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Originally Posted by momealey
The clerk at my FGLS said that the map tiles were a slightly different size than the earlier game version, but sized to match the latest version of the base game.
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They look 100% identical to me. If you look at the top photo in my review, that's a new tile at the top sitting right next to old tiles all around it.
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It also implies that the map tiles for Fishermen are of the sturdier stock that the regular game tiles are made of rather than the flimsy cardboard of the standalone expansion.
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I just looked at my old Fisherman my new Fisherman and my old tiles and they all seem to have the same thickness. I thought I'd remembered the Fisherman tiles being flimsier like you said, but maybe I used someone else's set when I originally played it and they were from a different printing or something.
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Other than the caravan variant, there doesn't seem to be enough new material in the box and I'm having a hard time justifying the cost. What am I missing?
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If you've already bought most of the standalones, it may no longer be sufficiently valuable to you, but here's what you'd get beyond the
Fisherman,
Great River, and
Event Deck:
- Colorful rule book
- The Harbormaster VP tile
- Tokens for use with 2-player variant
- New fisherman set that has a central lake
- New Great river set that includes a set 4-length river and wooden bridge meeples
- Great Caravan, including tons of wooden camels
- Barbarian Invasion, including tons of barbarians and new development cards
- Traders & Barbarians, including new good token and new development cards
I would have said it was a pretty good deal before you bought the event deck. In any case, there's a lot of stuff in the box. Definitely a far, far better deal than, say,
Seafarers.