I don't really have many dead guys. But I guess I'll do my shaman action and just have him go join these guys.

Okay. Um I will collect my haste card and then I'm going to commit.

Wow.

I I I think you committing is so dangerous. You basically destroy the whole board. Again, our scores combined are because you start off and go. That's the noise she makes.

That is the noise she makes.

Oh, it's sorry. It's my turn.

You can only have three

three what cards?

Cards. So, I have to get rid of one.

Yeah.

Uh, did you get rid of that lightning one?

No, I think not. I think not.

I think given that we're on round three, I'll get rid of the general, but I will I regret that.

I regret that. That's fine. That's that's that's that's oversight stuff. I'm glad you're here for the correction. I wouldn't want to win on an asterisk.

Yeah, I did that in our last game, too.

I am going to bid on this out of nowhere card.

Okay. What was the other one?

Uh, the necromancy. Deploy up to three warriors to your shaman space. These warriors may also be deployed from your limbo pool, which that is a nice degree of flexibility.

Yeah.

Now, would you spend the two anger to play it and then be able to send them from the limbo pool?

Is that what that's saying? Does it cost you?

Does it say what action that happens in?

Yeah, if you spend you spend you can spend a bunch of

cost is to spend these.

Yep.

You you spend you spend from your anger pool and then

and then do the action. So yeah, that's kind of cool.

And you can spend other cards as well that put things into your limbo.

I do like that.

It's useful. Burn a bunch of cards, get your anger over, and then uh do things

and then do things.

Just do things.

Just do some things. Not everything. It's your turn, right?

Yeah. I'm just trying to decide if I want to spend I'm going to spend two and move these four. One, two.

Okay.

Interesting.

Sorry. Yeah. Guess he does have to stand.

Yeah. Some games doesn't matter if they're lying down or not. This game really matters a lot. Uh, yes. I'm out.

So, I will gain this card.

Yes, you will. It's a great card for one.

And so, this is recruit order. Can I just do that now?

You as if you do a recruit order. Yes.

Oh, so I would have had to spend the two.

You have to spend at least two to do it. Yes.

I hate this card. I worked toward this and now I'm like, I wish I never even took it.

Like my last turn where I bought a card and then it went over my limits. I wish I never even took it.

I never even saw you bid on that one.

I absolutely am mad about I thought I just Okay, whatever. I'll spend the two.

Oh, this is so I'm going to hold on to it because my recruit would be spend two and then this adds to Hold on to it.

So, I need at least six

to benefit the most. Yes,

I've been wasting turns. Okay, but that's okay. That's okay. I think at this point um at this point I need people. But I guess I might just commit. I don't know. My guy is so cool and deadly. Oh, this is so hard. I guess I'm going to commit.

Okay, Joey, to you. Do you want necromancy for a guaranteed one?

Yeah. Okay. And then this might be stupid, but I'm going to move three. Do one, two, three.

Okay.

Then I'll commit.

Cool. Cool. Cool. And now we see just how bad things are going to be.

I regret not doing like a regular recruit.

Okay. Um I have very little sleigh. I'm noticing I have a ton of maneuver and very little sleigh.

Not what I was hoping for.

That's kind of crazy.

Shouldn't have that much sleigh. Has a lot of sleigh.

The sleigh life chose me.

Yeah.

Okay. that possibly changes things. We'll see. You have that there. Um, I have four actions. I have four actions. Okay, I think I will go ahead and I'm going to burn a guy in limbo to go ahead and move from maneuver to there. Um, then I'll probably sacrifice a guy, which I hate, but I'm gonna sacrifice a guy to put them in the living my warrior. So, I'm just gonna sacrifice this guy, drop them into my warrior. Um, and then burn this again. Uh, so if I've done no actions yet, I'll burn that again to move this guy. Oh, I guess I have to move it in a clockwise order. That's rough. Okay, cool. Uh, then I'm going to use a maneuver action as my first action and go one, two, and my character means I can move everyone with me. So, I'm going to pop these guys here with me. Um, and then of course

he spent one or two maneuverings.

One.

You can move two.

He can because I bought the heist card.

Oh,

you can move an additional two spaces.

All right. So, and then I can pop people there at the end of it as well to my character. So, these two pair nicely together. Then I'm going to spend all three of my um slays to basically kill all three of these.

And that's going to give me five points. 18 to 23. Your turn, Meg.

Okay. Let's see. What can I try to do? That would be three slaves to kill you.

You'd have to be there first, but yes.

Yeah, I have like nothing.

And I can obviously move in between as well cuz I have so much maneuver.

Yeah. Okay. Uh I will maneuver this guy into here. and then I will slay.

Okay,

cool. Cool. Your turn, Joey. I'm going to maneuver one of these guys down there and then I would like to boast, I think, but may come back to bite me. So, we'll just slay instead, actually.

Okay, my turn. I will spend a maneuver to go ahead and move my shaman here. And then I can move adjacent people in. Well, that one's dead. I can move this person in with me. And then I'm going to boast in this spot, which is going to pull in up to three adjacent warriors. And I think I will choose the scriptorum and then these two here for the mausoleium. Okay, that's my turn.

I will maneuver and slay.

Oh, I didn't take a point for the other one, too.

I think

two points.

We can slay. Yeah,

I have the slay.

Okay,

I I took one. I did that. I got the one.

You took the one you didn't. Yeah.

My turn.

All right. I will I don't like that. All right, I am going to

maneuver and slay. Okay, man. This is going to be a bloody situation. Yeah,

this is going to be bloody. How do we do this? Boasting is so unhelpful to me right now. And I have don't have enough anger to do anything with it.

Yeah, it's unfortunate. All mine were in boast and I Yeah,

you guys immediately moved out of every space I could have boasted.

Yeah, I'd require that. that that's not the craziest, but it's not the best either. I don't know how to best sound this. And I think, let me think. If I boast to where Meg is, but she's insistent on slaying me because she has lots of slay, which feels like the reasonable thing to do, um, then it's in my best interest to just run and hide, so to speak. But then, okay, so if I go and you, sir, you're out of slay, too, but you have plenty of anger to work with, but not a ton of maneuver to work with. So, in a weird way, my best option, this feels insane, but I, you know, we're going to do this. Um, I'm going to go ahead and sacrifice warrior.

warrior and I guess warrior which I hate. Going to sacrifice all of those. I'm going to spend all three. Well, no. We're going to leave this warrior here. I'm going to sacrifice two warriors. Bump these two here. And then we're going to go That's going to do two maneuvers and I'm going to kill these two. Um, and that's going to two points for me. Your turn, Meg.

I will. I guess I should have fixed my warriors. The problem is I I needed more anger this turn. Uh, but unfortunately I wor me going first on committing and I that's a trade-off I'm not sure how I feel about

and then maneuver this guy into here

and then I will slay him.

Can I have a point please?

Yes. Point for me to you. All right. I will. It's really unfortunate. Um, I am going to move one of my guys from Reg stronghold into this spot.

Okay.

In this spot.

Okay.

And then boast there.

There's no one contesting.

There's dead bodies there.

Dead bodies counts. I was contesting. So

contesting double check, but

that's true. I would have boasted back there, but I guess

one enemy living or dead.

Okay.

Okay. Well,

it's always been living that since we had

that changes you then.

I think it's you now.

Yeah. I will sacrifice the other unit, be able to then move my maneuver over here and use that sle to kill him. And that's going to be another three. One, two, three. Okay, it's a whole lot of committing. And I think that's everything I can do. I don't have anything else. I guess I could boast, but I can't do anything with it. I will relent. So, I'll remove all these in the pool.

Does my boast say if I have a dead person here and I leave?

Uh, I don't believe so.

Okay.

Because if you were that lone person was standing and died, your boast comes off. So,

my turn.

Yeah.

Can I boast twice in the same spot?

Yes, I guess so.

I will double boast.

Does that do anything for me?

It gives you points.

Two points per post. Okay. I was making sure it wasn't just

iffy, but um I don't know cuz if I move I die. So if I move I die. Just like that.

I think I'm just going to relent. I like where my guys are at. So Meg, the board is yours. Well, that changes things a little bit cuz

So, these are both giving the same amount of stuff.

Uh, yes, but you can also bow her,

right? Uh, should

Okay,

I'm doing everything.

Yeah.

So, I will boast here. I will spend two guys to go to here. And I just cuz I might want to do what you did. One, two, it would be three to come back and then I would still have Yeah, I'm going to do a full cycle to get three people.

Cool. Cool. That's what I was saying. I probably should have done that.

You can do that. You could if you want.

I don't care if you want to do that together.

You before you by all means.

Yeah. Yeah. and then I will move and slay for one more point.

Okay. And it's somehow I think after all our efforts I think she's still getting the most points this round. So we're going to go ahead to the rest phase.

I have a blood loss like and it's not the card

we clear blood markers from the board. So these are going to clear out um as well as up here. Uh then we're going to play a score divination. So we're going to score for object uh the events over there. So divination cards we don't have any uh events and objectives we're going to score for. So, the event, what is this?

He lost it cuz I killed him.

Oh, cool. Uh, then we're going Oh, that does change things. Interesting. Yes,

it did. Yeah, that's why I was like, he has one guy.

Uh, so then we're going to clear out uh the objectives. The objective is Joey's going to get two and going to get two.

So, we got two for Meg and two for Joey. Uh, then we're going to score for everything else. So, boast markers. We'll do temples. Two for this temple for Joey. No one got this temple and two for that. So, another

two and two again. Um, and then we're going to score for what's an objective.

Go first.

I score two for each enemy stronghold I occupy.

Ah, so by all enemy strongholds, I get to place another heart from the unear. Nice, nice, nice. So, four points for Joey, 21 25. And then we're doing boast markers. So, Meg's going to get six and nine. For those, we're going to put blood markers out on those before we head into the last round. So, we have nine points for Meg, which again, somehow she still get the most. Uh, and then I'm gonna get four for this one, which gonna bring me to 28 to 32.

And you did the temple points.

Uh, yes, the temple points already. Okay. Uh, and that is Oh, I didn't put out my marker over here. And we Yes, I think the rest are good. Okay, we did Meg's two and one there. Perfect. Okay, [snorts] that is that, which means we now do the rest. We gain our two unearned over here. So, Meg, here's your two of this.

Mhm.

We're going to resurrect dead shamans if you have any. So, the dead shamans pop back to your strongholds. Um, and then we're going to uh refill the divination row. So, Mega three new cards. Player in last place, you're once again going to get an adventer. Um, objectives. Uh, who controls Scriptoriums? You control one. So, Meg and yourself will both get an objective. So, here's an objective, Mag. [clears throat]

Uh, and then we are going to Anything else? I think that's everything. Your limbo warriors move off to the side and the rest of your hearts refill. Interesting. So this says reveal. Place this card next to your player board. When you kill an enemy warrior on a space where you have only one living unit, you may discard this card to kill up to two additional enemy warriors there.

So it's it's

place next play. When you kill an enemy warrior where you have only one unit, you can kill two. So if he kills someone,

yeah,

whenever you're a solo person,

I get to do Meg's ability.

And now me, I believe you are star player. Going to the next round. We're going to read our last batch of cards. This is the final round.

My limbo people,

they should be in your reserve. Yeah.

All right, we have tech mage. Score. During the scoring phase, score two points for each scriptorum you control. Uh, it's a one time use card, but this is the last round, so that's fine. So, scriptoriums can possibly worth points again. Overwhelmed. Start of the action phase. Take the surge marker from the player who has it. That's important, guys. You have to burn this. Take the surge marker from the player who has it.

Wow.

So, it doesn't matter who surges. If you get that card, it matters more. Uh this is this is a terrible game. Pinser tactics. Uh maneuver action. Doing this action, you may move up to two additional units, one space each. So doing a maneuver action, you can basically move additional units one space each. Okay. And with that, we're going to return the tower to the board. And Meg takes our first turn.

I'm not ready to go first.

I'm not ready to go first, but I still have to go.

I hate that he died over here. What was wrong with you? You crazy guy.

It's almost like we're not living for your convenience. Person who's drastically ahead on points.

I guess I'll start off doing that. I'll start off with a shaman walk.

Mhm.

Um and we will go one, two, three.

Okay.

Make them angry.

That's turn. Yes. I am going to also I think do a shaman action and move mine back into monolith to pick up these guys. And

I think I'm going to use it just cuz that's probably the best case that I'm going to be able to do.

Mhm. I'm going to spend three of my anger to burn, massacre, and then kill all of Alex's people.

Me? I know. I don't know when else I'm going to get to use it. I paid a lot for it. I'm using it.

It's She's going to recruit people.

Does it kill his guy, too? No.

No. Just worries

cuz this will go away.

Wow.

My gosh. Out of

nowhere.

My gosh. What a choice.

What a choice.

What a choice. Okay. So, now that I have no one, I think we will go and I don't know, man. This feels rough. I'll start by going for overwhelm. Take the uh surge marker. Okay. GME.

I'll do two for that.

Joey,

I like that card. Um, I am going to spend one to move this guy to this mausoleum.

Okay, just moving a single guy one space. I guess I probably should recruit. So, I'll pay two to recruit. Okay.

Are you are you are

Oh. Oh. Oh. Um, it's a good question. Three to go first.

Then you're three down.

Yeah. No, I'll let you have it.

My turn.

Yes.

Okay. I am now going to recruit myself. Um, yeah, I will recruit and I'm going to spend five. One, two, three, four, five. So, I will get six guys. Okay.

And

it's a bloody battlefield up there.

I'm going to put them all here. Seems like a choice.

Sorry, Joey.

That's with Joey.

Well, I would have spread them out if you hadn't a little bit. Um, but then I have out of nowhere where I can deploy one warrior to each space I occupy. So, I'll go one, two, three. Okay.

You okay, Joey? To you. I am going to recruit for three to bring in these four guys. And we'll just put them all over here. I will recruit for two. Bring in another two guys. Your turn, Meg.

I feel like I'm ready.

I could spend I could move my guys up, but I don't know if I care. So, I'm going to do it. I'm going in.

You're going hot.

I don't know if it's crazy or not.

I kind of wanted to bid on these.

I'm committed. I did my thing. remember what they do, but they're not super

No, they're not. Yeah, but for one

two

the for this one's maneuvery. You can

Yeah.

move up to two additional units, one space each.

Yeah. See, I should have saved that thing, but do I Here you go.

Thanks. I bought the card and then did the thing.

The main reason I bid

the card would have let me just take it. The main reason I bid on it is to force you to just at least pay for the privilege of taking the surge.

Yeah, but I still have more cubes in there, which is why like there's nothing else I wanted to do. I mean, I'm fully recruited.

All right, I am going to spend one to move these two through this tunnel over here.

Okay, cool. Cool. Um, I will go ahead and I think I will pick up some warriors along the way. So, I'm going to go one, two, three, picking up all these angry dead bodies.

They're not as helpful when they're dead, but they are helpful, just not as helpful.

Um, and then I'm going to blast my chain lightning. So, one of these will go into limo to do that. And we're going to chain lightning uh to target a contiguous string of five spaces. We're going to go ping, ping, ping, and ping. Um, that's going to be our chain lightning gone.

Okay,

four points.

Yep. And four points. That's a good point.

Okay, your turn. Meg committed.

Okay, I might do this shaman action again and run through this space, this space to this space and collect my three guys.

Nice. and then do some necromancy. So I can spend two to deploy three warriors to my shimbo pool.

Okay.

So yeah, three more.

Nice.

Okay. Um I believe I will spend two to recruit two more units.

I'm out.

Your turn, Joey. Interesting. So, I might do the same thing and just go back. Spend one to do a shaman action.

Just run him back to the monolith and then spend two to deploy three for necromancy.

Oh, that's a very useful card in hindsight.

Yeah, I didn't think about that either.

Uh, then I will bid Or should I? I think I'll bid on pins or tactics. Your turn, Joey. I think I am going and [clears throat] just see what the monarch gives me cuz I have no anger. So,

oh, we I'm going to get that card.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, I'm going to get that card for one. And I think I'll tactics.

I'm leaning towards taking tech mage for one as well.

Well, remember you can't keep them.

Uh, correct. But the No, you're right. These are action based. No, you're right. These are action based. Nope. Nope. You are correct.

So, I will not b that one. Okay. So, I will commit these.

Nice.

And so, with that, we are ready to Meg Serge, which she has less killing than usual, which is not a bad thing.

Still plenty of killing.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. I'm going to start off. [sighs] So, I want to cut off the head of both of the dragons, but I can only cut off one. And I think Alex is ahead. So, I will goodness gracious. I'm going to maneuver this guy to here. He can kill him, right?

Sure.

This little guy. Uh, we'll slay my enemy. And then because I can't, I think I'm going to play it safe and we're going to maneuver. So, that was two actions.

Mhm. I'm going to maneuver again. Sorry. I'm going to both. No, because if I leave it doesn't matter. So, I'm going to maneuver again and I'm going to Yeah, I'll spend. Does it make sense for me to just No. [sighs]

You have one action left. This is when it's hard. I don't I I don't want to I can't really boast anywhere. Um can't boast and I don't want to spend my things, but I think I'm going to have to. So, I will spend

You got something

one of Sorry. is going to spend one of this to go over here to maneuver and then I will maneuver this guy to here.

Okay, Joey,

I don't know if that was the right call, but that's what I'm doing.

Yeah, there's not a lot of options. Um, I am going to maneuver one of these guys in here and then I'll boast about this dead guy I found.

Hey guys, look what I found.

Cool, cool, cool. Um, I have maneuver boast. I have options, but not great options. I think I will, um, Joey has so much sle, but also Meg's over here. So, like I guess we'll work our way up. We will maneuver um into here and then slay uh, Joey for a point. All right, your turn. Meg.

Yeah, I did.

Oh, one second. When I maneuver, I get to do up to two additional actions by spending a person. So, I'll do two additional. So, I guess I will go ahead and have these two guys pop into here. Okay, go ahead, Meg.

Okay, I will spend one of these to make this a maneuver and then I will maneuver and slay to go here and kill this guy.

Point for mag.

Got it. All right, I will double boast. I actually I'm not even going to do that because I can do this. So, I will slay this guy.

Okay,

which then lets me put a boast on that and then I will just boast again.

And then we'll bump up a point for the kill.

Um I will I think I will walk in here. So, with a maneuver, um, and then because I can maneuver, I can move up to two additional units, one space each. So, I think I think there's not a lot of reason to move them. I think I'm going to do I moved. I'll move two different units. And then I will slay. So, there's my two maneuver and slay. And boom. And another point for me over here.

Okay.

My turn.

It is indeed. Wait, did I put Did somebody boast here? You boasted already.

I did.

Oh, interesting. You

killed my guy.

Yeah. Oh, good, good, good. I like that.

Okay, I am going to spend this to make my Bosa maneuver.

Okay.

And then I will maneuver and slay.

Okay.

And with my sleigh, it will kill both of these guys. And then I will spend this guy to also kill him.

That's going to be five points for me. 53 to 58. Your turn, Joey. And these boots come off.

Yes, they do. All right. I unfortunately just have to retaliate. Come back in and slay. Okay. Three points for Joey. Man, this thing is violent, guys. Um, I think I will You guys are running out of maneuvers. Um, I think I will boast and boast. Okay, that's my turn.

Okay, I think it's worth because I'm not making any points on the board and I don't really have a way to make points on the board. So I think my best bet

I think you are safely winning probably.

But I think my best bet is to mess with Joey. So I will have to kill two guys. I'll go one two to and kill two of them. Would they die here or they go here? They go here when you kill them to Okay.

But no no they go there when you sacrifice them. But then you're spending them which is why you how you moved

and you move.

So if you you you sacrifice them then you spend them.

And then I'll move into here just so it's one one.

Okay.

That's all that's all I got. Joey to you. Interesting. Not in space with anybody other than that. All right, I am going to maneuver and boast. Okay, so you currently have the lead over there. Um, and you have three slays left, which I don't love. do not love that one bit honestly. Uh because there too many slays in my opinion, my professional opinion, there's too many slays.

Slay,

you're

I could do move two additional units one space each. So I can't just move as much as I want. I could maneuver maneuver. Oh, tunnels. I have to remember tunnels.

Oh, yeah.

Tunnels are a concept.

Yeah, I kind of I think my my faction is afraid of tunnels. We have a fear of being caught underground.

So if I boast, I can go maneuver. Maneuver, maneuver, maneuver. No, I can't do it. I can't do it. Joey's got slays. He's got slays for days. I think if that's the case, it's just my best interest to do kills. I guess there's no no boasting.

I don't think there's much I can do. I think I might just Okay, I'll maneuver. So, that's not working. I'm maneuvering. So, I'm going to pop into here and then I am maneuvering by doing that and then putting this guy in here. I guess that's my my turn. Why' you do that?

I I didn't want to back off right now.

Okay, I will slay him.

Yep, seems reasonable. I I it's it's I don't have any good news. That's That was a terrible That's me pausing

kind of where I was at. I didn't have a

Oh, you still have a thing left. I didn't realize I still have a thing left. I don't I'll just recall kind of.

Yes. Um, I'm going to

Where's the line of dead bodies for Joey?

Sacrifice one of these guys. Yeah,

here to move it over to boast.

Yeah.

And then technically I was supposed to spin do that.

Yeah. You boasting here?

Yeah.

Okay. Um, and I think I'll just recall cuz I don't think there's anything else I can do that's productive. I don't think the last thing I do is productive either.

Okay.

Uh, same. I'm not in space with anybody.

You are alone.

I can't do anything. So,

okay. we get to scoring. So, scoring wise, we're going to have a bunch of bows playing out. Uh Joey controls the middle, which means his boast markers are worth four points each. So, you're going to get eight points for your bow markers over there. So, I'm from 33 to 41. Um I'm going to get three points for each of my boast markers. That's going to be six points for me. Going from 38 to 44, I have two temples. That's going to be four more points. 44 to 48. Uh you have another temple over there, Joey. So, you go from 41 to 43. And I think that's everything. Anything else missing?

Uh I have an objective that would just give me another point for

each temple you control. So it's another point.

And then um

I should have done this when I killed people. So

I forgot about that.

Kill your one guy.

Oh, you could have killed one more after that, which means one more point for you.

All right. And I think if I'm not mistaken, that's where everything ends. There's nothing else to do. We have a um a whole lot of dead people on the board. Meg, despite getting less points in the last round, still had enough control. And we end with a score of 45 to Joey, 48, sorry, 45 to Joey, 48 to myself, and 58 to Meg.

Surging blood loss.

And that is basically a gameplay of the Monolith. We'll have a link to it down below. You can check this out. This is the Monolith from Pla Hat Games. Until next time, I'm Alex Rapper from Board Game Co.

I'm Professor Mag

and I'm Joey. Have a good one. Bye.

Bye.

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