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.
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)
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
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?
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.
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 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 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.
