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Farms Race: Deluxe Edition
Farms Race: Deluxe Edition starts with the familiar business of spreading out for resources, then hands the table dice, karate and nuclear weapons. It is not asking to be taken seriously; it is asking for a group willing to laugh while it wrecks one another’s plans.
- Published
- 2024
- Designer
- Daniel Dranove, Tom Weiner
- Publisher
- Medium Brow Games
- Players
- 2–5
- Playing time
- 120 min
Calling it “Catan with Nukes” sounds like the sort of nonsense you buy because an old affection for Nuclear Escalation and Nuclear War has temporarily overruled good judgement. Happily, Farms Race: Deluxe Edition does not pretend to be more sensible than its pitch.
At its core, it is Catan-like: you spread out to collect resources, while areas produce at random. That familiar frame gives you a reason to scan the board, claim a little more space and chase a little more output before things turn ugly.
Happily, Farms Race: Deluxe Edition does not pretend to be more sensible than its pitch.
TheCuttlefish
And they do turn ugly. There is fighting, dice, karate, and nuclear weapons landing all over the place, with satisfyingly heavy losses for everyone else. You expand, you hit somebody, and then your own territory becomes a target because another player thinks your mutant zombie rabbits gave their super-sheep a funny look. Right. Who has the next nuke?
This is not for solemn strategists, or for people who need their carefully built map to remain peaceful and intact. It is a loud Catan-like for groups that enjoy watching development end in mutual destruction, and it has clear prospects with mine.
It is a loud Catan-like for groups that enjoy watching development end in mutual destruction, and it has clear prospects with mine.
TheCuttlefish
Source: BoardGameGeek
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