Clank! Catacombs - How To Play

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00:00 - Introduction
00:38 - The Setup
04:29 - Game Play Overview
05:08 - Playing Cards
05:16 - Gaining Resources From Cards
06:14 - Spending Skill To Acquire Cards
07:06 - Running Out Of Cards In Your Deck
07:30 - Acquire Effects
07:51 - Spending Skill On A Device
08:19 - Spending The Sword Resource
09:33 - Spending The Boot Resource
10:06 - Crystal Caves
10:29 - Discovering A New Tile
11:39 - Tunnels With Double Boots
11:46 - Tunnels With Monster Symbols
11:57 - Taking Damage
12:14 - Tunnels With A Lock
12:29 - Tunnels With An Arrow
12:40 - Teleporting
13:36 - Discovering A New Tile With A Cost
14:08 - A Tunnel With A Portal
15:04 - Rooms With A Locked Feature
15:30 - Locked Chests
15:41 - Locked Libraries
16:02 - Locked Prisons
16:28 - Rooms With Recurring Rewards
16:44 - Minor Secrets
17:05 - The Monkey Shrine
17:03 - Healing Damage
17:25 - Wayshrines
17:55 - Artifact Rooms
18:51 - The Rage Track
19:35 - The Crypt Space
19:42 - The Market Space
19:57 - Haunted Tiles
20:20 - Card Special Effects
20:56 - Gaining Clank
21:14 - Remove Clank
21:22 - Card Effect Resolution Order
21:55 - Draw Card Effects
22:03 - Discard Card Effects
22:25 - Trashing A Card
22:39 - Effects That Target Each Player
23:03 - Ending Your Turn
23:57 - Resolving A Dragon Attack
25:43 - Running Our Of Cubes In Your Supply
25:58 - Voluntary Damage Restrictions
26:25 - Escaping The Dungeon
26:46 - Being Knocked Out
27:42 - Taking Turns When You're Out
28:09 - Ending The Game
28:37 - Calculating The Final Scores
28:57 - Determining The Winner
29:03 - Adding In Expansions
29:15 - Conclusion

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[timborocksloud]

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[johnroemeeks]

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[annalincoln]

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[nothing]

Man I gotta say, for this Christmas, my family got at least 6 new board games and we've been playing them in order of "is there a Rodney video?" Or not. Haha.

Great stuff and keep it coming!!!

[gurnblanston]

This is one of my most anticipated games! I've somehow never played any of the Clank games, but I've got this preordered. Can't wait!!

[Tyrogandio]

Once again, superb video, superb editing, love the effort put into all of this! Great job Rodney (and team)

[jasonjjj]

Very clear tutorial. I've owned the game for a couple months without playing because of all the learning of the rules. Now after this video I'm going to give it a go. Thank You for explaining the game.

[DrakkanWoW]

Man, I know I've commented before but you are amazing and incredibly helpful! The last two games I bought weren't games you have taught. It was a little annoying trying to figure those games out. I LOVE your work. Thank you!

[marks]

Played this tonight, really enjoyed it. Thanks for this video, you’re the best Rodney.

[chiphall]

I wish there was a Rodney video for every game. Thank you, Rodney!

[gooner]

Really great tutorial, and it makes the game so easy to understand and play! Thanks to the whole Watch It Played team for putting these together.

[shaboygan]

Just got the game and played with some friends a few times, seems we followed directions correctly, but I definitely learned a few things i missed! Awesome video!

[kamuithanatos]

Wife just got me this for an early Xmas gift, thanks so much for being an awesome source of board game teaching. Any time I have a new game and see that you're among the YouTube tutorials for it, I feel extremely lucky!

[medchem]

I think Rodney's getting fancier with his box flips

[aaronscholl]

This looks like a lot of fun, and a logical evolution from the original, and Clank! In Space!, which had elements of a tiled, random board. Will definitely be picking this one up.

[danielschaublin]

I like how they finally added to the rulebook of the game ending when either the dungeon deck is gone and/or the bag is out of cubes. It was questionable about what to do when those situations arise in games I played that lasted that long, especially when they first print the game (base one in 2016, before X different expansions came out), that situation was never mentioned.

At least the random map layout will keep people interested in the game for the long term and increase it's replayable a lot. I hope they can also add rules for how to include eariler expansions into catacombs to play with (won't mind seeing a combined game with catacombs and base set, for example), or remake all eariler expansions into verisons of catacombs with the randomized map tiles (randomized oceans, anyone?). I look forward to seeing what expansions that add to this verison in the future, since it can be a new base set with more randomized map tiles to come to create more crazy maps (lava traps, swamps, etc.).

[arbelbd]

love your videos! they make the games so much easier to understand.
One question - where do you get those cute token bowls?

[henriwhitehead]

Great video! I’ve never played a Clank! Game. Maybe this one will be my first.

[IanaKravchenko]

Awesome explanation, thank you so much!

[GettinJiggly]

Clank is one of our favorites, we can't wait to get Catacombs to play on the channel