Tanares Expeditions Central Sea | Preview | Playthrough | Encounter 1-2

[@dougsealy199]

Thanks you! I am super keen for this needed a pirate game in my collection.

[@Co-opGuild]

There are so few pirate co-op games. This one is fun!

[@DavidFoster-m1s]

Loved the gameplay! Sounds very promising this game

[@Co-opGuild]

Yeah I've been very much enjoying this game. We are playing the rest of the encounter this Wednesday live if you want to see a bit more. Definitely surprised how much we enjoyed it.

[@raortiz73]

The pirate dialog is so cliché. I was hoping that in the Tanares fantasy setting they would be less pirate cliché and really explore the space in light of the established Tanares lore. But I guess it's in line with the pirates they created for Tanares.

[@timf7354]

Did you ever play Tanares Adventures? I started playing it, but squirreled to 4 other games, thinking I'd go back to it. And I will go back to it. I didn't get very far into the game play. All that to say, this looks like a less expensive, trimmed down (streamlined), easier to table, version which I'm happy to see! Comes out Tuesday on GF. Hoping they don't go crazy with the huge miniatures and extras unless it's to add a whole different game themed with cyborgs, robots, and other SkyNet/Terminator stuff. LOL. (That's not going to happen, but a sci-fi theme would be fun. Pirates are very similar to Fantasy in Tanares.)

[@Co-opGuild]

I have not played Tanares Adventures but I did have a good chat with Ryan from Meeple Marathon who has. It sounds like Expedition is equivalent to Jaws of the Lion for Gloomhaven, so yes I agree with your assessment. The campaign page does have info on the pledges and you can of course just get the base game but the game is designed to work with all the villains in the other sets for Tanares. Quite a bit of opportunity if someone owns the rest of the material or is interested in getting it. Personally I feel like the the core plus the optional sea dragon seems like enough.

[@timf7354]

Oh, that's a great comparison/analogy to JotL. I agree that the core plus optional sea dragon should be enough. But, I have a hard time stopping at that. But, with my house filling up with these all-ins... that if I played 100% complete, I'd probably be set for years, if not a decade. Heh...