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I mean - with this much complexity, you may as well just play Stellaris video game...

Excellent intro and thanks for the rules teach!

Thanks for the video, the explanations were very clear and I'm excited to try this expansion solo. Quality content for sure and I will be watching more of your stuff!👍

I'm going to have to call you out dude. It does not help your comment to add little quips like when put down the 'Call for Crusade' and make little eye roll 'Man, history is (dramatic pause) "Yeah". There is a False idea that somehow Europeans or 'white people' are somehow guilty of whatever that eyeroll represented, but in reality Islam did far more 'Crusading for centuries, and at far greater scale so if you put down 'Call for Jihad' would you also roll the eye and say "Man history is (dramatic pause) 'yeah') and then when we get to Slavery the fact Islam not only enslaved black Africans but also, wait for it, white Europeans, and moreover mass-Castrated them so now there are not tons of 'African (insert majority Muslim nation here today) so if anything deserves the Big Eye Roll or the "Man, history is (super-long dramatic pause) 'yeah' it would be that. Also did you know tons of non-European nations Colonized, and that was messy. In fact, Europeans were the backwater 'barbarians up till only a couple centuries ago according to the view of the Gunpowder empires of the East, China, and one of the real reasons slavery ended was Europeans realized it was a commodity and too many slaves were being enslaved in the Oriental Far East and Middle East, and yes Vikings did their fair share of it, plus you can say some who tried to colonize like the Scots miserably failed, but the whole comments added about these topics doesn't help, and ignores the reality and real history of it. It only feeds a modern distorted historical view that isn't being historically accurate. Your duly corrected. Here's some fun facts: the Crusader states of the Holy Land failed, but what we call the Kingdom of Spain eventually was in fact a bunch of Crusader states who survived and merged into a single Latin Christian Kingdom, same goes with Poland, Lithuania who were at one time Pagan, and a sort of Teutonic Crusade was waged along with other factors creating successful Kingdoms and/or Commonwealth. Most people don't think of those other two areas as 'successful' outcomes of Crusades, Plus Charmagne might not have sent out crusades but had a hand in forced conversions for people within territories who were resistant or didn't conform to their Princes or Lords chosen choice of state religion. Religion back then was a Franchise system, and the people individually had no real choice for the most part, instead their head of state decided, once the Reformation happened, and that is one real reason we had secret societies because they criminalized thought forcing people who otherwise would be called heretic to operate covertly. In prior times someone like Martin Luther would have simply started a new Order, like the Dominican Order or Jesuit Order within the Church, but due to the fact German princes wanted to separate politically, and since Politics and Religion had merged so both Christianity and Islam both were in reality "political ideologies' as much as religious worldviews forming a demanding culture that expected anyone within it to conform and convert. There was little choice. This though, is little different around the world. Go to the religion of Pre-Columbian city-states, or the Aztec and tell them you don't want to worship their gods, and you'll end up a human sacrifice so this urge to force conversion is NOT something only 'the white' people or Europeans did, in fact if anything they learned it from people mostly living Eastward and Southward, but then most Europeans were originally Western Asian peoples of the Steppes, and only a few pre-Indo-Europeans survive. Same process happened in the New world. There are people in the New World not related to those of the Land Bridge and are more related to the Melanesians, but then what is called 'native Americans' are in fact more accurately called "Paleo Asian Americans if anything just like we could call Europeans 'Paleo Asian Europeans' or something like that.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy

Hi everyone... 🫂 I bought Root base game but unfortunately there are not expansions in our country.I found hardly only Marauder Expansion.And very expensive.So my question is: Dear friends ,is it worth to buy Marauder for especially 2 players? I must know before.Because it is very expensive.And I'll not be able to buy anything else for Root.No exiles and Partisans deck and no other expansions.Only Marauder can buy.(if you recommend of course).Is it worth? Please help... 🙏 Thanks in advance 💜💚💛

This is my 5th year in a row watching this video for my groups annual game of eldrich horror.

10:33 For those looking for the riverfolk company

7:35 In case you don't have captions on: You CAN completely fill a population track and cover up the black number. This means your income of that resource during the upkeep phase is zero. If you must return another cube to that track while it is already full (i.e. you returned wild cubes to science putting it to zero, but then lost a science planet from an attack) you must place the cube into another track.

My boyfriend is making me watch this video😭

Do sympathy tokens get removed from the map when crafting with the Alliance?

Does control of a clearing count only the number of warriors or buildings and tokens like wood and the keep also count?

Does crafting as Blue faction mean we remove the roosts from the board?

Hey RTFM! Names Gortash! Everytime me and my friends play dead of winter we always watch your video. Thanks for having our back you baked bean!

So to recap the only way i get weapon upgrades is if i draw the monster loot card and then take it to a story shop? That is the only way?

This is my favorite game and this video is my favorite way to introduce it to new players. Every time I host Spirit Island game nights I include a link to this video in the description.

Nice video, really looking forward to getting this to the table now that the new Kickstarter stuff has arrived!

Love your videos

W guide

Need more visual aids

Are you going to cover the expansions if you get them?

when you discard a card for any reason do you have to place it face up?

The people giving you kudos should really watch a quality teach such as those provided by Gaming Rules! This was awful. Utter chaos.

This teach was chaos. You’ve GOT to introduce the moving parts first. Almost useless.

Very helpful, and I like your presentation style. I did notice that the player board says the Crossroads card is drawn by the player to the *right*, not the left.

I'm going to bring this back to my game group this week to celebrate the 45th Anniversary of Alien. Thanks for the refresher on the rules!

I will absolutely @ you for ranking OS 5th (unforgivable) and Lower Decks, objectively the third best Star Trek show and the best Star Trek show currently on air, an unfathomably low 7th. Discovery and Enterprise are garbage tier, Voyager is just above them, in the salt mines. Then DS9, OS, Lower Decks, and TNG basically tie for 2nd.

15:35 how can you attack the nest?

Again with the hair dude.

I'm getting a Fallout: The Board Game and a very basic Twilight Imperium vibe... I LOVE IT! Might give it a go, maybe in the future try it on tabletop, if not I'll get a physical copy ;)

Why the Australian impersonation at the beginning? You know it's set in England right? Excellent explanation though. 👍

Very good kind of content but I kindly ask you to take in consideration two little topics to enhance the quality because the overall experience result been not so good despite the effort you have invested: - it would be better to speak slower, because the concepts are many and people need a bit of time to follow you properly and understand at the same time what you are explaining. Creating this kind of contents is like having a small digital lesson... often stopping and going back to be sure to have understood the mechanics could become a bit frustrating - the sound quality is a bit metallic, most of all if you try to follow reducing the speed to 0.75 (while following at normal speed the problem is not perceivable. Hope you don't get offended... I shared this tow little issues because I like yours contents and hope it could help in improving the overall quality fo the great videos you provide us!

Why don’t people who make these ultra complicated boardgames just make their own videos for us to watch instead of expecting us to read the manual which no one wants to do..? they don’t realize that they’re making a lot less money because of that

Ah! Last audio is mute. Thanks for your work Shea!

14:50 - I know this has been mentioned before but ARE YOU KIDDING ME THAT WAS SICK! And funny as hell! You wouldn't believe how much I laughed at that, for real

Perfectly explained - thanks a ton for that! 🤝🏻

At first I thought this was a guide to play a full game session in 30 minutes when it actually is a 30-minute teach 😅

Evil, very evil.

Some tips for every side that I would give after over 10 plays: 1. Working Class - strike to your heart's consent in the early stages, always strike if wages are ever at 'low'; don't let the cash pile up, spend it as fast as you can on prosperity - prosperity early is way cheaper, and it will build a base for the late game. High immigration is a silent but steady killer - if you let it run rampant for 2-3 rounds, you will have to feed more people and improving prosperity will be much tougher; only accept high immigration if both the Capitalist builds 11+ companies AND the government has 9 companies, that could help with cash flow. 2. Middle Class - it is fairly easy to build an engine of several high-yield companies with 2 of your workers and every round go for Extra shift. This will yield enough materials to increase prosperity "free of charge", and almost unstoppable by other players. Your Extra shifts are free and you can always sell the excess on the foreign market for extra points. 3. Capitalist - first two rounds you need to build companies like crazy, preferably taking on 2-3 loans to fund it (you can't take loans voluntarily, but can manipulate your revenue to go bust during production and taxation) - even if you would have to pay interest on loans for the whole game, it's worth it. Make a deal with the Working Class to help them with policies 4A & 5A in exchange for them helping to get 3C - taxation at 1% is paramount, if you can manage that it's to your advantage. You can live with 2B and even 2A if 3C is in effect. 6A is good, but not more of a bonus, the bulk of your income comes from selling on foreign markets. 4. Government - always react to both objectives; sometimes they ask you to provide stuff, that is potentially an extra point, these points really do add up over the course of the game. If your cards allow it, aggressively look for class legitimacy tokens in the first 3 rounds, these help immensely with legitimacy offset at the end of the round. Your second goal is to avoid IMF, especially in the last rounds - push for higher taxes if you see your coffers running dry, IMF really screws you over; it's a bit more of a gamble with optional IMF cards from expansion, but it's easier to just avoid it. IMF in round 1 is not as impactful, but in round 5 it's basically game over. As a side note, white objective deck gives you a bit more control, but a bit less points as they don't have "provide" mechanic - it's easier to maintain equal legitimacy with a white deck, but harder to score points.

When playing as the Working Class and Middle Class, one thing to be really cautious about is your Free Actions. The game's 5 rounds long, with each round consisting of 5 actions. This means you have 25 Actions for the whole game, as well as 25 Free Actions to boot. Since one of the most important scoring Free Actions is increasing your Prosperity, you have to be very mindful of setting your class up with the necessary resources to be able to continuously use them to up your Prosperity. You're doing well if you're able to always use those Free Actions! Also, a higher population makes it MUCH MORE DIFFICULT to increase your Prosperity. Any "Emigration" cards you pick up are worth their weight in gold, since they potentially allow you to drop your population below a certain threshold, possibly decreasing the amount of resources you need to up your Prosperity! For the State, keep the Free Actions of other players in mind when you put Benefits out from your Events. A player who has a bunch of resources may neglect picking up those extra State Benefits with their limited Free Actions (and deny you getting a point from them doing so!). Try to complete Events early in the round so that other players may figure out how to grab those Benefits as part of their whole Round (or, alternatively, if a player is doing too well, finish those Benefits later in the round to overload the use of their Free Actions on their turns!).

The best thing about hegemony is that the theming is so good that people can't help but roleplay their class, even to their own detriment.

Great game

Wow I'm early. 0:00

This game got recommended to me more than once in the last week alone, I'm definitely going to give it a try.

Great video, Shea! I did have one question; at 34:33 (and again at 41:40), you mention that the State player earns a VP for making a sale of Health/Education if the corresponding policies are in 'either section A or B'. However, as best as I can determine, it seems like the VP bonus is only applied while the relevant policy is in section 'B', and if a policy changes to section 'A', the reward of legitimacy per every 3 sold is in lieu of the VP reward. Am I missing something? I really did try to dig through these comments and BGG before posting, you do such a thorough job on this stuff. Thanks!

Unsure if mentioned, but for the intruder weaknesses each card has a corresponding token for it, meaning you set 1 egg 1 intruder carcass and 1 character corpse which all correspond to a different weakness once discovered (P21)

Thanks, this is very helpful!

At 20:05, you have a court with a British and Afghan partisan, is this a mistake, or is there a way to get cards of different affiliations into your court that doesn't require playing them from your own hand?

Glad to see that Sam Altman stoped to teach how to play boardgames and focused on AI.

13:23 wait what. Companies produce and pay wages even if the workers are not committed?