What does your win rate look like here? I’m taking a stab at it now and it’s going how you’d expect. It seems like there are very few majors capable of swinging things in Whirlwind’s favor, especially with the elements it has on its tracks being largely unhelpful.
@spiritislandplaythroughs5 күн бұрын
I've won all the Sunny vs England 6 games I've played. The question is how many attempts I've made before I won. The first time I attempted this was on a thematic board and it took me hundreds of attempts. When I finally won, I won in 5 mins with the card "Insatiable hunger of the swarm" (video is here somewhere if you want to look it up). Since then, I find majors that can easily hit thresholds and are not too expensive, are good for this game so - paralyzing fright, voice of command, instruments of their own ruin. These are the cards I will always pick. And I usually start off with picking a major power in the first turn, if its not a great card, I'll just keep picking other majors until I get something good. Good luck!
@sulkingraccoon2 ай бұрын
The "build step" is different from "build actions". If there are no cards on the build space, a build action will not occur, but the build step still happens every turn.
@spiritislandplaythroughs2 ай бұрын
Thanks for explaining, makes sense now
@waltercardcollector3 ай бұрын
I noticed the video thumbnail has Stone on it. Was it supposed to have Many Minds?
@spiritislandplaythroughs3 ай бұрын
Oh, I must have made an error, I just changed it to the correct one. Thanks for letting me know!
@njolsson713 ай бұрын
Thank you for increasing your commentary frequency! I've picked up several good tips today from your remarks while choosing cards to draw.
@spiritislandplaythroughs3 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful! I post the videos with commentary on Saturdays at the moment. I'm thinking of adding one more day where. My videos are commented on, but this will be starting in the new year
@Yacovo3 ай бұрын
That was a heck of an all or nothing nuke. Thanks for the video.
@UnregularSpace3 ай бұрын
Who here misses Peasant? I wish there was more spirit island content. Thank you for this.
@sulkingraccoon4 ай бұрын
That one surviving explorer at 12:35 must be so traumatized
@spiritislandplaythroughs4 ай бұрын
Yup, he turned around just for one second and boom! Everybody and everything was gone!! Poor little fellow :)
@Yacovo4 ай бұрын
The Dahan on the wetlands was safe because Defend still applied to them and you had 6 Defend there. Thanks for the video.
@spiritislandplaythroughs4 ай бұрын
Thanks! I had indeed forgotten about the defense.
@Yacovo4 ай бұрын
Lots of animals and lots of card plays. Nice. thanks for the video.
@dynamicduke81194 ай бұрын
Commentary is always better than no commentary. Nicely done.
@spiritislandplaythroughs4 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@ActionHero2Go5 ай бұрын
What would you have done if the first explore card was sand?
@spiritislandplaythroughs5 ай бұрын
I would have played the same exact cards in the first turn, gathering the Dahan most likely to land 7, probably pushing the town from the mountains into there as well. Next turn I would have played concealing shadows on that land and had the 5 Dahan there clean up the land. True, I would have 4 blight during the next ravage but my inlands would be relatively clean of towns/cities (well depending on what would have explored next). Of course whether I would go on to win the game or not would be dependent on a lot of things - blight cards, next lands to explore, etc., but regardless I would still do the same moves.
@ActionHero2Go5 ай бұрын
@@spiritislandplaythroughsYeah, definitely a luck dependent spirit where you may have no choice but to let the island become blighted on the first ravage.
@dougduggerson46256 ай бұрын
Nice game! You might want to increase the animation speed in the game, as that seemed to slow things down a bit as I was watching.
@spiritislandplaythroughs6 ай бұрын
Thanks! I slowed down the animation before because someone had commented I played too fast. I will try somewhere in between perhaps - though this will be seen in a few months time as I have a lot of prerecorded games waiting to be posted.
@Yacovo6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video
@spiritislandplaythroughs6 ай бұрын
No problem!
@Yacovo7 ай бұрын
Tasty, tasty cows. Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo7 ай бұрын
Darn those events just kept holding back the Dahan counters. Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo7 ай бұрын
Dang, that black hole power is strong. Also the absolute worst time for the invaders to be optimistic. Thanks for the video.
@sulkingraccoon7 ай бұрын
I think you might want to be more aggressive with letting your presence be destroyed early on. That way you can add disease and blight to the board and better take advantage of its damaging abilities.
@spiritislandplaythroughs7 ай бұрын
Thanks, will try that!
@sulkingraccoon7 ай бұрын
I really like the commentary!
@spiritislandplaythroughs7 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@Yacovo7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
If Bringer manifested above my city, I would draw multiple fear cards too. Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
Badlands might be suprisingly good with Bringer since he can "kill" buildings easier and often needs to kill them more often than other spirits. Thanks for the video.
@spiritislandplaythroughs8 ай бұрын
I didn't really think of this before and of course this makes sense. I will try and focus more on setting up the lands with badlands in my next Bringer game, see how it goes. Thanks for the comment!
@njolsson718 ай бұрын
I was biting my nails watching you skate along for half the game with one blight left on the blighted island card! Appreciate that you're now making some written comments to your videos. I'm pretty sure I would learn a lot from you if you were able to record your thoughts as you gain cards and place presence during games too. I had one of my most exciting and unlikely victories playing Thunderspeaker on this board.
@spiritislandplaythroughs8 ай бұрын
Indeed, getting Quicken the Earths Struggles was a lucky pick (thanks to the blight card) as it helped prevent more blight and on helped with reaching innate thresholds. I will be attempting to add commentary to some of my videos (probably once a week to begin with) starting later this week, so hopefully that will be a bit more clear as to my choices. Thanks for watching.
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
That's how you spread some Dahan everywhere. Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
Rise of the Serpent Cult. Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
Stone: Become Unsettlable by making the island undamagable, then unblightable, and finally unsurvivable. Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
Stone has a very... interesting upgrade path. Thanks for the video.
@spiritislandplaythroughs8 ай бұрын
That's right! Always going for the energy!
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
Nicked and picked to frustration. Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
Sometimes you got ot make sure that one settlement dies. Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
Bwwooooong! Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo8 ай бұрын
That was one heck of an earthquake. Thanks for the video.
@ЛевРозенблюм8 ай бұрын
Здравствуйте, я так понял это первая партия с новым дополнением. В таком случаи я буду очень рад увидеть новых духов.
@spiritislandplaythroughs8 ай бұрын
Yes it is with the new addition! At the moment I have a lot of pre-recorded games that are scheduled to be posted for the next 3 months. The first game with a new spirit (Stone) is scheduled to post on May 28. After that there will be more Stone and Vengeance games. There are however a lot of Habsburg games coming up (starting May 23). As for the most recent expansion (from last week) I have started some games with Russia but not yet with Many Minds. These games will probably appear somewhere in September. If there is a particular spirit/adversary/level you want to see let me know and I will play it and post it asap! I don't mind playing requested games otherwise I just play what is picked randomly.
@ЛевРозенблюм8 ай бұрын
Спасибо большое.
@sulkingraccoon8 ай бұрын
S A N D S
@Yacovo9 ай бұрын
It is nice to turn the whole island into "here be dragons". Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo10 ай бұрын
Score one for the little guys! Thanks for the video.
@spiritislandplaythroughs10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@KoboldGamer10 ай бұрын
Extremely rare to see a full clear, gg. I seen one Level 1 terror victory ever as well.
@spiritislandplaythroughs10 ай бұрын
Yeah, this was a lucky game and with Vigor of Breaking Dawn with threshold on this board (with tons of Dahan) and Rampant's build prevents - made the invaders easier to control. I don't think I have had a Terror level 1 victory in a high difficulty (level 5-6) game, but I hope to one day!
@Yacovo10 ай бұрын
Look how inviting Ocean is. Everyone is welcome to jump in. Thanks for the video.
@Yacovo10 ай бұрын
Wow that was one hostile island. Thanks for the video.
@spiritislandplaythroughs10 ай бұрын
But Keeper handled it as always!
@KoboldGamer10 ай бұрын
Crazy you beat these so fast.
@spiritislandplaythroughs10 ай бұрын
I think its because I play so many games. I've been trying to slow down in the upcoming games - slowed down the animation and also with Jagged earth, I need to get used to the new cards (these will be published in about a month or two)