Watch “Coast Watchers Playthrough with designer Volko Ruhnke,” a how-to-play guide on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Heavy Board Gaming with Jorge on YouTube:
Here, we 've got ourselves the pleasure of playing through a Coast Watchers situation with designer Volko Ruhnke! This has been a very enjoyable game, in which we were able to demonstrate a lot of the game's mechanics, and even some edge cases. Enjoy!
Εδώ έχουμε τη χαρά να παίζουμε ένα σενάριο του Coast Watchers με το σχεδιαστή Volko Ruhnke! Ήταν ένα πολύ ευχάριστο παιχνίδι, στο οποίο μπορέσαμε να επιδείξουμε πολλούς από τους μηχανισμούς του παιχνιδιού, και ακόμα και κάποιες οριακές περιπτώσεις. Απολαύστε!
(ΥΠΟΤΙΤΛΟΙ ΘΑ ΑΝΕΒΟΥΝ ΤΟ ΣΥΝΤΟΜΟΤΕΡΟ ΔΥΝΑΤΟΝ ΜΕΤΑ ΤΟ ΠΕΡΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΔΙΑΚΟΠΩΝ!)
0:00 Intro / Εισαγωγή
4:07 Setup completion / Ολοκλήρωση Στησίματος
14:00 Turn 1 - Phase 1: Preparations / Σειρά 1 - Φάση 1: Προετοιμασίες
16:25 Phase 2: Allied Activities / Φάση 2: Συμμαχικές Δραστηριότητες
32:41 Phase 3: Countermeasures / Φάση 3: Αντίμετρα
39:10 Phase 4: Allied Activities / Φάση 4: Συμμαχικές Δραστηριότητες
46:01 Phase 6: Countermeasures / Φάση 5: Αντίμετρα
51:15 Turn 2 - Phase 1: Preparations / Σειρά 2 - Φάση 1: Προετοιμασίες
52:53 Phase 2: Allied Activities / Φάση 2: Συμμαχικές Δραστηριότητες
1:00:18 Phase 3: Countermeasures / Φάση 3: Αντίμετρα
1:05:16 Phase 4: Allied Activities / Φάση 4: Συμμαχικές Δραστηριότητες
1:14:31 Phase 6: Countermeasures / Φάση 5: Αντίμετρα
1:19:42 Turn 3 - Phase 1: Preparations / Σειρά 3 - Φάση 1: Προετοιμασίες
1:21:47 Phase 2: Allied Activities / Φάση 2: Συμμαχικές Δραστηριότητες
1:26:54 Phase 3: Countermeasures / Φάση 3: Αντίμετρα
1:31:18 Phase 4: Allied Activities / Φάση 4: Συμμαχικές Δραστηριότητες
1:45:25 Phase 5: Operations / Φάση 5: Επιχειρήσεις
1:57:51 Scoring / Βαθμολογία
2:08:14 Outro / Αποφώνηση
Mainly how-to-play and unboxings. Coast Watchers: Allied Field Intelligence in the South Pacific, 1942-1943 is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 4 unboxings, and 6 other videos.
1 - 2 players
60 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
About Coast Watchers: Allied Field Intelligence in the South Pacific, 1942-1943, from BoardGameGeek:
Coast Watchers takes you into the World War II South Pacific's struggle between Allied intelligence teams and Japanese security forces. Standup blocks hide coastwatching stations, guerrillas, refugees, and stranded Allied crew. Facedown counters hide the buildup of Japanese forces, which the coastwatchers seek to observe and report to headquarters. Other counters show where Japanese patrols are searching for coastwatchers or go into and get drawn from cups to run Japanese searches and Allied delivery missions.
Each side has Mission cards. Allied Missions assign side tasks to the coastwatchers. Japanese Missions lay out secret military objectives for victory points, including air and sea operations against which the coastwatchers are to warn Allied forces. By hunting coastwatchers while building up military readiness and guiding operations, the Japanese player seeks to slip through the enemy intelligence net. Players also draw Asset cards: special abilities to augment actions and perhaps add victory points.
Coast Watchers offers 15 standalone "Situations" plus 4 campaigns to tie them together. The Situations span the early-1942 Japanese incursion into the South Pacific to the neutralization of their great base at Rabaul by the end of 1943.
A solitaire system is included.
-description from the publisher
Designer
Volko Ruhnke
Artists
Robert Altbauer, Tomasz Niedzinski, Wouter Schoutteten, Matthew Wallhead
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