Here are my few words about this fan meeting.
I can only second others that it was outstanding incredible event with so many nice people participating
) The organization was on the highest level, especially activities and food parts
Everyone could find something to eat, even if you are vegetarian or even vegan. And those Anett's cakes...
Board game camp isn't something new, in my country there is one which took place twice a year in some guest house. But I never visited it. Why? There are some reasons: there are many so called "hardcore" gamers coming and they play one [very difficult] game for many hours. Plus there are no other activities apart from board games which you should, of course, bring with you (this isn't a big problem though).
But what are the main differences comparing with this event? 1. You know for sure that all the participants love Carcassonne like you do. 2. If they like Carcassonne so much they
probably will like games similar to you like and then it's not a problem to find some partners for almost any game. 3. Beautiful place, very connected with Carcassonne thematics. 4. Activities, like excursion to Görlitz, Meeple Bingo, Meeple Olympics, Beat the Meeple and others (Decar has described them in detail already). 5. Where else can you play prototypes of future Carcassonne (and not only Carcassonne) games, and
possibly influence how they will develop? 6. Where else you can get first-hand information about upcoming news in Carcassonne and HiG world?
I can only continue, but I hope you've got the point
I won't repeat Decar's report, I can only make some comments:
There are currently 12 (or 14?) nuns active there but they live a secluded life dedicated to their religion.
I think there were 11 of them, if I remember correctly. Their age is from 40 to 70+.
It must be said, I rather like beer and the St.M produces 2 kinds: light & dark (drunkel). The dark beer was very malty and provided a nice rich head that lasted for the duration of the drink (like any good beer should).
Oh, that beer! Definitely there should be an expansion about beer, and it should be dark indeed!
We joked: why nuns have vineyards, but produce beer?
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I found the card setup fiddly with 2-players, I played Mr Numbers with 2-players on day-4 and it seemed like only 2x2-tier card would ever be added to the buy-line in their last turns. I feel like we made a mistake.
The only thing I have found in the rules is "In a 2-player game, set aside 6 tier 1 cards". So, if we did it, we did it right way.
We played a number of games of Azul - though I find it straight-forward I find it difficult to know what the best outcome is I believe MrNumbers was able to channel the tile-spirits and determine the best course of action.
Later (on day 6) I have found out that we played it wrong: if you decide to take tiles from the middle, you take
one type of tiles anyway, but we have taken all of them! Besides, other small change is: when, for example, you take 5 tiles of certain type, and you have already started some row with them previously and need only 3 to finish it, you can't use remaining 2 to start another row. You can start a new row with same tiles only on any subsequent turn.
Carcassonne Safari:
Of the Around the World Series, I don't think it beats South Seas - but after 3 plays it feels close and definitely in the top 1/2.
For me - the same feelings. Although I had some complaints about jeeps advantage at the start of the game, I hope it was only my first impression and it won't be confirmed later.
Skull King
I believe this is Mr Number's 3rd favourite game (after Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride of course) - I do not frequently play Trick Taking games, I usually find them somewhat irritating to play. However, Skull King is the exception. During the week, when there was doubt on what to play Skull King would hit the table. There's just the right balance of luck/chance of killer moves which created several hilarious moments during the week. That and shouting: Yo-Ho-Ho during before casting you bet for the round created a lot of energy. Thanks to Mr Numbers for showing this game to us. Udo was kind enough to give Jenny a copy because she enjoyed it so much.
Yes, Skull King could be number 3 in my top
Rare game night are not finished by Skull King and rare person can remain indifferent to it
This prevented those stronger players (Mr Numbers, Udo and maybe myself) from being able to count tiles during their games.
Yes, this trick definitely made life more difficult as you can't rely on certain tiles that "should be in the bag". But it was interesting experience anyway
Finally, we played “Do de li do” and broke many fingers slapping the crocodile. What a silly game, it’s great fun and a great ice breaker!
We laughed a lot during this game! So it is very precise description: silly game, but you have a great fun playing it, especially in bigger companies.
Klaus-Jürgen won the race and Mr Numbers took third!
At some point I was even first, when Klaus-Jürgen and Moritz crashed into each other and I used the opportunity to outrun them. But Klaus-Jürgen is a really good driver, he left me behind some laps later, but during the last (!) lap I have made a mistake in one of the curves and Moritz left me on 3rd place
Other hilarious moments involved our team exactly guessing the combined height of Moritz and Klaus-Jurgen.
And we guessed exactly the right number, accurate within centimeter! Likely I had a tape measure in my car
Mr Numbers taught us another game, which I cannot remember the name of – it involves trying to find treasure within a certain number of guesses. After 6 guesses the cards are reshuffled. Two players were ‘locals’ trying to prevent the treasure from being taken. I quite liked the game, as I don’t really like bluffing games, but I felt this was well implemented
The name is: Tempel des Schreckens, that could be translated as: Temple of Terror/Secrets/Horror/Fears (underline whatever applicable).
Mr Numbers had lost 2 games (against Benny? and Kettlefish) , while I had yet to lose one.
As PresetM already mentioned, I lost 3 games: against Benny, Kettlefish and Martin. Last two games I lost because of last tile: the other way around, and result could be completely different. But, as PresetM already mentioned too - luck element presents
We also played this game…. I have no idea what it’s called…..we lost pretty badly!
Kettlefish already answered that this game is called "Kubb". I even saw it last week in our FLGS!
Time for some more games of Azul and Love Letter. Mr Numbers….are you the princess?
It was unbelievable how could everyone guess my card each time!
Most time of the rounds I just sat and saw how other fight for the next heart
Over on the other table Mrs_Decar and Mr Numbers teamed up against Gerti & Maj.Frost with Star Wars: Carcassonne!
And we won!
We sat down to play Between Two Cities with Martin and Gerti. Mr Numbers wasn't too sure about it, but I told him it was a numbers game, so he wanted to give it a try.
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We had a short break and then PresetM and Maik63de joined us – a victory for Mr Numbers if I recall!
Yes, you recalled correctly
I liked the game, now I even want to have it in my collection!
) Let's hope other people from my game group will like it too
I was somewhat apprehensive at first as I thought we’d be locked in a tower playing nothing but Carcassonne for a week. Instead we've been introduced to many new games.
I thought the same! I understood that this does't make any sense (nothing except Carcassonne), but had the same feeling. As you can see, it was far-far from it
everyone who attended wanted to know about a member of Carcassonne Central who couldn’t be with us. I popped in to see him on the way home and begin Decar’s Delivery service (the trans-European-Carcassonne delivery service), to deliver a birthday gift from Mr Numbers.
Thanks for the safe delivery, Tom!
As I understood, next fan meeting is already in plans, so, this will be "must visit" event definitely! Hopefully we will have more participants next time!
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