Stellar FactorySpaceteam Expansion: Triangulum

I'm not so keen on the expansion. With this many players the game really doesn't work too well. You can't call out what you need while also listening to 8 other players - it just becomes a wall of noise. With twice as many tools it becomes much harder to figure out what people want if they are playing properly and trying to describe the odd looking tools.This is based on my experience of using the expansion very early on, not a group of people who have played base game many times before.The second time I tried splitting the group into two, 4 people working on base game cards building half the ship and 4 people working on expansion-only cards building the other half of the ship. It worked better, but still didn't feel that fun.Actually if you have them shuffled together and want to separate you have to look at the cards very carefully, there is some almost invisible text on the expansion cards to differentiate. It took one of my sons to spot that as I didn't notice the difference.

This is an easy to play and easy to set up game. Great as a warm up for a more serious games night or something to play with friends. It does get loud! Lots of different tactics to try and a really challenging 'expert' mode. Good for geeky gamers and casual gamers alike.