How to Play Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile - Start Here!

This is the "start here" video that works well as a place to start if you want to learn how to play Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile. My goal is to make sure you spend more time playing, and less time flipping through the rule book. In this video I cover everything for the multiplayer game in this from how to win, to the details of each of the actions. What I don't cover (which is just a few things) is in the next video. I'll post the link to that below once it's released. The links to all of the other videos and the playlist are listed below. Please let me know any questions, comments or feedback in the comments section below. Now feel free to click play, or click on any of the links below to jump right to a topic!

0:00 Introduction
0:34 How to win - Chancellor
2:36 How to Win - Exiles
5:40 Legacy Intro
7:02 Set Up advice and link
7:46 How the game works
8:46 Wake phase
9:18 Act phase
10:17 Denizen cards
12:27 Search action
17:07 Muster action
18:40 Trade action
19:48 Recover action and banners
23:41 Campaign action
30:13 Travel action
31:40 Site powers
32:17 Minor actions
33:16 Card actions
34:04 Rest phase
35:14 Final scoring

Other Oath Videos

- How to play Oath 2nd video: (Citizenship, Archive, Writing the Chronicle and my top 5 Mistakes) -

- Set up and Walkthrough video -

Other Links

[garrettwagner]

This is hands down the best tutorial I have seen. You speak clearly and concise which helps with understanding the nuance of each action, while the visuals with chopsticks points out perfectly what you are talking about. Thank you so much for your work!

[ABitOfApplause]

I've watched about 4 or 5 of these "how to play Oath" videos prepping for my game night. This is the best one by far. You expertly lay out theme, win conditions, elements, and mechanics in an order that makes it easy to understand, and you don't try to rush through it like so many others I've watched.

Great job!

[sergioperez]

This game has been in my collection since the KS delivery, and I've never been able to get it to the table. We're finally going to try this week. I've watched several videos on rules, and there are some good ones out there, but your video is the best by far overall. The structure of your teach is superb; laying out the overview, objectives, win conditions, then the mechanics. This is so helpful. Thank you so much!

[qrld.]

oh hell You taught me Pax Pamir 2nd and I’m super grateful for that

[cesarpim]

Best rules-teaching channel I've seen on YT. And I've seen a many! Also, absolutely love this game.

[NyloSound]

Amazing job teaching this beast! Thank you very much for sharing it!

[urossinigoj]

Phenomenal guide to an otherwise very hard to grasp game. Thank you!

[jsibleytube]

Very well done; great pacing, camera work, and (simulated) rapport. Bravo!

[Tanks.With.Teeth.Malloy]

Wonderful explanation so far. I wanted to back this game but decide not to because at the time it look super complicated. Now watching this, I might try and buy soon :)

[svedjenaeva]

Thanks for the great videos! Very pedagogical, and a good flow. This is my go to channel for "how to play"-videos

[timdertim]

Excellent. Stunning. To the point. Outstanding. Chopsticks!

[Andy_Quest]

Hi Pete! Just found you after searching for ‘how to play Oath!’ .. really like your presence, pacing, shots and edits! Thanks so much for great content. Sub from me and have linked you to friends too! 👊🏼

[WillHawkinsRock]

Great videos, Pete! 😊 Really. One thing? 23:40 - Maybe this was a coy wink, but if it wasn't... My guess is that you'd want to Recover a banner from yourself if it was on the mob side & you'd let the # of favor tokens on it drop down to, say, 3. You recover it from yourself with 4 favor tokens, flip the banner, & only have to put a 5th favor token on it during your next Wake phase (so it doesn't flip back over to it's Mob side). If I'm wrong, please correct me.

[ianmacleod]

very good overview, thanks for all the work you must have done .( like the chopsticks)

[HaniOveissy]

Fantastic teaching. It was great. Thank you so much.

[williammartindale]

Great video! Would love to see solo tutorial

[KeyboardAbhishek]

Incredibly fantastic tutorial - unrelated question, do you have a BGG handle? Would love to see your game ratings!

[JackBaur]

Are you also making a video about solo mode? (Let's Pay?)

[icecold]

29:19 correct me if I am wrong: but here you did the calculations wrong didn't you? 2 warbands in the field, one on each targeted site + 3 warbands on the player mat, as the player pawn is on a targeted site thereby his personal guards were also part of the defence, means 5 warbands total. 2 should have died, 3 stayed in the player mat, yes?.

[MrSomebunny]

Good review, but it’d be more clear if you change the wording a bit to be more concrete. For example, when you say things like “an exile can take the Chancellors oath-keeper title by meeting the requirement we just spoke from the oath-keeper goal.” (At 2:51) Phrases like that leave room for ambiguity. Can multiple people fulfill the goal at the same time? Does that mean since I’m the last person to fulfill the goal, I claim the oath keeper title? And what do you mean by “can take”? Is there a time in which I would be better off not taking the oath keeper title, electing to leave the title with someone else even though I still fulfill the goal? I personally understand that what you meant was “I claim the oath keeper title if I fulfill the conditions of the oath better than anyone else, ” but that ambiguous phrasing pops up a few times in this review and may leave some less experienced board gamers confused.

Still a good review though!