Reply: Agricola:: Rules:: Re: Major Improvement questions from a newbie

by ryudoowaru

iGotGame wrote:

MisterG wrote:

Your time will come.

It came yesterday. Thanks everyone for your help! The game was awesome. We were constantly stressed about getting enough food to feed our family members! :)

Welcome to your first game of Agricola. :) You will find that setting up a food engine is tantamount to doing well in the game. You will find people on here who are strongly in favor of each of the two main food engine strategies (baking and ranching). I personally tend to find merit in both of them:
* Ranching takes more actions to set up, but requires no actions downstream to convert the animals into food.
* Baking takes fewer actions to set up, but requires Bake Bread actions downstream in order to convert the grain into food.

That being said, there are several cards in the Standard Game that will greatly improve each one (although there tend to be more that favor baking). One of the most important points of strategy in the Standard Game is to look over your Occupations and Minor Improvements and see which one will work out better for you!

Good luck exploring the phenomenal gamespace that is Agricola!