We are very happy to announce today not just one, but both expansions for the excellent Puerto Rico game by Andreas Seyfarth!Puerto Rico is one of the first games that we had the pleasure to make available online on BGA. In five years, it has been played well over half a million times, by more than 55 000 different players: those numbers look quite awesome to us
With the "New buildings" expansion, you'll get twice the number of buildings available in the base game (!), and a new "forest" plantation type which can be selected during the settler phase (by players owning an occupied "forest house" building) to get extra cost reductions for buildings. All those new buildings and the old ones will be used at the start of the game to draft a selection of buildings that will be available during the game, allowing for a lot of combinations to make every game one of a kind! Also, if you like a quick setup, a "random" option is available, to automatically draft the building selection at the game start.
With the "Nobles" expansion, you'll get even more buildings to draft from, and a new type of colonist, the "noble". There will be only one noble coming to the new world by the colonist boat during each "Mayor" phase, and each noble recruited during the game will be worth 1 VP at the end. But that's not all, since multiple buildings of this expansion will have a different effect depending on being occupied by a simple colonist or by a noble, so you'll have to think carefully about how to get the best value from every building!
Both of these expansions are available in the "BGA premium catalog": everyone can join a table with one of these expansions activated, but only the BGA Club members can create a table with the expansions activated. Those tables will probably fill very quickly
We would like to thank Alea Spiele / Ravensburger for allowing us to create an online adaptation of Puerto Rico five years ago in the first place, and for deciding this year to go further yet by trusting us with the adaptation of the expansions. They also provided us with the beautiful art of the last boxed edition of the game, so that we could refresh the look and feel of the game and allow for zooming with better resolution graphics! (We think it's great, but please note that if you are used to the previous artwork, you can switch back to the old style by using the "Game style" in-game preference).
We hope that you'll like the extra possibilities offered by these two expansions, and enjoy lots of new games developing your ideal island in the new world!
