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Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Expansions

Name: Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Expansions
Brand: Bézier Games
SKU: BEZCASX
Price: 37.29 EUR
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Designer	Ted Alspach
Publisher	Bézier Games
Players	1-5
Suggested Age	15 and up
Expansion For	Castles of Mad King Ludwig (Second Edition)
Additional Info	369657/castles-mad-king-ludwig-expansions http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/369657/castles-mad-king-ludwig-expansions/forums/63

In Castles of Mad King Ludwig, you built the perfect castles subject to the whims of the King. But now he wants even more (he is mad, after all). Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Expansions contains several expansions that can be played separately or in any combination, as well as brand new bonus cards and favors.

Castles of Mad King Ludwig Expansions includes every previously released expansion for Castles of Mad King Ludwig and a new one, all compatible with the 2nd edition.

Renovations: Rework your castle with special double-room tiles that are placed directly on top of existing rooms.
Towers: Special rooms that provide an additional end game reward.
Moats: Surround your castle for extra VPs for each of your rooms.
Swan Tokens: Collect sets of swan tokens that can be converted to money or end game VPs.
Secret Passages: Double connection bonuses and fit rooms into hard to reach spaces.
Royal Decrees: Gain a unique, asymmetric player power at the start of the game.
New Favors & Bonus Cards: Increase the variety of end game goals.
5th Player: Add a 5th player to your game.

—description from the publisher

Top notch

Probably the best coins I’ve ever seen for a game.

Way Better Than I Was Expecting

I was a bit on the fence when I saw semi-cooperative, but you have options for that. You can play the game in campaign mode or one-off mode, and from there you have the option of full competitive, semi-cooperative, or full co-operative.

I've only played Green Hill Zone so far, which hasn't been difficult, but I'd expect the later zones and the unlockables to be much tougher. Basically, you have 3 options for building a dice pool each turn, and then a few things at your disposal to mitigate bad rolls.

Without spoiling too much, this game can technically go up to 6 players, which I tried once. Played fine as it was, but made the robotniks a bit too easy, so I'll probably come up with a house rule to balance that one out.

Incredibly Worth It

This box has so much content in it for the price you pay. 25 scenarios, but actually a few more because there's sometimes an A and a B for scenarios, and each scenario can take 1-3 hours depending on your party. My only gripe is there's 6 heroes, but only up to 4 players for the scenario booklets. You can always try to house rule more in though.

Basically, it's a scenario-based skirmisher. Initiative bag decides who goes when, and you have some power over your foes because you know what action they are going to take and even have a little bit of say in how it carries out sometimes. But don't expect that to make this a walk in the park, because even on Veteran difficulty, we've had a few close calls throughout the campaign so far.

Great puzzle game! Works great solo too!

The Expansions Really Improve Bang

My first experience with the series was the Dice Game, followed by Samurai Sword. I'd say Samurai Sword is my favourite mechanically, but it only has one expansion, so it doesn't have the variety this Dynamite Box offers.

Bang is a decently old title, so the base game has its share of issues, but the expansions do a pretty good job of addressing those.

The heavy use of symbology (one of which isn't even on the reference cards), and the confusing rules behind the different coloured cards are issues that I plan to solve by printing my own reference cards. Highly recommend that at least one player is incredibly well-versed with the rules before playing with multiple expansions at once.

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