Hey, I recognize that map in the backgrounds. It's in the new expansion. Must be some kind of crazy pre-order :P

Hay do you now want you are going to do the videos for the new Disney villainous boxes?

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I consider Partisan's an essential buy, it makes crafting a much more attractive (and viable) aspect of the game. Through this it also improves every other expansion!

Excited to get a new Root expansion but honestly i was hoping for the frogs to be wizards lol

It's hilarious how they just rip off COIN games 🤣

I’m still waiting for rats & badgers to come to digital 😢. My friends aren’t willing to play this board game. They’re missing out!

I need that shirt. Where did you get it? Also that's awesome! I have a copy of your map on neoprene I've played with it a few times and really like it

My question is why are they using kickstarter. It has to be one of the most lucrative game series ever made, why do they need crowd funding??

I am just excited for what this campaign means in general. I think it just shows that Leder understands their community and makes me appreciate their continued work to not only blaze new trails for all new games, but that they appreciate and treat their current communities well. It makes me desire to support products from them even if it's not quite my cup of tea (even though admittedly it's mostly my cup of root tea anyway)

Wow, that's so cool! This is my first time hearing about it, but can't wait to play it when it's officially released.

Looking forward to seeing more coverage. Congrats again on the map! The factions both sound really cool. I like that they both seem like they will radically change the play style. Man, i wish i got to play this game mkre frequently!

Thanks! Maybe is just me, but the high pitched tones in the music are quite distracting. Just watching on my phone. Maybe headphones solve the issue

Meeple Ranking 1. Lizard Cult 2. Riverfolk Company 3. Vagrant Vagabond 4. Corvid Conspiracy 5. Tinker Vagabond 6. Keepers in Iron 7. Eyrie Dynasties 8. Marquise de Cat 9. Woodland Alliance 10. Theif Vagabond 11. Lord of the Hundreds 12. Scoundrel Vagabond 13. Adventurer Vagabond 14. Harrier Vagabond 15. Underground Duchy 16. Ranger Vagabond 17. Arbiter Vagabond 18. Ronin Vagabond Q1. Woodland Alliance (or Diplobats?) Q2. Lizard Cult (or Diplobats?) Q3. Ranger Q4. Woodland Alliance (or Diplobats?) I didn't *love* Bat meeples as much as I expected to but I know they'll grow on me because Bats are my favorite extant animal. Frogs made me laugh out loud in a good way. Both will likely be high in the list, but not adding until I'm sure it's the final design.

Do you know whether there are plans for a marauders+homeland automated factions?

Secretly I think there will be a new card deck, at least I hope so.. With the underworld expansion, the partisans and exile was not announced either.... And a new deck is really necessary too, since the 2 current decks no longer offer crafts for the last 4 factions including the marauder factions And I'm also very curious which map will be included outside of the gorge map 😊

DIPLOBATS!!!! I've been obsessively refreshing the Kickstarter page every day since the Coming Soon was quietly dropped back in August and I knew we were finally getting Bats.

Bats for the win!!!

Are there semi high quality versions of the boards so I can translate them for PNP?

:•)D

I also hoped for bats. So I can play Root while i am dressed up as Batman!😂

Those factions sound really investing. The Swamp map sounds interesting too. I wonder if you can flood clearings or make some clearings muddy to make players get stuck. I think that could be a fun mechanic to play in. Always down for more hirelings too.

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Love the frogs. Want to be a derpy peace frog! Also, I wonder if at any point this was ever referred to as the “Frat” expansion? For some reason that idea is hilarious to me.

October 22nd… Marking it down now!

Thanks for the highlights and congrats on your map. I want a big box!

I wonder if a modular board could work somehow. Apologies if I missed a fan map/mod

I know it's not a big flashy new faction, but it would make me so happy to see another round of balance changes for the existing factions. I'd love for Cats, Lizards, and Crows to be a bit stronger, and for factions like the Vagabond and the Otters to get a bit of a re-tune (quest deck, etc). Here's hoping! :D

👍 A new militant faction would be very useful! (expecially for low player count). I hope this new expansion to provide new material (and rules) for 2 players game and to help with 6 people ( or 7) playthroughs ( with 6 players I noticed some problems of lack of cards and of course, of not having enough space for every factions to "expand")

I honestly am most excited for more LOTB Root content

Where did you get that shirt??? That is one of ma fav movies!

Can't wait for more ROOT!!!

I’m super stoked that the new factions encourage player interaction, especially in a non-violent way. I feel like that’s exactly what Root needed, especially as a way to cap it off. Also interested to see how the Frogs will change the Eyrie meta. Suited cards in the decree are often frowned upon, but now they’ll have the option to add suited cards that correspond to a variable number of clearings, so the pay-off will have to be worth it

the fan made bats as assassins and with a hidden base seems more interesting....than an truly political format.

Another great video! You obviously have a great connection to leader games. Do you have a good connection to the digital dire Wolf as well? I’m just wondering when or if the marauders expansion will ever come out

Bats are going to be where it's at for me, messing with the metagame of battles sounds like a great time. I also hope the swamp map is a larger player count board, it would be delightful to set up a game night (afternoon?) for a big, messy, glorious Root battle royal.

Heck yeah! 🔥

I really like the idea of the bats both mechanically and conceptually. The frogs I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around what they'll be like to play and the "vibe" they'll bring, so I'll have to wait for some gameplay I think to fully appreciate them. Messing with clearing suits seems wild to me like...what are the poor Eyrie, Lizards and Keepers supposed to do? :P and new suited cards? It's all so gutsy, I love it

hopefully the bats will remove guerrilla war from the game :)

I feel this expansion would round everything out and finish the release pattern… as long as there is 1 insurgent and 1 militant and based on the actual video, frogs feel insurgent and bats feel militant for me. After these 2 factions, I feel the only thing Root could do is maybe a 3rd deck, some more landmark options and maybe hirelings. Or just leave it and say the game is complete. 12 factions, 3 map boards (double-sided), 3 full clockwork. Honestly though, what I will be most excited to see is a big box to store everything. They hinted at it as one of the kickstarter goodies since they didn’t actually say “no”… They do have some work cut out for them in designing a big box. The bar has been set pretty high with the Wingspan, Everdell and Isle of Cats big box designs.

I didn't have "root teaching goyim what diaspora means" on my 2024 bingo card, but that's a welcome addition

I love the idea of repurposing cards for Assembling. Stand and Deliver, Tax Collector, etc. those are high cost cards I rarely see crafted. Now they have a whole new meaning and life to them! which is great. I think we need to make t-shirts "Woodland! Assemble!" for the Twilight Council And for the Lilypad Diaspora... we've gotta do it... "Make the Woodland Frog Again"

So... since the birds are fascist, are they also xenophobic... And will the be persecuting the frogs?

More Root contents pleaseee 🎉🎉

A stacked 7 player + hirelings game of Root has now been added to my bucketlist 🔥🎶🐦

still hoping for the expansions to hit the digital version :)