What Viticulture Expansion Is For You?

Wine making is not my typical go-to theme and yet Viticulture simply captures my heart. If you have found yourself on this blog article, then I would wager that you have been playing Viticulture. This blog is going to give you a little feel of what can be expected within each expansion for this great game by Stonemaier Games.

For Those Who Want To Focus On The Wine-Making

If you want to focus on wine making in your games of Viticulture, then it is possible to force yourself and your fellow players by replacing the summer and winter visitors with those from the Rhine Valley expansion. These visitor cards replace those in the base game, and they will remove the victory points from not doing wine options that were found in the base game. If you have a need to shake up the game and bring it back to the wine-ing over the visitor card cycling then you really cannot go wrong with this one.

For Those Who Just Want A Small Change

If you feel like your Viticulture experience is already awesome-sauce then you may not want to shake things up too much. The small Moors Visitors Expansion may be just the thing for you. This small expansion contains summer and winter visitor cards that you can use to give a little bit of variety to the flavour of your game. These will not alter the way that you play, but if you find that you are seeing the same cards over and over then perhaps this will be just the ticket for you. A couple of the cards offer some new end-game scoring abilities too.

For Those Who Want To Expand The Game To Perfection

I adore this game. I truly think that there are miles and miles in the base game, and each of the smaller expansions change very little by just switching out the visitor cards, however eventually you will want more. That more comes from the Tuscany expansion. This game offers a number of modules that you can add in a few of or all of at any one time.

There is a new board which has more seasons on it, now you need to really plan your workers and when you pass for season as those new bonuses may make or break your game. Additionally there is an area control element that is added too. A map where you can place your star tokens out for benefits immediately as well as end game scoring. These two modules are for me the easiest of them to put into your game. There are new rules and your familiarity of the boards will be tested, but they are smooth like butter.

Another module are special workers which come with specific cards detailing the abilities. These offer a metric tonne of variability, you will not have access to all the options in every game, and they all feel so different. You train these workers in a similar way to regular workers, but you need to pay more cash for them. Justifiably though as their abilities are sweet and very worth the wonga.

The final module is the structures. Each player gets an extension to their player board where they can build their own special worker placement spots offering in-game abilities, bonuses or end game scoring. The structures are decided by a deck of 36 orange backed cards and there is, as per usual with Viticulture, a ton of variability in the different structures.

If you want to really make your competitive Viticulture experience perfect then you need to try and pick this one up.