As I have written before, there have been a couple of games that I have been "hunting" for some time, and recently I added yet another Rosenberg title to the wanted list. Some failed purchases via the BGG Marketplace, some missed opportunities on the "faster finger first" UK Facebook group, outbid on some EBay auctions had left me a bit frustrated.
Well last week some pleading via a "wanted" post came good, doubly so in one case, and the postman (well, courier) deposited a couple of bundles of joy (one hopes!) on the doorstep...
Goodies, Goodies...!
Someone contacted me about Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small, which I snapped up straight away, and then someone else listed the game with both expansions so I bought that as well (gotta have all those extra buildings!) - how handy that the UK Math trade is currently running, anyone looking for a copy of A:ACBAS? And then a message saying that not only did someone have Ora et Labora that they were willing to sell me, but they had my "white whale", Le Havre (with Le Havre: Le Grand Hameau and a full set of Le Havre Expansion: Essen Promo Cards that they were also happy to part with. Deal swiftly struck!
Having Mrs B and Billy fully up to speed with all Uwe farming games it's time to get stuck in to the heavy goods conversion ones (having said that Billy acquitted himself well with Ora et Labora last week). I can't say that Mrs B is thrilled about the hundreds of chits (and associated flipping) that are integral to those games but she is overjoyed to see All Creatures Big and Small arrive in the house...
We just about managed to have a game of it on Saturday, which makes it sound like an arduous task - but then we had spent 5 hours in A&E Friday night (with my elderly Grandfather being rushed in and us being the closest family able to get there, he's ok(ish) for now) which was as tiring and eventful a place to be, as you would expect on a Friday night...
Anyway, the game was /is a delight and this time I ran out winning the ranching contest (I realised after we played it on our Anniversary date night at Thirsty Meeples that we scored it wrong, only awarding the bonus points for the animals and not earning the 1 point per animal part as well...which suppressed the scores somewhat, and upon reevaluating from a photo Mrs B had won that initial play..!) We only used the base game buildings as we're still working out the best way to play and how to build the ranch efficiently. Mrs B pleasingly declared that this is a game she absolutely loves and can see us playing "dozens" of times.
I certainly hope so, and with any luck we'll get at least a couple of the bigger new arrivals in over the next few weeks as well.
:D
Well last week some pleading via a "wanted" post came good, doubly so in one case, and the postman (well, courier) deposited a couple of bundles of joy (one hopes!) on the doorstep...
Someone contacted me about Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small, which I snapped up straight away, and then someone else listed the game with both expansions so I bought that as well (gotta have all those extra buildings!) - how handy that the UK Math trade is currently running, anyone looking for a copy of A:ACBAS? And then a message saying that not only did someone have Ora et Labora that they were willing to sell me, but they had my "white whale", Le Havre (with Le Havre: Le Grand Hameau and a full set of Le Havre Expansion: Essen Promo Cards that they were also happy to part with. Deal swiftly struck!
Having Mrs B and Billy fully up to speed with all Uwe farming games it's time to get stuck in to the heavy goods conversion ones (having said that Billy acquitted himself well with Ora et Labora last week). I can't say that Mrs B is thrilled about the hundreds of chits (and associated flipping) that are integral to those games but she is overjoyed to see All Creatures Big and Small arrive in the house...
We just about managed to have a game of it on Saturday, which makes it sound like an arduous task - but then we had spent 5 hours in A&E Friday night (with my elderly Grandfather being rushed in and us being the closest family able to get there, he's ok(ish) for now) which was as tiring and eventful a place to be, as you would expect on a Friday night...
Anyway, the game was /is a delight and this time I ran out winning the ranching contest (I realised after we played it on our Anniversary date night at Thirsty Meeples that we scored it wrong, only awarding the bonus points for the animals and not earning the 1 point per animal part as well...which suppressed the scores somewhat, and upon reevaluating from a photo Mrs B had won that initial play..!) We only used the base game buildings as we're still working out the best way to play and how to build the ranch efficiently. Mrs B pleasingly declared that this is a game she absolutely loves and can see us playing "dozens" of times.
I certainly hope so, and with any luck we'll get at least a couple of the bigger new arrivals in over the next few weeks as well.
:D
