Ranking Alexander Pfister's Board Games
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Join us as we summarize our Alexander Pfister Series and talk about our final rankings! We also created a playlist if you are interested in viewing all of the games in the series at a glance. Thank you for your support!
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00:00 - Overview
09:50 - Superlatives
10:43 - The Rankings
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What are you favorite Alexander Pfister Games?
So far I played, in order of more liked to less liked, Great Western Trail, Mombasa/Maracaibo (tied), Port Royal, Oh My Goods and Isle of Skye.
Port Royale is probably my favorite small game of his. Great Western Trail is the cleanest of his big games.
@@fmargueirat Nice! Are you planning on playing any of his other titles soon?
@@danielmcmillan7655 It's amazing how someone can make such a diverse selection of games!
Maracaibo but I dîdn’t play all the Pfizter games
I felt very, very honored to be the start of your designer series. Thank you very much for covering so many of my games. As you said, there will be the expansion „The Uprising“ for Maracaibo soon. And hopefully I will be able to get rid of the theme of Mombasa in the near future, as I don’t like it either. Looking forward to your next designer series.
Alexander, Thank you for your Games. I have nearly all of them. In my opinion, CloudAge is very very good, especially the Campain.
@@jorgeursel7891 Thank you! I‘m happy to hear this.
Mr. Pfister I have not played all your games, I but the ones I have played have immediately jumping into my top games of all time. Thank you for gaming creations. :)
@@jessicaside Thank you! Happy to hear you like my games.
Please, Mr. Pfister, I'm sad with this new tendency of designers to choose children's themes or mild themes. I don't fell like playing Feld's Bonfire because the theme is equal to the themes of cartoons that my 8 years old daughter watchs. I love the theme of Maracaibo and I love everything in Mombasa, including the theme. The reflections on the theme of Mombasa are positive as we are enjoying to play the game: "are the companies paying the workers in the game?" I say this as a colonized south american citizen.
my pfister countdown:
12. Monster Expedition
11. Broom Service
10. Mombasa
09. Port Royal
08. Oh My Goods
07. Tybor the Builder
06. Expedition to Newdale
05. Great Western Trail
04. Isle of Skye
03. Blackout Hong Kong
02. CloudAge
01. Maracaibo
(haven't played zavandor, meins, gier, wurfel-WG or broom service card game)
Very close to my order, I think! We're only 4 games into CloudAge, but I'm liking more and more as things unlock and the full game is revealing itself. Blackout is criminally under rated. I still want to play Monster Expedition. I also have Gier and haven't tried it yet!
Thanks for checking out the vid Rahdo and giving us your rankings! Glad to see Blackout Hong Kong rated so high!
@@BeforeYouPlay i'm glad you guys appreciated it too, since when it came out it got a lot of 'meh' which made no sense to me!
tybor is really great, you should try it if you get the chance! :)
Cant agree more with your list, GWT is about more of the hype it has, Maracaibo is deepest funnier and much more strategic, and cloud age is for me his best lightier game
I really love your work! Excellent break down and insight, plus comprehensive overview of game play! Lovely work.
Congratulations on doing all those playthrough, teachings and reviews of all these games! So awesome, I was really looking forward to this video. Thank you again for covering these games over the past months, really appreciate your time and efforts you put into them. I don't own any of these games, but GWT was the first 'modern' board game I played and I was literally blown away that I talked about it for days, haha. Thanks both of you!
Thank you for all the love and support! We had a great time covering his games and are hopeful / excited for his other designs coming out in the future. Great Western Trail is a crazy way to get into modern games lol!!!
Well done! I love how your play and teach videos and how honest you two are. More and more games added to my play list. Thank you very much.
Another great video from Before You Play :) After watching, I realized we had an Alexander Pfister title on our shelf of shame, unplayed & still NIS! So we broke it open (Port Royal), watched your playthrough video & played the game ourselves. It was a lot of fun & thanks to you guys we have one less game on our shelf of shame....yay!
You guys are killing it! This series was so good. Pfister is my favorite designer. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for the kind words! We had a blast covering all of A. Pfister's games. Excited to release more videos soon!
Thanks for that!
Great video and cool project.
Your concept is refreshing and intresting.
Only recently found your channel and became a subscriber, but I loved watching this designer series! Great work with the content you’re producing, looking forward to more!
I was so hype for this video! lol. I love this designer series, keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more of these. It's just a shame they can take so long to make. I passed up on buying BHK because of the other reviews I heard, but now I want to give it a try because of you guys.
I hope you get to try it, we were pleasantly surprised by the game. A lot of people feel it got a bad wrap because of art style / graphic design.
Just loving your channel. Loved this rundown and am hoping to try out some more of Pfisters games. I love these designer series and I like that now I have Hong Kong on my “want to play” list instead of the new new new. Thanks for all you do!! Can’t wait to hear who is next!!
Glad you liked the video. Hopefully you can get a chance to try it out, we were extremely pleased and surprised by it.
Been looking forward to this since the series started. He's one of my favorite designers. Your analysis of the games was really great. I guess I need to try Blackout Hong Kong. Somehow I missed that one. Thanks for this great series!
Great Series! Ive recently started to realize that Pfister is one of my fave designers, with Feld being his main opponent for my shelf space, lol. Im currently playing Maracaibo, with the expansion and in campaign mode with friends, and we LOVE it! So good! (the dual layer boards made it and insta-buy) From what I can tell, you two are going to really like Skymines. Its very much like Mombasa, but with more appeal, and a few rules changes that lend to better strategizing. Best of luck, thanks for a great video and keep up the awesome work!
Loved catching up on this series. The three that stood out most to me were Maracaibo, GWT, and Mombasa (in that order), since I tend to like heavier games and don’t like a lot of luck. But I really enjoyed watching all of the games showcased!
Also very excited that those three have all had the issues with their themes addressed in meaningful ways.
Had no idea Pfister is such a fan of push-your-luck!
Thanks for the video series, guys. Excellent stuff. :)
I really loved seeing the final ranking, thanks for doing this series. I have not played Mombasa yet, but I snagged a copy and look forward to trying it some day. My top games are Maracaibo, Great Western Trail, and Blackout Hong Kong. I just got cloud age and have yet to play it, I was also hoping it would be heavier.
My favorite channel for board games! Keep going guys..Greetings from Greece
Love these series its a love letter to the designers for doing them. Im also learning alot about how the game designers differ and what makes them special
Before watching...just want to say, I’ve been looking forward to this video!!! Pumped to watch!
Hi Wesley, hope it lived up to your expectations!!
Vladimir Suchi, Stefan Feld, Bruno Cathala, Uwe Rosenberg...You have a lot work to do :)
All fantastic options!
Loved this series, loved this conclusion. Bring on Uwe!
Haha, you might just be onto something there... ;-)
Awesome series you guys. I really appreciate the work and time you put into this. Alexander Pfister has very quickly become an almost instant buy for me...(except for Monster Expedition that's just not my cup of tea) I think my favorite is also GWT though. Something about that mix of mechanisms and the smoothness just tickles my bone entirely. But I too thought that Blackout is quite underrated. Although number 2 definetly has to go to Maracaibo. Can't wait for the expansion.
Thanks so much for your work! And I'm really looking forward to the next project!
nice video series! I've only played GWT, which I liked, and Isle of Skye, which I loved! I immediately got a copy of Isle of Skye. now I'm waiting for GWT: Argentina and Skymines! watching from Ireland! Best!
That was awsome. I was really waiting for that. My fav are GWT and Maracaibo. For sure I am gona try BHK. Great job! Thank you.
Hope you enjoy BHK when you have a chance to play!!
Loved this series! Thanks to you two. You both deserve a little break. Can’t wait to hear who the next designer is.
Our pleasure! We had a lot of fun filming all of these games. We'll likely announce the next one in about a month :-)
This series has been epic! Thank you for going through all the games. My favourite is GWT, but I have yet to try Maricaibo or Mombasa. I do have a soft spot for Broom Service, but not with 2 players. Can't wait for your next series like this!
Hi Bradley, thank you so much for following along with us. Glad you enjoyed the series, we're gearing up for the next designer series in about a month or two.
@@BeforeYouPlay Uwe? Knizia? Splotter....? Kramer and Kiesling? Can't wait to find out.
Watching through this designer series led me to get my hands on Monster Expeditions and Blackout Hong Kong (so far) and to keep my eyes open for a few others to try. I already have Mombasa (love it) and GWT, though i havent gotten that one played just yet. Thank you for all your work.
Awesome stuff! I was waiting for this video!!!
Hope you enjoy it! :-)
Highly informative and very enjoyable approach to subject! Definitely worth watching!!! Big thank You for great work!!!
Thank you so much! :-)
Great series as usual-- very excited to hear who the next designer is! Not sure if he has enough games, but a Turczi series could be cool, especially with excavation earth just delivering (which I think is a sleeper hit!).
Thanks for the list full of comments and insights. I'm a big pfan of Pfister's games, especially Mombasa and Maracaibo. Bring on the Uprising expansion!
Really excited to see what "Uprising" brings!
I just bought Port Royal, Oh My Goods and Skymines (Mombasa in space) are on my wishlist. Thanks for all the job you do for board games universe 😉😁
Great series you guys! Have not played all the pfister games, but Maracaibo is still outstanding after 22 plays!!
Totally agree!
Love Alexander Pfister games! He’s one of my favorite designers. We play the UK version or Port Royal with the expansion, but we just play with the cards only. We also play with the rule that you must have a contract to win. Great lunchtime game. It’s the most fun with 3-5 players.
This is great content. Keep it up!!!
Thanks Daniel! We had fun making this one :-)
I purchased Great Western trail a few months ago and found your channel while searching for GWT reviews/play. I subbed to your channel at that time.
I'm living in Vietnam, I have Maracaibo on order, it's on the way. I think I must pick up a copy of Mombasa to add to my collection as well.
You guys are really cool. Love your channel.
Gotta love Monique’s face when Naveen listed GWT at #4. Great list guys and glad to hear both of your tales on the Pfister collection.
She was genuinely surprised! That's exactly the reason we don't go over our lists together beforehand. ;-)
@@BeforeYouPlay I fee you. I like the surprise as well.
Share your #1 Monique, but I’ve still not played GWT. Thank you for the great series! And while I wasn’t drawn to CloudAge, as it looked too light for my taste, I can see why it falls the way it does on each of your lists. It’s nice to have a refreshing take on these games and see how they stack for each of you against a new release such as that. Does a great job of removing the “cult of the new” aspect from CloudAge and gives it a fresh perspective. Also doubles down on why your channel is doing great work for the hobby at large. Look forward to the next series.
My list looks like this:
1. Great Western Trail
That's the whole thing, I haven't played any others yet somehow! I need to get on that pronto, thanks for helping me prioritize which ones I might like to try next.
Great review :) I’d be interested what you’re rankings would be for just at the 2 player count.
Great series and summary video! Love so many of Pfister's games (especially the heavier ones). I need to try Black Out Hong Kong now ;-). I lose GWT a lot too but really love it (currently still by top game!).
Note: Journeyman expansion for Isle of Skye really reinvents the game. We play the expansion sometimes but other times we just play the base game as the play time and complexity is very different.
Thank you for another great designer series, and looking forward to your next designer series and the 2 mini-series you mentioned.
My ranking of the same 10 games you mentioned would be:
1) Great western trail
2) Blackout Hong Kong
3) Isle of Skye
4) Maracaibo
5) Mombasa
6) Broom Service
7) Cloud Age
8) Port Royal
9) Oh My Goods
10) Monster Expedition
same here, i love blackout hong kong
I’ve only played Maracaibo (only at 2p) and I love it! I just bought Blackout Hong Kong today and am looking forward to it! Thanks for doing this series!
Hi Anthony so glad you love Maracaibo, hopefully you will also enjoy Blackout too (it's plays well at all player counts).
@@BeforeYouPlay thanks! Based on your play through I think I will. The card play seems really interesting!
great list!
great finish to a very nice series. great to see Blackout Hong Kong see some love. Btw. Tybor the builder is a neat little card game with quite some depth. I also love his great 4 expert games the most: GWT, Mombasa, Blackout Hong Kong and Maracaibo. I would get a real headache if I'd have to rank them
Thank you very much for covering Pfister.
Ohlala, you'll HAVE TO try the Journeyman expansion for Isle of Skye, it totally transforms the game! And a big thank you for these designer series
I would so love to see you guys do a Stefan Feld series.
So many games by Feld! We are big fans of his.
Nice lists! I would rank Maracaibo and Great Western Trail highest, and Expedition to Newdale not far behind.
I just got Cloudage but haven't had time to play it yet, I have great hopes for it.
Looking forward to the expansion to Maracaibo!
Excellent video, GWT is my favourite, not only Pfister, absolute number one.
Nice!! Such a great game. The expansion takes it up a notch too :-)
Thanks for making this series!
I’ve liked all Pfister’s games I’ve played so far (not played Mombasa, Broom service and Cloud age yet). Recently started the Maracaibo campaign and eagerly looking forward to getting together with my friends and continuing our adventures.
I do think it’s slightly unfair to call Port Royal a pure push your luck game. True, it plays a big role, but through your choices you can mitigate and build a little engine. It’s my favorite filler! I like to add the contracts and play it cooperatively now and then. I have bought but still have to try The Adventure begins, the campaign for Port Royal.
Also looking forward to playing through the story expansions for Oh my goods!
Maracaibo is my number one over all among his designs.
After thinking a bit more:
Of course Port Royal is an (almost) pure push your luck game. I might have got a bit fired up because it sounded a bit dismissive to my overly sensitive ears. 🤪
Love it for what it does with it’s mechanisms.
Thanks once again for this great series and looking forward to the next one.
Nice summing up. You should look into doing a Bruno Cathal series. Not so many heavy ones but lots of shorter mid weight games.
He's also a great designer, not sure if we will feature him in the near future but perhaps down the road!
JUST bought Maracaibo yesterday! It's supposed to arrive tomorrow and can't wait!!! It's gonna be my first Pfister game.
you're gonna love it!!
Hi Julian, have a blast, we really hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
I love Maracaibo and still need to play Mombasa. It's been on my to play list for a while now.
You made me buy Broom Service and I'm glad I did. I can play it with my family of four and it has little to no down time. We tried Great Western Trail (I bought it because of the hype, but we didn't like it at all). One day I'll be able to pull Root or Starcadia Quest or 1775/1754, but we'll see...
So glad you are enjoying Broom Service, it's the perfect weight from both non-gamers and gamers!
Hellooooo 🤩 Congratulations on finishing another series! Love this video so much! So interesting to hear you dissect his designs a bit, and talk about the different mechanisms he is using!
I agree with Naveen! I’d also love a heavier game with loads of cool mechanisms!
Loved Naveens comment «We talk about these games together» I just started imagining how it would be at your house if you never talked about the games you played 😂
The rules for CloudAge was not very good at letting you know how the cloud cards worked. We also played that wrong the first time! Didn’t know about the new rules for Oh My Goods! Will check those out, as we are not super fans of the game! Blackout is one I really need to play again! Only played it once when it was released, but never got back around to play it again. Did you only play with 2 players? I think we did back when we played, and would love to play it with more!
Loved Monique’s reaction at a specific time at the top of the list! I always love shocked reactions for picks, haha! We just got the Journeyman expansion to Isle of SKye, so we’ll try to play that sometime during 2021!
Would love to play a 4 player games of both your #1s when we can meet up in person :D Thanks again for this great top list and discussion! I really enjoyed it!
This is a good topic. He comes out with so many games, you can make an annual update!
My wife and I love Maracaibo. I really would like to give Mombasa a try. Look forward to watching the Uwe series, Feast for Odin is a fantastic game.
Love these designer series videos.
Very interresting video, it was nice to watch. It would have been nice to but the game cover on screen as you talk about them.
Hi Alex, thanks for checking out the video. We didn't add them this time since we had filmed and covered all the games we spoke on. But honestly it would have taken more time in post production editing so we decided to omit the art this time around.
Thanks for pour vidéo, very well done, makes me wanna try Maracaibo ! I've just read thé rules, and actually your first can't have a master builder as i understand it, cause it IS specified that your strating hand countains only A cards and the b pile IS shuffled afterwards
I have to try out Blackout: Hong Kong. I've seen it at a couple local game stores on the clearance shelf so I thought the game might not be that good. I'll definitely try it out. Hopefully it's still on the shelf! BTW, I am a huge Great Western Trail fan. My best friend and I play it about once every month, maybe more. I have fun playing it even if I get stomped. Great series, you two! I'm jealous! I wish I had some friend(s) that would do a whole series with me.
Very interested in Blackout Hong Kong after watching your play through!
Hi James, we hope you get to try it out. It is a great design!
I love that you guys use paper and pen!
My top 5 (of the ones I have played):
1) Maracaibo
2) Oh My Goods
(especially with the Longsdale expansion)
3) Great Western Trail
4) Mombasa
5) Isle of Skye
I would love to see a Martin Wallace designer series!
He is certainly up there for us!
Really enjoy your chemistry & banter. Naveen, since you mentioned you like rondel style mechanics, have you played Feld's Trajan and do you like it? Thanks...♥️
Just played Maracaibo for the first time. We really like it. I had 4 master builders in the first hand and have to agree that they are very (over)powered.
I finally managed to get my hands on Isle of Skye today in a trade for some beers & cheese from my local game store. To the table!
Love it!!
I loved those series!
My top 5 Pfisters
5. Broom service
4. Isle of skye
3. Blackout HK
2. Great western trail
1. Mombasa
It may have been mentioned already, but Mac Gerdts is pretty much the inventor of rondels. Even his more recent design of Concordia functions as a personal rondel using a hand of cards. Great overview!
I'd be curious if you ever do a Shem Phillips series what your thoughts are on Viscounts vs GWT. Both have that rondel/deck building thing going on....
Hi Michael, we will be doing a West Kingdom Trilogy series following our upcoming Root series! We'll be releasing a final thoughts video for both. :-)
Thank you for the amazing review and ranking!
Just a friendly request/suggestion from my side; please list somehow the name/picture of the game when it is announced.
As of now after watching I want to get to know your list again, but there is no easy overview, and I have to search per on what you mention once more.
Thanks once more and good luck going forward!
Did you play Oh My Goods with any of the expansions? Imo the first expansion greatly improved the game by adding events and making the game a fixed number of rounds. It also has a cool little campaign!
Oh I hope it would be Valdimir Suchy :)
Maybe down the road, lot's of people are requesting him. We have another name on our radar though.
Thank you for the series and for this video! Where does Boonlake sit in your order of preferences? Have you played it?
With Euro's It's all about gameplay theme and artwork might attract/detract people from a game but after you are playing you just see the gameplay. A comparison I can make is I used to play a lot of fighting games and graphics are good but after a little bit you don't even see the sprites any more. Don't know if it makes sense.
Naveen, i agree that Blackout: Hong Kong is underrated game. I think people didn't like the look of the board and card layout and judged the book based on its cover.
That's exactly it! So glad we played it and hoping to get another game of it in soon.
I really like it. I don’t even think it looks that bad.
Very good list. More games to Check out. Consider Adding Vlaada Chvatil to your list (for later)
Love Vlaada! Probably my most respected designer. The radically different games is just ridiculous that it all came from one person.
Uwe Rosenberg next! I love these series!
I love Broom Service! It is one of the games where I have to pay attention to where everyone is. My recommendation to all players is to always have your witches next to a cloud at the end of the round if you plan to use a fairy card next time. That way you can use your fairy no matter the order the fairy is called. This one tip has changed the fun of the experience for new players.
Hi Amy, that's a great tip! We are excited to play it again. What is your favorite player count?
@@BeforeYouPlay I am a sucker for the game at 2 because I get to do more brave actions. Getting away with 3 or 4 brave cards in a round is a thrill. I do enjoy it all counts, but only if I explain the previous tip about leaving witches near a cloud or two. I also encourage players to play cards that they can at least get the cowardly action on despite the order of how they are played. The game becomes more strategic than random.
I guess it is why I love the game. The depth of the game reveals itself a little more with each play. The tension of calling brave or cowardly can be intense.
Great tips! Similarly for sequencing Witches and Druids: try to position both pawns in the previous round so that, if you are forced to play your Witch before delivering, you will still be able to use the Druid with the other pawn. Also, don’t count on gathering potions on the same round you want to deliver them-gather a round ahead! Broom Service a game about planning for contingencies, not optimizing an ideal plan.
FWIW, I like it best with 3 or 4.
@@ginsbu yes! It is all about contingency plans! It is rare to pull off a combo with the four cards in one round. I don’t have any other games that play like this which makes it a keeper in my collection.
Awesome video! I vote for either Simone Luciani or Uwe Rosenberg for your next series.
I second this 100%
Both designers are very high on the list ;-)
I will tell you that I had a play at 2 players, where my opponent had multiple master builders and he still got spanked. Focusing on one thing often leads to issues on the other side. In this case he was building while I was placing cubes and exploring. I think that there is likely a major move to be made there, but then money is not easy to come by, so he can only build so many cards.
Not sure what happened in our game, we once played 3 player and our opponent went super card heavy and smushed us into the ground.
Would love to see Ryan Laukat, Simone Luciani and/or Vladimir Suchy!
Yes, Ryan Laukat would be great.
All great choices, we haven't officially announced who the next designer will be, but we will in the coming weeks!
For me Maracaibo is his best game by far, with an honorific mention for cloud age which pleasantly surprised me
I have to try Blackout Hong Kong. I do really like Port Royal for an accessible, small engine building, press your luck game.
Btw, Here are some Details for "Uprising" from Pfister. He had stated Q1 2021 ....
Double layer ship-boards.
A cooperative scenario where one can try to get rid of the colonial powers (so you supposedly play the native inhabitants).
A new story.
Asymmetric ship improvements.
Many new cards.
New Scenarios and a new virtual player.
Congrats on your videos! I saw that some people have already asked that, but how about a Reiner Knizia series now? At least his most famous one? Since you have mentioned liking action games, I'm pretty sure it'll be a lot of fun :)
Reiner is so prolific, a series by him would definitely have to be curated to his most popular 8-10 games. I think he has had a hand in designing hundreds of games!
@@BeforeYouPlay That's so true! I believe a well curated list in here would be awesome and make us very happy! I cannot wait to see you two playing Tigris & Euphrates Heheheheh Congrats on your amazing channel and keep up with the great work :)
Can't decide which is best among Great Western Trail, Maracaibo and Mombasa. I also really like Isle of Skye but not as much as the heavier entries.
I really wish the next designer is Martin Wallace.
Wallace is a fantastic designer! One of the best, maybe sometime down the road we will be able to.
@@BeforeYouPlay He is a legend. A Unique designer.
Hey, guys! I really appreciate your work. I’m not sure you knew but as it turned out you have many Hungarian (as myself) followers. There’s a publisher group called Mindclash Games with games like Anachrony, Trickerion, Cerebria. I wonder how you would rate these games. Best wishes from Hungary
Curious if you have had a chance to play Boonlake since this series, and if so, what you thought!
Mombasa FTW!! Wow! I'll never forget the first time I played it with my wife; she said something she hasn't said before or since: "this has the feel of a classic". I've been pretty tempted to get GWT or Maracaibo, so I thank you Naveen that I think I can now put that temptation to rest and reallocate that $60 towards something else. :) Great content you 2!
They are all great titles, but if we had to choose between the 2 it's going to be Maracaibo. GWT is snappy and satisfying though. Glad we could help out!
Based on some of your comments you two might enjoy a two player game Heir to the Pharaoh from Eagle Gryphon has a deluxe version with wooden components and small expansion.
I first watched this video sometime in 2021. I think that at the time I had only played Port Royal and maybe Great Western Trail. However, I've since played Isle of Skye and bought and played Mombasa (I think that I found the last retailer in Australia with 1 copy left), Black Out Hong Kong and Oh, my goods!
I think that my rankings are:
- Great Western Trail
- Mombasa (based on 1 play, I reckon this will end up as my favourite Alexander Pfister game)
- Black Out Hong Kong
- Port Royal
- Oh my goods
- Isle of Skye
For me the big box game are far superior to the other 3. I'd like to thank Naveen in particular, as I've ended up buying 2 games that he's particularly highlighted in the past (Mombasa, in this series) and also Schotten Totten.
Your game tastes very much align with mine, where mechanics are more important than themes.
This is a bit old, but you should definitely do a Splotter run 😜 (a lot aren't available or suitable for two, so not realistic, but it'd be fun)
Did you try Great Western Trail with Rails to the North expansion? I wouldn't recommend anyone to start the experience with it as it increases the complexity significantly, but it's great in a sense that it opens up new strategies if you're fairly experienced with the base game already. Downside: it makes the selling phase a bit longer. I consider this a great expansions because it does exactly that, expands one aspect of the game and because I feel like it gives us an option: unlike many expansions where you either always play with that or never, here I sometimes like to include it and sometimes like to play without it.
After two years.
How about Boonlake in the rank?
My favorite is GWT+Rttn.
Skymines 2nd
Which was the easiest to start with board game (superlative?) I couldn't quite catch what you were saying.
My Pfister List (not played all of them) -
*Not Played* - Isle of Skye, Port Royal, Broom Service, Monster Expedition, Tybor the Builder, Cloudage, Expedition to Newdale
5. Oh My Goods
4. Maracaibo
3. Blackout Hong Kong
2. GWT
1. Mombasa
Matthias Cramer series with Glenmore, Watergate, Rococo, Lancaster, Kraftwagen? smaller scope!
Hoping for a Uwe Rosenberg series.