Agricola - Take 2
Sep. 22nd, 2008 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwangoWe tried Agricola again tonight. Last time, which was our first game, we set up for a 3-player game, and then a 4th player showed up when we were only a turn or so in and we restarted... forgetting to make the changes to the game that you're supposed to have for 4 people. Oops. We discovered this at the end of the game, and it went some way towards explaining why the game was all about suffering and barely being able to feed one's family (or actually failing to feed one's family, in my case).
This time we played correctly. We also played with the Occupations and Minor Improvements, which both make the game slightly more complicated but easier in terms of overcoming the obstacles you meet trying to get your farm to work. Due to a misreading of the scoring rules, I attempted to build an unrivaled collection of vegetables. I would be the Vegetable Overlord. People would come from miles around to witness my absurd collection of vegetables, each of which was worth 1 point. The only problem is, the number of points you can get from your vegetables maxes out at 4. Oops. This was pointed out to me after I had already accumulated quite a collection of them, and so I just cooked them for food instead. My family should have turned orange from the number of carrots I fed them. In fact, I think my people were strict vegetarians. While it's true that I slaughtered a few sheep for food, it was only so I could trade that food with my Seed Seller occupation to get vegetables and grain.
We all did considerably better than last time. I think my score for our first game was 15, and this time it was 53. Instead of having a 3 person family going hungry in a 3-room wooden hovel next to a lot of wasted farmland, this time my family of 5 ate nourishing vegetarian meals with glasses of sparkling chilled pumpkin juice and lived in a sprawling stone mansion with 6 rooms next to 4 plowed fields and spacious pastures for their many animals. They even got an actual fireplace. It was luxury beyond imagining.
This time we played correctly. We also played with the Occupations and Minor Improvements, which both make the game slightly more complicated but easier in terms of overcoming the obstacles you meet trying to get your farm to work. Due to a misreading of the scoring rules, I attempted to build an unrivaled collection of vegetables. I would be the Vegetable Overlord. People would come from miles around to witness my absurd collection of vegetables, each of which was worth 1 point. The only problem is, the number of points you can get from your vegetables maxes out at 4. Oops. This was pointed out to me after I had already accumulated quite a collection of them, and so I just cooked them for food instead. My family should have turned orange from the number of carrots I fed them. In fact, I think my people were strict vegetarians. While it's true that I slaughtered a few sheep for food, it was only so I could trade that food with my Seed Seller occupation to get vegetables and grain.
We all did considerably better than last time. I think my score for our first game was 15, and this time it was 53. Instead of having a 3 person family going hungry in a 3-room wooden hovel next to a lot of wasted farmland, this time my family of 5 ate nourishing vegetarian meals with glasses of sparkling chilled pumpkin juice and lived in a sprawling stone mansion with 6 rooms next to 4 plowed fields and spacious pastures for their many animals. They even got an actual fireplace. It was luxury beyond imagining.
