Looking to watch board games like Agricola, Puerto Rico, Wingspan, and other games that are played at WBC (either over the board or BGA) on YouTube or Twitch. Feel like no one streams these great games or posts them on YouTube. Any channel recommendations?
Today my crew of old Agricola players decided to spice things up by trying to score the lowest points possible. We called it Reverse Agricola. It was surprisingly quite fun!
The dominant strategy was to maximize number of rooms and family size early to secure the most begging cards. But a lot of interesting other strategies and tradeoffs emerged.
The interactive deck created some nice situations where you could give food to another player, putting them in danger of losing a begging card.
One house rule we landed on for this game mode was that you must take whatever actions possible during a harvest to feed your family (e.g. you are forced to slaughter any animals).
The fuel mechanics from Farmers of the Moor made things super interesting since actions risk scoring points, but sending people to the sick house removes actions at the cost of giving you a food. But as long as you can spend that food before harvest it's nice to have since it can be given to others sometimes or used as currency for certain mechanics.
Overall, for such a stupid idea, it yielded some very interesting gameplay and injected some novelty into what has been an old staple for us. In future attempts we plan to pick our hand of cards for maximum interactivity, and maybe even implement a house rule where you can purchase improvements for other players, effectively forcing mechanics upon them.
Anyone try anything similar?