Review: Le Havre:: Games for Two Mini Review
by MattNManda First impressions taken from our blog Games for Two. This game doesn’t belong to us hence writing our impressions after only one play. This is a resource collection and building game by...
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by viszla Regarding feeding workers, what do you think about Agricola?
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by doctoryes0 Just as a counterpoint, not only is LeHavre best with 2 by far, I have it a perfect 10 with 2, and it’s my favorite 2p game. It isn’t however a modern euro for people that like easy vp’s...
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by DerMahler So basically your criticism boils down to: "It's hard."I do agree that it is a fiddly game. So there's that.
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by ski6913 I usually despise it when people discount someone’s review because they’ve only played the game once. In my opinion, there are plenty of games that, after one play, you can tell you don’t...
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by ski6913 I would also recommend Ora et Labora, which (in my opinion) does all of the good things Le Havre does, takes away the bad things, and adds even better things (like a spatial city-building...
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by jasonwockyMattNManda wrote:Those with only a few buildings or who only scraped by the previous demand were hit hard while the runaway leader found it easy to pay and had many turns left to generate...
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by NBAfan Feeding isn't hard in this game. You need to build boats, you can't win without them.
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by stevepopMattNManda wrote:It was quite easy to get into a death spiral where most of your available actions each seven rounds were taken up with barely managing to create enough food for the next...
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by MattNManda Neither of us have played Agricola, and while we have played Caverna we are aware that is renowned for being much easier in terms of feeding.We are aware this game is regarded at best at...
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by doctoryes0MattNManda wrote:We like a number of more complex games so are not adverse to this, just not in this case.Your collection shows a mix of recent, no-interaction, mid-weight point salad...
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by jmdillerdoctoryes0 wrote:MattNManda wrote:We like a number of more complex games so are not adverse to this, just not in this case.Your collection shows a mix of recent, no-interaction, mid-weight...
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by jasonwockyMattNManda wrote:We are aware this game is regarded at best at two.I think it's vastly better at 3 but BGG tends toward overrating games at 2 imo and underrating them at 3 due to typical...
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by s3kt0r Anti-catchup mechanisms? Deaths spirals? Difficult? Adversity? Requires multiple plays to get good at? These are all music to my ears.Not everyone likes that stuff though and that's ok....
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by adamxt Great review! I understand some reasons why you wouldn't like this game based on your first play: if you don't know the course of the game in advance it's difficult to compete with more...
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by doctoryes0jmdiller wrote:doctoryes0 wrote:Trying to pin blame on the game was never going to gain traction here.It's OK for someone not to like it without you analyzing their play history and trying...
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