Z-Man Games Agricola: Farmers of the Moor

by Z-Man Games

Product Features

• You need Agricola in order to use this expansion
• Adds depth and complexity
• Tons of replay value
• Farmers of the Moor includes special actions and lots of new major improvements

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 1.5 inches ; 1.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002ZUD49M
• Item model number: ZMG 7026E
• Our recommended age: 12 years and up
• Manufacturer recommended age: 12 - 16 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,672 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Agricola: Farmers of the Moor is a full-blown expansion to Agricola. It includes 150 cards, horse-shaped wooden pieces, many tiles, and a new scorepad. The mechanics include the need to heat your home during harvest as well as feeding your family; hence, fuel becomes a new resource to collect. Farmers of the Moor includes special actions and lots of new major improvements. It expands the options to your Agricola experience.

Product Description

Agricola: Farmers of the Moor is the first big expansion for Agricola. This expansion replaces the minor improvements and the occupations of the base game with a large set of new improvements, and adds a number of new features. Horses are introduced as a new type of animal, and your family members now cost fuel in addition to food. You can get this fuel by chopping down the forests on your farmyard, or by harvesting peat. This is not a complete game, you need Agricola to play this expansion set.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Agricola Expansion - Added Complexity, June 20, 2010

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Brandon L. (United States) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Z-Man Games Agricola: Farmers of the Moor (Toy)

My wife, friends, and I love Agricola, so we were pretty psyched about the expansion. It serves to add a bit more complexity to the game, with additional things to manage and ways of winning. We've played with the expansion about half a dozen times, and I would recommend it for those who have played Agricola enough times to have seen most of the occupation / improvement cards, and are hankering for something new. For players new to Agricola, I would hold off on buying this expansion. The game is pretty complex as it is, and the expansion might be too much to keep track of at first. Here is a general summary of the pros and cons as I see them:

Pros: Huge additions to game play which really make the game fresh and exciting (new animals, new tiles for your farmland, new upkeep requirements, and a slew of new occupations / improvements. Adding new ways to gain points also means there are a lot of new strategies to pursue in order to win.

Cons: Added complexity could be confusing to new players. As with the original game, instructions aren't super-clear and require some learn-by-playing. Interestingly, a lot of the new major improvements don't seem to be very useful in the game (we haven't used a single one).

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fixes flaws in an already great game., August 31, 2010

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kumquat - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Z-Man Games Agricola: Farmers of the Moor (Toy)

Agricola is an awesome game, but it suffers from a few significant flaws. The largest of these is that adding family members is so much more important than any other task that it becomes the sole focus of the early game. This was supposed to balanced by the requirement for additional food, but this is really a trivial issue for an experiences player.

Farmers on the Moore reduces this flaw with the addition of special actions. These are actions that can be taken without using your family members, which helps narrow the action deficit. Especially since the only way to use one that's already been taken is by spending food, something that smaller families will have in excess.

Other additions like forests, new improvements (major and minor), and the requirement to heat your home in winter also help to revitalize the game.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life on the farm is getting tougher, January 9, 2011

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chefjbed - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Z-Man Games Agricola: Farmers of the Moor (Toy)

Just when we thought we finally mastered Agricola, we added on this expansion pack. The creators did a great job thinking everything through to make sure it all works out. With all the new additions, don't expect your farm life to be as productive as it before. Now the time really goes by fast, and there just never seems to be enough turns to do everything you want to do... and that is what makes for such an intriguing game. The original Agricola game was pretty challenging for us to learn since we were new to all the lingo. Now that we're familiar with the game, the expansion pack was very easy to learn and add on.