"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice..."
In the past year I've managed to get my head around several heavier games but there is one that has thus far eluded me, despite my chasing of him. I just cannot get to grips with the underlying mechanics and strategy. I can see that there is a magnificent game in Le Havre but I cannot grasp it; it torments me each time I try.
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I've read advice in the pages of BGG, I've watched videos, I've played the app (with and without the help on) but I have not (yet!) struck with my harpoon, much less reeled the beast in and tamed him.
Is it just that resource conversion is perhaps not for me?
How is it that I can see the interlocking cogs in Panamax but can't fathom the depths of this?
Should I just take the fish offering?
"...Whosoever of ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw; whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed whale, with three holes punctured in his starboard fluke - look ye, whosoever of ye raises me that same white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!" (and girls!) (seriously; there could be some GG in it for you...!)
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Do any of you suffer from a similar obsessiveness?
In the past year I've managed to get my head around several heavier games but there is one that has thus far eluded me, despite my chasing of him. I just cannot get to grips with the underlying mechanics and strategy. I can see that there is a magnificent game in Le Havre but I cannot grasp it; it torments me each time I try.
I've read advice in the pages of BGG, I've watched videos, I've played the app (with and without the help on) but I have not (yet!) struck with my harpoon, much less reeled the beast in and tamed him.
Is it just that resource conversion is perhaps not for me?
How is it that I can see the interlocking cogs in Panamax but can't fathom the depths of this?
Should I just take the fish offering?
"...Whosoever of ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw; whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed whale, with three holes punctured in his starboard fluke - look ye, whosoever of ye raises me that same white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!" (and girls!) (seriously; there could be some GG in it for you...!)
Do any of you suffer from a similar obsessiveness?