Agricola 15th Anniversary Big Box - Overview & Thoughts

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[pipos]

What a terrible idea for a big box to not come with hard to find expansion content! Almost ridiculous really. What a failure of a product in general, too expensive and clunky.

[robertaustin]

This really does seem like they missed a huge opportunity here. Maybe they’ll get it right with the 20th Anniversary.

[willboy]

I've never had Agricola. Once I heard the announcement for this box, I immediately bought the normal, revised edition. I caught revised farmers of the Moor on it's most recent print run. I now have all expansions, and cards available in the base game box. Smaller box, more content, and cheaper than the anniversary. No regrets.

[rneira]

I went from the revised edition to this one mostly because I want to own everything about Agricola since it's a brilliant game. The most important addon for me has been the card holder - All expansions fit in there (without sleeves). I have all small expansions (Corbarius, Dulcinea, Consul Dirigens, and Farmers of the Moor) and everything fits inside this big box. I was dissapointed by the major improvements holder, and them being cardboard instead of cards. Beacause in farmers of the moore they are cards, and also some minor ones reference other "cards" as components and major are cards as well but that is missleading. Overall happy with being able to have everything in one box, instead of many boxes scattered around whenever I want to play some Agricola. Im glad you were able to upgrade to this version, since the animeeples are a must! hahah. Cheers,

[JonTripp]

Ultimate Railroads (the Russian Railroads big box) has that lift-out cardboard tray system, but they were smart enough to include a little handle cut out of the center beam, so you don't have to use The Claw.

[kaseygirven]

How did I miss this big box Agricola! I have the same 2008 copy as y'all!! I got it used a few years back hehe. Thanks so much for showing this off.

[nee]

Can't wait for your feast for Odin video!!!

[gregbrown]

I glued and taped the holders and they are very sturdy now.

[kathp]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I definitely was itching for the upgrade but guess we’ll go play our original version. 😅

[jamestiberio]

I just put together a folded space game insert for Agricola, and it fits all of this stuff in the regular box, with better resource trays.... This looks good from a collector perspective but much less practical than the $15 folded space insert.
Thanks for this video!

[ericbanks]

Thanks for your thoughts. I was looking forward to this edition and even planned on buying it. After seeing this review I think I'm going to pass on it. Your absolutely right that it should of come with the Farmers of the Moor expansion.

[nunt]

Thanks, money saved! I have the revised edition and there was nothing here that looked worth the upgrade (for once)...

[gstuartdunn]

Thanks for video. It is a mixed bag for people who own Revised. It has a lot of redundant cards, pieces, etc. but it also has decks that have long been out of print. Player colors are weird too. I bought it and will use my Revised edition player pieces and add resources so I don't have to use multipliers. Also Farmers of Moor is back in stock.

[Cleansweep]

You can get large foam cubes for your card box. They act as dividers and spacers to protect your cards

[alicia]

I have the older edition, but with animeeples and upgraded resources. I decided against the new edition and this anniversary edition. We already have Farmers of the Moor and several decks for the “old” version, and are perfectly happy with the variety. Agricola is a great game, and while I’m sure the new edition is wonderful, I am still happy to explore our “old” box of goodies. :)

[richardcrozier-jobber]

I have the revised edition and my contents are identical including the two sided player boards with the stone pens on one side and woodland surround on the other. It does not have the Seasons expansion or extra cards but does have a very good board for the major improvements. If you had already owned the Revised Edition then you would be even more dissappointed with the Big Box version. Good review though, team, thank you.

[draheim]

It’s such a shame. This was a product I was originally very excited about when it was first announced as I was just getting into Agricola at the time and was looking to buy a physical version of the game. But the more information I found out about it, the less interested in this version I became. My concerns included the price, the quality of the trays, that it didn’t even have the expansions or the C & D decks, the size of the box, and some other odd choices they made.

I decided against getting it and instead bought a use copy of Revised, all four Revised decks, and Farmers of the Moor - much more content than Agricola 15 and still cheaper than it. Everything fits into the base and expansion box, including all the base content plus around 100 or so occs/minors in the base box if I don't want to play the expansion. The leftover cards fit in the FotM box with the rest of the expansion content.

Nevertheless, thanks for sharing!

P.S. Farmers of the Moor has been back in print for a while, both in the UK and US at least. I got mine from Boardlandia who still has it in stock.

[grisellereyes]

hello!! At home we have the 2016 version. But we bought the 15th anniversary by mail to Spain to have it in Spanish since it is our main language. we also buy the decks that don't come in the big box. It was a disappointment that it did not bring all the decks and the insert I think is very expensive for how fragile it is. but it's a great game

[coyotemoon]

I 🐑 Uwe. The outside of the box is nice and the revised boards are nice and that's about it. Kind of a missed opportunity.

[semajracubolk]

7:34 whoever thought that this major improvement punch board was a good idea should be fired. Why would they have something that looks like trash as a component of the game? Ugh, I love Agricola, but this edition seems like a sick joke.