Author Topic: Cooperation between HIG+ZMG, CarcC+CarcF (Read 45782 times)

SRBO · « **Reply #45 on:** April 21, 2015, 01:20:42 AM »

They should release it with real tiles, and give credit to the creator:P

Because im litterly unable to make this kind of stuff.. dont have the equipment to do so..

kettlefish · « **Reply #46 on:** April 21, 2015, 03:47:10 AM »

Some publicity from HiG for the fan-expansion "Die Stadttore" (The City Gates):

HiG at twitter:
https://twitter.com/HiG_Verlag/status/590414035234983936

HiG at Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Brettspiele/photos/a.281965897298.141444.237314407298/10153211316922299/?type=1&theater
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At Spielbox - some publicity for this fan-expansion:

http://www.spielbox.de/php/aktuell.php4?#a3968

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Carcassonne-Fan-Erweiterung „Die Stadttore“ zum Download
21.04.15: „Die Stadttore" heißt die zweite Fan-Erweiterung zu „Carcassonne“, die der Hans im Glück Verlag auf seiner Homepage seit Montag kostenlos zum Download anbietet. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Carcassonne-Forum haben sich die Spieler Christof Struck und Hans-Dietrich Pester dieses Add-On ausgedacht, in dem 24 neue Landschaftsplättchen mit einem oder mehreren Stadttoren neue Strategien ermöglichen. Unter www.hans-im-glueck.de lässt sich das Ganze herunterladen. Die Grafiken müssen selbst ausgedruckt werden, passende Kartonplättchen mit leerer Vorderseite gibt es direkt bei Hans im Glück.

translation in Englisch by bing translator and some corrections by me:

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Carcassonne fan-expansion "The City Gates" for download
21.04.15: "The City Gates" is the second fan expansion for "Carcassonne", Hans-im-Glück offers free of charge on its website since Monday for downloading. In collaboration with the Carcassonne-Forum the player Christof Struck and Hans-Dietrich Pester this Add-On have devised, in which 24 new landscape tiles allow new strategies with one or more gates. Under www.hans-im-glueck.de, you can download the whole expansion. The graphics must be printed by yourself, the blanc tile you can buy them directly from Hans-im-Glück (CundCoShop).

loki · « **Reply #47 on:** April 27, 2015, 12:14:54 PM »

I am somewhat surprised that no english language translation appears to be available on this site.

Also from what I can gather by using google translate it seems that these new gates can connect to just about any other tile; city gate, road or field. Doesn't this undermine one of the basic principals of the game where matching tile edges gives the game most of its challenge when placing tiles?

I can understand introducing one or two of these tiles as a wild-card option, but 24 of these tiles seems too many.

Am I missing something here, perhaps if someone can post a more correct translation on this site it would help.

Rosco · « **Reply #48 on:** April 27, 2015, 02:05:30 PM »

Take a look at reply 42 for a rough english translation.

I understood that the city gate can connect to another city gate, or a road or a field. so if you look at the first 2 tiles on the second row - the second tile could fit directly below the first, as it is or with a 180 degree turn, but not on the other 2 sides.

Fritz_Spinne · « **Reply #49 on:** April 27, 2015, 02:14:54 PM »

Yes , the city gates are almost wild cards. A city gate can connect to a field, to a road or to another city gate, but not to a city edge.
In most times you use a city gate to connect to a field or road. Sometimes you connect to another city gate, but the two cities remain two unconnected cities.
If you think 24 city gate tiles are too much take only 12 tiles randomly and take some more road and field tiles from another (fan) expansion.

loki · « **Reply #50 on:** April 27, 2015, 03:55:00 PM »

Quote from: Rosco on April 27, 2015, 02:05:30 PM

Take a look at reply 42 for a rough english translation.

Unfortunately I do not have an ID on that particular forum, unless you are referring to 42 as some sort of answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything

MrNumbers · « **Reply #51 on:** April 27, 2015, 11:59:12 PM »

Quote from: loki on April 27, 2015, 03:55:00 PM

Quote from: Rosco on April 27, 2015, 02:05:30 PM
Take a look at reply 42 for a rough english translation.

Unfortunately I do not have an ID on that particular forum, unless you are referring to 42 as some sort of universal answer to Life, the Universe and Everything

~~I added it to Downloads section on this forum.~~
Safari uploaded updated version of English rules:
Link

spikey_dino · « **Reply #52 on:** April 28, 2015, 01:15:49 AM »

Quote from: MrNumbers on April 27, 2015, 11:59:12 PM

Quote from: loki on April 27, 2015, 03:55:00 PM
Quote from: Rosco on April 27, 2015, 02:05:30 PM
Take a look at reply 42 for a rough english translation.

Unfortunately I do not have an ID on that particular forum, unless you are referring to 42 as some sort of universal answer to Life, the Universe and Everything

I added it to Downloads section on this forum.
Link

Thank you for uploading the english rules!

Hounk · « **Reply #53 on:** April 28, 2015, 06:00:33 AM »

After reading the rules, I have the expression, that they can be used very easy for connecting farmers as well. Just place one on one of the small fields next to the gate and you have a big likeliness to get a field or road piece before somebody can block it. Considering that and lokis impression, I think the big amount of 24 tiles at least increases the probability of somebody else getting another city gate, which is of course the best way of blocking this taktic. So considering farms, more tile might even make the expansion better balanced then less.

loki · « **Reply #54 on:** April 28, 2015, 09:09:58 AM »

Quote from: MrNumbers on April 27, 2015, 11:59:12 PM

I added it to Downloads section on this forum.
Link

Thanks for posting the translation. Much clearer to understand.

Just a typo in the opening paragraph, chopper is used instead of copper.

There is also a mention of four of the tiles with yellow and red banners from a Families Expansion. I cannot make out which tiles these ones are.

The tile examples in the document do not have any banners at all, presumably they are from draft versions of the tiles before the banners were added.

Apologies if I am being too fussy.

again thanks for taking the effort to post the english language version on this forum..

loki · « **Reply #55 on:** April 28, 2015, 10:23:27 AM »

Having compared the official German text (through Google translate) with the english language version it is obvious that the english text is for an earlier version that was meant exclusively for posting on Carcassonne Central. This explains the differences.

It still gives a much better explanation of the functionality of the expansion so again thanks for posting it.

Fritz_Spinne · « **Reply #56 on:** April 28, 2015, 01:40:12 PM »

You can download the extra tiles with red and yellow banners only from www.carcassonne-forum.de . The HiG download has only blue white banners.

loki · « **Reply #57 on:** April 28, 2015, 02:05:22 PM »

It occurs to me that the tile with a single city and 4 pennant gates could function as an alternative to the Abbey tiles. I could terminate everything except an open city and would be more visually consistent and it would be a regular draw tile. Perhaps several of them could be mixed in with the base deck and other expansions.