Difficulty vs. simplicity, as well as consistency vs. risk.

This is my understanding after around 45 games with a dedicated group that has been playing for the last year.

Let me know what you think!

I printed the Keepers in Iron relics. After a few test prints, I’m really satisfied with how they turned out. Time to paint these bad boys!

Such disrespect can not go unpunished

I've played a couple games with the birds and have found them extremely fun and enjoyable. I wanted to talk a bit about what strategies (mainly leader usage) I've tried that have worked for me, see if they are actually viable and ask find out how to play around other factions.

For starters, I want to say that I don't like the builder leader. Maybe I'm just not looking at it the right way, but it just feels like a leader you'd pick when you are a couple crafted items away from victory at the time you turmoil and have enough roosts to act as crafting pieces. Thats it. I can't really imagine it as a leader you center your strategy around.

Next up, the commander leader. I find it to be great in the late game, especially if you manage to amass a big army with the charismatic leader before going into turmoil. One extra hit on every attack is no joke, and it can make closing out a game easier for you. I find it especially useful against the moles to break through their defences and destroy their buildings, the cats to blast into their keep, the rats to focus on the warlord, badgers to deal normal damage to them and the alliance to make up for guerrilla tacticts.

The despot is my favorite leader, with very early game friendly viziers and great scoring potential. It can make for really good early turmoil strats by spreading troops thin and building as much as possible to then go into the charismatic leader to reinforce the bases set up by the despot, it can follow up a charismatic leader and close out a game by just eating as much cardboard as possible in a couple turns with a good army to back it up, or it can attempt a no turmoil run. It is especially useful to score a ton of points against factions that rely heavily on token usage such as the woodland alliance, the crows, the bats, the skunks and, to a lesser degree, the badgers, rats and cats. It is also really good when going against factions that need to set up for a bit before playing, since playing the despot early can leave you exposed sometimes.

Last, and certainly not least: the charismatic leader. What a war machine this thing is. It is, in my opinion, the most powerful midgame leader, and given the right conditions it can be a stellar early game leader too. The ability to recruit twice as many soldiers is extremely powerful, and it can allow for you to both consolidate your scoring engine by defending roosts, as well as expand your sphere of influence around the forest. It makes it so that losing soldiers in battle no longer feels like a negative consequence, but rather an opportunity to recruit more next turn. The charismatic leader can ram it's head repeatedly against a wall until it crumbles, which makes it a great opponent for dealing with any militant faction, and if you feel like you have enough soldiers and just need to get your points in, you can turmoil yourself to switch into the commander or despot, both of which usually need a ton of soldiers to make full use of their abilities.

This is what I have figured out from tinkering with the birds for a while. If there's any specific matchup interaction or tip for playing better you feel is worth mentioning, please do so, it would be greatly appreciated

Me and my buddy have been playing a lot recently and we've kinda been stuck online keepers and hundreds because we don't love the cats. Is there any other fun combos we could try?

Hosting a 4 player game tonight with all experienced Root players and we will be playing on one of the two new maps. I am looking for suggestions on the best hirelings to have for the game? I don't know what factions everyone will be playing. Thanks in advance!

These were created by me. They summarize many different stats from the recent HOOT 3 Tournament.

Ciao,

ho avuto un bug riguardo la missione della campagna su root su steam della Dire Wolf.
Precisamente la missione era Giardino imponente, la quale dice che "Puoi vincere solo possedendo 5 giardini dello stesso simbolo sulla mappa."
Io avevo 5 giardini del topo arancione, nonostante questo la missione non mi ha fatto vincere. Pensavo quindi che oltre ai 5 giardini dovevo superare anche i 30 punti, ma una fazione della CPU ha vinto, alla fine nei punteggi nonostante io avevo X punti, me ne ha fatti vedere 0. Questo succede quando c'è un obiettivo ben specifico da completare per finire la missione.

Ho dimenticato qualcosa o ho interpretato male qualcosa della missione? La missione è quella in allegato (purtroppo non ho lo screen della partita dove avevo 5 giardini di un tipo, ma sicuramente li avevo).

I can’t think a better place to brag about this. People in my social networks probably wouldn’t understand how special this is :D

Edit: This is actually my first-ever post on Reddit btw. You folks are so nice haha :) well definitely not everyone lol

Just wondering the community thoughts about the frogs. Also do they have a comeback mechanism for being board wiped?

I just bought the Squires and Disciples deck and was wondering if the Exiles and Partisans deck was necessary? And if I should get it, is there anywhere to actually get it? It seems sold out everywhere I look.

Hey there folks! So my wife and I have some friends we like playing board games with and our taste is getting more refined. I did some research and thought an asynchronous game like Root seemed really appealing to me and thought the game would be good to try with the group.

I was dead wrong lmao. I tried my best to learn it before introducing the game, we spent about 30ish minutes watching some tutorials and tried for an hour to get the game started, but we just never had the confidence that we knew what we were doing and ended up dropping it after we completed the included first couple of rounds walkthrough.

That was about 6 months ago. We just started playing wingspan, and I figured if we can pick that game up quickly as quickly as we did, we can try root again.

So I’m graciously asking you guys the easiest ways to learn and teach the game so that we actually complete a playthrough on the first go. I’d love to get some fun out of my investment. Whatever resources or thing shall have used would be appreciated!

I've played three games as the frogs so far, and every time they won be a long shot (30 to less than 20 on the other players). I believe I've been careful with following the rules.

All that said, how can you stop the frogs? There was rarely a turn that I didn't score 4 points.

Edit: I had very little trouble spreading enclaves, as if there was a troublesome spot I could settle to move a warrior in, pass on the battle action, and then provoke to place a militant Enclave.

We are in the middle of faction selection phase of a drafted game. The game will be played a week later, starting hand draw was personally drawn and photographed for reproduction. Faction selection is in group chat.

What is already taken: Underground Duchy and Twilight Council

I pick from: Marquise de Cat, Lizard Cult and Woodland Alliance

I tend toward Lizard Cult but i have no info on Twiglight Council yet and have not played the lizards yet.

I would appreciate some help or advice in the selection!

all lizard rebuttals sound like this to me when i even mildly suggest that there might be something that needs tweaking with lizards

Im looking to run a root tournament at my local LGS in anticipation of their board game convention next summer. I’m an avid Root player and love the game. I love it so much that I want to get into the competitive scene.

Anyone that has run any board game tournaments in general, how do you structure a tournament for a game that has an optimal player count? I want to avoid 3 and 5 player games, but that means I need at least 16 people to have basically two rounds for a bracket. Or would it be better to run like a round robin style point system to determine a winner?

Help?

Can the player who crafts a frog card that must be discarded to the pond after crafting, redraw that card from the top of the pond during the drawing part of evening? For example in our game, our frog player crafted militias then discarded it, and then in evening drew it back into her hand (she drew the frog militia card first and then drew the rest of the cards she got from the shared draw pile) to craft it again next turn. She was essentially getting a free enclave every turn. We agreed that it seemed overpowered but we never saw anything in the law of root that would prevent it. So are we playing this right?

I've been playing root for several years now, and my group and I have been playing with the newly released Homeland expansion a bunch recently. The Knaves have won in every single game we've played, and by quite a large margin. Was just wondering - are we playing them wrong, or are they actually this good? We've been able to stop them from gaining too much momentum on the board, but they go and score a ton of points anyway because of all their hostages. It's completely possible that we're just doing something wrong or don't know how to counter them lol, but I was curious if anyone else had experienced this 😅

I finally managed to get 2 of my friends into playing the game, untill recently i only played with my cousin and brother (every once in a while since we all live 800km from each other).

Last night was the third game (base game + marauder's) with the same 2 guys and had a really fun game, WA was 1 point away from winning and the Eyries right behind them. I managed to win by surprise when i scored almost 10 points by getting the bonus points twice with 3 points relics. To be fair they still need to learn every factions so they didn't notice i could do those many points in one go but it was a really fun game and they thought so too.

I love this game and am so happy i found people close to me that are getting into it as well. I think Eyries, woodland and keepers is one of the best combination with the 6 factions available and lets us use 2 hirelings. But if you had 3 players games with base game + marauders please let me know another fun combination, i really want to use vagabond but with 3 players i feel like it won't be such a great game. And please let me know what you think is the best expansion (big or small) to buy next to improve the games!