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Everytime I play them, the native seabirds, native farm animals, free-range monkeys... I try to get good income and points without filling up my map, but it's so much harder. These feel unnecessarily weak to trigger their end-game points. Why? Or what am I missing? Native Lizards and Native Seabird...

It's a trade-off between instant points and end-game points. Native Lizards gives you appeal for each rock you are touching, but the end-game wants you to have isolated rocks. You can't maximise both. Native Seabirds works like this (for water spaces), but Native Lizards gives you appeal and and en...

Yes, animal strategies work better when you can block pillaging or whaling strategically. The same is true for most strategies, though. That is, if I have a longship and 3 silver, and my opponent has a whaling ship and 2 silver, and no longship, it may behoove me to go whaling first by buying a whal...

Monopolizing islands is often a losing strategy anyway in the base game. That was the point of my response. And animal strategies aren’t that bad in the base game. The 4V market is better in the base game than in Norwegians.

In the original AFFO alpha years ago, this is how the 3-4 player game was as well. Players took as many of the four islands as they could, and they were usually gone at the middle of round 2, or perhaps Faroe would remain. There was no mini expansion 1 at this time, so no TDF, no Lofoten/Orkney. Som...

I have noticed that some other Sponsors cards also have good abilities, once you stop to think about them—but only on the red, upgraded side. For instance, the sponsor that lets you break for cash, then discard a card to play a sponsor for cash. Note that you can do this action on any strength, whic...

Mainly, I collect Diplomats to score points :). As far as their play ability goes, I generally use them on Senator or Consul to take more cards. When I first started playing Concordia, I might copy an Architect. But I generally don’t do this. I have used it to copy Colonist. When I have a Diplomat i...

Thank you so much!

In the base game, it makes more sense. In fact, the only times I have taken Faroe were on BGA, pre-Norwegians. There were limited options (Faroe/Baffin, Iceland/Labrador, Greenland/Newfoundland, Shetland/Bear), among which Faroe was still the bottom rung to be sure, but sometimes if you knew early o...

I think you forgot that there are 8 harvest tokens, which means there is a remainder of one token in the 7 round long game. This will affect the odds. Beginning with one harvest, there are then 4 no-harvest tokens and 3 harvest tokens. With 6 more rounds to fill, you are guaranteed 2 more harvests a...