Cascadia | Solo Automa Playthrough | Read the Card, Episode 3

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Join Simon Read in this episode of Read the Card as he shows you how to play the fan made Solo Automa for Cascadia.
00:00 Intro
00:53 Overview
02:18 Solo Automa Overview
03:57 Gameplay
55:10 Final Scoring
This Automa was designed by BGG User dukefanblue2005 and is available to download on Board Game Geek here: boardgamegeek.com/filepage/23...
He has also made his own how to play video explaining how the automa works: • Cascadia Unofficial So...
Description from Board Game Geek:
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2...
Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest.
In the game, you take turns building out your own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with the five types of habitat in the game), and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile that's paired with a wildlife token, then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate habitat. (Each tile depicts 1-3 types of wildlife from the five types in the game, and you can place at most one tile on a habitat.) Four tiles are on display, with each tile being paired at random with a wildlife token, so you must make the best of what's available - unless you have a nature token to spend so that you can pick your choice of each item.
Ideally you can place habitat tiles to create matching terrain that reduces fragmentation and creates wildlife corridors, mostly because you score for the largest area of each type of habitat at game's end, with a bonus if your group is larger than each other player's. At the same time, you want to place wildlife tokens so that you can maximize the number of points scored by them, with the wildlife goals being determined at random by one of the four scoring cards for each type of wildlife. Maybe hawks want to be separate from other hawks, while foxes want lots of different animals surrounding them and bears want to be in pairs. Can you make it happen?
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[@TBetencourt]

The game design is just stunning. Really enjoyed Simon's laidback style and humour in between, had me chuckling quite a few times.
I found his approach to the Automa quite interesting.👏🏻

[@ThatBoardGameShow]

He certainly is a natural.
And it turns out that his approach to the automa is un-winnable 😂

[@TBetencourt]

"Eagles. No, hawks! Flappy bird things!"😂

[@ThatBoardGameShow]

😂😂😂

[@TBetencourt]

@@ThatBoardGameShow Quite the rollercoaster.