Expansions are sometimes hit and miss, but Wizards Tower is a definite hit with our family. It does exactly what an expansion should do--rejuvenate a game you've played for some time and enhance its enjoyment. Wizards Tower completely succeeds.
Pros:
1) A small thing but a nice touch--everything that comes in the expansion fits easily into the original game's box. We just transferred it all over and recycled the expansion box-no need to take up more space
2) Monster variety. The game adds more monsters, more cards, more boss monsters. Even better, the new monsters add a lot of variety in that they have varying abilities and vulnerabilities. Some can be struck only by archers, some more faster, and so on. The "special monsters" are even better. The Hydra, for instance, adds news monsters (imps) onto the board for every hit point of damage you inflict on it. The dragon breathes fire at your defenses, the necromancer raises killed monsters, etc.
3) card variety. The more difficult monsters are balanced out by the addition of some new Castle cars but especially by the addition of a Wizards Deck--each card in it allowing you to perform a spell that can do some damage (often across a range of monsters based on arc, color, spacing, etc.) or push monsters back. And it really is a nice balance, the spells aren't so uber powerful that they over-compensate for the tougher monsters
4) requires more thought. Because the monsters are harder and because some can only be hit by certain cards or move faster or do ranged damage, you really have to plan further ahead in this one as well as react faster on the fly. The Wizard cards help a lot, but you can't simply stock up on them as there are several ways in which you can lose them by being forced to discard them (the Basilisk monster, for instance, requires all players to discard down to two cards). This is something you really have to plan around.You also have to plan around defending that Wizard Tower because once it goes, so does the ability to gain more Wizard cards.
5) the way the game can turn quickly. With the addition of imps, one-point relatively weak creatures, the game can really flip itself as imps sometimes appear based on a roll of a die. So you might end up placing a single imp on the board--no biggie, or you might end up placing six on the board (ruh roh). The addition of goblin cavalry, who move two spaces at a time, can also turn the game quickly. As can the ranged attacks. There's really a greater feeling of instability which adds to the richness of game play
We've always enjoyed Castle Panic with our originally nine-now-ten-year-old. We like the cooperative aspect, the planning aspect, and the fantasy aspect. All of us agree that the expansion has made an enjoyable game even more enjoyable. A definite recommendation for fans of the game and if your'e buying the game for the first time or as a gift, I'd say pick it up at the same time and save it until you've played the original a few times. But not too many as the game really is better with the expansion, no matter that it's pretty good on its own.
Cons:
we haven't come up with any yet
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Magical expansion to Castle Panic
Add magic, flying monsters, and fire to Castle Panic with The Wizard’s Tower
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Wizard’s TowerThe wizard's tower gives you access to a deck of spells that you can cast on Monsters alone or in combination with Castle cards. If the wizard tower falls, you lose the spells. |
New MonstersYou'll fight Mega Boss Monsters, like the Dragon, magical imps, flying Monsters, and more. |
FireYou can use fire to attack Monsters, and the Monsters can use fire to burn your Walls and Towers. |
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| The Product Line | The base game to be used with Crowns and Quests, The Wizard's Tower, The Dark Titan, and Engines of War | A compact, organized way to get the base game and all four expansions as well as all the promos | The expansion to Castle Panic that brings Characters with unique abilities and Quests that change up the goal every game | The expansion to Castle Panic that brings Agranok, an 8-point arch-villain, his army of elite Monsters, a Cavalier, Boiling Oil, and Support Tokens | The expansion to Castle Panic that brings an Engineer and new Resource cards to build new weapons against the Monsters' Siege Engines | A preschool version of Castle Panic with no reading required that kids love to play independently |
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Bad shipping.
Just opened the shipping box to see the game box top all crushed. I’m not one of those people who are all anal about pristine boxes, but it would’ve been nice to have an undamaged box.Everything inside looks good. The rule book is a little crushed, but nothing bad.
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AK Jones
Whoa! - more monsters, more strategy and MORE PANIC!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2012