Reply: Le Havre:: News:: Re: New print run 2017
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File: Le Havre:: Wariant dla 1, 2, 3 graczy - skumulowane akcje, tylko budynki umożliwiające kombosy
by Vaader
New File: Wariant dla 1, 2, 3 graczy - skumulowane akcje, tylko budynki umożliwiające kombosy for Board Game: Le Havre↧
Reply: Le Havre:: News:: Re: New print run 2017
by Hanno
Ponton wrote:
Karlsen wrote:
Australian edition? :whistle:
Nah, we 'muricanized it.
Yep. Great Lakes edition.
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Reply: Le Havre:: News:: Re: New print run 2017
by OchreOgre
Nooooo...everything will smell like dead fish! :)(I live very near to Lake Michigan, we always hope for westerly breezes, easterly are typically...smelly)
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Reply: Le Havre:: Rules:: Re: Rules tweak for loans in newer editions from Uwe
by SliceOfBread
klbush wrote:
waddball wrote:
I'm surprised people are playing it wrong. The rules are really clear, and there's even a little sidebar to reinforce it.
Is it really fair to expect people to read the rules?
Of course I'm being facetious but I would bet that MOST people have never read the rules, they just play after being TAUGHT by someone who should have read the rules.
To be fair, although I played with others who had previously played, I read the rules and I taught the game. I take responsibility for reading what made sense vs. what was actually written. It's pretty clear I'm not the only one who did. Next time I'll play the official game as opposed to the most played accidental variant. :)
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New Image for Le Havre
by bruno555
<div>containers</div>
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New Image for Le Havre
by bruno555
<div>containers</div>
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File: Le Havre:: Container Boxes for storage of resources
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Reply: Le Havre:: News:: Re: New print run 2017
by Meehee Dee
Ponton wrote:
It'll include all cards, the promos & LGH.
That is the same feedback I got today. The game will contain all cards published so far and the price will be similar to the last official price tag.
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Reply: Le Havre:: News:: Re: New print run 2017
by Zaphir
Yeahy finally, game is on my wishlist for a while now. Hope it is sooner rather than later↧
Reply: Le Havre:: Reviews:: Re: A Landmark Game
by napsyd
Nearly 7 years later, as a relative newcomer to modern board gaming, I read this incredible review with interest. I put this in my memory bank as a game I would pick up if I ever saw it, knowing it is now out of print and very expensive.Recently I was incredibly fortunate to find a new copy in a game shop and picked it up with little hesitation. After two plays I am very impressed and thank you again for this great review. I look forward to many great games and agree this is a landmark.
I would love to here your views on the newly released A Feast For Odin if you've managed to come across it yet.
Thank you again.
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New Image for Le Havre
by Limon Ludico
<div>153 a 117. Victoria al #LeHavre de 2 en versión reducida.</div>
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Reply: Le Havre:: News:: Re: New print run 2017
by Eeule
I think this is the same "News":snore: like they told every year since 2015!In 2015 they told, there will be a new print in 2016. Nothing happend.....:shake:
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Reply: Le Havre:: News:: Re: New print run 2017
by rynet
I reached out to Mayfair about their reprint plans and received the following answer:Thanks for reaching out, we love Le Havre and can’t wait to have it back!
Le Havre is coming back very soon.
The reprint is in the works now and we hope to have the game back in stock early next year.
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Dwarves Really Are Very Stupid
Monday night and a straightforward game was sought for Mrs B and I to play at the dining table in lieu of slumping in front of the TV again (although this past week has given us "Iguana vs Snakes" and the frankly awesome sight of Ed Balls doing "Gangnam Style" on Strictly Come Dancing, easily the 2 best bits of TV this year!)
Casting my eye over the shelves to find something we hadn't played for a while but that would be easy to remember and yet still offer plenty of decisions I settled on Caverna: The Cave Farmers. A few other Uwe games have taken up residence in the house since this last hit the table so how would it fare...?
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Interstingly when we had finished and I looked through the score pad I found that we have each played worse points wise with each playing of the game.
Oh dear!
In this play I decided to try and do as much as I could with animals and set about the farmland on my board whilst Mrs B came over all warlike and tooled up her dwarves and went adventuring. We stayed pretty much on these paths for the entire game and were hardly ever competing for the same action spots so that doesn't explain our poor scoring either. The final tally was 64-51 in my favour, with Mrs B finding herself disastrously without any ore going into the final round - meaning that she lost out on 11 points (8 for all her dwarves bearing weapons and then 3 per dwarf that was 'packing') from her room tiles. This prompted the "dwarves really are stupid" comment. I too had erred going into the final round, looking to furnish 2 caverns but forgetting that there was only a single place where I could do this, as I had a family of peace loving little people.
Overall it was a pleasant way to spend the evening and not too taxing at all. But....
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...since I last played this game I have played / acquired A Feast for Odin, Ora et Labora, Le Havre and Fields of Arle (along with a slight hernia from carrying all those boxes!) and I have to say that I'd rather play any one of them over a game of Caverna now.
There's nothing inherently wrong with it, but it's not as solid and tight a game as Ora nor Le Havre (it doesn't feel like you're ever under the pressure that those games put on you) and it's also not as varied and interesting a sandbox game as Arle and particularly, Feast for Odin.
And Agricola is my favourite game of all time so there's no (positive) comparison there either.
I would actually also rather play one of Uwe's shorter games like Glass Road or especially Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small, which has a similar feel to Caverna but is better for being much tighter on the available actions and the focus on building a points engine.
I don't think I'm ready to look to shift this on just yet but I can't imagine we'll get more than 10 or so total plays out of the game.
Caverna is not, in my opinion, even worth a spot in a top 10 Uwe game list, let alone the top 10 BGG games.
It's a good game, but really there are much better examples of his style.
So, one of the few occasions when I'll say - "don't play that; watch this!"
Youtube Video
Youtube Video
Casting my eye over the shelves to find something we hadn't played for a while but that would be easy to remember and yet still offer plenty of decisions I settled on Caverna: The Cave Farmers. A few other Uwe games have taken up residence in the house since this last hit the table so how would it fare...?
Interstingly when we had finished and I looked through the score pad I found that we have each played worse points wise with each playing of the game.
Oh dear!
In this play I decided to try and do as much as I could with animals and set about the farmland on my board whilst Mrs B came over all warlike and tooled up her dwarves and went adventuring. We stayed pretty much on these paths for the entire game and were hardly ever competing for the same action spots so that doesn't explain our poor scoring either. The final tally was 64-51 in my favour, with Mrs B finding herself disastrously without any ore going into the final round - meaning that she lost out on 11 points (8 for all her dwarves bearing weapons and then 3 per dwarf that was 'packing') from her room tiles. This prompted the "dwarves really are stupid" comment. I too had erred going into the final round, looking to furnish 2 caverns but forgetting that there was only a single place where I could do this, as I had a family of peace loving little people.
Overall it was a pleasant way to spend the evening and not too taxing at all. But....
...since I last played this game I have played / acquired A Feast for Odin, Ora et Labora, Le Havre and Fields of Arle (along with a slight hernia from carrying all those boxes!) and I have to say that I'd rather play any one of them over a game of Caverna now.
There's nothing inherently wrong with it, but it's not as solid and tight a game as Ora nor Le Havre (it doesn't feel like you're ever under the pressure that those games put on you) and it's also not as varied and interesting a sandbox game as Arle and particularly, Feast for Odin.
And Agricola is my favourite game of all time so there's no (positive) comparison there either.
I would actually also rather play one of Uwe's shorter games like Glass Road or especially Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small, which has a similar feel to Caverna but is better for being much tighter on the available actions and the focus on building a points engine.
I don't think I'm ready to look to shift this on just yet but I can't imagine we'll get more than 10 or so total plays out of the game.
Caverna is not, in my opinion, even worth a spot in a top 10 Uwe game list, let alone the top 10 BGG games.
It's a good game, but really there are much better examples of his style.
So, one of the few occasions when I'll say - "don't play that; watch this!"
Youtube Video
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A Feast for Odin Brings Focus to Myopia
by Mat Thomsen
I tried.I really did!
In fact, I succeeded in many regards. I have not pre-ordered any Essen titles, nor have I purchased new games of late (my last order for 51st State: Master Set, and Stockpile: Continuing Corruption was in August, and I still have not rec'd it because, 'cough', I did buy Colony, 'cough').
But other than that!! -- I've done really well avoiding buying new games and playing the ones I have. At my last game night, I played Nauticus, Rapa Nui, Ra: The Dice Game and The Speicherstadt, which made me happy.
But when sweet, adorable, lovable MiWi ran through A Feast for Odin, I could not resist. The same thing happened with Terra Mystica way back when, and I have not regretted that purchase for a second. In both cases, MiWi filmed a three-player solo run through, and both times, I recreated such a play through at home to learn the games.
So, recreating MiWi's run-through at home has only happened twice, but both times it was with really big, dense, and popular Euro games. I'm not a huge fan of Rosenberg's designs, but this one did connect with me. As I watched the video, the gameplay made sense to me. The progression of the rounds, and how the information is conveyed seemed to be a language I spoke, which isn't how I feel about Agricola and Caverna.
I have played the game a couple of times since starting this post, and I have arrived at the same place I find myself with all of Uwe's "big" games -- there is another gear required to play his games well that I do not have. For whatever reason, the limitations inherent in his designs act as a road block once I get three quarters through it. Unfortunately, this feels like I'm only experiencing 75 percent of the game. Le Havre has always been my favorite of his designs even though I struggle with it the same way. I simply lack the vision to see what I need to do and when. My experience with Caverna: The Cave Farmers was the same. With so many options, and so few actions, blinders cover my mind's eye and I can't see a path.
I realize this vision could be gained through practice and repeated plays, but the frustration it causes me acts as a deterrent when heavier games are an option come play time. What frustrates me further, is that there are heavier games at which I can be competitive, even if I don't often win. Games like Trajan, Bruxelles 1893, and the afore mentioned Terra Mystica. My performance with Uwe's games however, has been consistently poor.
The good news is, I like Feast of Odin enough to keep playing. There are still avenues I would like to explore.
So tell me, are there games or designers that cause you a similar myopia? Games that remain out of your grasp strategically, even though there are similar ones at which you excel? I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Thanks for reading.
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New Image for Le Havre
by seasnan
<div>First play at CarnageCon 2016, VT</div>
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Reply: Le Havre:: General:: Re: jLeHavre
by SliceOfBread
Sorry to resurrect but I had trouble getting things running on Ubuntu. I finally found in one of the .zip files the commandjava -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -jar JLeHavre.jar
and that did the trick.
I had planned to write my own solo version in JavaScript but that seems pointless now. :)
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Toilet Humour
In case it passed you by the 19th November was 'World Toilet Day', which is a serious campaign about the huge number of people around the world who lack access to basic sanitation. Here is the website - http://www.worldtoiletday.info
One of the things that is encouraged thereon is to share pictures of the toilets we do have and generally highlight awareness of people who don't (to be honest, I'm not sure how much difference campaigns like this really make but hey ho...). So here you go then....
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Not so much Loopin' Looie as Poopin' Stuie?
And, of course, this is a blog on a boardgame website so we really should highlight games that feature toilets, lavatories, smallest rooms in the house, privies, latrines, water closets, bogs, crappers, thrones, khazis, shitters, etc.
Of course there is a geeklist - Games Featuring Toilets for World Toilet Day 2016
Next time you pay a visit, freshen up, powder your nose, send a couple of friends off to the sea, build a log cabin, lay some cable, birth a mud child, dead otter, dreadnaught, a Meatloaf's daughter even, why not go there and add a game or two whilst you do your number twos!
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Og on the Bog, Who Soiled the Toilet, Flush!, you can build a latrine in Glory to Rome, there is a Dunny promo card for Le Havre, there must be loads.....
One of the things that is encouraged thereon is to share pictures of the toilets we do have and generally highlight awareness of people who don't (to be honest, I'm not sure how much difference campaigns like this really make but hey ho...). So here you go then....
And, of course, this is a blog on a boardgame website so we really should highlight games that feature toilets, lavatories, smallest rooms in the house, privies, latrines, water closets, bogs, crappers, thrones, khazis, shitters, etc.
Of course there is a geeklist - Games Featuring Toilets for World Toilet Day 2016
Next time you pay a visit, freshen up, powder your nose, send a couple of friends off to the sea, build a log cabin, lay some cable, birth a mud child, dead otter, dreadnaught, a Meatloaf's daughter even, why not go there and add a game or two whilst you do your number twos!
Og on the Bog, Who Soiled the Toilet, Flush!, you can build a latrine in Glory to Rome, there is a Dunny promo card for Le Havre, there must be loads.....
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Reply: Le Havre:: Rules:: Re: Hammer & Fisherman symbols
by Raideen
ColtsFan76 wrote:
tkzubaran wrote:
When one gets into an opponents building that refers to one of those symbols (Clay Mound for instance), we use the number of symbols the controller of the disk owns or the number of symbols the controller of the building owns?
Controller of the disk's buildings.
Not saying you're wrong, but where does it say this in the rules? I could not find it.
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