Looks like that cave had the when played gain cave card

They did make an update to the game (think version 1.1) where they changed the scoring. Instead of substracting your appeal minus the spot of your conservation, the conservation track now has numbers that you add to your appeal. Getting exactly 100 points would equal to having the appeal reach the same point of the conservation.

I'm assuming you're talking about the beginning of the third example at about 9:44. If so, the text of Ancient Whiskered Lung Dragon contains a when-played ability that says pay one and gain 3 movements on the dragon guild. I wonder if you are watching on a phone and can't read the text. If so, sorry about that. If you have a bigger screen, it's easier.

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Noted! It's hard to keep the length reasonable and say all the things I want to cover, but I hear you.

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The strategy doesn't really ruin this game, because the game really lives in the tactical details. My views on Brass Birmingham aren't that different in some ways, but I love the tactical fist fight that breaks out once everyone knows what to do. As for staying power long term ... It's hard for any game to get lasting traction now, because there are so many games fighting for attention. If this had launched in 2016, it would be an acknowledged classic. Today, we'll just have to wait and see.

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I agree, I don't like it either. Not to mention, you can get an association worker with your first conservation project on most maps, so why waste the chance to upgrade a card at 2 conservation points.

Learned that the hard way on my very first game… 🙄

That's a really great score against the Automa at Level 3!

Thank you, that means a lot coming from you. I'm a huge fan of Connie's work, and I can see her fingerprints on this game. It also brings forward many ideas and the positive/friendly vibe of Wingspan.

Secondly I just played Beyond the Sun for the first time today! And after a quick search didn’t see much other strategy content. ❤

Thanks for the ideas. I'll drop the Wyrmspan video tomorrow. After that I'm looking at a bunch of things. I like all the games you mention. So many games, so little time.

Thanks. Wyrmspan is coming.

Thanks, it was a bit of a grind, but I think this game plays very differently depending on your faction.

Thanks! It was actually a really neat puzzle to figure out each subspecies. I hope I got them right.

Thank you so much. I just took a couple days to go camping, but I'll be working on more content now.

Thanks, I'm trying to get some stuff out.

It's on the list.

Good luck!

Awesome, thank you!

Thanks, I tried to build a lot of detail into it. Honestly, I wonder how anyone watches without pausing, but my own kids watch at 1.5X. Go figure.

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Since you are mostly a solo player, I'll try to answer your timing question in reference to solo. When I was preparing the video I played the solo mode about 10 times on all but the highest difficulty and I never lost. I didn't play the highest difficulty, so I won't say I'd win, but on the second highest difficulty I felt that the game was getting so short that it lost relevance to multiplayer games, which is my primary interest. The solo mode is good, and I used it to test ideas developed over 20+ games at other player counts including several games at each player count. My win rate is significantly higher in solo mode than it is against opponents. As I say in the video, this is beginner strategy. I'm certain that a beginner that follows the approach outlined will have a decent win rate against all but the best players, and that's my goal. In that regard, I developed an approach that didn't require particularly good card draws or any special tactical genius. These considerations guide some of my advice. You can meld 3 meteorites in 2 turns. You can't solve 3 quests in 3 turns. All the same, one should opportunistically solve 2-3 quests late in the game. The point is to sneak them in between meld turns or upgrade turns. Those quest turns actually provide the power and guile that enables you to keep vanquishing. I almost never score the quest glory category because I end the game before that happens. I definitely see people scoring 20+ points on meteorites on a regular basis. The key is that your first meteorite must score 3(occasionally 4) points 4 times. You're right, of course, you don't meld meteorites at random, and you don't score them in the fist half of the game. In scoring the cards goal, you have enough time to build up 2 decent meteorite scoring opportunities. I regularly see people scoring very little on their last two meteorites, but that's fine if the first two (which re-score each time you meld) are decent.

There is a card that lets you rescue another card and activate its ability. I had two same number quests and used this to solve both on the same turn. Don’t put your quests hopes on it but it can be done.

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