Back 'O Beyond - Tales of adventure, plunder, parrot and sabotage!
Ahoy graduates it's Stella from Maple University and this is Stella shorten sweet preview for back or Beyond Tales of blood and salt from Fable games [Music] ah Tori May team it's tough to be a pirate these days the colonial empires are arming their fleets to these they are so good let's get us some infamy for my legacy under my name Stella the parrot Smithers the game plays two to four players with mechanics such as action points allowance dice rolling and contract fulfillment the game is of medium complexity in back or Beyond players are pirates horror based in a pirate friendly big Albion town trying to get the most infamy and resources mainly by plundering the ships game goes for five rounds players each have 10 time tokens and on their turn they spend an amount required to do one action on the main board before going to the next player mainly the actions involve gaining money recruiting Crews purchasing food and rum to feed the crews and doing various upgrades four day ships and reputation then each end of Round play a stack turn to choose a ship and plunder it hoping to gain the infamy points and bonuses one very important action is the harbor you spend time there preparing yourself for adventure and the player with the most time tokens there gets to be the first one to pick a ship to plunder there are enough ships for each player to get one but the council May request certain conditions and gives you more points like ships with this exact gold or certain flag and more you might even have secret goals in your hand to fulfill sorry at this point when it is your turn you may encounter some events on your way to the ship it's usually bad but sometimes it's smooth sailing then you have three chances with combat first make them surrender roll any dice equal to your dread level to gain more Jolly Roger icons than the ship's number here you're not convincing enough attack and get the booty that's okay your second chance is the naval combat use the black dust you can from your cruise and you need to have more cannons than their eBay value be careful they fight back though so make sure you have enough health strength but blimey your cannons are not good enough shiver me timbers I I one last chance for you is to board the ship white Dice from your cruise are what you need to roll trying to exceed the ship's power you may need to use the power of your cruise if they have any or even injure some of them hopefully you'll win blunder that chip then get all the loot here and infinite points of course after everyone is done with their ship battles you need to feed your crew what do you think they work for free play me if you can't afford it you can always fire them not kill them get rid of them or spend morale then more ships appear and so game goes to the next round speaking about the ships they are getting stronger with the level three ships giving you just infamy points rather than resources as well after five rounds game ends players with the most infamy is going to be crowned the Legendary Pirate of all the time everyone will remember you and tell your story for a long time Batman tell no Tales so you ready to sail the high seas you have to be prepared as best as you can first in town you can even sabotage your opponents bring some money all around go to the back alley and your opponent must apply the bad effect before the ship blundering activities you didn't hear it from me speaking about money needing more or need to spend less your reputation precedes you you can pay at the council Hall to increase your reputation and makes a lot of actions cost cheaper or more powerful Pirates special They said you also have a powerful Captain you don't need to pay wait time tokens for the captain to go to the action space or you can even bump out other Captain already there if your reputation is higher they just go to other action space go away so what else are you waiting for go grab your doubloons swords Cruise parrots uh eye patch and let's sail the world of back Obion so thanks for watching Fox check out Bank of Beyond Tales of blood and salt project page I'll put the link in the description below the components widget in this video are prototyped so rules in that work are not final you would help us bye like the video subscribe and hit the bell and comments below if you want me to make more of these videos or if you have any questions I also share my board games Journey on Instagram hopefully I will see you there too see you in my next video hi