Agricola (Revised Edition)

EvEvanstar7,2

There was a time when I was obsessed with Agricola. The trouble I wound up in was this repetitive feeling I got when forced to expand my worker pool. The dance to see who got to use the family growth action first, and who got to use the family growth without room spot got tiresome. I tried solving this apparent issue by over-expanding the game. I bought every card deck, and the Farmers of the Moore expansion. The problem wasn't solved, but the game did get unwieldy. I had to use white cardboxes to old the overflow. I liked the extra action cards you could select with the Moore expansion, but it always frustrated me that the card backs were different, and so it couldn't be smoothly integrated into the game. I sold the lot some time ago when Caverna came out, as Caverna has a many-workers strategy and a few-workers strategy. Well, some time went by and I played someone else's copy of Agricola again, and it went more or less how I remembered. It did feel good to get back into it even if the experience itself hadn't changed remarkably. That's when I got curious about the revised edition. The revised edition re-balances the cards, and cuts the player count down to 4. Perhaps this helps to lessen some of the issues I had? I'm not sure yet. For now this sits on the shelf waiting for me to get the itch again. I'm hoping it re-lights the fire in my heart for Agricola. ★ Art, Iconography and components functional ★ Clever or interesting mechanisms ★ Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players ★ Multiple plays stay interesting ★ Low or mitigatable luck elements ★★★☆☆ Raw enjoyment

MeMestremutenstar10,0

Rating: 5/5 Production value: 4/4 Is the game in my collection/Love to have?: 1/1