Illuminati 2018 and Bavarian Fire Drill

[jcbeckman]

Can I use Bavarian Fire Drill with Illuminati 2018? I see the backs are very different, but there are a LOT of cards, so while it's giving up *some* info it's not giving the whole game away. But if the cards are already accounted for in 2018 or don't work then I won't bother putting them together.

[jcbeckman]

Nobody knows?

[fwcain]

BFD was an expansion for Illuminati (albeit, for a previous printing of Illuminati). If you want to use it with the recent reprint of Illuminati (with the different backing), it should still work fine, I would presume. (However, as I do not have my own copy of the new printing, I can not state this as a guaranteed fact...)

[GranitePenguin]

I have both, but haven't looked at them to compare to see how well BFD would fit yet.

I guess since you have both, you could just try and see how it goes? Worst thing that happens is you end up with a weird game and you don't try again.

[Skarg]

So does anyone know what the differences are between 1st Edition and 2nd Edition boxed Illuminati, other than the box art (and it sounds like the art on the backs of the cards)?

Oh, and I also saw in an interview that the names of some things were updated at some point to reflect more modern things.

Is the art on the card fronts the same, or is it more cartoonish like the 2nd edition cover?

And does anyone know any comparison to the original pocket box, that is now being re-released in the pocket box Kickstarter campaign?

[GranitePenguin]

Originally Posted by Skarg

So does anyone know what the differences are between 1st Edition and 2nd Edition boxed Illuminati, other than the box art (and it sounds like the art on the backs of the cards)?

Oh, and I also saw in an interview that the names of some things were updated at some point to reflect more modern things.

Is the art on the card fronts the same, or is it more cartoonish like the 2nd edition cover?

And does anyone know any comparison to the original pocket box, that is now being re-released in the pocket box Kickstarter campaign?

The bulk of it is similar, but there are some changes to update it to be "more modern" from a topics perspective.

The art is a different style (the new box is pretty representative). You can see pictures of the box art on the main illuminati page, which shows some of the card art

Other than that, it's still basically the same game.

Check out the designer's notes for more details

I don't know that a detailed comparison of the 2nd Edition to the Original Game has been done anywhere.

[AlexYeager]

Originally Posted by Skarg

So does anyone know what the differences are between 1st Edition and 2nd Edition boxed Illuminati, other than the box art (and it sounds like the art on the backs of the cards)?

The biggest functional difference is in alignments, where Government/Communist has been decommissioned altogether in place of Media (which acts like Criminal - no opposite). This is the biggest gameplay issue with combining previous edition's cards...