Kemet vs Agricola

Architect of the West Kingdom replaced Viticulture for me. Didn't need another light worker placement - and I have Vinhos to scratch the wine theme.

Cards are slightly longer and more narrow than standard cards, so take that into consideration when selecting (optional) plastic sleeves. I'm amazed at how well everything was designed. The side of the board has a puzzle piece type link, that allows you to quickly setup for 1-4 players. There are also optional tiles for a campaign style play and varients that add more advanced placement options

Although the old Kemet (not sure what the components of the new Kemet will look like) is kind of in an uncanny valley situation. The miniatures are flashier than cubes, but are crappy compared to miniatures from many other games. If they had CMON (or better miniatures) that would be even fancier than their current miniatures. However, if done well and they were tasteful, I probably wouldn't be horribly upset with them

That said, these are the games I've owned since purchasing them and the year I acquired them:

So you have to be careful with with innopolis. You can show up in that, if you transport from my pyramid, so you get to these temples very quickly and...

So, at the start of the game, this spot here is available. It allows you to take one grain and grain. Are these yellow disks? If i were to do this, i ...

The power tiles need to be grabbed up, temples need to be occupied, pyramids need to be developed, there's plenty to do in a short play time. I like that it rewards aggression - building up and just sitting there is a surefire way to lose. The only real beef I have with the game is that I wish it came with more player aids describing the power tiles. Only one is included in the box

They could simply place onto an action to collect resources, for example, to take this clay and place it on there, for other things they might want to...

**Kemet Blood and Sand**: Found out this week that my groups first play of this game we got some rules wrong, which meant when I went to play it at 2 players we fudged some of the rules but I had corrected some of our previous mistakes. Nonetheless we had a great time and are looking forward to a 5 player match to really get everything going on the board!

but it was either that, or I wouldn’t understand the rules to teach it to those I play with (that have no patience!)..

But i think kemet is a but too much information overload with the different powers and the theme will probably not resonate with the people i play with

Its a ok game and interesting once you get into it, but the rules and instructions are very complicated to learn especially if you're trying to teach yourself (as opposed to playing with friends that have played it before). My husband and I are avid board gamers and we found it very confusing in the beginning. There are also lots of intricacies in taking your turn, taking "actions" etc which are hard to understand and/or keep straight. It's also not a quick playing game

**Kemet** (1x3P) First time ever playing this and I was tasked with teaching and unpacking (complaint: Matagot included no storage bags for any components). Ended up taking us around two hours but it was a lot of fun. In the pros column it was easy to learn, had a fun combat system, and was filled with interesting decisions. In the cons column, it was a pain figuring out what all the tiles and DI cards did, the manual was terrible, and it sagged a little at the end

Let's take a look. There's a board here placed in the middle of the table. This board has a puzzle piece and that's going to be used for a number of p...