I honestly preferred Agricola over Puerto Rico, but i think they can be both placed in the top rank game. Both are really great.
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Kylearan Wrote:By the way, I just noticed it's not the original Carcassonne on Yucata.de, it's a spin-off called "Jäger und Sammler" (Hunters and Gatherers) which is a very similar game but not the same. In fact I think the original Carcassonne is better than Jäger und Sammler, but YMMV. I guess they weren't allowed to do a version of the real Carcassonne because there are several commercial versions already. Yes, I should have explained that too. They used to have the regular carcassonne but when they developed the iphone app, yucata.de had to switch to Carcassonne: Hunters and gatherers. Personally I prefer this version - the meadows are clearer and less overpowered than the farms from the original. I intend to explain this game as we go through, but for now you do this: Draw a tile, place a tile and then you may place a meeple in a forest or on a river on the tile you just placed. You cannot place a meeple on a feature that another player has one, but if features join up then you both get the points when the feature is finished. When a forest is finished you get 2 points per forest tile and when a river is finished you get 1 point per river tile + 1 point per fish if the river is ended by a lake that contains fish. I'll get onto meadows later. If you finish a forest with a gold nugget, you get to immediately place a bonus tile. Quote:sooooo, how is Agricola? Is there a game that it can be compared to? It's on my wishlist for some time now because of some great reviews, but I haven't bought it yet as I already have too many games that I've never come around to actually play. My wife is not interested in board games. I think it's very good - very tense. But I'd only get it if I knew I had a regular game group. It's fairly long to play and to set up. My favourite game for my wife and I to play is Battle Line - we have played this >50 times last year. Also we like ticket to ride. I have never played Puerto Rico so cannot enter that debate.
OK, firstly an explanation of the Speicherstadt, named after the warehouse region of the port of Hamburg.
![[Image: 98888634.jpg]](http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/687/98888634.jpg) There are x+1 columns, where x is the number of players. At the bottom of each column is a card that you can bid on. By bidding on a card, you place a meeple on the bottom row of that column. In the picture above, I have placed my orangle meeple over the contract, letting me have first option to purchase the contract. Kylearan is up next. He can either place a meeple on one of the other cards or he can put one on the same column as mine, above it. By doing so he raises the demand for that card and I would now have to pay 2 for it instead of 1. In this way, we all take it in turns to place our 3 meeples until all 12 are out. Then we have the options of buying cards. If at this stare there were 3 other meeples above my contract it would cost me 4 to buy. I may decide that that is too expensive, so I would take off my meeple. The next person above then has the option of buying it for 3 (one less than I could have bought it for) and so on. Thus all 4 cards are bought (or not). Now onto what the cards are worth. The main way to score points is buying contracts and then getting goods to fulfill them. My contract above would score 8 points if I put a brown, white and yellow good on it. Goods come on ships - each ship carries 3 random goods and there are no ships in the first round. If you buy a ship card you can do what you want with the goods. The traders (there are two above, a red and a white one) let you sell goods for 1 each (the normal exchange ratio is 2 goods for 1) and also are worth a point for having them. The warehouse above: Normally you can only store 1 good that is not on a contract. With the warehouse you can store up to 4. And finally the fireman. 4 times during the game there will be a fire (fires 1, 2, 3 and 4). The person with the highest total of firemen gains points (either 1, 2, 3 or 4) and the person with the least firemen loses that many points. Each turn you only get 1 coin, so be careful what you spend your money on! If you don't buy anything in a round, you get an extra coin. There are other special cards that are self-explanatory. For example, the bank gets you an extra coin a turn. The counting houses are worth points depending on how many you have. Some cards give you points depending on how many ships you have bought etc.
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I'd play Stone Age again, but I think it's full. I'm happy to play any other game except Nile River game. And, due to time, I should probably only play 1, so slot me into whichever game, if any, would benefit from another player.
Vaguely related to boardgames, would anyone be interested in playing a Realms Beyond game of Werewolf/Mafia? If there is some interest I'll start a separate thread.
Selrahc: Could do.
Uberfish & Sunrise: I invited you two to a game of stone age. Amelia: I started a 2p Thurn and Taxis. EDIT: Sunrise, For a 3-p game of stone age there are a couple of differences. Firstly only two of the three spots in the "village", that's the farmer space, the tool hut and the love hut can be occupied. Also only up to two players can collect any single type of resource. So if two of us have people collecting wood the third player cannot collect wood also. |
