I suppose you could use the expansion box as a travel-size box. Instead of taking everything in the big box, you could take one tray with your favorite units on-the-go.
I got the Main box set of war chest. And I definitely want to get this set and the seige box set that's the same size as this one. The game Is amazing.
They did the same thing with the Onitama expnasions. Twice. A very nice magnetic closing box for 16 cards that you immediately put into the base box and throw the box away.
They really should've had those hexagonal marker from the get go. I had 3d printed holders made that fit the round ones. Again a lack of forethought on their part. The trays are flimsy and if the game is played a lot they well get wrecked over time. Maybe some will have a 3d printed version on Etsy. It is already difficult to get the original tray out of the bottom of the box in the first place. Love how Tom crushes the expansion box at the end of the video.
It seems like two of the things included in here are actually corrections to the original game: fixing the royal guard card and the control tokens. It would be nice if AEG made these two components available on their own at a lower price point without a box so we could upgrade the original game. I personally am not interested in the other expansion components.
@@brandaccount5941 Be that as it may, you get much less, proportionally, and to elaborate on that, half of what you get is a bandaid to the original content. Additionally I don't think that it adds enough to justify itself unless you're playing the game multiple times a week. FWIW....I'm not suggesting that there is anything wrong with either the base game OR the expansion (I own both, and think that Warchest is excellent) I'm merely supporting someone's right to say it's overpriced for what comes in the (expansion) box.
@@brandaccount5941 Lol, and yet you @ someone that chimed in to support the op, with an actual reason, but without a real reason other than "I think it's wrong". Cool hyperbole too, btw. I could name a few dozen games just out of what's on MY personal shelf that have expansions that warrant the cost.. some with multiple expansions which do so; most with proportionally appropriate pricepoints. Warchest is definitely an outlier... in that not only does the expansions cost a large portion of the base game but adds VERY little. Look at something like Tiny Towns, also AEG.... Fortune costs nearly as much as the base game, but adds an entire layer of strategic depth to play, and comes respectably close to doubling the amount of content overall. (Again I love Warchest so it's not even that I disagree it's worth a purchase.... for the right player) It's definitely not an expansion that someone just getting interested in the game needs to pick up for a full experience however, and that alone says a lot about the pricepoint vs the value. I would never tell someone to pick up Waterdeep without Skullport , for instance.
Tom should be detained by the board game police for vandalism. This deranged tendency to use big hammers to vandalize perfectly innocent board games is outrageous.
I suppose you could use the expansion box as a travel-size box. Instead of taking everything in the big box, you could take one tray with your favorite units on-the-go.
I like the solid box drop at the beginning. Sometimes seeing all the pieces scattering all over the place hurts my card sleeping heart.
I got the Main box set of war chest. And I definitely want to get this set and the seige box set that's the same size as this one. The game Is amazing.
When he smashed that box I actually got a little nauseous.
*nauseated
@@crimson90 There are two kinds of people in this world... People who are fun at parties, and then there's this guy
They should spend less on the box, which will be thrown away.
They did the same thing with the Onitama expnasions. Twice. A very nice magnetic closing box for 16 cards that you immediately put into the base box and throw the box away.
They really should've had those hexagonal marker from the get go. I had 3d printed holders made that fit the round ones. Again a lack of forethought on their part. The trays are flimsy and if the game is played a lot they well get wrecked over time. Maybe some will have a 3d printed version on Etsy. It is already difficult to get the original tray out of the bottom of the box in the first place.
Love how Tom crushes the expansion box at the end of the video.
Why break the box at the end!?
Fits in the recycle bin better.
Love this game SO much
It seems like two of the things included in here are actually corrections to the original game: fixing the royal guard card and the control tokens. It would be nice if AEG made these two components available on their own at a lower price point without a box so we could upgrade the original game. I personally am not interested in the other expansion components.
Yes, I'm in the same boat. The Royal Decree really don't work for me. More luck / less elegant game.
I like the proclamations mainly because they use the royal coin [which i felt couldn't do enough].
great review
That poor box got hammered!
I'm waiting for a desginer to make an anvil shaped box, just for this.
Seems too expensive for what you get.
How is $18 expensive?
@@victorgonzalez2927 Because it adds very little for half the cost of the base game?
@@brandaccount5941 Be that as it may, you get much less, proportionally, and to elaborate on that, half of what you get is a bandaid to the original content. Additionally I don't think that it adds enough to justify itself unless you're playing the game multiple times a week.
FWIW....I'm not suggesting that there is anything wrong with either the base game OR the expansion (I own both, and think that Warchest is excellent)
I'm merely supporting someone's right to say it's overpriced for what comes in the (expansion) box.
@@brandaccount5941 Lol, and yet you @ someone that chimed in to support the op, with an actual reason, but without a real reason other than "I think it's wrong". Cool hyperbole too, btw.
I could name a few dozen games just out of what's on MY personal shelf that have expansions that warrant the cost.. some with multiple expansions which do so; most with proportionally appropriate pricepoints. Warchest is definitely an outlier... in that not only does the expansions cost a large portion of the base game but adds VERY little.
Look at something like Tiny Towns, also AEG.... Fortune costs nearly as much as the base game, but adds an entire layer of strategic depth to play, and comes respectably close to doubling the amount of content overall.
(Again I love Warchest so it's not even that I disagree it's worth a purchase.... for the right player) It's definitely not an expansion that someone just getting interested in the game needs to pick up for a full experience however, and that alone says a lot about the pricepoint vs the value. I would never tell someone to pick up Waterdeep without Skullport , for instance.
Tom should be detained by the board game police for vandalism. This deranged tendency to use big hammers to vandalize perfectly innocent board games is outrageous.
Would be funny if one of these times he hits the wrong box (like the main box) with the hammer 😂
Laziest component drop ever.
For 20$ you get bigger control points, 4 units and a rework. Eh not the worst but honest I can just proxy the units with old cards ha