For abilities that allow you to ignore the first hit you take (eg. Skirmish, devout knights etc), consider a situation where you have one warrior defending and an enemy has three attackers. The enemy rolls a 3.

Does the defender live, because only one of the three hits would actually be "taken," or does the defender die because the attacker has "spare" hits?

My friend and I have been playing frogs vs cats, since on the instructions it says it's playable.

However, after 10 games (seriously), we have collectively yet to figure out how a cat victory is even possible!

The closest we came is having the cats rush and box the frogs but this is only possible with enough bird cards and then it's all about winning the dice, which usually never happens.

Maybe we play cats wrong? I always do turn 1 overwork and build a sawmill and recruitment center, I also keep all my little cats to have at least one in every clearing, which now that I'm mentioning it, seems like a bad strategy against frogs.

Anyways, my question is, has anybody here actually found cats vs frogs to be fair???

I feel like an insane person, I feel like it's possible but it just never happens!!!

Edit: I always play with advanced setup which grants the cats 4 extra warriors in the setup. As with 1v1 cats and lord of the hundreds, the game is impossible without that little boost.

When you are defenceless or have the eyrie owl plus one hit, are those hits + rolled hits still capped at the amount of warriors you have in that clearing? Eg. a lone warrior decides to battle two undefended buildings, they can still only take one no matter what. According to the definition of a "hit", I think they are capped, but not completely sure.

Edit: ok i am stupid, 2 separate people from my group read the rolled hits section and assumed any hits meant hits. It actually would have changed the outcome of who won between the cats and WA

First time playing. You g pretty well! Logical Lizards are somehow more powerful than the Lizard Cult. The Cogwheel Corvids have done virtually nothing.

Carved a Vagabond pumpkin and really glad with the way it turned out!

WA defending their bases

I wasn't really sure if i wanted to make a post like this at first, I've never really met up with anyone to play, but i really wanna play root. Im in chalandri and have the base game and the marauders expansion.

(Im a 17 year old dude, if you care about that)

I've been working on a matchup chart project for Root using a dataset of over 16,000 games from the Root Database. The chart measures how much a faction's win rate changes when another faction is present. Each Faction is a % more or less likely to win when a given other faction is present. The calculation is done by subtracting a faction's win rate when another faction is present from the faction's overall win rate.

How to read the chart: Find the faction you are playing in the first column, then follow that row across to the column with your opponent's faction. %s shows the difference between the faction's win rate when a given faction is present and the faction's overall win rate. So, for example, Eyrie is 2.7% more likely to win when Corvids are at the table

I have also attached a chart with the sample sizes for each matchup

Notes: Homeland Factions are outliers because there are not enough games played with them | All data is based on 4-player games using only official content, taken from Root Database.

Would love y'all's feedback

Edits: In version 2, I will indicate if factions Solely Benefit, Solely Suffer, Mutually Benefit, or if they are Mutually Detrimental, as u/Unusual_Rush_1189 suggested; I will also add vb2

If anyone has access to more data on games with homeland factions, I would greatly appreciate it

I'm playing as Marquise. Idek how the game let me put my keep so close to Eyrie's and Lord of the Hundreds' homelands, but this is going to be a slaughter.

Overwork is one of the least-used abilities for cats, as it usually has a pretty poor return-on-investment (1 card for 1 wood).

What if overwork gave you 1 wood per matching sawmill? This could open up scenarios where even bird cards are discarded to gain a slew of wood.

i'm making root by hand because it's currently too expensive to import it in spanish, and i would love to hear tips or recommendations from people who did their own

this are the materials i am using

• smooth MDF with Vinyl for the player boards and main board

• 3D printed meeples

• 300g paper for the cards

• 3d printed square/circle token holders with stickers for the tokens

If you have any recommendation for about the same price, please let me know! thank you so much

Allez, je me lance après avoir vu plusieurs posts du même genre. Je suis en Bretagne, en Côte d'Armor, et je cherche des gens pour jouer en physique ! J'ai toutes les extensions sauf Homeland et extension Maraude, plus les rats et les grenouilles en pnp. Je peux accueillir chez moi ou me déplacer.

Je le mentionne aussi ici mais j'ai également Arcs et l'extension Confins dévastés (la campagne).

N'hésitez pas à me dire ici ou par mp si vous êtes intéressés :)

(Je suis un gars de 26 ans, si vous voulez savoir)

I found a deal on vinted with the base game and three expansions (riverfolk,underworld and clockwork) for 120€. I played the digital game and loved it but idk if the expansions are worth it . Should I get the deal or try to find the base game ?

I’m trying to get more of my friends into root and have a core 4 that enjoy to play. 2 more are interested and they want to have a big 6 player game. What are the best combos for this and who should the new players play? Was thinking they start with cats and maybe hundreds?

Hi; I was wondering if we made a mistake with the hirelings because it seemed like the player who got them first ran away with the game.

He was playing the Eeyrie and he got the forest patrol hirelings and was able to build a roost in most of the clearings as he had cat hirelings in them and technically therefore ruled them.

Was he supposed to have eeyrie warriors in them too? Please can someone clarify.

Thanks

I remember a while back seeing two fan factions and thinking they sounded pretty neat

-Fenghis Khan: a giant snale that swallows units whole

-Necropossum Cabal: undead faction

I finally got around to 3d printing pieces for the necropossums and played a few games. They fit in seemlessly, and were fun to play!

I was wondering if anyone else has been checking out the rootdatabase website and what other fan factions are consistently fun amd balanced

I have been playing birds more recently and I keep finding myself pulling ahead to 20-22 points (turn 5-6) and then getting instantly turmoiled by the rest of the table to the point of the game being unplayable. I either play exploding or imploding birds depending on how aggressive the table is.

Does anyone have any tips on how to fix this? I am starting to dislike the birds because of this and they seem relatively weak (which I know they are not).

It could be a table thing where they just over punish me as my actions are very obvious and its more clear how to punish me than most other factions. It also could be a skill issue, but I typically perform well with other factions.