Most groups can skip
- Our take
- Only worth chasing if you own the 1st-edition base. Amazon customer reviews on the Plan B listing (4.7 stars, 119 ratings, Amazon's review summary) call it a wonderful addition that adds new strategies and consider it essential for first-edition owners; BGG rates the original 8.4 from about 4.1K ratings and it won the 2019 Gra Roku best expansion award. The 2019 BGG thread 'Seemed Great at First, But....' (a heavy player after four plays) argues builder strategy became too easy and strong because of free-build medium town tiles and a 25 VP building, while replies defend it as adding balance and options and suggest house rules, so experienced groups should expect to tune it. A r/boardgames thread says the 1st-edition base has unbalanced buildings. Current Asmodee US stock is the 2nd-edition product, so the 1st-edition expansion is mostly secondhand or old stock.
- What you need first
- Just the base game