by dkeisen
downstream wrote:
dkeisen wrote:
And I will disagree. Pastures and yellow tiles are the best direct point gainers, but they provide no help at all in your velocity of getting tiles on your board. If you focus so heavily on those, then I do not see how you can keep up in the points for completing regions categories...
I agree, and an important thing to remember that seems to be missing from the original analysis are the fact that green and beige tiles essentially act as extra actions, as do silver in a more indirect way. If someone is focusing on these, they are going to have more actions than you, and will beat you in the race to complete regions.
Personally, I tend to ignore animals in this game, since there always seem to be more important things to do. I focus on green, beige, and try to grab helpful yellow tiles (either in game effects or bonus points), when they come up and match my strategy well. Silver I will grab when I can but they sometimes seem scarce.
That said, I am probably missing out on an aspect of the game by ignoring the animal tiles. I plan to try to be more flexible in my next game.
I do the exact same thing, and yeah, animals can be worth a lot too. Plus more strategy to learn by going a different avenue.