To die is gain: which to choose?

Life in a medieval village is tough; it consists of work, life with the family and the other villagers - and dying. Village is the elementary realities of village life in well-designed play area for 2-4 players / inside can enjoy various craft activities in 60-90 minutes (work in the wheelwright, in the stables, in the office, in the forge or in the mill ) or as a farmer harvesting crops, they can go on trips or in the council chamber, or in the church or on the market, they can get young - and they can die. Every action brings points or options exchange or opened later follow-up moves - and sometimes grabs a carefully planned a teammate the opportunity right in front of your nose off. Almost like in real life ...

What I like about this game:
+ Village is a complex game for connoisseurs and experts: The first time you play four weeks ago with explaining and future reference contentious situations it took 2:45 hours. Now, after seven rounds so far, we are at 70-80 minutes. I like games for which you have to take a little time and even if you know them already not running, so very quick and easy.
+ The Bible says: ". Christ is my life and to die is gain, but if I am to go on living in the flesh, I serve to create more fruit; and so I do not know what to choose" (Paul, Philippians 1, 21:22). This is a game in which the "dying at the right time" points brings! One has to constantly deal with the life of his 11 family members in 4 generations and have to see where they stand straight when they die. If you succeed, "letting die" three, four or even five of your family members so that they will honorably recorded in the village chronicle, you bring the key at the end to win points!
+ You can play evasively or confrontational: There are five areas in which you can accumulate long-term double-digit win scores (market, travel, town hall, church, cemetery), one must not necessarily with two or even three players compete for a region, but you can also earn points, where collects no other or maybe just another also points quietly in one area. With experienced frequent players it makes of course a lot of fun, tactically jockeying to mutually block themselves to fight every point; It depends on the game round to it.
+ After several passages, the basics of the game are imprinted with me; it goes fairly smoothly and we needed only rarely have a look in the rule of the game to throw. The final scoring was very smooth and has a total regulated clearly and unambiguously.
+ Money plays in the game almost no role, cube does not exist, the luck factor is rather low.

What I love about this game is not like so much:
- The rulebook includes 12 pages in the Giant format 28 x 28 cm, which is long, very long! It lacks a simple, handy Quick Reference Guide. Best to let explained Village of someone who knows it already.
- The game material consists of more than 250 plates and blocks, which is much, much more! Even when repeated games building up takes time.
- The six Peststeine ​​are particularly cumbersome and costly. If you multiply the last or second last player to the first player and you have to repeatedly pull Peststeine, you eventually win no chance.

Overall, I like Village very much. I have now tried it with 2, 3 and 4 players, and each time it seemed more sophisticated and interesting; I'll still play it often!