Buy this first
- Our take
- BGG average 8.58 from 2,279 ratings. In a BGG "which expansions" thread several owners call it the one necessary expansion and say they never play without it; others say to learn the base game first.
- What you need first
- Just the base game
- What it adds
- Four new servants (Cook, Hall Boy, Head Housemaid, Useful Man), the Howard family, 49 more guests, five improvement tiles, and Solo Estate Challenge, Tableau and Cooperative modes. Enables 5 players, and 6 with Wessex.
- What it fixes
- The servants let you screen guests, work around prestige-guest limits, find tiles, refresh the market more easily and strengthen favors early (BGG description).