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Ken Dilloo
United States
Washington
Always bet on Chorizo!
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So, what did we learn during our summers off, subsistence farming? Well, for one, that it is tough. Ya know, like, really, really tough. Just learning how to say Agricola can be challenging, but what in the heck is an Ooova? I mean really.
I digress; Pat learned that being that upwardly mobile farm family, who lives high on the hog, ehem, cow; and is the envy of all other farm families, with their hoity toity Maid and fancy English Counselor (Good to see you, Dave), can sometimes forget to breed and have children; oh, I mean action points. Pat did, however, quite impressively fill his entire farm space with stuff. I think I even saw some Sharper Image out there! It is also noteworthy that Mr. Gibbs ended up with more cows than the Agricola Universe has ever seen. No joke here, just, ya know....wow.
John got off to a fast start with his Hedge Keeper and built, as Billy Bob Thornton would say, "A real nice fenced-in area". From there, he quickly learned that feeding yourself is pretty important. Like one of those "criteria of life" sorta importants. Also, that when you spend all your time looking for food, you end up with a fairly barren farm, that smells like piggy poop; and that the smell of piggy poop is not very compatible with procreational recreation. He did, however, have an impressive Well, which he was quite sure I was stealing from :-)
I learned that holding onto a Fireplace is pretty much akin to rocking a Discman in a iPod world. Inefficiency? Uwe frowns. I also learned that settling for inferior technology can be overcome with a Field Manager armed with a Potato Dibbler. Who knew? I dibbled and dibbled my way to a whole mess of veggies and wheat. I also dibbled and dibbled (see what I did there?) my way to 2 mid/late game children and a solid victory with a Basket Weaver.
Kevin learned that those jerks with Potato Dibblers sometimes like to take the starting player button and literally steal bread right from their childrens' plates. No super-efficient Stone Oven is safe from....The Dibbler. Dump, duh, duh, dah. Kevin also learned that having lots of children brings him much contentment (tear) and victory points, at end game scoring; even when you have to deal with A-hole neighbors and their stupid session reports.
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