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« on: September 05, 2022, 02:40:47 PM »
Wow, what a perfect visual comparison of most of river elements in the game! Of the items not on display, if I see it correctly, there are only 2 pieces featuring a river in GQ11 within C1 and 3 pieces in Cutcassonne within C2 if these really count... And this may not change soon as there is presumably no river in the Mists over Carcassonne as far as the so far released pics and videos show. Or ... ? :-)
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« on: August 04, 2022, 12:40:04 AM »
WoF became very popular for our family games after I finally got my hands on one after many years (a long and dull story short: I held a box of fresh new WoF game at a stall of Czech Carcassonne publisher in Prague "For Games" fair back in 2010 but as I was told that a Czech edition would be due, I did not buy it. The Czech edition never materialized.)
I noticed that most of family players largely refuse to deploy a meeple on the wheel unless we play Phantom. One extra phantom meeple makes them use it frequently.
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« on: July 01, 2022, 09:02:17 AM »
Were there any reasonable options for direct flights from Prague, it would probably pay off  I still could not make up my mind if I actually like or hate this mini...but for this price, I would be happy to try myself.
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« on: May 22, 2022, 11:30:52 PM »
Our stable number 2 is BANG! A card game set in the Wild West made it to our home some years back when my older son started to play at school, a rather encouraging thing in the age of mobile phone gaming. When my younger son now packed for a school trip, he also took the cards as he plays as well with his classmates.
While by far not that complex as Carcassonne world, BANG! also offered several expansions as time passed. The game is popular in our region and the author Emiliano Sciarra even invited Czech and Slovak players to contribute to one of the expansions. Based exclusively on their submitted proposals, Walley of Shadows was evetually published in 2011, the Czech edition bearing names of card authors in small letters. We gradually collected all 8 expansion packs and also two dice variants as they are good travel options.
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« on: May 19, 2022, 04:11:58 AM »
The fact that HiG did not replace the C2 tiles with the updated C3 tiles in the rules tells a bit about how lame this whole C2/C3 conversion is so far. I was disappointed some weeks back by the fact that C3 version of the Festival still bears the now long time obsolete number 15 and still has no watermark but I apparently had too high expectations. How much work would it take to put updated tiles on the rule sheet? And yet...
The only thing that I am now curious about is which of earlier miniexpansions will eventually be converted into C3 art, but my bet is that no other than those already existing as C2, any C3 Besiegers or even remakes of some of the earlier Spielbox minis would be a genuine surprise. What is the point of producing almost same editions that only bear few extra houses is to anyone´s guess but I am definitely not in.
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« on: April 28, 2022, 03:22:45 PM »
https://wikicarpedia.com/index.php/The_Festival_(1st_edition)
That's the expansion for the 10th Anniversary. I see them as two different expansions, one for the 10th and one for the 15th, that just happen to have the same name. I think it's reasonable what they're doing: they're remaking the 15th anniversary expansion to update the graphics, the 15 remains. If they decided to remake the 10th anniversary expansion, the 10 also would remain.
At least, this is how I understood how things in Carcassonne work 
As The Festival came in 2 editions that commemorate the 10th and then the 15th anniversary (of whatever, not the game launch, but that is how HiG count, anyway) and differ in art as the first fits into C1 period of Doris Matthäus and the second into C2 period of Anne Pätzke, wouldn´t it be a natural thing to launch now a third edition that would acknowledge the new C3 art and an anniversary that it missed just by few months? I remember that when the very first glimpses of Carc20 anniversary edition were revealed, many comments were expressing a worry that another mere iteration of The Festival may be a part of it. That was not the case. Now that HiG decided to rework and reedit The Festival, it is still beyong my comprehension why, while altering the design of the tiles anyway (as they sport the C3 art now), they could not update the number at least. It would make the item much more palatable to me. But no.
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« on: April 25, 2022, 02:31:43 PM »
Well, this is grossly dissapointing. I would be quite happy with various C3 variants from, let´say, a version with no number and just vague "celebration features and fireworks" to "The Festival 20" with a matching number and ideally also suitable watermark, and I would probably buy any of such in the end. But I really see no point of a remake of this kind. I will for sure not buy this one, my general dislike of C3 sneaky introduction is even fostered by such lame and unconceptual remake that will please few but dissapoint many.
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« on: April 18, 2022, 11:37:22 PM »
I've got the Japanese C2 base game that came with them, but it's still sealed, so no idea in terms of how they're presented in there. If the Dutch version of base game+monastaries is anything to go by, they are like this (not separately sealed) and a pamphlet with the rules.
I did however find the rules i got with my other set of Japanese Buildings. They say it's from Cundco, so i'm assuming that's where i got them from.
I can scan it if you like and share, but the rules are the same as the other monastery expansions. Funny detail is thought that this is from just before C2, and the art was done by a Japanese artist i believe.
There are English rules posted on CarcF: https://www.carcassonne-forum.de/viewtopic.php?t=3254. Is it allowable for me to re-post here? That file matches my physical rules copy which I got by ordering from cundco.de Spare Parts > Game Instructions, which should also still be an option for folks.
Thanks a lot for directing my attention to the possibility to actually also order game instructions as spare parts. For some reason, I totally missed this option! I wonder, may HiG still having stock of Japanese buildings, why they did not add the rules to the Easter sale items, but never mind...
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« on: April 17, 2022, 12:53:23 AM »
As many of us these days, I was treated just before Easter break by a copy of Japanese buildings from the Easter sale. The tiles are marvelous (if not much fitting into the Carcassonne landscape but that is a topic probably well talked over already). Arrived a bit "naked" though - no foil, no rules. I learnt about the depicted venerable structures from the knowledgeable Wikicarpedia but I wonder how they were described in the originial Japanese edition. A part of the basic game rules or a separate piece? In Japanese, in English?
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« on: April 05, 2022, 04:18:25 AM »
I quickly grabbed my first complete copy of Japanese Buildings, otherwise the Easter sale did not quite meet my expectations. Looking forward to autumn releases...
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« on: March 30, 2022, 11:56:40 PM »
Have a great trip! We visited back in 1999 with my then-girlfriend (who is actually my girlfriend still :-) which is so long ago that I even do not have any photos from that trip in my computer, just the real ones in one of our dusty family albums. Now I realize that it was so ancient visit that no board game was around yet.
Do you fly directly to Carcassonne airport? It has only a handful of direct services (and as in one of my other geek lives I am an air travel geek, I would be interested to see some airport photos...). One of its alterative names is an apt "Aéroport de Carcassonne en Pays Cathare"...
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« on: March 24, 2022, 12:42:53 AM »
Today the postwoman brought me my custom Dice Game scoring pad from Artscow.
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This Dice Game scoring pad is really awesome! If you decide to share the template, I will definitely try to get one for me.
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« on: March 22, 2022, 03:41:40 PM »
One more and this time quite substantial delivery awaited me in my office today. When I noticed in January people mentioning that HiG may want to give away some boxes of new Winter edition that they test-played, I wrote them right on and then happily forgot about it. To my surprise, I was among several other forum members who were recently contacted by the publisher and yes, today I received my first Extrawurst. Ironically, a very spring weather finally hit Prague just today and winter is supposingly over in the Czech Republic but we will surely figure out how to deal with this
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« on: March 22, 2022, 03:47:24 AM »
I received two small additions to my collections today. I never much investigated the pros and cons of a dice game (any suggestions warmly welcomed!) but I could not resist the neat metal meeple-shaped box. It may also be another travel option.
The Dutch version of the Demo-spiel will also augment my customized Cf2 game. I already boosted it with the German version tiles some months back so it may be considered as a mild symptom of completism to have both even though the tiles are completely same ...
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« on: March 18, 2022, 02:24:42 AM »
This is actually a question worth a thorough poll. I guess they will not, especially as C3 art is not that substantially different visually from C2 and items are well compatible. This opens a number of potential approaches: slow replacement of all boxed expansions by C3 editions, re-releases of some C2 minis as C3, re-releases of some long time sought after C1 minis that never saw a light of a day as C2 now in C3 art etc. ... (I admit that the last option is more my wish than a probable scenario but ... who knows).
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