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News and Events / Re: Big Box 2017
« on: August 01, 2017, 02:38:32 PM »
New Big Box available for preorder at Cool Stuff Inc.
http://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/245660

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News and Events / Re: Big Box 2017
« on: July 26, 2017, 02:23:50 PM »

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Nice write up. A merit from me.

You might add in the Watchtowers for an even bigger points kick!  :))
That's one of my next purchases.

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Hope you enjoy it! Let us know your thoughts!
Played one game last night with base game, river, abbots, and Under the Big Top. Usually playing just base, river, and abbots (2 player game) our scores are each between 100-150. With under the big top added in final score was 260 (me) to 246 (wife). So with just UTBT added in, an extra 120+ points each. Seems like a lot of extra points for just 20 tiles. There was only one circus where nobody scored any points because we didn't have any meeples nearby. My wife 2 different times had 2 meeples on acrobat tiles and she ran out of meeples, so she had no way to finish and score the acrobat tile right away. Both times I was nice and played my meeple on the acrobat tile so she could score and get them back. It was definitely fun getting the extra ringmaster points. We got 4 or 6 extra points each time our ringmasters scored. My wife played her ringmaster out 5 or 6 times, and I only played mine 3 times. I made the mistake of playing him on a monastery that I couldn't get completed for a long stretch in the middle, but at least he scored on 2 different circus tents while waiting. My wife kept asking the strategy on where to place tent/acrobat tiles. I said you want to play the tent close to your meeples out on the board, and the acrobats in as open an area as possible, so you have the most opportunities to play around it and build up the acrobat tower. Several times I purposely did not complete a city or road with my meeple in it because it was near the current circus tent and wanted to wait until after the tent scored to complete it. I kept thinking during the game that I was getting so many extra points from this expansion. The only expansions that I've played that give a bunch of extra points during game play are Inns and Cathedrals (from scoring the inn roads and cathedral cities) Hills and Sheep (from scoring the flock and vineyards). But I think Under the Big Top gives even more extra points than either of those expansions. The winning strategy will capitalize on all the extra points they can get from this expansion, because there are a ton of extra points available here. And points are always fun to get!!!

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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: July 13, 2017, 10:49:05 AM »
It finally came today. I guess I know what I'm doing tonight.

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Official Rules / Re: Abbey And Mayor (New Edition) - Wagon questions
« on: June 21, 2017, 11:17:08 AM »
I had a couple of clarifications for the new Wagons, which I could not decipher from the German rules:

Now the Wagon is able to move to any available feature in an adjacent tile, Can the Wagon:
  • move into magic portals and teleport to an empty feature?
  • move into flyer mounds and use the flyer die to move?

My personal feeling is that Magic Portals and Flyer Mounds are "completed" during the turn in which they are played, therefore the wagon is not able to use them when moving from a "completed" feature to a new feature, since it can only move to "uncompleted" features, but the rules definitely are not clear on this. It all depends on if HIG rules that magic portals are already "completed" or not. If not, then you could definitely do what you suggest. If yes, then you can't.

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News and Events / Z-Man Games new updated website
« on: June 06, 2017, 01:06:07 PM »
https://www.zmangames.com/en/index/
All new Carcassonne info added. Even rules for the Tower and Under the Big Top!

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1. The Festival in new art available separately.
2. Minis #1-6 in new art
3. German Castles in the new art.

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Official Rules / Re: CAR for Carcassonne v2
« on: May 11, 2017, 10:16:09 AM »
The main question that needs to be answered is if users of version 1.0 will adopt any and all rule revisions/changes from the 2.0 re-release. If so, then one CAR document will suffice. If there will be a diversion of rules from v 1.0 to v 2.0, then having 2 CAR documents makes more sense. Case in point, the new wagon rules. If there will be 2 CARs, then v 1.0 should keep the old rule, and v 2.0 should have the new. If the new wagon rule will be universally accepted by all carc players, then 1 CAR will do the job. It makes no difference to me which way we go, but I will always adopt the most recent rules as proper way to play.

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News and Events / Re: Carcassonne Expansion 9 new edition
« on: April 12, 2017, 11:25:59 AM »
That's the last of large expansions (except catapult of course). Next is wheel of fortune and 6 minis and big box. Wonder if they'll do any more of the small expansions.

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News and Events / Re: Abbey And Mayor - New Edition
« on: March 30, 2017, 01:53:25 PM »
English version box art.

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News and Events / Re: Abbey And Mayor - New Edition
« on: February 28, 2017, 05:57:54 AM »
But still no picture with the new box art in English.  ???
Looks like it's available at http://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/239030 and at https://www.funagain.com/control/product;jsessionid=3E36D67555412541C91C788F12B2D4B0.jvm1?product_id=038643 as well.

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General / Re: 2017 Big Box - content speculation
« on: January 13, 2017, 11:22:10 AM »
My vote is for:
Base Game/River/Abbot
Inns & Cathedrals
Traders & Builders
The Tower
Wheel of Fortune :D

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News and Events / Re: Carcassonne Expansion 6 new edition
« on: January 05, 2017, 10:06:01 AM »
As a non-2.0 player, I am nevertheless mildly curious as to how the City of Carcassonne will look from the Count part of this expansion. Should we assume that they'll go for one large tile rather than 12 standard ones?
I'm not sure the single tile fits in the expansion small box
No, the single 3x4 tile will not fit in the expansion box. The biggest they could fit would be two tiles that were 2x3, or combine them into one if it folded in half. My guess is that they will just stick with the 12 tile arrangement they have now, but bigger would be more convenient.

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