We Just Played Expeditions: Gears of Corruption - Who is This For? 

I would absolutely love an expansion that layered on a more narrative experience -- using this base mechanics as a foundation for a scenario-based experience.

That's how it felt to us. It makes a good game even better, but probably doesn't change it enough for people who never enjoyed the base game. This is easily my preferred experience to Scythe though.

Me too. These days so many people tend to complain about "fixing" things. My perspective is: I'm just glad a publisher keeps improving things.

@@meeple I'm all for improving a game but if the base game is already expensive you better hope that improvement doesn't cost too much.

@@meeple For what its worth....purchased Expeditions for my wife's birthday. Tabled it last night. We both love the game no question. BUT I do think it is ok for consumers to ask when does an expansion for a game become a 'patch' to fix issues that should have been resolved before print and retail? As someone else has already noted this was an expensive game to begin with but hit shelves with typos on land tiles, bases which don't fit superbly well, and playmat issues. So my point is the expansion looks good but a part of that expansion I 'm investing more $ into to resolve issues that perhaps shouldn't have been issues in the first place?

Is that by design though? $$$

I think they JUST announced it the other week. I kind of like how Stonemaier announces things, and then has it shortly there after.

While I will never play at 6 (or 5 for that matter), I do think that the kickstart element of the mech cards will really help accelerate the game.

We haven't played this with larger groups yet, but I believe very much that it will keep the game moving more quickly. The jumpstart is one thing, but their are other little aspects that keep things moving too. But most of that kind of snowballs from the start. The snowball just builds steam sooner now.

I only played the pair that leans into the corruption, but that one in particular felt quite unique relatively speaking.

My assumption would be that maybe a second expansion might venture into that territory. It's challenging, because they would mostly need to be substitute tiles unless they add a separate area to travel to.