Bohnanza has been a big favorite with our clan since we purchased it many months ago. It started a huge gaming frenzy so when I saw that there were expansions I snatched them up. They have definitely added a lot. I have to say that this seems to be the easiest to get into of the bunch. We tried High Bohn and it does much to improve a great game, but it can be a lot to take in and you find your self needing to study to make much out of it at first. Bohnaparte is a more natural extension. If you have played War with cards you can gather the conquest part of the game.

There a few rule squabbles to work out. The biggest being a random lapse in translation. You can add a fortress to a landscape card, however for some reason they didn't translate what looks like 2.5 sentences into English. At the top of page 11 there is some untranslated German text. It translates to:

[A fortress increases the defense value of the above landscape card by two and] is in addition to the characteristics of that card. The location of a fortress may not be changed once built, even after change of ownership.

That little tidbit helps quite a bit and the other point of conflict arises out of the use of cannons against a fortress. The fortress adds +2 to defense but certain landscape cards have a base defense. The directions are a little vague so it helped to know that the fortress only adds to card defense not to base defense.

Our best strategy so far has been to attack early, buy the munitions depot (early), blue beans are very valuble, you can't just sit on your gold, and fortify that city!

Everytime we have played this expansion the game has ended with a player being eliminated which does leave a bad taste in someones mouth. That would have to be the only draw back I have found.