really appreciate the kind words, they are what keep me going!

Thanks Horse appreciate that. Like I said I am really interested in all the different combinations. Have you experimented much there. Any matchups you enjoy?

@@Neon_Gorilla can't see I can comment on that. I'm mew to root and I only have the base game at the moment. waiting for expansions to be delivered. So we've been mostly playing Marquise VS Eyrie. Tried other factions once but I don't think they work well in 2p.

Yeah that is the problem.

really appreciate the kind words!

I was wondering about the hireling pass dynamic. I thought it was curious that you could choose. I wonder how often it is used to bury someone with two players working together. Do you ever play online?

@@Neon_Gorilla I do not. Never was to fond of the style, opposed to the lovely meeples. Yeah the passing hirelings makes another layer of game play. People would avoid giving it to the leader, so it balances. Until someone else takes the lead, then the previous leader gets hirelings. It's funny. Or two partners make an alliance and just pass a hireling back and forth, until they realize one is so powerful, they can't give the hireling.

@@willboy334 ah yeah I suppose they will self correct.

If you play at 2 players mauraders is a must! I just ordered landmarks to see how those can spice things up as well.

@@Neon_Gorilla Those are also a great addition. Super fun and extra actions are always welcome!

The keepers operated mostly in one half. Lord had no incentive to push past 6 learning to maximize thier points. It was never a perfect half and half like visual representation. It’s was simply to illustrate that in order to maximize each of their faction specific scoring opportunities they only need half of the board.

@@Neon_Gorilla Your son is nicer than mine. The only incentive he needs is to do non optimal moves is to see the despair in my eyes while I lose all hope :D

That is fair. Now if I were playing with my wife I would be scared. Just started playing dead reckoning with her and all she wants to do is build her cards up for battle and sink me which now has me thinking I should reintroduce her to root.

Thanks….just a little experiment

Ooooh that is awful and actually surprising! German of all languages seems like one that would have support.

@@Neon_Gorilla yeah, not quite sure what went wrong there. The original publisher just wasn't good enough at running a business I guess! The new publisher now has to play catch up with all the content :-)

Bummer

Replace them with the lord of the hundred. Problem solved :)

I am curious. What do you find boring about them? Have you tried being more aggressive?

I used to think cats were boring too, but after playing hundreds of games on the app (before Underworld expansion was released) I realized just how interesting and dynamic they were. They don't have any flashy gimmicks the way other factions do but a good cats player needs to make use of Root's most brilliant mechanic: rule. Cats start by ruling most of the map so they have a good starting network. Every action matters and positioning to maintain rule and block enemy movement is critical. When I'm in a random lobby of players and I see the cats player making very efficient and optimised actions, I can tell it's going to be a good game. They have a higher skill floor than other factions so what you tend to find is the more you play them, the more you enjoy them.

I would say play the base game Erie vs Marquis until you get board and know if you really like it. If so marauders is the natural choice for only two players. A cheaper option might be to buy the individual hirelings and ad to your base game. The underworld expansion gives you one viable option with the dutchy. The riverfolk expansion only really gives you the mechanical marquis that gave help a two player game. Exiles and partisans is nice but doesn’t necessarily help the two player game. I hope this helps.