Cyclades: Legendary Edition - How To Play

NOTE: The dice values go from 0-3

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00:00 - Introduction
00:46 - The Setup
03:54 - Board Features
04:38 - The Setup Continued
08:26 - Game Play Overview
08:49 - Phase 2: Income
10:08 - Phase 3: Offerings
10:37 - Making Offerings
12:05 - An Offering To Apollo
12:39 - Paying Your Offerings
13:18 - Offering More Than You Can Afford
14:07 - Phase 4: Paying Your Maintenance Costs
15:20 - Moving A Creature
16:16 - Phase 5: Actions
17:21 - Purple God Mandatory Actions
17:39 - Constructing Temples
18:56 - Constructing Metropolises
19:44 - Gaining A Priestess
20:17 - Purple God Optional Actions
21:25 - Ending Your Action Phase
21:56 - White God Mandatory Actions
22:15 - Philosopher Cards
23:17 - White God Optional Action
23:40 - Blue God Mandatory Actions
23:57 - Recruiting A Fleet
24:41 - Blue God Optional Action
25:46 - A Sea Move
26:11 - A Sea Battle
27:29 - Retreating From A Sea Battle
28:37 - Green God Mandatory Action
28:58 - Mercenary Mandatory Action
30:03 - Green God Optional Action 1
30:37 - Recruiting A Hero
31:14 - Hero Abilities
31:25 - A Heroes Sacrificial Power
32:30 - Red God Mandatory Actions
32:45 - Recruiting A Troop
33:04 - Red God Optional Actions
33:39 - Land Moves
35:00 - Taking Control Of A Land Area
35:24 - Land Battles
37:17 - Retreating From A Land Battle
37:57 - Ending A Land Battle
38:22 - Controlling A Priestess Land Area
39:11 - Face Down Gods
39:32 - Apollo's Mandatory Actions
40:55 - Buying A Creature
41:55 - The Chimera Creature Ability
42:29 - Creatures With Standees
43:55 - Heroic Moves
45:00 - Apollo Exceptions
45:34 - Establishing Metropolises
46:08 - Metropolis Bonuses
46:52 - Metropolis Benefits
47:30 - Conquering A Metropolis
48:02 - Phase 6: The End Of A Cycle
48:18 - Eliminating A Player
49:10 - Ending The Game
49:34 - Phase 1: Cycle Preparation
51:09 - Team Games and Two Player Games
51:30 - How To Say Cyclades
52:00 - Conclusion

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[haydenvanrys]

Thank you for the video Rodney, I always like to go over the rules one more time before I put it on the table and your video reminded me of a few rules I'd forgotten.

[Shazirah_Kaur]

That kinda needing to re-re-re-reference the rules and interpretation is truly nostalgic and is fitting for a new edition of a 'modern classic'. I love it!

(Also, thanks for caring about precision/accuracy!)

[Potatis]

I have no intention playing this game, just dropping by to say Watch it Played and Rodney more specifically is the undisputed master of all time when it comes to boardgame tutorials. Have a nice day.

[FemmeSensei]

Woohoo! Easter-egg with a reasonably unanswered question on a game...awesome :). and fun!

[MrGooty]

Rodney, king of the spin and catch. Master of rules

[njohara]

I forgot ordering this one until it arrived yesterday! 😂
Thanks for the excellent overview.

[Ramistrov]

Great stuff as always, thanks for taking the time to produce this!

[lasocietedesjeux]

Wow, thanks Rodney, a real classic, I love it

[mapleleaf]

I just gt the game and played epic 6p team mode (2 vs 2 vs 2), highly recommend this mode if all players are into planning, my friend went into a epic comeback, in one cycle from one metropolis to 4 metropolis and win the game

i played first edition few times before, with this updated rules the game bcomes more strategic and balanced. Most importantly no more Zeus/Pegasus domination combo, although 'Cash is King' is there but it doesn't broke the game. At the end of the game my friends and I are quite tight for winning the game

vry much thanks to this tutorial video, learned the game with this video, and vry convenient to check rules when need fast clarification ❤️

[henriwhitehead]

Great video! I had a lot of fun playing this one!

[estebanvasquezg.]

I want my Princess icons and Princess Cards now, Expansion?

[teddyrynning]

At 27:05 the dice has a value from 0 - 3 (not 4)

[GianlucaBernabei-to]

It is possible to repeat an optional action of a deity? Example: after buying a monster, I do an heroic movement....can I buy another monster now?
The manual said to "alternate" action, but it is not clear if I can repeat some of them

[tramanh]

The box in the video look smaller than the one i saw at the store near my place, that box of the game was so big, is it another version of the game?

[martinvoetman]

Can you please do SETI.
Greets from the netherlands

[crimsoner]

silly April fools pranks with those earlier releases 😂

[marcelonv]

Nice video.
Just one question: Because it has strength 2, the Minotaur functions as a troop and can conquer territories? Like, can he invade a territory alone for me? This is not in the rulebook

[Charris]

I have the Legendary Edition game but my Metropolises buildings do not have anything bonus printed behind is empty not like yours. witch is your edition of the game that has printed bonuses behind Metropolises ...?! I have 3D buildings of Metropolises and some red tokens but do not fit under the Metropolis building.
* in the old Cyclades if a player for example yellow left a marker on a land and no troops, the blue player could enter that land and conquer it without battle. is this not happening here in new edition ..?! the blue player can only retreat in a land that he controls but he is allowed as attacker to go to a land with marker of other player, yes..?!
* if the Heroes deck is empty but there are heroes in dead pile, dont we shuffle them and create new deck pile and put new Heroes in empty space at the start of the new cycle..?!