Wingspan Tournament | The Final Showdown

Wingspan online tournament - April 2021
Interview with Legendary Tactics: • Wingspan TOURNAMENT St...
Link to tournament discord: / discord
Special thanks for LoneEider7 for organizing the tournaments.

[@LegendaryTactics]

Thanks so much for the shout out. We appreciated interviewing you. It's great to see you covering tournament play.

[@tuckNcache]

My pleasure! =)

[@not2nigh1]

Just 2 points difference, amazing game for the final. Am totally in awe how you could also manage being interviewed at the same time.

[@tuckNcache]

Always love a close game!

[@SenatorBrownshirt]

Educational hearing your thinking. "Rudy Duck," "Crackle," "Boring Owl," "wobbler," and "Chirping Sparrow" are some fun takes.

[@tuckNcache]

Hahaha…. Don’t miss out on “parry manager”….

[@SenatorBrownshirt]

@@tuckNcache Instant classic. ;) Happy gaming.

[@tuckNcache]

likewise

[@etzete7455]

Oh wow, amazing early game!

[@tuckNcache]

Thanks!

[@ellajacob7102]

I think starting with grub and berry as food is better. Grub is the same for playing the flicker but it doesn't advertise to your opponent that you're picking up the woodpecker without the necessary food (makes it more obvious to take a grub from the feeder for him)

[@tuckNcache]

Good point! I have since learned that there's a lot of information you can gain by looking at what food your opponent keeps.

[@blueTango]

Liked your vid with Legendary Tactics. This one is more focused on the tournament game though. Would you show some of your champ-of-the-birds play? Autama #29 owns me. lol

[@tuckNcache]

Thanks! I haven't had much time to play champ of the birds because I'm playing in a new tournament. But I will check it out when I have a chance!

[@kalebbeelen8556]

@19:49 why didn't you use the wren to push to the 3rd column of food? It felt like a really good spot to use it. I'm just curious your thinking

[@tuckNcache]

I was probably hoping for a better bird to continue build on that forest engine.

[@lanfalentikoncilija7324]

28:45 wouldn't it be better to gain food, since you know that you will need rodent + woodpecker would give you the eggs to win the round Playing eggs is just 1 egg more, but -2 food, which is basically one action 39:45 same situation here, you need rodents and you are gonna use lay egg acrion in the last round anyway to get the grub, so wouldn't picking up food make more sense?

[@tuckNcache]

pileated woodpecker is net one point and barred owl hunting is not guarantee. Grassland net 3 pts is very tempting. Gaining food could have helped with tempo in those situations like you said.

[@alexandrbatora9674]

I think that you should have played the Wren much sooner, preferably into the Forest. This way you'd cover both 3rd and 4th turn's objective, plus you'd get yourself to the 3-food column much sooner. Moreover I dislike Wren in the Grasslands, as a do-nothing bird kinda messes your engine, while a wasted slot in a Forest is mostly irrelevant past midgame, it's not where you gonna spend your lategame anyway. I would also play Chipping Sparrow into the Grasslands (or basically anywhere), as it doesn't cost anything and although it is just one point, it also lays and holds quite some eggs.

[@tuckNcache]

Good point! The wren did help me to gain a few extra eggs using the grassland. I have seen chipping sparrow being really effective in the forest!

[@alexandrbatora9674]

​@@tuckNcache ​Yep, Wren did really accelerate your grasslands, yet I think that you struggled a bit with the food. It'll be cool to know how much different the game would be if you've played the Wren + Barred Owl into forest around 15:31 (after taking a mouse from the feeder, of course). This way you'd get to three food per activation, you'd lay enough eggs into the cavities to support your new birds, and you'd have both end-of-turn boni completely save. With a little bit of a card draw, you could then concentrate on a grassland full of strong engine birds instead of Wren and the S-T Flycatcher, both being kinda meh cards.

[@tuckNcache]

@@alexandrbatora9674 I think I do have blind spot for forest. I tend to undervalue playing birds in the forest. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@alexandrbatora9674]

​@@tuckNcache Forest is always so hard to evaluate properly, you cannot build a reliable endgame engine here, so every investment is kinda pointless, otoh you won't move anywhere without food. I like to get to two food asap as I'm not willing to spend cards on food, it just makes the game clumsy. But having mere two food per action is just so so, as you do not build any reserve, and you often cannot roll over the feeder - we play mostly 1v1 with my wife, in multiplayer game this may be different - so I'm always trying to get to three food/action. And once I build the forest in such a way, I tend to use it more than I should. Idk, maybe I am overestimating forest, it seems like I cannot find a proper time to abandon the forest and move to the engine line.

[@tuckNcache]

@@alexandrbatora9674 You should check out my latest video on building forest engine! ;-)