Barrage - Basic Strategy Guide

My favourite game!!! I'm proud about this game, even it's Italian game. I think we are so ingenious to make this tipe of game

Great Video! Thanks. Brilliant work.

Great video, Branislav! And so needed! I wish I had watched it before my first game. It did NOT go well. Unlike many euro games where you can just experiment and figure things out in your first play, Barrage is very unforgiving towards that approach. I dug myself into a hole that I couldn't get out of and had a miserable first play. Thankfully, my husband and I discussed the game afterwards and I realized several things I could do differently. And then we watched this video, which gave me much more confidence to play again. Our second game was much more competitive and enjoyable for both of us, and I won! Better than that, I'm now looking forward to playing again and trying out the different abilities. Thanks for this very helpful and important video!

Thank you so much!!

Great video

At long last, we've found a video that will allow us to not completely suck and lose every game! You did a quality teach and this is a great strategic overview. Thanks for the content!

Great vid, I'd just add that building is very important. I'd say the number one mistake I've seen among the players who have a few games under their belt is they underbuild and focus too hard on power. Yes, yes, there's power generation and headstream positioning and all that, but it's still an economic snowball game, you need those unlocked incomes and to keep your wheel spinning.

You're my new hero. I was exactly looking for something like that 😊

After playing a few times, the base game is fundamentally unbalanced. Some of the countries and executive assistances are objectively better than others. That's a sign of a poorly designed game. Scythe has a similar issue but it's not as apparent, but the executive assistant that lets you always produce 4 energy, and the nation that lets you pump power multiple times on the same action are objectively better than the others. Maybe the Leeghwater expansion fixes this, but I'm skeptical. I've never played a game that's so punishing to players who just don't get the right combination of things, and the game is too long to force people to play through what amounts to a painful game. I regret having purchased this.

Fantastic video! Subscribed. Your English is excellent, too. Will definitely stop back for intros to other games.

Zrdavím Vás Braňo,

S naší herní skupinou jsme v úterý zahráli poprvé Barrage, ale dost jsme se trápili s prvotním zahráním (strategií), tak je to takový rozporuplný pocit, nerad bych aby hra kvůli tomu zapadla. Bohužel neumíme dobře anglicky, tak video s tipy v AJ moc nepomohlo, i když je super, jako ostatně všechny od Vás:)

Bylo by možné napsat pár tipů jak začít, na co se soustředit? Nebo plánujete toto video i ve slovenštině?

Děkuji Radek

Thank you so much for this video! You are best!

This is a great video. Thank you so much. I really think you've got a talent for explaining things. Well done.

Anyone got recommendations for playing around someone the builds above your network and basically causes a drought. I had a player take the top right mountain and just cause a drought for all my stuff below it. Level three dam I couldn't push water out fast enough to get around it and had to tey and mid-late game pivot to another location

I came to the video cause of a friend and, despite hard playing to the game, still had not given real thought to recycle your turbines in neutral spots with your own 3💰 bases on top of them. We played with the "?" for a while but after 3 games buying action tiles that's seen as a tutorial. Necessary though to nerf the elevation tile. I loved how you loved the game, although didn't reveal much new. For us is the same, we keep speaking about the game afterwards 💧❤️

As a beginner, I'm wondering why you say to build a power house before the conduit. If I build a conduit first and someone builds a power plant, there is usually another space for my power plant though it may cost $3.

So valuable tips. Thank you!

I found this video very helpful and enjoyable. Since it is a medium-heavy game, would it be possible to do a video of one entire round in the middle of a 3-player game?

Another great video, many thanks.😀

Thank you for this!

Wow, just wow. This just makes me more pumped up to play and replay this game soon! Thanks sir! 👍 Excellent video 👌

Top 3 crucial tips you covered:
1. Start by a neutral dam (usually with 3 production value).
2. Build your powerhouse before your conduit.
3. Always fulfill a contract.
Top tip not mentioned:
Water management actions are super efficient. Use them early to make sure your dam always has water and to deny your opponents!

Very useful ! Thanks

svaka cast care

Excellent strategy guide. Thank you so much.

Please make more strategy guides like this!

I found myself usually at lost about where to and how to start with heave/complex games. It takes at least a few playthroughs to really break the ice. And even then, we might still not yet discover the real fun of the game.

A few suggestions about the first few moves like this guide, a few basic ideas about relationship between different investments/places/combos/joseki, an example of a feasible mid term plan, etc, could be very useful, and much more effective than a 2-hr playthrough video where the players are groping in the darkness.

This video is super useful for new players, Barrage can be very unforgiving!

Bought the German version of the game (Wasserkraft) a few days ago and I'm very happy to have watched your excellent video before we start to play the game for the first time.
Thank you so much for this video.

Thank you from Germany

This video needs more views!

Great video! Learned my first lesson not to build a conduit first on a neutral dam, as my opponent used it to generate power with his powerhouse

This was exactly what I needed! Teaching videos aren't really enough for this game to get started, thanks for making it! Though I still failed miserably my first game, haha.

I really like your content. Your Rules Explanations are top notch, your game selection too.
This Barrage video really gave me a jump start into the games excellent mechanics.
Keep up the good work!

Cool video spain thnks

Enjoying the video. Thanks for this great advice!

Great tips. Thanks!

Thanks for the tips !!!

Quality stuff!

Today I played Barrage for the first time.
I agree 100% with the advice that has been presented.
Great respect.

Great video! Thanks!

Really enjoyed the advice!

I hope to purchase this game at some point and this video was really helpful. I will certainly watch it again when I buy the game and point my regular player group in this direction so they can prepare for it too! Thanks!

Great video but PLEASE cover Leeghwater Project too! And also tips against 1 or 2 Automas

Your advice was spot on. Thank you so much. In my group I am generally the third or fourth finisher. Tonight on my first play of Barrage and after the fourth round I am in first place with 71 points, and 15 to 20 points ahead. We had to break off early because one of our players had to attend to an emergency. I had the dam building power and got an advanced tech that allowed me two dam builds on the wheel. My country was America, so scoring lots of end of round points an benefiting from power generating points passing through my power generators. Very satisfying to use my last engineer to generate extra water and watch to flow from the top of the board and out the bottom racking 13 power and allowing me to cash in on my 5 completed contracts for 10 points. Thanks again for the strategy tips.

Excellent video as always! Can´t wait for my first round tonight :)

Thanks for this. I made some mistakes on my first play, building two bases in the mountains (with the discount assistant), and ended up having quite a frustrating experience as a result. Your points about the conduit are critical. Building them in the right spots can really make life much easier.