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« on: September 26, 2018, 01:05:55 PM »
The starting position is known assuming we are the first player to take a turn as the starting tile will be the only tile on the table. But since we could end up being the 2nd, 3rd or 4th to place a tile the exact starting position isn't yet known, and won't be until the game begins!
Oh, I thought we were going to analyse and decide for every tile, switching between the colours. So, the team will decide for one colour and we don't know which yet? That was also the reason I asked about the number of days per tile, as it would be around 70 days to completion if we analysed the placement of every tile.
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« on: September 26, 2018, 08:56:36 AM »
And isn't the starting position already known?
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« on: September 26, 2018, 08:55:36 AM »
So, will that be one tile per day, or variable when a consensus is reached?
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« on: September 17, 2018, 02:19:41 PM »
But would you be willing to leave one to burn ... 
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« on: September 10, 2018, 04:42:57 AM »
This was the view TDan had across the Moine Mhor. The peaks are about 5-6km away, but our summit was behind the camera on this occasion. Definitely a much better option to painting the shed ...
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« on: September 10, 2018, 04:34:35 AM »
Despite all being retired ...  ... traditionally we have a "boys" weekend away twice per year to climb some hills (Scotland usually, but have been to the Lake District a few times). There's a group of about 10-12 of us, and we usually manage at least 8 attending. It's a combination of (hopefully) good weather, a lot of fresh air, good company, good food and the odd pint or two. I may also get away one midweek day, closer to home, as it's a good way of de-stressing.
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« on: September 10, 2018, 04:17:21 AM »
Travelling Dan came with me for a weekend with some hillwalking friends in the Cairngorms (large area of high mountains in Scotland). TDan climbed his first "Munro" (a Scottish mountain over 3000 feet) on Saturday. We had amazing weather. Here are a couple of photos - the first of him at lunchtime enjoying a welcome cuppa in the middle of the The Great Moss (or Moine Mhor in Gaelic), and the second, on the summit of the Munro, Mullach Clach a'Bhlair (not a particularly well-known, high, or significant Munro) which lies on the western edge of the main Cairngorm massif (it's not snow, just a lump of white quartzite rock that forms the top of the cairn!).
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« on: September 01, 2018, 07:07:11 AM »
Many thanks, Dan. Tile and travelling man, arrived with today's post (northern UK).
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« on: August 20, 2018, 04:56:59 PM »
PMs received OK - have responded by PM
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« on: July 30, 2018, 04:17:30 PM »
Thanks wolnic  For the list of expansions and for your offer about Green Dragon tiles ... that's why it's tempting to ask you for that favor
Drop me a PM if you want to discuss either the Green Dragon tiles, or a possible second set of Dragon tiles, in CarcII format.
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« on: July 28, 2018, 02:33:13 AM »
I've also found a different White Dragon expansion (for CarcI) on the Carcassonne Forum site. This introduces a set of 6 volcano and 12 dragon tiles with a white dragon icon, and my assumption is that if you draw one of those tiles you place/move the white dragon, rather than the normal one. Before converting that to CarcII format we'd have to check with the original designer if they had any reservations.
Alternatively, it would be easy enough to create a set of tiles with a different coloured dragon (easy in Photoshop) - such as blue, green, bronze or gold - and release as a new expansion (see attachment)
Although I usually put a handful of the forest tiles in the bag (usually some of the ones with roads/inns/cloisters) we don't play with the forest/woodcutter rules, just use them as landscape features, and house rule it that you can place a field tile edge next to a piece of woodland edge.
For various reasons I've not been doing much in the way of tile re-working over the last few weeks, so it might give me something different to work on.
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« on: July 27, 2018, 06:25:10 AM »
Green Dragon - that fan expansion contains 60 forest tiles including 3 with volcano and 3 with dragon symbols (plus 3 with princess and magic portals for full compatibility with Princess and Dragon expansion). I could quickly knock up those 6-12 tiles, if you'd like, and you can just treat the woodland areas as standalone field dividers, if not using any of the other forest tiles/rules. It doesn't introduce a green dragon!
Black Dragon - I'm still trying to track down ...
Dual Dragon - introduces a white dragon, and whoever pulls the volcano/dragon tile can choose whether to move it, or the standard dragon.
Perky Dragons and Taverns - adds some more dragon/volcano tiles
Dragon's Lair - this is a tie in with the Mountains expansion, and is again a few tiles with volcano/dragon/portal features on them
I've made up a few tiles for use with The Coast feature with volcano (island) and dragon (promontory) which could be used to add a few more chances of dragon(s) appearing.
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« on: July 14, 2018, 04:10:43 PM »
Thanks, Decar. Reading through that thread I can see that the challenges of getting each set of four players together was a major problem ...
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« on: July 13, 2018, 01:23:20 PM »
Following on from the report by Decar of the Team competition in Germany last week, has there ever been an online pairs competition?
I'm thinking of two players in each team, but playing individually, in a 4-player online game (maybe harder to arrange?). The combined score takes the win, which might even be from those in 2nd and 3rd, or 1st and 4th, depending on individual scores. Each pair plays against every other pair.
Or like the Davis Cup in tennis, where A1 plays B1 and A2 plays B2, then there's a 4-player (as above), followed by A1/B2 and A2/B1 if required. Straight knockout, or each team plays all the others, depending on numbers.
Maybe there are good reasons to avoid this idea? I'm not offering to run it, but just wondering ...
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« on: July 05, 2018, 01:30:51 AM »
I do like the idea of being able to do online officially-sanctioned tournaments or even play-by-[e]mail games, but the latter really requires space in a spare room to leave a game when it isn't being played, and I don't really have any place like that available to me currently.
The games weekends I mentioned are all face-to-face gaming, with anything from 30 players up to several hundreds. PBM or PBEM wouldn't be involved, although that's how I hear about them. I do realise they're not going to be very convenient for you but there may be similar happening in NZ in other areas of the games hobby. I'm not sure of the publicity mechanisms for these conventions, although the main ones I know of in the UK have been running for decades and are based in a University Hall of Residence over the summer, or hotel (out of season, or city centre at weekend when business folks aren't around) to try to keep the costs down. There are also minimal convention fees. For example on 20-23rd July this year, Manorcon XXXV is being held at Leicester University ( www.manorcon.org.uk).
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