Carcassonne Central
Off Topic => Other Games => Topic started by: Decar on April 16, 2017, 07:34:25 AM
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Calling all Carcassonne fans!
I think it would be helpful for new gamers, who love Carcassonne, but looking for other great games to broaden their horizons.
Plus, I thought it might be fun to start a poll of our favourite (non-Carcassonne) games.
But first, nominate as many games as you like, then I'll start a poll:
Here's mine, in no particular order:
- Flashpoint Fire Rescue
- Onirim
- Dominion
- 7 Wonders
- 7 Wonders Duel
- Above & Below
- Specter Ops
- Baseball Highlights 2045
- Gipf
- Kingdom Builder
The full alphabetical list
Nominations are now closed!:
Polling Stations
Top 10 - Poll #1 - open until 30th April (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3273.0)
Top 10 - Poll #2 - open until 7th May (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3294.0)
Top 10 - Poll #3 - open until 10th May (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3302.0)
Top 10 - Poll #4 - open until 14th May (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3318.0)
Top 10 - Poll #5 - open until 19th May (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3323.0)
Top 10 - Poll #6 - open until 26th May! (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3335.0)
Top 10 - Poll #7 - open until 31st May! (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3344.0)
Top 10 - Poll #8 - open until 5th June! (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3363.0)
Top 10 Games - Final Poll - open until 17th June (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3380.0)
Nominations:
51st State Master Set
6 nimmt!
7 Wonders
7 Wonders Duel
Above & Below
Acquire
Admiral
Agricola
Agricola: All Creatures Great and Small
Alhambra
Arabian nights
Avalon
Bang!
Baseball Highlights 2045
Battle Line
Battlecon
Biblios
Briscas
Britannia
Cacao
Campaign
Careers
Castles of Burgandy
Caverna
Celestia
Chess
Cinque Terre
Citrus
Clank!
Cluedo
Codenames
Coloretto
Colt Express
Command & Colors: Ancients
Concept
Coup with the expansion
Cribbage
Dice City
Dixit
Dominion
Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Board Games
Eminent Domain
Escape: Curse of the Temple
Exceed
Exit: The Game series
Expedition
Famiglia
Fields of Arle
Finca
Firefly
Firenze
Five Tribes
Flashpoint Fire Rescue
Flip City
Flying Carpet
Gipf
Globetrotters
Glüx
Grand Austria Hotel
Guildhall
Guillotine
Habitats
Heroscape
Imperial Settlers
Ingenious
Isle of Skye
Istanbul
Jaipur
Jamaica
Karuba
King of New-York
Kingdom Builder
Kingdomino
Kolejka
Kubb
Labyrinth
Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
Legends of Andor
Limes
Lords of Waterdeep
Love Letters
Maillot Arc-en-ciel
Masterpiece
Medici
Medina
Memoir '44
Merchants and Marauders
Midnight Party
Mille Bornes
Monopoly
Monopoly Deal
Munchkin
Munchkin
Mysterium
Nautilus Industries
New York 1901
New York, New York
No Thanks
Off To The Tower
Onirim
Pandemic
Pandemic Legacy
Pay Day
Pixel Tactics
Pokemon card game
Poker
Port Royal
Power Grid
Quadropolis
Qwirkle
Qwixx
Race for the galaxy
Railway Rivals
Rat Race
Red dragon Inn
Risk
Rivals for Catan / Catan Card Game
Roll for the galaxy
Russian Railroads
Saboteur
Saint Petersburg
Santorini
Scoville
Scythe
Sherlock Holmes card game
Sherrif of Nottingham
Shogi
Skull King
Small World
Snowdonia
Sorry
Space junk
Spades
Specter Ops
Splendor
Spyfall
Stone Age
Stratego
Subbuteo
Suburbia
Sushi Go! Party
The king is dead
The Settlers of Catan
The Voyages of Marco Polo
Thurn & Taxis
Ticket to Ride
Ticket to Ride: Europe
Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries
Ticket to Ride: The Card Game
Tigris and Euphrates
Trafalgar
Transamerica
Tsuro
Tsuro of the Seas
Valeria Card Kingdoms
Vikings
Village
Waterworks
Weerwolven
Zoff im Zoo
Zombie Fluxx
Zombies!!!
Zooloretto
Star Realms
Diamonds
The Game of 49
King of Tokyo
Rummikub
Hive
Perudo
Arboretum
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Mine, also in no particular order:
- Isle of Skye
- Citrus
- Tigris and Euphrates
- Medici
- Istanbul
- Santorini
- Biblios
- Kingdomino
- Limes
- Medina
- Vikings
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Ours/mine are mostly from the last century ...
- Acquire
- Flying Carpet
- Labyrinth
- Off To The Tower
- Midnight Party
- 7 Wonders
- Railway Rivals - played postally or by email these days
- Britannia - not played recently, but played a lot in the 80s and 90s
- New York, New York - could use a standard deck of cards for this
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Merit to Wolnic, the email notification came through as:
Acquire Flying Carpet Labyrinth Off To The Tower Midnight Party 7 :(y) ;D ;D
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Like wolnic, I've classic from another time :black1-meeple:
Admiral
Risk
Mille Bornes
Pay Day
Monopoly
Careers
Globetrotters
Waterworks
Masterpiece
and Pokemon card game :@
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- Cacao
- Colt Express
- Isle of Skye
- Mysterium
- New York 1901
- Pandemic Legacy
- Santorini
- Splendor
- Stone Age
- Zooloretto
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- Cacao
- Colt Express
- Mysterium
- New York 1901
- Pandemic Legacy
- Santorini
- Splendor
- Stone Age
- Zooloretto
Amazing list, we have very similar tastes. When can we meet up for a session or three???
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I enjoyed Rahdo's run-through of NY1901; been on my list of to-look-out-fors for a while :(y)
Trying to avoid duplicates at the moment and will update the original post with all our nominations
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Munchkin
Sherlock Holmes card game
Tsuro of the Seas
Qwirkle
Transamerica
Ingenious
Jamaica
Chess
Rat Race
Love Letters
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Amazing list, we have very similar tastes. When can we meet up for a session or three???
If I find myself in Portugal, I will let you know! :yellow-meeple:
By the way, I have wanted to play Limes. Finding it in this hemisphere has been difficult.
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Decar, nice idea for a list. Here are my most recent and long time favourites.
Stone Age
Isle of Skye
Agricola: All Creatures Great and Small
Finca
Cinque Terre
Flash Point Fire Rescue
Lords of Waterdeep
Splendor
Vikings
Grand Austria Hotel
Heroscape
Dixit
Command & Colors: Ancients
Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Board Games, (Castle Ravenloft, Wrath of Ashardalon, Legend of Drizzt, Temple of Elemental Evil). I couldn't pick just one but the main title would find the series. It is my next favourite game to Carc for as a sandbox / Life style game.
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Ticket to Ride
The Settlers of Catan
Celestia
Cluedo
Expedition
Karuba
Kingdom Builder
Skull King
Habitats
King of New-York
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Village
Russian Railroads
Castles of Burgandy
Code names
Five Tribes
Valeria Card Kingdoms
Suburbia
Eminent Domain
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Dixit
Codenames
Weerwolven
Sherrif of Nottingham
Avalon
Kubb
Poker
Concept
Coup
Spyfall
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Just a few of my personal favourites to add to the list:
Guillotine
Caverna
Alhambra
Rivals for Catan / Catan Card Game
Coloretto
Ticket to Ride: Europe
Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries
Scoville
Pandemic
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Some great nominations everyone! Thanks for taking part. I can't believe we've got 98 individual games already!
It's quite incredible, and it's also interesting to see the diversity of games that Carcassonne fans love.
I've updated the nominations at the top of the thread, feel free to give it a read and nominate anything you think is missing!
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I'll add four of my favorites that aren't on the list yet:
Agricola
Battle Line
Clank!
Sushi Go! Party
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I just remembered two more than I wasn't able to bring with me to New Zealand:
– Memoir '44
– Small World
(Days of Wonder represent!)
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Here are mine additional nominates:
Power Grid (any map and/or expansion)
Ticket to Ride (any map and/or expansion). I understand you've listed three maps of TTR as separate games, but I'm a lumper as opposed to splitter. It's just a personal taste, but may I overwhelm the list with every map and expansion I know of >:D?
Bang! (any expansion, but no spin-offs)
Saboteur with the expansion. Geologist is my favourite role in the game, and I happen to a geologist in my real life. Well, not really a traditional geologist, but close enough.
6 nimmt!
No Thanks
Coup with the expansion
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110 Games already! Thanks for the most recent round of favourites - I've updated the list accordingly.
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Zoff im Zoo
Qwixx
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Great idea for a poll/ series of polls Decar! +1 merit from me... :(y)
There are only a couple of games that I enjoy which aren't already on the list. But I do have a couple to add:
- Dice City
- Flip City
- Glüx
- Monopoly Deal (a card game version of Monopoly which is much more fun and takes a fraction of the time)
- Quadropolis (playing this a lot at the moment)
- Tsuro (the classic version - I prefer this to the "of the seas" version despite obvious similarities)
- Zombies!!! (100+ games and no zombies? what's the matter with you people?)
- Zombie Fluxx
Looking forward to seeing how the voting works out!
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An interesting selection of games! Half City building games, Half destruction of civilisation as we know it :D
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An interesting selection of games! Half City building games, Half destruction of civilisation as we know it :D
It's a bizarre selection from a bizarre man.
Just kidding thirsty, you are beloved by handfuls of people. ;) :(y)
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It just occurred to me. Does Ticket to Ride: The Card Game qualify for the list?
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if it's a game....it's qualified :(y)
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race for the galaxy
roll for the galaxy
I realised I have very few games but a LOT of expansions :p
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Take a look at the nominations list before nominating games! >:( >:( ;D ;D
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Can not believe I forgot this in my previous list. A great game, but finding the promos
and/or expansions to this seems to be even harder than Carcassonne!
Snowdonia
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It's not too late, 113 unique nominations so far!
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Ticket to Ride: Switzerland?
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Might have to start bundling Ticket to Ride and it's expansions. I'm not enough of an expert of TTR to separate: expansions/variants/different games though.
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I nominate some old-time favorites: Spades, Cribbage, Briscas
I also nominate some of my recently discovered favorites: Port Royal, Guildhall, Famiglia
Hmmmm, I just realized they are all card games. Good for saving space I guess :(y) :green-meeple:
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I do love me some cribbage :(y) :(y)
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Maillot Arc-en-ciel : Fantastic cycling board game
Sorry: Old-time classic, I'm surprised to see that it's not on the list
Campaign: My first love
Shogi: Chess 2.0
Trafalgar: An incredible game that has a significant space in my childhood memory, not least because I only had access to a schoolchum's copy
and....
subbuteo: only now are kids rediscovering what we had all those years ago - a 3-dimensional strategic skills based game
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In my opinion, the difference among various maps of Ticket to Ride (TTR) is comparable to that among Carcassonne expansions, so it doesn't hurt to bundle the TTR games with maps, just not The Card Game. Think about Puerto Rico (the board game) and San Juan (the card game).
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Don't look now, but everyone else forgot to add Escape: Curse of the Temple (an awesome real-time dice roller)...
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I added Spyfall to my list as well...great party game!
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(an awesome real-time dice roller)...
What makes a dice roller a "real-time" dice roller? Just curious.
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In my opinion, the difference among various maps of Ticket to Ride (TTR) is comparable to that among Carcassonne expansions, so it doesn't hurt to bundle the TTR games with maps, just not The Card Game. Think about Puerto Rico (the board game) and San Juan (the card game).
Except I severely dislike Puerto Rico but like San Juan quite a bit. Despite similar mechanics, they are completely different games in my mind. Ticket to Ride games are certainly more similar to each other, but I never play (and don't own) the Ticket to Ride base game. I consider Europe and Nordic Countries to be the core game and if I saw just Ticket to Ride on a list, I would not vote for it, but I would almost certainly vote for Europe or Nordic Countries. So there is a difference.
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Except I severely dislike Puerto Rico but like San Juan quite a bit.
Pretty much the same here. One big issue of Puerto Rico is that it's too difficult to see the words on the buildings and other player's islands.
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Red dragon Inn
Firefly
Merchants and Marauders
Space junk
Arabian nights
Nautilus Industries
Munchkin
the king is dead
Lords of water deep
Stratego
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Just noticed almost all of the games I mentioned involve lying and deceiving...but in real life i'm a very honest person. >:D O:-)
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Just noticed almost all of the games I mentioned involve lying and deceiving...but in real life i'm a very honest person. >:D O:-)
That's the type of thing a liar would say... Hmm... C:-)
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Don't look now, but everyone else forgot to add Escape: Curse of the Temple (an awesome real-time dice roller)...
Wow, that game sounds great! Do you know how I can pledge for a big box reprint and still not have it a year later (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2363.msg48421#msg48421)?
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Let's not judge a game by it's publisher though... at least that's what I would say If I hadn't gone on a 3 week holiday and forgot to tell anyone I was leaving.
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(an awesome real-time dice roller)...
What makes a dice roller a "real-time" dice roller? Just curious.
My understanding is that it's a game where everyone is playing at once and there is no turn-taking so to speak. All players are simply rolling (or re-rolling), moving, rolling and so on. They're quite chaotic with a lot of shouting going on, and there's usually a time limit to keep the pressure on!
Don't look now, but everyone else forgot to add Escape: Curse of the Temple (an awesome real-time dice roller)...
Wow, that game sounds great! Do you know how I can pledge for a big box reprint and still not have it a year later (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2363.msg48421#msg48421)?
I'm still waiting for Escape: Zombie City to arrive, which I backed on KickStarter and which was available to buy there and then in Essen 6 months ago.
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Don't look now, but everyone else forgot to add Escape: Curse of the Temple (an awesome real-time dice roller)...
Wow, that game sounds great! Do you know how I can pledge for a big box reprint and still not have it a year later (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2363.msg48421#msg48421)?
I'm still waiting for Escape: Zombie City to arrive, which I backed on KickStarter and which was available to buy there and then in Essen 6 months ago.
Right, same campaign.
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Tricky, as I now also play and love games with at first very intimidating rulesets like Brass or Robinson Crusoe, which I would rather not put on the list. But games, I think still are missing among the nominations, are:
51st State Master Set (or Imperial Settlers)
Exit: The Game series (have not played any other of the Escape Room games)
Firenze
Jaipur
Legends of Andor
Kolejka
Saint Petersburg (although it is now uglinized: Doris Matthäus artwork had been replaced with one by Anne Pätzke)
Thurn & Taxis (for me the "better Ticket to Ride")
The Voyages of Marco Polo
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Saint Petersburg (although it is now uglinized: Doris Matthäus artwork had been replaced with one by Anne Pätzke)
That sounds familiar!! :)
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Well I make that 156 entries - that's quite impressive! I wasn't expecting anywhere near as many contenders for a top-10 list!
I think the next job will be to batch these into groups of 20 (I'll probably do this randomly) and create individual polls. The top 2 or 3 votes in each poll will go to the next round.
Just to be clear, I'm not intending to rank all 156 games; just find the 10 most popular, so I think this mechanism will be ok.
There's still time to nominate before I create the first poll (probably tomorrow)!
Thanks to everyone for taking part!
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Here's my top 10 without those already mentioned, per my BGG rankings.....
Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
Pixel Tactics
Battlecon
Fields of Arle
Imperial Settlers
Scythe
Exceed
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Thanks for filtering Coby!
We've now got 166 games :))
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Fab idea this Decar, it'll no doubt spur me on to discover loads more new games. It's a rather lengthy list, but there are some games that we currently enjoy which aren't listed. These are...
Star Realms
Diamonds
The Game of 49
King of Tokyo (although King of New York is listed)
Rummikub
Hive
Perudo
Arboretum
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Thanks Rich!
Can't believe Star Realms didn't make the list until now :o
171 games listed! It's going to take me a long time to play all the games to make my Top 10. haha only joking!
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Can't believe Star Realms didn't make the list until now :o
It's our most frequently played app at the moment (closely followed by Onirim). In fact, I've just bought Hero Realms with the character packs because of it. Only played once so far, but it'll be hitting the table in several hours shortly after breakfast!
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Might have to start bundling Ticket to Ride and it's expansions. I'm not enough of an expert of TTR to separate: expansions/variants/different games though.
We have a bunch of the ticket to rides. The problem is there are 3 base games (USA, Europe, and Nordic). The Nordic has bizarre colors that don't work as well with the other expansions. Because of that and the bigger cards, TTR Europe is the best base game. That being said, we never play it. The expansion maps are so much better, there is no reason to. Our favorites are Pennyslvania and India.
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I've made some executive decisions:
Given the diversity of TTR games, I've grouped the three nominations for basegame/Europe/Nordic Countries into a single grouping. If you want to cast a vote for any of these games, consider if your favourite one. I think this is reasonable as fans of the games can unite to see it go further in the voting. Imagine a split vote of Carcassonne spin-offs :o
For similar reasons I've also batched: King of Tokyo & King of New York and Also Tsuro and (Tsuro of the Sea).
I see these games as similar enough to warrant combining fan-bases. Again imagine the Dominion fan-base being split over individual expansions for example.
I am considering combining colouretto and zooloretto for the same reasons. I do not know the games well enough to determine how similar they are.
Did I miss any other games franchises that could be merged?
I've now opened the first poll:
Top 10 - Poll #1 - open until 30th April (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3273.0)
Nominations are now closed.
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Poll #2 is now open for the next 7 days (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3294.0)
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3rd Poll is little early; and open for the next 7 days! (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3302.0)
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Poll #4 is open for the next 7 days (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3318.0)
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My apologies for the delay getting Wednesday's post out - I've had an utterly terrible week of work.
I hope to find some more time this evening to get this week's out before Sunday's ends.
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If it wasn't for work I'd play so much more Carcassonne.
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I got that done a little faster than I expected!
Top 10 - Poll #5 - open until 19th May (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3323.0)
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If it wasn't for work I'd play so much more Carcassonne.
I'd own far less expansions though....
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Poll #6 is open until 26th May! (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3335.0)
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If it wasn't for work I'd play so much more Carcassonne.
If it wasn't for work I'd get the ones I have designed, or downloaded, printed and ready for playing with!
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I've opened the 8th and final Round:
Top 10 - Poll #8 - open until 5th June! (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3363.0)
The 7th Poll is still ongoing until the 31st May.
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The Top 10 Games - Final Poll - open until 17th June (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3380.0) is now open!
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I've opened: The Decider (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3428.0) which will run until the 29th June
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I'll add four of my favorites that aren't on the list yet:
Agricola
Battle Line
Clank!
Sushi Go! Party
Those who know Battle Line will be aware that the artwork is quite poor. Roland's Revenge Games is taking pre-orders for a new version with beautiful and rethemed medieval artwork. There are only 400 copies being made (after 100 copies were made in the first run) and over 230 of them are gone. Roland plans to sell 300 of the 400 by pre-order and the final 100 at Essen.
I just ordered a copy. If you're interested, you check it out here (http://rolandsrevenge.com/battle-line-2nd-edition/) or on the BGG forums here (https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1714584/battle-line-new-medieval-edition).
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I've been banging on about this on Twitter since Rich The Fish sent me a mail about it. It really does look amazing! I like the change to include locations too. The GMT edition is quite expensive, so this luxury edition is really good value.
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It's on track to ship next month too. Can't wait!
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I'll add four of my favorites that aren't on the list yet:
Agricola
Battle Line
Clank!
Sushi Go! Party
Those who know Battle Line will be aware that the artwork is quite poor. Roland's Revenge Games is taking pre-orders for a new version with beautiful and rethemed medieval artwork. There are only 400 copies being made (after 100 copies were made in the first run) and over 230 of them are gone. Roland plans to sell 300 of the 400 by pre-order and the final 100 at Essen.
I just ordered a copy. If you're interested, you check it out here (http://rolandsrevenge.com/battle-line-2nd-edition/) or on the BGG forums here (https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1714584/battle-line-new-medieval-edition).
Pre-ordered!! Looks beautiful. Definitely the version to get.
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Pre-ordered!! Looks beautiful. Definitely the version to get.
Do you mind sharing how much it costs? I couldn't see a price on the website and I didn't want to get too far into the form before realising that it's more than I can afford!
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Pre-ordered!! Looks beautiful. Definitely the version to get.
Do you mind sharing how much it costs? I couldn't see a price on the website and I didn't want to get too far into the form before realising that it's more than I can afford!
€20, + ~€6 for shipping. I was also scared that it would be a lot more than that, but that seems very reasonable.
(P.S. The domain battlelinecentral.com is available. It sounds like we might need it!)
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Pre-ordered!! Looks beautiful. Definitely the version to get.
Do you mind sharing how much it costs? I couldn't see a price on the website and I didn't want to get too far into the form before realising that it's more than I can afford!
€20, + ~€6 for shipping. I was also scared that it would be a lot more than that, but that seems very reasonable.
(P.S. The domain battlelinecentral.com is available. It sounds like we might need it!)
I think the guy lives in Utrecht, a city nearby, so in the comment field of the form I asked if I could pick it up there. Lets see if it's possible.
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For anyone who may be on the fence, pre-orders for the medieval rethemed version of Battle Line (http://rolandsrevenge.com/battle-line-2nd-edition/) close this week.
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It's possible to collect from Essen too