Wingspan Online Game Commentary #11

  Starting Birds, Food, and Bonus

Birds

• Pine Siskin - for bonus card
• Dickcissel - for bonus card
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk - low food cost for woodlands, for Round 1 end goal
• Inca Dove - for playing Eurasian Sparrowhawk or use for Round 1 end goal

Food: Wheat (for Pine Siskin)

Bonus Card: Bird Counter - Birds with a Tuck Power (seemed easier to score points on than the cluster nests bonus based on my starting birds)

Round 1

1. Gain Food - Wheat from bird feeder (for Pine Siskin)
1. Worm from other player's Eastern Phoebe
2. Play Bird - Pine Siskin in Woodlands
1. Worm from other player's Eastern Phoebe
3. Lay Eggs - 2 eggs
4. Play Bird - Eurasian Sparrowhawk (used 2 worms to save the Inca Dove for eggs for round end goal)
5. Gain Food - 2 Wheat from bird feeder (for Inca Dove), skipped Pine Siskin's power
6. Play Bird - Inca Dove in Grasslands (2 eggs from when played power)
1. Worm from other player's Eastern Phoebe
7. Lay Eggs - 2 eggs (in builder nests for round end goal)
8. Lay Eggs - 2 eggs (in builder nests for round end goal)

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Eggs in Builder Nest: 4 points (1st w/ 6 eggs) 

Round 2

1. Draw Birds - Brewer's Blackbird (for bonus card)
2. Gain Food - 2 Wheat from bird feeder (for Dickcissel), skipped Pine Siskin's power
3. Play Bird - Dickcissel in Grasslands (for bonus card and round end goal)
1. Berry from other player's Bluethroat
2. Worm from other player's Eastern Phoebe
4. Gain Food - Wheat and Fish from bird feeder (for Brewer's Blackbird), skipped Pine Siskin's power
1. Rat from other player's Bluethroat
2. Worm from other player's Eastern Phoebe
5. Draw Bird - Willet (to have a bird for the Wetlands, for round end goal)
6. Play Bird - Willet in Wetlands (for round end goal and chance of caching fish when drawing birds)
7. Play Bird - Brewer's Blackbird in Grasslands (for bonus card and round end goal)

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Brown Powers: 1 point (tied for 2nd w/ 4 birds)

Round 3

1. Draw Birds - Double-Crested Cormorant (for bonus card) and Blue-Winged Warbler (discarded egg to draw from desk), Willet's power successful w/ 4 dice (1 fish cached)
2. Gain Food - 2 Fish from bird feeder (for Double-Crested Cormorant), skipped Pine Siskin's power
3. Play Bird - Double-Crested Cormorant in Wetlands (for bonus card, to be able to draw more birds)
1. Worm from other player's Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
2. Rat from other player's Bluethroat
3. Worm from other player's Eastern Phoebe
4. Draw Birds - Mountain Bluebird and Stellar's Jay, Discarded Fish to tuck 2 cards under Double-Crested Cormorant, Willet's power unsuccessful w/ 2 dice
5. Play Bird - Blue-Winged Warbler in Woodlands (high points, nest for last round end goal)
1. Worm from other player's Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
2. Rat from other player's Bluethroat
3. Worm from other player's Eastern Phoebe
6. Draw Birds - Say's Phoebe (has food for it and several nests for its when played, for final round end goal) and Tufted Titmouse (from deck), skipped Double-Crested Cormorant's power, Willet's power unsuccessful w/ 2 dice

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Birds with Egg in Hollow Nest: 0 points (0 birds)

Round 4

1. Draw Birds - Mute Swan (for bonus card) and Lazuli Bunting (from deck), skipped Double-Crested Cormorant's power, Willet's power successful w/ 3 dice (1 fish cached)
1. Worm from other player's Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
2. Rat from other player's Bluethroat
3. Worm from other player's Eastern Phoebe
2. Play Bird - Say's Phoebe in Grasslands (4 eggs from its when played power)
3. Play Bird - Mute Swan in Wetlands (for bonus card, used 2 rats for the Wheat food cost)
1. Worm from other player's Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
2. Wheat from other player's Bluethroat
3. Worm from other player's Eastern Phoebe
4. Lay Eggs - 4 eggs (in cup nests for round end goal), Tucked Lazuli Bunting to lay egg on Brewer's Blackbird, Tucked Tufted Titmouse to lay egg on Dickcissel
5. Lay Eggs - 4 eggs (filled my cup nests for round end goal), Tucked Stellar's Jay to lay egg on Brewer's Blackbird, Tucked Mountain Bluebird to lay egg on Dickcissel

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Eggs in Cup Nest: 5 points (tied for 1st w/ 10 eggs)

Game End - Lost

Final Score - 84

• Bird Points - 40
• Bonus Cards - 10
• End of Round Goals - 10
• Eggs - 15
• Food on Cards - 3
• Tucked Cards - 6