Takenoko Chibis Expansion

Takenoko: Chibis adds a couple of new things to the base game and I’ll go over the different parts in turn. In addition to what I’m about to cover, the expansion also provides some additional wooden bamboo pieces which are identical to their base game counterparts. Mrs. Panda Players now have a female panda to join the bamboo consuming bear from the base game. With her also comes 9 baby panda tokens. During the game, when you move a panda, you can choose instead to move the female panda (however she doesn’t eat bamboo). If she ends up on the same tile as the male panda, they can have a baby. Discard a matching color bamboo piece and take a baby token. This will provide you with 2 victory points and one of three possible bonuses: An irrigation token, an improvement token, or the ability to trade in an objective card. 6 New Plot Tiles Takenoko: Chibis Plot Cards Six new plot cards come in the expansion, and all have some kind of special ability. These are unique tiles that all have a special property. Celestial Pond: This acts in all respects to the starting pond, however it’s drawn and placed during the game like the rest of the tiles. Kamis Garden: This tile grows all 3 bamboo types and acts as a wild for completing plot objective cards. Sacred Hills: One in each of the three colors, when the gardener ends his movement on one of these tiles, it grows bamboo on all matching color tiles (not just adjacent ones) Gardener’s Cabin: When the gardener ends his movement here, you can draw one of each objective card and keep one. New Objective Cards Takenoko: Chibis Objective Cards There are a few new types of objective cards: 2 plot, 2 gardener, and 1 panda. There are a few new plot cards of each type. These ratchet up the complexity from the base game a bit as well. For example: The panda cards require you to discard the appropriate color bamboo as usual, but the panda must first be sitting on a pond tile. There are also some plot ones that require an expansion tile to be between two other colored tiles or to have 6+ of one color plots to be irrigated in the plantation. There are 5 new types of objectives in all (2 plot, 2 gardener, 1 panda). There are also 2 new game play variants in the rule book. The first states that a panda cannot eat the base shoots, only the upper 3 segments. The second states that players are awarded 3 bonus VPs for each set of completed objective cards they have (a set being one of each type).