Sure, the best way to learn is someone explaining the game to you live, but thats not always available.

What do you do? Read the manual, watch videos or something else? Any specific creator to recommend?

  • @AverageCakeSlice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    I usually watch a video after reading the rules and trying to play for a little bit. It usually helps cover the gaps in understanding or areas that I’ve misinterpreted the rules, while also allowing myself to become familiar enough with the game that I don’t get lost.

    • gpage
      3•1 year ago

      This is closer to my process. I give the rulebook a first pass, push some pieces around, and then I look for something like a 10min video that goes over turn actions in detail or exceptions to check my understanding of what I did when I was playing multi-handed. A trick I find that works well is to “build the world”:

      1. Look at components, what does each piece represent, what are spaces on a map, what is the nuance between similar spaces/pieces. Are there things listed on the board that are tracks or warnings or things like that.
      2. What’s a turn look like; how are actions selected, what actions are options, etc.
      3. What special things do I need to be aware of
      4. How does scoring function.

      3 gets short shift before watching the video, but I do it this way because what they talk about in scoring makes little sense if I don’t know what the components are, etc.