do you still enlist even on the industrial (?) mat i think it was, where it costs 4 resources and you dont get any gold from it? i find it challenging to max enlist with these boards, especially because its a 0 gold action so thats a net -12 gold if you had maxed the 3 gold action instead -- especially if youre on a board like saxony or nords where the farm can be tricky. or are you always enlisting, every game, regardless of faction/mat?
I feel like on Industrial, you often want to enlist only once for the deploy coin, taking two popularity, build the monument, usually take the popularity option on your encounter, and basically try to get enough coins (through upgrading and deploying while being in Tier 2) to stall the game. (Naturally, this means playing with 5 workers, as you neither want to pay popularity nor use trade much.)
I’ve watched a few of your videos and it’s been fascinating to hear you endorse enlisting so emphatically. I play mostly 1 on 1 games with my parter (offline), so the enlist action is significantly weaker (you only get one chance to collect the ongoing bonus per turn). We often target the star under the bolster action; with an early monument, that provides ample power, hearts, and coins. Rain, do you every play 1 on 1? Do professional players ever play 1 on 1 games? If so, does that affect their propensity to enlist early and often?
Quite new to the game. How come you say that Saxony doesnt have access to food (until 2nd mech) and rusviet has... they both seem to be the same distance away from having food, in other words, there is the river between their food hex and their starting position?
Saxony needs to get their Underpass mech and then +1 mech to reasonably get workers from their village out to that farm with the tunnel. Rusviet only needs their Riverwalk mechto get workers from the village to the farm. As a bonus, on this same move Rusviet can also move their character to the encounter on the farm.
each river crossing mech is different. every faction can only riverwalk to specific types of tiles. saxony can't just riverwalk into the village i think
Just started playing the game. Had my 5th game 2 days ago. What I don`t understand is how to get the enlist early. They always cost 4 food, which is a lot too me. Are you saying that it is better to put my upgrades into enlist first?
interesting to hear you thoughts, thanks for uploading. Any chance I could ask you to pronounce 'Rusviet' 'RUSS-vee-it'? (Just it's a contraction of 'Russia' and Soviet,' and you pronounce 'Soviet,' as 'SO-vee-it,' not 'So-vate...') Small niggle though :-) Keep the vids comin'!
do you still enlist even on the industrial (?) mat i think it was, where it costs 4 resources and you dont get any gold from it? i find it challenging to max enlist with these boards, especially because its a 0 gold action so thats a net -12 gold if you had maxed the 3 gold action instead -- especially if youre on a board like saxony or nords where the farm can be tricky. or are you always enlisting, every game, regardless of faction/mat?
I feel like on Industrial, you often want to enlist only once for the deploy coin, taking two popularity, build the monument, usually take the popularity option on your encounter, and basically try to get enough coins (through upgrading and deploying while being in Tier 2) to stall the game. (Naturally, this means playing with 5 workers, as you neither want to pay popularity nor use trade much.)
I’ve watched a few of your videos and it’s been fascinating to hear you endorse enlisting so emphatically. I play mostly 1 on 1 games with my parter (offline), so the enlist action is significantly weaker (you only get one chance to collect the ongoing bonus per turn). We often target the star under the bolster action; with an early monument, that provides ample power, hearts, and coins. Rain, do you every play 1 on 1? Do professional players ever play 1 on 1 games? If so, does that affect their propensity to enlist early and often?
Quite new to the game. How come you say that Saxony doesnt have access to food (until 2nd mech) and rusviet has... they both seem to be the same distance away from having food, in other words, there is the river between their food hex and their starting position?
Saxony needs to get their Underpass mech and then +1 mech to reasonably get workers from their village out to that farm with the tunnel. Rusviet only needs their Riverwalk mechto get workers from the village to the farm. As a bonus, on this same move Rusviet can also move their character to the encounter on the farm.
each river crossing mech is different. every faction can only riverwalk to specific types of tiles. saxony can't just riverwalk into the village i think
Just started playing the game. Had my 5th game 2 days ago. What I don`t understand is how to get the enlist early. They always cost 4 food, which is a lot too me. Are you saying that it is better to put my upgrades into enlist first?
i agree
interesting to hear you thoughts, thanks for uploading. Any chance I could ask you to pronounce 'Rusviet' 'RUSS-vee-it'? (Just it's a contraction of 'Russia' and Soviet,' and you pronounce 'Soviet,' as 'SO-vee-it,' not 'So-vate...') Small niggle though :-) Keep the vids comin'!