Back in the olden times, board games were static and unchanging. While players could get replacement pieces, there was seldom any new supp♈lemental content provided to add to the experience. There were expansions for PC games for almost as long as there were PC games, yet it wasn’t until the collectible card game craze of the mid-'90s that expansion packs for board games began to get popular.
There are only two crite🐎ria for a game to make this list; it must have over 100 votes (to increase the accuracy of the score) and only one expansion per base game is allowed. Other than that, this list will go by an expansion’s BoardGameGeek Rating (BGG) first, while still taking the average rating into account as a secondary factor.
10 Stone Age: The Ex💞pansion – BGG Rating: 6.72, Average Rating: 7.4
The base Stone Age game puts players in charge of their own tribe. The point is to use the people in the tribe to extract resources (like wood and stone), build structures, claim cards, and improve the player’s position on the food track. Victory is determined by which player has the most points ෴at the end of the game.
The Expansion adds another village card and corresponding meeple, allowing for up to five players; this also comes with an updated rulebook for playing with five 🐎players. There are also new cards and the ability for players to craft jewelry and ornaments. The game also adds a merchant character with which the players can barter.
9 Blo♔od Rage: 5th Player Expansion – BGG Rating: 6.99, Average Rating: 8.1
In Blood Rage, players need to fight and die gloriously in battle during Ragnarök to earn their place in Valhalla. Players select a Viking clan to represent and then must carefully manage how they deploy their troops while keeping the all-im🃏portant rage meter (the game’s currency) as high as possible.
The game is competitive and plays out over three ages subdivided into six turns each. The 5th Player Expansion adds a new cꦡlan and a new set of rules on how to handle five-player games. All the corresponding pieces for the new clan are included.
8 Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game – Millennium Falcon Expansion Pack – BGG Rating: 7.00, Average 🎉Rating: 8.2 ⛦
The base game for this expansion, Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures, is one of the best tabletop tactical spaceship simula𓂃tions available. The game is played with miniatures (X-Wings and Tie Fighters typically), custom dice, maneuver stri🔯ps, cards, and tokens. Players take turns using the maneuver strips to determine the placement of the starfighters, while the dice and cards determine the outcomes of engagements.
The Millennium Falcon Expansion adds the Millennium Falcon to the game (wi🦩th a really nice miniature of the ship included). The expansion also ⛎adds new characters like Han, Chewbacca, Lando, new ship upgrades, and an expanded ruleset.
7 ♔ Mansions Of Madness: Second Edition – Beyond The Threshold Expansion – BGG Rating: 7🀅.03, Average Rating: 8.4
Mansions of Madness is played with the help of a free🥃 downloadable app that is used along with the components. The base game boasts an army of monster figurines, numerous tiles with which to construct the mansions, six different card types, custom dice, and various small token pieces. There are eight playable characters (or “investigators”) and four scenarios that can be played through.
The objective of the game is to investigate the hidden mansion and complete the goal – which is different for each scenario. The Beyond the Threshold Expansion adds two ne💖w pla🐓yable characters, new board pieces, a new creature, and additional token pieces.
6 Chaos In The Old World: The Horned Rat Expansion – BGG Rating: 7.04🧸, Average Rating: 8.0
The Chaos in the Old World is a fairly fun and complex tabletop game based in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer universe. Players take on the roleꦉ of dark gods – each with their own faction of loyal followers (that the♕ player can upgrade).
The players take turns corrupting the game world to increase their domain. Along the way, they have to contend with not only the other players but the powers of the Old World (an NPC) that seek to stop the players. The Horned Rat Expansion adds the Skaven (rat-men) faction to the game, new Chaos cardsꦕ, additional upgrade cards, and alternate rulesets.
5 Wingspan: European Expansion – BGG Rating: 7.22, Average Rat🍰in♛g: 8.5
Wingspan is a colorful and family-friendly board game in which the players attempt to attract birds to♔ their sanctuary. Accomplishing this entails collec🦋ting bird cards, gathering food to feed said birds, and providing spaces for the birds to lay eggs.
The winner is the player with the most points at the end. To make things interesting, some of these birds have special abilities that can be activated if the prerequisite is met. The game focuses on birds of North America, but the European Expansion adds the birds of Europe to the mi🍃x, as well as additional eggs and food token𓂃s.
4 Arkham Horror: The Card Game – The Dunwich Legacy Expansion – BGG Rati🍌ng: ⛦7.24, Average Rating: 8.5
The Arkham Horror card game is played mostly with cards, but there is a board made of hexagonal shaped pieces that are linked together, in addition to other little game pieces. The game is set within a Lovecraft (the Cthulhu mythos) horror where players🐷 must look for clues to help accomplish one of three predetermi💮ned goals.
The game has been described as a bit complex, so younger players may struggle with the steeper learning curve. The Dunwich Legacy Expansion adds five playable characters, new e💎nemies, playing cards for each new character, and💃 a new scenario to play through.
3 Root: The Riverfolk Expans🌱ion – BGG Rating: 7.25, Avera🀅ge Rating: 8.5
Root is a great table-top empire-building game in which players compete to reclaim the forest from the Marquise de Cat Empire (and score the 30 points necessary for victory). In order to accomplish this goal, players must attempt to gain sympathy points and exploit the roaming vagabonds in order to take vill🐷ages and raise troops.
The Riverfolk Expansion adds two new factions (the Lizardfolk and Riverfolk), a cooperative ruleset, a solo play ruleset, and also expands the maxi💫mum number of players from four to six. Considering how many extra gameplay options this expansion provides, it is not surprising that it has a higher average꧃ rating than the base game.
2 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Ex🌊odus Expansion – BGG Rating: 7.29, Average Raಞting: 8.1
This expansion’s base game has a cult following, mostly due to Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game being exceptioওnally fun and the popularity of the rebooted television series upon which it is based. The base game may be fun, but it is also a bit complex, with numerou𝔉s card types, figurines, and other game components that require the players’ attention.
The Exodus Expansion is the second expansion to the base game and was released in 2010. It adds three new “options” to the game: More ship-to-ship combat, an expansion of the loyalty system, and a new oಞption called Ionian Nebula that increases the chaos in an already chaotic game.
1 Mage Knight Board G🐭ame: The Lost Legion Expansion – BGG Rat꧂ing: 7.78, Average Rating: 8.8
The Mage Knight Board Game is designed for 1-4 players aꩵnd can be played competitively, cooperatively, and solo. The game board is made of many smaller pieces designed to fit together, which are added as the game progresses. Players can choose from the four available Mage Knights.
The Lost Legion Expansion adds❀ one extra ✱playable Mage Knight and one new villain to the mix, along with new board tiles, enemies, and supplemental cards. There is also an expanded rulebook that deals with how to play 5-player games. The amount of content this expansion adds is significant and more than justifies its price.