Author Topic: I Love the Landscape! (Read 15963 times)

Death Meeple · « **Reply #60 on:** April 29, 2024, 02:59:41 AM »

Here is our largest game so far... List of extensions here under.
The game took a whole day, and I don't think we'll play such a game any time soon, unless I find a partner who loves those big games as much as I do...
It was way too long for my gf, and she lost it when I used the a strategy similar to the Abbot loop scoring strategy ( https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=6608.0 ) in order to place meeple as abbots on every special monastery during the last turns of the game.

As my score was a few hundreds below hers, the synod gift allowed me to place a meeple as an abbot on special monastery, continue one of her feature, collect the last gift card (the one I just used) and start again with every meeple in order to score big points at the end of the game...

Also, I had the longest road and largest city, allowing me to score 99 points for cities and 134 for roads!

I hope we didn't make too much mistakes about the rules interactions

Game ended with 2147 to 2006 points.

Content of the game:
Base Game
The Abbot
River
Exp. 1 - Inns & Cathedrals
Exp. 2 - Traders & Builders
Exp. 3 - The Princess & the Dragon
Exp. 4 - The Tower
Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor
Exp. 6 - Count, King & Robber
Exp. 7 - The Catapult
Exp. 8 - Bridges, Castles & Bazaars
Exp. 9 - Hills & Sheep
Exp. 10 - Under the Big Top
Exp. 11 - Ghosts, Castles & Cemeteries
The Wheel of Fortune (as a standalone)
Mini #1 - The Flying Machines
Mini #2 - The Messengers
Mini #3 - The Ferries
Mini #4 - The Goldmines
Mini #5 - Mage & Witch
Mini #6 - The Robbers
Mini #7 - The Crop Circles II
The Crop Circles I
20th Anniversary Expansion
20th Anniversary River
Bets, The
Festival 10 years, The
Games Quarterly #11
Gifts, The
Halflings I
Halflings II
Japanese Buildings
Monasteries in the Netherlands & Belgium
Phantom, The
Russian Promos 2013: Baba Yaga and Bogatyr's Choice
Russian Promos 2016: Soloveï Odikhmantievitch and Vodianoï
School, The
Spell Circles, The
Spiel Doch! Promo 2/2018
Spiel Promo 2014
Spiel Promo 2015
Spiel Promo 2016
Spiel Promo 2017
Spiel Promo 2018
Spiel Promo 2019
Spiel Promo 2020
Spiel Promo 2021
Spiel Promo 2022
Spiel Promo 2023
Tollkeepers, The
Ukraine Promo
Wonders of Humanity set I, The
CutCassonne
3D Starting Landscape with Alternative Inlay

kothmann · « **Reply #61 on:** May 06, 2024, 05:48:30 AM »

Quote from: Death Meeple on April 29, 2024, 02:59:41 AM

Game ended with 2147 to 2006 points.

Wow! Very close for such a big game!

Great landscape. Had to open it in another window to zoom in and browse around! Also love the arrow hole created by the halflings.

Thanks for sharing!

kothmann · « **Reply #62 on:** May 06, 2024, 06:00:02 AM »

I'm a bit late getting this posted, but I the annual birthday game with my family using Zoom and playingcards.io. Here are the photos of players, final landscape before/after scoring:

(full-size here).

(full-size here).

We used an 89-tile mix (base game + Inns - 1 Cathedral), so each player had 22 turns. We also used bridges, and my pennant keepers and Collectives variants.

As usual, I came in last place, but it was a VERY close game. No one was able to connect the two Black fields at the bottom, so Black held on for the win.

kelderek · « **Reply #63 on:** May 06, 2024, 11:40:40 AM »

Quote from: kothmann on May 06, 2024, 06:00:02 AM

We also used ... my pennant keepers and Collectives variants.

Thank you for these very interesting ideas.

Usually we play with T&B and I&C as a standard.
We'll go on vacation this month, so I'm going to pack my Travel Edition.
Your ideas make great substitutes.

Death Meeple · « **Reply #64 on:** May 06, 2024, 11:05:51 PM »

Quote from: kothmann on May 06, 2024, 05:48:30 AM

Quote from: Death Meeple on April 29, 2024, 02:59:41 AM
Game ended with 2147 to 2006 points.
Wow! Very close for such a big game!

We noticed most big games here have very close results actually, as blocking an opponent meeple becomes irrelevant in such a game (all tiles configurations exists in the game and we both have way enough meeple to use even if we have to wait for a particular tile to be drawn) ans as we both have many opportunities to score and even share majority. I would even say a 141 points gap is an unusually large difference between us

Also, we are both players of the same level I'd say, so none of us can really take a big advantage.

And yes, the arrow gap is a nice one, I only noticed it when I took the picture!

danisthirty · « **Reply #65 on:** May 07, 2024, 02:27:23 AM »

Quote from: kothmann on March 01, 2023, 06:33:50 PM

Inspired by the I Love the Postman thread, I thought it would be fun to start a thread for posting end-of-game photo(s). Add whatever details you want, or just the photo(s). No game is too big or too small--all Carcassonne Landscapes are beautiful! Also feel free to add photos of the players if you have them--all Carcassonne players are beautiful, too!

+merit for this wonderful idea! I've got a fair bit of catching up to do but I'm very much looking forward to going through this thread. Thanks in advance to everyone who has shared their photos...

kelderek · « **Reply #66 on:** August 02, 2024, 08:36:53 AM »

Base game
Inns & Cathedrals
Traders & Builders
Abbey & Mayor (without the barn)
Count (tiles only)
King & Robber
Games Quarterly (pigs under the yellow farmer at left)

Meepledrone · « **Reply #67 on:** August 02, 2024, 08:39:25 AM »

Gorgeous indeed... and classy!!!

kelderek · « **Reply #68 on:** August 02, 2024, 01:57:15 PM »

Quote from: Meepledrone on August 02, 2024, 08:39:25 AM

... and classy!!!

Yup! All C1
I prefer the simple drawing style

kothmann · « **Reply #69 on:** August 02, 2024, 04:12:46 PM »

Lovely! Great tile mix! And yeah I’m also C1 only.

Merit from me!

kelderek · « **Reply #70 on:** August 03, 2024, 08:40:25 AM »

...and another one

Same tiles, but with three players this time

Tip when playing with King & Robber:
Put a marker on the score board for the longest/largest:

Grey mayor at 18: largest city was 18 tiles
Grey shepherd at 8: longest road is 8

That way you never have to re-count

Ker42 · « **Reply #71 on:** August 12, 2024, 12:13:46 PM »

Broke out the 10th anniversary edition with my daughters last night. It was interesting but fun playing with phantom-looking meeples. Happy that I (blue) was able to sneak that 3rd farmer into the shared field to ensure the win.

kothmann · « **Reply #72 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?

Ker42 · « **Reply #73 on:** September 11, 2024, 08:02:30 AM »

My daughter and I played a great game yesterday! Shout out to Matisek for his Royal Privileges expansion (https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=6661.msg94862#msg94862). I thought it was a lot of fun, especially when I scored 10 points when the first one was turned over. Happy to say that I ended up winning by 6 points, despite my daughter sneakily stealing my big farm.