One of the two webcomics I follow is
Erfworld. The premise is that there is a hexagonally tiled game world, where one side as a last dying gamble casts a "summon perfect warlord" spell. This summons an avid war gamer from our world (or something like it). He saves the side because he is a deep tactical, strategic and lateral thinker.
All this talk of Carcassonne spin-offs made me think of an Erfworld-inspired nightmare. There is a farmer who has spent his whole life hard at work lying on his back. Then one fine turn his field is extended - by a tile covered in snow. A few turns later the farmer's life is further disturbed by a column of
AT-AT walkers heading towards him.....
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