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51st State: Ultimate Edition

Portal Games SKU: PLG0058

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Designer	Ignacy Trzewiczek
Publisher	Portal Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	75 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	357726/51st-state-ultimate-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/357726/51st-state-ultimate-edition/forums/63

51st State: Ultimate Edition is the all-in-one package for 51st State, including the base game as well as six expansions: New Era, Winter, Scavengers, Allies, Moloch, and No Man's Land.

In 51st State, the world you know no longer exists. There is no government. No army. No civilization. The United States has collapsed — and now, thirty years after the war started, new powers finally try to take control of the ruined country, try to establish a new order, try to control others and create a new country, a new state: the 51st state.

In this card game, players control one of the four powers — mutants, traders, New Yorkers and Appalachians — and try to build their own new country. Players put new locations into the game, hire leaders, and send people to work in buildings to gain resources and new skills.

Every card in 51st State can be put into play three ways: You can invade a location to gain many resources once, or you can sign a contract with this location to gain one resource every turn, or you can attach the location to your state so you can use its skill. One card, three possibilities. Lots of decisions and choices that matter.

Fun so far. Best with 2

We are really enjoying 51st State Ultimate Edition. Highly recommended as a 2 player experience.

We have only tried out the base deck and the first 2 expansions so far as well as the basic solo game.
Really like the gameplay and choices involved. Also enjoy the artwork and how the theme comes out as a result of the location names and images.

We have mostly played with 2 players and based on our few plays with 3 or 4 we much prefer the 2 player experience. There is only a moderate amount of player interaction so the benefits of a larger player count are minimal where as the down time and game length are both extended considerably. That being said it was still an enjoyable experience with 3 and even 4. Just not our preferred experience.

The two expansions we’ve tried so far are the most straight forward ones (New Era and Winter expansions each just add another stack of cards to the deck with no new rules etc.) but we definitely enjoyed how they were thematic in how they affected the gameplay and created an interesting new experience that remained balanced. The game is intended to be played with just the base game or with the base game plus one expansion. This worked well but the only thing to distinguish the cards in the base game from the expansions is text which was not great for sorting the decks back out so we could try a different expansion. Would much prefer a symbol for each different expansion with a distinct shape and colour for sorting purposes.

The basic solo game I tried out once and it was pretty dry. But I’ve heard good things about the Borgo Automa by Joe Leone which is another solo option in the rule book. I look forward to trying this out as it apparently does a good job of recreating the 2 player experience.

My only other complaint is that I really wish this “Ultimate Edition” included the 4 extra player factions included in the Gamefound (crowdfunded) edition as I feel this could add a lot of gameplay variation. I don’t care much about the upgraded components that came with that edition (this edition is very well produced with a lot of nice wooden components) but you really feel the difference of playing the different factions and how they affect your strategy and choices in the game so the other 4 factions would have really added to the replay potential and choices for different play styles etc.

Ultimately for the price and what’s in the box (and the very functional insert) I feel this is a good buy and I highly recommend it.

51st State: Ultimate Edition

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Its a great game

It is really fun - very stressful but we have made it work out in the end with not too much cheating!

Great game. Stylish and great battle mechanism. Easy to learn, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to win. Requires very strategic planning. I love it.

Give me more heat

This game can't get hot enough

The Map's Historical Accuracy Is a Laugh and It Was Produced by Totally Uneducated Rubes

The map's artwork is nothing special. It's filled with stupid historical and geographic errors. The designer Bob Kalinowski and map artists Wouter Woestenburg, Mark Mahaffey and Thierry Aradan are totally lazy, unprofessional, uneducated rubes who couldn't care less about historical accuracy. They have no understanding of the broader historical context/undercurrents of this period, the 18th century as a whole or even a desire to learn about them. They've never opened a single history textbook, taken a single history course or even talked to a single history professor in their entire lives. They wouldn't know a history textbook if it hit them on the head. There are no sources - scholarly or otherwise - listed in their rulebook whatsoever. They're making it all up as they go along. They can't even spell the cities of Namür, Bergen, Brüssel, Dornick, Menen, Veurne, Straßburg, and Posen/Posnan/Posnania properly on the map. Don't bother giving them any suggestions for improvement. They couldn't care less about gamer feedback. Their minds are made up, don't confuse them with the facts. They're too busy distorting the past with their pre-conceived modern notions and anti-historical, anti-German, anti-Austrian agenda. Since these characters have a tendency to falsify history in their games, you're better off staying away from them. Maybe some day an educated, professional person will make a historically accurate card-driven game and mounted map of this period, but this is not it.

TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO BOYCOTT THIS GAME!

Still bringing the heat... One car at a time..

First and foremost, this is a great expansion.

However the fact that they made the water on the track a non modular thing is a little boggling.. There's nothing really preventing you from pretending that there's water on your other tracks, but it's not the same.

As far as other content, it's all more of the same. One new car, a few new parts, and two tracks.

I would have liked to see new Legends cards included, but there's no problem just using the ones that are in the base game.

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