Twilight Imperium 4 Faction Guide | The Clan of Saar

A component review and in-depth look at The Clan of Saar faction from Twilight Imperium 4th Edition, upgraded by the Prophecy of Kings expansion, designed by Dane Beltrami and published by Fantasy Flight Games.

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00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Component Overview
08:32 - Analysis
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[CardboardCrashCourseTI]

The Cardboard Crash Course now has a dedicated Twilight Imperium YouTube Channel!

This Faction Guide will be re-made with future updates over on that channel when the time is right.

[freddyc]

Dude your videos are absolutely PHENOMENAL. One thing I’d love to see is a combat/strategy guide showing us specific combat situations. It’s one bit of content I’ve yet to find on YouTube. Keep it up!!

[CardboardCrashCourse]

Some slightly better lighting and camera for this one! Let me know if you notice a difference... Thank you, everyone!

[jasperblake]

Not sure that the lighting difference jumped out at me, but it is looking good!

I can see myself coming back to this review when I eventually play the Clan of Saar - but they are not high on my list of want-to-plays. Their biggest problem is reputation - people fear the "Saar ball" and therefore tend to try to stamp on them before they can get too big. That was certainly my reaction when I ended up next to them playing as Nomad!

[nestornovatore]

saar is the only faction that starts with only anti-mass deflectors

there is actually an elegant pattern to the base game factions starting techs

1 faction starts with 1 level 0 tech in each of the 4 colors: yssaril, saar, yin, muaat.
1 faction starts with 1 level 1 tech in each of the 4 colors: nekro, ghosts, xxcha, arborec.
1 faction starts with 2 level 0 techs in each possible 2-colour combination: sol, naalu, l1, hacan, barony, mentak.
then jol-nar, sardakk, and winnu are the outliers, but they don't duplicate any other factions starting techs.

pok didn't add any factions with duplicate starting techs.

[vonheer]

The Saar-ball is something to truly fear.

[Sonminiser]

Lighting looks great! Love these videos, please keep them coming!

[andyn]

Your faction guides are phenomenal. 😍 Have you done an All Tech guide? I know usually people talk tech per faction, but I wonder if it’d be worthwhile to make a guide explaining all of the tech and for each tech list factions who love it.

[lucasterra]

Great guide as always! I hope you make the Barony of Letnev video soon. They're my favourite faction and I'd love to hear your thoughts on them.

All the best!

[flippinacademy]

Hey, I love your content!
Let me share with you a strategy and please tell me if turn 4 it's feasible:

Taking Mecatol Rex Round1 (PoK):
Get Diplomacy Strategy Card.
Turn1- Carrier+2 Infantry to take control of 2 Planets.
Turn2- Carrier+2 Infantry to take control of 2 Planets.
Turn3- Diplomacy to ready the 2 Planets with highest Influence.
By this point Technology should have been played, you pay with Home Planets +1 Trade Good and go for Gravity Drive.
Turn4- Activate MecatolRex, Gravity Drive pick the Cruiser to make it have movement 3, activate Agent to give your Floating Factory movement 3 too. Fly with Cruiser and Floating Factory + 2 Fighters to Mecatol Rex.

[ROFLWAFFLE]

15:15 How can you take the custodians token round 1? Where are you getting the influence from

[athullnexus]

Is it possible to make just 1 fighter for when you use Chaos Mapping? If not I’m thinking of sticking to destroyers

[mrk]

Can the Saar execute the secondary of warfare without their home system?

[dominusnox]

Why did you decide that docks can be accelerated? Corey Konieczka said in one of the fqs that the Saar docks are not ships, and only ships can be accelerated.