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In the beginning I also thougt these are ridicoulously overpowered, but after a couple dozen of games this doesn't seem to be the case actually. I won some games with ponies, but more often than not I do not follow the pony path during a game for a variety of reasons: - the good exmoor ponies are ra...

agree. the caves are very badly balanced. if there are two caves with similar power, it might be okay (e.g. put 2 cards into cave whenever the clearing is flushed AND draw 3 cards extra and put 3 into clearing - I consider these equivalently powerful and also hard to predict how much they will help...

agree. the caves are very badly balanced. if there are two caves with similar power, it might be okay (e.g. put 2 cards into cave whenever the clearing is flushed AND draw 3 cards extra and put 3 into clearing - I consider these equivalently powerful and also hard to predict how much they will help ...

Another approach to balancing would be not to strengthen a seemingly weak subset of cards, but instead to weaken the overpowered ones. For example, butterflies become too strong when both expansions are in play. Reducing the gentian factor from 3 to 1 could help tone down their power. Alternatively,...

Having all expensions gives us total numbers of: 6x3 bats (18) x 5 3 gnats = 18 x 9 = 162 3 crane fly = 18 x 9 = 162 bat cave = 18 x 3 = 54 If you draw and use all 18 bat, 3 gnat, 3 crane fly cards and the cave, you get 378 points. (not accounting for cards that have both) Realistically, you are lo...

I have played bats occasionally just because it's fun, and my starting hand warranted trying it. My problem with them is how quickly they fill trees when you get enough to put down - how about bats of the exact same type stacking? I think that would even be thematic. very nice idea! Unfortunately, ...

this also applies for moss. you can have 9 trees + 1 bee and score 10 points for moss.

imho this is incosistent, since the bee does not count as an additional tree for red deer and sycamore. so there are some cards/species where this applies and some others where it doesn't apply...

cigma wrote: ↑01 March 2026, 08:18 As a side comment: Please note that a Violet Carpenter Bee played at a tree increases the number of trees by 1 for the Woodpecker scoring. Some people don't recognize this.

thx for pointing out. wasn't aware of that. probably not many games where this is relevant, but still interesting.