Eldritch Horror Cities in Ruin Board Game EXPANSION - Embrace Chaos and Confront Cataclysmic Forces! Mystery Game for Adults, Ages 14+, 1-8 Players, 2-4 Hour Playtime, Made by Fantasy Flight Games

This was the second expansion that I bought for Eldritch Horror after Forsaken Lore, so I definitely skipped a few expansions along the way. I really liked the idea of an expansion that added the destruction of cities to the game board. In addition to 4 new investigators and 1 new ancient one, this expansion adds a handful of cards to each of the base game's decks, and introduces two new decks in the form of destruction cards and destroyed city encounter cards.Despite being the seventh expansion for Eldritch Horror, I'm happy to say that this expansion works very well on its own without needing the content from other expansions. If you just own the base game and want to skip right to this expansion, I don't think you'd have any problem at all doing so.In order to fully take advantage of this expansion, you'll need to either play using the new ancient one or use a certain prelude card. These ensure that you'll periodically draw and resolve destruction cards as the game progresses. Most of these cards simply instruct you to destroy a certain major city, placing a destruction token on that space. From then, this space is no longer treated as a city space and instead investigators will have special destroyed city encounters on that space. These encounters range from enormously beneficial to extremely dangerous, and I appreciate the addition of a new encounter deck with so much variety.If you don't play with the new ancient one or prelude card, these destruction cards will only show up occasionally. However, because there is always a chance of them appearing, you'll always need to break out the new decks of cards and tokens when you play Eldritch Horror from now on. This is a bit of a pain since Eldritch Horror already has a ton of cards and components. These destruction cards appear very rarely in normal games of EH; I've played three games without the new ancient one and have only had to draw one destruction card. You could argue that this is a good thing since it prevents the destruction from getting too routine but it would be nice if they showed up just a bit more often without having to use the new ancient one or prelude card.Still, the new components in this set are pretty great. I really like all four of the new investigators and I'll never forget using the new gattling gun to mow down a horde of zombies in Australia. If you're looking to pick up an expansion for Eldritch Horror, this is one of the first I'd recommend after Forsaken Lore.

Does any game need 7 expansions? No. But if you do make a seventh expansion, it better change the base game enough to warrant a purchase. The apocalyptic impact of Cities in Ruin on the board adds a distinct flavor and enough game play changes to make this a worthwhile addition. I own all the expansions, and while I enjoy the variety of new boards, I am tired of the logistical annoyance they bring. This expansion adds variety by modifying how the main board plays, an excellent design decision. Yes, the effects are random and can be catastrophic, but if you do not have a tolerance for randomness, you would not be playing this game.The added character are ... ok. Old abilities have been tweaked a bit, nothing new here. The new spells and items, I don't remember a thing about them, and they just are added to the ever growing decks. This expansion is all about the antagonist and how the board changes. Get this even if you have the other expansions, and definitely get this if you do not.

Adds new bad guy, and 4 new characters. Includes disasters that can destroy cities. Great fun.

I really like the new mechanics introduced in this expansion. The heroes are solid and the additional cards to existing decks are a plus!

Another great expansion to the already fantastic Eldritch Horror game, adding a whole new mechanic to potentially destroy entire cities in your quest to stop the Old One from awakening. Adds more tension and some good flavor to the game.

the quality is great

The second best expansion in he game (after the first). The ability to lay waste to cities is a really cool add-on mechanic! Highly recommended!

This expansion add devastation mode and it suits well with Ancient One Shude M'ell. Delivery was perfect.

Perfetto

It relatively increases the difficulty of the game through disaster mechanism which basically replaces city encounters with devastation encounters. But you're gonna love it if you're like adrenaline pumping storylines.

Fantasy flight games products are top value always.

Las expansiones pequeñas de Eldritch Horor son buenas para agregar más variedad, ya que añaden más cartas para las los diferentes mazos de cartas, y uno que otro elemento al juego base. El nuevo elemento que aporta esta expansión son los desastres, lo cual afecta a los investigadores en el tablero y causa que las distintas ciudades puedan ser destruidas. En una ciudad destruida se tiene un nuevo tipo de encuentro llamado de devastación, los cuáles son encuentros un tanto complejos donde se necesitan hacer más de una prueba.Al igual que las demás expansiones pequeñas añade un antiguo, unos cuántos monstruos y 4 investigadores nuevos. El antiguo sirve para disfrutar al máximo del nuevo elemento que aporta la expansión.Como otras expansiones, también agrega más cartas de encuentro, objetos y hechizos al juego básico. Es aquí donde recomiendo primero obtener la expansión Eldritch Horror: Forsaken Lore ya que esta, además, agrega más misterios y encuentros para los antiguos del juego base, lo cuál aumenta en gran medida la rejugabilidad de los primeros antiguos. De igual manera esta sigue siendo una muy buena opción como primera expansión ya que las cartas de desastre y devastación son de los elementos más interesantes que ha agregado alguna expansión.Recomiendo esta expansión para los que les gusta mucho el juego y quieran darle más variedad o un segundo aire al juego aún teniendo ya la expansión Forsaken Lore.

I just wrapped up a SIX (!!!) hour game with the new ancient one! Holy moly, was it a lengthy game. The destruction dynamic is extremely interesting, though, and it meant that we went from "super great" to "absolutely completely boned" within the space of a single round. I really think that this game does a great service to the base game, and would highly recommend it.If I had had the time, I might have bought it from somewhere else and saved a few dollars, but the free and insanely fast shipping with Amazon was too good to pass up.