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I added those. It also makes the game more personable. I paid under $10 for my human-meeples, and got many more than I actually needed. I use them for D&D monsters.
I added those. It also makes the game more personable. I paid under $10 for my human-meeples, and got many more than I actually needed. I use them for D&D monsters.
That's funny because I was thinking of using D&D miniatures and monsters as Agricola people. ;-)
I just played this game last weekend at Dragon*Con with a group of strangers. It was the first time playing for each of us, and we all loved it! I liked it so much that not only have I since ordered the game, but also the whole slew of Euro token replacements (resources, meeples, and animeeples).
The folks I played with mostly unanimously preferred the animal shaped tokens to the cube animals, though we did have one player who preferred to use, as he called it, "sheep bullion cubes".
I'm really looking forward to getting my friends to try this game, I feel confidant they will love it too.
MichaelSomething
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I've played a fair amount of Le Havre.
Le Havre is a little more low key in certain ways. In Agricola, I tend to find myself playing pretty close to the edge, where skillful play by an opponent could cause me problems. In Le Havre its really tough to block someone from what they need, because of the nature of the turn system means you can just go elsewhere and get something similar, or wait a short time and get what you originally wanted. You feel less time pressure in Le Havre.
But Agricola is more friendly to new players, I think, because the theme works so well. And the cards give a lot of variety that Le Havre doesn't have. Le Havre uses special buildings for variety, but they just don't have as much of an effect as a hand of cards.
They're both good games. Its kind of weird, really- Le Havre feels more like a gamer's game, with its ships and boats and strategies that only make sense if you pour over the cards on the table for a while and learn how buildings that won't exist for another hour of gameplay will affect the table once they're constructed. But its actually a lower pressure game in a lot of ways, because the worst that can happen to you is you having to take out loans, and those aren't that big of a deal to pay off.
Le Havre is a little more low key in certain ways. In Agricola, I tend to find myself playing pretty close to the edge, where skillful play by an opponent could cause me problems. In Le Havre its really tough to block someone from what they need, because of the nature of the turn system means you can just go elsewhere and get something similar, or wait a short time and get what you originally wanted. You feel less time pressure in Le Havre.
But Agricola is more friendly to new players, I think, because the theme works so well. And the cards give a lot of variety that Le Havre doesn't have. Le Havre uses special buildings for variety, but they just don't have as much of an effect as a hand of cards.
They're both good games. Its kind of weird, really- Le Havre feels more like a gamer's game, with its ships and boats and strategies that only make sense if you pour over the cards on the table for a while and learn how buildings that won't exist for another hour of gameplay will affect the table once they're constructed. But its actually a lower pressure game in a lot of ways, because the worst that can happen to you is you having to take out loans, and those aren't that big of a deal to pay off.
Crothian
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Awesome, I'll have to pick that up for my buddy.
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