Scythe board game - Playthrough & Review

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Filmed a 2-player board game playthrough and review of "Scythe" designed by Jamey Stegmaier and published by Stonemaier Games. The video includes a"Scythe" board game rules overview. Let us know what you think about the game in the comments section below!

JUMP:

00:00 - 05:56 - Overview
05:57 - 059:12 - Gameplay
59:13 - 1:02:49 - Scoring
1:02:50 - end - Review

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[BeforeYouPlay]

Which is your favorite faction to play as? Why?

[Raraoolala]

Absolutely adore this game, and you two - fun to watch you play through it and get your opinion, this is a top 3 game for me. Great explainer and playthrough, a few notes below:

12:58 - a small error in the way Monique discussed movement regarding encounters that may be worth correction subtitle if others are following for rules:
Engaging an enemy (whether it be their character, mechs, or workers) immediately stops your movement, not encounter as Monique describes here - you may pass through encounter tiles without issue, encounters are only taken when the encounter token still exists, and only if your movement STOPS with your character (not mech/worker) there. To specify further, each piece you move to a maximum of 2 spaces (unless factory card movement) with Speed Mech enabled, may get interrupted by enemy piece, complete the movement of other pieces. Then resolve battle first, an encounter if your character has stopped on encounter token, then bottom row action if possible and desired.

36:40 - This is caught by Monique later, but may be worth a correction subtitle. During her movement, she moved her mech away from 2 oil, and 2 food resources. Because she no longer has pieces (character, mech, workers) on this hex she loses control of it, and thus cannot use the resources on it which she does 1 minute later. Any other faction may put a piece there and then gain control of the hex and those resources.

44:43 Been mentioned in a few other comments but wanted to summarize all in one - Naveen completes his objective to control 'villages;' incorrectly he is on 'farms' (yellow food icon) not villages (red meeples). Also small thing, completing an objective ends your turn, he continues to build after - he should build first, then complete objective. Doesn't matter in his case here, but it does for other objective's stipulations that may be affected by bottom-row actions. E.g. If objective required resource tokens that you spent in your bottom-row action that makes you fall short.

Also, are you playing the base game with Wind Gambit cards? A couple objectives referenced airships, dont think it matters though.
Love the metal coins and resources you guys have, great job again!

[Physiology-E-Paathshala]

This is one of those games that intimidates me....Yet it entices me at the same time

[MHJLee]

Thanks for posting this playthrough and teaching. Watching and commenting on this from the future because I just ordered this game and can't wait for it to come in

Looking at the year of posting and watching the videos posted in the future and the past, I'm convinced that Naveen and Monique just...do not age :D.

[jeffhoward]

I have avoiding Scythe for years now. The theme didnt appeal to me, so I just looked elsewhere. But I recently learned that the theme ties into the idea of Scythe being a combo of Euro (farms, worker placement) and Ameritrash (dudes on a map, combat). And then this video cinched it for me! I needed to know how it plays with two people. I purchased while watching this! Thanks for the video—liked & subbed. Keep up the awesome wotk!

[joegoroni]

I like this playthrough. You guys kept this moving along at a good pace as well as keeping me engaged.

[LordoftheBoard]

You guys have great content ! And deserve way more subs. :)

[CitizenRare]

Superb explanation in the beginning of the video. Most other videos try and explain far too much of this game at once, but that was an excellent and concise description of everything going on.

[alexrose]

The quality of this video is amazing! Very well explained, easy to follow along! Great job!

[catherineblack]

This video was very informative. I have played the game once and really enjoyed it. I am invited to another game day at the end of the week, so this video is helping me to prepare. Thanks. Plus, the art work of the game is amazing.

[mauricio.csouza]

just found this channel this week while looking for a boardgame tutorial, and I loved it! You guys are fun, interactive, and give so much more detail than I expected. Thanks for sharing this quality content!

[neverlooz]

This is my favorite game of all time. Top 1 since it came out, its hard to describe, no other game is like this one. What a nice design.

[CedricTanYT]

Thank you for your clear explanation - my friends and I were a bit lost reading through the rules initially!

[OutOfCuriosity]

I love this game too. You pretty much played my two favorite factions. I like to pick two options from the encounter cards, thats always fun. And I like the benefit of having combat cards to spend as resources combined with the fact that you typically have more combat cards in hand and therefore your opponents are a bit careful. I played the fenris compaign solo and it was the most fun solo experience I had in a long time.

[tabbyp]

I've been watching over 15 videos on how to play Scythe....set-up the game 2x and tried to follow along, read the booklet at least once and STILL couldn't understand.

I bought this game because I am beginning to like Complex games. So glad I watched this video....the explanations are easy to understand and I am so glad the view of the board with the camera can perfectly show what you guys are doing.


Also, thank you so much for saying what you are doing every single turn and your reasons as to why. I can't wait to play on my own.

I think I will watch this video at least one more time. Thank you both from Rhode Island ❤️!!

[stevegeorge]

At 32:00 you have a heart Monique, you should have moved into the home base then monument space to get all those juicy resources and force all those workers back home. Such a nice, non take that action. I really like this game. The stegmaier games are in a rare category for me: how well I pimped them up!

[nickzerman]

I appreciate how you guys keep the pace quick

[Angeloflight]

You two are very sweet 😊! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and the play through! I don’t think this game is for me but I might try it one day 🙂

[alexpauls]

Really well made video! It's not easy to play and explain so well 🙌🏼. Scythe is such an awesome game

[DJBruno-sq]

just got my copy of this game in the mail yesterday and I can't wait 2 more days to play it for the first time im so hype