51st State: Master Set – No Man's Land

I really like this expansion a lot. It mixes up the focus and strategy in a significant way. The No Man's Land map seems like a distraction at first. Maybe an easy way to make a few extra resources through discard, but no big deal... Suddenly your rival faction has built out a combo of outposts and cards that brings in 6 or even 9 victory points per round! Whoops. Fortunately, it's not just another thing to keep track of. The new map and associated cards create significantly different paths to victory without feeling cumbersome.

This is the expansion that changes the game flow the most. You have new actions that let you discard cards to build/upgrade outposts on a map in an adjacent position. This can lead to earlier VP gains from my experience and usually causes games to end faster. Still an enjoyable expansion, though our scores when playing with this expansion are usually lower than with other expansions.

This expansion elevated my score for the base game (Master Set) from an 8.00 to an 8.25.

Jó kieg, erősíti a játékosok közötti konfrontációt, viszonylag könnyű megtámadni egymás körzeteit, és az az igazság, hogy többnyire meg is éri a jutalom, no meg az új kártyák miatt. Érdekes lett ez a területfoglalósdi ebben a nagyon kártyás játékban. :)

I'm not convinced that I want a board with area control battles in one of my favorite tableau building card games.