4x Civilization Strategy Game - Monarchs at Play

0:00 We're checking out Monarchs at Play today.

0:03 This is a It's a turn-based strategy game.

0:04 Think of it like Civilization, [music] but if you were to take Civilization

0:07 and and chop it down into a bite-sized 1-hour thing.

0:11 Instead of playing for multi multiple days and hours

0:13 and all this, it's Civilization in 1 hour.

0:15 It's probably the best way of of describing this.

0:18 And there's various ways of playing.

0:19 We'll check out the single-player mode, then we'll see what the other stuff is.

0:21 We'll add a few opponents here.

0:23 And I don't know, we'll throw in Genghis.

0:28 Uh with each of these guys, they all have different [music] perks.

0:31 Hatshepsut here has a like a uh agricultural perk,

0:35 which doesn't mean anything to you yet.

0:36 It'll mean things as soon as we get into it.

0:38 But we'll stick with kind of the basic things here.

0:41 Central Highlands, medium size, neutral tribes low.

0:44 That works for me.

0:45 Uh this is not out yet, but it is in um uh playtests right now.

0:50 In fact, it's got a playtest going on right now until I think May 1st.

0:54 And so, if you want to check it out, that's where you can do it.

0:56 But we're here on the table.

0:58 We're all We're all good games with hexes should happen.

1:02 And we're going to build ourselves a palace.

1:04 And with that palace, well, we get food,

1:06 we get production, and we get uh uh uh culture,

1:11 which is I think it's called I think it's what it's called.

1:13 I think that's what it's called it's called.

1:14 I don't remember what that was called.

1:14 It's not culture, it's something else.

1:15 Progress.

1:16 But anyway, that's our that's our win condition is getting more of that.

1:19 And so, the more of that we get, the more like we're going to win.

1:21 That's the score at the end of the game.

1:23 So, I get more food from food sources.

1:25 Augustus here has got bigger houses.

1:27 Um Sweyn Forkbeard here has bigger house more housing range.

1:32 And then Genghis has a sort of military bonus thing with him.

1:36 Yeah, Polytopia is a good like comparison to this.

1:39 Um but a little different.

1:41 And you'll see as we get into this thing.

1:43 Uh but I want to tell you about my visit to the doctor today.

1:47 I went in there and I sat down and of course I waited forever.

1:50 And then my doctor comes in and I see his name tag.

1:54 Dr.

1:54 William, he calls himself.

1:56 Well, I got up and I walked right out

1:58 cuz I'm not looking to deal with any medical bills.

2:04 Anyway, we can build a tide palace, which as you can see produces food.

2:09 Good.

2:10 And materials.

2:10 It also gives us plus two food per building on a sea within two tiles.

2:15 There ain't no seas around here.

2:16 We don't know anything about seas.

2:17 We never heard of them.

2:18 But we also got a builder's keep,

2:19 which gives me four food, one material per natural feature around.

2:24 It has enough given utilities.

2:25 And we also have the throne hall, which gives me materials and then glory.

2:28 So let's go back closer.

2:29 Glory per culture building within 2,000.

2:31 Glory is a big deal.

2:32 So plus 20 glory per wonder around as well.

2:35 So we can put this guy wherever we want one of these squares here.

2:38 And you can kind of see when you click on it

2:39 what it's going to give you as far as your recurring stuff.

2:42 So we can put it there if we did the builder's keep.

2:45 Give us seven production, four food just putting it right there.

2:48 Um I think I'm going to go for the throne hall though

2:52 just because it is glory center uh per culture building within 2,000.

2:56 We want to do some of that.

2:58 Let's build this guy up here.

2:59 So Bill is a nickname for William.

3:02 That's that's that's the joke.

3:04 Medical Bill.

3:05 First turn is done.

3:07 We got one turn until that thing is done.

3:08 We push the button.

3:10 And there's the Oh, look.

3:11 There's the sea right there.

3:13 Okay.

3:14 So now we're actually playing the game.

3:16 So we got a lot of different things we

3:17 can make to put different buildings we can make.

3:18 We can add cultural buildings, barns for instance,

3:20 get plus four food per distinct natural feature on that specific tile.

3:24 So that's got a river and it's got trees.

3:26 There's nine.

3:27 Uh this is got a rock and trees and I

3:29 can click on them I can highlight it I think.

3:33 Sometimes it can pops up and there it is.

3:35 Uh there's a wood and a stone feature on there.

3:37 This has got a mountain tile.

3:39 This is a river and a road.

3:41 And so I've actually got a good one right there.

3:43 That would give us 14 because it's got three features.

3:46 There.

3:49 Yeah, all all them all the bills in in the US is they're all real big.

3:54 Medical bills.

3:55 They're real big, folks.

3:59 [laughter] Um well, you can you can build a farm uh plus

4:01 three food per tile with no natural features on the tiles.

4:05 That's why that one's going to give me extra space there.

4:07 And we can kind of combine the things up, you know,

4:08 and they all synchronize with each other and all those bonuses and stuff.

4:11 Fishery, of course, wants to be next to fish.

4:13 Uh if there's fishing in an adjacent tile,

4:15 which there would be, you know, that kind of thing.

4:17 Our borders will expand and that whole

4:19 border expanding thing is is basically the game.

4:23 Um yeah, as our borders expand, we're going to try to take over other folks.

4:26 We've played games like well, like Civilization or Galactic Civilizations,

4:29 [music] where your cultural borders sort of take over your enemies,

4:33 you know, that's that's that's this is that in a game is so that what this is.

4:39 So, um early on though,

4:40 we want to make sure we get some food and we get some production.

4:42 So, we got things like quarries,

4:43 which gives us three material per stone and adjacent mountains give us more.

4:47 So, like well, that's eight right there.

4:49 That's probably pretty good.

4:51 A lumberjack.

4:52 Um nothing really exciting over there.

4:54 We've also got a stone circle we put in.

4:57 Gives us glory if there's if there's stones about and there are stones about.

5:02 Um I'm not sure that that's really what

5:04 we want to spend our first turn working on.

5:06 We probably need to work on the basics first before we do that.

5:09 And then we can go and get military,

5:10 which is going to give us like a like a lookout.

5:13 You see that little that little honeycomb thing over there of ones?

5:15 That's our military pressure.

5:16 That's how you expand your borders taking over your enemies' stuff.

5:20 And that's that's the game.

5:22 There's also science.

5:23 Build the observatory, get your science stuff.

5:26 And there's a whole science thing.

5:27 We'll talk about science when we get there.

5:28 Um And that is a bazaar, which again,

5:33 we'll just talk about that when we get there.

5:34 For now, let's just get some dang food in this place.

5:37 I'll put a farm down right there and get some food and pass the turn.

5:44 And pass the turn.

5:46 There we go.

5:46 Okay, food coming in.

5:47 We got food cruising on in here.

5:49 As we build things you'll notice like the farm

5:51 that's by the way that's a bad example.

5:53 Um, where's a good example?

5:56 Where's a good example?

5:58 Maybe this maybe one of these.

6:00 Um, there's a production cost.

6:03 It doesn't tell me like a a Oh, there you go.

6:05 That's the one.

6:05 That's the one.

6:05 So, it costs four upkeep to keep this military building this lookout running.

6:09 [music] So, that's going to that's going to be a problem later on.

6:13 Right now it ain't no problem.

6:15 So, let's go get some stone.

6:16 We're going to put ourselves a quarry down right there which is going to give

6:18 us lots and lots of production which

6:20 production is something we want around here.

6:25 We'll try to get those things kind of balanced out.

6:26 Takes a few turns to build that thing.

6:27 And as I get as I get resources I'm going to get

6:30 to And I think maybe I don't know if this is all water over here.

6:36 Oh, man.

6:37 I wonder.

6:37 I wonder.

6:38 Um, let me get another quarry.

6:41 I think that's going to be a good spot to put our stone circle.

6:43 This one gives me the bonus.

6:44 It's only five which is kind of not good.

6:48 Kind of not good.

6:50 Um Having the the glory bonus of nine there maybe like

6:55 early maybe that'll add up till the end of the game.

6:58 We'll start You know let's do it.

7:01 Let me stop yammering on about things and just do it.

7:04 Food is always good.

7:05 I like food.

7:06 Um We can put a barn in here because we got

7:11 the river and the road and the tree that's 14 food.

7:13 That's good.

7:14 That's a lot of numbers.

7:17 There we go.

7:17 So, now we got nine of this progress whatever glo- glory coming

7:21 in and I think we're going to go and get ourselves maybe another quarry.

7:26 We can also go out and build like a village.

7:28 So, a village is going to expand my borders out so

7:30 we can we can go more than just this little zone here.

7:34 Um, you'll see things like it starts out real slow and then of course

7:36 things are going to ramp up as we as we get into this.

7:39 Uh, let me put another one.

7:40 It's only five for a quarry.

7:41 That doesn't seem very good.

7:42 I could put a lumberjack there for five or there for five.

7:46 Lots of trees around.

7:47 I'll do like that.

7:50 Five is not very much.

7:52 But it's better than nothing, I guess.

7:54 I guess.

7:56 I can always do this and get another nine culture.

7:59 So we're off with a nice nice quick start.

8:02 Last time I was messing with this, um the other folks

8:05 were were slow and then they slowly started ramping up pretty quick.

8:09 Reminds me of before before we leave.

8:11 Yeah, yeah, that's another one.

8:11 That's That's another uh good comparison.

8:15 If you're familiar with that one.

8:18 Oh, we got to build something here.

8:20 What Anything we need to do over this way?

8:22 We could do science.

8:22 So science is kind of weird and I'm going to show you what how it works.

8:25 If you put down a an observatory and you got these different tech trees,

8:28 like military tactics, construction, theology, and seafaring.

8:30 These unlock new buildings that you can do.

8:33 And but you you don't actually like research it like you normally do,

8:36 like normal research.

8:38 Uh you need to build your observatory next to a military building.

8:42 And as long as it's built next to it,

8:44 which I'll show you here, then unlocks that tech.

8:47 So if I put it there, I would unlock construction.

8:50 Uh everything is just construction.

8:51 That's all I really Oh, oh, I can put it there and get seafaring unlocked.

8:54 Mhm, I can rebuild that one and get construction and seafaring.

8:57 And so that's the only way you get those techs

8:58 is by putting it next to one of those buildings.

9:01 So it's a little little different.

9:03 Um a bazaar is going to be best next to an adjacent [music] enemy tile.

9:08 We don't have any of those yet.

9:08 There's wonders in the game as well,

9:10 which we haven't got to yet, but we'll get there.

9:13 Um is that what I was for more production or maybe we should

9:15 go and try to get like What do we need for a village?

9:17 I need 20 resources.

9:19 We can get a village and expand our borders a bit.

9:23 Uh does the village hex expand only when

9:25 they're on the border or can be one away?

9:26 So the villages can be put I think they can actually make it one outside.

9:30 [music] If I remember right.

9:34 You can set up Yes, so an observatory can be put up to So,

9:37 if I put it there, I would get both seafaring and construction.

9:40 I get both of them.

9:41 Yeah.

9:42 So, yeah.

9:42 And that that's where you're trying to figure

9:43 out best placement for all this stuff.

9:45 It's a placement game for sure.

9:49 Um go I think you know really with culture is not the best idea.

9:52 The best idea is probably spending my points

9:54 getting production buildings and getting food dealt with.

9:59 So, I'm going to get another production building over here.

10:01 And if we can get up to about 20,

10:03 we can get a village square, which can Yeah, it can go outside.

10:08 And like all this stone over here may not be a bad a bad place.

10:14 Um I don't think I want to put it there.

10:18 Do I I care about putting it there?

10:20 No, I know I don't want to put it there.

10:21 I could do like that and then we would get the benefit of another quarry

10:26 in the mountain or I can put it down like here and get the fish.

10:32 You can't move things, but you can destroy things, yeah.

10:35 I'm going to go down there.

10:36 Then we can grab the fish.

10:37 We can get our our our boats out there.

10:42 And we're going to we'll we'll do some boating right now.

10:48 So, I think we I'm going to get more more

10:51 of these stone circles around because then you can get like

10:53 a temple unlocked and it'll get a big bonus

10:56 of of being around stone circles and all that kind of stuff.

10:59 Um There's a lot of those like that.

11:02 [clears throat] Hm.

11:07 That would have been a good spot for that one right there right now.

11:08 Hm.

11:09 Let's see what happens when this when this grows

11:10 and what it what it can give me.

11:12 Um I guess I'll take the five.

11:16 There for another quarry.

11:19 And next turn, we don't have anything really we can build there.

11:24 I can get five cons five construction there production.

11:30 Maybe I do need to go and Well, there's 12 food if I put a farm in there.

11:33 That's pretty good.

11:37 Yeah, that'll work.

11:43 Okay, so now now we've got fish on fish.

11:50 That's exciting.

11:52 So, we do have 60 turns.

11:53 There's a limit to the the game length.

11:55 Uh you can go you can keep playing.

11:57 I'm not sure how it works if you keep playing though.

11:59 Um let me get I'm going to go ahead and expand this over here.

12:04 Again, another another another village.

12:08 Like that.

12:11 Oh, hey, green.

12:12 We see green people.

12:13 Okay, so green, that's that's my enemy is over there.

12:17 Who's green?

12:17 Genghis?

12:18 So, Genghis is over there.

12:21 So, that would be a good time actually to put a watchtower in.

12:24 Once we build this, like maybe we'll put a watchtower in over here

12:26 somewhere to try to get some sort of uh push on my strength.

12:30 And you kind of saw I'll show you what it looks like whenever you get in there.

12:33 Uh and how that all works.

12:37 Construction seafaring, that's what I want.

12:39 I want construction and seafaring.

12:40 What seafaring tech is there that I So, I can get a harbor,

12:43 a trading fleet, trireme, and a great lighthouse wonder.

12:53 Construction will give me the forge, the lumber mill, and the and the oreya.

12:58 All barns within one tile gain X production.

13:00 Lumber mill, materials per river on this tile.

13:03 [music] Forge, five materials per wood on this tile.

13:07 All pyramids within range get bonuses, and all quarries get bonuses.

13:10 So, that [music] forge would be kind of nice.

13:12 Okay, I'll do one of these.

13:13 I'm going to put it right there.

13:16 Let's get some tech.

13:17 Let's stop being so dumb.

13:19 I think it's time to be smart.

13:20 Oh, see, there they go.

13:21 That Now they're starting to bring in some some um glory.

13:27 So, my next turn that's going to build up,

13:28 I think I may be maybe I should save my money for that turn or I just

13:32 got to go crazy expanding and like work my way up this way as much as I can.

13:39 Like that's going to build over there so that we can go like

13:49 I want to make sure I get I guess I'm just I'll do that.

13:54 I'll do that this going to affect you?

13:55 I think once you're been built I think you're good.

13:57 Yeah, it's still coming in.

13:59 There you go.

13:59 There there's our enemy over there.

14:01 And so you can see this symbol here.

14:03 Um that's your control symbol.

14:05 So as we build something you'll see as I put it down here it adds a spot

14:11 of me on there on the blue guy

14:14 and so it's giving me one strength in that territory.

14:17 So if I get if I get more than that then I will take it over.

14:21 So again it's just it's just culture war culture war warfare.

14:26 Um training grounds and they each have different amounts.

14:28 So the training grounds is is less 3 3 3.

14:33 And it's a very small zone though.

14:36 This one's much bigger but it's also weaker.

14:38 And this one has five where it's built.

14:42 I could put one actually right I don't own that.

14:47 Why don't I own that one?

14:49 Did it not push me out far enough?

14:51 Maybe cuz they're there?

14:53 Cuz we're both fighting over it maybe?

14:55 Uh well I kind of want that.

14:59 I guess if I do that then I can put I'm going to do it.

15:03 And then I'll put a barracks down there so we

15:05 can push these guys out and give me that land.

15:09 Okay, now let's go get we can also do this bizarre.

15:12 Bizarre's going to be a good thing that's

15:13 built on the borders and it'll help it'll give

15:15 me bonus revenue and resources and all that stuff

15:18 if it's built on a border a neighbor's border.

15:25 I'm actually pretty good on food.

15:26 Production is where I'm struggling.

15:29 And I just don't have any good good production spot.

15:33 Building if we get that forge brought in that will help us out a lot.

15:37 I'm going to put one over here just because

15:38 of the wood around it's going to give me six.

15:42 There we go.

15:42 So now we're now we're pressing in there.

15:43 We've got that owned now.

15:45 Um so I Oh, there's red.

15:48 Uh red is a tribe.

15:49 So it's just like a neutral.

15:52 Um I've just a Not one of these guys.

15:58 So I can do something like that and then that will definitely

15:59 push me into the favor in favor over there as you can see.

16:04 Uh palisade will do that.

16:07 Not quite.

16:11 So I think I guess we're going to do

16:12 training grounds and kind of start pushing them back.

16:16 I don't know if that's really important right now.

16:20 More important right now would be just to build some production buildings.

16:23 But research done.

16:24 Excellent.

16:26 Seafaring and construction.

16:28 Excellent.

16:29 So now we're taking it over now it's burning and so

16:31 now we got a new wheel under the three tiles there.

16:33 So once those fill up as long as I have control

16:35 three turns in a row then I then I will take it.

16:40 The tower did do good did do a good job of unveiling all that stuff.

16:42 Yeah.

16:43 Uh I want to get more production.

16:47 So I got a forge.

16:47 Can I put this forge in somewhere like real good?

16:52 Plus 12.

16:54 That's that ain't bad.

16:58 What was the other one?

16:58 Lower mill.

16:59 That's not going to be any good.

17:01 Oh, there's a 10 up there.

17:02 Lower mills were good on rivers, right?

17:04 Yeah.

17:05 Ooh, plus 16.

17:07 That's the kind of numbers we need to be getting.

17:14 I don't have resources for that one.

17:20 I'm going to get a stone circle and throw it there.

17:30 And another one there.

17:40 Okay, so my next turn we'll we'll take these out.

17:42 These will be mine.

17:44 Um oh, look we're in the lead.

17:47 Good.

17:49 So, I would like to get the tech.

17:55 So, per housing building on adjacent tiles per science building.

18:01 Per building of distinct type.

18:05 And then the forum, which are all per building a range.

18:08 Um per housing building, per science building.

18:12 I want to get or military we can do military.

18:15 Maybe we'll get both of those actually.

18:18 If I build this wisely.

18:26 I don't have a good military and maybe once this expands

18:30 we may have a good spot for it over there.

18:32 Is there any seafaring I can get thrown in here?

18:34 I can't afford the harbor.

18:41 Bunch of sixes and No, nothing too beneficial there.

18:48 I can get a trireme, which does what?

18:51 It's just this It's a seafaring version of of these other guys.

18:58 All right.

18:59 Let me get a purple guys over here.

19:03 Purple lady.

19:05 I need to expand over here,

19:06 but also maybe I should do something like Oh, that's right there.

19:11 I want to put a lumber mill there, but I think what going to have to do

19:13 is I'm to put in a training ground right here.

19:15 Cost eight food to build this thing, but it will help push back a little bit.

19:23 Here we go.

19:23 Burn them.

19:25 And there we go.

19:26 We put some little nice little monuments in there.

19:28 Look at those guys.

19:29 Real nice.

19:31 That was real nice.

19:33 And now we got no resources.

19:37 So, everything is going to be everything is

19:39 getting exponentially more expensive as you can see.

19:40 So, building a quarry is 58 food.

19:42 Let's build one quarry.

19:43 So, I'm out of of space to build things.

19:47 I would like um a wonder.

19:54 Can we push them back over this way?

19:56 Excellent.

19:57 Um I can build a Oh, I can build a wonder.

19:59 One material per stone within two tiles range.

20:02 Oh, hey.

20:04 Now we're talking cuz that could be real good.

20:06 Plus 30.

20:11 Can I get any better than that?

20:14 I guess that's it.

20:15 What does this one do?

20:17 Plus five and two glory per food building.

20:23 That could be real good.

20:25 30 30 glory per turn.

20:28 Oh, yeah.

20:28 We're doing it.

20:30 Let's do it.

20:31 Build the pyramids on the coast.

20:37 Okay, this should be my next turn.

20:39 And we can go ahead and get a Oh, I still can't afford those.

20:45 Can I afford the Nope.

20:47 Nope.

20:47 Nope.

20:47 Nope.

20:56 A bizarre That's only going to be one food there.

20:59 Yeah, that's not going to be very That's not good.

21:04 I I we just kind of sit here.

21:05 I'll put some food in.

21:09 Burn out the buildings, put a monument up to to commemorate it.

21:11 Yeah.

21:13 That works.

21:16 Okay, I suppose because we got these monuments, we should put something there.

21:21 I suppose.

21:23 Like we can keep on we can keep on pushing them back.

21:26 Um I think that's military tactics and theology right there.

21:31 That would get both of them.

21:34 We could also put in They're not pushing back yet,

21:36 so I need like a couple of these towers to be able to push this.

21:41 This seems like it might be a little better.

21:45 Replace the monument, which is which is bringing me in Oh,

21:48 mines are giving me 10 each one?

21:50 Is that what's going on with these?

21:51 I think they are.

21:53 Maybe we should leave those.

21:53 That's good.

22:01 Okay, let's expand further down this river here, huh?

22:07 That's green also.

22:12 I don't want to push that way.

22:13 I want to push like this way just in the empty empty land.

22:17 And I guess I can kind of put it I guess

22:19 I can I can put it anywhere where I can see.

22:22 Glory is the score.

22:23 So end of the game 60 turns, whoever has the most glory wins.

22:26 So glory's everything.

22:30 I'm going to do it just put it right there.

22:32 Claim all those spots right there.

22:40 Can turn one more time.

22:44 Okay, so they've got a bizarre in there, which is now producing 16 glory.

22:49 And I could do that as well.

22:52 Uh trade fleets.

22:56 It's really again one of those ones that's only going to do

22:57 good if if we're next to like maybe there would be good.

23:00 Like if we could find like a little pond to put it in, that would be okay,

23:02 but it's not really worth it other than that.

23:09 So, if I replace this monument,

23:10 it'd get me nine It'd give me 19 food putting the bazaar in here,

23:12 but I'd also lose the culture.

23:15 I wouldn't do that.

23:21 So, how do I want to push them back too much?

23:24 What are they building there?

23:25 They're building another bazaar.

23:28 Okay.

23:29 Well, let's get the lumber mill.

23:30 That's going to be good.

23:31 10.

23:33 Like, on each one of these I can do 10 production.

23:45 Put some mining going on over there.

23:47 Um And we have my tech at.

23:56 So, we got those two.

24:02 I'm going to need military tactics, but not the theology.

24:04 I kind of want the theology.

24:05 That's an easy man to take the Stonehenge.

24:07 Um That'd be a good spot for one.

24:12 But, they built that thing there.

24:14 I want that spot right there.

24:16 So, I think just putting This will This will end up being good in in a in time.

24:28 Cuz it'll kind of start pushing them back a little bit in various ways.

24:31 We'll also own that spot.

24:33 That'll be good.

24:34 Plus, we'll be able to put in maybe a uh theology thing.

24:38 How we doing?

24:39 We still in the lead?

24:39 Oh, we're still in the lead.

24:44 Hey Chris, how's it going?

24:48 Yeah, glory doesn't do anything right now, but it's just in the end.

24:51 So, all barns within one tile gets production.

24:53 All farms get most double production.

24:55 Is there anything worth I could get rid of some production and gain 26 food.

25:01 No, nothing really good.

25:03 Or that one.

25:09 10 food there, 11 food if we built a barn there.

25:15 No, those are those are all 10s.

25:18 I should not missing any like super spots.

25:26 Bonus on sea adjacent tiles.

25:28 Oh, hey.

25:30 Now, that's all right.

25:32 A harbor in there.

25:33 Yeah.

25:41 Okay, so we've got we got that taken over, so that's that's falling to me.

25:44 Uh we've claimed this we've got this tile now.

25:46 And where I was going to think about putting some sort of something in there.

25:58 There we go.

25:58 Theology, military tactics.

25:59 I'm going to put that there.

26:01 Um It's all going to work.

26:07 Now, wouldn't quite push them back far enough.

26:12 If I did that, I would get again one tile.

26:22 Really worthwhile, is it?

26:30 So, yellow guy I guess is around here.

26:32 I'm curious what would happen if I put this here.

26:35 It's still in my range.

26:36 I'm curious what we'll we'll see what happens.

26:38 It's in yellow's territory right now, so it might just burn down.

26:40 It might have just been a big waste, but I'm kind of curious how how it works.

26:44 It's like, yeah, it's a big waste.

26:47 Yeah.

26:53 So, push me back and no no no no no no have done any um any push back yet.

26:59 They are getting starting to get like uh yellow starting

27:01 to get up there in They're getting more than me.

27:04 No, so is green.

27:10 Yes, I kind of hosed myself on that town there.

27:18 It's fine.

27:23 Can I Let's see.

27:25 Let's stick some more or production if we can.

27:28 Uh did I get the new the new tech?

27:30 Next turn I'll have it.

27:32 Let me save my resources and then get it next turn get something nice.

27:36 All right.

27:36 So basically I just gave him that town.

27:41 Not really what I wanted to do.

27:43 Uh okay, so now we can do siege barracks.

27:46 Takes 15 food.

27:49 It's real big.

27:52 Ooh.

27:54 That's real big.

27:54 We could really push our way into there, huh?

27:58 It wouldn't like It would turn a few things.

28:01 Yeah, you know what?

28:02 I'm going to lose some production or lose some glory,

28:04 lose some food, but I'm budding in there.

28:06 And then we also got a regular old barracks, which again would also help.

28:10 They also have the theology stuff, which would be like glory near housing.

28:21 Like even with my wonder, I'm losing a lot.

28:23 Uh adjacent to distinct ones.

28:28 Plus 28 there.

28:28 If I would build over that, what kind of sea stuff can I do now?

28:46 That seems pretty good.

28:46 Plus 23.

28:48 I'll take that.

28:53 Take a few turns but it'll it'll get there

28:54 and then we'll take over a bunch of stuff.

28:56 And then we got a bunch more room here for we got a bunch of food we can grab.

28:59 We got five over there.

29:03 We're not going to be short on food anymore.

29:06 In fact, let's do that a few times.

29:09 21 there and production.

29:14 Get them boats.

29:15 What was it there's Yeah, that one was that's trade.

29:21 Yellow's over here.

29:23 They're catching up with me.

29:26 But that's been built now so now we're starting to push back against things.

29:28 Yellow is uh kind of a problem.

29:37 A second one of these maybe could go in here.

29:39 I don't know if I want to get rid of my What is that?

29:42 My lumber mill?

29:45 Oh, is that that's that's that's a barracks, isn't it?

29:54 Can't push back against them very well.

30:04 I'm winning over here.

30:05 I'm winning these three.

30:07 Well, these four.

30:09 I'm not winning over here though.

30:12 And I almost need I need a I need that one.

30:28 I want that town.

30:28 That town I placed down, remember that town?

30:30 I want that.

30:31 How can I get that?

30:34 It's your four right there.

30:36 That would That would push and take that over and that's about it.

30:43 There's no There's no troops.

30:44 It is It's just buildings.

31:00 Hm.

31:11 Put that one in.

31:18 Okay, but still they still only got I'm taking all this stuff all slowly.

31:22 Um my barracks is burning.

31:31 So, they've got They have more than me.

31:33 They do have more than me.

31:36 Well, um I don't know if I want to get

31:38 rid of this, but I'm going to have to, aren't I?

31:43 To keep my own place here.

31:48 Put them there.

31:48 They'll be there one turn.

31:53 It'll be Okay.

31:57 I'll be done in two turns.

32:02 This has been protected.

32:06 And everything else is is converting to me.

32:09 Yes.

32:09 Yes.

32:10 Uh yellow is is moving in here cuz I gave him a free town.

32:17 My mouse mat?

32:19 Uh I have a keyboard mat.

32:21 I don't have a mouse mat, but I have a keyboard mat.

32:24 Um I haven't washed it since I got it, but it's not that old.

32:28 It's It's only a few months old.

32:32 Not that old.

32:39 Trackball mat.

32:39 There you go.

32:41 You supposed to wash them?

32:43 I don't think I'll think so.

32:46 I just think they're once you buy them there.

32:48 What's that?

32:51 A couple more turns for that one.

32:52 We only got 19 turns left and we aren't in the lead very well.

32:55 Yellow is kind of starting to dominate.

32:58 So, what can we do to not to not let them dominate?

33:04 I can try pushing this direction.

33:06 So, we kind of have to go military.

33:09 The best military you want I have is I think the siege barracks.

33:14 It takes away some of my culture, but then I would really push into these guys,

33:17 especially if we did a couple of those.

33:20 We can push into green at least and we know

33:22 it [music] takes that it'll get me some mon- monuments.

33:26 Monuments are good.

33:29 Um oh, is that going to be Am I going to lose that this turn?

33:33 I can't tell if any are lit up.

33:34 I think Oh, two are lit up.

33:35 How did I How did I lose that?

33:38 Well, that's not cool.

33:42 Outrageous.

33:45 Okay, but we got a bunch we got a bunch just there.

33:49 Okay, that's starting to fall to me.

33:51 Uh I want That won't do much good, but this one might.

34:01 I don't want to replace What is that right there?

34:04 Oh, that's siege barracks already.

34:08 Like over here.

34:14 We're already kind of winning that that fight.

34:20 I could do that.

34:23 It get rid of again get rid of some culture.

34:26 But, we'll eventually eventually push back

34:27 and they're pushing back on this one now.

34:29 This will be here in a turn though.

34:30 I don't save it all.

34:41 Uh you say So, you say that I I I um I did wash my old mats once,

34:47 maybe twice, actually.

34:48 I just put in the bathtub, took a like a little like a little scrubby brush,

34:54 just kind of washed soaped it up,

34:55 washed it up cuz it was getting a little grungy.

34:58 This one has This one's still in good though.

35:02 Cuz I got my Dwarf Fortress map.

35:08 So, that's going to fall here in a couple turns.

35:09 Is that still not Oh, green.

35:11 Oh, they built a bunch of barracks here.

35:13 Okay.

35:15 And we're still in the lead, but not very much cuz we're only getting 157.

35:19 I need more.

35:20 What if I can just get like a like a wonder?

35:23 What's this do?

35:24 Plus five food and two glory per food building in adjacent tiles.

35:27 That'd give me 24, 26 over there.

35:31 I mean, that ain't bad.

35:33 I don't want to lose this one though, which I'm about to do.

35:37 So, let's do and help any.

35:44 It evens it out.

35:49 That puts me in That pushes me forward a little bit.

35:53 All right, I'll do that.

36:02 Okay, I'm glad of that cuz we're both starting to fall.

36:03 What's got Oh, it takes two turns for that one.

36:07 Not good.

36:18 I don't know if I if I even that out, will I save it from falling?

36:22 Don't know.

36:32 I'm already pushing my way up in here.

36:37 Ooh, is that If I get that town, good stuff.

36:40 Oh, that town.

36:46 Get that built.

36:47 Uh, we're only 400 ahead.

36:48 We got 15 turns.

36:53 No.

36:58 Yellow is is is beating me.

37:02 [sighs] Um I might be okay when that gets built.

37:09 I am taking that one back, though.

37:11 And now we're taking all that stuff.

37:13 So, we're just kind of swooping around the the the top side.

37:17 I need resources for anything.

37:20 My food production is kind of awful.

37:31 Oh, is that still fallen?

37:32 Oh.

37:35 Problem is all these things take a lot of food.

37:36 So, this takes uh this one takes eight food upkeep, for instance.

37:45 I can replace a village.

37:46 What does a village do for me outside of plus one food per adjacent buildings.

37:53 Um oh yeah, we have different kinds of camps.

37:54 I forgot we have these.

37:55 So, we can have camps um which gives a building military presence.

38:00 There's harbors, of course, we saw before.

38:01 And of course, there's the forums.

38:03 But, we can switch out with a military camp and hurt my food production.

38:07 I ain't got enough food production to be hurting to be taking that over.

38:22 I got I got I got to go even though much of this is annoying.

38:30 That might actually Oh, that would save it,

38:31 but I don't think it's going to get built in time.

38:32 It takes three turns to build that.

38:43 One turn maybe save them.

38:47 Let's try that.

38:50 No.

38:56 Maybe I need to just not worry about saving

38:57 them and just keep on pushing into their lands.

39:07 Okay, we got that one captured.

39:08 [music] So, we're chewing into purple pretty good.

39:15 Doesn't really happen with red.

39:16 I can't afford anything.

39:18 Everything costs too much.

39:20 Put down boats cost what?

39:21 100 food to put down a boat now.

39:26 Okay, no more fires.

39:29 Um no more pressure up this way.

39:37 So, we can get this 38 food if we put a barn right here.

39:40 Okay.

39:41 That sounds like what we want.

39:45 I am in the lead, but not for long.

39:47 Oh, I Oh, I got passed by Genghis.

39:49 What this guy?

39:50 I didn't see I didn't even look at his score.

39:52 Oh, Genghis.

39:54 No, that's not cool.

40:00 This jerk down here.

40:02 Man, he hasn't even doing anything.

40:17 Hm.

40:34 And he's definitely I'm I'm falling into third place.

40:36 Well, at least I did better than Sweco here who I took out there.

40:41 Uh we got what?

40:42 Seven more turns.

40:43 Can we do anything in seven turns?

40:46 Probably not.

40:49 Can I build a wonder in seven turns?

40:50 No, eight turns for like the lighthouse.

40:55 It'd be cool though.

40:56 I don't know if I'll get it done in time.

40:58 Um Trade fleet doesn't do me any good.

41:07 Um See if I can push into this territory.

41:22 That one built up there.

41:29 Okay, now we're going to start taking out red land.

41:33 And so if I could get that, that'd be real good.

41:41 It won't be enough.

41:43 That's three in that square.

41:46 I can't get anything else in there, can I?

41:51 Oh, that'll do it.

41:58 That guy down there.

42:10 We taking these guys out yet?

42:11 We're kind of even with them.

42:15 I don't have way of getting any closer

42:16 unless I like would have put a village down.

42:18 I guess I could put down an army camp.

42:24 I'm not sure I care about them that much.

42:30 Can I put it right there?

42:34 Yeah.

42:38 Scores aren't in order I thought it.

42:39 Yeah, I should be winning the entire time.

42:41 Oh, you know I I jumped in front of yellow.

42:43 Excellent.

42:47 For a minute.

42:51 Is there anything we can do to green to push them back?

42:55 I'm going to try though.

42:59 We have three turns left.

43:02 Oh, I'm going to I'm going to be I'm going to just barely not make it, aren't I?

43:06 If I could get that town Oh, you know what?

43:08 I probably could if I could do this.

43:10 Military camp right there.

43:11 Oh, no, it's not enough.

43:14 No.

43:19 Put it in there.

43:24 Give me some sight on some things.

43:26 Um This is going to be my next turn.

43:31 It won't get me what I need though.

43:38 68 Now we got the town.

43:44 And I can't afford anything else.

43:47 All right.

43:48 Turn 60.

43:50 It was close.

43:51 It was real close.

43:53 Oh, we There's one more turn.

43:56 Is there anything we can do in one turn?

43:58 Probably not.

44:00 So, this is seven glory per monument.

44:02 So, this could be real uh real good if we can find It has to be on a mountain.

44:07 It's Oh, yeah, I it's something we could do.

44:09 Like if we owned so every monument in range

44:12 Um so if there was a mountain over here,

44:13 which there is there, that would have been a real good place for this one.

44:16 Cuz look at these It's just a bunch of monuments over here.

44:18 That's where my That's where all my culture's coming from.

44:21 But last turn Um I don't think anything can count.

44:23 So there's the other The library is another one that gave

44:25 you uh new next next row of techs we didn't get to.

44:30 Um Yeah, everything's more than one turn.

44:53 Second I got I got I got Wait, I got second place.

44:55 Oh, wait.

44:57 Oh, what happened to green?

44:59 Am I looking at scores wrong?

45:01 That was really actually really close.

45:04 Take that.

45:04 But 8507827 I was so close.

45:08 I was way closer than I thought I was going to be.

45:11 [clears throat] That was real close.

45:14 One more turn.

45:15 Let me see if we can take one thing.

45:16 So we are going to get something from yellow.

45:20 Is it going to Is this going to change our divide even more more so?

45:25 26 So now now green got got back in back in front.

45:29 I don't know why the scores changed so much in the last those last few turns.

45:38 And we're still in second, but now yellow's starting to run away with it.

45:42 Although my campus taking that out.

45:46 So that gave me I guess we got Oh,

45:48 cuz you get a big boost from take just taking that stuff, huh?

45:51 I I missed that before.

45:53 So that put me back up in the first place.

45:56 We can delete him.

45:58 Get out.

46:00 Okay.

46:01 Anyway, anyway, uh there is monarchs at Play.

46:04 So, there's the the single-player mode.

46:05 There's also challenges in there.

46:07 You can do like the weekly mission using the abandoned church

46:10 and guild hall to your advantage in the short introductory challenge.

46:12 This is sort of like intro stuff.

46:14 Uh and then of course there's tutorial.

46:16 And I think I think I saw a multiplayer mentioned in here.

46:20 Yeah, solar or multiplayer.

46:21 No multiplayer yet in the play test, but it's planned.

46:26 Anyway, another one in the in the genre of quick quick play civilization games.

46:31 It's really it's cultural victory or cultural push game the game.

46:38 Which I rather enjoyed.

46:40 There's Monarchs at Play at Misfit Games.