I'd rather play the Orks. Thanks for the review. I might skip this Space Marine Adventures boxed game and stick with the others.

Such a great and fun game 🤩🤩🥰🥰

Great video Cody: My top games that i play always with the expansion without specific order: After the virus - the long cold (expansion) Frostpunk - frostlander (expansion) Heroes of tenefyr - the second curse (expansion) Hostage negotiator - Career (expansion) Mage knight - the lost legion (expansion) Veilwraith - absolution (expansion) Warp's edge - anomaly (expansion) Terraforming Mars - prelude (expansion)

The small purple cards are for the "German engineering" mini expansion which if you want to use cards to move instead of dice.

All of my games have expansions and we use them all if possible.

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Wow how did i miss this review ! 🥂🦖🤺

Pandemic: On the Brink turns a classic game into a terrific game. Mage Knight: Lost Legion adds an essential villain/objective. Everdell: Belfaire. Don’t play without it. Canvas: Reflections. Never play without it. Doubles the draft options, adds double-sided cards, and gold awards. Galaxy Trucker: Big Expansion adds “boosters” for everything - recharge batteries, better shields/weapons/hyperspace engines. All good stuff, but still have to teach the game without it because otherwise it’s overwhelming for new players.

Roll Player 1st expansion is also indispensable.

Fun topic. Totally agree with you on Expeditions (smoothes out the early game, quality of life imrpovements) annd Unfathomable + From the Abyss. It adds a lot of fun content and quality of life improvements (e.g. the personal story cards). In fact, in kind of a related topic, Battlestar Galactica is now a game I likely wouldn't play anymore, despite adoring the theme. I think Unfathomable does it better for me. A few other games for which I also heavily favour playing with the expansion(s): Tapestry by Stonemaier Games (more civs + rebalancing, more cards, more board options, ...) and Outlive by La Boite de Jeu (more post apocalyptic locations to visit and options for your survivors without adding complexity).

Some great choices there!

Are there any wargames that you would find improved by expansions?

Its been a long time since I've played Carcassonne without the Princess and the Dragon expansion. The farmers are just too powerful for scoring without having the dragon coming in and causing chaos every now and again. I also never play the original Ascension deckbuilder game without the Return of the Fallen expansion

Have War for Arrakis, I like it a lot but haven't tried Spacing Guild yet. Guess I gotta try and get it into a game now!

Terra Incognita was a major improvement to Civilization, as were the expansions for Fantasy Flights Fallout game. Same with Outer Rim, its expansions made bounty hunting way better for example. Revisiting these games a few years after their initial release with expansions made these games a much better experience. I also enjoyed the modularity of the expansion box for Merchants and Marauders, allowing you to mix and match multiple modules into the bse game.

Please add timestamps/chaptering.

The Tuscany expansion for Viticulture with the extended board and structures is my #1 pick.

Lords of Waterdeep - Scoundrels of Skullport

Great topic, Cody! I haven't watched the video yet, but I predict the following to be on it: SW Outer Rim SW Rebellion Civilization New Dawn BSG + at least 1 expansion TI4, maybe. If you had ever played Runewars Board game with its expansion Banners of War, it would have elevated the game for u (went from 7/10 to 9/10 for me). Same with the deckbuilder RuneAge, its expansion made it a top-tier game for me.

Solid choices. +1 Star Wars Rebellion: Rise of the Empire +1 Civilization A New Dawn: Terra Incognita I would add these: Nations: Dynasties Clash of Cultures: Civilizations (The newer edition “Monumental” already comes with the expansion Cyclades: Hades Terraforming Mars: Prelude Roll Player: Monsters and Minions

Fallout-Atomic Bonds. The base game was very lackluster, but the Atomic Bonds expansion makes it into the co-op game it always should have been. It pretty much fixes all the issues with the base game and makes it an all around better experience. You know, actually being fun to play.

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little torn on the Spacing Guild. It becomes a race towards the Heighliner drop, with brutally quick results.

Lost ruins of arnak expansions are also a must

I agree on all your choices, well those I've played with (Dune, SW OR, SW Rebellion...) :). Never played Battlestar galactica (it was not a very popular show around here 😢) I have checked my bgg profile and here are some personal picks: obsession upstair downstair, roll player monsters and minions, fallout atomic bond (as already said in another comment... without it, Fallout is a very "meh" game), terraforming mars prelude and spacecorp ventures.

Surprised that you picked Overload and Nomad over Binding Ties for Moonrakers. Feel like BT is the most necessary to fix the issue of the game coming to a halt and dragging once someone hits 8 or 9 points

No love for Twilight Struggle: Turn Zero? No, me neither.

Looks cool! I'll probably get it and ignore Burnham! (I didn't like Discovery, Saru was ok). My favs are Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. Even though I didn't like Discovery I do really enjoy its spin-off Strange New Worlds! I saw the three armed guy from the old animated series amongst the cards! But no M'ress? an outrage!

Another great idea would be Unnecessary Expansions! For my own money, I really don't like TI4's expansion, Prophecy of Kings. After many plays of the expansion and the base game between different groups, base TI4 just has a clean, lean beauty to it (hard to believe!). The expansion adds so much bloat and extra crap to track that, truly, the challenge to obtaining victory is simply being able to juggle that many plates at once. I hate it.

SW Rebellion with expansion is a must, I agree.

I hate Jamaica alone, but LOVE it with the Crew expansion. Definitely a game I won’t play without the expansion

For me Hellboy is a game that needs an expansion. Base game is fun, but repetitive after few plays, so at least one expansion is needed.

Shakespeare - Backstage Outer Rim - Unfinished Business Xia - Embers of a Forsaken Star Great Western Trail - Rails to the North Dune Imperium - Rise of Ix Dune Imperium - Uprising Viticulture - Tuscany

Stone Meyer games lost me with their political activity. Do they think that everybody agrees with them aren’t they in business just to sell games ,done with them

I love The Outer Rim expansion it brings the game alive . Last time i played it with my friends all manner of machiavellian shenanigans were going on and offers of help in exchange for credits.Very fitting behaviour for galactic scoundrels. Another expansion what is a must is Atomic Bonds for Fallout boardgame. It fixes some of the flaws of the core game.

Pegasus is overrated, TBH. The new ship is fine, but I would rather just play the base game or with the fleet board from Exodus. Adding in the cards from the expansions dilutes the amount of times that Cylon ships show up, and the fleet board really helps remedy this. It's really a stroke of genius in terms of fixing bloated decks.

For me it’s a board game called StationFall. It’s very much like nemesis so I think you would like it! But the exception for me is I refuse to play it without the character standees expansion because the pawns for the characters are terrible.

Good topic! And, you hit all three that I was thinking about as I was watching: Civilization, Star Wars Rebellion, and Battlestar Galactica. We loved each of the base games, and each expansion made them better. BSG had a couple of expansions, but we agree: Pegasus is the important one.

Tiny Epic Galaxies expansion: Beyond The Black

Games that are unplayable without the Expansions are normally a game I would not spend my time on unless they do a bundle or Re-release. LoL.

I thought for sure I’d see clash of cultures on here.

Xia, Eldritch Horror, Descent. You should do a Top Ten of odd games in your collection. I have the Joel Olsteen game and Biblopoly, and Apples to Apples Bible Edition just appeared on our sheleves.

When I saw the title, I was curious if the Twilight Imperium 4 expansion was gonna make the list!

Tack för programmet cody jag skulle aldrig spela JOA utan expansioner men även talisman battlelore axis o allies En expansion gör bara att spelet svårare och roligare samt det går att göra hur svårt man vill

StarTrek, Deck-Building, Turczi, Buckle. That's all I need to know! But I haven't even played half the cultures in the Imperium series, yet. :-( p.S: and too bad it seems to only be a 2p game.

are there crew or ships from the original series or original series movies?

Old fashioned look at Brigade level. Folks need some basic games to get started.

You can play the Andy Rooney game with Dr. Carlson's videos.

Looking forward to the review. I still have no idea what this game is about.

My favourites are Voyager and some of the Movies (Wrath of Khan, Undiscovered Country and First Contact)