How to Play Civilization: A New Dawn in 19 Minutes

Learn how to play Civilization: A New Dawn in just 19 minutes (there's a bit of silliness at the front and back)

0:00 - Intro
1:23 - Basics
4:19 - Focus Cards (Culture)
6:04 - Economy
7:45 - Science
9:00 - Industry
11:25 - Military (and combat)
15:16 - Event Dial (Barbarians)
16:45 - Trade Event
16:53 - Winning
17:52 - Custom Maps

Corrections:
None so far! Let me know if there are any rules I got wrong and I'll place them here.

#tutorial #boardgames #RTFM #rtfmshow

[ilqrd.]

With the expansion this game went from a 6/10 to a straight 9/10. It’s an amazing game that really deserves recognition

[craftsmenMC]

As much as I love A New Dawn, one major gripe I have with it is how victory is determined. I’d rather have a civ style “scientific, cultural, military, ecenomic” etc victory thing, like in the previous Civ board game. Even so I love the heck out of A New Dawn and I’m gonna bring it to my next board game meetup!

[StefanParker]

Thanks for the shoutout! I too have many memories of long hours of Civilization when we were younger.

[AndrewKnightMIT]

OK, this is a very good explanation. HOWEVER, if you are a newbie to games like this, this is a very complicated game and it will take you MUCH longer than 20 minutes to learn it! I have watched this video several times and read the 15-page instructions several times and I'm only starting to understand it and prepare for my first game. But he did an excellent job in this 20-minute video explaining everything. Thank you!

[brunoJorgeify]

Just bought the game. This really helped. Thanks for the video!

[RTFM]

Thanks for watching! Did you notice something I got wrong or missed? Comment here and add a timestamp so I can fix it in the subtitles.

It's the best video explaining the game on the internet.

[davidscala]

Played the game and it was really good. The setup tho is terribly long

[SUPERCRAZYTV-ibnl]

Your videos are amazing, they really helped me with Twilight Imperium and war of the ring, but I have a question will you do a video on the war of the ring expansions? They seam as a perfect fit for your video and I would definitely watch it.

[tonybowers]

Oh man! You brought back memories of playing Civ on my PC years ago (many years ago). I think I was addicted. Like you, I had to stop buying the new releases. :-) I have the board game and need to crack it open. I've heard it is the best Civ game when the Terra expansion is included.
Oh yeah, thanks for sharing. Great job!

[matchpointttccoach]

I have a decades-long history with Civ (everything except 6), and my 3 teenage nephews play a lot of Catan (with expansions). I bought them this game for Christmas. Afterward, I decided to watch a couple videos on it so that I could understand it well enough to start playing it with them the next time I see them...

Instead... after watching a couple videos... I honestly don't think my nephews will ever have the patience or time to learn how to play something like this. I've failed as an uncle.
😭 Should've bought them tools. lol

[Скрытый-бд]

Hello, I have a couple of questions. I hope that you will answer first. I can defend the distance through the city-states. What are the wonders of nature for? For example, there is a rope on it if I get it, then how exactly can I get this oil?

[annieknight]

If attacking a conquered city-state hex, is the combat value still 8 or is it dependent on the underlying terrain type? Thanks so much for the amazing explanations!

[jaceivanova]

I love your videos, but somehow whenever I play this game I just don't really enjoy it. Do you have any tips for getting the most out of it? I have played lots of games with 2 and one with 4

[gnixon]

Can someone help me . World wonders like hanging gardens that state, “ at the start of your turn, ” is that every start of your turn or just one time ?

[Timlagor]

It's so weird that there are people who don't know the Civ computer game was base don a boardgame ..and then you don't mention there are about a dozen more boardgames that came out since. IF you leave people with the impression that this is the *one* civ board game they are liable to be very confused when they try to buy it

[wolverinehobbit]

I have the Civilization board game but it isn’t called a new dawn. Is this the same?

[giovannicolombi]

nice game. enjoyes even if i suffered the lack of icons instead of a tons of text on cards. low readibility for players

[riverotter]

Quick question...trying to understand how resource tiles work. Once you use a resource...what happens to the tile? Are you able to get a resource again from that tile again? Or is it a one time use only thing?

[zenonwilliams]

So I’ve run into a problem with 2 players only. In the rules it says that at the start of the 1st players turn if a player has completed 3 objectives they win the game. But this isn’t entirely fair to the first player as they won’t have the opportunity to stop the victory of player 2. Has anyone else come across this or is there a clarification?