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Reviews & Session Reports / Re: I Love the Landscape!

« on: May 13, 2025, 08:06:14 PM »

My daughter and I played a 126-tile game using a subset of tiles from 2 Travel Carc games glued to the back of my Linie 1 tiles, as described here.  We also used my Guesthouses and Walls and Gates variants.  It was a great game!  Maybe my very favorite way to play!

This photo shows the landscape before final scoring, at which point the score was tied at 189!


(full-size here).

She ended up winning 244-239.   

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Reviews & Session Reports / Re: I Love the Landscape!

« on: May 04, 2025, 07:08:18 AM »

Slightly belated birthday game with my family, as usual on Zoom and playingcards.io.  Base game + Inns = 89 tiles, so everyone gets 22 turns.  We used bridges and abbeys and proportional scoring of farms as always.


(full-size here).


Here is the landscape before final scoring:

(full-size here).

My daughter had a miserable run of road tiles, so I was able to win!  But quite close all around.

We’ve been playing a bunch of other games, notably Fjords, but Carcassonne is still my very favorite.

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Unofficial Rules / Re: Dragon Rider

« on: April 07, 2025, 06:08:04 PM »

Fun idea!  +1 from me.

Also this might be of interest:
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/18662/dragon-riders-and-slayers

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General / Re: Passo with travel Carcassonne tiles

« on: February 20, 2025, 05:56:31 PM »

Thanks @Ker42 !  Great idea.  Merit from me!

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Official Rules / Re: road leading "through" city: Inns and Cathedrals

« on: January 03, 2025, 12:15:48 PM »

Welcome to the Forum, @grueni

When I saw the subject line, I thought this was going to be a question about the original artwork in I&C where a road runs between two city segments--the top right tile in this image:
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/115468/carcassonne-expansion-1-inns-and-cathedrals

We have always (and still) play that this is a single road, but evidently the intention was that it be treated as two roads, each of which ends at one of the cities?  The updated original artwork has some bushes there to clarify, but we always thought the original was much more elegant.

Anyway, welcome again to the Forum -- how about posting a photo of one of your recent games...

https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=6296.75

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Quizzes, Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Carcassonne Central: Advent Quiz MMXXIV

« on: January 01, 2025, 03:03:52 PM »

Thanks @Meepledrone -- even though I don't participate, I do really appreciate the tradition.

Happy 2025 everyone.

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Reviews & Session Reports / Re: MEGA Carcassonne how we play it

« on: November 17, 2024, 03:33:20 PM »

Wow.  Epic.  Thanks for sharing.  Merit!

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The Marketplace / Re: WTS Carcassonne Mini-expansions (C1)

« on: November 11, 2024, 05:49:15 AM »

Are the Wind Roses I still available?

If so, please PM with shipping cost to USA zip code 19096.

Thanks.

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The Marketplace / Re: WTB C1 Expansion 9 Hills & Sheep

« on: October 21, 2024, 03:27:36 PM »

Just checked eBay.  Found two C1 editions.  US$140 and US$180.

If you just want to play with those tiles, it might be cheaper to buy the big box they were in, I think BB5, which goes as low as $75.

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General / Re: 6 Ghost expansions

« on: September 18, 2024, 08:13:03 PM »

Hi @CarcassonneLover1987 welcome to the forum!

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Other Games / Re: CARAL

« on: September 12, 2024, 06:46:05 AM »

There are some good reviews on BGG.  Would be curious to hear your thoughts after playing.  I am going to put it on my “of interest” list…

Thanks for sharing.

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Reviews & Session Reports / Re: I Love the Landscape!

« on: September 12, 2024, 06:40:10 AM »

Wow looks like a great game!  Thanks for sharing! 

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Reviews & Session Reports / Re: I Love the Landscape!

« on: August 12, 2024, 12:20:56 PM »

Nice!  Brutal farmer.

Tiles look great in the sleeves.  But also the color matches.  My Das Fest tiles are dark like the German Castles.  Maybe because they weren’t part of the special edition?

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Official Rules / Re: C1 wagon travel

« on: August 10, 2024, 11:11:02 AM »

Personally, I prefer the C1 rules as they make more sense to me.
And since there won't be any more expansions for me, all edge cases have now been resolved 

I agree that the C1 rules make more sense, but are they tactically interesting?  I always felt like the wagon was mostly just a regular meeple.  But with C2 you get a lot more tactics, especially if you use the Abbot.

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General / Re: Abbot scoring

« on: August 05, 2024, 11:15:26 AM »

Hi @Woodbeetle and welcome to the forum.

You might also be interested in a post I made about the tactical interaction between Abbots and Wagons.

https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=6196.msg89507#msg89507

Cheers!