Watch “Walkthrough Videos #24: Francis Drake,” a how-to-play guide for Francis Drake from Michael Wißner on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Michael Wißner on YouTube:
I take a look at Francis Drake, designed by Peter Hawes, published by Kayal Games and Eagle Games in 2013. It offers a mix of worker placement, blind bidding, set collection and other mechanisms. It's for 3-5 players (2 with a variant, see link below), ages 14 and up and plays in 90 to 120 minutes. This video is a walkthrough of two (out of three) voyages in a four player game, aiming at teaching you the rules and showing you what the game plays like.
Please note: I'm not trying to teach you the strategy of the game, actually some of the moves will probably be not really good at all.
Many thanks to Peter at Kayal Games for providing me with a review copy!
Two-player variant, endorsed by the designer: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1035134
Find out more about the game here:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/140603
http://francisdrakegame.com/