by kaziam
Shattered Empire is nice for one card: Imperial 2. It is essentially a fix of a problem with the old Imperial role that creates a mobius loop of role selection (Initiative/Imperial) once someone figures out that it is just a VP sink (which usually happens in the first game you play).I would either print out an Imperial 2 stand in and rule it errata, or get Shattered Empire for the real deal (it has other cool stuff too, but nothing that is essential for your first game).
edit: My bad, Imperial 2 also requires that you play with a variant that makes the Agendas face up. That might not make sense just yet as you don't even have the base game. Get the expansion. (Shards of the Empire you can live without...for now:devil:.)