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News and Events / Re: Carcassonne Expansion 9 new edition
« on: January 26, 2018, 06:27:49 PM »
I don't buy the German editions either! I want the box & instruction language all to match ;)

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News and Events / Re: Carcassonne 2.0 The Tower - photo posted on BGG
« on: August 26, 2017, 06:55:50 AM »
Still waiting for the first time around! Though in the meantime I've accidentally become addicted to Dominion instead... oops  :-[

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News and Events / Re: Carcassonne 2.0 The Tower - photo posted on BGG
« on: August 26, 2017, 06:31:59 AM »
It's popped up as available for preordering in the US: https://www.miniaturemarket.com/zmgzm7814.html

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General / Re: Are Farmers a Core Mechanic or Optional?
« on: July 12, 2017, 04:02:56 PM »
I am someone who discovered Carcassonne by playing 2.0 with another new player, and this is exactly how we interpreted the farmer rules. They are supplemental to your first games, but it never occurred to us to stop using them once we had started. For us at least this was clear from the instructions.

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Agree with you both! My girlfriend and I also found it had a nice, co-operative feel for most of the game, with both players joining pyramids or being jointly invested in the circus tent reveal. Not sure that it would scale well to playing with lots of expansions together, but it was more enjoyably 'different' and quirky than I was expecting.

The Ringmaster feels a little underpowered though... I kept forgetting to use him!

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Looks like the estimated release date in the US is 6th July: http://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/239860

Looking forward to it!

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Official Rules / Re: CAR for Carcassonne v2
« on: May 09, 2017, 08:54:13 AM »
+1 vote for a separate CAR for Carcassonne 2 from me. As a relatively new player of the game who's collecting only Carcassonne 2 tiles, I would (selfishly) prefer to have a CAR with exclusive artwork and rules. I own all of the Carcassonne 2 materials so would be happy to contribute here where it's helpful.

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Reviews & Session Reports / Another close-to-mega Carcassonne II game
« on: April 30, 2017, 09:22:23 PM »
Hi,

Thought I would share the final board from our four-player Carcassonne II game which included the base game plus the Festival, River, Inns and Cathedrals, Traders and Builders, Princess and the Dragon, Abbey and Mayor, Watchtowers, Labyrinth and Essen tiles. (The only other tiles I own are the Japanese buildings, but we worried about the huge scoring effect these have on the game and, more practically, didn't want to hunt through the pile of tiles we'd already assembled to remove the original monasteries.)

My girlfriend and I were played against another couple who are big Carcassonne fans but hadn't played with all of the expansions before, so we definitely had an advantage and both pulled away using the barns. In the end I was overtaken by my girlfriend in the final scoring with her impressive extra fields. I am red, she is yellow. Everyone enjoyed it, though!


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General / Re: Old and New Compared
« on: April 19, 2017, 08:56:52 AM »
In real life I only play with Carcassonne II, but based on the iOS mobile app there are also specific tile-based differences. For example, the inn on the T-junction in I&C applied to 2 of the 3 roads rather than just one.

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News and Events / Re: Carcassonne Expansion 9 new edition
« on: April 12, 2017, 05:03:54 AM »
It's slight better than that, as Abbey & Mayor is also released. But yes, in general the wait is tedious.

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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: April 01, 2017, 12:30:16 PM »
Finally, another building block in my Carcassonne 2.0 collection!

I only got into the game after Carcassonne 2.0 was released, so decided to restrict my completionism urge to that ;)

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News and Events / Re: Abbey And Mayor - New Edition
« on: February 27, 2017, 08:32:00 PM »
And after all this time, it's finally available for preorder in English :)

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/zmg7815.html

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Official Rules / Re: CAR for Carcassonne v2
« on: February 04, 2017, 10:07:03 AM »
I would be happy to if the original CAR owner agrees I can fork it! Don't want to steal their work...

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Official Rules / Re: CAR for Carcassonne v2
« on: February 04, 2017, 09:05:25 AM »
Technically there are also some tile-based rule differences, e.g. the Inn in I&C which applies to one road in v1 but two roads in v2. And knowing the distribution of gardens in v2 tiles is helpful etc.

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Official Rules / Re: CAR for Carcassonne v2
« on: January 17, 2017, 07:10:16 AM »
I would also be happy to volunteer my time to fork the CAR for Carcassonne 2.0. I have most (not quite all) of the 2.0 tiles.

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