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It's the worst I hate it.

I will continue to feed the algorithm to incentive more!!

The spirit is willing, but the flesh has a lot of other stuff i need to also worry about.

It's not meant in judgment, I keep reiterating that they're new just to emphasize that we shouldn't be holding them to the standard of more experienced players. The alternatives are either to treat them like any other player in which case their mistakes might sound way more damning, or to avoid commenting on their gameplay and having a video that's less informative and interesting. If you've got alternative suggestions that still work for a YT audience, I'll take them though.

@@Nevakanezah_ Oh ok that seems very fair, i still think its possible to just trust people wont be condescending about it and not really comment at all but if you think its necessary then i understand completely. I think it might just be the fact that i dont like when im playing a game with my friends and they're obsessed with sweaty competitive analyses of what the optimal turn would be when i kinda just wanna mess around and have fun. But then again i 100% understand that that's the type of stuff your audience LOVES and they might see value in those types of analyses that i dont, which is fine, i guess its not for me. I'd encourage you to keep an open mind though. Anyways apart from that i loved the video mate, very fun to have in the background! Do you plan on using this same chill format for tts games too?

haha, Crowalitions are tantamount to suicide; that was such a weird game

@@Nevakanezah_ Hey man, I fed you cards VERY well. Ofcourse we won :P. A shame the Switch version doesn't have chat as an option. There a place besides Reddit I can private message you?

Preach on, beloved prophet.

@@Nevakanezah_ It shall be done, O wise one

Imo: mobilize it. In the time itll take to craft, the table is gonna see at least one sabo

It would've taken 30s to separate async from live play rules, but they didn't do that either.

Tbh i was lost in the sauce. I likely wouldve been better off pricing at 2, but wanted to squeeze as much as I could out of pricing at 1 as an actual strategy.

@@Nevakanezah_ Ah, I made the mistake of skipping the intro this time, didn't even realize that was the strat you were aiming for 😂 makes sense!

In the vast majority of cases: No. It's strictly less reliable than despot. If you have a really hot starting hand or a table that won't be crafting anything though, you can do pretty well regardless.

Glad you enjoyed it!

You do score those points again, yes. WA scores for *placing* tokens, not for maintaining them (like the eyrie's roosts.) Getting to place the same token twice means more points, but it usually means less points overall than if you'd gotten to place the next token on the track instead.

I run a youtube channel. I can seem like anything you want!

It's the price I chose to pay in exchange for wasting as little of people's time as I could.

Well you're half right - The content is definitely about Root.

Mole magic, plus a quick dose of people forgetting I existed.

My people.

Cats are definitely a challenge every time you play them, but it's also what makes them so satisfying to win with.

@@Nevakanezah_ I wish I knew what it was like to win. Played a game with my mom who has never played Root or any game like it before and she still beat me while I was playing the cats. I over complicate things a lot and I do that with the cats especially. Right now I'm just trying to practice in the online game.

Doing well with cats really requires a strong grasp of the positional gameplay of root; both in terms of which areas of the board are safe/threatened, as well as figuring out who the real threats are and how opponents might interact with each other/you. They require good fundamentals moreso than anyone else, but you can still lose if someone at the table decides to shit on you anyway. Plus, 2p games are always really brittle like that, so don't feel guilty there. If you haven't yet, I'd check out the woodland warriors discord - They're the sweatiest part of the fandom. Either join games there and ask for advice, or share screenshots of your games to the strategy channel to get advice on where you might be able to improve.

"Trade crappy bird cards for suited Dominance cards and live a better life" As in, when there's an available Dominance card that matches a clearing you want to perform a Ritual in, discard a bird card to put it into your hand and use it for that Ritual.

Trixter has it right. The rules have always allowed you to trade cards in your hand for dominance cards that've been discarded. People just figured out that factions who dislike bird cards (lizards/moles) benefit greatly from exchanging those bird cards for dominance cards in the suit they want. This small optimization makes a *huge* difference in how effective lizards can be.

You don't! Birds have an automatic failsafe where having no cards in hand for the decree results in you drawing a card at the start of that step. If you want to get really spicy, you can still use that extra card to guess corvid plots and still have no cards to add to the decree, in which case you add nothing and carry on normally. Turmoil only occurs if you can't fulfill the cards you've added to the decree; your birdsong steps can't trigger it.

@@Nevakanezah_ thanks for speaking on this! ...but I am still not sure if that is the correct interpretation. Is there an official post on this? I can't find anything... The way it reads in the Law of Root is a lot more broken than just skipping a crucial step.

No "official post" that I know of, but I'm pretty sure we bothered LG about it at some point. The rules are roundabout, but they do clarify the behaviour eventually. root.seiyria.com/#7.4-birdsong The way it plays out is: 1. Start of turn/birdsong (you can guess plots here if you want to empty your hand) 2. hit section (7.4.1) Emergency orders. You have no cards in hand, so you draw one automatically. This step is complete now, and does not repeat. This step does not specify that the card you drew must go into the decree. 3. You can guess another plot between these steps to lose the card you just drew 4. Hit step (7.4.2) Add to the decree, which specifies you "must" add cards (to force you into it if you have them), but no penalty for failure is specified. Section (7.7) Turmoil *specifically* can only occur as part of (7.5.2) Resolve the decree, and as such can't be triggered in birdsong. 5. The "just trust me, bro" part - It's not in this web rulebook, but current copies of root include a primer that specifies that Root's rules are meant to be interpreted literally, and not with the kind of "rules as intended" looseness many other games use. It's a holdover from the game's wargaming roots. In addition to this, Root has an important piece of errata that for every action you can't fully complete, you always "do as much as you can" (Read: walk through the action until you hit a part you can't fulfill, then skip what you can't.) You don't have a card in hand for the decree, and there's no mechanism to provide a new card for the decree, and no mechanism to punish you for not adding a card when you don't have any. Unable to complete step (7.4.2), you're meant to fulfill "as much as you can" (read: fuck all), and proceed with the rest of your turn regardless.

@@Nevakanezah_ I started a thread in BGG to get something official, and turns out that 4 years ago, Josh and Cole weighed in through a discord post: "gamey but not breaking anything". Personally, I still think it violates the spirit of the Decree; but I had eventually come around to understanding the logic of how it doesn't violate the rules. Unfortunately, it is just a case of the rules not being specific enough that there is room for a literal interpretation one way or another. I still see Exposure being done before Add to the Decree as Interrupting Add to the Decree, but plenty of people say that "you didn't say you are Adding to the Decree yet, so it's not interrupting anything". I think the current language on Add to the Decree is very absolute, and it is just a case of the rule needing to be rewritten for clarity. The Law of Root uses "must" pretty consistently for ultimatums but Add to the Decree is the only time it violates that pattern, but only because of Exposure. I think a pretty simple rewrite would be "If there are cards in your hand, then you must [...]" yada yada yada. Or Exposure could use a general facelift, instead, since it is the greatest flaw of the Corvids.

Merging the two steps would certainly solve it, since you can't interrupt a step in progress. ...That, or change exposure so it's not the most permissive rule in the entire game. In fact, do this one anyways. You're certainly free to feel/play how you like though; god knows DI is as popular as it is controversial. At least this decree goofiness isn't impactful enough to be worthwhile.

Happy belated 30th birthday!

@@Nevakanezah_ awwww thank youuuy <3 ❤️🧡💛💚

Root has enormous tactical depth and replay value, but it's got a notorious learning curve. If you only have tabletop simulator, I recommend checking out the woodland warriors discord discord.com/invite/woodland-warriors-476234833572397056 and asking if anyone would be willing to teach you the basics. If you have the digital version on steam (frequently goes on sale), the in-game tutorial covers things very smoothly, but won't give you much of the metagame info. One of these days, I'll make a "how to play" video. Until then, Modern cardboard has the best guide going: ua-cam.com/video/WpeCTljzlWI/v-deo.html

@@Nevakanezah_ Thank you kindly! I'll give that video a watch sometime.

Corvid buffs are a circular discussion, but my favourite so far is: - EA does it's hit in the same window as ambush - The cost of plot caps at 2 warriors

@@Nevakanezah_ EA hitting first like Ambushes makes so much tbh, and making triple-plots (and now possibly even the legendary quadruplots?) just a little more affordable is definitely nice. I think I agree with these changes

Damnit, I thought I had corrected that before publication. ...Also "1/3" instead of "1.3." The "Blue" circles are the two clearings just west of the pass.

Dominance is generally not a strong approach for anyone, owing to how easily coordinated opponents can upset rule. Charismatic could probably pull it off, but you'll essentially need the table's permission to win.

Soon(TM)

@@Nevakanezah_ :)