How to Play Shackleton Base in 31 Minutes (with corporations)

Learn how to play Shackleton Base, including all of the corporations, in just 31 minutes (yes I know the runtime is longer than that, there's a bit of silliness at the front and back) To support RTFM, consider pledging at http://patreon.com/RTFM Want to buy this game? Get it here https://amzn.to/4oibvAQ and it'll kick back a few bucks to me (or go to your friendly local game store, that's cool too) 0:00 - Intro 1:27 - Important Info 1:56 - Overview and Setup 4:54 - Shuttle Phase 5:58 - Action Phase Overview 6:49 - Astronauts and Exploit Actions 9:04 - Build Action 11:34 - Structures 13:59 - Fund Projects Action 15:58 - Corporate Actions 17:28 - Visit Lunar Gateway Action 17:53 - Completing Company Goals 18:56 - Maintenance Phase 21:21 - Endgame Scoring 22:07 - Moon Mining 23:52 - Selenium Research 24:40 - Artemis Tours 26:00 - Space Robotics 26:57 - Evergreen Farms 27:58 - Sky Watch 30:03 - To Mars 31:57 - Outro Corrections: To be clear about excess astronauts in the shuttle phase, if there are more than 4 of a type in the Lunar Gateway, which may happen during a round, you don't discard down to four. Any astronauts that would be added above the limit, simply aren't. When placing the third lab, I accidentally held a titanium instead of a rare earth. As I say at that point, you should be taking the resource from the sector you just built into. For Sky Watch, I forgot to mention that, whenever you're contributing to a defense program, there is a minimum energy threshold of four. This is shown on the left side of the board. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rtfmshow.bsky.social Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/rtfmshow Want to check out the gaming table I use? https://bandpassdesign.com #tutorial #boardgames #RTFM #rtfmshow