Wingspan with European Expansion - Playthrough & Review 

Not really a strategy -- I just like the predator birds because it's thematically fun. Sadly I always seem to get the cards that let you roll the dice not in the feeder and gain something if you roll a rat (for example) and I never roll the symbol needed. Maddening. I need to remove those birds from the deck.

You can never go wrong with laying a bunch of eggs in the final round, as a matter of fact that’s all I do in that final round is lay eggs...😁👍🏻

I think the best and most OP strategy is getting the Raven or Crows that allow you to discard and egg and take any two food from the supply. Those cards are generally in the lay egg row so you get eggs and any two food on the same turn. When someone gets that card early in the game they generally win big!

@Jackson DalllasHi Jackson! I don't remember comment-baiting being a Wingspan strategy lol. We enjoy asking our viewers questions and reading their responses. You're welcome to not participate in them if you feel they are "baity." =)

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Aww how beautiful!

Thanks for checking it out! I hope you enjoy the expansion

Thank you for watching! I agree, I like the cards that allow you to tuck, but you're absolutely right. You have to be flexible and roll with the punches haha

haha yeah that's absolutely right. I (Monique) was nervous for most of the game though whenever Naveen would activate his card engine. So it definitely kept me on my toes

Thank you!

For me Piepmatz is stronger thematically than Wingspan

LOL!! 12!!!!!

​@@BeforeYouPlayI don't even remember what game we were meant to playing after all that 😂

I believe you may be missing something. You do not need to pay an egg when taking the "Gain Food" action. The egg costs along the top of the player mat are connected to the "Play a Bird" action. When playing a bird you will place an action cube above the column you are playing the bird in(they neglected to do so in this video). You will then pay the egg cost indicated at the top of that column in addition to the birds food cost. Once finished paying all costs you will slide your cube over to the far left to show you have used that action. Also in this video they didn't move any of their cubes back to the left so don't get confused by that. When placing a cube in any of the 3 habitats, first resolve the main action for that row(gain food, lay eggs or draw cards) then walk your cube back to the left, stopping on each bird with a brown ability and activate each of those. After doing so you will leave your cube to the left of that row.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WzyuRWpAT9g.html Try watching this video. I found it helpful when I first started playing

Lol that playlist would be relatively small!! hahahaha

I TOTALLY agree! Three is a sweet spot for us with Wingspan. I've played with 4, which was fine...but it made me not want to play with 5 lol. Two is also great!

Why do you think so? (I've only played the game with 4 people so far)

@@Cystlib For me it is a matter of the uneven turn lengths. On some turns, all you want to do is play a bird card - which takes no time at all. On other turns, you are doing something like gathering food which then activates every card in that row. Depending on what these actions are, the turn length can become long which can lead to a lot of dead time. For example, if you have a turn in the third or fourth round sandwiched between turns from the other players where everyone else is doing a longer turn, you have a LONG wait. Now Wingspan isn't very complicated so once players are familiar with the game, even a turn with many actions shouldn't take too long, but it was such a popular game when it came out that everyone wanted to try it - meaning at game nights it would often have 4 or 5 players and several of those players would be new, which just led to a terrible mix of new players and higher player count. So this sounds negative, but I actually really like the game.

@@marknadeski7485ah okay. I've noticed Wingspan takes considerably less time once people know the game well because new players need to do a lot of reading, but after getting familiar with it our 4 player games never seem to last too long. I also imagine the game is slightly more balanced with more players (face up cards change more often, birds that activate in-between turns are more useful), but I have no experience to back this up

@@Cystlib Oh, those are good points! I'm sure you're correct in the better balance at higher player count. Definitely a plus for the face up bird cards to change more frequently between turns. And yes, any bird that does something based on another player's action will definitely be better at higher player counts - so I can see where those birds may not be chosen as much in a 2 player game, making the bird refresh issue even worse. I guess it comes back to familiarity. If people know it already it's great. Before I started attending game meetups, this game would have been perfect because I had such a small group of game players that after we learned one game, we would play it for months together. But after finding these meetups, I find with so many board games competing for our play time, it's hard to get the same game to the table often enough to hit that sweet spot. How I miss my game meetups. And people. 😕

haha thank you, Matt! That's quite a compliment!

Nope you flip at the end of your turn

you flip them end of turn and end of round