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My wife and I are relative newcomers to Thunderstone, but it has quickly become one of our favorite games. I have Dragonspire, and I am interested in getting an expansion. I would eventually like to get all of the expansions.
I would like your thoughts as to which expansions you like and why. What is a good order to get them in, and how would you rank them?
Some general thoughts would be appreciated.
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Jeremy Norton
Australia
Queensland
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I have found that each expansion has added a subtle and different flavour.
Doomgate Legions was excellent. Thornwood Seige adds some harder elements.
I started with the base set and added (and will continue to do so) each expansion as they arrived.
I may be much poorer financially but am so more enriched from the experience........
Thunderstone Advanced is starting to offer so much more...........but! Given that it can supposedly be used with the previous cards, any expansion you buy will increase your playing pleasure....
Hope this helps.
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Andy Leber
Canada
Orillia
ON
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Check out the facebook app, and you can see if you like the cards in the base set.
Although even if you do like the cards, you may prefer to get another expansion, so you can have the best of both worlds... variety on the table, and still enjoy the base game on the computer.
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Ken Stuart
United States
Patrick AFB
Florida
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I'm pretty sure I've seen discussion on BGG asking this question. You may find this threadto be of interest.
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wizcreations wrote: I'm pretty sure I've seen discussion on BGG asking this question. You may find this threadto be of interest.
Thanks for the info. I am wondering, how do the new expansions (Heart of Doom and Thornwood Siege) compare to the two older ones (Wrath and Doomgate Legion)?
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Ken Stuart
United States
Patrick AFB
Florida
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Mathguy04 wrote: wizcreations wrote: I'm pretty sure I've seen discussion on BGG asking this question. You may find this threadto be of interest. Thanks for the info. I am wondering, how do the new expansions (Heart of Doom and Thornwood Siege) compare to the two older ones (Wrath and Doomgate Legion)?
I've played Base, Wrath, Dragonspire, and Thornwood. Honestly, I think the more options you have to fill the village with, the better. I can't really say which expansion is best. I like a couple cards from each. A lot of people say Thornwood is not necessary, so perhaps you should start with one of the others.
The way I decided which I would purchase was by whichever was cheaper when I wanted to add cards to my set.
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Andy Leber
Canada
Orillia
ON
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I'd get Wrath before the base game (or at the same time) as it has the proper card dividers that match what you got in Dragonspire.
(To clarify, Wrath has the dividers for the cards in the base game).
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Ken Stuart
United States
Patrick AFB
Florida
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Holmes108 wrote: I'd get Wrath before the base game (or at the same time) as it has the proper card dividers that match what you got in Dragonspire.
(To clarify, Wrath has the dividers for the cards in the base game).
True. If you have the base game, you should definitely buy Wrath of Elements. That way you get a storage solution and an expansion!
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I do not have the base game, but have played it online, so I do not think I will get it. I think I am trying to decide between Heart of Doom and Doomgate Legion. Anyone have any comments on these two expansions?
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Rauli Kettunen
Finland
Oulu
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DgL adds the Special Disease deck, though while not still as crippling as I personally would like, still an improvement over the vanilla "-1 attack" Diseases. I'm holding off from buying HoD for the moment, mostly due to the missing randomizer issue it has. Or had, has it been fixed yet? Since I do my randomizing manually, would be kinda tough to get those HoD cards into play without them.
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Dam the Man wrote: I'm holding off from buying HoD for the moment, mostly due to the missing randomizer issue it has. Or had.
I didn't know about this...I do radomizing manually, too. I knew that there was one shrink-wrapped pack of cards left out of the shipment, but my FLGS has these. Are these the cards you are referring to?
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Andy Leber
Canada
Orillia
ON
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I'm quite new to the game, and haven't tried most of the expansions. But here's some advice I got from user Skylar in another thread, for another point of view. This is the order suggested if you already own Dragonspire (which I did, and you do!)
Quote: My recommendation in purchase order (if you're a completionist like me) is to work your way backwards from Dragonspire, then forwards;
1st- Doomgate Legion for the cool new monsters, but most importantly for the special Disease deck.
2nd- Wrath of The Elements, mostly so you can have the dividers for your base game before you get it.
3nd- Thunderstone, because it adds the most variety of new cards and by this point you'll want some more simplified card abilities mixed in.
4th- Thornwood Siege, only because you want to save Heart of Doom for last.
5th- Heart of Doom, because it's the epic conclusion, and should be experienced as such.
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Rauli Kettunen
Finland
Oulu
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Mathguy04 wrote: I didn't know about this...I do radomizing manually, too. I knew that there was one shrink-wrapped pack of cards left out of the shipment, but my FLGS has these. Are these the cards you are referring to?
Yes, I believe those are the ones. I saw two boxes of HoD at my FLGS but didn't sound like they had those extra cards around.
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Edward Bolme
United States
North Carolina
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Dam the Man wrote: Mathguy04 wrote: I didn't know about this...I do radomizing manually, too. I knew that there was one shrink-wrapped pack of cards left out of the shipment, but my FLGS has these. Are these the cards you are referring to? Yes, I believe those are the ones. I saw two boxes of HoD at my FLGS but didn't sound like they had those extra cards around.
They need to check with their distributors. We sent them around.
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Martin Larouche
Canada
Longueuil
Quebec
Melting souls with cuteness since 2007
Lovin' N-16
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The three FLGS near me have taped the cards to the boxes, or reshrinked the box over the exiting shrink with the cards between the layers.
Or just order from AEG directly as i'm pretty sure they will ship it with the missing pack.
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Keith Mannthey
United States
OR
Oregon
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Well I started with Dragonspire a few weeks ago and will share one important note:
If you buy the base set you NEED Wrath of the Elements. It is hard to believe the base set divider situation but without the Wrath Dividers setup and take down time is like 10 min. If you want the base set get Wrath or you will dislike the base (unless you make your own dividers). No joke it went from like "You have to be #$#$@ kidding me" to "This is easy".
I got Base + Dragonspire + Wrath + Doomgage Legion into the Dragonspire box (minus duplicate cards). More than that and it is a 2 box game.
I vote Doomgate Legion over Wrath unless you have plans for the base but either way lots of cool cards in each expansion.
BTW for me it is a really fun Solo game.
Have Fun!
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Rauli Kettunen
Finland
Oulu
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kmannth wrote:
I got Base + Dragonspire + Wrath + Doomgage Legion into the Dragonspire box (minus duplicate cards). More than that and it is a 2 box game.
Hmm, I have all of those + Thornwood Siege in the DS box, all sleeved cards. I keep the Randomizer cards in there, as well as a ziplock with the XP tokens and Stalk and Guiding Light tokens.
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Andy Leber
Canada
Orillia
ON
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Dam the Man wrote: kmannth wrote:
I got Base + Dragonspire + Wrath + Doomgage Legion into the Dragonspire box (minus duplicate cards). More than that and it is a 2 box game.
Hmm, I have all of those + Thornwood Siege in the DS box, all sleeved cards. I keep the Randomizer cards in there, as well as a ziplock with the XP tokens and Stalk and Guiding Light tokens.
Yeah, I thought the Dragonspire box was supposed all of the current expansions, even if they couldn't be sleeved.
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