1. I definitely have a bit of a completionist problem, so if there is a game I already own and love or a game that I am getting that I know I will like, I tend to just get whatever expansion/expansions are available. I also trust the opinion of some YouTube content creators who have a lot more time to play these games and expansions than I ever will.
2. #Underwater Cities: New Discoveries, #Tuscany: Essential Edition, #A Feast For Odin: The Norwegians - I wouldn't call any of these essential, but since I love these games so much, they are essential for me!
3. I have all of the Terraforming Mars expansions except for #Terraforming Mars: Turmoil - I just cannot figure out why they designed this. It really does take the game in a direction I don't want to go down personally. Can't ever see myself buying this one. I also will never buy any 5-6 player expansions because I generally never want to play a game with that many people (unless its a light party game/filler)
rbal12502 49 days ago |
Yeah I think for me Terraforming Mars can play faster just because I find the turns to be a lot more snappy and there aren't as many fiddly rules - but yes, they are pretty close (unless you have Prelude as you mention).
I definitely have been on an Uwe kick since the pandemic started - I own most of his big box games (ironically, not #Caverna: The Cave Farmers!)...but I think my top three are: #A Feast for Odin, #Le Havre, and #Fields of Arle. The tough part for me with some of his games are the set up/tear down and relearning of the rules (AFFO and FoA...). #Le Havre is fantastic because the set up time is super fast and there actually aren't that many rules, but the game builds quite a bit. #Nusfjord I also like because it plays a little bit faster, has a lot of variablity with the card decks, and has some pretty interesting decision space. I went with #Agricola because it is A LOT cheaper than #Caverna: The Cave Farmers and I do like the unending variablity with the cards.