Castles of Mad King Ludwig : Secrets
Expansion of: Castles of Mad King LudwigCastles of Mad King Ludwig: Secrets is an expansion for Castles of Mad King Ludwig that will help you build even more amazing, crazy castles than ever before!
45m - 90m
1 - 4 Players
Ages 13+
bethielizard
Expansion for Castles of Mad King Ludwig. I bought this off a gaming friend in June 2017 and finally played with the expansion in April 2019. In my opinion, the game is super fun without the expansion, but it does add some interesting elements to change things up for replayability!
Benterdimensional
Good expansion, with a lot of extra content. The moat is a unique & challenging addition that rewards competent building and optimization of limited space.
bigmac33070
The big expansion for COMKL adds 4 modules, 2 of which must be played together. Those would be the Swans and the extra rooms. Either 1 or 2 swans are on each of the new rooms. When one comes out, add a random Swan token to the room. The swans come in 5 colors. Get the swans when you purchase the room. Swans can either be discarded for money during the game or saved for VP at the end of the game depending on sets of different colors you have. This is by far the best thing about the expansion and I would likely even teach this to new people. There are also the Moats. Each player starts with a Barbican, which is essentially the starting piece from the base game with a Moat. Moats can be added for $5000 when you buy a room. The moats will eventually make a square around your castle if you get the additional 3. This limits the size of the castle and forces a tighter build. Also, when moats are placed, they give 3 VP and a VP for each of most of the kinds of rooms in your castle. I could take it or leave it with this one. Meh.... Last and least are the Secret Passages. Each player gets the same 3 passage pieces. They can be connected to 2 rooms that are not already connected at any time. This will double the adjoining room scoring when placed. I didn't like these at all. I wasn't sure how the raised pieces went on the rooms. I am guessing you would mostly use these if you are using the moats. So overall, pretty average. The new rooms with the Swans are good but the other 2 pieces are decidedly mediocre, IMO.