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I'm not big on house rules, but I agree with you guys on this one. Hills are supposed to be a tie-breaker, so it should not be so easy to neutralize the tie-breaker.

So how about a house-rule for pigs? You don't have to be in the sole majority to have an effective pig. It's very rare to get actual points from the pig. Someone managed it in a game today. 1 point in fact.

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I told to Georg Wild (HiG) that we fans would like to have the fight for the mayority of the hills, but he doesn't like the fight. I had a hard discussion with him, but he still stands to his clarification...

You should have taken to the hills. You would have had the tie-breaker then.

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Gonna have to say that I think HiG's ruling is dumb and illogical. If majority rules in general, then it rules when specific. The person with more meeples AND more Hills wins. That may be a house rule but it is the only logical rule and one that I figure most people will play with.

It's certainly a twist but I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with it. The worst thing is that it will not come up often so it will be forgotten. Or the houserule will only be declared in the middle of the city scoring.

Edit
Just occurred to me it might be analogous to pigs.

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I only just noted how oddly some of the cities are shaped in the 9th.


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General / Re: CAR bumper sticker
« on: May 20, 2014, 01:26:30 PM »
My other car is a wagon.


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General / Re: CAR bumper sticker
« on: May 19, 2014, 12:26:07 PM »
How about a follower with a chat bubble saying: 'Honk the horn if you play Carcassonne'.

 :meeple:

Surely that should be "Claim the road - if you play Carcassonne."

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General / Re: CAR bumper sticker
« on: May 19, 2014, 12:53:19 AM »
Inappropriate! But rather funny. To mute the inappropriateness, the picture should be a meeple on a round card table.

Hey! Are you reading something naughty into my post? I was just referring to page 20 of the Complete Annotated Rules. I have no idea what you are referring to.

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General / CAR bumper sticker
« on: May 18, 2014, 10:33:05 PM »
After reading page 20 I just realized what our CAR bumper sticker would be.

Carcassonne players do it on the table.

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General / Re: Carcassonne Lingo
« on: May 18, 2014, 06:56:41 AM »
My 4-year old refers to the "meeples" as "meatballs" and "ferries" as "fairies".

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Official Rules / Re: German Monasteries interactions
« on: May 15, 2014, 01:54:03 PM »
Here are a couple of questions regarding the German Monasteries. I have my suspicions as to the answers, but it would be good for HiG to weigh in. (Hint, hint, kettlefish...   :) )

1) When playing with German Monasteries and Castles, if an Abbot is placed on a German Monastery in the region of a Castle, when is the monastery considered completed for the purposes of the Castle? Is it treated as a normal cloister, so the 9 tile zone is considered the completion? Based on the rules for the Castle, this would be my interpretation.
I would say the Abbot on a monastery never completes (it just scores at the end) and the castle does not score uncompleted features. So if the castle is still uncompleted at the end you get zero points for it.
 
2) When playing with German Monasteries and Cults/Shrines, if an Abbot is placed on a German Monastery next to a Cult Place/Shrine with a follower (heretic), is the Abbot involved in a challenge? My thought is that there is no challenge, since the rules for the Cult Place/Shrine specifically mention that the challenge is laid down to the monk (not the abbot).
That seems like the correct ruling. Otherwise the shrine would always win. Completing a shrine next to a well-placed abbot may not be that easy so the alternative ruling is interesting but probably would require an explicit house-rule at best.

However although there is no challenge between an abbot and a heretic, I would imagine an abbot counts as a monastery for placement purposes.

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Official Rules / Re: Idea for a Future Variant CAR
« on: May 12, 2014, 11:57:04 AM »
I'm not an expert but a friend of mine show me some days ago the interest of a wiki. You can create a link in a document (even if the other document no exist yet) and later, create the other page. All pages can be linked together (keywords...).
I know than some wiki can create a pdf from a page or a selection of pages (ie. wikipedia).
Perhaps it's a way to be explored if you create alternate version of CAR.

Boardgamegeek has some wikis: http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/List_of_unofficial_expansions_for_Carcassonne
http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Carcassonne_series#


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Official Rules / Re: Idea for a Future Variant CAR
« on: May 11, 2014, 11:30:46 PM »
I don't really get it. When splitting an expansion works, it works because it is obvious to do.

And of all the expansions the Princess&Dragon is the one I would least want to split. You have a nice balance of adding and removing meeples.

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But, that does raise an interesting question!
Can an Abbot be placed by the Flying Machines? Or Phantom? Or via a Magic Portal? (I don't have the latter two, so am not 100% with the riles.)

If you have abbots, a way of of getting into them after the initial lay and no way of getting rid of them, that would make the game revolve around those six tiles. That strikes me as unbalanced. So with that combination I might houserule that only the initial lay was permitted to place a follower. But one rule for one combination and a different rule for a different combination does not feel right.

More generally there is an issue with splitting portals from the rest of P&D. In general I am okay with splitting expansions especially as some of them were only placed together as a bundle of separate mini-expansions anyway. T&B and A&M seem fine for dissection. But P&D has a method for removing meeples, a method for protecting them and a method for putting them back. I am not sure that those should be split.

I would say an abbot can be placed by a flying machine and removed by a tower. These are both more difficult to pull of than portals and so on there own would be less unbalancing.

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In a megaCarc game, which this is clearly not intended to be used with, one must hope that the detriment of spending a Follower permanently on the feature and the generally large-scale of the map will cancel out the large point gain that will be earned at the end.

You are forgetting that in a game mega-carcassonne a player will likely tie up a meeple for most of the game only for the dragon to eat it near the end. I suspect that this expansion is surprisingly balanced.

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News and Events / Re: UK Carcassonne Championship 2014
« on: May 04, 2014, 03:09:40 AM »
Is anybody else planning on going to the UK Games Expo in Birmingham at the end of next month? The UK Carcassonne Championships are being held on Sunday 1st June from 10am to 2pm. I've booked my place but there are still plenty of places available!

It sounds like the tournament will be based on 4-player games using just the basic 72 tiles, and the overall winner will be crowned UK Carcassonne champion and be given 150 pounds towards the cost of representing the UK at the world championships (this seems a little cheap but I guess it's representative of its fan base in the UK).

Realistically I don't expect to win or even do particularly well but it'll be a great experience I'm sure and I'm looking forward to seeing what else is there too.

UK Games Expo: http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/
UK Carcassonne Championship 2014: http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/game.php?id=BOR697

I and my daughter will be there. She is a better player than me but would love to know if there will be any other teenagers there.

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