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ackblom12:
After messing about with The Big Expansion, this changes the game in a whooooooole lot of fun ways. There are now ways for players to interact during the game, sabotage other players, fire at them, pick on people with targeted meteor swarms, explosive cargo and so much other stuff. The new ship parts are great and add an extra layer of ship building with some rather powerful parts that require other parts to interact with, such as a furnace that can use cargo as fuel to charge an attached battery, and what is likely just a lot more chances for you to be happy you got to the end of your trip with a ship at all.
Also, the rules for the alternate ships are just marvelous.
We haven't played with this much mind you, but it looks like a wonderful thing to get peole into playing the base game and then brutalize everyone with mayhem by introducing the expansion.
Game and Watch Forever:
So what I hear you saying is that the expansion turns Galaxy Trucker into Space Mario Kart: The Board Game... and I'm totally down for that. :-D
lepetitfromage:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 20 Apr 2013, 13:22 ---As all the mentioned games have been strategy types, I guess I forgot to think of Scrabble - which I do play from time to time without getting riled up the way the other games make me.
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......I don't know about you but Scrabble gets me VERY riled up. Nick refuses to play with me after we played a game that ended 400-something to 200-something.
Game and Watch Forever:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 23 May 2013, 10:03 ---After messing about with The Big Expansion, this changes the game in a whooooooole lot of fun ways.
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I got the opportunity last weekend to play with a few of the elements that are in the second expansion. It adds more tiles (of course). More cards: invaders (didn't get to use them), harder/more rewarding versions of previous cards -- even open space is more dangerous, and some fun ones that add cards to the deck ("Oh, you're in round 2? Well have a couple round 3 cards anyway!"). It also adds "specialists" to your crew. They come with fun little abilities that help you in building or getting more credits. The new ships include a tubular ship (as in you have to imagine the ship wraps around into a cylinder shape), an amorphous ship (30 of the spaces are labeled 1-6... you roll two dice... the spaces corresponding to the numbers rolled CANNOT be used), and on the backs of those are halves of ships that can be combined to form a sort of "randomized" ship.
ackblom12:
I think you were playing with The Other Big Expansion, since The Big Expansion does not include alien invasions.
Shut Up & Sit Down reviews the Anniversary Edition of Galaxy Trucker using all of the expansion components. With only two players, the ship building is nowhere near as frantic as it could be, but nothing beats watching people's shoddily built space death traps fall apart.
https://vimeo.com/67845608
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