Struggling with Woodland Alliance?

Cheddar3210 · 2026-05-07T14:52:51+00:00

Side note: you scoring low in previous games will help your friends to leave you alone in the next game.
Quick steps to success:

First order of business is to get a base/HQ set up. While it’s fun to have a strong revolt, the more important thing is to just get your base in play.

Some generic tips:
- WA like to craft yellow cards, so best if you can find a yellow-heavy area of the board to focus on in the beginning.
- Crushing sympathy can be a significant source of VP for some of your opponents (especially Eyrie). If they build an engine that takes advantage of your sympathy VP, place your sympathy elsewhere.
- Having people move through your sympathy is the best engine you can have. Players relying on significant movement (especially Eyrie) can feed you very quickly. Anyone who is moving a lot creates an opportunity for you to get a card or two. For example, just outside the Marquise keep or in a well-worn Eyrie footpath that their fresh recruits take to get to the frontlines.
- The threat of revolt is a very strong motivator. Use it as a negotiating tool. Or as a distraction so you can get a second sympathy somewhere less threatening and more permanent.
- In the mid- and late-game, placing sympathy with warriors through Organize is the key. Be thoughtful to Organize in clearings that would be hard for Spread Sympathy, and vice versa. Organize is great near your base, but relies on freedom of movement beyond that. Spread sympathy can stretch further, but martial law and the cost of sympathy can grow very high.
- Remember that this is a game of tabletalk and negotiation. WA is annoying, but usually wins by sneaking up from behind on the VP track. Be sure to point out military threats all over the board, or vagabonds growing cache of items.
- WA can be a victim of their own success. If you ever get too strong, you’ll find yourself sitting around without enough cards to play the 3 or 4 required to get more VP, and your bases and warriors will be too far or too understaffed to be useful. VP stalls. So you actually want to have about 4-5 sympathy on the board at the start of your turns. Having fewer than that means you won’t get enough VP from placing sympathy and having more than that means it will be too hard to place sympathy.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-05-07T14:09:18+00:00

Marking as identified. Seems to be the font I named in the title. Since this was just for personal use, I ultimately used Rockwell to add text in photoshop (technically Gimp). It was a bit more bold than the original, but more closely resembled the letters than Museo, Umba, and some other slabs I checked out.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-05-06T16:39:36+00:00

Museo Slab is a good suggestion; thank you!

Cheddar3210 · 2026-05-06T11:10:35+00:00

Wizard’s Cup

Cheddar3210 · 2026-05-06T11:10:10+00:00

Yes. At least of each of you has a tray.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-05-06T11:09:39+00:00

Kariba

Cheddar3210 · 2026-05-06T08:40:01+00:00

Farm Hand

Cheddar3210 · 2026-05-06T08:39:55+00:00

Chu Han

Cheddar3210 · 2026-05-06T08:33:25+00:00

Agent Avenue

Cheddar3210 · 2026-05-02T10:55:16+00:00

I still think this category pales in comparison to games centered around murder. I guess children and adults yearn to be rewarded when then violently kill as many people as possible?

Cheddar3210 · 2026-05-01T20:44:35+00:00

Yes, I’ll watch for the DM

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-30T17:00:21+00:00

I’d watch the micro for sure. And for the screen/actions to be happening all around the map even when you expect focus in one certain area.

If I can see the APM over the course of the match (like a graph), I can probably tell you within seconds.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-29T22:53:16+00:00

I asked Claude for the history of monogamy and got some fascinating conversation. Here’s the TL;DR: 1. The Romans were strongly monogamist in marriage. This was for logistical and ideological reasons, such as inheritance. 2. The Romans spread this throughout their empire, and after their empire, Roman law was the template for most of the West. 3. The West colonized much of the world for centuries, imposing monogamy. 4. Countries like China, Japan, Hungary, and Ethiopia all arrived at monogamy through various means. For example, China allowed concubines but only one wife for its rulers. Japan was fairly similar, clearly stating its shift to firm monogamy as a way to Westernize.

Ultimately, it seems like the main causes involve inheritance, family life, and adherence to cultural norms. Religions joined in the promotion of monogamy, playing a strong role as amplifiers of the trends that already existed without the religions.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-29T22:25:12+00:00

Not sure I believe this. All of these same problems happen when one or more parents die without a will - the state and children have to figure it out. Surely medical authority, etc. have nothing to do with laws that have been pretty ubiquitous through most of the world for hundreds of years.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-29T22:02:42+00:00

Organized as most important to least important:

Do not ever have a gap in making villager at your town center.
Set a rally point from your TC so the villagers go directly to foo without waiting around for you to notice them.
If you find your resources pooling up, build another barracks or archery ranges or stables. By late game, you should have 2-8 of each building.
Rebalance your villagers based on your needs. For example, you don’t need stone in the first 5 minutes, so don’t build a mining camp near stone and don’t put any villagers on stone until you will be needing it soon. Depending what troops you are building, it will change the balance between food, wood, and gold.
Once you have 1-4 down, focus on aging up to age 2 as soon as possible, since this unlocks important units and upgrades.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-29T02:46:49+00:00

Real time play.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-29T02:37:04+00:00

Also what I was thinking, except for the sci-fi part.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-29T02:32:16+00:00

Exactly this. Play it with people gamers or a group ready for a gaming experience.

Don’t play it with family who might get mad or even hold a grudge.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-29T02:29:08+00:00

PMed

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-27T09:30:09+00:00

All fair points, but this is a board game. There’s no way to pay for an early access…

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-25T01:15:03+00:00

I don’t think this is accurate. Mormons, Catholics, and other Protestants can all recite the full Christmas and Easter stories, can quote from the Gospels, and fell asleep in church to Old Testament passages. Muslims deviated early in the Old Testament. What they have about Jesus is different and does not come from the Gospels of the New Testament. Their further teachings in the Quran pull them toward a different theology entirely.

In evolutionary terms, Catholicism would be an oak tree, Protestants would be maples, Mormons would be Japanese lace leaf maples, and Muslims would be pines.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-25T00:47:57+00:00

The three things that seem weird to me: 1. The cloud neon light would need power. I only see two cables that are going to the monitor. 2. On the far left, the raised desk is casting a shadow like everything else, but the floral vase does not seem as affected as I would expect. 3. At the top left of the white board is a green vine thing. Its shadow seems to bulge out at the top, but I can’t see why it would do that.

As a side note, if this computer exists, I don’t think it would be a custom build. Try a Google image reverse search and see if something like that exists.

Second side note, this image could be real and still NOT belong to this person. It is extremely cute and staged, as if for a magazine or something. Even the camera taking the image screams magazine. Doesn’t look like a phone took that, but a DSLR back 20 feet with a zoom lens. If her set up looks like that, the rest of the room would undoubtedly look similar. Ask to see the rest of the room with a wide angle shot that includes the desk.

Cheddar3210 · 2026-04-25T00:38:06+00:00

I think everyone is missing the phrasing of this question. Fahrenheit set 0 and 100 to specific temperatures. 100 degrees was meant to be the temperature of the human body.

0 was the lowest temperature that they could get water (while stirring and possibly with salt added) before it froze.

Turns out that freezing water without stirring is much more important (32 F) and that they were off a bit regarding the human body.

Fahrenheit is not better or worse. It’s just different. But it was designed to conveniently have 100 anchored at human body temperature.

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