by Geek Scribe
I am a big fan of Uwe Rosenberg games. I may be an anomaly though because I don't particularly enjoy Agricola. It is an incredible design and is a wonderful springboard for his other games, but I play games to have fun and Agricola is just too stressful for me to have fun. I'm saying this so you have some perspective where my opinion is coming from.Le Havre is a wonderful game, I have played it over 40 times, primarily 2 player. When you think about it, most games in people's collections don't even make it to 10 plays. Le Havre is widely considered best with the fewer players involved due to the massive downtime involved between turns. It's not that there is a lot to do, but that this game causes a ton of analysis paralysis. Fortunately, it is no where near as brutal as Agricola to the point where if you don't forsake paying your workers at least once you're probably going to lose.
Ora and Lobora is also wonderful with 2 and has a similar mechanical feel to Le Havre, it also scales with higher player counts better, though it doesn't play quite as tight and focussed as Le Havre.
Caverna is also brilliant with 2, but it really is more of a counter point to Agricola. I prefer it to Agricola, but if you have and enjoy Agricola I would try one of his other designs first.
