by sirgalin
farmergiles wrote:
I played it more for the tradesmen aspect. I'm going to focus on fishing, or baking or mining steel or tanning hides etc. basically the interesting stuff. Shipping to me isn't interesting - yay I got a big ship and I put stuff on it. It's like train pick up and deliver games, they have zero interest for me as a theme. The ships were an afterthought, merely an alternative path to victory I could take (note I was taught the game in the early days so I never had to physically read the book again other than to reference key rules so I would have missed the part about the designer warning about avoiding ships entirely).
Le Harve might not be your game. It's unlike Agricola/Caverna/Arle. Similar to the way that Loyang is so unlike those other games (not that it's at all similar to Loyang).
You might try Ora et Labora if you haven't yet. Or if you want to break out of Uwe games, take a look at Roads and Boats. Both focus on the gathering and upgrading/spending of resources.