Author Topic: United Kingdom Carcassonne Central Meetup Event 2015 (Read 42106 times)

JT Atomico · « **Reply #75 on:** November 01, 2015, 04:22:13 AM »

It really was a great day! Thanks so much to Decar and danisthirty for organising it and brining along all the games and prizes! Thanks also to kettlefish for providing some of the prizes and the signed tiles, and to Ailurua for the awesome commemorative dragons

It was great to meet everyone, I really enjoyed the games that we played. The only problem is that I might now be tempted in to buying several of the spin-offs after just about convincing myself that all I wanted was the base game and expansions!

For those of you who received a copy of Dan's Trick or Treat expansion, I have made a little Halloween-themed tuckbox for it. It should be attached to this post.

Thanks again to everyone involved - I look forward to the next meetup

danisthirty · « **Reply #76 on:** November 01, 2015, 06:29:53 AM »

Quote from: Decar on November 01, 2015, 02:52:30 AM

Having recounted that enormous Asteroid field (34 points), I can only assume that , due to an unforeseen clerical error, perhaps we were actually 41 point ahead of you by the end of the game rather than 9 points behind. However such is life during galactic times of strife - I suspect we'll have a rematch soon enough.

You keep telling yourself that!

We had a good lead before you took that asteroid field and we caught you up pretty quickly afterwards too. Remember, most of those planets were worth 11 points and Curt had the uncanny ability of being able to take your planets over just before they were completed. At one point he even completed 2 at once (I think) and I got a couple of pretty valuable trade routes too (and a few asteroid fields).

In a game of traditional Carcassonne, a city that big would win the game easily. But I think with Star Wars Carc the features are much more balanced and I do think Curt and I managed to complete more things than you did overall...

Looking forward to that rematch already.

Decar · « **Reply #77 on:** November 01, 2015, 09:17:13 AM »

Only a Sith deals in absolutes....which is good because I was a stormtrooper

Decar · « **Reply #78 on:** November 01, 2015, 09:36:33 AM »

Time to share the first mini-expansion!

It should be noted that these expansions were intended to work with the base game alone - I've not had chance to consider the impact of other expansions.

The Astronomers

In mediæval Europe astronomers would classify phenomenon of the sky. This evening, a new light can be seen above Carcassonne and astronomers have been sent to record it.

“6-astronomer tiles” – At the start of the game shuffle 6 Astronomer tiles into the deck.

Playing an Astronomer Tile – If a player draws an astronomer tile it can be placed in accordance to the normal rules. However, a player may decide to place a follower on the ‘Star’ instead of playing it elsewhere on the tile.

Scoring an Astronomer Tile – When a player places a follower on a ‘star’ it may score immediately. It scores 2 points for every star in the constellation.

Forming a Constellation – A Star is said to be in the same constellation as another star if the star is played in-line with another star, either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. It does not matter how many tiles are between stars and it does not matter if there are gaps between stars. Stars may be connected to a constellation more than once; this does not affect the score.

Example

You can download the expansion here: http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=302

jungleboy · « **Reply #79 on:** November 01, 2015, 12:27:24 PM »

Quote from: Decar on November 01, 2015, 02:52:30 AM

I think most of us thought that a Carcassonne: Star Wars would lead to more Star Wars fans playing Carcassonne. However, based on this photo I think we may have a new Star Wars fan in the making

Why did you crop Dan's flowing locks?

Decar · « **Reply #80 on:** November 01, 2015, 12:41:09 PM »

I must have had an accident with a lightsabre

Rich_The_Fish · « **Reply #81 on:** November 01, 2015, 03:25:58 PM »

Quote from: Decar on November 01, 2015, 02:52:30 AM

Just one last photo from me: a nice close up of that commemorative Dragon & Rugby 2015 tile.

Wow, they look good. Missed out on seeing these little beauties yesterday, although it turns out that Piklach didn't!

MrNumbers · « **Reply #82 on:** November 02, 2015, 12:34:49 AM »

It looks like you had a great time!

Thanks for the photo-report

Let's do something similar in Essen next year!

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danisthirty · « **Reply #83 on:** November 02, 2015, 04:56:39 AM »

Quote from: JT Atomico on November 01, 2015, 04:22:13 AM

For those of you who received a copy of Dan's Trick or Treat expansion, I have made a little Halloween-themed tuckbox for it. It should be attached to this post.

Wow, can't believe you made that so quickly, and it looks excellent!

So now we have a fan-made expansion where the box is better than the expansion itself, thanks Jamie!

Decar · « **Reply #84 on:** November 02, 2015, 05:30:26 AM »

Ha! I missed this when it came in - Fantastic Orange

(+1 from me).

danisthirty · « **Reply #85 on:** November 02, 2015, 05:36:04 AM »

The plastic bag with black and white sticky label was pushing my abilities as it was...

EDIT: Details of the Trick or Treat expansion can now be found here.

Curt194 · « **Reply #86 on:** November 05, 2015, 01:23:33 AM »

As a follow on from my post the other day I just wanted to say how great it was to see everyone's fan expansions!

I'm looking forward to introducing them to my gaming group and you've all inspired me to think about some of my own fan expansions! Something I hadn't considered before going to the event.

Thanks again everyone for what was a great day. I look forward to the next!

Decar · « **Reply #87 on:** November 07, 2015, 03:45:38 AM »

I've just released the Tug of War mini-expansion:

http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=303

We didn't get change to play it, but the tiles were used in our big game.

Decar · « **Reply #88 on:** November 12, 2015, 06:52:43 AM »

I've just released the Carcassonne:Rugby expansion we played at the Meetup:

http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=304

Only the 'The Chronicles of Carcassonne' are left for me to share. I may wait and include these 4 deck-manipulating tiles in a later expansion.

SxN · « **Reply #89 on:** April 20, 2022, 12:31:23 PM »

Hi Decar,

As we're fast approaching the 7.5 years anniversary of the meetup, I was wondering if you would consider sharing with the rest of us the Chronicles of Carcassonne...