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Oct 3, 2019·Review·06:30:29·50·Watch on YouTube

Bios Origins 4p Teaching & Play-through by Heavy Cardboard

Watch “Bios Origins 4p Teaching & Play-through by Heavy Cardboard,” a board game review for Bios: Origins (Second Edition) on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by the creator on YouTube:

**This is a sponsored play-through from Ion Game Design** Are you interested in learning how to play Bios: Origins? Here is your chance! Edward, from Heavy Cardboard teach you how to play in this video. Later, they're joined by Jess, Greg, and Ken for a full-game play-through. Let us know what you think in the comments below, and don't forget to like and subscribe! 1:03 Video start 1:34 Intro =======TEACH======= 4:27 Game intro 5:28 World Map (B3) 9:34 Idea Cards (B2b) 9:57 Challenge and Comets Cards (B2ac) 10:22 Player tableau - Placards (B1) 11:44 Rosetta Stone 12:32 Goal of the game and Victory Points (I) 14:37 Overview of the game 16:11 Game sequence 16:45 Player’s turn 17:26 Activities Phase (G) 20:01 Specialize Action (G1) 20:42 Brain (D1f) 21:43 Market (D1a) 23:25 Invent Action (G2) 24:17 Idea Card Anatomy (B2b) 26:16 Eureka (G2b) 30:27 Library Action (G3) 31:43 Spread Action (G6) 34:51 Art (G9c) and Prayer Actions (G9d) 36:29 Prospect Action (G7cd) 38:22 Domesticate/Cultivate (G7ab) 39:02 Elect Action (G4) 39:41 Diversity & Dissidents 41:52 Activities Phase Summary 42:13 Footprint & Restore Market Phase (H) 43:36 Challenge the Gods (E) 44:27 Challenge Cards Anatomy (B2a) 45:45 Challenge: Events (E1) 46:47 Challenge: Auction (E2) 50:14 Comet Card (B2c, E3) & Chaos (D2) 51:56 Comet Scoring (E3d) 53:02 Final Scoring (I) 53:34 Bellwether (E3e) 54:48 Player’s Turn Summary 55:32 Different Varians of Play (C) Other rules mentioned during the playthrough: 1:20:51 Quiet Revolution (E2i) 1:40:26 Artisan Action (J5d) 2:02:25 Preach Transaction (J3b) 2:04:10 Chaos (D2) 2:40:27 Blitzkrieg (G6c) 2:46:37 Revolution (D3) 3:22:23 War Transaction (J3c) 4:52:15 Exogamy (J5a) & Emissaries (Ff) 5:17:18 Science Action (J5h) 5:41:00 Demagogue Action (G9h) 5:41:20 Cold War (J9c) =======GAME ON!======= 58:03 Game start 1:14:03 Challenge the Gods 1:33:42 Challenge the Gods 1:42:41 Challenge the Gods 1:51:02 Challenge the Gods 2:00:00 Challenge the Gods 2:16:51 Challenge the Gods 2:26:30 Comet claimed (end of Epoch I) 2:45:02 Challenge the Gods 3:26:33 Challenge the Gods 3:45:49 Challenge the Gods 3:57:14 Comet claimed (end of Epoch II) 4:39:52 Challenge the Gods 4:50:58 Challenge the Gods 5:14:29 Challenge the Gods 5:24:27 Comet claimed (end of Epoch III) 5:39:33 Challenge the Gods 6:00:11 Challenge the Gods 6:18:51 Challenge the Gods 6:24:28 Comet claimed (end of Epoch IV) 6:24:45 Final scoring 6:26:01 And the winner is... 6:26:17 Outro BGG Game Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/235555/bios-origins-second-edition ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://www.heavycardboard.com/ Support us: http://pledgehc.com BGG Guild: https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/2044/ Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/heavycardboard/ Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/heavycardboard/ Follow Heavy Cardboard on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/heavycardboard/ Like our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/heavycardboard/ Listen to the podcast! iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/heavy-cardboard/id886922905?mt=2 Google Play feed: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ibwke4opgcfz7m7zkxwvirbz6py?t=Heavy_Cardboard Want to send us something? Heavy Cardboard 321 Main St. Suite 2001 Wakefield, MA 01880 https://streamlabs.com/heavycardboardvids Thanks for watching and remember to comment below with your thoughts & feedback!

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Bios: Origins (Second Edition)

Bios: Origins (Second Edition)

2019·Phil Eklund, Jon Manker

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Mainly reviews and how-to-play. Bios: Origins (Second Edition) is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 10 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 5 recorded sessions, 5 unboxings, and 3 other videos.

1 - 4 players
120 - 240 min
Very heavy weight: Rules-dense, long sessions

About Bios: Origins (Second Edition), from BoardGameGeek:

Bios:Origins is the 3rd part of the Bios Trilogy. The action starts much earlier than most Civilization games: 200,000 years ago or even earlier. One to four players represent the human subspecies extant at that time: Sapiens, Neanderthal, Denisovans, & Hobbits. Take them on an adventure to enlarge your brain, acquire language, discover new worlds, domesticate strange beasts (such as riding war kangaroos or mammoths), discover the wonders and terrors of religion, dive for pearls, challenge the gods, enslave rival hominins, and perhaps enter the Enlightenment. Although wars of conquest and religion are possible, most of the fighting will be internal. You have only limited control of over your ruling class, and if your priests are in control and do a poor job, they will get killed and usurped by merchants or warlords. Win by specializing as cultural, political, or industrial civilization. This means, unlike most civilization games, that a cult figure on a mountaintop in New Zealand can win over an Emperor that has swept the globe with his armies. The game integrates with Bios:Genesis and Bios:Megafauna, so that you can start as a variety of intelligent but not-quite lingual marine or terrestrial creatures. Two maps and 26 hex chits are included, to accommodate variable landforms and cratons on habitable Earth, Mars, or Venus. Solitaire and cooperative variants are included.

Designers

Phil Eklund, Jon Manker

Artist

Johanna Pettersson

Publisher

Sierra Madre Games

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