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I find the returns to skill in it are, if anything, greater than in Agricola, which is also one of my favorites.
The tension is all about the competition for a complementary strategy to what your opponents are doing.
Some people just don’t like weakly interactive engine builders, which is a fair objection to it, but it’s quite deep.
One weakness is that the Corvidae are too strong; many experts seem to have converged on either removing them or nerfing them.
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I find the returns to skill in it are, if anything, greater than in Agricola, which is also one of my favorites.
The tension is all about the competition for a complementary strategy to what your opponents are doing.
Some people just don’t like weakly interactive engine builders, which is a fair objection to it, but it’s quite deep.
One weakness is that the Corvidae are too strong; many experts seem to have converged on either removing them or nerfing them.