Root: Riverfolk Company All The Funds Strat

[@bgt2701]

I tend to set price low (If I don't start first) so that other people would buy so I start my first turn later with 3 otter funds + whatever I earned. For all subsequent rounds, I tend to avoid setting to 1 because very good players will work together and if only one person buy from you, you end up with negative gain since you would have got 2 otter funds if no one bought from you. (Unlike first round where if no one bought from me, I would have gotten nothing extra), that being said, if I actually ended up selling some really good cards for 3 funds to a player, I could consider setting the price to 1 to make the funds of this same player "even" (3+1 = 4 = 2 trading posts)

[@barleyhopsandtabletops]

Yep, this was exactly the point I was trying to make, settling to one before you go is just extra actions and unless you have a sick card you dont want to lose for craft ability I agree, completely worth it!

[@FripFrops88]

I find the burst round the hardest because by that time the other players have established a strong rule on all clearings around mine. Regardless, love your root strat vids. More please. subbed

[@barleyhopsandtabletops]

Thanks for the sub! Yeah it can be tough, the best way to do it is to just move all your remaining warriors into a clearing where you get rule, plop the trade post and gain a guy, move all of them again, rinse, repeat. I find that the easiest way, takes a little bit of pathfinding on your part to make sure you place trade posts in proper clearings but it can work!

[@andrewkaspor578]

My favorite otter strategy. One of my friends figured it out the first few times he played the otters, and straight wrecked the table

[@barleyhopsandtabletops]

It's really fun if you can get people to pay for your services. Slowly gaining VPs being all like "nope, nothing to see here" and next you know, Otter win!

[@proteininja]

Why didnt you use the last two funds on your first turn to do something like drawing more cards

[@barleyhopsandtabletops]

When I make the stock footage, I don't always do all the actions, but honestly it's because I assumed if you start your services at 1 that two players would purchase before you go for the first round. This isn't always the case depending on playing group and turn order. So I wanted to show the minimum you could do on your turn if no one purchased services. Little confusing I know, and you are totes right should fill up hand if people do purchase, but I was trying to show some strat flexibility. Hope this helps, good question!