[Gittin Gud] Woodland Alliance Advanced Strategy Guide for Root

Tried to seize the means of production, but your game's one big obstruction?
Then it's time to GIT GUD with the Woodland alliance! In this advanced strategy guide, I'm joined by none other than ‪@LordoftheBoard‬ and ‪@waterman121‬ cover the tips and tricks you won't find in other guides so that you can escape lockdown and spread across the board like it was 2019 all over again!
How many references to communism can fit in a single video? How many sympathy tokens can fit in a single board? How many keywords can fit in the description for a board game strategy video about Root: A woodland game of might and right by Leder games? Let's find out!
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CONTRIBUTORS:
The incomparable LordOfTheBoard - / lordoftheboard
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Hellmarch - Frank Klepacki, The music of Red Alert
Korok forest - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Koji Kondo, for Nintendo
Power Hungry Fool - Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
X-Naut Fortress theme - Paper Mario: The thousand-year Door
Nintendo
"Crusade - Heavy Industry", "Lord of the Land"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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[@Sh1ranu1]

I love your way on explaining factions The visual editing does such a good job at compartmentalizing different aspects of a faction

[@pongwong5463]

I feel that tunnels is also a card worth mentioning. Since the woodland alliance uses sympathy tokens as crafting pieces, you can just teleport a warrior to the end of the sympathy chain and then organize. It is in no way guaranteed but it does make organizing much easier and more action efficient, as well as way harder to stop on your opponents end.

[@pongwong5463]

I did not figure this out on my own, a friend on mine whooped me in a game with it. Never get stuck at 29 points folks.

[@Nevakanezah_]

Tunnels is a weird one for WA, because you're guaranteed to be moving from your base into a clearing that already has sympathy on it. This means that tunnels becomes valuable only if you two move actions wouldn't already get you to a clearing you can organize in. That, and it still suffers under the yoke of opponents who camp your bases to contest you for rule.

[@pongwong5463]

You make an excellent point, it’s not necessarily super efficient, and it can (and probably should) get shut down pretty easily. I still think it’s good though just for the extra reach and potential added threat. The alliance crafts easily enough, might as well.

[@Nevakanezah_]

@@pongwong5463 true, i def shouldve included it. Its at least not the worst possible omission

[@pongwong5463]

Eh, as with everything else in root, it’s circumstantial. If you can turn in into a sympathy token instead, that’s probably worth at least as much

[@morgski]

Awesome! Love that you got Kyle and Sam involved as well, that really took the Toast guide to Legendary Edition

[@Nevakanezah_]

Right?! I knew I was gonna struggle a lot with this one, and their help was pretty instrumental.

[@purplepotato1038]

These guides are always a delight

[@pootispaghetti]

I just ordered the game a couple days ago and these videos have been amazing. I love that they both teach me how each faction can be used and what strats I can harass my friends with for comedy :).

[@pootispaghetti]

will you be making more videos in the future on the other factions?

[@Nevakanezah_]

Yes, but I'm slow.

[@OneWendigo]

Legendary intro, as always. Legendary content, yet again.

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video.

[@Nevakanezah_]

Thanks for the comments.

[@dirtddog1813]

this guy knows what he's talking about

[@ozoneislucky]

these guides go so hard ty

[@Mayoniito]

Always excited to see these! After seeing a whole slew of other Root faction guides, I can confidently say that this is the best series I've seen! Keep up the amazing work, and good luck with your future ventures!

[@iNSERTmYaLIAS]

Yo the Command & Conquer Red Alert bit

[@Nevakanezah_]

Theyve done at least two remixes of hellmarch, and neither of them were as good as the original

[@joshuaperrott8693]

I don’t actually have anything to say, just commenting for the algorithm cause I like your channel

[@fireballgarcia1281]

Brilliant intro

[@hugotavaresgomes9539]

Love the video!

[@maizenn925]

No way bro perfect fucking timing

[@horizontaljames]

Hit like before a single piece of strategic advice was shared. Excellent intro lol

[@nitrorev]

Great stuff as always! question about accumulating supporters. I've never really considered withholding spreading sympathy to save it up for a big turn. I always assume martial law will get worse with time rather than better but maybe that's not universally true in marauder meta. Although Marauder meta opponents will probably be more wary of a WA player sitting on a phat stack. Something I'll definitely need to try.

[@Nevakanezah_]

I've found it's not a terrible idea if your opponents aren't already inclined to suspect you, but there's definitely a lot of value in being able to suddenly place an insurmountable number of tokens all at once.

[@Rors113]

I liked this preemptively cause your videos always rule.

[@lucas56sdd]

AHHHH HELLL YEAHHHHHH

[@Max-uz6cp]

I love that you are making these right when I'm getting into the game. Thanks for the content!

[@Nevakanezah_]

You are my target demographic

[@baronpapa88]

Bro that intro

[@TheMasterDecoy]

10/10 as always.

[@togglebott7748]

MAGIC CARD SPOTTED

[@Nevakanezah_]

That's why I never leave the house without stashing two untapped islands in my colon.

[@parmlover-pt9dc]

@waterman121 that was a wicked segment!

[@Makofueled]

Love your strat guides but just wanted to say this intro is hilarious. Great quality

[@Nevakanezah_]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@AdrienDittrick]

amazing content

[@CHURCHISAWESUM]

Hilarious intro

[@dardinoz]

Nice collaboration!

[@Nevakanezah_]

10/10 they were super eager to help, im super grateful to both of them

[@MrPHocto]

I've been waiting for this! Somehow my WA winrate is LOWER than my lizard winrate, hopefully this is gonna change. Thanks!

[@GabrielMachado-nf5co]

We need advanced strategy guide for the moles.... we are taking heavy casualties

[@Nevakanezah_]

People seem to want 'em chronological, so youve got otters in the way

[@HalloikbenJim]

Great video, I would like one of these for each faction, especially from the latest expansion.

[@Siennarchist]

Excellent Video! As a mouse anarchist lover myself, i do think one thing is worth mentioning: The transition from supporters being your primary route to sympathy to officers being used to generate sympathy needs to happen by turn 3 at the latest. Generally i prefer 6 officers for this, since whilst 5 officers can leave 5 warriors defending your bases, on most turns with 5 actions the cycle of move - organise - recruit ends with a warrior in you supply or preparing to organise next turn, meaning you have four to guard your base, but with 6 you can always complete that cycle twice, meaning that your bases end up just as well defended as the 5 officer setup the majority of turns whilst being able to get two sympathy up each turn, not to mention that a little mousey preparing to organise next turn is way easier to kill now than it is to kill once it has mobilised next turn and is giving outrage, so leaving mice on the board isnt ideal. Also whilst you do mention that the cost of losing a base can be not that bad, you still never recommend placing a third base. As a WA player you can often use the assumption that you will never place base three to snipe that tinkerer hiding on your mouse sympathy who thinks they are safe from ANARCHISM, before eating the lose of a supporter or two and just re-training lost officers next turn. (Another advantage on 6 officers is you still only lose 3 when losing a base, the same as with 5 officers)

[@morgski]

Cosigned for the 6 officer strat... as long as the opponents don't have two massive warrior stacks they can plant on both bases and/or you have corvid planners crafted. For these caveats, I usually go from four/five officers in the midgame to six in the late game just so I don't get trapped by my own greed

[@MrPHocto]

I know the advice for starting cards is mobilise all except those 3 power crafts, but I'm wondering what the right balance is with other craftables later in the game. Is it better to craft for points as soon as you can, keep em in hand for unexpected burst or just get them into your supporters asap? Obviously I know there's probably nuance in that decision. As for other cards, I've found tunnels incredibly useful for getting your second base exactly where you want it. Spread symp in birdsong to the chosen clearing, then teleport 2 warriors from your base to the location to defend until next turn.

[@Nevakanezah_]

It gets *really* situational, to the point that it was well outside the scope of this video. You end up comparing VP + denial vs VP + sympathy tempo, and while it's often easy enough to consider the choice in the moment, it's arbitrarily difficult to try and cover enough situations to really provide a concrete answer for the guide. Same reason I try to avoid talking too much about board position, really. As for tunnels - It's handy, but less so than one would initially think. Your base-setup example is a good one, and anything where you can circumvent rule in order to still mobilize, but you're still using 2+ actions per sympathy, and it's often better to just let mobilize do that work for you.

[@sylvanas9329]

The real question though… who’s next on the agenda? A riverfolk faction, to go chronologically? The moles, to illustrate their ridiculous potential? You beloved garbage children, the crows? Mayhaps even the warlord?

[@Nevakanezah_]

I ran a poll not too long ago, seems people really wanted the chronology

[@Neon_Gorilla]

Finally found a ROOT group and playing alliance tonight, lets see if this works...

[@Nevakanezah_]

> lets see if this works... I'd also love to know.

[@Neon_Gorilla]

It did, I went 2-0

[@Nevakanezah_]

Nice; I'm putting that on my fridge.

[@WillyShankspeare]

As a real life wanna-be revolutionary these guys drew me in like a Rule 34 artist in a kimono.

[@WillyShankspeare]

Hell March? SUB-FUCKING-SCRIBED!

[@Seriousgreeen]

Mouse lives matter!!!

[@Nevakanezah_]

Unless they're our supporters

[@benjaminboslet5596]

Alg.

[@meowymeowz3948]

is drinking soup a good idea

[@Nevakanezah_]

You merely adopted the soup. I was born in the soup aisle, moulded by it. I didn't see clothes until I was already a man.

[@kingofslivers]

"Losing a base doesnt matter so much if you can revolt next turn" -> but isnt revolting next turn impossible since you discard all cards from the same suit?

[@Nevakanezah_]

You'd be revolting on a different suit, in this example

[@kingofslivers]

@@Nevakanezah_ Oh i see i see, and you get to blow up a different clearing

[@EliasX801X]

the how to triforce in this vid sent me

[@Nevakanezah_]

A certified classic

[@EliasX801X]

@@Nevakanezah_ most definitely, loving these guides btw as someone just getting into root. Found you via a winter tournament vid

[@franz83]

Here's an extra hit to the algorithm bullshit

[@sgt_rinx-_-3589]

Corvids don’t trigger outrage?!

[@Nevakanezah_]

They do when moving, yes. It's their ability to recruit anywhere on the board that allows them to avoid triggering outrage more often.

[@scrubbingdoubles8585]

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