just a question about how the expansions fit really, it allready takes a big table to play, soooo do the expansions sit next to the original A.H board ?

and when you use one with different rules, do they carry over to the arkham board or are they specific to the expansion board,

just wondering before i get some

Each expansion board is 1/3 the size of Arkham, so if you got all three it would be double the table space. You can put the board expansions wherever you want because you travel between them via train station. Every expansion adds a couple new decks of something or other, and you'll need space to put those decks down too.

As far as rules go, they're usually expansion-specific but with the expansion mixed in to the base game, you should be dealing with those rules all the time. For example, the rules for Corruption cards (Black Goat) are only relevant if you gain any, but you gain them through Arkham Encounters, which you have as you normally would. Another example is that there are special rules for Stalker movement (Dunwich), but those only apply to Stalker monsters, whose border color is purple. You would just mix Dunwich monsters into the cup as normal.

One of Arkhams greatest strengths as a game is its modularity. Many components can be combined, or given new uses as needed. This means you can take all the arkham encounter cards from Dunwich and use them even if you dont use the Dunwich board. Or all the items from black goat, even if you dont use the rest of that expansion. And you can come up with multiple uses for many components with a little imagination. For example, I use a variant whenever I play with the base game AOs in which I draw cards from a slightly modified Dunwich Horror deck from the DH expansion, and those become the special abilities of the AO in Final Combat. So I never know what immunities or resistances the thing will have. AH actually suggests these kind of ideas to you as you play with it.

As for board space, you need a lot exactly as stated, twice the length of the base board with all expansions, PLUS space for cards and players. When you dont want to play in the towns of the expansions but still want to visit the otherworlds on those boards, you can save space by sliding the unused town beneath the main board so that only the otherworlds show.

cool, thank you guys, good job i have some extra tables

If you go with this approach:

www.boardgamegeek.com/image/492127

you'll add 1/3 length and 1/3 of length as width, instead of doubling length (or something like that, pic probably makes more sense ).

great pic dam cheers, gotta get some of those card holders, they will save a lot of space, i want to put the cards into protectors as well, but it does make for big decks

My big cards have been sleeved from day 1. Of course, when adding IH, that meant 3 hours of un- and re-sleeving cards, because even though the sleeves are the same make and size, there were clear differences (about 3 different lengths), so had to make sure all the cards in each particular deck had only certain length sleeves. Yes, I'm that anal about stuff .

After recently sleeving almost 800 small cards for Talisman, MEQ and CitOW, I'm still undecided on whether I will sleeve the small cards. They show a little wear, but on the other hand, storage solution I use now would be shot to hell and would need to re-Tetris a lot of the cards.

oh i understand that mate, im the same, i use the ultra pro ones, the ones with the silver hologram, that has to be on the back and same side as the rest, as well, the sizes on them are all the same lucky enough, or i would do that too