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Colour of different expansions
« on: December 31, 2014, 10:06:33 AM »
I discovered "Carcassonne" earlier this year and first got myself a Big Box (the #4 with the 7 mini expansions). Although I did not have the opportunity to mix and match all of the options, I considered buying most of the other expansions earlier than on first thought, because they likely get out of print in the old version.

Now I bought the 6th HiG-expansion with King & Robber Baron, River 2, Count and Cult and what strikes me a little is, that the fields of the Big Box are all very dark green, while the ones of the expansions are very light. I thought, I read somewhere that only the tiles of the "Spielbox" magazine are not really matching in colour. Is this a general issue of this expansion or this big box? Or are there options to change them to something better matching?

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Re: Colour of different expansions
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2014, 10:29:19 AM »
I thought, I read somewhere that only the tiles of the "Spielbox" magazine are not really matching in colour.

This has been mostly my experience - the colouring of the Cathars is off for all features, and the fields of the Plague are darker than the rest. I believe the Festival fields are also darker than the rest, but other than that, field colouring has been OK for me for the regular expansions.

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Re: Colour of different expansions
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2014, 10:54:34 AM »
Thanks for your reply. So it seems the cause of the difference is the "Big Box 4" itself, and it is in general much darker then other printings by HiG, more like the "Spielebox" tiles? (I own the BB4 from HiG.)

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Re: Colour of different expansions
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2015, 11:59:15 PM »
The tiles of the Big Box 4 are really in dark green, almost the same dark green like the tiles from the plague (Spielbox). The paper structure of the tiles is also different in the Big Box 4.

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Re: Colour of different expansions
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2015, 02:31:16 AM »
Thanks for the confirmation. Under this condition, I will not bother finding "matching" tiles for my big box. Since I do want to have some of the other expansions, I will just get them the way they are. It would be a pity to have just the few tiles from HiG expansion #4 sticking out unmatching, but if the rest of the "regular tiles" are the same, this will balance of esthetically. (Well, depending what expansions are in the game at times. I will not pick them regarding this and having base game and I&C included most of the times, the "dark tiles" will always dominate the display.)


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