Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile | Shea's Final Thoughts

A video outlining gameplay for the boardgame
Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile.

Part I: Gameplay Runthrough

Part II: Final Thoughts

Shea's Oath tutorial:

Shea's channel:

[JaKrish]

I’ve played only 1 round with my 4-person friend group (until a family matter came up and we had to stop playing) and I already love everything about this game! I share all the sentiments in this video. It’s really not the overly complex game many say it is. I’d say it’s brilliantly simple. However, the rule book makes it seem unnecessarily complicated. Not sure how it passed all the play testers. It’s even puzzling that there are two rule books! I HIGHLY recommend watching game walk-throughs, because it all makes so much more sense in play.

[no.]

Love that Shea is in this video, he’s awesome!

[chris]

I need to stop watching videos about this game. They keep making me want to buy it even though I don't have a group to play it with. :)

Also not sure what's with the downvotes. I'm fine with the auxiliary Rahdo since it simply means more videos and not less Rahdo.

[successfulgeek]

I really want to table my copy soon but I want to make sure I have a dedicated group that will push through at least 5 games of it to make sure we get through that early time of it being rough...

[gamesnstuff]

I LOVE This game, but it wears it's Ameritrash passion and soul on it's sleeve. This game is NOT balanced and has king making in it, but it tells a story as you play and the game play is fascinating and dynamic, and really the lack of balance and king making as mentioned is really part of the theme. This isn't a game I am going to pull out frequently, but every year I am going to try and get a few plays in of it because it is just such an interesting game and experience.

[tihroflan]

Huh, Rahdo is not alone on his channel. I didn't know that. Nice 👍

[alexanderrobertson]

I find it enjoyably appropriate that some people complain about kingmaking in a game that is literally the story of how a king was made.

[FritzBraun]

I was surprised when this showed up in my recommendation list, I thought "Oath is the anti-Rahdo game". When I saw it was Shea it made a lot more sense. It's a weird game, but I like the fact that such weird games exist.

[rafakruczek]

Fabled fruit was resetable Fable game 5 years ago, but there new cards(number 7-49 - four copies each) were introducing sites (mix of actions/scoring conditions/rules/components ) in completely linear way - when the number of active cards was low. And sites were removed during play when the last copy of a card was scored for 1 VP.

[ivanristov]

What makes this game a Legacy game I did not understood?? How would to pack up the map and still have the same locations ???