Cascadia - GameNight! Se9 Ep52 - How to Play and Playthrough

[Music] so [Music] game night that's lincoln i'm aaron that's nikki tonight game night comes to you from a special new location if only this camera could turn around and point out that window you would see the lush forest the beautiful mountains is that a bald eagle it is because we're in the pacific northwest or as it's sometimes called cascadia cascadia is a tile-laying and wildlife drafting game for one to four players designed by randy flynn and published by aeg and flat out games so let's go to our beautiful secluded woodland cabin don't pet the elk don't chase the salmon but come and watch us play won't you hey erin hey lincoln we teach us cascadia i will teach you cascadia welcome to the beautiful pacific northwest where we're going to build a paradise full of animals and landscapes and then score victory points as we are bound to do curse for all eternity to score victory points no matter where we are and what we do all right so this is cascadia we have our starting tiles randomly selected from the five in the box here in front of us and we are going to select tiles and wildlife tokens every turn until the game ends the game goes for 20 rounds you each get 20 turns you take out a number of these tiles the habitat tiles based on the number of players we have chosen or deleted enough tiles so that we'll exactly get 20 turns each on your turn you're going to select one of these four choices here you're going to either get this habitat tile and wildlife or this habitat tile and wildlife these are paired up so you're going to choose one of those there are just a few wrinkles to how you do that one wrinkle is you always check for overpopulation and that means that if at any point all four animals are the same you immediately wipe them away set them aside and draw four new animals out of the bag okay and then you just place them out there if these did happen to all four be the same you would do this again immediately until you have at least two animals represented there now if at a point during your turn there are three of the same animal you can once during your turn also do an overpopulation wipe of those animals not all four but just the three and again these go to the side out of the bag until you're done with this yeah now we put these out of here and now you're going to choose a set of a tile and an animal there's one more way to change this and then manipulate the tiles before your turn ends and that's if you've earned any of these nature tokens i haven't even told you how to earn those yet but if you have any you can spend as many of these tokens as you like on your turn to wipe wildlife tokens as i just showed you and that's okay as many as you like whatever you like let's say lincoln just wants bears so he spends his nature token and wipes these away and then he draws two more things out of the bag and he spends another token to do this and draws another one you're never changing these habitat tiles they're just the four that are there you're only overpopulating or spending tokens to change the wildlife tokens now when you are done spending your nature tokens or you there's no more overpopulation you now must choose your tile and token for the turn if if this situation comes up again even if you've already wiped for over a real population you could now do the three choice if you haven't already done right it is once per turn that you can choose to set aside three and draw them again that is always a limit of once per turn if you've already done that you can't do it again the oh the other thing that you can spend your nature tokens on is to break the rule of you must always select a pair of a token and a tile if you want to spend a nature token you can take any one token and any one tile for your turn you can take any whatever looks good to you and then you you're going to place those which i'll tell you about in just a second and you're going to replace them from the back all these tokens that we use for overpopulation and manipulation go back into the bag and at the end of your turn there will always be four and four left for the next person to start their turn now when let's say lincoln takes a tile and a wildlife token uh he's gonna place this tile on his personal array display it can go anywhere it just has to touch an adjacent tile face like he's showing the terrains don't have to match oh okay however you're going to earn points for them matching at the end of the game so they generally you do want to make some kind of match you're going to get points at the end of the game for the biggest groupings of particular terrain they're called habitat corridors in this game okay so for instance lincoln is creating a river or water habitat there like that and he may want to continue to do that by placing more water hexes next to that but you're not forced to you can place that hex anywhere as long as it doesn't cover up any other hex that's already there or uh you know it can't go not touching your right it has to has to connect to something that's already there then he places his bear or other wildlife token that he's chosen on any available hex in his display that it can go on so in this case i only have the one right and you're not forced to you do not have to place it there if you decide that you think a hawk goes better there i mean obviously a hawk is better for that at least every tile has one two or three solitary right and every tile has one two or three animal types it'll take so if you place that bear and on another turn you take a bear but there's nowhere for it to place this bear just goes back in the bag if you can't or don't want to place your wildlife token it goes back in the bag but on every turn you will place the habitat tile that you take and usually the wildlife token that you take it doesn't have to go on the hex you just placed it can go anywhere on your board but i will explain when we get to end game scoring very shortly why you want to place wildlife in certain conjunctions and lines so lincoln has taken his tile and his wildlife and he's going to place a new tile and wildlife for the next player and that's that's the entire turn we do that 20 times each after we've done that 20 times each the game will tell us the game is over because there won't be a new tile to create an array of four out here sure that's exactly how the game ends i'm going to reshuffle all these shirts since i've shown you those are fine okay the the wildlife i'm going to show a few more things on now once we've all done that 20 times how do we score there are scoring cards for each type of wildlife and we'll display these out in the middle of the board so we can all look at them we're using these suggested started easy scoring tiles okay cards there are four or five different ways to score each animal in the basic game okay so they can get more complex but we're gonna show you just the ones that they recommend you start with so grizzly bears grizzly bears score in pairs so you want to have pairs of grizzly bears pairs of grizzly bears not bordering any other bears these are mating bear pears and they want privacy so another bear next to them would mess up that pear and and make it not score you need to have these pairs isolated from each other and so you see on the card that a single pair anywhere in your land gets you four points and two pairs is eleven and three pairs 19 and so on that is going to be hard yeah it is but you know you either get a lot or you don't that's bears let's just put this off to the side here we can see it salmon these are very thematic because the salmon want to swim upstream in a long line so the longer you're connected line of salmon the more you're going to score for it seven or more salmon in a single line connected through hexes will get you 25 points less for long for less long lines wow elks score also for lines but you can have multiple shorter lines to score the longest scoring line of elk is four these must be as illustrated on the card in a straight line the salmon line can move around and curve and kick okay elks must be in a straight line the rules are rather specific that this is perfectly okay this is for instance a line of four and a line of two elks but i can't use this elk twice and scoring two different two for different lines so they can touch you just can't use one elk in more than one scoring line you can look but you can't touch you can touch but you just can't split it in half got it that's so alkal that's elk scoring lines straight lines foxes like biodiversity so a fox could score up to five points for every individual fox if it touches the other five animal types okay so this fox is worth five points this fox is worth three because it touches a bear a fox and an elk nice every fox scores that way one zero to five four five points for whatever else is adjacent to it and hawks nice and simple they like their own little hill or mountain top to look over and hunt things on so you want your hawk to be alone with no other hawks next to it they'll fly over the fox and the elk next to them or whatever you just don't want another hawk next to them and they and you're going to score for the number of individual hawks that you have like that so you want hawks spread out across your mouth without touching each other without other without other hawks yes and that's if you have eight hawks that's 26 points wow so that is the first and probably most major section of your score those five types of animal scoring here's the score sheet you score your five animal types and then you can sum them up here the next major section of your scoring is the habitats and the habitat corridors those big groupings that you're making in your personal display here the five terrain habitat types are forests mountains prairies wetlands and rivers wetlands are kind of swamp looking so that's how you can remember what they are here's a sample forest that i'm going to score at the end of the game so i've created this forest here which touches these five hexes i rotated this tile badly let's say i was trying to join these mountains together so this forest or if i had rotated it this way is not part of this forest grouping you're only scoring your biggest connected habitat type all right so even if this forest had another hex or two here i'm just scoring five points for my biggest connected forest habitat so you check each of the five habitat types and you score that many points for however many hexes it's on your biggest connected grouping so i would score five points here for this forest if that was the biggest uh forest habitat out of all three of us i score an additional three points for the majority win um that's number is slightly different in a two-player game but we're playing the three to four player game you get three points for the largest in each terrain and one point for second place if for instance you two tie for the biggest group uh you each get two points and second place gets nothing if three or more players tie for the biggest of any particular habitat group they all get one point and there's no second place so you score all five of those habitat types number of hexes so you're going to score for all five of them and then you score either three and one for first and second place or two points if there was a two place tie or one point if there was a three or four place tie then the final scoring category is these nature tokens which are just one point each for being left over and i forgot to tell you how you gain those you'll notice that on each of our starting tile displays there is a single a single terrain tile that has both a white arrow and a little nature token symbol on it and you'll see that those are going to come up in the tile display also those are called keystone tiles whenever you place a wildlife token on them you get a nature token oh nice so you don't get it for placing this in your display you get it for placing the animal that lives there that's how you get these nature tokens which allow you some versatility in adjusting but they do require me to do this in other words i have to put it in do you have to connect in that orientation no not that arrow that is not correct oh really it doesn't matter how you place it the arrow just is reminding you that it's a keystone type ah okay cool is that because these are always just a single train right so it doesn't matter which way they're facing the arrow is just an extra reminder that it's one of those keystone tiles and that is everything those are all the scoring uh categories we will add up our scores and see who wins there's a little chart in the back that tells you if you how well you did and um there of course are uh solo variants and lots of uh achievements to go for if you've played this game several times there are different ways to play and like aim for certain goals it's missing a d on this red box no that's a different one oh wait isn't it missing an x is it two x's i thought it was two d's but maybe you're right both yeah yeah it could be all right uh since i used a lot of these wild lifetime oh the start player is whoever has seen one of these animals most recently i think nikki was the the queen of lovin hawks so mickey's mickey's a hawk cider oh my gosh she just we i think when we drove in after our trip you saw hawk yeah all right nikki then since you have no nature tokens to switch your choices and there's no other population you may choose a tile and token pair okay and begin your game we'll do this one and do that and are you going to place that salmon in the one place it goes place the salmon in the river okay actually why don't you do these just for future reference and i'll do this you got it how about a hawk that's a hawk okay well i think i should do this one uh it's a river over there though darn it um but there's mountains in the way but i want to do straight line it would isolate that mountain range that's i'm already overthinking it i think yeah i guess i'll do that that would be a straight line if i continued right so i'll put that there and get a sure get a token you do get a nature token it's against my nature to get that token but i'm very happy it was very natural um hey salmon there's a whole bunch of salmon to get started on the salmon run oh i'm gonna take this the lonely hawk because look at that i can i can get i got multiple hawk thingies here but this water over here oh that's great and i will also get a nature token right away okay one turn over another one turn over 120th of the game okay hmm salmony salmony goodness i'll wait till she's for sure placed it's pretty great oh and i get a little nature guy because i place the fox on there okay well sure would like to places eagle or red-tailed hawks i will do that and take that and put that there you got your elk conga line going that's right some salmons now i kind of want to hawk what we got out there i think this one looks pretty good it sure does wetland going here wetland and prairie and i'll get another nature token for a hawk round two now we're in a three turn three okay boy i think it's gonna go real fast and i'm only gonna be like partially doing a couple of these right you don't need to worry about all five of them probably there are 20 of each type of animal in the bag the animals are evenly distributed that's good um there are 85 of these tiles but we took out some so we don't know if the terrains are evenly distributed okay and there we go the bear thanks mayor bear beer and there's a bear with the bear no bear stuff bear stuff bears okay wetlands this is pretty good right here it lets me i've isolated my river though but um it's okay you might still be able to get around to it yeah that's what i'm thinking if i could just do this then i'll let oh that be the end of the yellow stuff there for that group anyway and then i will put the pink guy on the only place like nikki had earlier that yeah rivers don't have it all the time cool you did it for me do i want i think i might want that fox no kidding yep sure i'll take another nature token it's against your nature sometimes i'm going to use these nature tokens where you went there yes it was i drew two but they were stuck together so you can sweep those bears out and look at some new animals if you like or if you like bears keep bears it's the only one with water but then i'd have two bears hanging out well not necessarily okay i'm not gonna do that but i will do this more bear wow and a bear's hanging out there so another nature token please thank you let's wipe these wipe them i'm hoping that there'll be something else that would be good how about two elks and uh milk okay um slam and salmon um oh it's not a slime it's a hawk there's already a slam one out here yep i want to cry because it's really not a great title um but i will go here and put the hawk here and that gives me another one of those and it is the next one hey i haven't seen a lot of mountain range stuff there's this that one i think i might take that one that gives me a salmon but i don't have a lot of salmon place yet but this fits pretty nice right there sure does i'm jealous yeah i like it even though the [Music] come on come on come on i could change interesting though the the tile's going back in the bag if people aren't doing those they could it could get a lot of them right like there's one bear out right now yeah okay well i guess i'll do this which gives me wait i've got a lot of water and then i'll do that and put it here kind of wipes out the little hawk isolationy hockey thing okay that's all i'm doing there you go [Music] do i want the fox maybe i want the bear the bear's the bear stuff we need to get another one but they're going to be coming up i'll take the fox and he'll go here okay it's not the best spot but it's an okay spot nikki p fox 15 more turns okay it's a jackie fox it's a fox network your bear pair my bear pair a bear pair i got a bear pair don't don't put any more bears i know no more bears in that pair oh my gosh come on i know you know me i know what can you you can't even help yourself anymore yeah i can't deny who i am hey look at that one how can that salmon live in the plains i don't know this game has lost all realism underwater right underwater uh river going under those planes okay i'll buy it so if i take this can i put this here and then here i mean is that okay you you can but here's why that's a bad idea the salmon run cannot be adjacent to any other salmon run right they can't run alongside each other and every salmon like the card is showing can only be adjacent to a maximum two other salmon so if you do this that is run is complete and you can't build off of it anymore because then a salmon would be adjacent to three other salmon and not two it's a very specific sort of way to build a winding path but once it loops back in on itself like that it's done like it can't explain it's a little tiny salmon that could be a little and in fact that's eight points if you just did sure but you cannot expand on that that one i can do another run correct see i have a three little weirdo well you don't even have to put a salmon on this space right or this one that's what's great about the objects right i mean all these have that could be a box because i looked at it and it doesn't show them it doesn't show them touching each other so that was a good question that i didn't clarify that's okay uh let me see here what should i do for klondike that was what was in my head i know i know i hear it though it's right there wow okay well this isn't great but let's see remember you can wipe the tokens or you can do this yeah you can you can take this and this or sure or you can just wash the tokens and see what you know yet but elks i know i'm just saying we all have lots of tokens we all got pine cones to spend pine cones uh they're magic i think i'll do this one and i'll place this here yes yeah oh nice forest a berry bear forest with a bear with a skin he was a scary bear he was a hairy bear that was hairy bear scary bear i think okay unfortunately my forest is not adjacent to where my bears time to unpack my adjectives this is not great look at this this is actually two things now it'll only connect if i come around this way i hear you i've got the same sort of problem i've built i kind of feel like you shouldn't stress this too much these are like incidental and incidental and you go for the big points for these things if you can't i'm gonna try a bear a bear and a bear where you can put that bear i think i'm gonna put him in it's not fair giving a guy a shot down there i want to wait here he's bare he's thinking bear bear there okay mm-hmm mm-hmm [Music] i'm going to unpack my adjectives nikki b okay i'm going to pay a pint you got these together is that bad it is not great but no but it just it just lets you just do it on the other side so one of them is going to get maybe four and one of them will probably get five no they can both they can both get five because they both score for an adjacent fox that's cool i'm going to pay a pine cone to take this fox and this time i'm okay put this box here and then i'm gonna put this here here okay oh three salmons you can clear yeah i might i want one though i know i think i want this one and i'm going to put it together like this that's quite a river and then i'm going to go here for my salmon run and then i'm done let's see look i'm just doing this it's kind of bizarre actually making a bowling alley yeah my pins put my hands my pins that actually works for me so do i yeah i'll take that take this hey hey put that bare back no thanks nothing to take a bear and a pine cone and i made a pair of bear a pair of bears i made a bear pear elk no there's another bear um i just want to click and make sure i understand the fox uh deal there's not enough animal types to have it should be completely different correct the most it can score is five this one is scoring four if you put a fox here or here yeah it scores five which is the most a fox can score oh right so could i put another bear here yeah absolutely yes here okay the sixth one doesn't matter in fact if it's even it's on the example card it actually does have two bears and one of them is faded out because it doesn't count twice i just want to make sure i was thinking that was correct understanding that correctly so i'm gonna do that oh it's another elk tile though but i'm not getting the elk yeah i'm not really getting an elk line either there haven't been that many lincoln scooped up three of them 16 more will be coming soon around the mountain when they come that's what elks do they're like here we go i'm a bear i'm an oak elk elk i can't do that that's dumb okay um i know like right now whatever her internal conversation i get you i know it um okay salmon let's do sand salmon but which salmon what salmon is the right salmon this salmon is the right salmon okay look at that another mountain hanging out an elk hey for lincoln's conga line yeah i guess oh he's even got a space for it already yeah that's right i actually planned ahead for that i don't like it i will put that i don't think planning ahead should be illegal hey i don't have any well i do have a bare space now but there's the elk now all right do i want that elk do i want more bear more bear mickey likes bear nikki likes bear well she she talked about bear it's like love lamp yeah love lamp brick break rick love lamp yeah i'm going to take bear sorry bear he doesn't care 15 more to go well they aren't all going to come out that's that's right they are that's why you can use your nature tokens to wipe wipe wipe if you really want to like say repair if you need that last bear or elk or whatever you can go with one point or multiple points to get like a big score right if it's gonna take your elk thing from like you know nine to fifteen points or whatever that is thirteen thirteen a little tiny for my bad a little bit yeah okay that's why i'm a little far from you elk what the elk what the elk [Music] is that pretty good it looks like it doesn't do my bear stuff oh wait it's this would probably be maybe better my bear stuff my bear stuff okay well there we go hey nikki just did you mean to do that that's not really a good rotation for that i'm just focusing on the animals too much okay there we go here we go next one [Music] oh wait i get another one of these though for placing this you do i think i might take that bear let's see uh or i was thinking about a hawk hawk's pretty great too but you need a lot of hawks to get points where's it two i know what is it what's the next 11 14. i mean it's if somebody goes for that it's it's 26 points i know but that's all that's like oh like a third of your animals it's a lot that's true and i do already have a bear sitting there all right but i was thinking about the hawk too also the forest is not that bad for me because i'm going to take this but i will do some hawks later so this will go here and i will bare pair over here plus nikki likes bears and i kept it from her you did yep sorry i found that do you really i'm sure you don't um uh yeah yeah decisions are now getting a little do i want that one there salmon is good especially grilled up which salmon to take on a cedar plank what matches up with my terrain both of them no this one does better okay we'll do this we'll do that that's weird and then another salmon there a bear i need a different type of animal over there to try to work on a fox if they ever show up again yeah yeah [Music] so would need to be not an elk and not it could be another fox so i guess i'll take that and [Music] that's okay and then i'll do that start my start a bear pair maybe if i'm lucky hey another bear and an elk do i want elk or do i want hawk elk isn't bad but the hawk i've got the spot for all right if i take that one i'll take this one put the hawk here and catch up with the hawk here since that doesn't interfere if i get an elk nope milk wait oh that and it's fine it's fine it just doesn't score for the fox unfortunately down there i know but oh you're trying to build the extras it just doesn't really uh no i'm just trying to yeah i'm just keeping the alkaline open in case all right that's fine okay i want that elk but i don't know if i want to take the tile that's with the elk i think that i do so i will take this and we are going to put that with that one pretty good down there with all that water that you have then my bare bones she needs a bear well you can you can't do two bare pairs and oh you're splitting that one splitting it with the milk right there okay hey fox if i want it [Music] boy well bear is good because then it gives me another thing for the fox that i will be building on here so i'll do that i have room in my so three types of animals animals elk with a mountain i'm going to spend a nature token and take this elk and this tile okay for sure let me see how it lines up here yeah i'm pretty sure okay yeah sure good enough okay train wise terrible well not really i will take this i will take that there and right or did i screw that up you're okay and i have yeah okay there i did it correctly and this will go here okay all mountains give me a give me a tile there or a disc hey it's a lot how do you feel about fish um i'm forum let's clean the fish all right the fish are set aside for three new aminos and they are milk salmon salmon and fox okay well fox is good so i will do that with another fox which limits me and i will put the fox here hey how's it going with the doubt i know it's alone oh i kind of like that tile actually it's a nice top bridge is that that's what it does that one would have too but i do like this with an elk what the elk elk on the shelf stock hmm i'm good mountain's okay here bear come up i don't know if they're going to come up and then hawk or um i really kind of want the bear there but it looks like i need it to be the bear though for let me think about that maybe i'd do a disc to take something else but there's not a lot of choices i don't really have a lot of salmon spaces let's do that one okie dokie there you go there's some oops right into my mess here what a mess okay see this is like there are opportunities to get lots of these on yes i know i i mean i i didn't want one unfortunately i mean i would like to get one but i don't really have ideally the place to put it to be separate from everything okay i'm um i'm cycling in nature token essentially i'm spending one to take this and this but i'm getting it right back because i'm placing sure i might actually put it down here at the very bottom and i got my token back okay put a tile out yep i'll put a bear there there oh temptations that would be really good to do that and then to do that no yes it has to be okay i'm going to do that i'm going to place a bear here that gets me a a pine cone and then i will put this yeah that's good [Music] okay okay well i need a bear for a pear bear pear if i take that one and put it need some variety flexible variety here it is not going to be good for that this helps make these group as a mountain range so i'll do that and that's prepare for the bear if that happens right and then i'll put the bear here for a pair and that is that oh i don't have that i'm going to spend a token again i'm going to take this filler milk there oh wait how that elk doesn't that messes my elk line up if i put it there will i be able to find a mountain elk spot let's see if i can i am a mountain to know i'm hoping for a mountain elk i want to find some mountains you got a forest elk i don't know if that'll help you the next round i want a mountain milk all right um just to announce to everybody since none of us have thrown away any wildlife tiles not placed any on our turn you can tell by the number of tiles on your board that we have six rounds left okay we have taken 14 turns okay yes sir oh there's a stinky bear and there's an elk i want both of those um stinky bear is gonna give me a second set or four alkaline well second set's better so stinky bear it is stinky bear stinky bear he can't help but heats fish all day bear pear i'll put it here that might work no no just ridiculous nikki thank you thank you very much okay well i kind of want that bear well do i want to pay for something else that might be good so let's go to that and do that so that the fox is at least scoring with some points hey oh you took me you took my mountain elk but you left me one so i can live with that did you want the bet bear no i think i think i don't need to like spend for the elk there will be more later but i want where do i want this because 7 10 13 14. what elks already i know but i mean i've got five more turns okay they just have to come out oh 14 out yes yeah i'm not that worried about i'll i'm not going to spend it on ford i'll take the bear how many bears are out three well you know nikki wants this she just talked about wanting that elk i know but there's okay okay okay i'm just warning you just like we did with there was six turns left there's a that's a four point elk and let's see if it costs me the game all right it won't i'm going to put this bear here bear pear okay okay you want to wait do you want to clear hawks nope okay hey she wants some milk what a surprise i know i'm a mystery yes i know do that for a mountain yep okay do you want to clear hawks uh i sort of want the salmon but i don't have a space for salmon so yeah space salmon let me clear the home no it's no space hold on i think maybe what would a space salmon look like space it's a space salmon space pants oh you know i did this whole thing for the mountain here and it does not connect oh well it does no it does it's here it does it's it's so hard to see that i see there's water okay i'm okay i thought i'd building all that and and blew it um if i do a hawk do oh hawk do a hawk is there a place i can put it that would be good i guess this is pretty good so that's what i'll do make this a bigger forest run forwards run let's see if i want to put that someplace else though and am i going to place it elk what the elk because people want the elks now um elks lodge i'll do this and i'll do this and i put a tile out all right the hawk tiles do not line up with the hawk animals i can take that fox tile i sort of need a bear spot so i could also get a bear pair i think i'm going to take the bear pair i'm spending the token to do this yeah but then i get it back because i'm putting the bear on this much better choice yeah okay hey you don't necessarily need the experience just getting bear pairs but i mean if i can draw eight tiles looking for the elk i may do it at the end of the game if it doesn't come up you know right i believe we have four more turns oh none of those are very good tiles for me well i shouldn't say that i'm focusing on one area and not looking at everything else look at all five things look at all five of your habitats for humanity okay i'm gonna turn this in yes do i even wanna do that it's not necessary i mean it'd be good but it's not uh necessary let's do uh this boop did that have a little leaf on it no okay that one's a solitary hawk okay i'll take this mm-hmm yeah competing maybe i go over here with that it's just this is actually more like yeah because you'll be right next to another hawk and then um you know what i'm just going to spend that to do that because i'll just get it back and do that right yeah okay oh my elk milk that spot's not bad i'm just gonna take that elk thing i think got my elk spot elk snout i'm surprised we haven't wiped any tiles off of here just that one time i think okay i'm gonna turn this in does that matter i don't know does it not really okay well yes it does here okay i'm taking this one and this one okay cool hey three foxes right okay so if you don't like foxes you can see some other animals right so i'm gonna i have to shift here i'm gonna do this to give myself a little bit of space down here to continue my salmon run and then i will make sure enough room and i'm going to spend one to buy that and place it like this in hopes that maybe it turns into the mountains with that okay let's take that one hey four foxes must be clean oh i kind of wanted the foxes well they'll come back me salmon bear hunk there all the bears came out now now i don't need bear pear will i change the animals again or do i like hawk hawk like you i don't have a hot spot unless i spend a token i don't really like the xml so i think i'm gonna spend to get a hawk space oh there's two choices yeah but unfortunately none of them are like perfect for me and that they they don't perfectly expand double terrains and give me the perfect hospital space you're right you've got your hawks my hawks are too close exactly otherwise that would place very nicely but i am gonna do that anyway i'm gonna spend a token i'm going to take this hawk and i'm either going to expand my river my wetlands or my forest i think forest makes the most sense okay well we only have six more tiles right so we all get two more turns yep okay but i can't put it here so i got to put it here and hope that meets up and that hawk goes there okay and that a bummer it would have been great if you've done it there i know i just uh you know you know how hawks oh yeah they're fussy right there all right two more turns nikki yeah it's all coming together now um so another okay token and i'm doing these two and it's going to be kind of ruining the landscape but okay well looks like this is the best choice with this to do this it's a pretty good salmon run okay elk elk mountain that was one you got earlier that you needed yeah i got it and there's the foxes all right what do i want that's like two points i think i just take the hawk and stick it anywhere because that's you can take that i'll take that and stick it i'll show you where you stick it because that's what gives me the most gosh yeah it's 18 points it's a four point jump if you do it yeah but i mean almost anything as a three-point jump is the thing although i don't i'm not gonna make another bear pair most likely i could drop a fox for two yeah the hawk is my best move it just doesn't like give me a fantastic terrain jump right and it doesn't even it doesn't even add on to my fox pair unfortunately but i'll do that and your last turn madame shirley you didn't call me shirley here we go done hair oh yeah that's a good one is that does that hurt no connect okay yeah it doesn't whatever i'll put it up here yay put it wherever okay you can throw it away actually yeah yeah because this is a bigger this is a bigger mountain range okay how about a hawk i'm gonna pay the one to do this nice and then i'll go here and then there you go okay uh there's a hawk and i would have nowhere to put it and no way to make a space so is that the oh that's a good fox space okay i'm going to take this and this by spinning my last token yeah we all kind of and if i drop it right in there that's a good fox bus it's spot okay oh and i get the token back because it's a single space nice yep all right um there's no more thing to do we've all done our 20 turns that's the end of the game now oh i think i get a token too because i did this oh sure the scoring seems a little hard to wrap your head around at first but the score sheet is in a very logical and easy order so let me just put some initials down here a and an l so bears how many bare pairs does aaron have three and that is worth 19. 19 points 19 points how many bare pairs does nikki have three okay 19 points one one is worth four four points all right elk i have a four length elk line which is 13 points 15 points nikki same 13 points yeah you could have multiple alkaline stuff as well okay we all got the same for that salmon i have a one single one length salmon run for two points sorry that my right-handedness is covering the scoresheet most of this time i have a seven for 25. nice 25. all right hawks i have six individual hunting hawks on their own that's 18 18. nikki any hawks which is nine or eight eight sorry yeah the numbers are a bit hard to read four for eleven four for eleven and fox all right this is a little harder so this fox is worth three points because he touches three types of animals this one is also worth three because he touches hawk fox and bear and this one is also worth three because he touches bear fox knox so i have three foxes that all happen to be worth three points which is nine yours are worth this one is worth two two types this one is worth one two three four types he just doesn't touch salmon that should be all and that one so that was six so far and yes this one is all including two elks so she got 11 for her three foxes right and then i have uh one for five and then one for four one two five three four you sure do so nine points out of just two foxes is not bad all right so you can see from our wildlife subtotal that's the w right here wow our scores are very close nikki 63 lincoln 62 and aaron 61 after scoring all the wildlife types so now we're going to score terrains and this is also pretty easy first look at your rivers okay uh wait no i'm sorry this is mountains the terrains are a little confusing so your largest connected mountain terrain chain habitat corridor right uh so it all has to touch oh of course right what are these this this is the mountain these spikes that's just part of the rivers got it so i have a pretty huge one i have nine for my i have nine for mine as well you do yeah dang yeah so one thing i could kind of focus on yeah i guess i didn't know that you were focusing that much on it five so uh you just get that many straight points and then because lincoln and i tied for the most we both get two additional bonus points for the most in this game interesting uh next is forests my biggest forest is six hexes mine's five lincoln's five nicky's four four so that means i'm gonna get three and lincoln gets one bonus point for second place on forests plains uh prairies are the yellow one one two three four five six seven eight nine i got eight i got three three five i think i think that's broken up that this is broken from this i think and yes oh yeah so unfortunately it's one six i think three four five yeah that's good that's good for a second oh yeah that one i don't think it runs it almost looks like it does oh you got it you're so close yeah five and you had three right yeah three uh three for first for me one for second for nikki wetlands which are the swampy things i have five i have uh three is all i ever have three yeah me too so no unfortunately you do not get ties for second and now water where i have a total of two in my largest group i have this is uh rivers four and you both get two points for sharing that victory well that was what i was shooting for originally to try to make that was the one i gave up on quickly all right habitats and majorities subtotals were 41 24 and 29. yeah i had way more majorities than i thought i did not know i was doing that well on the habitats and then lincoln and i both got one point for leftover nature tokens final scores 103 for me 92 for lincoln 87 for nick super close on animals but i ultimately got a jumper i'm surprised with all the habitats that you didn't have more than that i'm surprised i did not realize i was doing that well i obviously did because you had two nines did you not this was nine i think a nine and an eight a nine eight a six and a five is pretty big i did not think that the you know i got i got three points for three of those and two points right so those are pretty big wins i i just managed to link up all these trains and i didn't think that that was going to be that huge of a scoring difference but it really managed to be so uh so what did you think of this game nikki nikki yeah hey guess what what do i always it's a title game you like it oh do you like tile lane games yeah we should play more of those we should play games that you like yeah i like i did like it um i i like that you get the little pinecone things to to adjust so you're not just taking you have to take this you have options you have some options but you don't you can't run the whole show um i like that there are different cards for points at the end my weird thing is is uh the second time i've played it and i have a tendency to focus on either the animals or the terrain and it really reflects in the uh scoring score sure because you've got three times as much for the answer she didn't have the most animals as well as we did she did she had my way one point at one point but she also got the lowest part for the terrain right right and i just i don't know i can only focus on gotta juggle more you gotta juggle more things at once i don't know what's wrong with me the shape of the tiles are you know where it kind of gets you you know what i mean you think they are a little especially seeing these connections but you know it's clearly that's the edge of the river right it is something different though it looks similar it's it's a little too i almost feel like they should do the edge of the river dirt so it's brown right because then it would be clearer that it's not like if you just see it you know because i think nikki had that once and it was like well i did ask the question is this yeah mountain range because yeah it's great yeah you probably shouldn't need coral and there's a little too much blue in the mountains i think i think they could have made the yeah divisions a little bit but i i really like the way it works i do too yeah i do and the challenges of the types the way these i mean they change do they are they different on the side no no they're just like but the way that they scale up and stuff i mean i ended up being the only guy really going for the salmon would you just really think you got a decent life i just i just had to give up on that right away right and i don't know what were the discs left i mean there's a bunch right there's 20 of each there's 20 people yeah there's still a lot of discs left right a lot of bears a lot of salmon a lot of foxes look at how many fox are on the board 11 yeah no not even that eight yeah so there's a f there's a fistful there's a dozen boxes left out of like wow yeah to my mind anyway they're the harder one to score um i don't know you did to get like the full i only got one full funnel all the way around but i got i think you got 11 for yours and i got nine and aaron got nine or eight or so for which you're five boxes i got nine for my three foxes they did they were not well optimized but yeah well that's still good though i mean you want to at least get a three because you know that's what's great about these a single placement in the right place gives you a good amount of points right even if even if it's not perfect it still is like a nice little score and that's what i do like about fox is you didn't have to come same with these that's where i think you actually won the game was this right well because even though you did really well on those it's still just like nine or ten points ahead of me right right or is it 11 points uh on the hawks no just in total 11 points so yeah oh you jumped from 14. you went to 26 which is the most you know i got 18. oh 18. i got seven more in hawks yeah still that's great 18 is fantastic because you guys did the max and bear or not max but you both got one we were one short of them yeah 19 bears in the bears yeah you got 18 for that that's a lot i got it 25 is pretty great too you definitely only like 12 of them you almost need to you need to skip an animal i'd say oh yeah you want to focus hard on something and maximize those points for like four bare pairs or you got very long salmon run right like you you cannot get top points for every type of sure it was good the rough thing is just getting like the like the elk you know it's like i only did it once i was like well i'll go for it because it wasn't you guys weren't going for it initially and you we all did it right so it just came out as a wash nobody was able to do a second run to make that valuable and then i never got another bear that was a bummer i know there's so that's six twelve fifteen fifteen that's quite there's five more out there still and that's a lot of tiles left we didn't use our tokens to dig for tiles like if you really needed it it's tough though right you could wash it was better to just do the little pair you know because that was what gave me this that was a big like you know look at this black bear best i could have gotten another point eight points i would have gained seven if i was just able to do one more right seven's good big that's a pretty big yeah um just i really i like that it's very easy to read i i don't think that the terrain art is gorgeous to look at or super easy to you know see every border but this is pretty easy to read when you look at your options on a turn you go okay well this is a prairie tile so we can go here here here and it's a salmon thing so i can add it to this run or i can ignore that and just put it over here and i know where you know like you know what your options are the iconography and the way that your board flows is real easy to pick up and read when you're you know this is my first game and i knew what i was doing by the second or third right so it's a it's real easy to pick it's easy to teach it's easy to pick up you know it's really thing yeah i just want to look at like i mean it could you can ramp up the com complexity in the game by just choosing a different like i mentioned they're solo variants we're not gonna explain them all right but there and there's achievements for getting certain like types of terrain or certain numbers of animals in each thing but like just to look at the salmon for the different way that they score there are uh short run salmons where you're just rewarded for runs of three four and five only interesting there's a short run salmon where you're rewarded for one to five and that's it same rules though where they have to go in lines of not touching more than two salmon each and the chinook salmon wants to be surrounded by different animals kind of like the fox scores per salmon and per animal adjacent to run of at least three so you need a run of at least three but then they have to be touching uh they get one per salmon and one per animal that's adjacent to it so there's those are the different ways to score the salmon we used all the basic scoring in our first game but yeah having a random scoring assortment is going to obviously give you a lot of replayability yeah i like that it can get more complex and change so that it's not just the same game yeah it isn't really the same game i mean it is but you're just you're changing your goals and stuff like that kind of uh drastically i see the sets too so this is a set b c and d we played with set a right you can just randomly choose them or you could just use all the b's or all the c's there's also a family variant which makes it easier for little kids i believe that is just scoring for all clumps of animals are not not all animals together but like just all your salmon as one clump all your bears as well okay yeah so the there's a very easy variant that basically does away with these so you just have that for that then the terrain yes interesting look at that bare one though it's three that's when you want three bears mother and cubs you want mother and you want ten points for each uh set of three triplets and here's the one that gives bears one two and three sets so two five or eight for ones twos and threes and then twos threes and fours so bears are always going to be rewarding for small groups elks are always going to be in some kind of line salmon are always going to be a run and hawks are like always big groups mother and cubs families and big groups made pair mating pairs you told us that it was meaningful hawks have some really interesting uh things in like they always want to be somewhat isolated but then they have these like tracing through hexes and like sides of hexes to see other hawks and stuff they're very oh well you're they can be quite sort of already on the way there right here yeah like this is definitely one here right right interesting it wasn't you're probably next i'm scoring that one yes i could get a point out of that then right yeah that that's one of the ways to score them exactly well thanks for teaching saren you got it and thanks to you for watching if you like this video hit the thumbs up button and consider subscribing to our channel if you click on the bell to get notified when we put new videos see you next time 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