Watch “Timelancers Solo Playthrough - Time Travel Board Game,” a gameplay video for Timelancers from Party Tails Games on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Party Tails Games on YouTube:
Play as a freelance time traveler revising history in the sci-fi steampunk board game Timelancers. It's a time travel themed set collection board game that utilizes worker movement, tableau building, and a modular game board. Players gather resources and travel back through time collecting real historical events to earn victory points.
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Kenny, one of the creators of Timelancers, will show you the set up difference between a solo game and a multiplayer game, and play a full solo game highlighting some of the rule changes from the multiplayer.
This playthrough features all of the new prototype components include the 4 new ancient events, the new Enforcer piece, and the new iconography and graphics on the cards and time machines.
Read the current rulebook here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1onstCptSAyPKmJkHPY1u61vdMfzjkxMP/view
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Watch the 2-player playthrough with Lee and Kenny here:
https://youtu.be/2L1VoCfjsi4
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TIMELANCERS GAME OVERVIEW
Each player is a Timelancer and their goal is to gain the most merits to move up the ranks of the Timelancer hierarchy. Timelancers gain merits by capturing events and adding them to their time machines, completing faction goals, completing side jobs, adding time locks to events, upgrading their time machines, and by collecting money and resources.
The game is played over a series of rounds, with each player taking one turn each round. A player’s turn consists of making up to three moves – either in the city of Janusburg, their time machine, or a combination of both.
While in the city of Janusburg, players will move from city tile to city tile collecting resources needed to capture historical events.
When a player has enough time gems and resources, they will go to their time machine and revise or repeat events in order to capture them and add them to their time machine.
There are 4 types of historical events – Cultural, Military, Science, and Social. Each event will give the player money and also give the player special abilities that will make capturing future events easier.
For a traditional game, as soon as any player completes their faction’s 4 end goals OR captures 9 events, the end game begins. Each player that has not taken a turn during the round will take their turn. As soon as play gets back to the first player, the game immediately ends and players add up their merits. The player with the most merits wins.
Intro: 00:00
Game Set Up Start:00:15
Faction Cards: 00:55
City Set Up: 01:29
Event Cards: 02:39
Reference Cards: 03:24
Resource Trays: 03:32
Starting Location: 03:46
Enforcement Deck: 03:56
Enforcer Actions: 04:38
Character Card: 05:51
Side Jobs: 06:23
Starting Items: 07:01
Reserve an Event: 07:12
Gameplay Start: 8:40
Final Round: 36:57
Scoring: 39:29
Conclusion: 42:02