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Carc Central Community => General => Topic started by: jungleboy on October 25, 2014, 12:58:17 PM
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What's your favourite Carcassonne tile? Vote for one tile in the poll and then explain your choice in this thread. If you can add a photo of the tile you chose, that would be even better.
There are so many great tiles but I'm sure we all like some more than others. Personally, I like tiles with city segments and no roads, and I like unusual tiles - this is reflected in the poll options (but I did manage to fit one road tile in there!).
It's really hard to pick just one but I think the four-city tile from Inns and Cathedrals has to be my choice. I love the symmetry and I always like it when four different cities are completed. Plus there's a great little farm between them all.
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But my favorite is exactly your tiles.
I love to insert a follower in the field and try to achieve 12 points.
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Whichever tile I currently need that is not included in the set of tiles I'm currently playing with. Which usually means a CFFR or CRFF tile—one of those city tiles with a road going one direction out of the city other than straight. There just aren't enough of those in the game and whichever one I need has always already been played!
So, I guess I like the Abbey best. Does that count?
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Whichever tile I currently need that is not included in the set of tiles I'm currently playing with. Which usually means a CFFR or CRFF tile—one of those city tiles with a road going one direction out of the city other than straight. There just aren't enough of those in the game and whichever one I need has always already been played!
I just discovered when making the list of tile types (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=1175.0) that there are only three of each in the whole series. Counting only the base game and the nine major expansions, there's only one CRFF tile (T&B) and one CFFR tile (A&M).
So, I guess I like the Abbey best. Does that count?
Well, the abbey is one of the options in the poll, so you can vote for it. But in creating the poll I was thinking more about tile design, not usefulness.
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Other tile:
The starter tile.
No matter how fancy the new tiles are or how many expansions I keep getting, none hold me dearest than the starter tile from the base game. Call it nostalgia, I suppose. :'( ;)
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The starter tile.
I completely forgot about the start tile! Whoops, this definitely should have been one of the poll options.
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A very interesting poll, but so many options! :o
Whichever tile I currently need that is not included in the set of tiles I'm currently playing with.
Same here. If I've managed to make an unfillable hole and trapped one or two of my opponent's meeples in the process then the tile they need (but won't get) immediately becomes my favourite!
Other tile:
The starter tile.
No matter how fancy the new tiles are or how many expansions I keep getting, none hold me dearest than the starter tile from the base game. Call it nostalgia, I suppose. :'( ;)
Agree completely for the same reasons. I even have one of these sitting on my desk at work!
My favourite tile is possibly the cfcf tile (single city rather than city splitter) with penant. If I start and this is the first tile I draw then I know it's going to be a good game!
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There is also an bridge over a city tile. I just like the looks from it. I think it is in mini goldmines
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I always like drwaing and playing the FFFF from GQ11 with the pig herd :)
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Today I played a game where I needed a CFFR or a CRFF tile to complete three of my cities. I used the abbey tile very early in the game to finnish one of them, and the game of course ended with me not finnishing the two others. And then I also realized that there is very few CFFR or CRFF tiles. And I think some players are using this knowledge to ruin the chanses for other players to complete their cities by making holes where theese tiles are needed. So I would like to see more of them in exansions to come.
Still I wouldn't say that it's one of my favoritte tiles. I very much like siege or the cathar tiles. Maybe because they have some nice details and make the city have a different look from the others, and because they change the rules for scoring.
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I would go with the single C tile. We call it, the end piece. It seems to be the most versatile; to end off cities and for sneaking into other domains!
I also agree, as above, my first initial thought was the tile that I need at the time :)
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I voted for the CCCF tile from Sheep & Hills because it represented a new take on what city tiles can be. It is innovative. And it's a clever & potentially quick way to glom your way into a city. >:D
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I have to vote for the FFFF from I&C. I love wreaking havoc with it. My wife loves to claim the farm in the middle and try to make four cities out of it.
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I have to vote for the FFFF from I&C. I love wreaking havoc with it. My wife loves to claim the farm in the middle and try to make four cities out of it.
I think you mean the CCCC tile. It's a fun tile indeed.
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In a game against Adda (of course, that does not count), I made the farm once worth 21 points.
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In a game against Adda (of course, that does not count), I made the farm once worth 21 points.
I was really struggling to imagine how this could have been possible. But now it seems obvious: besieged cities. So technically you could end up with all 4 of them being besieged and have a farmer in the middle worth 24 points I suppose. That would be awesome! :) :(y)
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In a game against Adda (of course, that does not count), I made the farm once worth 21 points.
I was really struggling to imagine how this could have been possible. But now it seems obvious: besieged cities. So technically you could end up with all 4 of them being besieged and have a farmer in the middle worth 24 points I suppose. That would be awesome! :) :(y)
Thanks, Dan! I was thinking that Hounk has misinterpreted something, and I wasn't even thinking about how it could be possible! :)
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Yeah. I had visions of including The Fliers and Abbey & Mayor and trying to fly a barn onto it! Even if that was possible it would still only be 20 points.
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Yeah, of course. The Besiegers it was. Three besieged cities and one normal to be completed. Of course, there is a lot of luck to complete this, first you need an oponent, who let that be done, and second you have to draw enough besieged tiles. I played only with the six tiles version, if you add the 4 Kathars tiles, it gets of course more likely.
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I always like drwaing and playing the FFFF from GQ11 with the pig herd :)
:(y) my favorite to!!!
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I have to vote for the FFFF from I&C. I love wreaking havoc with it. My wife loves to claim the farm in the middle and try to make four cities out of it.
I think you mean the CCCC tile. It's a fun tile indeed.
I Do indeed. Thanks for the correction.
I always like drwaing and playing the FFFF from GQ11 with the pig herd :)
Love that one too!
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FFFF tile from GQ11
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From the catapult, it has to be the tile with the fair inside the 4-way road.
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The Cathedral-tile! Have a home/love-relation with that one but it's possible to use it in so many ways:
- making a big-many-points-city
- joining different cities
- add it to someone elses big city in the end and make that one worthless...yep, that's the hate-relation if someone else does that to me... :-)
- and most of the time: causing a big meeple-fight over domination/take-over of that city
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I love the Halfling tile RFF >:D
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I voted for the CCCC with a field in the middle as the best because I love playing that tile. I liked it so much, I ordered a spare.
The funniest tile IMHO is the T&B tile attached. This rich jerk didn't want to share the road with the peasants from the nearby city, so he built a bridge. The android game chokes on calculating farms near this tile.
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Can't imaginr what he needed to go through for planninh permission. I hear those Mayors are really jerks and just focus on city dwellers!
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Judging on gameplay I have a hard time deciding since every tile has its own merits at the right time and situation. Difficult te pick one.
Purely based on the looks, for me the Russians are beyond anything. Especially the new ones, Nightingale the Robber and Vodyanoy. Unfortunately, I do not have those (yet). I'm choosing Bogatyr!