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Have you played Wingspan with serious board gamers?

I find the returns to skill in it are, if anything, greater than in Agricola, which is also one of my favorites.

The tension is all about the competition for a complementary strategy to what your opponents are doing.

Some people just don’t like weakly interactive engine builders, which is a fair objection to it, but it’s quite deep.

One weakness is that the Corvidae are too strong; many experts seem to have converged on either removing them or nerfing them.