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General / Re: Spielbox issue 5 2014

« on: October 19, 2014, 09:28:06 AM »

To check your order:
- Go to www.spielbox-shop.com
- Log in with the e-mail and password you used when ordering (you can reset your password as long as you remember which e-mail you used).
- Go to “Your account” to find your orders with status.
Hope this help 

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General / Re: Spielbox issue 5 2014

« on: October 19, 2014, 07:29:43 AM »

Hello,
I just wanted to ask if anybody knows what is the release date of issue 5/2014. And also when will I get it if I preordered it. This is the first time I have preordered Spielbox so I have no  experience with it...

Did you get a confirmation on mail when you ordered?

I got a “confirmation-mail” when I ordered, a “processing-mail” some days later with a link to my order, and finally a “shipping-mail” on Friday the 22th.

If you did not receive any of this - check your spambox for mail from bestellung@nostheide.de

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General / Re: The Tower – Element of the Week #6

« on: October 18, 2014, 05:37:31 AM »

I like the Towers, but I think they are too aggressive in small games when you play with only 2-3 expansions. When we play small games we never use the tower.
When we play mega-games (approximately 1000 tiles) we use 76 tiles with tower foundations with 36 regular, 30 black and 12 white towers (we use the fan-made Black Tower rules). In addition we use two Dragons, the Plague and the fan-made Medieval Expansion. This makes it a very competitive game with lots of opportunities to fight. 

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Anything Else / Re: Our 1800th member!!

« on: October 18, 2014, 04:44:53 AM »

I am an enthusiastic reader of the forum. It's a great place to keep myself updated on rules and new expansions. But some of us are not so talkative as others, and I often find that my questions already are answered somewhere in the Forum already.
So please - No clean-up! I think it is a lot of us out there who really appreciate what you are doing, but don't feel that we have anything to contribute to the discussions. 

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News and Events / Re: another new Mini-Expansion "Carcassonne - Darmstadt"

« on: October 17, 2014, 02:46:25 AM »

I think the St. Louis Church and the Russian Chapel, The Dutch and Belgium Monasteries, and the German Monasteries looks great - and I want them all. But I must admit that I am hoping for more mini-expansions in the future that don't include the instruction of removing some monastery tiles from the base game.

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News and Events / Re: another new Mini-Expansion "Carcassonne - Darmstadt"

« on: October 16, 2014, 03:31:11 PM »

I don't like the Darmstadtium-tile, but the Kirche St. Ludwig and Russische Kapelle looks great! 

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News and Events / Re: Dutch and Belgium Monasteries (De kloosters)

« on: October 10, 2014, 12:08:15 PM »

SRBO, sign me up for one set. I am really grateful that you are doing this favour for us!
I have PayPal and live in Norway.

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Official Rules / Re: The Flyer and the Magic Portal when you play with the German Monasteries

« on: September 07, 2014, 01:24:54 PM »

Thank you, kettlefish

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Official Rules / The Flyer and the Magic Portal when you play with the German Monasteries

« on: September 05, 2014, 03:37:07 PM »

The German Monasteries with an abbot don't score during the game, but score at the end of the game, like the farms. With this in mind, we have used the same rules for the German Monasteries with an abbot as with the farms when we play with the Flyer and the Magic Portals.

With the Flyer a follower can fly to an unfinished structure even if it’s already occupied. The Flyer can’t fly to a field, even if there is not a farmer on the field. We practice that the flyer can’t fly to a German Monastery and occupy it as an abbot, a flyer can only occupy it as a monk.

With the Magic Portal a follower can portal to an unfinished structure that is not already occupied. The original rules for the Magic Portal are not so very informative. But in the footnote 147 in CAR 7.0 it is stated that: “A follower cannot be deployed to the City of Carcassonne or to the Wheel of Fortune via a magic portal. The magic portal only allows followers to be deployed to tiles that can be legally occupied according to the usual rules, as if the player had just placed the tile in question. The City of Carcassonne and the Wheel of Fortune are occupied according to different rules.” As I understand this, a follower can (in addition to city/road/monastery/shrine) portal to an unoccupied field and occupy it as a farmer or to an unoccupied German Monastery and occupy it as an abbot (or a monk if he choose to).

A German Monastery, who has been scored with a monk during the game, can be reoccupied with an abbot if you use the Magic Portal, but not with the Flyer.

What do you think? Is this correct?