Radlands 101: How to Play: Beginner's Tips

Today's how to play lesson will be going over five beginner tips to improve your gameplay of Radlands by Roxley games. Now I won't list the five tips here because I want you to watch the video but feel free to share your own tips in the comments.
Stay thirsty Punks!
P.S. Shout out to the designer, Daniel Piechnick, whose various help and insight across forums and fan pages helped to compile this list. He is very active in the community and I think I speak for most everyone when I say we all appreciate that. Find him as @Daniel_P on BGG Radlands forums and as 'Trusty Dan' on the official Roxley Radlands Facebook page.

[@swadeshi6666]

holy wow!!! a whole channel dedicated to Radlands, you are a saviour for us newbies.

[@genmaverick117]

My man Pierce! Good job.

[@maskim3]

Thanks for the tips Pubk, have my sub !

[@jimgrant9081]

What are some ways that an opponent can take advantage of a player that relies too much on raiders? Is it simply that the player won’t have been able to build up as many other options and defenders?