Marine expansion

[lemonacid]

Heya, I played the expansion for the first time last night and I was wondering if there are plans to add it to the game here? I know obviously it will take some time to implement it, but I was just wondering if there are plans to make it happen?

[Tisaac]

Heya, I played the expansion for the first time last night and I was wondering if there are plans to add it to the game here? I know obviously it will take some time to implement it, but I was just wondering if there are plans to make it happen?

It will probably come yes. At some point.

[drsteelhammer]

How much do we need to play to accelerate the timeline?

[Tisaac]

How much do we need to play to accelerate the timeline?

It wont change anything, but feel free to play a lot to send publisher and designers some love

[TopWizard]

Tisaac, what is your guess on how long it will be before Marine Worlds comes to BGA? I really love this game and the expansion makes it better.

[Tisaac]

Tisaac, what is your guess on how long it will be before Marine Worlds comes to BGA? I really love this game and the expansion makes it better.

Cant tell anything.

[kmcgaire]

Out of curiosity what is the process of games coming to BGA. Does the publisher need to give approval then someone works on implementing?

[Tisaac]

Out of curiosity what is the process of games coming to BGA. Does the publisher need to give approval then someone works on implementing?

Exactly, you can check out studio.boardgamearena.com for more info

[ethanisbest]

I've played it twice, the sharks are awesome, and the new building of marine is interesting.

[randomronny974]

I cant bring myself to like the new features 100%.

I like: New buildings, new creatures, rebalanced cards, most new sponsors give some interesting drifts, a new university.

I dont: New action cards (at least as long as they're different for everyone), the wave.

It's always been only half of the deck in play, so I dont mind, if its now rather 30% of the deck you'll see. The wave brings a complete random factor and it may destroy your planning around playing cards from the display. IMO this is part of the skill and losing a game by chance seems so wrong to me.

For the action cards: There are a few really strong cards among them and lots of mediocre uprgades and then a bunch of close to useless skills (basically all association cards). You can get incredibly rich by some sponsor actioncards and getting an extra pavillon is bonkers. This leads to a significant game advantage like the side entrance can be - but this time you dont even have to build it. I played now around 20 games in mostly 3p constellations and it's fun! But talking competitive play, I hope the implementation will have options to deactivate the wave and let everyone have the same actioncard draft (All get the same 3 cards and keep 2 for example. This would still enable different play styles, but if you lost to a stronger actioncard, which you didnt pick, then you can blame yourself and not the game design.)

All in all I would recommend the expansion, but I think about duplicating the actioncards for at least 2p. I did that with the maps, too, and everyone likes it! Maybe this would also be a good expansion: Just add duplicates for all maps and action cards, so that you could play it with bga settings in 4p. I'd buy it.