AEG & Flatout Games | Cascadia: Landmarks - Expansion for Award-Winning Board Game, Cascadia | Easy to Learn | Quick to Play | Ages 10+ | Adds 5th & 6th player

This is a very easy expansion to add to the base game. It all fits in the original box without removing insert, but easier if you do remove. I won't play my game without the expansion, but you can play without it without having to remove any new terrain or animal pieces.The expansion is played by providing landmarks for each terrain type. You play the game the same as the base game, except that the first time you complete each terrain type of size 5 or larger you will put a landmark token on the most recently played tile and select a victory bonus card from the supplied options that will provide victory points for you alone at the end of the game. You can do this for each terrain type throughout the game until the game ends.Seriously, it is a fun addition to the game. However, I don't think it is a make-or-break for this game. Meaning, if someone offered to play the game without the expansion then I wouldn't be heart broken and still want to play. This expansion just provides more options and adds to the importance of terrain building.

Super fun addition to the original game! It does a great job of addition new game mechanics, while also staying true to the original version.

My partner and I love the game Cascadia and it’s been our go to! So much so that we got burnout from playing it. But the good news is that this expansion pack has ignited our enjoyment of the game again as it offers new cards along with some new landmark challenges that put a unique spin on the game! The beautiful quality of the art and attention to detail is what we love about the base game, and the perfectly executed it again with this expansion pack! If you’re debating on whether to buy this, this is your sign to!

This is a weird addition to the original Cascadia game in a lot of ways, but once you get the hang of it I think you'll like it. Cascadia's base game is wonderfully varied, yet simple to play despite its options. This addition only adds the ability for two more players (in addition to the max of four with the original game). Six players is better than four, but it would be fun to play with seven or eight players.What this addition does add is a whole lot of complexity by making terrain groupings of five or more able to have a landmark piece placed on one of them instead of an animal token. Landmark tokens use up a playable terrain pieces, limiting your options for placing animal tokens (a serious cost), but also allowing you to choose a card which can add to your points at the end of the game--for instance, one card allows you to combine two terrain runs into a single larger one at scoring even if they're not physically connected.The landmark tokens/pieces are intricately cut from wood and attractive. The expansion set includes new terrain pieces, some of which have three terrains on one piece. It also includes more--and more difficult--animal challenge cards.I have tried to keep my expansion pack pieces separate from the original board game. It's hard, though, because there's only a tiny icon on the expansion terrain pieces differentiating the two sets--and nothing at all differentiating the animal tokens. I assume the same proportion of tokens is provided in the expansion pack as in the original and that keeping all the pieces in one common bag doesn't alter game dynamics, but at times it feels that all the new tokens make playing the original game less fun because it seems you get more runs of animals you don't need. That's probably only in our minds, but I think all of us feel it when playing the original game.So I like the expansion pack, but it does have a major impact on game play--making it significantly more complex. I think the game publisher would do well to sell another expansion pack that simply lets you play the original game with up to eight players. That would be a lot of fun and I think we'd love to buy it.

After several plays, I’m glad I bought this expansion even though we are taking out the main feature - the landmark cards and tokens - and continuing to use the other components that came with this box. The new habitat tiles are great and add a lot of welcome complexity to layouts. I really like all of the new wildlife cards too; there are a lot of interesting, unique ideas that add a lot of replayability. But I don’t like the landmarks. Shuffling the landmark decks and setting out the cards adds too much setup time to a game that has always been easy to get on the table.The larger issue is that landmark cards add too much complexity to habitat decisions, especially for less experienced players, leading to larger disparities in habitat scores, where the game could already sometimes be a bit too swingy. I’m also finding that the difference in scores achieved through landmarks is often within an “I win more” range (ie, they rarely make enough if a difference to swing a victory one way or the other), which doesn’t feel good for anybody. This is a larger problem at lower player counts…and at higher player counts there are just too many landmark cards available. Keeping the options in your head as you build habitats is laborious and unfun. It’s a cute idea and the pieces are gorgeous and satisfying to place, but the game is better off without them. I would still recommend this expansion to fans of the game looking for spicier tiles and wildlife cards, those are great.

Very well thought through and built. Also a much needed expansion to the original game.

So much strategy is involved in this game, and each game is different based on the established goal cards. My wife and I have played well over 100-times and still love each game. Just when you think you've learned it all, you find something new that keeps it interesting. This expansion pack really keeps it interesting by adding new goal cards and changing the dynamics of the game.