With these you can play more than one game of Catan in an evening! It really helps to speed things along in base and 5-6 player games. The Helpers make the set up stages go much faster. They have been a huge hit with my group.
This is a very well designed and high-quality play mat. Looks great on the gaming table!
This game feels pretty mindless and a lot of your turns may be best spent doing nothing so you can defend a spot, or returning to the middle of the map so you can heal and go find a spot to defend on your next turn. I grabbed the expansion too, which does improve the game a decent amount, but even with the expansion, I’d give it a 6/10 at best. Tiny Epic Dungeons and Zombies are both far superior choices.
There’s a similar game called Mint Cooperative which is cheaper, smaller, shorter, and honestly much more engaging than Defenders.
These are great little additions to a fantastic game.
This is one of the best games out there. It is a reskin of Mombasa and they enhanced it and added much more content. Cannot say enough good things about it!