Watch “The Guild of Merchant Explorers | Playthrough,” a how-to-play guide for The Guild of Merchant Explorers from Bad At Boardgames on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Bad At Boardgames on YouTube:
Brad and Toph sit down to explore their way through the land to create routes, build trading routes, discover villages, and gain the most wealth in The Guild of Merchant Explorers. If you're interested in how this game plays, give this playthrough a watch. We're not teaching the game, but perhaps this will help you learn if The Guild of Merchant Explorers is a game you may want to add to your shelf.
Published by AEG in 2022, this game, designed by Matthew Dunstan and Brett J. Gilbert has quickly become a top pick for sitting down to the table to play. Check out our review for more information on our thoughts about his new game.
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00:00 - Start
04:52 - Game Start w Top Cam
50:45 - Final Scoring
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1 - 4 players
45 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About The Guild of Merchant Explorers, from BoardGameGeek:
In The Guild of Merchant Explorers, each player starts with one city on their personal map board.
Shuffle the deck of terrain cards, then reveal most of these cards one by one. Based on the terrain revealed, each player places on their board cubes that are connected to their starting city or other cubes. You want to complete areas on your board, cross the seas to new land, and establish new cities on the board. You can explore capsized ships for treasure - which gives you special placement capabilities - and create linked connections between locations to score bonus points. Common objectives can be completed by all players, with those who complete it first scoring more points.
At the end of a round, all cubes are removed from each board, leaving only the cities behind, so if you don't establish new cities, you'll be stuck in the same places.
The Guild of Merchant Explorers contains multiple copies of four different maps, and the game is designed so that you can play remotely with one or more copies.