I'm not sure I really agree there; the only cubes that would be in the regular game are the livestock cubes, as the other markers are round disks, are they not? I'm not sure I see how reaching for a white sheep cube in Agricola should be any harder than reaching for a pink food cube in Caylus...
When we played last Thursday, I saw enough people reach for cubes when they meant to get disks and for disks when they meant to get cubes, that it was obvious that the confusion was there, even if it wasn't a big deal.
I'm interested why you don't want to submit Agricola to the full Appelcline treatment on RPG.net, complete with your customary wryly-captioned photos... 8)
At least in part because I don't own a copy yet, and thus can't have it sitting by my side to make sure that everything is correct as I play. Heck, I haven't even read the rules, so I'd be a bit leary of trying to explain how they work, since there are doubtless some gotchas that I don't know of.
It's on my list to get, but my only free money for games lately when to Witch's Brew, mainly to keep my Alea collection attractively complete.
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When we played last Thursday, I saw enough people reach for cubes when they meant to get disks and for disks when they meant to get cubes, that it was obvious that the confusion was there, even if it wasn't a big deal.
I'm interested why you don't want to submit Agricola to the full Appelcline treatment on RPG.net, complete with your customary wryly-captioned photos... 8)
At least in part because I don't own a copy yet, and thus can't have it sitting by my side to make sure that everything is correct as I play. Heck, I haven't even read the rules, so I'd be a bit leary of trying to explain how they work, since there are doubtless some gotchas that I don't know of.
It's on my list to get, but my only free money for games lately when to Witch's Brew, mainly to keep my Alea collection attractively complete.