Congrats to everyone that completed Carcassonne collection!!
We also have all
except Spiel's :/ Maybe someday.. but I'm more for printing them than buying them so that doesn't bother me that much.
I think having a spare Big Box around is always a good thing. You could take your spare Carcassonne to work and share it with some colleagues!
Totally agree.
My girlfriend bought first base game 2.0 without The River mini expansion. After we bought 1 & 2 big expansion I found that there are copies with the River so we bought another base game in Greek
and we took out The River. At first, It was supposed to be our travel copy but at the end we gave spare base game as a gift to our friends (opened but totally new). We just had to ad copied Polish rules
Then, when Big Box came out I just wasn't thinking. Why? First of all, Big Box comes as 2.1 version so we switched already used and "tired" tiles of: base game, The River, T&B and I&C. Second of all, as we play Mega Carcassonne we had a lot of tiles (now more) mixed together so it was difficult when we wanted to play shorter game or take it outside like to friends or on a trip. Base game with T&B and I&C fits perfectly in an expansion box so we keep it there and take wherever we want. Last but not least, 1 & 2 expansion is never a waste of money. Not only because of the rules but also because of a lot of tiles that you get with those two expansions. And with base game you have complete package that you or anyone can play. You can keep it, you can sell it, or give it to someone.. (finally we gave spare The River as another gift). Even from economic point of view, in Poland you can buy Big Box for only twice as Base game costs. You even can't buy those 2 expansions for the difference in price and then you have another 6 expansions that you wanted.. and a big box that you can use for whole collection. I do