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The video provides a comprehensive guide on how to play "Fallout: The Board Game" by Fantasy Flight Games. It begins with detailed instructions on game setup, including choosing scenarios, constructing the game map, and preparing various decks such as the agenda, asset, and encounter decks. Players start by selecting survivor cards and figurines, setting up their player boards, and drawing private agenda cards.
Gameplay revolves around players taking turns to perform actions like exploring, moving across different terrain types, and engaging in encounters or fights. Movement requires careful consideration of terrain penalties, and players can respawn but with some drawbacks. Encounters involve scenario-based card draws that may necessitate dice rolls based on character skills. Combat is resolved using VATS dice to match enemy vulnerabilities, with XP and rewards given for defeating enemies. Leveling up offers advancement and potential perks.
Finally, the game includes a faction-driven component where enemies act based on agenda cards, influencing the game's outcome. Players aim to accumulate influence points to win, but factions can also win if their power track reaches the end before any player meets their goals. The video ends by recommending viewers watch the game in action on the "Geek and Sundry’s Game the Game" series.
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In this segment of the video, the presenter explains how to play “Fallout” from Fantasy Flight Games. The game setup begins with choosing a scenario and creating the game map as per the scenario sheet’s diagram. Colored map tiles are shuffled and placed around starting face-up tiles. A supply pool is created with randomized enemy and special tokens facedown. Encounter decks are formed by shuffling cards with stars into separate piles based on location symbols, while other decks are shuffled and placed facedown nearby. The agenda deck is modified based on the number of players, and an asset deck is prepared with a market of four face-up cards.
Players are randomly assigned a starting turn, choose a survivor card, figurine, and a matching special token, and set their player boards with HP and radiation pegs. Players also receive equipment cards if specified and draw a random special token. Each player takes a private agenda card and three caps, with additional scenario-specific effects resolved.
Gameplay involves players taking turns clockwise, performing two actions per turn with options like exploring unexplored tiles or moving. Players aim to accumulate influence points through objectives on hidden agenda cards, and the game ends when a player reaches the requisite points or a faction reaches the end of the power track.
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In this part of the video, the movement mechanics and actions players can take in the game are explained in detail. Players can split their movement points and interact with different terrain types, such as difficult terrain requiring extra points and irradiated terrain increasing their radiation levels. If a character’s health drops too low, they respawn at a camp but retain their radiation levels and lose their inventory.
The segment also covers encounter actions where players draw cards to face various scenarios, potentially requiring dice rolls to pass tests based on their character’s skills. Moreover, players can shop during encampment encounters, buying or selling items.
Quest actions are discussed, explaining how to complete objectives and earn rewards without always needing a specific action. Additionally, the camp action allows players to regain health, refresh abilities, and gain temporary advantages. Lastly, the fight action is introduced, detailing how players engage with enemies based on certain attributes and abilities.
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In this part of the video, the process of resolving fights in Fallout: The Board Game is explained. Players roll the VATS dice, matching vulnerability sections to hit enemies. To defeat an enemy, players need hits equal to the enemy’s level. Hits also indicate the damage dealt back to the player. Special weapons allow for re-rolls if the matching token is on the player’s board. Defeated enemies give XP equal to their level, advancing the player’s XP peg. Upon leveling up, players draw and keep one of two special tokens, or gain a one-time use perk card if the token is a duplicate.
After player turns, enemies get a chance to move based on agenda cards drawn, activating if their icons match face-up tokens on the board. Activated enemies move towards the nearest player or engage in battle if adjacent. Once the agenda deck is depleted, a new first player is chosen, agenda cards are shuffled, and faction tokens move down the track.
Players accumulate influence points, with the first to reach the requisite number winning. If either faction reaches the end of the track before a player gains enough influence, that faction wins. The video concludes by inviting viewers to watch the game being played on Geek and Sundry’s Game the Game.