D-Day Dice & Agricola

[Keunert]

D-Day Dice: i stumbled upon this in our local board game store. does anybody here have experience with this? do you recommen it?
and has anybody tried the eurogame title Agricola? it has been a rather big hit and i wonder if i should get it?

[TheCommandTent]

D-Day Dice: i stumbled upon this in our local board game store. does anybody here have experience with this? do you recommen it?
and has anybody tried the eurogame title Agricola? it has been a rather big hit and i wonder if i should get it?

I've heard good things about D-Day Dice but have not played it myself.

The wife and I got Agricola after see how popular it was on BGG but after playing it a couple of times I didn't think it was that great.  Perhaps I went in expecting to much because I came away a little disappointed.  There is also the possibility I just didn't 'get' the game as I felt there were to many options and not enough time to work a strategy while playing.  Just my 2cents.

[LongBlade]

Never heard of D-Day Dice.

I have played Agricola once.

It is a quintessential eurogame. Eurogames are designed to keep everyone in the game until the end, as opposed to something like Axis and Allies where one player can be knocked out an hour before the next. Eurogames are meant to be inclusive and are good for folks who aren't strongly competitive. Also relevant is the fact that eurogames value this inclusiveness over accuracy. So don't expect a eurogame's gameplay to reflect a medieval city building sim. Eurogames will sacrifice a fair amount of realism in order to ensure that nobody gets knocked out of the game until a winner emerges.

If that's the kind of game you want to play I would say Agricola is a winner.

[bayonetbrant]

and are good for folks who aren't strongly competitive

and yet the GAMA research we did back in '05-'06 came back that Eurogamers are the most competitive (playing to win) of all the major categories we had, especially when compared to minis/board wargamers

[LongBlade]

and are good for folks who aren't strongly competitive

and yet the GAMA research we did back in '05-'06 came back that Eurogamers are the most competitive (playing to win) of all the major categories we had, especially when compared to minis/board wargamers

OK, I stand corrected. It's for the passive-aggressive gamers.

[Arctic Blast]

D-Day Dice: i stumbled upon this in our local board game store. does anybody here have experience with this? do you recommen it?
and has anybody tried the eurogame title Agricola? it has been a rather big hit and i wonder if i should get it?

D-Day Dice was okay for 4 or 5 games, then I got rid of it. There just isn't that much meat on the bones and it becomes very same-y very quickly.

Agricola is actually kind of fun, and I'm not a massive Euro gamer. It's actually fairly cutthroat as there aren't a lot of resources and everyone wants them.

[Rekim]

and are good for folks who aren't strongly competitive

and yet the GAMA research we did back in '05-'06 came back that Eurogamers are the most competitive (playing to win) of all the major categories we had, especially when compared to minis/board wargamers

I'll second that. My Euro playing friends are typically WAY more competitive than my wargaming buddies.

[Keunert]

thank you guys. i bought Agricola. my friends and i play only eurogames and they are usually very dramatic. most notable is a soccer manager and betting game that plays with a lot of national clichés and almost every time ends with some good drama.

[spelk]

D-Day Dice is due to drop on the iOS platform soon-ish, and I've been waiting for it. It was actually released for a brief window a week or two ago, but was very quickly pulled.

[Cyrano]

I couldn't resist the big-buy syndrome at GenCon last year and bought the whole kit that came in a messenger bag.

The game is only OK solo, but it plays well in a group.  There are good decisions to be made and some of the later boards are rather nasty.  It's definitely a Euro Wargame, though, so any relationship to the actual Normandy landings is purely accidental.

Best,

Jim
"Cyrano"
:/7)

[ABD]

It is a purely tacked on theme for sure, almost like they went with it 'cause it sounded "cool"