Get ready to forage into the most immersive Endangered expansion yet with new characters and new scenarios.
-The Great Barrier Reef Scenario - Experience our most intricate scenario yet, where you must protect an entire ecosystem and balance delicate predator-prey relationships in a constantly shifting environment.
- The Giant Barred Frog Scenario – For the first time in Endangered, you’ll actually need to remove animals to restore balance! Battle against the spread of invasive Cane Toads before they wreak havoc on the ecosystem.
- The Koala Scenario – Yes, Koalas are fuzzy and adorable. However, they also introduce an entirely new mechanic: Attachments! This game-changing feature will make you rethink every decision as you strategize your next move.
- The Prime Minister - Now, you can play the part of The Prime Minister, a powerful new character with 8 unique cards— giving you unmatched strategic control over your actions like never before!
- New Ambassador Type – Influence the game like never before with a special type of Ambassador that gains Influence automatically, opening up fresh new tactics to secure your victory.
With innovative mechanics, deeper strategy, and intricate scenarios, this expansion is a must-have for Endangered fans. Thank you!
- Favorite animal (koala) on the box.
- Different theme (Great Barrier Reef) from typical animal rescue.
- Love the series.
- Many expansions and animals to save.
- Very hard to beat.
- Can have a lot of luck involved with dice rolls.
- New element introduced can be mean.
- Must have base game and some tiles from base game.
- Rescuing animals and protecting the Great Barrier Reef.
- Great Barrier Reef
- Endangered Pandas
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players have limited actions (three) and use dice values to select actions, with higher values needed for shared actions.
- Card Play — Cards are attached to actions, and not using actions can lead to negative consequences.
- Cooperative — Players work together to achieve a common goal.
- Dice Rolling — Dice rolls determine events like deforestation or oil spills.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- It's Whisper Wood, one word for one to four players.
- It's much heavier than Flamecraft.
- This is definitely a strategy game. Mid midweight mid to heavy strategy game.
- it's a big game on the table. A lot of moving parts. Gorgeous, gorgeous game because we have Sandor Tang again and Sergio Chavez.
- So, it's a bag builder. You're pulling out these tokens. What you pull out will determine what actions you take.
- And y'all, it is good. It is good. But it's definitely much heavier than previous Cardboard Alchemy games. It's still gorgeous though. It's still gorgeous. Still a sprawling game. And I think for the the Euro strategy lovers, this is going to be a good one.
- Whisperwood. All one word.
- it's perennial uh by Emily Vincent uh published by Fatout Games and art by Beth Sobo who does one of the most beautiful nature art in board games period concerning my opinion.
- we make a beautiful prairie garden
- And yeah, this one looks gorgeous. I was like, "Okay, I need this."
- I'm very excited for Perennial for sure.
- But this is Electrify for one to four players from John Declair and Ian Hutchinson.
- Uh, it is a engine builder.
- It's a simultaneous action selection, slice selection.
- So it's really interesting little engine builder. It goes from like coal all the way to nuclear and solar power and all these other electricity generating things.
- And it's just such a nice combo. Everything's connected but quick because it's simultaneously simultaneous turns to it.
- multi-use cards and I love that.
- So some of the cards have arrows, so it will like allow you to activate other cards that it's connected to. So you get this long chain of actions, which is really fun.
- It's very good. And I've played it and play tested it solo which is also good and it's one that I think is kind of my favorite of what they're coming out this year.
- It's going to be on Kickstarter and I am very excited for this.
- It's very interesting combo of mechanisms and it really is that engine builder goodness that I absolutely love.
- And it really is that engine builder goodness that I absolutely love.
- So, that's Electrify from AG.
- I love seeing that and everybody getting along. No big incidents. I think that's just amazing that so many cultures come together in spread over three different countries because not only in the United States, United States is the most in games but yeah and everybody gets along people joining in on on marches, fan marches and I think that's just awesome to see.
- But it was funny because it was a whole circle thing for me.
- The minions sung the Beach Boys. The banana song is the Beach Boys.
- Yeah. That was totally Beach Boys.
- So, my moment of positivity is it was the 4th of July and so my mom and her friends took and I went with them we went to the July 4th firework spectacular at the Hollywood Bowl.
- It was with the Beach Boys and John Stamos and we usually try to go to the Hollywood Bowl at least once or twice every year and it was a lot of fun.
- It's almost 11 p.m.
- Well, the most common things are Twitch, where you can find twitch.tv/joda.
- Uh I stream on Tuesday. I have my coffee and crowdfunding where I drink coffee and I look at all the crowdfunding campaigns from the past week that have been launched criticizing the page the game and sometimes being positive and also always pick one game but I think well that was the best one for this week.
References (from this video)
- Great theme of saving endangered species.
- Really enjoys the game.
- High quality meeples (coral reef, frogs, koalas, bunips).
- New scenarios add variety and depth.
- Asymmetrical character abilities enhance replayability.
- Appreciation for the return to foldable scenario instructions.
- New dice designs are preferred.
- The game has a lot of replay value.
- Uncertainty about including a mythological creature (bunip) in an endangered species game.
- Some components arrived loose due to transport.
- The base game box is not large enough to hold all expansions without difficulty.
- The inclusion of the bunip as a promo animal is questioned.
- Previous expansion's scenario booklet format was disliked.
- Saving endangered animal species
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players choose special ability cards for their characters at the start of the game.
- cooperative play — Implied by the theme of saving species and the mechanics of choosing characters and species to protect.
- scenario play — The expansion includes multiple new scenarios, each with unique setup and rules, which are detailed on scenario leaflets.
- Set Collection — Mentioned in the context of collecting all components and expansions for the game to have it 'absolutely complete.'
- Solo Play — Mentioned as a playable option, with the host having a previous playthrough video of the tiger scenario.
- token management — New cardboard tokens are introduced for scenarios like the coral reef.
- Variable player powers — The host discusses how each character has unique special ability cards and dice, leading to asymmetry and replayability.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- He looks like really grumpy. But I mean, if I was like on the brink of extinction, I would look grumpy, too.
- It's a game about saving endangered animal species which is a great theme. It's also a game I really really like.
- I'm not sure how I like uh that decision yet. I'm not quite sure yet...
- These meeples are great. I love them.
- But there is now an issue. And the issue is that now with all of that stuff, it doesn't fit anymore.
- I really enjoy this game.