Great.donkeykong66 wrote: ↑23 February 2023, 01:06 I actually agree that a wetland focused strategy is usually somewhat weaker. For that reason, I actually prefer the tuck and draw over tuck and lay eggs, because you end up with more cards. This means you can take the wetland action less often and focus on playing birds & laying eggs more. I actually like a tuck-and-draw bird in the wetlands early for the first couple of draws (to find the right synergy) and then a mid-game tuck-and-draw bird in the grasslands - it allows you to take the preferred action (lay eggs) and still cycle through your cards a bit to find some nice cards.
There are quite a few birds that let you get food through some other means (crows, vultures, some others), but it's much harder to draw cards through bird powers (like net end up with more cards than you started with, so not tuck and draw). For that reason, I actually like to boost my wetlands action early, so I can draw the cards I need more effectively, and limit the number of times I have to take that action. And if I can combine that with a tuck and draw to both see more cards AND get a couple VPs I really like that.
Do you really think someone would actually play/activate their Raptor birds, if they saw you build up a Vulture-kind of bird?
Or do you simply keep them (the Vultures) from the start and play them IF/WHEN you see the other one goes for a Raptor?
Asked above because I personally never activate my Raptors if/when I see the foe goes for a Vulture (for whatever reason).
I consider it a bad luck and move along and I only activate the raptors in the last round (4/4), usually the Raptors in the Grassland, making sure my bad luck (Bad Luck=the foe having Vultures played after I decided to go for some Raptor strategy) will only bring the Foe Food at the very end, when it can't help her/him too much.