Wingspan Asia - Solo Duet Mode Playthrough

A full solo game of Wingspan Asia, using its new duet mode.
Be sure to turn Klingon subtitles on to catch any mistakes!
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[@stg1963]

I believe the Klingon subtitles at 6:54 are incorrect. What Tom did was nearly correct. Because the action was Play A Bird, the automa would look for the first space to advance this round’s goal. So it would have started bottom right and looked for first space in the wetlands working left, resulting in the space Tom placed the token on.

[@theercs]

Hi Steve! You are absolutely correct. I have updated my wording on the Klingon subtitles. Thanks for the help! It is very much appreciated! :)

[@slickerdrips]

Thanks Steve! and thanks Steve!

[@hecate9659]

the penny lastly dropped! I know Wingspan (one of my favourite BG) but here, the Automa rules gave me the hard life! In the rulebook, I didn't understand the example for the action of the Automat "Play a bird" (face up cards) on the Duet Board, because End of Round Goals are not shown on the picture. I didn't get why the Automat chose the red berries place on the Duet Board, and not a nest for example... It only says " The Automat looks for the first available case (...) until it finds a case corresponding to the pre-requisites." But what are those pre-requisite, that was the question ! (I don't know if I'm making myself clear...) If I had had the picture of the End of Round Goals, I would have understood immediately. Anyway: Thanks to your video I understand now how it works and I'm ready to play and enjoy this fantastic boardgame!

[@slickerdrips]

Glad I could help! Hope you beat Automa 🙂

[@DevilboyScooby]

Love the idea of a bird called Gary Wagtail 🤣 Would you recommend this solely for the automa Duet? Not sure if I'd be able to convince my gamer friend or any family to play with me. Have the Steam version of base game, but Asia probably won't be out digitally for a year or two. Also, one other q: would this work with expansions but sans the base game? Considering I'd only ever play with 2 max the base seems a little redundant. Thanks!

[@slickerdrips]

I really enjoyed the Duet mode for Automa, it'd be the one to get if you're only ever going to play 2 as well :D I think it would work with the other expansions, Europe is all cards and Oceania has new player boards anyway (although if you ever did play with more than 2 the amount of resource tokens might end up being a problem)

[@twuyw123]

Thabk you Tom for the nice play through! Just get my copy and this really help. One question: Do you miss to pay one egg for every bird that been played in the second (and after) slot?

[@slickerdrips]

Thank you, I'm glad it helped! I definitely missed that a couple of times, I think I caught them and paid for them afterwards but the subtitles will correct me on them :)

[@theercs]

Hello! If there were any instances of eggs not being paid that were not already mentioned in the Klingon subtitles, give me a timestamp and I will get a note added. Thanks!

[@railwayruss]

Hi, Nice video. However, the duet tokens are being placed incorrect. I also made this mistake to begin with. The symbol is not unique. e.g. it depends on what symbol is next to the duet placement card and these are different for each area of the card. To confirm look at the example on the bottom of page 7 in the auoma rules.

[@slickerdrips]

Thanks Russ!

[@theercs]

Hi Russ! You are correct. It is noted in the the Klingon subtitles at 6:50. Thanks!

[@johnlight6003]

I have a question about the duet automa actions card. The play a bird says to take the highest value bird but the bonus card said automa gets the lowest. Which is correct in this situation?

[@sherlockhomeless7138]

Thanks for the playthrough. I'm struggling to get started though, because I don't know which cards I should use and which cards the automa uses. It says on page 2 of the automa-rulebook: 'Shuffle the 10 automa-cards, along with at most 1 special automa card.' What's that special automa card? And which are the automa-bonuscards?

[@slickerdrips]

I think the special automa cards have titles at the top, for duet mode I think you need to play with the special card that comes with Asia. The bonus cards are like the player goal cards but they’ve got an automa logo on them (on the back?) - they just help Automa decide which birds they want

[@studleygamer]

Special cards are Automasian, Automubon, and RAOUtoma. For duet mode just use Automasian.

[@sarawise9472]

Thank you!! I wasn’t sure how to know where the automas duet tokens went. The instructions were clear as mud! Now I can try this out!

[@sherlockhomeless7138]

@@studleygamer Thanks. First I couldn't find them, but as it turns out the Automubon and RAOUtoma are part of Wingspan and Wingspan Asia. They could've mentioned that in the rulebook. I do have those games too, so I found them. Can't wait to play it :)

[@BraidenAsciak]

At the end of the first round there was one Automa cube on the end of goal objective and earlier you say it helps with the standing, but then it disappears when you're counting the end of round objective and you ended it with a tie. Should the cube have acted as a point, so the Automa won? At the end of my first round there were 4 cubes on the first objective and we bad tied on the duet board - so I went to assume Automa had won the goal. Could you confirm the cubes on those goals at end of round and whether I was xorrect?