Wendake Tutorial - A customizable waterfall action puzzle!
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Here is my Wendake tutorial where I teach the game as it is being played. This video was voted on by Patreon supporters and you can check out / jongetsgames to learn more!
Teaching Timestamps:
Introduction - 0:00
Game overview - 0:46
Game start - 3:58
Gaining canoes - 4:38
Moving warriors - 5:12
Placing tokens on production sites - 7:00
Modify turn order action - 8:20
Action grid restrictions - 9:14
Harvesting crops - 9:57
Campfire action explanation - 10:56
Hunting beavers - 13:08
Fighting explanation - 14:32
Mask action explanation - 16:13
Score tracks explanation - 18:34
Military action - 19:56
Trade action - 23:56
Progress tiles explanation - 25:26
Restore phase explanation - 28:49
Resetting and upgrading action tiles - 29:19
Ritual action - 34:52
Gaining leather from beavers - 39:39
Using action swap token - 58:04
Game end & final scoring expalnation - 1:04:41
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CORRECTIONS:
57:40 - Yellow forgot to use their 1 warrior movement.
Very cool game. I really like the randomized dual-scoring tracks that incentivize balance. I like the theme and the action grid, too.
You did not only a great playthrough, but showed the game nuances, and has risen my interest in this game again! Congrats!!!!
Bravo! Outstanding teach. I struggled learning this on my own for some reason.
I like how games like this throw a complete wrench into the usual min maxing that engine building type games turn into. It really forces you to maintain a well balanced set of priorities. Excellent video as always.
Interesting scoring tracks. Looks like a fun game.
Thank you for the walkthrough! The rulebook was taking a while and I just needed to see how some things work in action. Perfect!
Thanks! I always appreciate your detail.
Glad to see a video on this. Have the game and bought the expansion on BGG from the publisher I believe. Haven't played the expansion yet but enjoyed the base game playing a 2-player game by myself to try it out. Really like the action selection mechanism in this! :-)
Great game. Thanks for the coverage.
57:30 Yellow also had a movement that they didn't use.
I like the look of this game, and several of the mechanics. I've always liked these kinds of scorings that encourage you to diversify. One benefit of this (which SU&SD first alerted me to in their review of Tigris and Euphrates) is that it softens the impact of player conflict. You don't feel too bad about someone muscling in on your military points after you've gotten a bunch, because it's probably time for you to focus on something else anyway. I also like the tile-action thing, though I'm a bit concerned about how easy it is to lock yourself into having too many ritual tiles.
If there's one thing I really don't like, it's the mask action. I am very much not a fan of actions that don't do anything but get you points. I want to be scored _for_ my engine, rather than build an engine that scores points.
One of my favorite games. It is not easy to lock yourself into ritual side, although you have complete control of that, and it is one of the things you consider when choosing your action row for the year. Keep in mind, the tiles that slide off at the end of the year will always flip back over to their normal action side before they are placed back at the top of your player board. Also, if you use a ritual action, it will flip back over to the normal side when you flip the actions you played. Lastly, there are progress tiles that allow you to flip tiles, or switch the locations of tiles, etc. So really it is quite difficult to have all your tiles flip to the ritual side. But even if you do have a large number of tiles flipped to the ritual side, it can be quite lucrative to perform multiple ritual actions in a row because you get to add two natives from your longhouse to your starting territory each time you take it, and then score the smallest number. So taking successive ritual actions usually means you are going to score a greater number of points on the ritual track with each successive action. You can score a large number of points on that track in a single year of actions. Which to that point, if you have all your tiles on the ritual side, it probably means you have been somewhat ignoring the ritual track. So performing two or more successive ritual actions for big point returns is a good way to catch up that track. In fact, that is one of the little strategies of this game that will reveal itself through plays (or youtube comments).
Good catch on the mistake, I've added corrections. Interesting perspective regarding the conflict and the "score lowest" tracks. I think you make some good points there.
Jonathan: happy new year to you and everybody close to you and that 2022 will be a good boardgame year and a more 'normal' one than 2021!
Thanks Hans, same to you :)
I very much enjoyed this tutorial! Now to track down a copy of the game... ;)
This is a hidden gem, I'd really like to see the expansion make its way to the United States.
Looks pretty interesting. I'm not sure I'll go out and buy this, but I wouldn't say no to playing... Interest growing as I've watched but I don't think I've hit the purchase threshold. I do appreciate the tile grid/action mechanism. I'm not sure if there are other very similar games out there but it is new to me.
Great video as usual, haven't heard about this game before. I'm curious why you chose to setup for three players and not two? Is it to show more player options variety?
I generally default to showing 3p versions of games unless some part of the mechanics pushes me towards 2p or 4p.
The action grid is cool and I like that it upgrades. I wonder why the designer went with randomizing the tiles after upgrading, seems like it would be the ideal spot to do some planning ahead
I thought about this as well, and I suspect it was to reduce the AP that could come from that decision.
Yeees Wendake!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I always hear the brothes murph talk about this game.
I heard it at the Bro Murphs, bought it for some friends, watching play-through here.
You can do an outpost transfer on any of your turns, so it is never correct to turn a warrior directly into a farmer or hunter on the same turn unless your action tile also lets you harvest.
I've wanted to love Wendake for a few years now, but I finally came to the conclusion that it's just okay and not great. It's a lot like Civilization: A New Dawn, in that it has a genius action selection mechanism which no other game uses but which powers a profoundly mediocre game. Hopefully someday Wendake's action grid will get it's own Ark Nova treatment.
Huh, that hadn't occurred to me. I haven't actually played this game with others, or all the way through, and I suppose it does make sense to hold back on the transfer until you need it.
"Great Lakes area of the United States" I think you're forgetting about another country covering about 50% of the board... :)
🇨🇦😀 Although this game is set during the Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France, so it wasn’t a country yet.
Ha, yeah that was abit of an oversight there sorry!
@ 57:43. Did you forget to move as part of the action of yellow? Since there were 2 actions on yellow’s tile and you only activated the first part?
Good catch, I've added corrections for it. Thanks!
I may have missed this but there seems to be 2 flag tokens in the upper right of the board, one British. How are these used?
They are used to perform the special effect of 2 specific Progress tiles
There's also additional effects for those in the expansion fyi.
I should have mentioned this when this video went live. In this video (Wendake tutorial), your voice sounds a lot quieter than when I was watching your Cubitos tutorial a few minutes earlier, even though the Cubitos tutorial went live months ago, and I'm using the same sound volumes on both my computer, the CZcams video, etc. for both videos.
I wanted to ask if you got a new mic this year, etc. to see what your volume is much lower in your recent videos (last few months or so) than the ones you did at the beginning of the calendar year, since I was noticing that with your most recent videos, your voice is a lot quieter than the ones that was uploaded in February 2021 and before that time, since your older videos have you talker much loader, and I was able to hear you better in those videos.
I'm using the same microphone, but I have been tweaking the audio processing I do over the years. Perhaps I've accidentally gone too quiet.
@@JonGetsGames Would either tweaking the audio process so that you a little louder in the videos, or subscripting a headset with a mic on it, help so that I would be able to hear you with the same sound settings I use for all videos without needing to max out the volume on my computer? The Cubitos tutorial video would set an example as to what the volume should be in your tutorial videos.
I think it did get too quiet in my editing, I've subsequently increased the volume on my template so hopefully this month's videos have been better.
@@JonGetsGames I watched the tutorial for ECO: Coral Reef that you uploaded today and compared it's audio to your Cubitos tutorial again, and the Cubtios still has you talking loader and better than the ECO one, and the Cubtios one was the one in which I could hear you fine.
With ECO, you sounded slightly better, but not as great as the Cubtios one where you were excellent.
Just to ask, did you change editing software that causing the quieter voice in your recently videos too, since I remember watch you older videos from even late 2010s where you sounded excellent and I could hear it with the sound settings on my computer that I use for each video?
I wanted to know if the editing software or something down the line changed that was causing the quieter voice from you in the videos from this month and maybe within the last 2 months.
In summary, I enjoyed those older videos due to your voice sounding nice and clear there. With the recent tutorials, I can't pinpoint where the sound quantity got somewhat worse since that, even though you said that you made it louder on the template.
Ah, I'm so sorry but ECO was a bad example :( I finished that one in mid December but the video release was delayed due by the publisher, so it's audio levels are on par with the other quiet ones. I haven't changed my software, but I have tweaked the levels and other filters quite abit over the years, trying to make it sound better. Unfortunately it really seems like there's no way to make it sound good for all headphones, I have to pick and choose which it will sound good for and I recently purchased some professional audio mastering headphones and use those as my baseline. I have no more videos form the past in the queue, so new ones on the channel should reflect the current settings I'm working with. Thanks again so much for all this feedback, I really do appreciate it.
I wonder if it is possible to only focus on one pair of tracks and get 25 points? Is that enough to win?
This was my thought as well. It seems like hyper focusing on one pair and doing all of your upgrades on that pair could be a strong strategy.
Actually it's very hard to win in this way: a good player can score more than 40 points in the end :)
Game usually ends in 35+ points, I like this game because I always want to do a little bit of everything and this game encourage it
Are the round token really called "women" tokens?
Game looks interesting but I find the odd mix of premium wooden tokens and cardboard ones odd - like why are the beavers the only resource that is cardboard?
That is how they are labeled in the rulebook.
Will you cover Tindaya? @jon
At this point I don't have any plans to cover that one, sorry.
@@JonGetsGames thats unfortunate. You are the best at playthroughs and this is an amazing game. When I tried reading the rulebook it was a pass, but after trying it I was like 🤯
I don't have the rulebook, but beavers probably turn into... furs? I think leather comes from cows. All good.
I double checked this one like 3 times while filming, it is indeed called leather in the rulebook.
@@JonGetsGames Huh
Very unsure how to feel about this theme. I get it's historical, so the extremely defining gender roles are cringy but understandable. The masks look like something out of a British Lord's recent safari luggage. Are those culturally appropriate or not?
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Yes, they are. Masks are the peculiarity of these specific tribes. The game also includes a historical handbook which explains all these aspects :)
I don't know how much the Italian designer consulted with any cultural authorities from the represented proples, but I do know he tried to use appropriate motifs and artwork that would be associated with the Great lakes tribes. I read the designer has a strong interest in native American history and culture. The rulebook tries to point out and educate players regarding the various motifs used in the game and how they're appropriate to those tribes. I'm sure it's not perfect. But as far as the masks are concerned, research "false face society" and look at images. I believe all the masks used in the game are based on actual historical masks you can find images from.