tGG, ep. 6: Electric Eyrie v. Underground Duchy v. Automated Alliance

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Wanna read about how and why this came to be? https://givepausehobby.com/2021/09/20/memory-lane-all-in-the-family/ MY PLACES... Website: givepausehobby.com Twitter: @GIVEPAUSEhobby NOTE: *massive* setup mistake at the top, I neglected to place the two moles per adjacent clearing to my chosen corner... so I started the game with 2 warriors instead of 8... essentially meaning I was playing on hard mode by accident. I re-recorded the matchup, and I can confidently say the setup is without incident, but I'm not guaranteeing the strategy displayed follows suit... Either way, feel free to watch me struggle onwards in this video, or watch it without the setup hanging around my neck here: https://youtu.be/oTumEyQ6KIw Welcome back to the Game Garage! Back for the third play through! We have the return of the Electric Eyrie and the addition of the recently-taught (see episode 5) Automated Alliance with me as the Underground Duchy (first instance of Root Underworld stuff on the channel!). I'm not going to spoil anything about how it turned out, I'm just going to say if you watched episode 4, you know I'm not above posting a video in which the clockworks breathed more life into their strategy than a living, breathing human... Once again, for your viewing ease and pleasure, a little under 60 minutes of gameplay was made into a little less than 40 minutes here (with me talking a just bit before and after the game), but I can happily say this is a) the play through video with the fewest rules mistakes so far, and b) I didn't totally goof the filming and have to narrate what happened, ever! As always, thanks for checking in with the Garage, enjoy the game! 0:00 - Title card and pre-game talk 2:38 - Roll for initiative! 34:11 - Final scoreboard & post-game commentary \ ROOTbotics BASICS \ If you're not fully comfortable with the basics of the ROOTbots, here's a video all about that! This was the first video in my reboot of the whole clockwork series, entitled ROOTbot Academy. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/3dP4pSm22u8 \ BIRD ERRATA \ As I spent time explaining in the Electric Eyrie teaching video (episode 3), a major overhaul is currently errata-able by printing off a properly sized and font'd section of the board that lays out how to run the Decree. Here's the link to the BGG page with that file (all future editions of the Clockworks will have the changes included): https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/202361/root-clockwork-expansion-eyrie-sticker-printer-fri \ FLOWCHART \ And if you catch a glimpse of the inside of my Root box cover, my homemade Root faction flowchart (with major props to Tom Teaches for the better icons) is available to print and have with you at all times, in case you or other players are somewhat slow to choose a faction: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/196837/root-faction-flowchart