We bought the same as the settlers-based game on the market was the same. Only after these many years, it was now necessary to buy the expansion. Of course, the presentation has been changed since then, but we are tailor made according We have not seen us to buy a new base game. Now it looks not so nice, but it does the job. The original wooden version we liked better by far, not only the game characters, the game fields and cards were vivid to play.