Farm Builder

Brutal

It's a beautiful farm version of "Carcassonne", the popular French board game. The game objective is to score more points than your opponents by constructing and controlling ranches, windmills, water towers, roads and fields. Each turn, the current player automatically picks a random tile that he has to add to the board at a position where it fits. After placing the tile, the active player may position a farmer on a project on it (or a mower on a field on it) to mark it as his. Farmers are taken back once the project is completed; mowers stay where they are till the end of the game. As each player has got only a limited amount of farmers and mowers, farmers should usually only be used if the player is expecting the project really to be going to be completed or if he is planning to take control over an opponent's project. Mowers should be placed on those fields which are going to be expanded the most. Players should not only construct their own buildings but also try to disturb their opponents by placing useless tiles near opponents' projects so that they may not be completed, or take control over them by merging them with projects that are controlled by the player; that way both players will gain the same amount of points for the project. Players may also merge their own projects to multiply the points they score for them as one scores the same amount of points for each meeple involved, but as soon as a project is under a player's control, no further meeples may be placed on it. The AI is incredibly bad and seems to make just random decisions and often doesn't even place its meeples. However, since this is a cross-platform game with a decent playerbase, I usually don't have any problems finding random people to play together with. All in all the game's good and cheap and worth getting it!

Eigentlich ein nettes Spiel... doch es gibt einige Punkte die mich wirklich stören. - es gibt keine Statistik - der Ton/Musik kann man einstellen, aber jedes mal bei jedem einzelnen Spiel. Es wird nichts gespeichert und das nerft! - man sieht manchmal nicht, wo der Gegner seine Spielfigur hinsetzt. Man spielt also Blind und auf Verdacht. - kein Schwierigkeitsgrad einstellbar. Nein, es geht nicht über die Sek. Holt Euch lieber das echte Carrcasonne.