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Carc Central Community => General => Topic started by: Decar on March 23, 2016, 12:01:42 PM
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This week comes early after last week's Rules landslide. We are combining Favouritism with Completionism this week by asking you:
What's your Teacher Preference?
Most of you know the 'Die Schule' comes with a teacher meeple and there are 6 colours (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Purple, Black). There's nothing special about the different colours and only one is ever in play. Die Schule was first released at Essen 2011 and came with a Dominion: Carcassonne Card.
The Poll is a little difficult to run, as there is so many permutations here.
I've included a photo of some of my teachers and their bags:
(http://www.tehill.net/carcassonne/general/Teachers.png)
Here's some things to consider:
Do you need all 6 colours, are you happy with 4, or just one?
Do you need all 4 Meeple bags?
The example shows 3 different productions of Meeple Bags (The strings are different :@ ): do you need these too?
Do you play with all 4/6 Meeple at once in some interesting variant?
Is this the worst Expansion ever for the budding completionist?
Time to tell us your interesting stories about 'Die Schule'!
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You missed the obvious answer: I'm happy with just one teacher, and I don't care which colour.
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You missed the obvious answer: I'm happy with just one teacher, and I don't care which colour.
Exactly what I am looking for in answer list! :)
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You missed the obvious answer: I'm happy with just one teacher, and I don't care which colour.
Ditto, I was about to say this.
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If you have one, and you're happy with it you can specify the colour.
If you have some other combination you're welcome to specify :)
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Mine is hopefully in the mail. I am giving it to my wife though. She is a teacher.
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I have one, can't remember which it is but it's plenty for me.
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If you have one, and you're happy with it you can specify the colour.
If you have some other combination you're welcome to specify :)
That would require me remembering the colour or digging the Teacher out of my rarely used pieces bag.
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Would you believe I still don't own this expansion? But sure would love to get it some day.
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Would you believe I still don't own this expansion? But sure would love to get it some day.
What is this madnes??!?!??!1
I ordered one with my last order at Cundco, so waiting on the color but I'm happy with the one I'll have.
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I only have the one Teacher meeple, and he's red. This is fine, I don't consider the others important for completion. That being said, I have voted black because I would prefer a black teacher! I just happened to receive red. Or maybe yellow would be nice. If you order the School from Cundco, can you specify the colour? Or order a teacher as a spare part?
Anyway, I don't consider them important for completion, nor do I have a favourite.
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I only have the one Teacher meeple, and he's red. This is fine, I don't consider the others important for completion.
Me too. I didn't even realise when I got it that it came in different colours. Actually I'm not sure I realised that until today. Which is another way of saying that it's probably a good thing that I'm not doing these polls myself anymore! :)
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If you have one, and you're happy with it you can specify the colour.
If you have some other combination you're welcome to specify :)
That would require me remembering the colour or digging the Teacher out of my rarely used pieces bag.
I never said taking part in these polls would be easy :)
This expansionn is a logistic nightmare, if you're not sure go ahead and vote for your colour of preference.
It's half favouritism half completionist this week.
@Christopher - the order from cundco is blind, they won't check for you. The first purple I found I asked someone on BGG to dig through 100 bags they had. It was in the very last!
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I have teachers in all six colours. Of the two rare colours, I was able to just get the purple one from a spare parts order on Cundco, but the black teacher was very difficult to find! What finally worked was finding a blog online that had a photo of the black teacher and then contacting the author for a trade.
Thanks to the talents of aenima, I also have the bag in all six colours :)
(http://s23.postimg.cc/400ip4wkr/image.jpg)
When playing with this expansion, instead of having one teacher in the middle that people claim, I play that everyone has their own coloured teacher and when someone completes a road in to the school they mark it by putting their teacher on the school.
I also use the coloured bags to hold all of that player's meeples to distribute at the start of a game. They are a really good size for that!
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That's a much better photo than mine!
This poll has got the most varied results yes! It's seems generally most people don't sare what meeple they have; while a small group do care what bags they they have!
I was lucky on bgg and found a seller on a Math trade for black and purple. I feel you need a teacher in each colour and one of the 4 bags to be complete. Variety in bag strings and Dominion card not so important.
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In my yellow school bag is a blue meeple.
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I have a red teacher in a red bag. In the article description at the side CundCo stated, that there are different colours, but customer can not pick, which one to get. But I was fine with that.
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A bit ironic that everyone seems to have at least one copy of The School but me. :D
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Only 18 votes thus far, it seems that blue and red teachers are the most popular.
I'm surprised to see so few people wish to collect all the colours, but this is probably because they are are not required to play.
I'm interested in hearing about any variants you might be using the extra meeple for. JT atomico's varient sounds like a good one to try.
A few days are left for voting on this topic!
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Yeah, for some reason collecting all six colours was never of interest to me. I hadn't even thought of doing so until people here started talking about tracking down all the variants and how hard getting purple was. Collecting the six bags was of more interest to me, but at the time I stored all my player pieces in my storage case (they no longer fit, unfortunately). But the problem now is that even if I bought all six colours (I only own Yellow, I think), I have five more colours of meeples that don't have bags. I suspect I'll be adding a sixth new colour as soon as light green becomes available as a complete set. So getting the bags only ever seems like half a task, and the Teacher meeples just don't seem necessary strangely. I'd place getting the 70-point scoreboard or the Grey-space board higher on my want list.
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Thanks Whaleyland, it's definitely fiddly. The 4 (not 6) teacher bags were randomly distributed with the 6 teachers and now there are more colours than bags, the bags are less appealing. It was one of the reasons I got the awesome bags from Artscow last year!
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I own the stock exchanges in 12 colors, Aenima did for me the 6 missing.
I need the teacher's black, but I made a custom cutting of polycarbonate laser.
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I bought the 4 Different bags at Essen 2011 and Made sure each bag had the Same colored teacher as its bag.
the other bags and teachers were unofficial (i believe), so no interest in that.
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Still waiting on mine because I ordered it recently. Then I can see which color it'll actually be and vote accordingly. I have no personal preference of color. But one is enough, definitely.
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I don't really remember the color of my teacher... so not sure were to vote.
Since the color of the teacher is not player active sensitive I don't think I need one in each available color to consider my collection complete.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this everyone. As always, the poll and topic will remain open for future debate; but we've moved on to more exciting things:
This week we ask you:
What is your favourite base game box art? (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2587.new#new)
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Do I win a prize for being the controversial collector of major proportion and (probably) the only one not owning The School? :D
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Red Teacher in a bag with a yellow meeple. I've not considered having a second, maybe a reflection on how glad I was to leave school back in '84.
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Do I win a prize for being the controversial collector of major proportion and (probably) the only one not owning The School? :D
'Fraid not Paul :-[
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I received a blue bag and a green teacher. My wife, who is a teacher, always plays as green, so this worked out great.
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You missed the obvious answer: I'm happy with just one teacher, and I don't care which colour.
this
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Last year I purchased 4 of them from CundCo and I received 4 different colored bags, but got two red plastic meeples instead of red and yellow. Flash forward to CundCo's Easter event and I order 4 more bags thinking "surely I'll get a yellow one this time..." Now I have doubles of the bags and meeples except yellow, because I didn't get a yellow meeple this time either. And now you guys are showing me black and grey ones. :o
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Just be happy knowing there aren't bags for them!
I believe JT Atomico ordered a teacher from the spare-parts catalogue at Cundco, you may want to order a 'gelb lehrer meeple' - 'yellow teacher meeple' to complete your set!
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Thanks Whaleyland, it's definitely fiddly. The 4 (not 6) teacher bags were randomly distributed with the 6 teachers and now there are more colours than bags, the bags are less appealing. It was one of the reasons I got the awesome bags from Artscow last year!
Arts cow pic? The logical solution is to get about 12 of these expansions and get 12 different colors of meeples and 12 different artscow bags. :brown-meeple:
I am a completionist in general, but I may have to say no to this cash cow though it will be hard if I'm making a purchase, and it essentially doesn't cost me any shipping to pick this up.