Rio Grande Games Concordia Salsa Board Game Expansion: New Maps & Strategy Cards

This is an expansion, not playable without the base game. It DOES make the base game better by giving more options and giving asymmetrical powers that drive strategy.

Salsa introduces Salt, which is a wild resource, and this small little change provides a lot of unique situations. While it is a powerful resource, and players tend to race to build on these cities. However, it's very expensive to build on these cities, and you may find yourself using it on cheaper resource types than you thought, as you had to spend time building there, while the other players were snatching up food and brick resources on the cheap. The expansion also includes a new Forum where you can buy tiles that give you permanent advantages or one time bonuses. This forces players to rethink when they plan to pick up all their cards, as they may try to extend picking up their cards longer than they had intended just so they can pick up the forum tile that has caught their eye. Or, they may pick up their cards earlier to beat another player to the punch, but may cause a different tile to become cheaper in the process! And that's not even mentioning the new maps! Great expansion!

This expansion includes two new mechanics. The first is salt which acts as a wildcard. Very cool! The second element is the forum cards which give you special abilities. The player has a choice in which forum cards they take and having these cards leads the player to tweak their strategies as they build their resource engine. This expansion also comes with a new two sided board, which is also a great addition to your Concordia collection.

Fantastic expansion for a great game. Salsa adds depth and new strategies to the base game. Also, the two maps that come with the expansion a great; I love the quality and diversity of these maps. If you own Concordia, you need this expansion. And if you don't own Concordia then please do yourself a favor and go get it.

Concordia is one of my top 3 favorite games, right next to Castles of Burgundy and Stone Age. The expansion adds "salt" to the industries that you produce, which acts like a wild card, as well as "Forum Cards" which add some extra options during your turns. Some of the forum cards are "one time use" and others help throughout the game. You can also stack them during a turn, if you have met the conditions noted on the bottom of each card. Now that I have tried the two expansions (Salt and Forum Cards), we never play the base game without. They are simple to add and don't overwhelm new players.

This is the second expansion for Concordia. It adds three things to the game. New maps: Double-sided board, one side is the Hispania board featuring the western mediterranean area (spain, france, north africa). It is very tight, featuring even one less province than the Britannia map from the first expansion. The other map is the Byzantium board showing the eastern mediterranean (greece & turkey) which reminds me more of the germania map. Salt! A new commodity, which also acts as a wild card if you can get some. (not easy to produce) The Forum. The game comes with tiles, some that give you a one time bonus gift, others give you a special ability throughout the game. You may collect these tiles when you play the tribune card, getting different tiles depending on how long you wait to play that card. What's nice about this expansion is that it is backwards compatible. You can add salt or the forum to earlier maps, or just use this map with the base game rules, totally interchangeable. I admit that I am biased towards this game, so if you are also, this is an expansion you must get.

Arrived broken. Will edit later when I've played it.

If you're lukewarm on Concordia, know that Salsa is one of the rare expansions that doesn't just add more variety to the base game; it actually improves the experience of playing. I can take or leave the new maps, but the Salt resource and the Forum tiles are easy to incorporate and feel like they should belong to the game every time you play on any map. Salt is a "wild" resource. You can use it in place of anything, but you can't sell it, and it can be tough to acquire if you can't produce it yourself. Forum tiles can be acquired when you play your Tribune. Playing a lot of cards prior to the Tribune gives you a greater choice in the benefit you gain. Some are instant, and some are permanent. All offer something good that can potentially chain together for great effect, and also offer something unique to players in a game in which everyone starts with identical cards and resources.

The game is a good addition to the main Concordia game, but when the box arrived, it was all scratched and smashed - see photos. Seller just put the game in the postage bag with no protection whatsoever - I’m not impressed! Good thing that it’s an expansion and I managed to squeeze everything in my main box (Concordia Venus), otherwise I would have returned it due to these damages

For board gamer who loves Concordia, this expansion makes the game more exciting. I brought this game to a board game meet up and it took us 3hours to finish the game ( we played with 5 people). The base game Concordia is already a good game but this expansion is a game changer!

Arrived in good time and was very attractively priced for this excellent expansion to Concordia. Matched all my expectations.

Concordia Salsa sembra un gioco nuovo, e non un'espansione. Questo sia per i materiali che trovi nella scatola appena aperta, sia per le infinite nuove possibilità di game play che si vengono a creare. Se ti è piaciuto Concordia, questo non fartelo sfuggire, io almeno così ho fatto e sono rimasto contento.

Mudou o jogo pra melhor, sem mudar muita regra. Tanto o fórum com o acréscimo das peças bonificadas, quanto o sal como recurso coringa são ótimas adições ao jogo base. Os mapas diferentes são apenas isso: diferentes, não fariam muita falta.