Top 5 Beginner Scythe Strategies

Scythe can be nigh-impenetrable when you first start playing. At least, it was for me. Hopefully these tips will help you get out of the mud and actually compete in your first few games.

0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Get off your island
1:23 - Build workers
2:08 - Look up from your board
3:02 - Chain top/bottom actions
3:35 - Plan out your stars

[TempestTenor]

I think it's super important to rush the nearest encounter with your hero at the start of the game. The rewards from an encounter can provide a huge tempo boost to your development. Since they're random, you want to find out which one you're getting ASAP before committing to a particular strategy. There's nothing worse than revealing an encounter whose bonuses are redundant with what you already have.

[Anvilarm]

Your most common actions are move and produce. Look at what is the bottom action to those two top actions and try to have the resources available to do them. (I know it is not always possible.) Trade to get them if you have to.

[TemujinReads]

Tip: Popularity is probably your most important resource. If you get to tier 3 (13+) and none of your opponents do, you'll have a big leg up on them when it comes to final scoring. Figure out early how you're going to boost your popularity, and if you see the chance to go for lucky number 13, then do it.

On the flip side, unless the game goes super long or something weird happens, you're unlikely to get the star for maxing your popularity, and should plan to get 5-6 stars somewhere else.

[sylvainbrousseau]

Thanks for the tips, I'll try Scythe for the first time this weekend.

[aureliagrey]

I always enjoy playing behind the scenes, all while setting up a turn in which I can go from 0 to full stars in 1-2 turns.

[dnaseb]

I recommend people STOP at 5 workers. Why ? Because worker 6 make it so your produce costs popularity and you dont rly need that many peasents. It saves you so much popularity that you can get the popularity star by accident. Higly recommend.
Also buy Fenris expansion so you can have more fun playing as Albion or Togawa, because you can buy upgrades to your speed, making your mecs move as fast as the other factions.

[dnaseb]

Does this mean you have a Scythe How to play video coming up ?

[blueseqperl]

After someone has put their 4th star down, spread out to as many territories as possible. The end of the game is near.

Try to get your popularity up to the second tier if possible.

[pzoe]

Have u have ever played it at 7players?

[darren.mcauliffe]

What happened to the audio here? It was perfect on Rahdo's videos, but here it sounds like you're using the camera's mic. Why is it different?