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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: February 21, 2015, 07:31:49 AM »
Today I received my pimp package from spielmaterial.


From left to right: sheds, houses & towers; sheep; crops, cloth & wine; castles; Robber Baron & King pieces to mark relevant features.
I suppose, the castles are these unpainted? Can you please make photos, how they look like on an actual "4 point city"?

They are indeed; grey though, not unpainted. When I was ordering, I was worried that the castles were going to be too small, however it turns out that they're just the right size to fit within the walls of a two tile city and support a follower:

Still, would be nice to have a bit more detail in the design in my opinion.

Without wanting to get too off topic, here are some photos of the others in action if they'll help anyone. I bought the pieces to stand out clearer than the tokens that come in the expansions so that they're more visible when putting together a game of megacarc.


The Sheep look good with the shepherd.


The tower's design could be slightly more in-line with the game's architecture and I probably should have bought a different colour for the houses to distinguish from the sheds; but over all I'm very happy with how these look.


The trade goods look good sitting in the cities, and match up well with the gold bars from The Goldmines.


The two big fellas here. Little bit too big for my tastes, I'd prefer them no bigger than the count. I'm using them to move around the board to mark largest city & roads whilst the king/baron tiles move between the players to show who's currently getting the points at the end.

And finally, here's a size comparison




(Also, that pewter set looks sweet!)

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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: February 21, 2015, 05:23:44 AM »
oooohhh!!!
where did you buy cathars and crop circle I?!?

I snagged Cathars from the board game geek market; and an ebay seller offered me crop circles after I bought CSS from them. Slightly pricey in total, but not as bad as I was expecting. £18 for a new Cult Siege & Creativity seemed fairly low to say I couldn't see it for sale anywhere else.

And how much for the crops and cathar?

Cathar was €30, and Crops I was €45.


Today I received my pimp package from spielmaterial.


From left to right: sheds, houses & towers; sheep; crops, cloth & wine; castles; Robber Baron & King pieces to mark relevant features.

Now I've made up all of my tuckboxes too, everything looks so good in my artbin ;D



Only the tunnel to go!

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The Marketplace / Spare pieces, free to a good home
« on: February 21, 2015, 05:01:27 AM »
The other day, I noticed something a little odd with my copy of the robbers.



I contacted Z-Man about the meeple mix up, but didn't hear anything back from them, so I turned to Cundco as I was planning on buying a copy of Wind roses & Belgian Monasteries from them. A few days later, and my package arrived, but something's still not right here.



Cundco sent me the wrong piece too. As it happens, I noticed that I'm missing four tiles from The Catapult, so I had to place another cundco order anyway. Naturally, as soon as I placed the order, I received an email from Z-Man saying they've posted a red robber to me.

So now I have a spare normal meeple, a spare messenger meeple and a spare whatever cundco decide to send me this time meeple (all red). If anyone's missing any of these pieces, or want some spares to paint or whatever, let me know and I can post them out to you; I'm based in the UK.

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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: February 14, 2015, 04:06:23 AM »
oooohhh!!!
where did you buy cathars and crop circle I?!?

I snagged Cathars from the board game geek market; and an ebay seller offered me crop circles after I bought CSS from them. Slightly pricey in total, but not as bad as I was expecting. £18 for a new Cult Siege & Creativity seemed fairly low to say I couldn't see it for sale anywhere else.

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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: February 13, 2015, 11:07:32 AM »
Came back to my flat today to find these


That's Cathars, Cult Siege & Creativity, Crop Circles I, Pink/Purple Robbers & Messengers, and Wind Rosen I

Only the tunnels left to go now (If anyone's selling, PLEASE get in touch)

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The Marketplace / Re: Best place to buy new expansions 1 & 2
« on: February 08, 2015, 07:57:48 AM »
Hi. I'm also a UK Based Carcassonne newbie and I've been tracking down various expansions for a while, this is a summary of where I've found is the best place to look:

LGS - Always worth checking out to see your local store has any rarer expansions at original retail price - I've picked up some sweet bargains at mine. Plus, its good for local business.
Here - You can always check the marketplace for trading and fair prices
Amazon.de - Well priced German editions.
Cundco.de - Good for picking up rarer, small expansions. Once you buy more than 10 Euros worth of stuff though, the p&p shoots up.
Sheepgames.de - Another European site, they had a few copies of the various large out-of-print expansions. They stock games in various languages.
Spielbox - Good for a couple of mini-expansions that are hard to find elsewhere
Boardgamegeek.com - Handy for listing every expansion. Users post their games for sale from all over the world.
ChaosCards - Have the 6 mini expansions pretty cheap. I think I picked up Abbey& Mayor and The Tower here for a decent price too.
Ebay - Prices generally higher than elsewhere, but worth a look.

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The Marketplace / Re: WTB Pink & Purple Messengers & Robbers
« on: February 02, 2015, 05:05:10 AM »
Thanks for the tip, I never noticed that they sold extra pieces.

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The Marketplace / WTB Pink & Purple Messengers & Robbers
« on: January 31, 2015, 08:33:16 AM »
Hi, I'm looking for somewhere that sells pink & purple versions of the meeples from the mini expansions.
I've seen them for sale at the Carcassonne Shoppe, however it appears that they're out of pink messengers. On top of that, paypal refuses to add either robber to my basket, in stead it just redirects me to the paypal homepage for some reason. I've reported the bug to them.

Does anyone know of anywhere else that stocks the pieces? Preferably either in Europe or the UK.

Thanks.

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