Doesn’t seem to strictly correspond with popularity on BGG, and it’s always by far the most complicated game I see there (I don’t see Twilight Imperium being sold in Target for example)
What makes root special in that these supermarkets sell it? Is it the cute art? And maybe the supermarkets don’t think it’s a relatively heavy game? The next heaviest game I see is usually smth like Catan
What are the best 2 or 3 axes for producing an informative visualization of all factions? For example, I was thinking of these three:
- Policing ability
- Scoring speed potential
- Unstoppability (ability to score despite being policed)
These are subjective but attempting to assign numbers could also be useful, and I also want to visualize how the numbers change depending on the skill level of the table
However these three axes have some high correlations, so I was wondering if there were better axes to use
I think most people either have a third party storage box or reorganize things into fewer boxes, instead of lugging around 4 or 5 boxes
What do you do with the empty boxes? I really like the art and it’s a shame it’s unwieldy to carry around so many boxes
*some interpretation required
For real though I’ll be at least using this to store instructions and faction boards. 14 sections would have been better so I could put instructions etc separately but this is fine - no need to flip the box upside down to dump out the faction boards
The dark green flood markers intersect the river. So if I have Boat Builders, it’s a T-junction, right? I can start on top right clearing, go to the flood marker on its left, and treat the river there as a path, and get to the more central river clearing?
Quite confused about several things
Law says flooded clearings may include flooded paths.
Clearings linked by any number of non-flooded
paths in these clearings are adjacent.
Flooded paths are not linked
to the other paths
So that means a flooded clearing can have both flooded and non-flooded paths? What is it referring to by ‘these clearings’? How do I tell which path is flooded and which is not? If the clearings are like A — B — C and I cover B with a flood marker, are A and C then connected, or does it depend on whether it is a flooded or non-flooded path?
Edit: oh lol it’s simple. Just notice that the brown flood marker has a blocked-off path, always. That’s all it means. From there, just do the obvious and intuitive thing - it’s a path that can be traversed, unless it’s blocked off, in which case it only serves to divide forests
Interestingly, it seems to have been done purely to preserve the tactical benefit of moving along the river - the flooded paths are placed where they would make redundant a shortcut between two paths along the river
Many things happen ‘on your turn’, or ‘start of birdsong’. I want to check my understanding
The rule is that if multiple effects happen at the same time, the player gets to choose.
‘in birdsong’ and ‘on your turn’ cover the start of birdsong right? So I can freely interleave all three of these?
Examples: using Silver Tongue (once on your turn spend this on any one effect to treat a clearing as one you rule) is allowed for a dominance check at the ‘start of birdsong’ and shadow council (start of birdsong force a player to battle another) or hidden warrens (start of birdsong move from one clearing to a matching clearing) work as well?
An additional question: a governing assembly on a rat mob, at the first part of the rat’s turn (but after the start of birdsong) can be entreated and then removed by the rat’s mob right?
Edit: Let’s say I’m the frogs, and want to use Shadow Council to force the bats to attack me at the start of birdsong. Can I then entreat?
I love this cost-effective, compact, and portable hobby