I understand that five players can play with this expansion set. Are there multiple roles for the fifth player or must you use the bioterrorist?
394816
You can play without the bioterrorist, using five players. "5-Player Game: Pandemic can be played with 5 players. During setup, deal a Role card to the 5th player and 2 Player cards (as with 4 players) to each player."
394817
There are multiple roles for the 5th player, but you do not need to use the bioterrorist as one of them. This is an optional feature of the game that you can decide whether or not to use it in your game.We have not tried it, but the reviews I've watched for the expansion sounds like it is either a hit or miss depending on your gaming group. I do like the new roles and the purple disease that this expansion offers. The bioterrorist is another feature that you can decide if you want to try it or not.
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There are multiple roles for the 5th player, but you do not need to use the bioterrorist as one of them. This is an optional feature of the game that you can decide whether or not to use it in your game. We have not tried it, but the reviews I've watched for the expansion sounds like it is either a hit or miss depending on your gaming group. I do like the new roles and the purple disease that this expansion offers. The bioterrorist is another feature that you can decide if you want to try it or not.
394819
With the expansion game, you get six new role cards which adds them to the original game. The rules say that you only use the bio-terrist role card when you are playing the Bio-terrist challenge. I hope that helps.
394820
No, you can give the 5th player any role. In fact, the rules recommend not using the bio terrorist variant with 4 normal players+bio-terrorist, as the variant works best when playing with 2-3 normal players.
394821
Either. You can add the extra player as an addition part of the team, or you can have that person take on the role of Bioterrorist.
394822
I've successfully played the original (without the expansion) with 5 and 6 players and it doesn't seem to make it easier or harder. Just deal 2 player cards to each, and play as you usually would.
394823
The 5th player is the Bio Terrorist role only. I'll add that even though I haven't played the Bio Terrorist scenario, this is still my favorite version of the game to play (Virulent Strain + Mutation scenarios combined).
532234
Yes, you can play as few as three. Of course, the recommended number of players is probably four+.
297967
Nope, you can easily play with just two people. I usually just play one on one with my girlfriend. And if you get the Reaper expansion it introduces a third "player" on the board, as you can move the Reaper around and try to make it land on your opponent. Have fun!
434860
actually the 5 to 6 player expansion works well with more expansion pieces to play seafarers, I have used it myself to play a few games like this and love it, and the guys who made this also released a pdf file for donators to use multiple expansion pieces to make a complete board, I am sure if you get one you can drop them an email asking for the pdf file
1163571
Yes. It can be played with as many players as there are ships. For ease of play and speed it is probably best if the number of players do not exceed 4 but as I said the format allows for expansion. You could have ten players with each one running a ship of their own. Great game system. We play it at the store I manage all the time.
27587
Yes.. The big box as seen in the picture is the 3-4 player game and can be played by itself. The expansion (included in this set and depicted as the smaller box) are addition pieces that when combined with the regular game make it playable for 5-6 players.
297966
That is not how the game is designed, but you could have a split personality to play multiple characters. It is not really a co-operative game, as the encounters involve only a single player in a location at a time. It plays fine with 2 players. Dave Boardgames4us
1854814
I believe this is only the 3-4 player expansion to the Settlers game. You need the Seafarers 5-6 expansion in addition to this if you want more players. Looks like Amazon does have it under "Catan: Seafarers 5 and 6 Players Extension".
1969905
I agree with the previous two. Four or five are the ideal numbers for a Legacy campaign. I don't think I'll be giving too much away saying this, but there are 5 factions for each player to choose before every game whose advantages evolve as your game progresses. I would imagine that with three people, you would tend to stick to the same three factions since the other two would miss out on their bonuses early on and fall behind. I would try to get a full table if you're looking to have a Legacy campaign.
1214954
2 players is the minimum. If you play with 2 then you start with fewer Provinces. The game is more dynamic with more players but still fun with two. If you want to expand beyond 4 players (ie. 5 or 6) you need to add Dominion: Intrigue to get additional money and victory cards to expand the game.
1276597
I'm going to say no. I think (whether the game says it or not) you need at least three people. But I would go even further and say to have some real fun with this game, you need at least four people.
1703312
You may have as many as 12 players, but it is more fun with more players. I would say four players would be the least amount of people you would want to play with.
1600747
I wish I would have asked this question before I purchased the game! I had friends that had games with the two extra's, and I had purchased Lethal Luau for a dinner party I was having with 6 people, thinking there were two extras. BUT IN LETHAL LUAU THERE ARE NO EXTRAS! So My husband and I both played two parts which just ruined the whole thing. We would switch hats (nothing we could do about the costume) so that the other players knew which we were at that time. But sometimes our characters were asking ourselves questions so it got really confusing. You need 8 guests to play this game. Have a good time!
1368506
3 or more. Although, I tried with 3 and found that it probably works best if you have more than 3 (5-6 players would be a lot more fun). To be fair, we didn't follow all the rules to the letter (mainly bc the rulebook is so long).
219200
Coup is fun with 3. Best with 4 or 5, and still not bad with 6 even though the best says up to 5 players. You could still have a great time with 3, but you probably will miss out on some of the deeper strategies that were intended for the game.
633982
I've only played 1 expansion and that was Intrigue. It allows you to play with more than 4 people.
1600749
I wish I would have asked this question before I purchased the game! I had friends that had games with the two extra's, and I had purchased Lethal Luau for a dinner party I was having with 6 people, thinking there were two extras. BUT IN LETHAL LUAU THERE ARE NO EXTRAS! So My husband and I both played two parts which just ruined the whole thing. We would switch hats (nothing we could do about the costume) so that the other players knew which we were at that time. But sometimes our characters were asking ourselves questions so it got really confusing. You need 8 guests to play this game. Have a good time! I wish I would have asked this question before I purchased the game! I had friends that had games with the two extra's, and I had purchased Lethal Luau for a dinner party I was having with 6 people, thinking there were two extras. BUT IN LETHAL LUAU THERE ARE NO EXTRAS! So My husband and I both played two parts which just ruined the whole thing. We would switch hats (nothing we could do about the costume) so that the other players knew which we were at that time. But sometimes our characters were asking ourselves questions so it got really confusing. You need 8 guests to play this game.... » Read More I wish I would have asked this question before I purchased the game! I had friends that had games with the two extra's, and I had purchased Lethal Luau for a dinner party I was having with 6 people, thinking there were two extras. BUT IN LETHAL LUAU THERE ARE NO EXTRAS! So My husband and I both played two parts which just ruined the whole thing. We would switch hats (nothing we could do about the costume) so that the other players knew which we were at that time. But sometimes our characters were asking ourselves questions so it got really confusing. You need 8 guests to play this game. Have a good time! « Show Less