Stars of Akarios All in Kickstarter Unboxing

greetings i'm berent and welcome to meet me at the table here it is that's right it is stars of akarios this is a game i have been wanting and hoping for for a long time it finally showed up in my doorstep this is my kickstarter copy i did the all-in pledge so you're not only going to see the base game but i've got our mat as well i'm going to be putting that out so we can see that in all of its glories and of course what would be a game is never complete without its miniature set so i have that we're going to go through all of this stuff this is going to be super super fun what stars vacario says in case you don't know is a solo cooperative campaign game for one to four players where you fight in space battles you explore mysterious universes you can even land on planets and explore them as well you're gonna be having a character that you're gonna be in charge of that's gonna have their own spaceship and each person that plays has their own spaceship and crew member which is fantastic this is going to be super super cool all the spaceships i believe are completely different in the way they originally work so let's dig into this thing see what it's all about i'm excited to show you at least whatever i can since it is a campaign game after all i don't want to spoil too much but let's go ahead and dig into this and if you're excited to see what stars of aqarios is and what's in the box and all the awesome things that go along with it then i need you to meet me at the table [Music] i thought i'd start by showing off the playmat that comes with the game this is going to be a hex based system when it comes to spaceship combat and you'll see how all that works during our playthrough yes of course there's going to be a play through for stars for cardios i'm super excited for this i have to have one on top of that you're going to be going onto planets as well which is not going to be using this from what i understand it'll be using more of a card based system so to see that also in the play through and if you're interested in seeing the playthrough don't forget to like subscribe and hit the bell symbol on this video so you know when those play throughs come out also if you're interested in supporting the channel you can check out my patreon it's going to be in the description of this video some of the things the patreon members can do is help decide who is going to be our pilot and what ship that pilot is going to be flying it's going to be up to you to help decide how this channel transforms and that's going to be all found in the patreon so please take a look in the description of this video this is going to be our play mat it's super cool i'm going to do the rest of the unboxing right on top of this because why look at how cool this playback is let's move right to the base box i'm going to lift our lid and i'll tell you right now this is packed above the lid with content it is absolutely out of control it's super cool it comes well let's see what this is first this right here is going to be is this like the star system look at this this is the star system oh my goodness this is amazing it comes with all the different planets and the solar systems and things the abyss oh i don't think i want to go out there that'd be bad news i've heard of other ships that have gone to a place called the abyss and it doesn't turn out too well oh unless you're james cameron and you make the abyss usually that actually turned out okay those aliens were nice and happy but i don't think i want to go there this is really cool we'll see how this plays throughout our campaign and what is in store for us there here's our punch boards we'll quickly go through those after we take off this and see what's underneath oh my gosh look at all this stuff we got all this stuff to go through these are going to be our player boards and look it has a fantastic system to hold all our stuff the only thing i'm a little worried about is i'm not sure if the card sleeves are going to fit into these so let's continue going we have all of the different character sheets here and i know i'm pulling these things out we are going to go through each one of these things individually here are the four different characters i believe you can start with and here's their characters and what they are and i believe they're all different they all have some things are the same but some things are different when it comes to the levels of power-ups and things of that nature they have game trades has supported them so they have their heroes and their ships inside each of these game trades so you can hold on to what you have as you go through the game and you'll hold on to it forever we have all of our cubes it looks like we have our enemy boards here as well we'll go through like i said we're going to go through all of these individually as we go this is the mat or the chip or sorry the board i'm not going to open this because it's going to be the same as our play mat but i do need to grab what's on the back of this because that's going to be super important we have that i don't need this i'm not going to hopefully use that to be bad news we don't need this here's our scenario book i'm going to just look at maybe the first couple pages of this i don't want to show too much of it then here's the rest so now that i've taken everything out to this point let's take a look at some of the cool things that are found inside this game underneath our board is the rule book the rule book is right here it is i believe 30 some pages long 39 pages with your index here then there's i believe so it just kind of goes through some of the stuff that you can possibly get the cool thing about this game is there is an app that goes along with it which you can download i don't know if it's ready yet at the time of this recording but i'm sure it's going to be out pretty soon if it's not already there there's also a community you can join down here on using this qr code or this link right here that's pretty sweet there's i'm really excited to dig into all of this now this is of course just the rule book on how you're able to play the game and the tutorial i think in the actual scenario book is going to kind of step by step take you through some of this and hopefully you'll just need this to reference a little bit as you're playing the game if you're looking for a great playthrough of this or at least a how to play video series of this i'll put a link to it in the description of this video i believe one of the creators of the game or a part of the creation team has done a fantastic play through it so you can take a look at that i could be wrong about that i apologize if i am but there is a great video out there so i'm going to link that in the description of this let's continue digging on we've well i'm going to read this we don't have to dig through this anymore it's a rule book if we look at our punch boards we have some of the bigger planets that can be placed out on top of this mat that you have back here on the board we have some asteroids some smaller toe areas here that are going to make the every space combat a little bit different these down here are some of our scenario markers that are going to trigger certain things i believe in the scenario if you land on them or do something near them is my guess the next punch board has uh some of our ships we also have some of our characters down here we have starla violet ray guardian and enver on the flip side of these it does just show some art that has to do with these different ships these different ships of course are all a little bit different they're all going to be played differently which is really cool so you can i believe be able to pick any type of ship for any character but there's a limited number or type of ship you can be at the very beginning of the game but i'm sure more unlocks as you play through it there are even more on this other one here there are more ships again some of these may be available at the beginning and some are going to unlock i'm sure as you go we have our character now if you notice these character stats are all a little bit different as well so every character will play a little bit different when it comes to the types of skills and abilities that they have from what i understand these here are all different types of enemy ships that we're gonna have to fight the same as that was on the other playmat as well and we're continuing here with even more play enemies and we have tokens for all of our different characters that we saw the leads the little tokens that are going to be used in this game again more terrain for the board as we're doing some of the space combat and then we have some extra numbered tokens over here digging back into the box we have our bases for our ships we'll show how to show you how some of that works we have custom dice this is a dice placement at least one of the mechanics is a dice placement mechanic and you'll see how that works during our playthrough and there is a specific six cider here that is used differently from all the other ones every enemy we fight is going to be placed into one of these type of things your enemy is going to be placed in here it's going to have a certain amount i believe of hull here and then also its ability to maneuver around as well and it does have it can get up to 30 of these this is out of control these are going to be if you decide to if you for example do a hull breach or stealth or stun you'll place a token there showing that that has befallen that particular enemy and there's a lot of these so i am worried that at some point we might have to take on this many enemies at one time and if we do i hope i'm prepared for it our player boards are much bigger they have a lot more going on here of course we do have our hull and this is shields i misspoke earlier about maneuvering shields we have stress here you can take stress in this game to help be able to do actions in this game down here you're going to see that as i showed you the dice earlier depending on what dice you roll you can place these out here and perform certain basic actions or of course you're going to have weapon and engine actions you're going to be using as well in this game your pilot's going to sit up here with its miniature its ship card is going to be here with its miniature as well so after we get a lot of this stuff unboxed and look through i'm going to set this up so you can see what a cool looking board looks like this is going to be our ship ability our pilot ability then we also get a couple tech cards going forward as well this down here is going to be where you can put some of the tokens to represent uh different things that have happened that you're going to have to keep track of on your ship's engines and weapons and things of that nature and again same down here if you take these certain statuses i believe you're going to put those tokens in there to show that you have that taken those damage or at least that befall in that ailment i should say we have even more pads we do have a pad for every one of those characters i showed you there are eight here and i believe i think some of the ones you'll start with like i said some you won't i don't know which ones they are exactly here's our main miniature this is the mother ship i guess you could say i guess it's not a mother ship it's the sparrow is what it's called but i i refer to the mother ship and the cool thing is these things just kind of go right in here and yes all of these are going to be painted i love to do painting when it comes to making my games look really cool so we'll be painting these up to make them look really neat it fits right on that base just like that and like it shows here this thing will then slide in and i believe you're going to put your little signify who's flying the ship that's what those little symbols were tokens were for when we saw them on the punch boards they're going to go in there so that people don't get confused what ship is where and who is doing what which is pretty cool look at this ship the ship is pretty awesome i'm excited to paint i haven't painted up some starships in a long long time so i'm really excited to get to these there's other ships down here as well and i believe these are all the different player ships that we could have the other box of ships i believe are all the enemy ships i could be wrong don't quote me on that we'll see how it all befalls us here this looks pretty cool it's like a squid that's something else or maybe it is a squid what is this thing oh my gosh it's got like a it looks like it has like a like a gatling gun attached to it that's pretty awesome i bet that does a lot of damage if it needs to here's some of the other ships here as well and then i believe we have some of our i don't know if these are our characters are these going to be some of the people that we might interact with on the planet i could not sure which is which i think these are all going to be people we may locate along the way because the stuff for our ships are all going to be in here now i think about it these are going to be a lot of the ships that we can start with and these might be upgraded ships or these could be powerful enemy boss ships down here as well again we'll have to see how it all befalls us as we play through the game look at this guy's got a giant war mace warhammer death thing here and i don't want to get hit by that at all that would be absolutely devastating let's see if we can get him back in his little boxer there we go inside every player tray we're going to be able to carry our miniature of who it is in there here's one of the characters i believe we'll put that there and then of course there's the spaceship you'll be putting in here as well just because it's the spaceship and the character in here i don't believe that's the case you can kind of intermix these if you wish to but i could be wrong about that we'll see how the game is played again these things just pop right into there and they're just going to stay in there but of course we have to get them painted first and this will show who's flying the ship which is pretty sweet you just disconnect it there is a modifier deck of this game so when you go to perform actions you're going to draw a modifier card which is going to well that's not one we ever want to see i don't want to see miss i believe it means you're going to miss could be like a zero uh there's a times two then all the other ones are either zeros plus one a plus two or negative ones and negative twos this is going to modify your actions this deck is gonna change and grow as you play through the game you're gonna be adding and subtracting things based on skills things that's happened in the game any type of thing could probably change this deck which is really cool i'm excited for how that works and there's four of these exactly the same except with a little bit different miniature and a little bit of a different ship so i'm not going to pull them all out and show you but just want you to be aware that there are four of them and you'll be able to play with up to four players if you wish to which is super cool just to show you a little bit about how you can modify that deck if you notice that you're going down different trees here for example this one can remove a negative two or you can add a plus two if you wish to this can remove a negative one you remove a zero or you can gain whatever this is this one will add two plus one so your deck will grow as you go down some of these trees at least that's one way to be able to change the deck and every character is a little bit different here are some of these cubes i don't need to open these cubes i think you've seen cubes before i'm just going to have them reflect off the light and make it super hard to see but there's different cubes used for multiple things in this game then we have our sparrow tray the sparrow is going to be like i said like the mother ship type thing so the sparrow is going to be your home base and it's going to have its own area here where it's going to be able to i guess it's going to carry things in here and then you're able to place cubes out on it to keep track of its statistics and then it has a trauma deck right here this could be something that could be it's definitely not going to be good this trauma deck is going to come into play if you ever take too much stress or become unconscious or something you might have to draw a trauma and abide by it so far i'm just going to show you one to show you kind of what these are so example here's one that says keep firing reduce your supply to zero from the weapon upgrade with the most supply deal three damage to all enemy and allied ships including yourself within three range so that's probably not good to have happen to you but it's pretty cool that it's there so it's just one of the decks of cards there are so many we're about to look through we have pilot ability cards ever there's some for every pilot there's four for each pilot here in this deck of cards i'm going to show you one of them and you it's okay because you actually when you start the game you are going to take the pilot card for your pilot the first one you have so starla has for example style self-sacrifice she can use one of these dice to perform the effect that's on here and it's going to cause have supplies it's going to do one damage again i'm not sure exactly how it's all transpires we'll see how it works in the play through hopefully i don't have to use self sacrifices it sounds like a good one to use but there is some for every pilot so these are going to increase in power i'm guessing as you go but i'm not going to look at these until it tells me to which is going to be cool super cool there's another modifier deck this one is the monster enemy modifier deck i believe and they're going to have the same deck you do to a certain extent i don't think it and all the enemies on the board i believe use the same type of modifier cards so these modifier cards are going to adjust to their abilities that they're using against you instead of having a whole deck of cards for each enemy our next deck of cards is the sparrows i believe these are some of the upgrades for the sparrow as we play through the game these i'm not gonna look at because i don't know if you start with any of these in the campaign we also have a bunch of co-pilot cards these are going to be cards that are going to add different effects to your player and if ship as you fly around i mean a co-pilot is going to be able to give you an extra i believe action or maybe resources or something again i'm not going to look at these until the game tells me to because i don't want to spoil too much i know i'm not helping those that don't mind sealed spoilers but i want to make sure i leave this as spoiler free as possible though of course doing an unboxing like this you may see something the next deck of cards is our engine cards these are going to be upgrades to our engines i can show you some of these because you will start with some of these when you start the game for example you can choose one of the four that are at the very top these are going to be different maneuvers that you can do this one i think is super cool and i love these type of things you can spend one of your dice here that has that symbol to allow you to fly out that many space and rotate back around that's really neat a burn and flip another one that we have could be a flank again you're going to one two three up one over spin and come back around so you can hopefully be able to attack somebody from the back so there's really neat engine upgrades that you can have from looking at the player board though i believe you're only going to be able to upgrade two at it or have two out at a time next we have weapon upgrade cards again there's an absolute ton of these i can show a few of these off because you do get to start by choosing one of these look at this one proton blast oh my gosh you know what they really need i sure hope there's a death blossom card in here that would be awesome i think my life would be complete if there's a death blossom card from the last starfighter that would be awesome or at least some homage to it that would be amazing we have long shot here this is gonna be able to attack three people but of course he skips the first square i believe so we'll have to see how these all play out with our ship we'll decide which one is good for us next we have two huge decks of cards that are gonna modify that modifier deck i was talking about there's so many different things in here i don't even know what all these are me like a target lock on there uh you could potentially prevent damage or do more damage maybe i'm going to guess that's a cloaking system of some kind which is super cool i want to fly with a cloaking device that would be amazing there's i don't even know what some of these do this is possibly a reroll on a die which would be pretty neat i'm i know i've said no spoilers but i don't think this is really that big a deal because you can see them on the character sheet whether you want to get them or not as you're going down that tree we have times two maybe repair of some kind so these are really cool that there's look at how many there are an absolute astronomical amount of cards that are going to modify that deck on top of that there's a whole ton of tech upgrades as well that are going to add special benefits to your ship from what i understand again i'm not going to look at these because i don't believe we start with any of these so i don't want to know what is in there not only do your characters gain abilities but your ships are going to gain abilities too there are three i think for each ship i can't show any of these either because they don't start with any of these so it'll be interesting to see as we play through it what ship we decided to take what upgrades they're going to get this is going to be really cool to see and there's even more modifier cards these are again oh this is a different no this is the same thing these are modifier cards again there's misses i believe these are from stress and maybe from something that's happened to the campaign to give you these this there shows a different symbol down here from some of the other things i think these are going to be like just ones you put in based on mission objectives or things that happened in the past or happen to you during the game these i think are gonna come in and out from what i understand the next two deck of cards i'm not too sure what they're gonna do they might be like an ai type deck or something this is like enemy combat cards and then we have some events that could take place maybe on the ship or on the planets as well don't forget this is also a plant game speaking of planets we have a ton of planets here we have three i guess three big huge things here we've got decks of planets i don't know if there's any uh inside here that are past these but these just have three star here's i'm not gonna open these because of course we're not starting on a planet we're starting in space and so we'll have to get to one of these planets to see what's inside here again not gonna show these because i don't want to spoil too much here are the enemy cards these are double sided so there's not much any way you could actually hide these from you but i do like the fact that there's an elite side and just a regular side so you'll be able to fight the same type of monsters but they're going to be more powerful as you play through the game which is pretty cool there's different scouts there's frigates and of course those are all found as those stand ease unless of course you bought the miniature pack which we do we have so many different ships we're gonna be able to fight and of course these are all gonna be the same as each other there's not too much difference in the scouts but they are going to be different based on the ship you're fighting against but there is a little bit difference between the regular one the elite one as you can tell this one has two attacks three attack eight halls six hull so there is some difference in at least the difficulty all the rest of the cards that i have available to me off screen are all based on the type of enemies those were kind of an ai type system the one i found down here i was kind of wondering what that is knowing now that there's all the other cards i had were these type of cards this of course the ronin scouts it shows that and on the back of these shows kind of what they do i am going to show one of these because the first enemy you're fighting is a scout so it's not that big a deal what's going to happen during its turn is this going to attempt to perform this type of action and you'll see how that works during the playthrough so every enemy does do something a little bit different each turn based on the card that you draw which is going to be pretty sweet so there's ronins there's frigates there's these synthetic fighters there's all different types of enemies we're going to be fighting based on these so not only can you get the same type of you can fight the same ships you also are going to be fighting them differently each turn based on the cards that they have in their ai deck that's all that's in the base box i know it's i say that's all but that's an astronomical amount of stuff we're going to move that to this decide because i want to look at the ships of a curios now these are going to be all our enemy ships from what i understand oh my goodness look at these these are going to be fantastic and we're going to be painting these all up on our live painting stream so please feel free to drop in and see how we paint up each of these ships that we're gonna be fighting look at these ships these are fantastic i have like i said i haven't painted starships in a long time i'm really looking for it looks like it looks like a whale wow that's absolutely awesome so we have some really cool ships that we're gonna be fighting against look at this one these are really neat i'm really excited to be able to paint some of these let's go to the second tray look at they're super big this is really really good and here's some of the standees and you're just gonna put the token number of whatever ship it is in there look at this these are just going to fit right in there and you're going to play against these oh my goodness would be amazing you might even get it in there oh there you go look at that oh i'm just super excited to paint up this array to make it kind of shine because i really want these things to look like they're in space this would be really cool to paint i'm excited to get to these so i'm not gonna i mean there's so oh my goodness look at this thing this thing is awesome i don't even know what that is we'll have to see as we play through the game and check this guy out oh wow this is gonna be really cool oh my gosh so many awesome things again another ship i just keep picking up ships because they're so cool these ships are every one of them looks really neat all right we gotta stop looking ship there we go we'll put this back in here let's stop looking at ship's fare this is this is really cool oh my goodness stars of aquarius i think is going to be a complete winner i don't see how this game can fail me i've been looking forward to this game for an absolutely astronomical amount of time and i am super pumped to be able to get this game to the table as fast as i can so i can show you the beauty that it stars vicarios if you didn't and that's really about it that's that's the that's the only thing that's all i got for stars for cargos and like i said all i got is an astronomical amount of content i believe this game is going to take quite a while to get through there is one more deck of cards i want to show but i don't know how much of it i can show and that's these giant tarot cards this is from the base box these are going to be reference cards for us which is pretty cool we're going to really build this and i love how they tell you what page you can turn to if you have any real big questions about where you find any of the stuff on the reference card and there's a lot of reference cards here that you're going to have to read through and look i'm going to drop on the ground to now this is the stuff i can't really show this looks like going to be our exploration of those different planets or solar systems we saw or the galaxies we saw on that sheet of paper when he originally started the unboxing look at that we have start here this could be the first one we start with as opposed that no this one says start here so there's many places we have to start we'll see how this all transforms so this is going to be our space deck and it's going to kind of lay out almost like a like a continent except it's going to be the outer space it's going to be awesome i'm super excited for that so these that's the last deck of cards i had i did put it aside and forgot that it was over there and i didn't want to miss something in the unboxing so you have it that is stars of arcarios i am super excited for this if you haven't noticed if you did enjoy the unboxing don't forget to like subscribe to hit that bell symbol like i said earlier so you can join us for the play through also please feel free to join us for our live painting session we are going to be painting up some of the ships and some of the enemies we're going to be fighting in stars vicarios of course the ships that we're painting up are going to be voted on by the patreon members so also if you're interested in doing that please look at the link in the description of this video and join if you wish to help support the channel those that have already joined the patreon are listed right here and i thank you for all of their support the money i get through the patreon of course goes right back into this channel to help bring about the best content i can again thank you so much for watching if you're excited to see stars of acarios then i need you to meet me at the table [Music]