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Where did u get the player mats

Seems fun I will try with my son.

Crazy game! That was fun to watch!

I feel like you should have dropped both food gaining birds and focused on building out the forest first. It would have cost 4 eggs to play in slots 4/5 and round 2 with the amount you were going to hit the forest was early enough still to make it work. Then you’d have gained 7 food a round too and been maxing out sparrow and starling or much closer to maxing out

Crazy game! You beat my high score by 3 points!

Tremendous game, the wheat-caches at the end from the opponent were mind blowing. Love the brown falcon...truthfully I kind of have terrible luck with the noddy/little penguin, so I really value it's consistency. I probably would have gotten sidetracked playing the raven in the wetlands to become a three food wetland powerhouse...but then not have enough eggs to play anthing, so good play not getting tricked into it!

If one of either players would have gotten flamingo here it would have been game over 🦩

Pretty shocking conclusion. Your opponent's board was insane.

Interesting to see, I barely hit 100 most games but I like how you explained every move. Didn't know people use this overview mode, I prefer the nice looking habitat viewing.

kinda surprised that the opponent does not pick up yellow hammer, which is super strong in oceania I think that robin was still worth it for starling, and 2 additional food per food to clear off the eggs

I don't have time to sit down and do the math right now to see if it would have been worthwhile but you could have run your forest, used the Lyrebird to copy their owl, and got on board for Citizen Scientist.

That was a super fun game to watch. Thanks for sharing it!

Wow what an insane game, like you really committed to the grassland and played it out -their endgame egg count does kind of support the downgrading of kildeer house rules on Oceania, like being starved starved to just one additional egg until that fourth bird just really nerfs it

Guh laa 😊

Welcome back! 😊

It clearly worked out for you; congrats! I was thinking that you could have kept that play-another-bird forest bird you had (RC Kinglet?) and used it to double-play one of your gain-a-food forest brown powers to fill out your forest in the second round. That would have cleared off the eggs for the Noisy Miner and the Mourning Dove, after which you would have been gaining more food per forest activation, which could have meant more teal-power points scored on the Common Starling and/or the House Sparrow down the stretch. It would have meant not doing as well on the round goals, but you might have made that back by doing better in the nectar battle with all the nectar you would be spending on your teal power birds. I love all the variations this game offers.

Oceania is great, but I think it maybe can feel more stale quicker because there's 300+ bird cards so draws even if you have an awesome wetlands can just feel random, and with the flexibility of nectar the game can kind of feel on rails sometimes in regards to taking food-- I did recently play a base game board and taking the game down to the 100 or so cards, really changed alot of dynamics to me, and did kind of add a bit of energy into my game.

Wow Rodentologist/Falconer, no wonder your opponent was making so many draws-- they must have been super frustrated that a Bonelli or even Hawk never showed up for them

Great video on your game instrospective! I really enjoy hearing everyone's thoughts on each and every move because I pick up new strategies every time. I have added all the expansions and I have had to adjust each time to a new type of play; Asia adds a new gambling layer. Your thoughts out loud about the other players are golden especially Cowbird vs Ravens! Thank you.

I wish I backed this project even further for the awesome playmats they look sick

Thank you for the video I help us get right into the game and enjoy it.

The elemental need to be in the row marked in the card for use his daybreak ability, so in your first turn you can't put the Boost in the elemental basic in the first row Thats what i'm understand from the rulebook

@37:28 dont you need two basic elementals to use this card? If you moved quill up then you only have 1 basic including acorn squire no? Or is it possible to connect the two basic from tier 3 and 2 then quill

Thanks a lot for the thorough explanation. Gonna give it a try now!

Great video, could easily see a couple spinoff videos in this format. Like an "It's a trap" video, handpick birds that seem good that either don't pan out or help the table more than you know. Or a "best early" or "best late" or opposite. Or this bird is great IF...

Went to a friend's house and played on a base game board...forgot how SLOW out of the gate those games can be. YES this can still happen with Oceania board & nectar head start, but the frequency of dud starts is like 10% compared to 30% on a base game with a bad starting hand.

reddit really thinks "endangered species" bonus card is 'not overpowered'. it's absurd at best. should be 2x for sure

You could have played the imperial eagle if you took food before playing the frogmouth instead of the other way around. The crazy thing is it wouldn’t have mattered, since frogmouth is 7 points, eagle is 10 points but you miss the ruff tucks so still 7 🐸

26:40 Ey Ey come on 🫶🏼

Wingspan content lurker here; love this video and the vids lately. Well-spoken!

Hi! I can only watch this online version, but i am still confused who's board im looking at. I know u played the raven, but if i didnt know that, is there a quick way to tell? I thot the bird icons up top would be bigger for the corresponding board, but that turned not true as i saw around the 4min mark. Why does one icon sometimes get bigger then? How can i tell at a glance whose board it is jumping in mid video? Thx a bunch!

I completely agree about Oceania. For me it is easily the most essential expansion and I have zero interest in ever playing anything without Oceania board and therefore also Nectar. It fixes all the problems and is simply so much more fun and diverse experience.

Neat video format, podcast-like style but in a shorter video format. Maybe a bit of a wall of text, but to quickly go over the different topics & points. I only play the physical verison, and not online. But I do hope that atleast the Asia expension is going to the Wingspan app version sooner then later, its a bit of a pity that you kinda have this gap now between the people who only play online & people who play the physical version. I don't remember where, but I think during one of Jamey Stonemeiers livestreams he mentioned that when they release a game / expansions, they want atleast 1 year or so before putting it also online (though can be wrong about that) I really like the Hornbill, with eggs harder to come by in Oceania its a fun bird to try to maximize. Trying to fill up a nest with eggs but also having eggs elsewhere around to pay for the Hornbill whilst making sure you don't need the eggs to pay for other prehaps more important birds. Real fun. The welcome sparrow, not so much. As you say, its 2 food for 4 points, only if a bonus card really needs it. Though Oceanina has some other birds that are also late-game point bombs that score rather few points, like the Spotless Crake or Pacific Black Duck. Not sure what the design idea is behind these, they are all birds that benefit from having a filled row, but still score little in the most ideal situation. Endangered species protecter is such a fun bonus card, it makes playing a bonus card bird and drawing bonus cards you won't score for alot less painful. I find it to work really well with the European bonus card birds since those also let you lay an egg, get food or draw cards. With the base board vs Oceania boards. Maybe they went a bit to far with redesigning the boards & nectar, but I really enjoy it the way it is. My only complaint is that the nectar is also on the fruit side of the die, so fruit gets very rarley choosen (wish they added the nectar on the single wheat & worm sides rather then then single wheat & fruit side). Nectar removes alot of frustration for me when the birdfeeder just does not give me the food I need.

Agree about Oceania being the new normal, to me Oceania is the Texas hold ‘em of Wingspan, the Cadillac of games. The only tweak I’d make is that like that 3rd spot in the wetlands or the 4 spot in the grasslands just don’t offer much advantage to the player for building out

Yeah endangered species protecter is crazy. The more bonus cards birds you play the more chance you hsve of picking this up and when you do... bam! can easily be 40+ points from bonus cards, with 15 from the endangered species protector. Asia has lots of interesting bonus card birds too I had a game though with endangered species protecter in my opening hand, and could not find a single bonus card point bird the whole gsme. 0 points

I think welcome sparrow should have been geared like a late game chiff chaff/ chaffinch….like stonemaier already showed they were perfectly fine with a 4 point, 1 food cost bird that could lead do tons of tucks- so a 2 food one point, best case scenario 5 tuck bird is just a bad balance

Pretty cool format for a video! I won't write a novel here and hopefully respond to your points quickly. I personally don't have a problem with cosmetic purchases in games but I suspect that Stonemaier has some ability to tell Monster Couch that they don't want to be associated with "microtransactions" of that nature. The artwork in Wingspan is one of those transcendent elements of the game, it's part of its identity almost as much as the actual gameplay, and there might be some perception that the OG art "isn't good enough" or some perceived disrespect to the OG artists. I also don't think that Jamey wants to be associated with microtransactions of any kind. He likes to focus on completed products and actively tries to avoid FOMO. But maybe I'm wrong here since they did produce the Fan Art pack. In a post Wyrmspan world, we can see that Jamey is actively looking for more ways to monetize the Wingspan IP so maybe there are more of these options open than I think. I agree about the Hornbill. I call it the Bonellie's of OE. I also agree with Welcome Swallow. This is one of those designs that really makes me question playtesting. They really seemed afraid of that power. Also agree on Endangered Species Protector. This is probably the best card of any type currently in Wingspan. Imagine the combo of ESP and Great Indian Bustard. Good luck house ruling that one digitally. There may be hope for people who like house rules because BGA has gotten permission from Stonemaier to add Wood Duck to the "banned" list despite this not being an officially supported variant or option. This opens the door to Monster Couch doing the same thing for any cards. I also agree that it's hard to go back to core after OE. I also think that OE went too far in one direction. The redesigned board is one thing, but combining it with Nectar probably makes OE Forest better than Core Grasslands. Just like you said, they nerfed Grasslands too much in OE. I think this redesign is the legacy of all the complaining about egg spam from the early days of the game. Those people got what they wanted, playing more bird cards in a game about playing bird cards.

shocked that Ruff wasn't in at least "honorable mentions" for 2-point bird

for all of these analyses i find the mantra of "does it give me something in the biome that it normally doesn't provide" to be great birds, like lay egg in forest or wetlands or draw a card in the forest

Best video so far! I think the best way to approach this is to think, what bird would I hate the most to flip up for my opponent as a rule 16?

Love the video! I'd much rather have the Mourning Dove than Lesser Whitethroat. LW is more of a late game point generator and MD is more of an early game resource generator. By turn 15 of the game (last turn of round 2), LW may have only given you only 1 egg (unless you took inefficient egg laying actions to build out a habitat in round 1 - it usually forces you to do this but that inefficiency has a cost). MD has probably given you 5 or 6 eggs by now and helped you build out your habitats without needing to use the grasslands. You may get 5 eggs at the end of round 4 from the LW but those are egg points rather than eggs as resources for playing birds. You also have to focus your attention on building out and clearing eggs on specific habitats, which may take attention away from round goals, bonus cards, and nectar races. I do like the LW but would rather have an egg-laying forest or wetland brown power.

I think the rating of birds changes based on number of opponents. I’d nominate Sacred Kingfisher as the best 0 point bird if playing with 5 people. If you can pair it with Eurasian tree sparrow/ Drongo or Golden Oriole, you never have to use the forest.

Best 9 is Sri Lankan Blue Magpie. Mic drop.

Great video! Happy to see Butcherbird and Euro Goldfinch get some respect.

Fantastic Vid, you guys always have some great insights --but I gotta go mourning dove over whitestart: MD is just such a good instant tempo hit and if you find a hummingbird or something next turn can be a fast start to a full-tuck.

The Galan is also one of the best birds in the whole game hits 90% for 2 tucks, in the 5pt category

Agree with lots of the "obvious" ones for early game quick start, you had me rethinking the ChiffChaff and Noisy Miner, those are usually trash birds for me unless but maybe I gotta give them a go just not quite as early in the game.

Great video, i really like your content As someone who lives in Australia and is constantly surrounded by hundreds of noisy miners... i hate that bird. They are native but invasive and incredible agressive and kill other native birds. They attack people too.They also make incredibly annoying noises, especially the chicks. Thsnkfully the game went with one of their more tame noises. But still I will play it, though, but i have to turn off the sound for that game.

Never played this but you're engaging

Is this your first video to break 1k views? Congrats!