Wingspan Online Game Commentary #18

  Starting Birds, Food, and Bonus

Birds

• Eastern Kingbird - for Viticulturalist bonus card, gain worms
• Wild Turkey - for Viticulturalist bonus card

Food: Berry, Worm, and Wheat

Bonus Card: Viticulturalist bonus card - Birds that eat Berry (worked best with my starting birds)

Round 1

1. Draw Birds - Red-Eyed Vireo (from tray, for Viticulturalist bonus card)
2. Play Bird - Eastern Kingbird in Grasslands
3. Draw Birds - Mourning Dove (to lay eggs while gaining food)
1. Worm from Eastern Kingbird's power
4. Lay Eggs - 2 eggs
5. Play Bird - Red-Eyed Vireo (for Viticulturalist bonus card) and Mourning Dove (for eggs while gaining food)
6. Gain Food - 2 Wheat (for Wild Turkey), Egg on Mourning Dove
1. Worm from Eastern Kingbird's power
7. Draw Bird - American Avocet (from tray, for between turn eggs)
8. Play Bird - Wild Turkey in Grasslands (for Viticulturalist bonus card)

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Total Birds: 4 points (1st w/ 4 birds) 

Round 2

1. Gain Food - Berry and Wheat (for American Avocet), Egg on Mourning Dove
1. Worm from Eastern Kingbird's power
2. Play Bird - American Avocet in Wetlands (for potential eggs between turns)
3. Draw Birds - King Rail (for deck)
1. Egg from American Avocet's power
4. Gain Food - Rat and Worm (hoped for fish on reroll for King Rail), Egg on Mourning Dove
5. Draw Birds - Ring-Billed Gull (from deck)
1. Egg from American Avocet's power
6. Play Bird - Ring-Billed Gull in Wetlands (to draw more birds and tuck)
7. Draw Birds - Chipping Sparrow and Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (from deck), Tucked Chipping Sparrow and drew Hooded Merganser (from deck) using Ring-Billed Gull's power

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Birds in a Row: 1 point (tied for 2nd w/ 2 birds)

Round 3

1. Draw Birds - Atlantic Puffin (from tray) and Bushtit (from deck), Tucked Hooded Merganser and drew Scaled Quail (from deck) using Ring-Billed Gull's power
2. Gain Food - 2 Fish (for King Rail and Atlantic Puffin), Egg on Mourning Dove
3. Gain Food - Wheat and Worm (for Bushtit), Egg on Mourning Dove
1. Worm from Eastern Kingbird's power
4. Play Bird - Bushtit in Grasslands (for round end goal)
1. Egg from American Avocet's power
2. Egg from other player's Western Meadowlark
5. Gain Food - 2 Fish (for Atlantic Puffin), Egg on Mourning Dove
6. Play Bird - Atlantic Puffin in Wetlands (Enclosure Builder bonus card - Birds with cluster nests, already had it maxed and worth more than the Large Bird Specialist which I did not even have time to max)
1. Worm from Eastern Kingbird's power

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Birds in Grasslands: 4 points (tied for 1st w/ 3 birds)

Round 4

1. Play Bird - King Rail in Wetlands (Wildlife Gardener - Birds with cup nest, had minimum and could not get any points off the lives in Grasslands only at this point)
1. Wheat from other player's Red Crossbill
2. Play Bird - Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (used Worm and Wheat for Berry in food cost, for Viticulturalist bonus card, Diet Specialist - Birds with a food cost of 3 food, already had it maxed and could not get points on Backyard Birder at this point)
3. Lay Eggs - 3 eggs (in Wetlands for round end), Tucked Scaled Quail to lay egg on Bushtit
1. Egg from American Avocet's power
4. Lay Eggs - 3 eggs (in Wetlands for round end), no birds to tuck for Bushtit's power
1. Egg from American Avocet's power
2. Egg from other player's Western Meadowlark
5. Lay Eggs - 3 eggs, no birds to tuck for Bushtit's power
1. Egg from American Avocet's power

Round End: none

Round End Goal - Eggs in Wetlands: 7 points (1st w/ 11 eggs)

Game End - Won

Final Score - 103

• Bird Points - 41
• Bonus Cards - 24
• End of Round Goals - 16
• Eggs - 19
• Food on Cards - 0
• Tucked Cards - 3