Bergamasco

Turn 14 to End of Game Statements

Turn 14

Using the Foreman, Geggus places 1 food on the Renovation with Fences space.

York collects 2 wild boar, slaughtering one for 2 food. Hunt collects 1 food from the Slaughterman.

Hunt plows a field and sows 2 vegetables and 4 grain (one grain is sown on Acreage)

Geggus collects 6 clay from the 2 clay space.

Hooton collects 2 cattle, cooking 1 for 4 food. Hunt gains 1 food from the Slaughterman.

York grows his family without need of a room.

Hunt plows a field.

Geggus collects 1 sheep.

Hooton bakes bread, baking 2 grain in the stone oven into 8 food and 1 grain in the cooking hearth for 3 food.

Hunt collects 4 reeds.

Geggus renovates to a clay hut, spending 5 clay and 1 reed, collects 1 food, and builds 12 fences.

Hooton spends 2 clay and 2 stone for the Pottery major improvement.

Hunt collects 8 wood from the 2 wood space.

Geggus visits the Tavern, gaining 2 VP.

Hooton grows his family and plays Building Materials, gaining 1 clay. Building Materials is passed to Geggus.

Hunt adds 2 rooms to his wooden hut, spending 10 wood and 2 reeds.

Geggus collects a vegetable.

Harvest Phase 6

The Field Phase

York harvests 2 grain and 1 vegetable.

Hunt harvests 4 grain and 2 vegetables.

Geggus harvests 1 grain and 1 vegetable.

Feeding the Family

York converts 1 grain to 1 food and uses 5 food.

Hunt uses the Corn Profiteer converts 1 grain to 3 food. Converts 3 grain into 3 food and uses 10 food

Geggus converts 1 grain to 2 food using the Hand Mill and uses 10 food.

Hooton uses 9 food.

Breeding

No animal pairs.

Players

Points

Andy York earned bonus points for the Tutor (5), the Clay Path (2), and Village Elder (3)

Christopher Hunt earned bonus points for the Constable (5)

Dave Hooton avoided losing 7 points by paying 7 food with the Hide Farmer, and earned bonus points for the Constable (5)

Congratulations to Christopher Hunt on his victory!

End of Game Statements

Christopher Hunt: I think this may be my first win at Agricola. Firstly I must praise Chris Hassler for his help with my inadequate knowledge of the rules and the running of the game in his always professional and unstinting way.

I put my victory down to -

• Corn Profiteer (enabling me to avoid getting a cooking apparatus)
  
• Fence supervisor (4 stable victory points and 4 pastures for 8 wood)
  
• The relentless pursuit of the Constable victory points, plow after plow after plow and building the two rooms at the end
  
• And last move during which I earned at least 18 victory points
  

The irony is that my improvements were designed for animal production (I end up with a farm with the capacity of 23 animals) yet have only 3.

Andy York: Had a bit of a difficult start, but settled in too late to get up to speed. By then, everyone else definitely was doing better. Regardless, Christopher did a great job managing his play and, though Dave gave a good run, deserved the win. Thanks, Chris, for running the game as superbly as always.

Chris Geggus: Congrats to Christopher and thanks to Chris - always tricky running a live game. I did congratulate Christopher earlier on his selection of cards as he did get a number of good ones straight off. I have to play with drafting if playing ftf. However he used them well and deserved the win. I lost track a couple of times by not seeing my board, but I could just actually have taken more care - so mea culpe. Enjoyed it.

Dave Hooton: Congratulations to Christopher Hunt for his victory. He played a classic winning game. Thanks also to Chris Hassler for running it.

I played an unusual game, in that I had both the Yeoman Farmer and Hide Farmer, which freed me up from doing the classic balanced strategy and allowed me to concentrate on improvements and renovations. Unfortunately for me, Andy sat on the first player space for the last few turns of the game, forcing me to move last and fall way behind in critical family growth race as well as having not being able to sow my crops or bake bread at crucial times. Thus, I had to find a way to create 15 food on the last turn in order to avoid begging.