Viticulture: Tuscany

A must have for viticulture. I love the original game, but this adds some very fun new workers, and makes it 4 seasons instead of 2. It is very hard to pull off the perfect expansion, but they did it! Some of my friends refuse to play Viticulture without this expansion, it's that good. Adds just the right amount of complexity and richness.

Game designers do not always take player feedback with the careful ear that Jamey Stegmaier has. This is the 3rd edition of Viticulture and its expansion in just a few years, but they have taken a great game with a few bugs and made an A++ game that needs to be in any serious board gamer's collection. Viticulture Essential Edition is a fine game on its own, but adding the Tuscany Essential Edition expansion makes it one of my favorite games of all time. The Tuscany board truly expands the game, giving you more choices in each season, and making turn order matter so much more than it did before. The game is elegant, fun, thinky, and, to quote Inside The Box, "classy as @#$%". In case you somehow don't know, the idea is to run a wine business in Italy. You have some land, some workers, some seed money, and some leads (cards) on how you might want to sell wine and earn victory points. On the surface it looks like your goal is to plant some grape seeds, harvest/squeeze grapes, bottle wine, age it, and sell it. However, that is ONE way to run a wine business. You might want to buy your grapes from other places instead of growing them. You might want to invite guests to come and do wine sampling and run your business on tourism. You might want to bring influential guests to help you compete with others. You might want to sell specific type of wine to a small audience, or you might want to mass produce cheap wine and sell it in a larger market. There are many ways to manage a wine business, and each way MIGHT be the best way for you this time around. This equally viable multiple paths to victory is a Stonemaier Games staple that make their games so much more interesting than other types of victory point race games. Because there are so many ways to accumulate points, you cannot ignore what other players are doing. You may have to change up your play as you go, either because someone is blocking you from doing what you want, or possibly because other players are fighting over limited resources and ignoring the low hanging fruit that you can come in and just take (pun intended). Viticulture EE would be in my top 50 games, but with the Tuscany EE expansion, it is easily in my top 10. What a world we live in where games like this exist. Say what you will about the strides video games have made. Board games just keep getting better and better. Keep it up Stonemaier.

Great addition to one of my favourite games. Adds a extra layer of strategy that keeps the game interesting after the many playthroughs I have had.

I loved adding the Tuscany Expansion to the already excellent Viticulture. If Viticulture is not your favorite game, this expansion may help with some issues that you had in the base version. It adds three separate modular expansions and you can pick and choose which to play with. It adds Structures - additions that give different benefits Locations - Send out messaging about your vineyards wines to get more VP New grid for waking up - my personal favorite addition as it makes the decision of starting more important. I think this is a great expansions that is easy to learn if you know how to play the base game. I said it isn't super giftable just due to you need to know if the people you want to give this to own Viticulture and if they like the game. If yes to both those questions it is a great gift. Note: the base game is needed to play, this is not a standalone game!

If you own and enjoy viticulture you have to get this expansion. It comes with three new expansions: 1: A new (double-sided) board with 4 seasons and some new actions 2: Structure cards, and a structure player board (x6) which will give you new benefits and ways to gain points, perform actions, or other bonuses. 3. Special workers, allowing you to pay one extra coin when training a worker to have a worker with a special ability based on one of the 24 new cards. There are 2 special worker abilities you can choose to train in each game. Add more variety and new challenges to your viticulture games. Easy to learn and fun to play. A must buy!

Adds just enough to change the base game without really changing the base game. Need the base to play this expansion. Expands the board and the people who can help you out. Viticulture is fun and this adds a little more to the game. We play with these additional rules more now than we did the original base game.

the package was delivered perfectly without any damage, but zip-lock bags inside the box were torn up, as if someone had finely cut them with scissors.

If you’re a viticulture fan, this is a must have expansion. It adds a new extended board that is broken into 4 seasons. Overall, it adds a few modules to the game that you can use separate or all together. I recommend starting with one and learning it and then adding one and repeat. Once I learned them all I haven’t played without them. They add so much depth to your strategy and the game. You have the extended board. Four full seasons and a new reputation mechanic. You now have some star tokens that you place in regions on the reputation map. They earn you immediate rewards when placed and, possibly, victory points at the end of the game. There’s special workers. You can recruit this type of worker for 1 Lira more than the regular price and they have special abilities. When you set up the game you select two out of the deck of workers and place the cards next to the board. Those are the special powers for this game. So it adds variability there. Then there’s “structure”. It’s a whole deck of special building cards that you can build on your playmat. These buildings are for your use only and they give you something special that nobody else can do and vice versa.

Door het nieuwe bord met 4 seizoenen nog leuker dan Viticulture al was. Echt een must have als je Viticulture al leuk vindt.

Nonostante le risposte inserite nell'inserzione, alcune con preciso riferimento al venditore dal quale anche io ho acquistato, il gioco NON è in italiano, ma in inglese. Non sarebbe un problema in generale per quanto mi riguarda, ma essendo Tuscany un'espansione, avere metà gioco in italiano e metà in inglese risulta esteticamente molto fastidioso per cui ho dovuto chiedere il reso.

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Si on veut profiter à fond de Viticulture, il faut Tuscany. Attention, il n'y a pas de doublon. Tuscany Essential Edition est un complément de Viticulture Essential Edition (qui contenait déjà des éléments de Tuscany, je sais, on s'y perd un peu..) Bref j'ai testé, je ne pourrai plus rejouer à Viticulture Essential Edition sans Tuscany Essential Edition. La seul chose c'est qu'on ne se sert plus du plateau de Viticulture Essential Edition mais de celui de Tuscany Essential Edition qui ajoute des possibilités d'action. Si vous avez des questions n'hésitez pas ;-)

El material y Meeples son de excelente calidad. El tablero extra y las cartas nuevas le añaden más variedad al juego y equilibran las reglas. Ya no solo peleas por ver quién despierta primero, ahora debes de enfocarte en hacer vinos y ser más estratégico en tus decisiones.