Ten Tips to Win at Aeon's End (at every level of experience)

Aeon's End can be a tough and unforgiving game, so I made this video to help people who want to improve their skills at Aeon's End.

If you find that the game is very difficult, make sure to read these common rules mistakes as well!

0:16 Level 1: Beginner (How do I Win at All?)

3:10 Level 2: Intermediate (How do I start refining my play?)

10:19 Level 3: Advanced (How do I win more consistently?)

17:55 Level 4: Mastery (How do I play optimally?)

[rupertmathwin]

New player, our group has been bumbling through without much success. This has completely changed the way I think about the game. Thanks mate

[CristianValls]

Nice video and nice tips! However, in the "hold your sparks" strategy, remember a spell MUST be casted if it was prepped in a focused breach last turn. Only if it was a open breach, you may decide not to cast it. It's an important rule that affects this strategy you have proposed.

[blakink]

Nice vidéo!
Would like more content like this.
For example:
- Good pairing for two players
- 10 easy combos

[vexinglex]

Wow, I didn't realize how precise these tips were... This is a very different play style for what I was doing (I'm very slow to attack, which is my downfall in AE: Legacy of Gravehold, my first-ever purchase of the series) and I realize how important it is to hit hard and fast, rather than turtle up. Thank you for this. It'll be easier for me to conceptualize my process and it'll be easier to teach.

[antoinevaillancourt]

I really like these more in-depth videos on aeon's end! I would love to see a tier list video of the market cards, that would be so cool!

[HankLawler]

I really enjoyed this video! The tips for different levels is an excellent idea. I learned a lot. The detailed examples were very easy to understand, and they really helped to demonstrate the strategies clearly. Please keep up the excellent work, and thanks so much for sharing this helpful and well-made video!

[TheInvalidword]

Big thanks for the video - the tips are very good and make me want to play aeons end again :).

[gameguy]

Thank you, I watched this video and tried to think about implementing a lot of this. Managed to finally beat Maggoth though it was still close lol.

[oarmfan]

Great video. I think the biggest tip I would need is to not play Extinction mode with a random supply, though.

[paulinductivo]

This is really very well thought out. Truly helpful. This will definitely give me extra boost of confidence on handling the game. My initial few plays I'm always tense for some reason, because even though I win, I feel like I'm always barely surviving. Then I realize my playstyle is very slow and inefficient. Going with spells on the get go and investing early on breaches do the blitz trick. Now maybe I'm more confident to take on Gate Witch, Magus of Cloaks and Wayward One 😅. Thanks!

[dylansova]

Great video Derrick. The structure was very clear and I liked having the tips divided by level of experience. The examples also really help to understand the concepts.

[DavidMatthew-ovle]

Really helpful, gonna apply these tips against Hollow Crown

[timarnold]

Hey, some good analysis here. Thanks for sharing!

[polydipsiac]

Yoooo I just noticed you were credited as a game designer on The Descent, that was you right? Congratulations, going from a big fan to a designer, that's awesome

[adamkmetz]

I enjoyed this video a lot, nice job. I’ve played quite a bit of aeons end, and I have all but the wave 6 expansions. I’ve beaten all the bosses we have on increased difficulty in both 2 and 4 player, and even a fistful in extinction mode. I’ve personally found that running a full beat down strategy for all my mages just generally doesn’t work. I may be doing it wrong, but I’ve generally found that having one or two mages beat down to deal with early threats is great, but along with that having at least one pick up economy is almost always valuable. I never dedicate them fully to economy and always have a few spells prepped for emergency damage, but so many of the nemesis’s require a ether to deal with or slow down key parts of their fight, and buying off powers always helps a ton. Later as the economy mage has a turn here and a turn there, picking up big spells to blow up the boss completely tends to work great. I definitely agree with what you said about not shoving mages into neat little boxes though. I often run Claudia as the early beat down character exactly for the reasons you mentioned, and I can slowly pick up charges with her aetherscope to pick up a big spell off the economy mages turn when her ability is up.

[joelang]

Nice vid, hard to get good info on how to improve. I really like the game but sadly I don't have much time to play. Tips like that really haste up the learning curve and are kinda hard to find tbh.

[brandondegraw]

For Crooked Mask on increased difficulty the biggest tip is that you don't draw bane sire turn 1, pray for good RNG in the nemesis deck, and spam sifters pearl's lol

[chimist]

Great thanks, i will play better now :)

[BWSeraph]

So as someone playing as a support how do you advise weaving spells in while trying to build economy

[canouchou]

Hey Derrick Dice, I've been trying to beat Arachnos on extinction mode using only New Age material and its been literally impossible. I'm not randomizing it to at least attempt to have a chance at beating it. Would you happen to have any tips for me? I really want to do it using only New Age material because that's the only box I own.
My current problems are either I have enough healing to sustain his transformation, but not enough damage, or I have enough damage but end up dying because I lack healing.
I tried to manage its ritual board, but that makes it very hard to buy good cards to deal dmg. I also tried to let him transform with only 3 tokens and out-sustain dmg it, but so far no success, even though that strat seems to be the best so far.
I'd be super grateful if you had any tips for it as I haven't found anything on the internet about beating Arachnos on Extreme or Extinction mode with any version of Aeon's End.