by TwitchBot
freddieyu wrote:
I noticed that both ovens had the limitation on the number of grain it can convert to food through the BAKE BREAD action, which was not the case when converting the other resources. Doesn't this make baking bread less efficient since you need an action to do this, while with the other stuff you can simply swap for food right away?
In my opinion, bread baking is not a great strategy in the family game. You may end up doing it if it's convenient to do so, but in general taking the time to plow, then take grain, then sow it is just a lot more action intensive than simply taking a stack of animals. You see this most clearly in a 2-player game, where if one person is eating animals and one person is baking bread, the one eating meat will usually just run away with things. Their feeding actions are much more efficient.
If you have some decent card support, baking can be better in the regular version of the game. There are a lot of cards than can help by making grain easier to get, or making plowing faster or whatever, but again, it's still a fundamentally slow strategy. However, if you have multiple players fighting over animals, so that they aren't getting 6+ food at a time, sometimes being the one guy who's baking can work out ok.