The Anarchy - Official How to Play. Sequel to Hadrian's Wall Board Game

Build your domain and defend your castle in the 12th century England from Empress Matilda, who attacks the players in allegiance to Stephen de Blois, in The Anarchy.
Learn how to play The Anarchy board game - we're rules teaching in the clearest, concise way, so hopefully you can skip most of the rulebook and just play! We're hoping that you'll be able to learn the games better this way - we'll look for ways to give you tips for understanding the game throughout.
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INDEX
00:00 Welcome to The Anarchy
00:23 Game appraisal
01:03 Game setup
02:51 Round setup
05:05 Actions phase
07:39 Victory points
08:15 Production
08:54 Fortifications
11:16 Wealth wheel
13:16 Society
15:22 Governance
16:58 Warcraft
18:48 Worship
21:37 Entertainment
25:47 Enemy castles
27:48 Castle defence
34:24 End of round
35:00 End of game
35:39 Variants

One correction: The first player and order of selection for the path cards at the beginning of the next round is determined by the position of the players' tents on the attack row. (I.e. Those at the back get last pick.)

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[Crabdust]

This system looks really fun. Nice expansion of Hadrian's Wall concepts with areas to focus on outside the sheets.

[DenisIshmukhametov]

This game basically combines Hadrian's Wall mechanics with After the Empire castle defense. Can't wait to play it!

[andrewwagner]

Fantastic rules teach as always! I'm really looking forward to this game

[bobbyhill]

Thanks Tarrant. Another great video. ❤

One correction: The first player and order of selection for the path cards at the beginning of the next round is determined by the position of the players' tents on the attack row. (I.e. Those at the back get last pick.) 👍

[florjangjolaj]

Love Hadrians Wall, still not great at it but always down for more of the same!
I've only through the first 4 scenarios in the solo campaign.

Will definitely be grabbing this once I've finished with Hadrians Wall in probably another few years LOL

[nigeltinning]

Great video. Informative. Well presented. Thank you.

[andyn]

I’ve never played a Garphill game, but I’ve got Ezra & Nehemiah coming in, and if I love it, I feel The Anarchy will be very attractive.

[krstakg]

Great game, great video. This i will buy.

[baumazut]

Looks way better then Hadrian's wall

[Mysmi]

Only five turns per game. Does the game feel too short? I always felt like Hadrians wall could have another turn to complete tasks

[windyhillbomber]

Ok, so has Garphil taken an already complex flip and write in Hadrians Wall and made an unnecessarily overblown sequel just because they can. Looks good but found it to be just too much to take in.

[florjangjolaj]

I love the art more here than in Hadrian's Wall for everything EXCEPT the castle cards, they look so bland and uniform, there's no real personality to any of the castles or any major visual differences but hey, I guess that's Hadrian's Wall for you bahaha.

[lynette]

Great teach, such a clear explanation for a complicated set of interactions across the player boards. But I do have to say that every time you said Michaelmas I cringed! It's pronounced MI-kul-mus (ˈmɪklməs in IPA)