Star Wars Rebellion: Solo Variant Playthrough Rounds 2 & 3
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2018
- Rebels! We continue our elusive ways trying to avoid the imperials from finding out base! Hope you enjoy Rounds 2 and 3! See below for time stamps!
You can find the rules for the solo variant here: boardgamegeek.com/filepage/14...
Round 2 Assignment Phase: 1:16
Round 2 Command Phase: 3:15
Round 2 First Combat!: 5:10
Round 2 Refresh Phase: 26:11
Round 3 Assignment Phase: 30:16
Round 3 Command Phase: 33:22
Round 3 Refresh Phase: 42:00
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As always thank you for watching! - Hry
I would like to compliment you on this playthrough. I appreciate the time you have taken to get separate shots of the cards and such. It really adds to the production and helps illustrate what is going on in each moment. Great job!
Thanks so much! It was a lot of work but worth it in the end!!
Love this game so much fun thanks for playing solo variant mate 😊
The falcon ring says place on this leader, it has to go on the one recruited with the card, either han or chewie.
THIS leader, sheesh! I haven't used it yet so I will fix that thanks!
Just want to say I’m very late to this video but if you do happen to see this, you’ve earned a subscriber from me. I don’t even know if I’m gonna watch your other stuff (prob will) but you deserve it just because of your charisma and production behind playing this game. All the camera angels and really well explained things going on makes me feel like I’m playing with you so when you get happy you roll something I get happy and those close rolls where it’s down to 1 die really make me go “DAMN” lol good job man!
Thanks so much my man!! This game has so many thematic moments!!! Love it!
Rolling a die for the missions and movement is a good way to make your turns less efficient since you don't have perfect information. Not as good as a true human opponent, I think, but a close second.
Yeah still not perfect, but glad you like the addition! I do feel like it gives me the feel of not knowing what he is going to do!
First and foremost, thank you thank you thank you! I've played this game twice in as many years, the second time just two weekends ago. I got the bug again and now I want to play it all the time, so I hunted online and found the Solo Variant on BGG which then led me to you, this series, and this channel. So again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for helping this Star Wars fan play Star Wars board games again.
Secondly, I love your own ingenious slight variations to Mr. Buonocore's brilliant variant. It makes more sense to me to roll D6 to see if the Empire will either move or do a mission, and then roll a D6 again (if moving) to see if they're going after Rebel units/system or a PRB. My question is this: at 5:58 how did you decide on using Soontir as the Leader for that movement? What are the Empire's preferences requirements, if any, in selecting which Leader to use? That's the only part I'm stuck on. Since in my current solo game I have 8 leaders in the pool (currently at the start of Round 6) I've been lining the leaders from left to right assigning them 1-8 and then roll two D6 until one of those 8 is selected. Mr. Buonocore doesn't go into the Empire's preference requirement on this selection, which I would rather refer to as opposed to a random selection. But when all else fails, I think random selection using one or two D6 when necessary is always the way to go. Curious about your thoughts on this.
I'm really really enjoying watching your videos while I'm simultaneously playing my own Solo Variant for the first time. I've got quite a few videos and views on my own channel and it's always nice to see new people discovering videos, commenting and complimenting months and years later. This is my first time doing just that. So, again, thank you!
Cheers and Be Well!
This is my first solo playthrough using your videos as a guide and although there’s a learning curve to make it work it’s doable and fun. Thanks so much! I was nervous to try the solo but it’s fun
It's a blast good luck my friend!!
Collin, I really do enjoy these videos. It seems you enjoy this playthrough a lot too... The force is strong with you with this one.
We are looking forward more of this (before Alaska maybe haha)
hoping yes more before Alaska!!
Ty for putting this up so long ago still holding up a few years. Pick up core game last week and Expantion otw. Was able. To get my first game in yesterday thanks
That's awesome!! Thanks so much for watching and happy epic gaming!!
I have a major beef with this playthrough...the episodes aren't coming out fast enough. :) Keep up the great work!
HAHA Thanks man! Having so much fun, just wish there were more hours in the day. . .
Thank you for this video - it really helped me figure out the solo game! Just to check: at 18:30 you mentioned that Utapau does not generate any units. I was not able to find this rule anywhere so I was hoping you could clarify. Thanks!
There are units of snow opposing faction in the system that's why!
Good video. I love your Darth Vader voice XD
Thanks for watching!
It's 2022 and I'm still loving these videos!
Colin, just wondering, did you ever create an updated version of Dale's rules with your changes included?
Sorry I haven't! I have been too busy painting the minis instead haha! Thanks for watching though!
Your play of this encouraged me to grab my copy off the shelf and print the solo rules. Quick question, where'd you get your dice tower? I can't seem to find a decent one.
Great game Rob, so much fun!! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NG6UOA6/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It is currently unavailable though sorry!!
Colin! I think it time for War of the Ring - solo variant!
25:54 guess you meant Rebell troops. ;) love your playthrough, so enthusiastic! Watching it to play my first solo game too (ofc with RotE), but I still don’t get the mission card mechanism…
Thanks for that and sorry I don't remember been too long to keep on the mission stuff. I just remember you always had the 4 starter one in the deck!
@@OneStopCoopShop ;) that’s fine, I’ll just have to watch it several times. ;) Love all your Playthroughs Colin! One can really feel how much you enjoy it.
Thanks so much!! Made my day!
The attacker does get to use the X results. You may remove damage applied during the combat round.
The example in the rule book shows damage is applied simultaneously after both sides roll dice, at this point you can remove damage and save units. The damage doesn't have to be present before dice are rolled.
Are you looking at the expansion rules? Here is what I found: A player may spend a die with a special icon ( ) as a combat action to remove one damage from one of his units. To track this, remove a damage token from the unit. The damage must be removed from a unit whose health matches the color of the die. Special icons cannot be spent to draw or play tactic cards.
This makes me feel that the attacker can use the tactics dice to repair their untis, NOT to remove damage dealt AFTER the defenders rolls their dice, as they need to allocate their dice prior to the defender rolling their dice. I totally could be wrong but this is what I believe to be correct. Also the reference sheets on BGG seem to agree with this.
One Stop Co-op Shop yes I'm looking at the expansion rules, there is a example where it's used to prevent damage inflicted that round. The example makes no distinction to which side or the order dice first, damage first. In the base game after both sides roll dice is when damage prevention is resolved, then damage is resolved and units removed. It seems odd given the way it's handled in the base game that the attacker wouldn't get the chance to prevent damage.
The example I see is the: Since units are not destroyed until the end of the round of battle, a player may be able to save a unit from being destroyed by removing damage. Example: A unit that has 1 red health is dealt 1 damage. Later in the battle, a player spends 1 red to remove 1 damage from the unit and prevent its destruction. This specially talks about later in the battle you can remove one damage. Do you not agree or is there another example? I thought the expansion was trying to provide a small benefit to the defenders as they can repair ships before damage is done.
One Stop Co-op Shop no I believe the combat order in the base game still holds step 4 block damage, step 5 destroy units. I don't think it was intended to change the balance of the game. My experience with this game the rebels already have a edge in winning and the imperials tend to be the attacker more often. By re-ordering the combat structure it gives the rebels a bit more of a edge. Also the example in the expansion is clearly blocking damage as it would destroy the unit if applied the repaired, and it's damage from the same round. I think repair was a poor choice of words on their part.
With the falcon card I think you were only allowed the attach the ring to Han or chewie. Anyone correct me if I’m wrong. I’m new to this game.
I am pretty sure the attacker can heal damage which has been inflicted by the tactic cards, so they could have used their lightsabers in the first space battle round to heal the star destroyer...
Ok
I see that you added a wrinkle during the command phase for the imperials where you give them the option to move OR undertake a mission. I like the unpredictable feel of this. That said do you only do this when the number of leaders in the leader pool exceeds the available missions? In other words I have 2 leaders remaining for the empire and only 2 missions left so I would think it’s a lock they would be doing their missions now right ?
Also is there a limit to how many leaders that can be present in a given system when attempting a mission? In other words what if there was already 2 imperial leaders could a third be sent ?
I always did random the missions aren't as important as searching planets for the empire
11:21 I dont think you can heal with the red lightsaber since its technically black dmg you taken on your ships?
Also, when I learend this (dont have the rulebook here right now) we played that the attacker can save his lightsabers to heal before the dmg takes effect, after the defender have rolled his dice?
Yup I Have a subtitle on the heal. And we confirmed in the comments below as the attacker with the expansion you cannot save saber rolls. Hence the advantage of defending! 😁
Nice, new for me!
I guess that's one of those illogical things which needs house rules. If fight is simultaneous then both sides should have the same chances to attack or defend/heal. I bet next expansion will fix that rule ;)
Good point! Who knows excited for another expansion!!
At about the 28:50 mark I had a question about recruiting during refresh for the empire. Do you keep drawing an action card if there is a duplicate leader? I’m assuming you keep drawing for them until you get a new leader placing the unused card at the bottom of the deck.
Yup keep drawing
Question, wouldn't your tactics card have done one damage and taken out a tie fighter at approximately 16:45
Thanks for the play-throughs by the way
YES! I totally missed that thanks! I will make a note and fix it next vid!
Im late for discussions right? jaja. This "repair or remove damage" thing sounds very outplaced in battles to me , didnt like that right off the original rules.. . I prefer the term "evade" , its only a different naming convention, i know , but makes combat turns to feel more consistent and thematic, Now , considering that, when both sides fires each other at the same time ... Its more plausible that fleets or armys can evade enemy firing while doing their own atack or repelling it . .. And thats why i think that atackers should have this ability (evade) on theirs first round just like defenders do . This encourages Rebels to pick more fights too , and thats tematic, just remember every DeathStar atack run, or RogueOne final battle. Anyway , super cool videos ! Really liked how you put some vibe and tension to it!
Thanks for watching!!
I think you may have made a mistake at 11:20. I might be mistaken, but can't you only use the tactical result to heal a damage from a unit that has the same health color as the die? in that case you could only have saved one Y-wing ;)
Also in the ground combat that follows, the empire could have healed 2 red damage from the atat because you should apply the effect of the cards immediatly after playing them. So in this case, even the attacker has a chance to heal some things.
ps: love the series, it's super fun to watch! :)
ME? Make a mistake?! How could you accuse me of such a thing. hahahaha! You are 100% right on all accounts, of course. I will make notes and mention in the next video thanks for that!
Ok I have a question for how you handle combat where the empire is the defender . Do you prioritize healing their damage with the leader re-rolls? For example, one of their assault carriers had like 2 red damage following my attacks. Their leader was palpatine who has 3 re-Rolls. I think at the time it was like hits for their attack on the first roll. Do you just let that unit go out in a blaze of glory and use the hits on the rebels or do you re-roll for damage removal? In your example you played as the defender so I wasn’t sure
Just do what you would do if you were playing the empire. That's usually the best option!
@@OneStopCoopShop I think thematically the emperor wouldn’t care if he lost a unit he would just keep attacking lol. He knows he has more much worse units on the way
So the cap for leaders you can recruit is 8 according to the rise of the empire expansion. Do you still draw an action card for the empire and take a new leader randomly deciding (die roll) who has to say goodbye from the recruited leaders? This seems like the easiest path to keeping the action cards coming for them including leaders
Totally the easiest solution
I'm suppriesed you didn't grab chewy, since you had the mission for him.
Didn't even think of that, ut Han gives me more versatility so I think it worked out!
At the 8:00 min mark I have a question about the new tactics cards. So when you play a tactics card I’m assuming that card can’t be played again for any future combats in the game overall until the remaining cards have been played?
You've got it!
@@OneStopCoopShop thanks!! ugh that sucks. Lol also does “deal 1 damage “ on the card mean it can be red or black damage
Yup 1 of any type
At around the 545 mark how did you decide to use soontir fel? I suppose if you knew it was going to be a battle you could use the leader with the highest tactics value but what about when you have multiple leaders available for going to a remote system. It’s doubtful there would be combat there and the empire is wasting a leader maybe? How do you decide which leader to use for movement when there are multiple leaders available?
Oh boy I do not remember sorry!
@@OneStopCoopShop better yet what would you recommend? How would you handle picking a leader for the following movements for the imperials 1. Going to a remote system 2. Moving to a high prod value system. Would you just decide arbitrarily via dice roll for all remaining available imperial leaders? In other words if I simply picked a leader for them with the highest tactics combo every time I could manipulate this decision knowing it’s not the rebel base in a remote sysyem
I would just do it randomly then, maybe roll a die!
24:50 can you on solo mode do both on this card? it says choose 1, either a project or remove sabotage marker, but dn know abouth solo tho?
Nope I missed that thanks! Made a subtitle for it!
@@OneStopCoopShop :
Actually I think you did it right, the card says draw two project cards...yadda,yadda,yadda,...OR remove a sabotage marker AND draw one card.
Hey there. Since you are willing to play this game on camera using a solo variant from BGG, maybe you would be willing to play the solo variant of Rising Sun? Just throwing this out there. :)
Daniel thanks for the note! I am not planning on getting Rising Sun even as a competitive game, so I think I will pass on this. But thanks for asking! :)
The Video might be three years old by now, but maybe you can remember: The decision making with a d6 is something you came up with right? Do you have any rules for that? I wrote most of it down while watching the video, but I'm not sure if I got all the details right
Oh yeah I did that to determine if the Empire would try and take out a Rebel planet vs. going for the rebel base (which has to be a non populous planet). Hope that helps!
Thank you! I'll try solo this weekend maybe and your video helped me a lot. I think using d6 for decision making is an excellent idea, it becomes a lot less predictable
Exactly! I should in the next 2-3 weeks have a video up of playing the Empire vs. an AI version of the Rebels! So stay tuned!
@@OneStopCoopShop oh wow, I'll be there. I wanted to play both sides solo, I'm Happy it's coming
Me too which is why I was so pumped when I saw it on bgg!
Well, I've never played this game so take all this with a grain of salt.
It seems like the right side of the board is going fairly badly for you; the Empire has a lot of forces there, ground troops and ships with which to move them. While I think you could easily take Geonosis with the ships from Ryloth, what concerns me is the Imperial forces right next to it at Utapau. Seems like if they get a move action, they could load up all but one TIE fighter into the Sta Destroyer and move them to Geonosis, and contest it and potentially take it back from you all while leaving a token Tie Fighter at Utapau to ensure the system is contested and you don't gain those sweet sweet production symbols. Again though, I don't know the game so maybe those two ships you have would still be a match for the star Destroyer and a handful of TIEs, and it is still worth moving to Geonosis, and if you do capture Geonosis whether through fending off an Imperial counterattack or the Imperials not going for it, the next turn you could move on to Naboo and try to wrest it from Imperial hands. Risky, but the potential payoff is great.
As for more general thoughts, I think probably getting those space units away from Kashyyyk is a good idea. It gives you another place to deploy units and seems like it could work as a staging base from which to go after systems on the left side of the galaxy. Mandalore wouldn't take much to liberate from Imperial control, and Malastare is completely open, are are Nemoidia, Toydaria and Alderaan. The Empire *does* have plenty of forces on the left side of the galaxy, but it looks like most of them are ground troops, and they don't have much in the way of carrying capacity, at least from what I can see (again, I don't know the units so if the Death Star can carry a ton then Saleucami reinforcements are more threatening than I currently think), so opening up a new front from Kashyyyk and trying to take as many of those neutral worlds as possible seems like it would be something the Imperials would struggle to deal with with their limited ability to actually get their ground forces to where they need to be.
Hope this gives you some decent food for thought! ^^
LOVE THIS! Don't forget as the rebels you will NEVER be able to outgun the Empire, there forces are too strong. But what you CAN do is keep them occupied with all of this instead of the rebel base :) And that is what I am trying to do! Hoping next round I can do some guerella attacks on their locations with small amounts of units, and try and strad ground units. We shall see! Regardless, thank for this!
See you say you can't outgun the Empire as the rebels, but then you manage to get 3 Mon Calimari cruisers in the production track in the first like, 2 turns :P
HAHAHA good point, but they still have the death star which is INDESTRUCTIBLE until I get the plans. .. So there ya go! :) And I was lucky enough to obtain the right mission cards.
would it be a mistake to buy this game just to play it solo with this variant?
Super hard to say. For me probably not, but I have a chance at least 2-3 times a year to play competitively. BUT if you are REALLY into the theme and are OK making some judgement calls for the AI then yes! :) Sorry not 100% definite there!
You still haven't told us the name of the App you are using. What's the App?
Rebellion Assistant, apparently only on Android.
Fantastic. Ever played Rebellion on Tabletop Simulator?
nope! I stare at screens all day. I try and get off them in the evenings!
unfortunate, I was hoping to challenge you to a game
Dastardly DM I will challenge you to play on TTS!
Can You play this solo?
I mean this video is about playing solo?
@@OneStopCoopShop That was a stupid question from me. Of course he's playing it solo. The proper question I should have asked is "How well does it play solo, in your opinion?" I'm thinking about getting this but I don't want it to sit around collecting dust bc I can't enjoy it solo.