Wildscape | Solo Playthrough

0:00 Hi everyone, I'm Tom and today I'm going to be playing Wildscape, which is a new game by Sebastian Bleasdale and it is going to be available for pre-order from Karma Games to release later this year. I'm going to be playing the solo game here. Everything that I'm doing on my turn is the same as in a multiplayer game. It's just that we have a simple bot turn for the bot opponent, who has a lot of difficulty settings that you can go from one to eight and I'm on three, so still on the side of easy. These are the various species that we're going to be reintroducing to the wild. The story of the game is that the world has gone more wrong. Those pesky humans have kind of bled the world dry even more and had to flee after a load of various [snorts] crises to different places, leaving these kind of barren spots.

0:49 And in the game, the nature is taking over again, basically, and we are growing these various habitats again. And wildlife is going to be reintroduced back into our areas. We are naturalists, kind of nudging the land back to life. And as well as all of these herbivores, we might be introducing primates and predators and things in there and birds. Before I start, I recommend you turn on the subtitles to the Klingon channel. If I'm making any mistakes, they'll be corrected there. If you'd like to support me and help me make more things, then you can join on Patreon or as a YouTube member. There are links below for both of those things. I'd really appreciate it. This isn't a sponsored video. It's how I'm able to make stuff. So, here is my player area. Here is my board. I have a few different types of terrain. They're basically savanna, desert, woodland and grassland. The different species correspond to those four types of terrain.

1:44 And the herbivores have a size. So, all of the non-snakes I can just put down on my turn if I've got enough space for them. So, for example, as soon as I put down some more grassland, say, I could say that I've got 1 2 3 space here. You can see in the hex the size of all the creatures. The size is basically equal to the value on the introduced side. And then when the species really falls in love with the terrain, then their value goes up, but the size doesn't change. And the dots tell you how much the value is going to go up when you upgrade essentially that species. So, I could say, "Oh, there's three space here. I will introduce the African marsh rat to this habitat." There is now no space.

2:29 But that African marsh rat is currently worth three points towards the end of the game for me and will contribute to a load of other things as well, whether it is doing some bird watching, end game goal cards, all sorts of things. You start the game with two of each card and you discard down to three. I've just kept one of each partly, as a lot of the decisions are in the play throughs, to show you. So, we've got predator cards here. If you satisfy the condition of predator cards, you can play them as a free action on your turn. So, I need to have two established wetland, not grassland, wetland creatures. And then I can choose to play the Nile crocodile. There are six predator tiles available in the game. I essentially pick my bonus from one of those remaining for having played the predator tile.

3:16 The predator will then score me points based on the species value at the end of the game. Primate cards are an option to play in your turn. That this one has a condition which means you discard a card and I will get some stuff for it. They have to be played in a particular habitat, so here in the woodlands. They don't take up space because they go in the trees. You can't put any in adjacent hexes, but at the end of the game they're going to score you a points for every connected tile to the one that they're on that has the type of terrain that they're on as well as the effect they do when you play the card. And these are end game scoring cards. This giant day gecko is going to score me points for every habitat I have where there are two or more species. This is just the kind of stuff I've got to start the game off with. What do we do on a turn? There are 12 turns in the solo game, so it is can be variable in the multiplayer game. There are exactly 12 turns in the solo game.

4:11 Every four turns we are going to do some bird watching where we'll evaluate these birds. These are kind of goals that usually in a multiplayer game are between the players. So in a three player game you'd have a pair either side of you and you're competing with the person next to you for these goals. So some things we might be shooting for are the number of primates that we've played, the best desert species that we've got out the highest value, the highest value savanna species that each player has out, and the number of species you have in wetlands. So the value doesn't matter of those. These are all double-sided cards. There are loads more of them and there's there's one card that isn't compatible with solo, but it is with the multiplayer. The bot starts off with one species of each type, the value of which is the difficulty number. So it's got one of each at threes.

5:04 So on a turn we can come to the central board here, and you are going to choose any segment here to place the action selection token in. In the segment that you choose, you will either take the habitat tile or play one of your primate cards, in which case the tile would stay here. You can also optionally do many more things. And then at the end of the turn we refresh a bit and the next player goes. So I'm early on thinking about tiles a little bit here. I'm going to go for this segment. I'm going to take the tile. I'm not going to play a primate card yet. And so the tile is going to get placed in my habitat here. So you can place tiles anywhere you like. They They need to be adjacent to anything. They need to be on your board somewhere. And they don't need to be adjacent to anything else. You don't need to match the sides up of anything. The only restriction is when it comes to playing river tiles, they have to have the water connected in some way to a water source, of which you've got two on your starting mountains, and you can get more boards later that come with an extra water source each.

6:05 But for this we have no requirements, no restrictions of where to place it. I think I'm going to place it like this cuz it's going to expand these habitats a little bit more, the savanna and the wetlands. This sprout symbol here means that this tile, for the type of habitat that it is, counts as two. So the savanna has now become size two, but the wetlands is size 1 2 3 4. The game comes with loads of these miniature D6s, so you can kind of lay those on there to keep track, especially when things get big. And say I put a species in here and now there's one space left. Rather than having to count up all the time, you can just use these dice to say, "There's one space free on this at the moment." So I've got four spaces here. I've done my main thing. I've placed a action selection token, and I've taken a habitat tile. Everything else is up to me.

6:55 So in the segment that I picked, there are actions. And down here there is energy. This is sun energy. You can't take this with you. It is kind of on here unless you spend it, in which case it goes to the center for now. So my two options in this segment are, I can get myself an extension to my land tiles. So these come with the water sources I said. They also come with some oil spill tiles that are minus a point each, unless you cover them up. So we can get some more space, which is lovely. Or we can get another tile. And it's telling you here that you're going anticlockwise and taking the next one along costs two energy, then three energy, four energy, and so on. You don't have to take the first tile. So I've got two energy available here, but I also start the game with two bio energy. This is essentially currency that I can keep. There are some spaces that will let you just convert the sun energy into bio energy if you've got some spare and you just want to keep it.

7:52 I don't think I'm going to spend any bio energy. I'm just going to spend two right now. And I'm going to grab this tile so the two sun energy I spent goes into the middle here. And I've got myself another tile that kind of works for me here. So it's a little bit narrow expanding the wetlands, which is now five tiles big. But this can surely join up later with some more woodlands and make a size four woodlands. So now I've got a size five wetlands. And we're going for value is lovely, but we're going for number of things in here. There are value one and two snakes that we can place out later, but these are done with actions and bonuses. You can't just choose to put those out. So I think I'm going to start out going for the African marsh rat and have at least equaled what the bot has put out.

8:40 So I can just introduce them into the habitat there. I've got two space left over, so one more tile. I could probably introduce another if I want to. So this stuff here is all relating to the actions available to you based on the segment that you went in. Place a herbivore tile. We've just done that. Play a predator card. I can do that as soon as I get another species in the wetlands and then they're both established, so flipped over. Play a specialist card and move their token up. You are looking for a value of every species in the game basically. If we look up here, there are the different habitat types including lakes. You want to get value six out there. You do that with lakes by just putting the tiles out cuz as well as giving you some land tiles for habitats, they also are giving you fish with a value to them that will contribute to your score at the end of the game.

9:32 So you're looking for six of everything. So I've just given myself three wetland. I need six. The first person to achieve one in a habitat type moves this up. The next person needs eight. When you reach the target, you get to draw two cards of that particular specialist and keep one, and they all do different things. So, the river is always about bonuses for playing herbivores of a particular habitat type. Wetland gives you land bonuses. Woodland one-off game effects. Savannah rondel actions. And the desert animal cards. So, at the end of the turn, we now distribute energy. The energy that I used gets picked up and going clockwise from where I chose, we drop off one at a time. So, we've gone from one to two here, two to three here. And we refill going clockwise from my space the tiles.

10:22 Now, anybody can pick any space. So, it's not a rondel in the sense of, you know, restrictions. You can only go in like the next couple of spaces. Anyone can always choose any segment they like. Although, if you were to choose this one, there's no energy here now. So, you'd have to use biofuel to do any of the actions. Maybe you really want this tile, though. So, now we come to the bot's turn. The bot will take a turn in the segment with the most sun energy in it. And if there's a tie, the nearest to the space I just went in clockwise. So, he's going to go in this segment cuz it's the only one with three energy in it. And he always gets an animal tile. The color here tells you what type of animal, which habitat type. And the number of energy is the value of it. So, he's going to get a size three desert, a jaculus. He's already got one here.

11:10 So, he's doubled it. And then, also printed in this inner ring are bonus actions that he'll do. He will establish his two most valuable species. If tied, I can choose. So, I think I'm going to choose these two because in wetlands, we don't care about the size of them. We just care about the number of them. So, that hasn't helped him and there are no bird cards caring about the woodland, so that hasn't helped him either. We also take the tile from his space and pop it face down here to kind of track the number of turns that we've had cuz at the end of the fourth turn we're going to evaluate the birds. And the winner of each gets two biofuel, so two extra energy to spend when they want. We redistribute the energy.

11:55 We fill the tiles back up and it's back to me picking. This shouldn't be here. If that was there from the beginning, I do apologize. Oasis are things you can get with bonuses and you see actions get you them. They're not in the general tile display. I think since they're kind of next to each other already, I like the idea of this tile. There's only two energy here, whereas I could go for a a section with three in it already. And the way energy will go, when I'm finished here, I'll dump two off if I spend it and he'll have four to spend here. He'll get a size four species of savanna and we're competing for the best thing. So, it's really tying you up as to which thing you want to take. Do I want just the thing with the most energy? What am I giving him access to? So, I over here, this is another couple for the wetlands.

12:41 I think I like the idea of this space. I'm going to come here and grab the tile again. So, no primate again. Now, forest isn't as useful like this is quite useful. Like this would have been quite useful, but I'll I'll hopefully get it later. I'm going to pop that there. So, that's added another two to this habitat cuz it's got a sprout symbol on it. I've got two energy. I could get a size two lake tile. The size twos all have wetland on them. So, that you know has to connect to this somehow. So, I could cut off this desert here and have it keep going with my wetlands if I want to or you know, try and link it up later and leave things open a little bit. There is desert here to expand. I can just have it as biofuel and spend it later or I could put one of my bio bio fuel to this to get another tile to expand things in. This is the top tile, so we know which it would be in the configuration of things.

13:35 I think I like the idea of getting some lakes. It's two towards this six as well. I don't think I'm going to cut that off yet. We'll see. We'll hold off on that, but I am going to introduce some more African marsh rats. For the size three, tick that down to one. You know, if I had waited and introduced a six or even a seven at this point, that would be the same value now, but when they're upgraded, these will both be fours, so worth eight. Like this is worth 10 when it's upgraded, so it would be better. But for purposes of number of things, I'm trying to compete for that. Also, I have now got Oh, the bot got to six, didn't it, on the Savannah? I've just got to six value in the wetlands, so I can get myself a nice little upgrade.

14:21 And I've got two options here. I can either go for the geologist. For the rest of the game, I can spend two energy, you know, in this part of my turn, to get a new tile, even if that's not an option on there, and it costs three when it is an option on there. Or I could go for the civil engineer. When I place a tile, I can place tiles onto mountain spaces. Usually you can't without water sources. And if I do, I get an energy. I'm going to go for the geologist. It's also worth a point at the end of the game. Happy with that. I do have these two energy. I could get another lake tile. We could now get the extra board, but I think I'll hold off until I know what I want it for. Okay, bot time. Okay, so energy. It's now three there, two there. Fill up the tile.

15:11 And so, three three, but the next one clockwise from the one that I picked is this space. So, they're going to take this tile away. They're going to get a size three woodland, but this symbol here means add the difficulty level. So, they're actually going to get a size six woodland a kudu. And they have definitely reached six here. So, I'm going to need eight to get to that one. They're also getting a primate card. They just discard the leftmost one from the display. And then at the end of their turn, it's going to slide along and refill. But, they get another primate token, which is one thing we are competing for here. I start with any. So, refill the tile and stock the energy back up. Next up, I think I'm going to come down here cuz if I go here, which is what I was tempted to do, the bot will go here and get the thing it's worst in, which is only Savannah, but it would creep up in that it would compete more, and it would get to upgrade two of its animal tiles, its best animal tiles.

16:14 I'd like to hold off on it doing that. Whereas, if I go here, it will get a size four. He'll go here and separate it. Let the difficulty make it hard to compete in the desert. What if he came here? Then nothing will be made a four. This will be made a three and he'll come here. He'll still get the difficulty. And then that's So, that's another woodland thing he's getting. Okay, I'm going to come here after initially saying that wasn't the option I was doing. I'm going to come here. Do I want to play my primate card? So, I can discard any card of the of the normal animal ones, not your specialty card, to get an extension and a size three lake. Or I take the tile. And I kind of want the tile. I'm I'm kind of focusing on one thing here, but this could become forest later. And I've just added two to this habitat.

17:00 So, I could have another marsh rat in here. Okay, but I think you're focusing on one thing too much. And I'm going to fill it straight away. So, there's no space. My options, I can spend three to get an oasis. You need oasis in the desert to be able to place an animal down. You need an oasis for each habitat. I could get two snakes. Snakes are ones or twos, they never upgrade. And they take up that much space, so I could be putting, you know, ones down here. But there isn't the quantity required for other types. Although we we do want, you know, habitats with at least two creatures in. Right now I've got one habitat with two or more creatures in. I could just get biofuel. I think we're going to go for the oasis, and you can take a completely plain one, or you can take one with a bit of another type one. We could take forest here.

17:51 So if I angle it like that, we have now got a size three. Spent my energy. We've got a size three in the desert. And a one two three in the woodland as well. And we want the biggest thing in desert, so I might save that until we can get more. I've got two biofuels, so I can't do anything else with this. Energy is going to make this a four now. So after we've restocked, he's going to come right here. Take the tile. He's going to get a size one two three four of the thing that he has the least of, which is going to be Savannah. So he hits six, and he would get the specialty. And then his bonus upgrade is two highest value things, which is going to be this.

18:37 Woodland one, and he's got two fours. Oh, that's already upgraded. So it's got has to be this four. I don't get to choose. Just cuz it's his best thing, so he's now got a five in Savannah. We've only got one more turn. Uh restock, so energy. So I'm trying to offset them so you can see from a bird's eye view how many. But we've got a top one. A new tile here, please. Okay, so four energy for going here. Woodland and Savannah's not too bad for me. This could be a nice little woodland area here. This is another two. Join this up later. That'll be quite nice. We could get an end-game scoring card for two energy, save some as biofuel maybe. But he will then come here and I was saving that. So I don't think I do want to come here. I want to come to this tile. He will then take this tile afterwards.

19:24 Which means he'll get a seven ostrich. Maybe this isn't that important. You just get in a different desert. Just the end-game scoring cards aren't as useful. Like now. It's something to work towards getting them early. The land tiles with no empty spaces groups of all the three different sizes of water, number of wetland habitats with at least a creature in. Not as good for me cuz I've kind of joined them all up. And we can also play this Nile crocodile as well, don't forget. I'm going to come here. I'm going to place this. I'm going to update my dice a little bit so I keep track cuz that's now a three desert, but I can't place anything there yet. And then I'm going to pay two energy to take this tile. And I'm going to place this tile up here. Just so it connects now and surely we can get the woodlands working for us here. So this is now a size four and I can place myself a hyrax down here. I would love a better one. But that beats the three jackals he's got.

20:24 I know he's not going to upgrade on his turn cuz he is going to come here and he's going to get a predator and a seven savanna. So I can't really beat that, but I can beat that. So I've got two of the things one. And then I can spend three energy, which is all of my energy including my biofuel. I could take two snakes, a snake and a size one lake, or two size one lakes. If I don't spend it, it stays here. I think I could always spend two for another tile as well. It's tempting. So I'm getting kind of full up. I'm going to spend two on a new tile. So one here, one biofuel. I'm going to get my new tile. Where's it going to go? Between like some savanna and woodlands later. I think I'm going to place it like that. So, I've got minus two points for taking that, but we'll hopefully sort it out later. That's all of the energy that I can spend, I think.

21:14 So, we need to move this energy along. We need to fill these tiles in. And then he is going to pick There are two with four energy, so he's going to pick the one closest to me clockwise. He's going to get a size four plus three for the difficulty. Seven Savannah a wildebeest takes that away. And he's also going to take the leftmost predator and get himself a predator token. Because I don't really like the look of any of those predator cards. Let's have two fours or better in the same wetland location if they got both got established. They would be fours. So, the spotted neck dotter could be good for me. And then once they're established the Nile crocodile would also lock feasting on these African marsh rats, but we could do it. Okay, this is now full, which means we need some bird watching. So, first of all, the leftmost card of each row gets discarded.

22:16 And we fill back up. Then we evaluate the birds. So, fishers love bird. Most primates goes to the bots. These just get stacked up and they're a point each for the bots at the end of the game. A secretary bird of the best the highest value in the desert is my hyrax. So, I get two. Ostrich highest value in the Savannah is definitely the bot. And then finally most creatures in the wetlands is me with three. So, I get two from that. You now have to discard down to eight if you kept more, so spend them while you got them. The bot does not need to discard down. And that's that. We continue. Oh, didn't refill this tile. Now we continue. So, there's a three and a four available here. I like the look of Oh.

23:03 Oh, off camera by the way, the bot also has a size three lake. He will gain more when he gets these bonuses, which I think he will get one next time. I'm going to go for this cuz it's two more on the woodlands as well. Just like putting it here and it wouldn't link up enough like down here is probably best where I was thinking of putting it earlier. Like that's a size three, this is a size two and it could get bigger. Or do you put it like here and hope it'll link up later? I was thinking like a size three water would be nice for here. I'm going to pop it down there. I actually like popping the dice down everywhere. Not going to invite any more species just yet. So, we've got four energy, two buys me Oh. He didn't put his energy back out.

23:49 There we go. Um two buys me end game scoring cards. So, this is full tiles, your home tile and the extra ones you bought. Every wetlands with at least a creature in it, every size three water. Well, I can get one from the primate. So, I think sharp-tooth catfish, they don't fill up yet. Do you want to buy another or do you want to have it as biofuel? Or you could get another tile. I think I'm going to have it as biofuel. So, we get another couple, energy goes back out. Oh, he's not going to come up here, he's going to come down here. I don't like that as much. And he's going to get a tile there. His water might as well be on show, won't it? So, there's a three, there's a three, but this is the earliest clockwise. I don't know if I mind him taking that tile, but he's going to get himself a three wetland and then he gets the difficulty level in lakes, so another three lake.

24:44 He's now got six on that. But, I wasn't close to doing that, so maybe concentrate too much on this earlier on and lost the race on things, but I can still get it later by getting eight in things. And he's got six on that, so that's now finished. So, new tile comes out, the energy now comes out. Where do I want to go? I want one of these big forests, really, don't I? To well, link up here as well. But, I was thinking here, too. It'd be nice to have a huge. And this is a This is a two. Just here, he would get a three He would get a six. Desert. If I go here, he would choose one, two I know he'd choose this next time. So, that's not too bad. Yeah, come here. I can also get a primate card. I do want the tile. Just I always want the tile and not anything else.

25:31 Just putting wetlands in the middle, isn't it? It's helpful, but it would make it a huge area. So, we've got to recount now, cuz all this stuff's been linked up. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Now, I do I just want to have the best thing in there? Just cuz upgrading it as well, turns into a 12. But, we do want habitats with two or more creatures in. I'm going to go for the eight. There's There's still chance to expand it later. So, you would cost 2 3 4. I'm going to do that. I'm going to take this tile, so that's one biofuel spent. So, it'd be quite nice here, wouldn't it? We could, in fact, place it like this, cuz they're already all linked. So, this now becomes a five. I'm going to hold off, cuz I want better than seven. So, you would cost 2 3 4 5 more. I can afford it to get another one, but I don't think that's a wise thing. Primate card, this is get two tiles and place them. This is a biofuel for every extra extension you've got. Uh and this is establish a yellow and get a snake. Be good for making this savanna bigger. Try and win that next time.

26:37 Yeah, I'm going to spend two on getting this green monkey. I'm going to hopefully pop those down. Well, I haven't yet. I haven't You've got to not take a tile. I'm addicted to taking the tiles. Okay, bot is definitely going for the four energy space. So, taking that away, getting the size four here and a lake. Three, so it's now at nine on lakes. And then fill back up. Oh, I didn't fill that tile up last time. So, now thinking about energy. Neither of you let me take another tile. There's no sprouts on any of the tiles. Are you letting me get more tiles? You've only got two energy on. We could kind of go for that. What if we paid the two to get this tile?

27:26 So, keep things kind of wide and the options open. Even point it like that way. Think of how I can expand this. I can't really expand this desert later if I take this. No, not really. If you're willing to spend another energy, this one would expand your wetland, which isn't really a priority. It's better than cutting it off, I suppose. But, no, let's let's stay cheaper. Cuz you could still expand the woodland there. We've got a space on the woodland. So, you're now size seven. I'm going to pay three to do this again and take this tile. So, now it's size eight and closed. Oh, it's not closed off. We've got a couple of chances later to expand it. I'm popping an elephant in there. Size eight is the best and we can hopefully get that upgraded. We need another space for a snake to get the best use out of the green monkey.

28:19 So, I don't have to buy a field to get an extra tile, but we might be able to later. Yeah, but there's there's not enough habitat in it. You can get a seven. Just that only upgrades to a 10 and he can get a 10 and then it's your second best thing. Maybe we don't use the green monkey. Maybe we use an action to upgrade it. Right. Didn't use any of the other actions in there. Energy, you and you. Tiles, loads. And then we've got three energy in all these spaces, so he's going to go to the next one along. He's going to get a six. Savannah and a predator. Oh, I didn't refill these cards, huh? When I take them. Whoops. Okay. Takes the tile. And that's it, isn't it? Energy. There's four there now, but I can't upgrade someone here. It's not that I can work out what he's going to do though, can't I?

29:11 Like if I go here, he's definitely going to upgrade two animals. But if I go anywhere else, he's going to come here and get a seven desert, which definitely beat mine. So, I'm going to have to come here, I think. And maybe play the green monkey and just have to forfeit the snake. So, I didn't leave any space for him. That's okay, I think. So, we're not going to get the tile. We're going to go for the primates. The primate's going to go on here. You can't have a primate in an adjacent tile now. And I can establish a Savannah creature and get a snake. There's no There's not even a a one anywhere. So, unfortunately, not have the full benefit of that. But we've still got energy to do other stuff with. So, we could get What about Maybe there is. You could do two to get an extension.

30:04 Like say here with my special power. And then three to get an oasis. That's got a bit of Here you go. That That expands there. It's got a bit of yellow on it, so we can have a yellow snake. And there's a size three for later on here. So, that's been there. 1 2 3 4 and my biofuel. That seems pretty good cuz I will win. Not primates. So, I've got one. But best desert. Yes. Most here. Yes. Oh, won't he take desert away from me though? Yeah, white means they're lowest total value of animals. Oh, well, they would have beaten me on desert, I suppose, no matter what I did. But, yeah, they're going to beat me on desert.

30:49 Oh, no. Oh, well, maybe it'll be good for later. It's a 12 points. Uh so, they go to the thing now with four energy on it. And they're going to get a size four of the thing they've got the lowest total in. Oh, wait a minute, before we go any further. I have got I did this ages ago. I've got an eight. I did that in one go. Giraffe. It's going to change things. I've just gotten a 12. The savanna is well, so we can do that. So, the activist is a one-off. I did that for a reason as well with the giraffe. That's That's why I wanted it to be an eight as well. Would you know what? Let's undo all of that. The activist is discard an animal card to take an extra turn.

31:35 Surveyor is draw three cards and discard one. Which animal tile would you get rid of? Maybe the the catfish. You haven't gotten yourself any size three lakes. Not that you can't. Action. It's a bonus on this primate. So, we get rid of the primate. I'm going to take this activist. And I'm going to use their ability, so let's tuck them away. But, before we use the ability, we should take the savanna card. So, our savanna options are whenever you take an oasis, get a biofuel. Uh in bird scoring, whenever you score whenever you win, you get an extra uh energy, extra biofuel. And that's given to you after you discard down to eight. Uh at the end, when you get two points for everyone, you get an extra point. You're going for that one, even though you're worth two points as well.

32:21 No, we're going to going for the ornithologist. Okay, so I'm going to discard which one? A sharp-tooth catfish. Oh, no, I'm regretting it already. To have another turn. Cuz I can stop his thing from happening. Can you? Cuz like he can just come here. If he comes here, he gets a size four. If you go here, cuz I can upgrade things here as well. Like if I come here and take this, I kind of want there to be There's two creatures in there now, so I don't mind as much. Like if you expand the woodland, you can make a new savanna for something else. And maybe there's a size two savanna, you could put a snake in it. The size two in there for a snake later cuz we want two creatures in here at least, so it would be nice to get it a little bit bigger.

33:11 I'm going off the screen a bit, aren't I? And so I definitely want to upgrade a tile cuz then you'll be a five and he won't have the best thing. I don't have any bio fuel though. So I suppose the other two is going to get spent, so it's being used for something to upgrade someone else. And we do want like these two upgraded, let's me put a predator card down that I haven't managed to do yet. So yeah, we'll we'll upgrade them as the other action. We could have got a board, but no, I'm not going to. I think this works out that I'll win three majorities, which would be huge. So now, he still goes here. He still gets his size four desert. But that's not the best. Well, he would have tied for best and had second best where I had as I had nothing second best.

33:59 I could have had threes. You could put two threes down. Maybe you didn't need to do all that. Oh, well. It's happened now. You haven't put the tile out. Okay, he takes that tile away. And then upgrades his two best things, which will be this seven and this six. Okay. And then energy gets redistributed. Tile gets refilled. And we go for bird watching. So discard the cards. See some new ones. So I've got a two like, but I'd need several. Kind of all over the place competing for these birds potentially too much. I want them all. But especially with this ornithologist, I do. Then for the birds, most primates, him. Even though he's only got two, and you could have tied.

34:47 You would have been losing out on tiles. Uh so, he gets two biofuel for that. Best desert is me. I get two. Best savanna is me. I get two. Most wetlands is me. I get two. So, Discord down to eight, and then I won three bonuses, so I get three more. Okay. We take these off. It is the final four turns. What do I want to get done? We've got loads of biofuel for things. So, I kind of like this would expand something, but it would also let me get some end-game scoring cards. The termite empty space I've got one empty space. I could probably make more. Two empty spaces, you get 12 points.

35:34 Should have to remember to leave it blank, and it means the desert can never do something. Oh, the desert would need an oasis here. I couldn't have done what I was thinking of the other turn. That termite's card there seems doable, doesn't it? I'm going to come here. Do you want the tile? Kind of to surround things. Like this doesn't really join up very well, does it? They're the things that I've got out. So, maybe this is a good time to get the primate out cuz you've got some other chances to put two tiles here. There is a termite space already. Even if you don't do a second, that's seven points just as it is. We're going to come here and get termites for some end-game scoring. And then I'm going to spend one two on another. I could just keep buying loads, but they don't get refilled until the end.

36:20 I don't think I'm likely to get loads of different habitats, so as my main thing I'm going to not take the tile and play a primate card instead. Discard a card to get another player board, which is a bit scary cuz I've got to fill it up, and a size three water tile. Couldn't I use this to make the termite space? So, it needs to go in woodland, and it'd be nice to be on a tile that was connected to a lot of woodland, like this one, cuz of how they score. So, another player board and a size three lake.

36:51 [snorts]

36:51 Which would give me five towards the Oh, he's definitely at the six he needs. A jaguar. So, I've had my I've had my savanna. I don't know if I'm going to get one of each. And we need to think about trying to fill like these spaces up. Like with just sticking a tile down there. What about Try to think where would be good to leave like a termite space. See, if here, you only need a couple of tiles already, don't you? Get the mountains working for you. Now, what about up here to expand? Oh, that would be perfect, but that's not connected to the water. Oh, but there we go. That works. There's a termite space. I don't need to do anything else. And you're a three. We could get a second animal in here. Maybe we'll make it bigger before the end. I don't know about that. So, we're not taking that tile. Are you doing any more actions? No. We'll leave it there.

37:40 So, energy. 1 2 3. Bot. Three energy is the most, so he's going to come over here. So, he's going to get himself a size three woodland, a size three lake, and get rid of that tile. And then distribute this energy. So, we've got four energy going on here. Don't really want him to have a wetland thing again. This would be a great This would be a seven woodland for him if he came here, and another primate. So, I don't really want him to go there, either. But, maybe we just can't compete on primates. At the moment, we're tied, aren't we? I think if you go anywhere else, he's going to come here. If you come here, he's going to go there. The tile's not particularly useful, and I don't have any primates. But come in here. I know he'll get the size four.

38:27 I'm going to have to get a snake or something to compete with him on wetlands a bit and hopefully I can get that done. I'm going to come here. I don't know that I want that tile. It's down here. You get yourself that would be a five woodland. Does it have sprout on it? No. So you know I can get a primate. The two. Oh, this should have been refilled, shouldn't it? The end of my turn. Oases. I've got two. Still two points. Is this number of mountains? Or size of your largest mountain range. I haven't been grouping them. So I've got three extra wolves. That would be three biofuel. I do want to upgrade you and get a snake out. Ooh. Discard an animal card to place two tiles from the rondel. Yellow baboon. I want the yellow baboon. Two of this.

39:12 Where can he go? And the best we're getting is like three points out of him with things I've placed so far. Is this third primate as well? Maybe Maybe I can get all the majorities at the end. Two so that it's got to be one away from him. Like this this is one away from all of them. Um and then we can upgrade you. So not taking the tile. Remember you're not taking the tile. And there is space for a size one snake. Yeah, we're not going to expand here. There's also space for more snakes. There's size one there, size one there. Yellow baboon, thank you very much. Then we can put a predator at. We have two happy established wetlands creatures at last. So I can take a bonus from here. This just Oh, he should have taken the leftmost two when he took predator cards. There would have been subtitles.

40:02 Okay, cuz I was going to take oasis. A size two lake. There is a scoring card out for that. And another snake. Discarding cards. I haven't really I want to keep these cards, I think. I think I'm going to go for a size two lake and a snake. Just size two lake gives you more wetlands. But I don't really need that. I don't think I can connect it up to cover up a You could just get a card. You get another scoring card. Get a size two lake another way. Get more oasis. You've already got two. It'll get something cool in a desert. Yeah, just get an animal. Cuz what you get is snake. No, we can get snakes another way. I want to go for desert locust. Yeah. So, I don't think I want to place herbivores yet. If you placed a three in the desert, you could have the specialist. Well, you can. But I I want to place a better one later. That's it.

40:55 I'm stopping there. Why you have to still? You've got energy still. Do you want to take a tile? Yes. I want to take two three. So, one two three. I'll take this tile here. Expand my desert so I could get a five down at least. Hoping to get that bigger. Before I put someone in. Or Yeah, cuz I don't know if five is going to be able to compete to be the biggest thing. You buy another one? You've got biofuel. Nah, later. Okay. Fill the tiles up. Energy. One two three. So, this is definitely got the most of size four. So, he gets a size four, but he's still not in the lead with that. And then another lake. One two three four. New tile comes out. So, now four energy is here.

41:46 We would put four energy here next time. So, he'd have a seven savanna thing. This still not going to compete with mine. So, I'm kind of not worried about that. It's coming here. I don't need another tile though right now. I get more tiles, but coming this way, I don't really care as much about them. I can care from coming from here, but there's no energy here. Surely any tile is worth having and popping down. Well, ideally this one. So, if you came here, it would cost you 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Just to keep it open, and you could put another one down to make it even bigger, but I don't think we'd ever get there. You could make him go there if you went somewhere else cuz it would have the most energy. Oh, fill these up, and you could get like a predator instead. Number of tiles in one habitat. I've got four right now.

42:32 There's only one energy here. Come there a future time. So, it's not as important I've got energy. But, he'll be putting it in it next time, so you wouldn't have to spend as much. If you came here, he would still go there, and you could go there next time as the last turn. You get a predator here. Is there a predator that can help? Two four or better in the same habitat. No. Oh, you're a primate. I do apologize. Leopard two upgraded. Woodlands, that's not going to happen. He'd have to be connected the wetlands and the No, no predators are helpful. You could just upgrade tiles down here, though. And then maybe that would make predators useful. Maybe that Yeah, good idea. Because you could pop a pouched rat a three in here right now. There's space for it.

43:17 And then you could spend two four upgrading them twice. We can spend two getting a leopard. Oh, you haven't put the You haven't put the predator out. There's one per animal tile. So, the leopard could go out on there and get me Is a particular card I would get rid of? You could pick up a card you don't want, and then pick up like another predator and scoring card. Cuz the lake, as we've seen, doesn't really cover things up in a way that I want. No, go for the lake. Go for the lake there. So, you will now a size two. And the snake we're just going to get a one desert here. I'm going to take the tile. So, you've still got five spaces in you.

44:05 I know, but snakes don't need oases, do they? No, snakes don't need them. The herbivores do, so we can still take a springbok and then spend two upgrading him. That's another place with two. And the episode size is two. So maybe that's not useful putting the snake there. Or was it size six? So you could take a three and a three, but it still leaves you at risk of him getting a better desert thing. But then you need you need oases to put two down. Oh, forget this. You only need to do it three times. I've just realized that doesn't count as it. I've done it twice at the moment. Forget the snake and just put the best thing down and upgrade that for points.

44:51 So that was a size six. The snake can be can be a size two snake. There isn't really room anywhere. If you put an oasis there, you'd be able to have a size two snake and then a size three creature. And then that would work. Yeah, get a size two snake. So now you want to come somewhere with an oasis as your last turn. But we have got eight. I know, seven. In rivers Oh, no. Close. Okay, a lot got done there. Energy, one, two, three. Tile there. Best is definitely here. So he's going to come and get a one, two, three, four savanna and another lake. He's got so many. Takes the tile away. And then stack up.

45:38 Tile comes back. And I wanted to come here for the butterfly cuz what cuz you're two Oh, no, cuz you are with seven points. Oh, we've got an eight in the desert. We've got an eight in the desert. That was another advantage of doing the gazelle like that. So after bird watching and I think in solo this only happens at the end of the game, you can pick one of the cards from the display, or the botanist is pick a column of cards and then discard a card. Doesn't have to be one of the ones you just took. So, we should be full up. We could get a primate. I'm I'm winning primates. So, at the moment, he's going to go getting desert and upgrading isn't going to hurt me having the best desert, is it? I kind of want him to go here. I would like to keep upgrading creatures, though.

46:24 I'm going to go for the botanist and get a column of cards. We're going to get this column. So, we know the chameleon is going to get us already the full seven points. So, we don't have to think about doing anything for that. The African wildcat would score I don't know, two different mountain ranges. Ah, this I don't know how I saw this as a connected thing when this is nothing to do with it and these two are broken up anyway. Okay, the African wildcat's getting discarded, then. So, maybe we're putting Campbell's monkey out. So, I'm going to come here. Yeah, I think more than the tile, I'm going to place the primate. So, it could be there and gets me two snakes. Let's say another thing in this wetlands here and we can pop one in this forest, too, and there's still a space left.

47:10 So, I'm not taking the tile. I'm going to spend three energy to get an oasis, which I don't really mind. Oh, we could do this. And now you're size three cuz you've got a sprout on. So, I can pop you out there. You're size three cuz you've got a sprout on, so I can pop you out there. It's all coming together. And I have one energy left that I can't use for anything, but it's okay, isn't it? I think we've still done a ton of stuff. So, finally, put the energy out. The bot now comes here, which isn't ideal. Thing he's worst at is desert, I think. So, he's going to take a three desert. That's not going to compete. And then upgrade his two best things.

47:57 So, I think it's four souls is all that he can upgrade. So, upgrade you can upgrade this four and this four. None of that gets in the way of me. Takes the tile. And then I don't think upgrading this time and stuff matters because it's the end of the game. Uh we don't play one extra round in the solo game. Uh we do final bird watching, which is points two points instead of biofuel. So, most primates is me. Best desert thing is me. Best savanna thing is me. Most wetlands things is me. So, that's 2 4 6 8 plus one for each, 12 points there. West center. So, final bird watching, 12 points.

48:43 Primates score you a point for every connected bit of habitat that is the same as the one they're on. So, this one has got 1 2 3 connected. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Predators score you based on the value of the creature that they're on. Uh so, value four gets you two points, value 12 gets you four points, so six. And then don't do a third one. I was just planning that, I think. Six points for predators. End game scoring, we've got the chameleon. Number of creatures in the same habitat, I've got four, so that's seven points. I've got three oases for another four, so that's 11.

49:34 Termites, one. Oh, you filled in your termite space, you fool. It's probably worth it. I hope it was worth it. So, that's another seven. Uh so, 18. Habitats with multiple creatures size two or more. So, we've got one here. Got the woodlands here is another. The wetlands for three. That's a one, so it doesn't count. So, three three is max though, so that's another seven. So, that's 25 on butterfly cards. On the specialist cards, I've got two points.

50:02 [snorts]

50:03 Fish. 2 4 7 Never got the specialist for fish. It's something to shoot for really early because they give you like whenever you place this creature, it gets immediately um established. Or like placing a different type gets you biofuel or snakes and stuff. Really really useful to shoot for early. But, I was occupied with other things, wasn't I? Then it's your creatures. So, what we got? 3 15 20 24 27 31 33 36 41 43 45 46 58 66 minus one for every oil spill which is 1 2 3 which I think gives me 129.

50:50 And then the bot didn't get anything for birds. Managed to get them all. And then the value of their stuff essentially and a point each for the biofuel that I did a good job of getting off them actually. So, what have they got? 9 12 27 35 45 49 57 62 65 69 75 which is more than me, but they haven't got any of those other categories. 3 6 9 12 15 18 for the lakes and then 2 4 6 for the biofuel. Puts them on 99 to my 129, so a pretty decisive victory there. But, I say this this difficulty level three, you can step it up all the way to eight.

51:37 And they would start off with four eights for majorities and they'd have all of these specialist things, so you won't be able to sneak in with one early cuz they start with eight on the lakes and stuff as well. But, if you have more VP than the poachers, you've built a thriving ecosystem strong enough to save the animals from extinction. Which is good enough for me. But, either way, I'm I'm sure there were little goofs and things along the way. The score is irrelevant. Hopefully, the main point of the video that I've given you an idea of how Wildscape plays and if you'll be interested in getting a copy for yourself, it's on pre-order now at Karma Games. The link is in the description. If you'd like to see more from me, there are over a thousand playthroughs on the channel that you could check out. Uh maybe more Karma Games like Clans of Caledonia and its expansion. But, tons of others as well. And you can support me in the description if you would like to as well. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you for the next game. Bye, everyone.