Reply: Le Havre:: Strategy:: Re: Buying and building confusion
by Bsantucci So the only advantage of buying a ship is the value you receive at the endgame?
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by KelanenBsantucci wrote:So the only advantage of buying a ship is the value you receive at the endgame?No, the reverse. Buying a ship effectively loses you points - you buy it for say 16, but it's...
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by Bsantucci Does the padlock on the ship card mean no one can use the ship you built but you ?
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by JohnRayJrBsantucci wrote:So the only advantage of buying a ship is the value you receive at the endgame?The advantage of buying a ship is that it doesn't cost an action to do it and you don't spend...
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by gillumBsantucci wrote:Does the padlock on the ship card mean no one can use the ship you built but you ?The padlock means that no one can move a worker onto a ship.This is because ships (like...
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by Bsantucci Thanks to all you guys for your help. Much appreciated.
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by PurpleMoved this thread from the Strategy forum to the Rules forum.
View ArticleReply: Le Havre:: Strategy:: Re: house rules to disincentivize loans/shipping?
by sneakyninja7nz Can you please elaborate on the values of X... "For an X player game, if you have X loans or more"
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by kittenhoarder Dennis, X is the number of players. So in a 3 player game, if you have 3 or more loans, you pay 2 francs interest instead of 1. I believe I read somewhere that this variant was thought...
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by sneakyninja7nz Thanks Byron. That does make sense. I am yet to play a game with multiple loans, but I´d be tempted to make this rule accumulative. eg. In a 2p game, having 4 loans will cost 3...
View ArticleThread: Le Havre:: Rules:: Le Havre solo. iOS version does it correctly?
by Neo42 I thought that in solo, the player starts with a wooden ship and that one starts available to buy. But when I tried it solo on the iPhone it didn't do that. Naturally, food was more...
View ArticleReply: Le Havre:: Rules:: Re: Le Havre solo. iOS version does it correctly?
by MplsMatt you start with a ship only for the shortened solo game, and the ios app does this correctly as far as I can tell. How is the solo game on ios? I've always played against the ai.
View ArticleReply: Le Havre:: Rules:: Re: Le Havre solo. iOS version does it correctly?
by Neo42MplsMatt wrote:you start with a ship only for the shortened solo game, and the ios app does this correctly as far as I can tell. How is the solo game on ios? I've always played against the...
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by kittenhoarder That's pretty much what I said I was planning to do (except for me, the tipping point was one higher...1-2 loans for 1 interest, 3-4 loans for 2, 5-6 for 3 etc.). I haven't tried it...
View ArticleThread: Le Havre:: General:: Time span
by puppetmaster53 Just pick up Le Havre because I love caverna and wanted to play another of the designers games. My question is how long does the game really take because to me it seems it will take a...
View ArticleReply: Le Havre:: General:: Re: Time span
by turtlebackA two player game takes my wife and I 75 to 90 minutes, but we've played a lot. I would guess two hours for your first play.
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by Deep Silverturtleback wrote:A two player game takes my wife and I 75 to 90 minutes, but we've played a lot. I would guess two hours for your first play.Agree with this. LeHavre is more open ended...
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by AladdinSaneturtleback wrote:A two player game takes my wife and I 75 to 90 minutes, but we've played a lot. I would guess two hours for your first play.Exactly. That first game was about 2.5 hours,...
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by mart_bradley Our first 2 player game was something like 2.5 hours, but now we are clear on the rules and the decisions in the game we play in something like 1hr 45min.There is a short version of the...
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by ayedubpuppetmaster53 wrote:Finally would you say this game is more or less complex than Agricola/caverna. Thanks everyoneI've only played Caverna once so I'll compare Le Havre to Agricola…Complexity...
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