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Apr 12, 2018·How to play·47:26·19·Watch on YouTube

How to Play The City of Kings with Board Game Coffee

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Watch “How to Play The City of Kings with Board Game Coffee,” a how-to-play guide for The City of Kings from Board Game Coffee on BoardGameVideo.

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Help support Board Game Coffee by supporting our So-Called Living Comics, which are now available on our store or at Kobo, Indigo, Amazon Kindle, and Google Play. Today we're learning how to play The City of Kings published by The City of Games and designed by Frank West! The City Of Kings Unboxing: https://youtu.be/gNcWKGBfYVw The City of Kings Review: https://youtu.be/PIioqMguUZo Board Game Coffee with Mark Maia There were 2 little slip ups in the video which I have corrected below in the index. - Thanks for finding those Frank Overview 00:17 Board Game Overview 00:54 Overview of Stories and Individual Scenarios 01:47 Winning 02:09 Reference Guide Hero Selection and Setup 03:00 Setup 03:14 Creature Ability Bags 03:48 Hero Setup 05:56 Worker Setup Campaign 06:18 Pick a story 06:30 Setup card The Set Up Card 06:41 Board Setup (Setup Step 3) 08:15 Trackers (Setup Step 1) 08:51 Stats (Setup Step 2) 09:30 Creature Stat Bar 10:24 Starting Locations (Setup Step 4) The Table Layout 10:44 Table Setup Creatures and Their Thing 11:53 Creature Supply What Heroes Do 12:53 Hero Actions 13:30 Hero Action: Move 14:08 Hero Action: Explore/ Creature Tile 14:42 Hero Action: Explore/ Shop Tile 14:56 Hero Action: Explore/ Quest Tile 15:20 Hero Action: Attack / Heal 16:55 Hero Action: Interact/ Quest Tile 17:42 Hero Action: Interact/ Shop Tile 18:31 Hero Action: Interact/Trading Hero Equipment 18:47 Equipment cards: Armor Hero and Worker Interact Actions 19:49 Hero Action: Interact/Stable Tile 20:02 Worker Actions 20:36 Worker Action: Move 20:48 Worker Action: Explore 21:12 Worker Action: Work Resources 21:28 Workers and Resources 21:39 Worker Gather 21:57 Worker Scavenge 22:38 Depositing Resources Creature Attention 23:08 Attention Token Working in the City 23:42 Workers in the City 23:51 Additional Equipment Temporary Structures 23:58 Temporary Structures 24:37 Temporary Structure: Camp 25:54 Temporary Structures: Barricades 25:01 Temporary Structures: Trap Worker Details 25:21 Trapped Workers 25:36 2nd Worker & 5th Action Experience and Character Growth 25:50 Increasing Your Stats via Experience 25:56 Experience Track 22:25 Experience Track: Stat Gain 26:36 Experience Track: Skill Gain Making a Creatures 26:58 Creatures 27:28 Creature Ability 28:03 Creature Note 28:17 Creature Setup/Generation Creature Breakdown 30:38 Basic Creature Abilities 30:45 Creature Armour 30:52 Creature Heal 30:59 Creature Basic Attack 31:05 Creature Attack All 31:14 Creature Range When Creatures Attack 31:27 Priority Targeting - Correction: The creature selects all targets based on whether they are in range, and if only 1 is in range, then they become the target. But if multiple heroes are in range then it moves on to the next step, regardless of the distance. Attack Bonus 32:15 Luck Dice Creature Attacks 33:26 Creature Special Defense Abilities 33:40 Creature Reflect Damage Basic Ability Starting a New Round 34:10 Round Summary 34:48 1st Round Time Tracker and Elements 35:08 Move Time Tracker 35:21 Time Tracker Symbols 35:45 Fire/Frost/Poison 35:59 Reduce effects of Fire/Frost/Poison 36:18 Attention Token Removal Impairments 36:48 Resolve Impairments Creature Turn 37:33 Activate Creatures 37:59 Creature: Impairments 38:06 Creature: Attack (Special Abilities) 38:25 Creature: Attack (Basic Abilities) - Correction: I mention that Special Abilities happen before Basic Abilities, this isn't the case. Heal/Attack/Attack all always happen first, then the special abilities happen in order. 38:47 Multiple Creature Activation Hero Death (kinda) 39:28 Critical Damage (Hero) 39:43 The City of Kings Heals All Creature Death 40:20 Creature Death City of Kings Healing Power 40:59 The Rules of The City of Kings Tile The Skill Tree 41:46 Skill Tree 42:14 Skill Tree: Passive Ability 42:21 Skill Tree: Special Skills 42:27 Skill Tree: Anytime Skills 42:50 Skill Tree: Transform Skills 43:25 Skill Tree: Placement Rules 44:09 Temple Tiles 44:29 One Skill per Tier Moving a Creature 44:49 Position Cards The Big Bad Guys 45:49 Bosses 46:23 The Scorched Connect with Us: Board Game Geek Guild: https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/3297 Email us at: mailbag@boardgamecoffee.com Instagram Daily Updates: http://bit.ly/InstaBGC Facebook: http://bit.ly/FB_BGC Shop Board Games: http://bit.ly/BGCShop If you enjoyed this video let us know by showing us some love. Hit the subscribe button and like this video. Thanks for watching Board Game Coffee. We appreciate your support.If you have questions or feedback, please share in the comments below. About Board Game Coffee: We are Board Game Media Professionals, helping you find your next board game. Join us weekly, as we explore new games, share the art of board games and may be even teach you a thing or two. Board Game Coffee’s mission is to celebrate the board game industry. We specialize in Overview, review, unboxing and how to play videos.

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The City of Kings

The City of Kings

2018·Frank West

Videos
53
Creators
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Mainly playthroughs and reviews. The City of Kings is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 12 reviews, 12 how-to-play guides, 14 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 11 other videos.

1 - 4 players
45 - 180 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach

About The City of Kings, from BoardGameGeek:

This world used to be a garden full of life; from the flying Vadora to the deep-dwelling Dwarves – but that was before Vesh came. The world has been lost and only one city remains; the oldest city in the world – and the last refuge for all of us. Now... we fight back. The City of Kings is a co-operative, puzzle-based, fantasy adventure board game for 1 - 4 players in which your character is tasked with exploring the hazardous world, trading for vital resources, and battling your enemies whilst uncovering a story of a world imperiled. You start by choosing one of seven stories or twelve scenarios, then select your hero, with each of the six heroes featuring twelve unique skills and nine customizable stats that allow you to specialize in attacking, healing, tanking, worker management, or whatever you desire. Aside from your hero, you need to manage your workers, who must gather resources in order to trade for new items and build structures to gain powerful bonuses. You explore across the Ageless Realms by turning over tiles, discovering resources, side quests, hazards, building sites, traders and creatures as you continue to power up whilst preparing to enter Azure Rise. At its heart, The City of Kings is a complex puzzle featuring endless strategic battles. Each creature is generated from a pool of spells, characteristics and stats offering over 10,000,000 unique battle situations. There are no dice, damage is persistent, it's up to you to customize your characters and work together to come up with a strategy to defeat whoever stands in your way.

Designer

Frank West

Artist

Miguel Da Silva

Publisher

The City of Games

Categories

AdventureExploration

Mechanics

Action PointsCooperative Game
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