presentation

Fields of Green

water tower and harvester

We are fed up with city life and move, in the 2^nd half of the 20^th century, to the country to try our hand at farming. You draft cards and lay them for the best possible result. Four rounds represent four years of Upkeep, Action and Harvest.

Upkeep: In rounds II to IV, you receive three coins, and 2x water and 1x food for your water tower and silo, if there is room, surplus water and food are forfeit. Then players draw six cards from minimum three of four stacks - Field, Livestock, Facility and Building cards - in any distribution.

Action: You select a face-down card and hand the remaining cards to your neighbor; then the card is revealed, and you select placing of a location card, orthogonally next to another and paying the cost, or discarding a card to pay for and build a water tower or pay for and build a silo or for taking a coin at the market, you can also sell food for additional coins there.

Harvest: You pay the respective cost for every card with harvest ability and take the corresponding items. If you cannot pay for a card, you must turn over the card to be deactivated as barren land for the remainder of the game. Items and resources that you receive in the harvest phase can be used immediately. After four rounds you score victory points from display and equipment markers with end-of-game abilities and also from unused equipment markers, water, food and coins.

A more easily accessible topic than the “prequel” game Among the Stars; easy to explain and quickly played for a nice experience; a special mention is due to the well-working variant for two players, which is notoriously difficult for a two-player game.  

Players: 2-4

Age:12+

Time: 45+

Designer: Vangelis Bagiartakis

Artist: Tomasz Jedruszek, Naomi Robinson, Grzegorz Bobrowski, Julia Bien, Konstantinos Kokkinis

Price: ca. 45 Euro

Publisher: Artipia Games / Spieleschmiede 2018

Web: www.spieleschmiede.de

Genre: Card drafting and display

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en fr it pt

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Attractive topic

Easily accessed

Good version for two players

Compares to:

7 Wonders and other drafting games with card display, Among the Stars

Other editions:

Stronghold Games (en), Matagot (fr), Ghenos Games (it), Flick Game Studio (pt)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0