Thank you, Nevakanezah, for making the overcrowded bus full of noisy beachgoers I wound up on more tolerable by giving me something niche and appealing to focus my attention on.
Speaking of adding house rules to Digital, I really wish they'd add some of the really fun gameplay twists from Solo Challenges as options to multiplayer. Certainly wouldn't be as competitive, but it'd be a lot of fun. In case no one's ever played them here are a few examples: -Dominance only wins. -No ambushes in the deck. -1 extra VP for every card crafted. -Long games, requiring 40/50/60 VP to win. -Clockwork traits for players. -Eggs appear in random clearings, hatching a warrior when you move into that clearing. That's not even mentioning the faction specific stuff. There's so much potential here and it'd probably take 30 seconds to code, all they have to do is add them as options.
Exporting makes a lot of sense, let's say an opponent doesn't want to spend 3 warriors to buy from u, so u export 1 item, then set the price to 2. In their perspective they spent 2 but from ur perspective u get approx 3. Too bad the rule for protectionism makes it too risky to do such maneuver, including selling at price 1, because u might not end up getting the regular 2 warrior if no one buys or in the case of setting the price to1, only one buys from u. We house ruled protectionism so that it fills u up to 2 if it's below it, making riverfolk way more fun to play.
choosing your own demise reminded me of a game in which I meneged to squeeze out 13 points last turn to be on 29, but the vagabond (which i had coalition with) had charm offensive and went after me
That Charm Offensive was the most alpha male move I've ever seen. Without a rival militant faction, the cats can just completely take control of half the board with relative ease.
TLDR: * Place 3-4 early strongholds * Use the rowdy mood + crafting rather than feeding VP via mobs (or spam mobs and use bitter if you think they'll survive a turn) * Fill your hoard with boot/hammer/sword/tea (cause these are your expendable moods) * Use the stubborn mood every other turn * Once you have a deathball of ~8+ rats on your WL, go relentless and delete every other player off the map
Hello. I played a couple game with you online a couple nights ago. It was an honor. I sent you a message in Reddit as I had more to say. I know you don't like Reddit, but was my only option (I think). But thank you. Especially with that Coalition win ;)
@@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?
Easiest would be the woodland warriors discord - discord.com/invite/woodland-warriors-476234833572397056 From there, you'll be able to send me a DM request
@@Nevakanezah_ imo top 3 (descending) are Black-footed ferret, sable, and North American river otter Martens (American pine martens specifically) are cool too but not top 3 material
Hi champ, this Friday I am going to play with other 4 or 5 friends a root game, were I am gonna play lord of the hundreds. (just wanna have chalenge, with my ruthless reputation in root) Even tho you will propably not make LotH video , I am asking you, Chadiest, most sigma male root player ever seen, for advices. I have confirmed playing against Moles, Keepers in iron, Eries, and Lizard cult, while being propably most experienced. As opening, I would like to get to opress three clearings and place a mob token on one of those clearings with ruins. Thinkink about going with relentless mood, or the extra card one (but propably not) or the lots of mob tokens one. Then I would like just to acumulate wariors and build fortreses, and wait to strike. What tips , strategies and great openings might great sense Nevakanezah give and sugues to such a poor peasant as me? Now seriously, I am so hyped for your next video, and thought you guit, after not uploading any video for half a year.
1. Beg less, it's demeaning. 2. Skip mobs, focus strongholds and rowdy mood, draw a bunch of cards and craft the items you need rather than pulling them from ruins. This gives less cardboard for opponents, and denies crafting VP. 3. Save relentless mood for when you have enough rats to explode across the board all in one turn
No worries! Call it... "proactive community management" on my part, I suppose. As for the video - Im back in a position where i can move it up my priority list again, so ive been working on it recently.
@@Nevakanezah_ Well... that was a really interresting game and my friendship was put to a test. Sorry, that I will propably write an essey about it. As I was last in a turn order, I did not have much options, where to put my starting clearing, so I put it in the only empty clearing - the one of two midle ones ont winter map, with two build slots and a ruin. In first turn, I built second stronghold and went with my leader and 4 warriors to the least defended clearing defended by only two moles. - GOT DOUBLE AMBUSHED on turn one!!! Luckyly, I rolled zero - something, so my leader did not die and thanks to me being greedy and picking relentless mood I was able to move with my leader back to my home clearing and place mob token to get a free item fom that ruin on my home clearing. Well... mole player rushed me with tunnel imideatly and killed my leader and both warriors. This time I almost walked away (mainly because of the mockery from everyone around table), but I stayed, declaring, that keepers player will win, and mole player will be last. This time I said to myself "screw everithing", and moved away (down) with my only warior and reborn leader, placed mob token that spreaded three times randomly (because of the mood) and this accualy cluthed me game, because that blind mole player did not recognize a mob token in his base (because he was too distracted destroying my own undefended base for VP and building his citadel there) and got blown up. So, those three mob tokens gave me other two items from ruins (in addition to boot, that I already had from the first ruin . Luckyly, I did not block my relentless mood, wich was handy leater) and blown up mole town. Well, with a really short turns and lot of sad complainign (to make others feel sorry for me and being ablo to "fly under radar"), I slowly reclaimed my base and started to build my accion economy and strongholds and rebuilding my destroyed base. Then, 3 or 4 turns before end (was a really long game - something over 4 hours of intense playing) I went beast mode and steam rolled keepers and Lizards and saved Erie from second turmoil (they turmoiled one turn later) and started finally gaining some VP. Well, I finished game with 29 points, because of four times bad RNG in last two turns (including rolling 0-0 twice in a row in a clearing defended with only one warior and rolling 1-1 on a clearing with a one warior and a tunnell worth that one last VP) and a fact that I was not able to craft anvil in my hand, because three times in a row (three last turns, every turn) someone always destoyed, or converted my only fox strongholld. Erie almost won, but due to bad RNG (rolling 3-1 in a battle - therefore not being able to battle twice and fullfill a degree) went turmoil (for the 3rd time). Keepers in iron won , by scoring 11 points on last turn (counting owerflow). Well - what a game, what an outstending game. To sum things up - mole player ended penultimate with only 14 points and like three components on the board, ultra agressive lizards ended last , I almost clutched up with 29 points and keepers won by scoring 11 points on last turn, even tho they needed like 4 or 3. Thanks for all your wise words. You were absolutly right about relentless mood, and you were also right about mob tokens. I gave away most cardboard VP from the entire table, but I just needed those items desperatly, and it really helped me. Sorry for my english, and for a long essey, but I really wanted to tell you about this and thank you for your advices. Peace.
More get gud please. They are amazing and wonderful and I will watch again and again and again. I will give you 4 funds to make more!! But for real, your Get Gud serious is a large part of how I learned to play and love Root. Thank you for creating such engaging and entertaining content. Can't wait for the next one 💜
Seen as your probably starting on Moles next I wanted to share my opinion that smoles is awful compared to swoles as a stratagem with them due to only being able to score 2 instead of 8 a turn and lacking the recruiting to be aggressive and that it generally only works against newer players and should instead be used to either drag yourself across the finish line after a rough few turns of being policed or to aid in set up before swapping into swoles. But that's just my opinion and you are much better than me at root so whatever
I'd say it's more accurately described as "One tool in a kit of many", though smol does tend to see the same success curve as double-build eyrie. I agree with you otherwise though.
@@Nevakanezah_ I agree with it being a tool but I often find in digital people only do smol and never change off which often causes the game to become very boring
For smole u need usally 8 turns to win(depends a little against what faction u play) 12 to 16 from Ministers (i usallay Ami for the Lords instead of the junkers) 5-6 from banker and 2-4 from dutches of mud. That means u need 4 to 11 points from Fights. Slowing down opponents is essantly for this strat and it suffers heavily from card loss. Otters will speed it up. The thing is u should never rly allow moles to start build early or to keep multiple buildings because they usally can race way to fast. This means u will be forced into smollmole a good amount of time. If u have the room building strats end up strenger but are way more risky because u can are a more atracitv target and ur Plans are mutch more obvious. Switching smole into swol midgame can also be pretty effektiv. Smole is a powerful defensive Tool and usally more safe to do early instead of hopeing that ur opponents let u just build is usally not rly good. Being flexible and knowing when and where to start buildng is the strenght of the moles
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_ That's great, I have a lot of fun with those videos and would like to see your take on the Rats since that's my favorite faction to play.
In addition to a chat history, this digital version of the game desperately needs a log of the events / player actions in the game. I'm not familiar with the game, and I find it damn near impossible to follow what is happening.
It does actually have an event log! It's the button right next to the chat window. The downside is that it's not very readable, so it still kinda sucks overall.
@@Nevakanezah_ oh, ok. I was talking specifically about watching your feed. It's difficult to tell what's going on. I suppose after I get into playing, that will change. But for now, seeing a log would really help.
Ah, that's fair. I had to choose between carefully showing all the turn actions to establish clear cause-and-effect at the cost of much slower videos, or paring it down to the narrative highlights while leaving the fine details to the mercy of UA-cam's "playback speed" function. I opted for the latter, as the content creators in my youtube bio have that space covered pretty well without me. As for the in-game log, here's an example of it - imgur.com/a/UdzZZHj It's... really not designed for human consumption.
![My opponents were trying way harder than I was. [Playthrough]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/L0MdWQcswqs/mqdefault.jpg)
![My opponents were trying way harder than I was. [Playthrough]](/img/tr.png)
![I played the worst faction in the game so you don't have to. [Playthrough]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1FBhgjadbzg/mqdefault.jpg)
If you export rope it's easier for them to hang you with it.
This is the pinnable comment I've been waiting for.
My body starves and rots away until the great Nevakanezah feeds me some beautiful CONTENT
That baleful flavour, redolent of longing.
Now with cinnamon-sugar swirls in every bite!
Thank you, Nevakanezah, for making the overcrowded bus full of noisy beachgoers I wound up on more tolerable by giving me something niche and appealing to focus my attention on.
Potionomics soundtrack jumpscare
[Aggressive meowing throughout]
Otter alliance levels of 99.4% pure, unadulterated...
CYCLE
Speaking of adding house rules to Digital, I really wish they'd add some of the really fun gameplay twists from Solo Challenges as options to multiplayer. Certainly wouldn't be as competitive, but it'd be a lot of fun.
In case no one's ever played them here are a few examples:
-Dominance only wins.
-No ambushes in the deck.
-1 extra VP for every card crafted.
-Long games, requiring 40/50/60 VP to win.
-Clockwork traits for players.
-Eggs appear in random clearings, hatching a warrior when you move into that clearing.
That's not even mentioning the faction specific stuff. There's so much potential here and it'd probably take 30 seconds to code, all they have to do is add them as options.
It would've taken 30s to separate async from live play rules, but they didn't do that either.
Exporting makes a lot of sense, let's say an opponent doesn't want to spend 3 warriors to buy from u, so u export 1 item, then set the price to 2. In their perspective they spent 2 but from ur perspective u get approx 3. Too bad the rule for protectionism makes it too risky to do such maneuver, including selling at price 1, because u might not end up getting the regular 2 warrior if no one buys or in the case of setting the price to1, only one buys from u. We house ruled protectionism so that it fills u up to 2 if it's below it, making riverfolk way more fun to play.
The real Export all along, were the friends we made along the way
Random in the digital game just doesnt feel random...it feels as though it has some vendetta no one can figure out.
"I'm here to do dumb shit and die trying!" Words to live by as an Otter or Corvid player.
choosing your own demise reminded me of a game in which I meneged to squeeze out 13 points last turn to be on 29, but the vagabond (which i had coalition with) had charm offensive and went after me
Giving away wins with Charm offensive is my favourite kind of filth.
Omg finally new content thank you so much sorry my birthday was in may 28 and I went to somewhere also can you plss do how to lord of the hundreds
Happy belated birthday! Don't worry, I plan to do LOTH, but it's gonna be Soon™
That Charm Offensive was the most alpha male move I've ever seen.
Without a rival militant faction, the cats can just completely take control of half the board with relative ease.
17 minutes to say
“Export Bad”
Nah its 17 minutes to say "Export... bad??"
it's more of a 17 minutes to say"Too much export bad, a bit of export alright maybe?"
17 minutes to warn you all about just how closely the specter of a functioning export strategy looms behind us all.
What a wonderful Friday treat. As if I didn’t have reason enough to ignore work.
Blessing upon Nevakanezah for providing me with more root content to feed my ever growing addiction
First taste is free.
Oh yes, you never pay here. Not with money anyways
Will Neva catch up to the Leder releases before the next expansion comes out?
lol doubt it
Aye Boss, I'm gonna need that gettin gud strategy guide for The Lord Of The Hundreds Pronto! I'm newly into your videos, and I fear it's not enough.
TLDR:
* Place 3-4 early strongholds
* Use the rowdy mood + crafting rather than feeding VP via mobs (or spam mobs and use bitter if you think they'll survive a turn)
* Fill your hoard with boot/hammer/sword/tea (cause these are your expendable moods)
* Use the stubborn mood every other turn
* Once you have a deathball of ~8+ rats on your WL, go relentless and delete every other player off the map
@Nevakanezah_ 🫡 Thank you. Also, I used the guide you made for otters, and I'm now much better with them.
This made my finals week bearable
Hello. I played a couple game with you online a couple nights ago. It was an honor.
I sent you a message in Reddit as I had more to say. I know you don't like Reddit, but was my only option (I think).
But thank you. Especially with that Coalition win ;)
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?
Easiest would be the woodland warriors discord - discord.com/invite/woodland-warriors-476234833572397056
From there, you'll be able to send me a DM request
I know absolutely nothing of Root I just like North American river otters. Gotta be up there in the top 3 best mustelids.
Pine martens are goated
@@Nevakanezah_ imo top 3 (descending) are Black-footed ferret, sable, and North American river otter
Martens (American pine martens specifically) are cool too but not top 3 material
pretty please release moles, rats, and badgers guides before the frogs, bats, and skunks come out!
Hi champ, this Friday I am going to play with other 4 or 5 friends a root game, were I am gonna play lord of the hundreds. (just wanna have chalenge, with my ruthless reputation in root) Even tho you will propably not make LotH video , I am asking you, Chadiest, most sigma male root player ever seen, for advices. I have confirmed playing against Moles, Keepers in iron, Eries, and Lizard cult, while being propably most experienced. As opening, I would like to get to opress three clearings and place a mob token on one of those clearings with ruins. Thinkink about going with relentless mood, or the extra card one (but propably not) or the lots of mob tokens one. Then I would like just to acumulate wariors and build fortreses, and wait to strike. What tips , strategies and great openings might great sense Nevakanezah give and sugues to such a poor peasant as me?
Now seriously, I am so hyped for your next video, and thought you guit, after not uploading any video for half a year.
1. Beg less, it's demeaning.
2. Skip mobs, focus strongholds and rowdy mood, draw a bunch of cards and craft the items you need rather than pulling them from ruins. This gives less cardboard for opponents, and denies crafting VP.
3. Save relentless mood for when you have enough rats to explode across the board all in one turn
@@Nevakanezah_ Thanks man, and sorry for that beging joke.
@@Nevakanezah_ And I hope a new video comes soon, I miss your gitgud series.
No worries! Call it... "proactive community management" on my part, I suppose.
As for the video - Im back in a position where i can move it up my priority list again, so ive been working on it recently.
@@Nevakanezah_ Well... that was a really interresting game and my friendship was put to a test.
Sorry, that I will propably write an essey about it.
As I was last in a turn order, I did not have much options, where to put my starting clearing, so I put it in the only empty clearing - the one of two midle ones ont winter map, with two build slots and a ruin. In first turn, I built second stronghold and went with my leader and 4 warriors to the least defended clearing defended by only two moles. - GOT DOUBLE AMBUSHED on turn one!!! Luckyly, I rolled zero - something, so my leader did not die and thanks to me being greedy and picking relentless mood I was able to move with my leader back to my home clearing and place mob token to get a free item fom that ruin on my home clearing.
Well... mole player rushed me with tunnel imideatly and killed my leader and both warriors. This time I almost walked away (mainly because of the mockery from everyone around table), but I stayed, declaring, that keepers player will win, and mole player will be last. This time I said to myself "screw everithing", and moved away (down) with my only warior and reborn leader, placed mob token that spreaded three times randomly (because of the mood) and this accualy cluthed me game, because that blind mole player did not recognize a mob token in his base (because he was too distracted destroying my own undefended base for VP and building his citadel there) and got blown up. So, those three mob tokens gave me other two items from ruins (in addition to boot, that I already had from the first ruin . Luckyly, I did not block my relentless mood, wich was handy leater) and blown up mole town.
Well, with a really short turns and lot of sad complainign (to make others feel sorry for me and being ablo to "fly under radar"), I slowly reclaimed my base and started to build my accion economy and strongholds and rebuilding my destroyed base.
Then, 3 or 4 turns before end (was a really long game - something over 4 hours of intense playing) I went beast mode and steam rolled keepers and Lizards and saved Erie from second turmoil (they turmoiled one turn later) and started finally gaining some VP.
Well, I finished game with 29 points, because of four times bad RNG in last two turns (including rolling 0-0 twice in a row in a clearing defended with only one warior and rolling 1-1 on a clearing with a one warior and a tunnell worth that one last VP) and a fact that I was not able to craft anvil in my hand, because three times in a row (three last turns, every turn) someone always destoyed, or converted my only fox strongholld. Erie almost won, but due to bad RNG (rolling 3-1 in a battle - therefore not being able to battle twice and fullfill a degree) went turmoil (for the 3rd time). Keepers in iron won , by scoring 11 points on last turn (counting owerflow).
Well - what a game, what an outstending game. To sum things up - mole player ended penultimate with only 14 points and like three components on the board, ultra agressive lizards ended last , I almost clutched up with 29 points and keepers won by scoring 11 points on last turn, even tho they needed like 4 or 3.
Thanks for all your wise words. You were absolutly right about relentless mood, and you were also right about mob tokens. I gave away most cardboard VP from the entire table, but I just needed those items desperatly, and it really helped me.
Sorry for my english, and for a long essey, but I really wanted to tell you about this and thank you for your advices. Peace.
I live for these videos
I actually got happy when the cats won, as a newbie player is a rare ocurence
More get gud please. They are amazing and wonderful and I will watch again and again and again.
I will give you 4 funds to make more!!
But for real, your Get Gud serious is a large part of how I learned to play and love Root. Thank you for creating such engaging and entertaining content. Can't wait for the next one 💜
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.
Will we ever get a Lord of the Hundreds or Keepers in Iron Guide?
Soon(TM)
@@Nevakanezah_ :)
Love to see more of the wonderful sweet root content i so crave.
Also holy crows you have the worst luck with rolls >.
Only Sandbox, with his legendary quadruple 0-0, has surpassed me.
When a gitin gud with, Mole, Rats, and Keeper of iron ??? Urgent need !!!
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@@Nevakanezah_
Does this mean you are working on more? That's awesome. Work at your own pace, these videos are really helpful for this new player.
The mole script is currently done and ready to record, but I've had other stuff going on. Hopefully getting to it later this week.
New gameplay!
Seen as your probably starting on Moles next I wanted to share my opinion that smoles is awful compared to swoles as a stratagem with them due to only being able to score 2 instead of 8 a turn and lacking the recruiting to be aggressive and that it generally only works against newer players and should instead be used to either drag yourself across the finish line after a rough few turns of being policed or to aid in set up before swapping into swoles. But that's just my opinion and you are much better than me at root so whatever
I'd say it's more accurately described as "One tool in a kit of many", though smol does tend to see the same success curve as double-build eyrie. I agree with you otherwise though.
@@Nevakanezah_ I agree with it being a tool but I often find in digital people only do smol and never change off which often causes the game to become very boring
For smole u need usally 8 turns to win(depends a little against what faction u play) 12 to 16 from Ministers (i usallay Ami for the Lords instead of the junkers) 5-6 from banker and 2-4 from dutches of mud. That means u need 4 to 11 points from Fights. Slowing down opponents is essantly for this strat and it suffers heavily from card loss. Otters will speed it up. The thing is u should never rly allow moles to start build early or to keep multiple buildings because they usally can race way to fast. This means u will be forced into smollmole a good amount of time. If u have the room building strats end up strenger but are way more risky because u can are a more atracitv target and ur Plans are mutch more obvious. Switching smole into swol midgame can also be pretty effektiv. Smole is a powerful defensive Tool and usally more safe to do early instead of hopeing that ur opponents let u just build is usally not rly good. Being flexible and knowing when and where to start buildng is the strenght of the moles
8:32 Card price at 1 here? Bird ambush, tea, Eyrie, and League seems like a ridiculously good bunch of products, why so cheap?
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!
The corvid guide's intro has taught us nothing
Any chance for a future Gittin Gud guide for Lord of the Hundreds?
Yes, but "Soon(TM)"
@@Nevakanezah_ That's great, I have a lot of fun with those videos and would like to see your take on the Rats since that's my favorite faction to play.
it been 3 months since i been happy
Happy belated 30th birthday!
@@Nevakanezah_ awwww thank youuuy
are you not gonna post more?
Yes
algorithm
oh hello there
In addition to a chat history, this digital version of the game desperately needs a log of the events / player actions in the game. I'm not familiar with the game, and I find it damn near impossible to follow what is happening.
It does actually have an event log! It's the button right next to the chat window.
The downside is that it's not very readable, so it still kinda sucks overall.
@@Nevakanezah_ oh, ok. I was talking specifically about watching your feed. It's difficult to tell what's going on. I suppose after I get into playing, that will change. But for now, seeing a log would really help.
Ah, that's fair. I had to choose between carefully showing all the turn actions to establish clear cause-and-effect at the cost of much slower videos, or paring it down to the narrative highlights while leaving the fine details to the mercy of UA-cam's "playback speed" function. I opted for the latter, as the content creators in my youtube bio have that space covered pretty well without me.
As for the in-game log, here's an example of it - imgur.com/a/UdzZZHj
It's... really not designed for human consumption.
Make more root content Ill watch it and press like and comment and turn off adblock I promise :)
Leave adblock on. I would rather starve.
insuffcient trash panda bullying
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