Just played a 2 player game. The scoring potential of Expansion 10 is amazing!
EDIT: OK then, maybe it was 209...
Hope you enjoy it! Let us know your thoughts!
Quote from: Decar on July 13, 2017, 10:59:57 AMHope you enjoy it! Let us know your thoughts!Played one game last night with base game, river, abbots, and Under the Big Top. Usually playing just base, river, and abbots (2 player game) our scores are each between 100-150. With under the big top added in final score was 260 (me) to 246 (wife). So with just UTBT added in, an extra 120+ points each. Seems like a lot of extra points for just 20 tiles. There was only one circus where nobody scored any points because we didn't have any meeples nearby. My wife 2 different times had 2 meeples on acrobat tiles and she ran out of meeples, so she had no way to finish and score the acrobat tile right away. Both times I was nice and played my meeple on the acrobat tile so she could score and get them back. It was definitely fun getting the extra ringmaster points. We got 4 or 6 extra points each time our ringmasters scored. My wife played her ringmaster out 5 or 6 times, and I only played mine 3 times. I made the mistake of playing him on a monastery that I couldn't get completed for a long stretch in the middle, but at least he scored on 2 different circus tents while waiting. My wife kept asking the strategy on where to place tent/acrobat tiles. I said you want to play the tent close to your meeples out on the board, and the acrobats in as open an area as possible, so you have the most opportunities to play around it and build up the acrobat tower. Several times I purposely did not complete a city or road with my meeple in it because it was near the current circus tent and wanted to wait until after the tent scored to complete it. I kept thinking during the game that I was getting so many extra points from this expansion. The only expansions that I've played that give a bunch of extra points during game play are Inns and Cathedrals (from scoring the inn roads and cathedral cities) Hills and Sheep (from scoring the flock and vineyards). But I think Under the Big Top gives even more extra points than either of those expansions. The winning strategy will capitalize on all the extra points they can get from this expansion, because there are a ton of extra points available here. And points are always fun to get!!!
Nice write up. A merit from me.You might add in the Watchtowers for an even bigger points kick! )
Agree with you both! My girlfriend and I also found it had a nice, co-operative feel for most of the game, with both players joining pyramids or being jointly invested in the circus tent reveal. Not sure that it would scale well to playing with lots of expansions together, but it was more enjoyably 'different' and quirky than I was expecting.The Ringmaster feels a little underpowered though... I kept forgetting to use him!
The English stuff always costs more. It was cheaper for me to order Schafe und Hügel and Brücken, Burgen und Basare from amazon.de than to order Hills & Sheep and Bridges, Castles, and Bazaars from amazon.com in the U.S., where I live.I have a feeling that if I lived somewhere in Europe, I'd also have Belagerer/Besiegers by now.
We had this same problem when my wife and I bought Takenoko Chibis (an epic expansion to an epic game!) since we find it for about £20 in German but a lot more in English.
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