Speakeasy - Kickstarter Playthrough

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Welcome to our coverage of Vital Lacerda's newest design "Speakeasy," a board game published by Eagle-Gryphon Games. This video includes a board game rules overview and playthrough.

JUMP:
00:00:00 - Start/Rules Teach
00:27:26 - Playthrough Start
00:31:51 - ACT 1
01:08:41 - Lucky Luciano Phase 1
01:15:20 - ACT 2
01:44:43 - Lucky Luciano Phase 2
01:51:18 - ACT 3
02:17:26 - Lucky Luciano Phase 3
02:23:47 - ACT 4

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[vitallacerda]

Thank you for doing this, guys; it is a great 3 player match. To Naven, always think of sending more than one Family member to protect your buildings. This will save you actions. And always focus on the restaurant combo.
Excellent edition, very well filmed and well played. Michael is a match for you guys.

[Shazirah_Kaur]

Excellent!! Time to share this with all my gaming group peeps! Thank you! Love your stuff, best playthroughs in the industry. (Also, yayayay, 3p playthrough w/Michael! I'm sure he knew what he was getting into beforehand, ha.)

[JesterPrivate]

Naveen: "This game was designed by Vital Lacerda"
Me: *Immediately Hits Pause* *Clicks KS link"
My wallet: "Seriously..."

[RobertHovakimyan]

Yes! You two got me into Lacerdas years ago. I'm so excited for this one!

[georgeresso]

5 minutes in and i luv it...this will def. be the second lacerda game in my collection

[Allies]

Very good playthrough, solidifies my desire to back this!

[shantelalbert]

Just finished the video, and backing on kickstarter. As always, phenomenal playthroughs on this channel on any player count 💕

[greg_herhuth]

Excellent video for what looks to be an excellent game. It was nice to see Michael joining you again. Since most of our playthroughs are three player, this was great!

[Izathel]

Very excited. Looks great. Though the level of gooning might be unhealthy.

[RebeccaOwen]

Heavy euros like this are usually so hard for me to follow, but you guys make this one seem easy! Great game play and always love to see Michael.

[paulinatolak]

What a great playthrough! It was so nice to see a 3 player game and it is always great to see Michael on the channel 😊 after watching I have decided to back the game 🎉

[graymeeple]

A half-hour rules teach. Must be a Vital Lacerda game lol. (Looks good though).

[greg_herhuth]

This may actually be a contender to take On Mars out of my top Lacerda game.

[kjellkanin]

Sorry if you already said so in the video (I just watched the introduction plus some) but why are you playing this game with 3 players? Is it not as good with 2? Just wondering as I usually only have one other person to play with.

[benmorgen]

You all are awesome! Great review. Been watching for years. Backed many games because of your videos including this one! People will complain about anything. Sorry about that... I would assume a 2-player game would be exactly like a 3-player with a few slight variations and a simple bot, like in all Lacerda's games. Not hard to use a little imagination lol. Thanks again.

[adilgeresu]

Would have loved to hear your thoughts on the game (even if you leave out a full review) like which of his tittles it plays most similar too, how you felt the weight compared, thematic integration, ideal player counts, level of take that or luck, variability, etc

[spitmacabre]

Where are the two player playthroughs EG talk about here in the comments?

[zhivik]

This was a really excellent showcase of the game. I would also like to express my gratitude to Michael for demonstrating that not building a still is a viable strategy. I haven't seen anyone go that route yet, and it is good that the game allows you very different paths to victory.

[buddyberglund]

Lacerda is my favorite designer by far, but when I saw "area control" I was very sad and disappointed, because I hate area control. After watching this playthrough, I'm so happy to see that it's not actually area control, because you can't attack/destroy/takeover the other players' buildings (other than the mobsters' buildings, but they're NPCs so I don't care), or kill off their people. I know you still have to fend off the mobsters, but again, NPC, so not as bad (read "mean") as being attacked by other players or needing to attack other players, and you know it's coming ahead of time, so it's easier to deal with or not, as you choose. Instead, this is just area majority, because it's just who has the most valuable buildings in each area that get the money, which I can totally tolerate. I know most people don't make the distinction between area control and area majority, but I have to, because I hate one and am ok with the other. Although, now that I'm not going to hate the game, my wallet will, so both a heartfelt thanks a lot, but also somewhat sarcastic thanks a lot.

[kevinness]

Backed this game before watching and even more excited for it after. Interested to see how you compare it to other Lacerda games.