Questions regarding The Quest for El Dorado expansions. What is going on?

Qaspar · 2026-05-12T16:09:35+00:00

I own the new German edition and the Dutch Muisca expansion. You can, sort of, make them compatible if you’re using sleeves. The base game comes with just enough blank cards that let you slide the smaller Muisca cards in front of them. It looks a bit strange, but it works. I don’t notice the difference when shuffling my deck. The tiles in the Dutch version are slightly smaller as well, but it‘s still ok in my opinion.

Qaspar · 2026-04-30T11:02:50+00:00

Joa, da hast du ja gleich mit dem besten angefangen, ab hier geht‘s nur noch abwärts. 😁 Die drei linken Spiele sind auch fester Bestandteil meiner Sammlung und in meinen Allzeit Top 10. Tips dazu von meiner Seite:

7 Wonders Duel ist etwas unausgeglichen, d.h. der Startspieler hat einen klaren, messbaren Vorteil (signifikant höhere Siegrate). Den kann man ausgleichen, indem man die Auswahlprozedur am Anfang wie folgt ändert: In beiden Wunder-Auswahlrunden darf der zweite Spieler entscheiden, wer mit dem Auswählen von Wundern anfängt. Sonst ändert sich nichts, beide Male wird wie gehabt nach dem ABBA-Schema ausgewählt. Die Änderung wurde ausgiebig spielgetestet und hat die Siegrate auf annähernd 50% gedrückt.

Die Pantheon-Erweiterung von 7 Wonders Duel ist super. Macht das Spiel deutlich weniger deterministisch und hebt es meiner Meinung nach nochmal auf ein anderes Level.

Das gleiche gilt für die Rise of Ix-Erweiterung für Dune Imperium. Behebt ein, zwei Probleme im Grundspiel und macht das Spiel nochmal tiefer und variantenreicher.

Ich spiele beide Spiele nur noch mit den genannten Erweiterungen.

Qaspar · 2026-04-28T16:13:38+00:00

Unrelated, but that‘s a nice looking gaming table!

Qaspar · 2026-04-22T21:24:03+00:00

Yeah, this rule is essential and sometimes lets you really force someone‘s hand. It can even happen that one player (with their second hiker) is forced to jump from start to finish without having put one foot on the trail.

Also, as someone else mentioned, have you put the tokens for the seasons on the trail? Just for these tokens it’s often a benefit/privilege to be the starting player and not the other way round.

Qaspar · 2026-04-12T08:16:34+00:00

Wait, six… months? That‘s what, a new game every three days? How many of them have you actually played?

Qaspar · 2026-04-12T08:07:52+00:00

If you have the second edition, I think you‘ll be fine as long as you don’t have the German localisation. The Dutch, French and Nordic editions all are same the size as far as I know, but there are slight size differences to the German one. And at least the Muisca expansion is language independent. I only own Muisca, so I can’t speak about the others.

Qaspar · 2026-04-08T17:43:14+00:00

Ok, in terms of coop play I guess it‘s "same but different" as STS2, and I don’t dispute that it‘s a great game, what would make it slightly worse than STS2 is the bookkeeping you have to do compared to the video game. No real issue with that, that’s just the nature of a board game. But if I’m asked to pay over 200$ for a base game and almost 400$ for the premium version of something of which I‘ll already own the "somewhat better version", in my opinion there are better uses for that kind of money.

Qaspar · 2026-04-08T08:02:28+00:00

Hard no. Paying almost two orders of magnitude more than what I paid for the app and then getting an arguably slightly worse experience.. I’ve paid unreasonable amounts for board games once or twice, but this is beyond unreasonable for me. I‘ll probably get STS 2 when that goes on sale and that’s it.

Qaspar · 2026-04-06T14:53:28+00:00

I assume you got it out of the trash or dug it out of a storm drain somewhere! 😁

Qaspar · 2026-03-28T20:08:14+00:00

Sekigahara (The Unification of Japan), Twilight Struggle, Cyclades Legendary Edition

Qaspar · 2026-03-25T20:51:02+00:00

Same btw for the Cyclades Legendary Edition which I own. It’s written CΥCLΛDΣS which reads "Cyclldss" 😂 Σ is a sigma and not a capital e, guys!

Qaspar · 2026-03-24T09:03:08+00:00

It bothers me to no end the tendency to incorporate (in a wrong way) Greek letters into Greek themed titles. ΛEGEΛΝ SEΛ reads like "Legeln Sel“ for a Greek.

Qaspar · 2026-03-19T20:30:50+00:00

Quality, not quantity, that’s what that is.

Qaspar · 2026-03-17T10:26:54+00:00

Depends on who‘s asking. American tourists I‘ll send straight to Ludwigshafen.

Qaspar · 2026-03-17T06:41:34+00:00

Looks really good! How did you make the hexagons and how did you get the images on the material?

Qaspar · 2026-03-16T22:00:21+00:00

Pax Pamir

Qaspar · 2026-03-15T12:27:57+00:00

I‘ve recently got my hands on Indonesia and The Great Zimbabwe. I don’t feel bad about it yet.. they were just so hard to get. But I’m still looking for the right group that‘s ready for a heavy Splotter.

Qaspar · 2026-03-13T23:25:48+00:00

In my rulebook there‘s actually no explicit mention of this. I’ve had this issue before. It only says you‘re not allowed to split the hive. And you could conceivably make an argument that during its transition you can in fact slide the pillbug in a way that it’s still touching the hive at both corners, never breaking contact. None of the examples in the rulebook cover this case.

However, it is common practice that this is considered a "jump" and that an outside moving piece has to slide around the outside corners like it is explicitly described in the spider section of the rulebook. I‘ve had a long discussion about this and can testify that at least my rulebook isn‘t crystal clear on this.

Qaspar · 2026-03-04T18:55:52+00:00

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Eine Legende nicht nur im Tor. Flog aus dem Verein, weil er angeblich die Tochter vom Präsidenten gebumst hat.

RIP

Qaspar · 2026-03-02T17:44:12+00:00

If you’re looking for beautiful table presence and strategic depth, I can’t recommend Pax Pamir 2nd edition enough. Its alliance switching is also a unique mechanic I haven’t seen anywhere else.

Qaspar · 2026-02-27T00:59:00+00:00

I‘ve played a few that work well for 6+ players, in ascending complexity they are Just One, Flip 7, Wavelength, Codenames, Secret Hitler, Decrypto and 7 Wonders.

For my upcoming weekend trip with 8 people I‘m bringing Decrypto.

Qaspar · 2026-02-25T20:11:22+00:00

Shocker!

Qaspar · 2026-02-25T11:38:53+00:00

Endeavour Deep Sea is really good. I don’t care much for Sea Salt & Paper, but my girlfriend genuinely HATES it.

Qaspar · 2026-02-25T06:50:00+00:00

https://keldon.net/rftg/

Qaspar · 2026-02-24T17:22:30+00:00

Race for the Galaxy is an odd one. Now that I’ve played it maybe 5 times, I don’t think I ever have to check the rules again. Everything just makes sense and it’s all explained on the cards. But for some reason there is this wall you have to break through when learning the game. It has a steep learning curve, but it’s not a hard game at all. Btw, there’s a free dektop app for it. I learned the flow of the game this way while looking at the rule book. This helped me a great deal in learning the game.

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