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In the worker placement game Arler Erde, set in the German region of East Frisia, players develop an estate and expand their territory by cutting peat and building dikes.
The game last nine half-years with alternating summer and winter seasons, and each season allows or denies specific player actions. Different and detailed manufacturing processes allow a player to create goods needed to expand her estate. In addition, trades with adjoining municipalities can help a player gain the needed resources or goods for building and expanding.
A note about Arler Erde on German blogger Tim Koch's Herner round-up notes that the game is classic Rosenberg: "A two-hour playing time, heaps of options, more to do than is possible in the time allowed, and once again you must be nourished." In its Herner 2014 report, Brettspielbox has a couple of pictures of Arler Erde and mentions a 2015 Rosenberg release on display at the convention, a 2-5 player game titled Nusfjord that's a "light" Rosenberg as it has only three commodities in the game: gold, wood and fish.The game last nine half-years with alternating summer and winter seasons, and each season allows or denies specific player actions. Different and detailed manufacturing processes allow a player to create goods needed to expand her estate. In addition, trades with adjoining municipalities can help a player gain the needed resources or goods for building and expanding.
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• Other titles shown at Herner Spielewahnsinn 2014 includes La Granja (for which I filmed an overview in Nürnberg), 7 Wonders: Babel (ditto), Black Fleet (previewed in writing on BGGN), and Loony Quest (which I tried one round of and described on BGGN). Titles unfamiliar to me shown in Herne include ZhanGuo (which Italian publisher What's Your Game? labels "our current contender for Essen" on Facebook) and Kingsport Festival, a Spiel 2014 release from KOSMOS and designers Andrea Chiarvesio and Gianluca Santopietro; Brettspielbox has a pic of Kingsport Festival in its Herne report, and the game looks very FFG-y aside from all the wooden cubes.
ZhanGuo photo from What's Your Game's Facebook page
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