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Yeah it was certainly a hard decision, but I felt that keeping both the petrel and the swan was just too slow. Plus the petrel doesn't work well in a full tuck engine that the swan would encourage. I definitely wanted to keep the petrel in every scenario due to the powerful card draw, but I think I could have made it work keeping the swan as well. That was probably a miss.

I considered playing it, but Australian Raven got me a lot more points considering all the seeds I was getting from the Maned Duck. Plus I didn't get the rats I needed from the Kingfisher.

Very good points; like I said in my response to the other comment - I thought of the crow after the fact and should have thought to play it because of the extra 2 points from omnivore; it would have tipped the scales. I also agree that the Godwit was probably better to play first; for whatever reason, I always forget about those cards it draws. 🤷

Yep, you're right. I thought of that after the fact - didn't take into account omnivore ironically, considering the title of the video. 😆

Yeah that's the RNG game we play. Thankfully it didn't cost me the game, at least. 🙂

That would have been an interesting line to follow. The Crake is one of the birds I immediately dismiss when I see it, and I'm trying to get out of that habit. I didn't know it at the time, but considering how close the game was, the safe play probably was the right move. If I knew I was behind, the risk should have been taken. Thanks for the suggestion, though!

Yes, this would have been a great play instead of the Moorhen considering the 3 fish. I was too focused on maximizing value from the Moorhen and getting it down first. Good catch.

Glad you like the content! And thanks for the valuable feedback! I should have recognized the ability to force down the wedge-tailed, and that would have won me the EOR; that's a very good catch. On the card draw at the beginning of round 3, I go back and forth. I was looking for high-point brown powers, which is exactly what I got, and had I followed your other advice, it would have led to an EOR win. Just as easily, though, I could have blanked and then that would have been a completely wasted turn. As it was, the only card in my hand that I wanted to play but didn't was Warbler. If I hadn't drawn at that point, I would have ended up stuck with not much of a point-scoring engine to activate in Round 4. I would have tied the EOR, though.

Thank you! It was great playing against you! I'm sure we'll run into each other in the future, and you can have a chance at revenge. 😁

I'm actually not sure - have never looked into it since I do all my gaming on the app or on BGA.

He grabbed a fish and a worm, then rerolled and grabbed the nectar. The way the app works, it doesn't refresh the feeder view every time your opponent grabs food; it only refreshes it when the reroll happens, so it's pretty instantaneous. I hope that makes sense.

I think he would have tied EOR in that case in stead of winning it?

@Veheda whoops!

True. I didn't sacrifice much flow in this case, though. I needed to get the first grassland spot filled anyway.

Yeah I can see that working. I shouldn't have immediately dismissed the Bunting like I did. Those birds are more powerful in Oceania, especially if you can use them before your opponent gets a bowl nest.

On the Franklin's Gull, since there wasn't anything special in the tray, I liked the idea of nabbing the nectar in the feeder first. The raven/gull combo was just too much to pass up, and it was surprising how fast the eggs on the quail disappeared. I was pretty glad I had a good grassland engine going.

Agreed. Would have been a good play with moltoni.

Yeah that would have gotten me 2 more points at the end assuming his last action was laying eggs, so it would have tied me on points, but I would have still lost on the food tiebreaker since he still had 2 worms. Same idea as the Eurasian Green Woodpecker miss that I mentioned right after making the mistake.

The teal power on the crow would've scored you one point too since he laid eggs once in the last round. So I think that's enough for it to turn the result

@@Ken_Kaniff I took that into account with my calculation. You have to remember that I would have needed to discard an egg to get an extra food with the american crow in order to afford the hooded crow, so that counts against it. So actually, the crow would get me 3 points - 2 egg cost - 1 egg from crow + 2 caches from grassland of opponent. That's 2 total. You are right, though, that it would have been worth more than the Eurasian Woodpecker; I missed that.

Yeah I've discussed the Kingfisher mistake in the other comments, but you're right that I definitely should have incorporated the maxing of the Diet Specialist in my evaluation of the Rufus Owl points. Good catch.

That's great feedback. I agree that the Coal Tit was not worth grabbing before I got a Wetland bird down. I should have gone with the Penguin first for sure. And then yes, same story with the Wagtail. I love those cross-habitat birds, but had to give up too much to grab it. Keep those great suggestions coming. :)

Good to be back!

Yeah I read you. I didn't take into account the opportunity cost of playing the Kiwi instead of the Turkey. In the back of my mind, I saw myself playing all of them still, but that obviously wasn't reasonable considering all the food needed. It was definitely a risk.

I didn't, but that certainly would have been a more efficient way to pick it up. I still would have had to lay eggs later instead of using an egg from the owl, though. Unfortunately my kingfisher play screwed that up as well, but I think both uses of the owl could have been legitimate. Thanks for the suggestion!

@FalafelWaffle81 true, though total in two turns you would be up 1 card and 2 eggs vs 1 card and 1 egg by doing the draw with owl path. I really like the owl into pileated play that someone else mentioned as well though!

@@BR4WNDO I can see your point. Either way you're doing a weak action - you're either getting a net of one egg (since cuckoo would give opponent one) or you just draw one card. At the time, you wouldn't know they were going to play the Cuckoo, though, so the Snowy Owl is the more correct pick (2 eggs > 1 card).

Bruh, I had already played the Ruff. Best I could do on that one was 3 points, which is what I got. It wasn't like I was going to hold back on putting the Ruff there based on the tiny chance I would get Wetland Specialist later lol

Yeah I recognized that after I played it. My opponent had just gotten food twice before that as well, which greatly lessened it's potential value. I only got one worm from it all game if memory serves. Should have been the owl.

I didn't have enough non-nectar to get down the Godwit. I could have grabbed a worm instead of a nectar on my last food action, but I would have had less food to spend on the Kea because I would have had to force down the Godwit.

@@FalafelWaffle81 Oh duh, of course, the nectar would have gone away at the end of the round before the game end powers. Got it. Thanks.

Yeah I'll agree with that.

You're wrong on this one. I didn't lose any tempo from playing the Brown Falcon first, I pushed out my Forest for the next food action, and I netted 3 points from tying the EOR vs. just one point from the egg.

Yeah when nectar is involved, it doesn't happen as often, but it definitely still happens.

But then wasn't the issue not having enough food to play everything?

​@@Lockeidtrue whoops

I do think no the grosbeak was the better over all play. Would have gotten more food, been another egg with phoebe, and 2 more with ecologist, might have also secured EOR

You're totally right. I figured he would lay eggs again and I could just use that, but I was wrong. It was a dumb miss on my part, but good to keep in mind for the future. Thanks for catching.

It didn't apply to any bonus cards or EOR goals, and was unlikely to get me much value.

Yeah I ended up getting no value from the Goldeneye because he had the Coucal and the Quail, which sucked. Hindsight is always 20/20.

True, but that didn't cost me any points, so I didn't think much about it. I always had plenty of useless cards to tuck.

Oof, but editing is such a chore! ;)

True - I still had plenty of opportunities to discard bad cards for eggs, food, or tuck them under the maned duck in the future.