Carcassonne - 9th expansion: Schafe und Huegel (Sheep and Hills)

[Paul]

I noticed on Z-man Games site they listed Sheep and Hills for 2-5 players. How come they did not implement the sixth follower colour?

On the picture of HiG you can cleary see 6 meeples
http://www.hans-im-glueck.de/carcassonne/erweiterungen/schafe-und-huegel/

That it does! So the official site has an error. 

EDIT: In the details is says 2-5 players and on the same page at the content section is says 6 shepherds.

Thats a weird mistake then! But every Carc fan will know this i think.

I contacted Z-man Games earlier today and just got a reply. Lo and behold, they have fixed the errata! Now it shows on their website 2-6 players. That was quite the fast response and acting to correct a typo (less than 12 hours.)

 

[SRBO]

Nice job  !

[kettlefish]

HiG has now at their homepage an update with the correct rule for Sheep and Hills.

German rules: Carcassonne - Schafe und Huegel

Der Spieler, der seinen Schaefer werten will, muss dies durch die Aktion Herde in den Stall treiben tun

[Whaleyland]

Aaaaaaannnnnddddd I ordered it from Amazon.de. Not too bad, really. Still, I'm gonna be needing those translated rules ASAP. Thanks!   

[kettlefish]

Aaaaaaannnnnddddd I ordered it from Amazon.de. Not too bad, really. Still, I'm gonna be needing those translated rules ASAP. Thanks!   

wamboyil has translated the rules. I told him about the mistake in the German rule.
In the English translation from wamboyil is the correct rule.

Here is the link to the translation from wamboyil:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B62Qt7XfvzblRW1Fc1hiMGJlSms/edit?pli=1

[Carcking]

I just ordered my copy too. Retail is $17.99 USD. At Amazon.de I just paid $21.00 including shipping. Not too bad I would say. Thanks for the tip Whaley!

With luck I'll have it in time for Easter!

Makes me wonder what Cundco is doing wrong in the calculation of their shipping costs. Seems to me they are losing business by scaring customers away.

[jungleboy]

For those people who have ordered the expansion, when it arrives can you please let us know if you have a watermark missing from one of the tiles as kettlefish mentioned on page 12 of this thread? This is the kind of thing that would really annoy me so I am holding off on ordering it for now. Plus I just got the winter edition in the post yesterday so I'm not feeling super desperate to add to my collection, it helps to space these things out a bit

[Whaleyland]

Yeah, with an August release date, I didn't really have a choice. I'm moving in August and wanted to get the expansion before I relocated. If it has the missing watermark, I'll just have to deal with it. Odds are that the Z-Man version will have the same error since the tiles all come from Germany and use the same art. That is unless HiG has corrected the problem in their art files.

You are welcome, Carcking. We don't have to pay VAT on the expansion since we're not in Germany, so we pay a reduced price. Too bad the Euro is doing so well against the dollar right now, otherwise we may have gotten an even better deal. Still, the price isn't much higher than paying shipping and tax from a US distributor, even with the usual online discount.

[Carcking]

...This is the kind of thing that would really annoy me so I am holding off on ordering it for now...

This kind of stuff really annoys me too. Sloppy work from a publisher is inexcusable. But I can't not own it - so there's nothing else for it. The prospect of having it for Easter is what made me pull the trigger now.

[wamboyil]

I got my sleeping pills (I mean Sheep & Hills) today! (Amazon.de order, to Illinois, US)

And yes, unfortunately, one of the tiles does NOT have the sheep icon on it. Disappointing that an error like that slipped past quality control. Oh well, it's still obvious which set this tile is from, because it has a Hill on it.

Now, on to playing!

[Paul]

I got my sleeping pills (I mean Sheep & Hills) today! (Amazon.de order, to Illinois, US)

And yes, unfortunately, one of the tiles does NOT have the sheep icon on it. Disappointing that an error like that slipped past quality control. Oh well, it's still obvious which set this tile is from, because it has a Hill on it.

Now, on to playing!

But the good news is, this errata in the first print of the game is common, meaning it will not gain value, like those errata found in collectible games, and non games for that matter.   

Merit for the Sleeping Pills. 

[quevy]

Just got home I found a box at the front door. I finally got my copy.

[quevy]

If you press the button at the top right to edit, you can edit the message. Before sending it, if you click on the preview you can see how it will appear.

[Fritz_Spinne]

The forum has problems with some letters, especially the german "Umlaute", it cuts off everything after such letter. These are "a", "u" and "o" with double points over them and the sharp "s" looking similiar to the greek "beta". There are also some swedish letters with the same problem. You will not see this in the Preview, though!

The only solution is to "correct" a-Umlaut to ae, o-Umlaut to oe, u-Umlaut to ue and sharp-s to ss, this is made in Switzerland, too.

You can delete your messages by yourself ...

[rfielder]

My earlier messages were truncated.

Tried ordering Sheeps and Hill from amazon.de, and got this:

Dieser Artikel kann leider....

Translation:

Unfortunately this item can not be shipped to the desired place. You can either change the shipping address or delete the item from your order by setting the quantity to 0 and click "Update". Learn more

As a Canadian, I am feeling discriminated against!  amazon.de won't ship to me.  amazon.com won't ship to me.  amazon.ca does not carry the stuff.  Think I will just go and sulk in my igloo.....