Tsuro From Calliope Games Veterans of The Seas Expansion Pack - Family Adventure Board Game For 2-8 Players

This is a well thought out expansion to a great game. It introduces elements that both help and hurt players.The helper tiles:*Cannons: Get shuffled into the movement tile deck (wake deck) and are used to kill adjacent Daikaiju (dragons). This gives a potential for players to have a chance of surviving a dragon encounter and also adds a tile management element to the game.*Portal: Gets shuffled into the movement tile deck and may be played either on the current players turn or if they are about to be eliminated (even on another player's turn). Any ship or dragon which lands on this tile rolls the dice to determine where they are sent.The new attack tiles are shuffled in with the dragon tiles and most are randomly selected in the same fashion as the dragons. If and when one of these tiles enters the game and goes off of the edge of the game board they are out of the game and not shuffled back in with the dragons.The new attack tiles are:*Whirl pool: If this tile is out it moves if the dragons are not activated (six, seven, or eight is not rolled). Otherwise it works the same as the dragons where if it lands on a player or a player moves onto it they are out of the game. The only difference is cannons have no effect on a whirl pool.*Tidal wave: If this tile is out all players who end their turn on the same row as the wave must roll a die to see if they survive. The wave moves before the first person to go who initially drew the tile or went first if it started at the beginning of the game. The wave starts with a value of two and increases in strength on the second and fourth rounds, and also moves one row per round until it exits the game board.If you are a fan of Tsuro of the Seas and are looking to add more variety, excitement, and control to your game this is a great option.

This is a great addition to the Tsuro of the Seas game which adds lots of variety for game play. Here's how it all works:1) Tsuro (original) is a board game that requires each player to take turns adding a path tile to their own path each turn. The person who can maintain a path without running off the board the longest, wins.2) Tsuro of the Sea is the same concept, except it adds dragons that could potentially move about the board destroying paths or the players they come across.3) Tsuro, Veterans of the Seas adds cannons to fight said dragons as well as the tidal wave card, portal tile, and the whirlpool card.Now the cool thing is, you can play part 1 with or without parts 2 and 3 to create any style or level of complexity you choose. And this could be a short game or long game depending on how well you plan your moves and how the threat cards shift across the board. And if you add this to the original (land based) game, you could use the cannons to blow away blocking paths and convert the tidal wave to "earthquake" and the whirl pool to "sink hole" getting the same results at the Seas version.

This is a fun game to play and is competitive yet non-confrontational. Only reason did not get 5 stars is the confusing nature of the optional rules. Some of them appear to contradict the basic rules and require some "fudging" to allow play to continue.

This expansion pack really made the game a lot more fun by making the game both a little easier and a little longer. I really enjoyed it! :)

Just like the actual Tsuro box games, the quality is wonderful. Easy to learn, and play. A great expansion for Tsuro of the Seas.

This expansion is extremely helpful for players of the original game, "Tsuro of the Seas." Among other things, it adds Cannons, which allow players to drive off the dreaded Kaiju — at least temporarily — where before, the players were entirely at their mercy.It adds a few other things to the game as well, all of which make the base game more interesting, but it's worth it for the Cannons alone.

The game is simple enough for young or old - kind of like 'Chutes and Ladders' but with only chutes... which was always the fun part anyway. The randomness and new strategy elements that were added to the original game by 'Veterans' is enough to keep the older players interested.I'm very pleased with this game.

A very interesting game. I loved the standard TSURO game; this is an interesting variant! Arrived with WARP SPEED SHIPPING! Very happy with this purchase!