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Agricola ZMG 7026
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Features
- Tokens, Scoring Pad
- 50+ Tiles, 9 Boards
- 360 Cards, Over 300 Wooden Components
- 1-5 players, ages 12 and up, 120 minutes
Product Description
Agricola
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User Reviews for Agricola ZMG 7026
Not your average boardgame
Agricola blends trading card game strategy in a unique, balanced format where foresight, understanding your opponent and risks are all rewarded. As with any other good board game, the rules and mechanics simply make sense after three rounds of play. New comers will immediately be confused by the sheer number of options, tokens, markers, play styles and what seems to be a mound of rules to remember. Once you overcome this initial confusion, the game becomes fast paced and truly enjoyable. TCG Players will enjoy the planning and added depth of strategy the Minor Improvements and Occupations bring.
I do not recommend this game for those who have not tried another Euro style or another advanced board game. For those looking to get into the board game scene, I suggest Settlers of Catan or Acquire. Both these games have recently been re-released making them easily obtainable and quite inexpensive.
Before you buy this game, I highly suggest you read the rules and look up a number of video demos online prior to your purchase. Having a basic understanding of the game will help you first unpack this hefty box.
A wonderful Board Game
After looking for a board game to move to after years of playing settlers of catan, I purchased this game. While it is not exactly like Settlers (thankfully), it is comparable and everyone has enjoyed it as much as that game.
Once learned the game takes very little time to play through, in fact the game feels shorter and shorter each time we play. It is a strategy game which demands that you plan ahead and make the most of each move. It seems that chance is a minor role when compared to settlers.
This game has many modes to play through and allows for years of gameplay.
I would recommend watching a youtube video on how to play when you get this game, if you do not have someone to teach you. As others have said, the rules don\'t make sense to newbies. They are clear after you have played the game through, but I know there were many, \"Ah-ha!\" moments while watching the video like, \"thats an action square!\" and others.
Excellent Fun!
My partner and I are brand new Eurogames, although we\'ve been playing \"Ameritrash\" for several years. We bought Agricola because we wanted to try a board game that didn\'t involve dice and - more importantly - pure chance in order to win. I did some online research and hit on Agricola, which we were drawn to because of its farming theme.
First, like another reviewer said, one box contains a surprisingly satisfying amount of stuff for one game, everything from little wooden fences to discs representing crops and building materials. It takes us about 10 minutes to set up the game, but we think that that\'s part of the fun.
We\'ve only played the 2 player version so far (we\'re hoping to entice family members to join in on the fun soon), and we\'ve found that it takes anywhere from 30 - 45 minutes to play through. Each turn follows the same \"routine\" that revolves around making decisions (sowing crops, building pens, making food, etc.) fundamental to running a successful family farm in 17th century Europe. The flow of the game repeats a number of elements, but there\'s enough chance in laying different cards at different times to make each game unique and challenging in its own right.
I do, however, have two gripes, and these might have more to do with my novice status as a game player than the game\'s faults.
1. We had a really hard time understanding the directions enough to get an idea of the fundamentals of the game. The booklet would refer to \"the family board,\" for example, without identifying which of the six or so boards in the box was the family board. What is a \"food disc\" in one page is a \"food chit\" on another. This might not seem like a big deal, but when a game has dozens and dozens of components...
We even had a hard time figuring out how to begin the game. After carefully unpacking and sorting everything and reading the directions at least four times, we finally went online. Between a couple of useful step-by-step reviews and a wonderfully instructive video on YouTube, we got ourselves straightened out.
2. Some of the components run out before the end of the game. The first time we played, we ran out of sheep. The second time it was wheat. Maybe it\'s the novice way we\'re playing, but we\'ve already decided that we\'re going to invest in more Meeple animals and produce if we get really serious about Agricola.
I highly recommend Agricola if you\'re looking for a challenging strategy game.
Great Strategy Game
Agricola is a fun game to play that is moderately difficult to learn and very tough to master. Playable with 1-5 people, the game takes about 2 hours with multiple players but goes much quicker with just 2.
The goal is to build a diversified, productive farm from very humble beginnings while feeding and growing a \"family.\" The more family members you have, the more actions you can take each round, and the more you can accomplish. But large families take more food and ensuring an adequate food supply can be tough.
Each player gets 14 cards that can be used to modify the existing rules and help the players toward victory. Limited resources are what keeps the game challenging, everybody wants everything but you can only take so much.
The game is sturdy, using wooden pieces and good card stock, but the inclusion of the old-fashioned Avalon Hill or SPI counter tray would have made managing the pieces much easier.
Overall, the game is somewhat expensive but the replay value is high and learning \"the perfect\" strategy is made all the more difficult due to the diversity of cards.
I may have found my new favorite board game!
I have been an active player of board games for at least 35 years. I\'ve played games at all levels of complexity, ranging from tournament level Avalon-Hill bookcase games to family and party card and boardgames. For the past five or so years my favorite board game has been \"The Settlers of Catan\" (and its variants), that is, until I played \"Agricola\".
OK, first, a bit about the game...
Each player in the game (up to 5 can play) represent a farmer in 1670 AD and his spouse. About now you may be thinking, \"yawn,\" but just wait, there is some real strategy and fun to be had here. Play progresses as players use their farmer and spouse each turn to do different things including the possibility of building a larger house, raising crops, fencing in pastures, collecting food, collecting animals, having children (that can also work each turn), etc. All the way through the game there is a real challenge when it comes to feeding your family, and improving your lot in life. You can improve your chances of success by playing occupation cards that give your players different capabilites, and by playing cards that represent a variety of differing improvements to your house, fields, etc.
The neat thing about this game is that every occupation card and every improvement card is unique, and because players are dealt only a limited number of cards at the beginning of the game, the game is never the same twice.
This game takes about twice as long to play as a round of \"The Settlers of Catan\", but the time flies when you play.
Many websites that rank the popularity of games are seeing this game climb rapidly to the top of those rankings.
If you enjoy a game that employs a small element of luck (the cards you are dealt), and a large degree of strategy (what to work to have your family members do each turn), then this game may be for you. So, if you have taken games like \"The Settlers of Catan\", \"Ticket to Ride\", and \"Carcassone\" as far as you can and you are ready for a bit larger gaming challenge then you will not be disappointed with this offering.
OK, one last experience - my wife and I were playing this game recently when our 9-yr-old daughter came up and asked, \"Is that game like the \'Game of Life\'?\" After a moment\'s reflection I told her it was more like the game of \"real\" life. You know, working hard, scrambling to feed the family, accumulating different commodities to improve the house, etc.
When I opened my copy of the game I was impressed that the game company had the foresight to go so far as to include a bag of small reclosable plastic bags that can be used to separate the different pieces and types of cards from each other, thus helping keep the game better organized in the box and making for quicker set-up times whenever you want to play. Thanks Z-Man Games!
This game is worth far more than 5 stars!
I believe that this game will remain a favorite of mine for many years to come.
I hope this review was helpful.
Note: One last thing, it is WAY easier to learn to play this game if you can hook up with someone that already plays the game than by reading the rules on your own.
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