This makes it incredibly versatile in and of itself, but you have to be smart about gaining nectar. Nectar: At last, a wild food resource! Nectar is amazing because it counts as any resource when playing birds, upgrading actions, or use an ‘Any Food’ bird ability. It shouldn’t be free! But by offering the choice, players finally have some control over the game’s variability, to some extent. Sure, there’s a cost, and I’d expect there to be. The solo game doesn’t have this issue because the Automa can clear the tray with relative frequency.īy giving players the option to pay for a change to the birdfeeder or bird tray, you at least give them to opportunity to deal with these problems. There are times where you wish the birds available in the tray were better/different, and you’d have to wait for other players to snag some or for the round to end. Same thing goes for the bird tray, although to a much lesser extent. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing solo or with a group, sometimes you just have to take a bunch of worms to hopefully get a shot at some fish. Player Mat Changes: One part of Wingspanthat always soured me a bit is when you have to settle for taking a food action multiple times because the birdfeeder doesn’t have the resources that you need. Reset ability on the player mat, expansion logo, and Yellow Powers Let’s go more in-depth with the changes and why they’re so novel. Between the player mat changes and the Nectar resource, things really open up for the players. In my experience, however, the Oceania Expansion does wonders for Wingspan. It could be too ambitious or game-breaking if there isn’t enough vetting and testing involved. Sometimes when games try to reinvent themselves or rethink mechanics in a new way, they fall flat. I mean, they’re replacing the player mats for crying out loud! That’s significant, and should certainly draw your attention. This box is chock-full of delightful goodies, all of which breathe new life into the game and give the player more agency than base Wingspan. If you’re looking for a Wingspan expansion that completely changes how the game plays, look no further than the Wingspan: Oceania Expansion. However, there are some birds that let you spend cached food as if it were in your hand. Normally, once you cache food, it’s stuck on that bird forever. One example of this is through caching food. Now, I can’t say that this is a problem that I typically have – I’m usually starved for food tokens – so take this bullet point with a grain of…grain. It’s not super noticeable, but it is a step in the right direction.Įxcess Food: Lastly, there are some occasions where players may have excess food with nothing to spend it on.
Of course, there isn’t any stealing of birds or swapping habitats across players, but the interaction is certainly higher. You’ll benefit! Or instead of gaining specific food, players might draft dice from the birdfeeder, or steal food from other players. For example, there are brown abilities that give everybody food when activated, meaning that you actually don’t mind if other players take that bird and play it. The European expansion offers more interaction in that sense. Except for taking birds from the tray that somebody else might have wanted, there is very little interaction between players. Players lay down birds and play a sort of wildlife solitaire, occasionally trigger pink abilities. Player Interaction: One of the main qualms with the base Wingspanboard game is that there isn’t enough player interaction.
I, however, have mixed everything together so that I’m always playing with all of the cards I have available.īlue Powers trigger at the end of a Round. In order to see it, of course, you may want to strictly play with the European expansion cards instead of shuffling them in with the base game. However, the new card abilities really do open up the gameplay. The bells and whistles like the purple eggs and bird tray are nice, but they’re more cosmetic than anything else. You’re not wrong the expansion really focuses on the bird cards and different abilities on those cards. After all, the base game has PLENTY of bird cards to create a variable experience every time that you play it.
Birds with blue Round-End Abilities, which trigger upon the end of each round.In addition to a swathe of new bird cards, the box also includes the following:
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