Author Topic: Do you recognise this start tile?  (Read 2242 times)

Offline Challa007

  • Viscount
  • ****
  • Posts: 665
  • Merit: 38
  • Fight, Flight, Freeze ..... or Play :)
    • View Profile
Do you recognise this start tile?
« on: March 26, 2023, 02:54:44 AM »
Hi,
someone on ebay-kleinanzeigen is wondering about a start tile.
For me it looks like a fan expansion but I do not know it.
Does anybody here has an idea from what fan expansion this is?  @wolnic ?
Thanks in advance.

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/carcassonne-fans-bitte-um-hilfe/2396148366-23-6018



Linkback: https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=6330.0

Online oldbonz

  • Authors
  • Marquis Chevalier
  • *
  • Posts: 2460
  • Merit: 109
  • Tout simplement
    • View Profile
Re: Do you recognise this start tile?
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2023, 03:41:27 AM »
it looks like a big fat spot licked by a cat

Offline wolnic

  • Authors
  • Duke Chevalier
  • *
  • Posts: 1537
  • Merit: 208
  • Ummm and Ahhh! Can't decide!
    • View Profile
Re: Do you recognise this start tile?
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2023, 03:57:27 AM »
Does anybody here has an idea from what fan expansion this is?  @wolnic ?

It's not something that springs to mind immediately, not that I've looked at all of the fan expansions. I have searched through the Expansion Finder on WICA for anything with a 4x3 tile block, and the only one I've never seen an image of is "The Holy Grail" by Friederich Scholta. Since that's a "lost" expansion I'm not aware of anyone here who would know for sure - a few of us have been trying to find details for a long time, now. Maybe some of the long-time members of CarcF (who are reluctant to speak of that time) may know. However, the description we have pieced together for "The Holy Grail" states ...

Quote
As players complete features on the board, their followers are held in a fortress (scoring an increasing number of points) but must wait until they are replaced by the next to complete a feature; apart from the last who remains until the end of the game!

Maybe you've just found, for us, our Holy Grail! +1 merit from me!
« Last Edit: March 26, 2023, 06:42:12 AM by wolnic »
AutumnForest (C2), Catch Of The Day (C1/2/WD), Cliffs&W'falls (C1/2), Coast (C1/2), FishHuts (C2), Fluvium (C2), NewForest (C2), Harvest (C1/2), Stone Circles (C1/2), Wells (C2), Jordan River 2 (AotC), River I/II (GR)
Devt: Sakura (C2), WinterEdge (C1), WinterCoast (WD/WE) and others

Offline wolnic

  • Authors
  • Duke Chevalier
  • *
  • Posts: 1537
  • Merit: 208
  • Ummm and Ahhh! Can't decide!
    • View Profile
Re: Do you recognise this start tile?
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2023, 05:33:38 AM »
I've gone back to the document I created for all the Lost Expansions (originally this was for expansions mentioned on carcassonne.nl, an early Carcassonne fan site), and the notes for The Holy Grail lead me to be (almost) 100% sure that this is the start block from that expansion. Sample images, for the descriptions below, were missing in the original source.

Quote
If black completes this city, he gets 8 points for it, (3 city pieces + 1 shield)*2. The freed knight is placed in the Montsegur fortress on the first scoring space. Black receives an additional 2 points for this. The black knight must remain in the fortress until he or another player places a new knight in the fortress.

If, for example, the road is finished by red, red gets 2 points for his road. The red serf is placed on the next valuation square (red gets another 4 points for this) and the black knight goes back to its owner.

The monastery is also occupied differently: If the meadow adjacent to the monastery is placed another meadow tile (in this case with a city part), one cannot place a farmer on it, but a monk may be placed in the monastery.

Red gets 9 points for completing the monastery, must place his knight on the next valuation space in the fortress and receives (in this example) an additional 10 points.

The serf, who enters the fortress on the last valuation square (14 points), remains there until the game ends. So it is decisive when a road, city or monastery is finished. The longer a player waits, the more points he gets for his knight in the fortress, with, however, the risk that he will reach the last square and not get his serf back.
« Last Edit: March 26, 2023, 05:39:16 AM by wolnic »

Offline Schwebels

  • Labourer
  • **
  • Posts: 11
  • Merit: 0
  • I haven't updated my profile yet!
    • View Profile
Re: Do you recognise this start tile?
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2023, 06:09:58 AM »
It kinda looks like the back of a points board

Offline Snearone

  • Duke
  • *
  • Posts: 237
  • Merit: 136
    • View Profile
Re: Do you recognise this start tile?
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2023, 06:20:04 AM »
I've gone back to the document I created for all the Lost Expansions (originally this was for expansions mentioned on carcassonne.nl, an early Carcassonne fan site), and the notes for The Holy Grail lead me to be (almost) 100% sure that this is the start block from that expansion. Sample images, for the descriptions below, were missing in the original source.

That's it! It all adds up, including the 14 valuation square and the cloister.
Excelent work +1 @wolnic  :(y)
Completed: Robber's Son | Gambler's Luck | Vistas Revisited | First Wells | The Flying Machines 2
WIP: The Occult Tower | Binding Deed | Wandering Preachers | City Gates Rebuilt | New King's Orders

Offline Challa007

  • Viscount
  • ****
  • Posts: 665
  • Merit: 38
  • Fight, Flight, Freeze ..... or Play :)
    • View Profile
Re: Do you recognise this start tile?
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2023, 07:24:46 AM »
Wow, great work @wolnic !! +1 merit from me, too!!

I have written the name of the expansion to the person and now the corresponding rules have been found. Here is the picture  ;D

One less lost expansion ...  8)

Online KlausiMausi

  • Villein
  • ***
  • Posts: 39
  • Merit: 8
    • View Profile
Re: Do you recognise this start tile?
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2023, 07:39:28 AM »
The assessment of wolnic seems correct to me.

Under the title "The Holy Grail of Scholta" I found documents with this graphic in my archive.

Unfortunately, I have no rules but three more starting cards. Everything is attached.

there shall be disobedient meeple ... but it doesn't bother us

Offline wolnic

  • Authors
  • Duke Chevalier
  • *
  • Posts: 1537
  • Merit: 208
  • Ummm and Ahhh! Can't decide!
    • View Profile
Re: Do you recognise this start tile?
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2023, 07:58:08 AM »
I have written the name of the expansion to the person and now the corresponding rules have been found. Here is the picture  ;D

Excellent work @Challa007, and many thanks for doing this. I will update the "Lost Expansions" document in due course. It's still "lost" of course, but at least we have the pictures to go with the text I had. And thanks to @KlausiMausi for his info adding to what we know.

Offline Challa007

  • Viscount
  • ****
  • Posts: 665
  • Merit: 38
  • Fight, Flight, Freeze ..... or Play :)
    • View Profile
Re: Do you recognise this start tile?
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2023, 09:43:39 AM »
here now the missing second page ...  ;D


Offline wolnic

  • Authors
  • Duke Chevalier
  • *
  • Posts: 1537
  • Merit: 208
  • Ummm and Ahhh! Can't decide!
    • View Profile
Re: Do you recognise this start tile?
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2023, 04:00:26 AM »
Many thanks, again, for this final piece, Challa007


Share via delicious Share via digg Share via facebook Share via furl Share via linkedin Share via myspace Share via reddit Share via stumble Share via technorati Share via twitter

  Subject / Started by Replies / Views Last post
xx
Carc Tactics - Farms - When do you start your first one?

Started by SRBO

36 Replies
25752 Views
Last post April 29, 2014, 08:04:30 AM
by CKorfmann
clip
Carcassonne Amazonas - jungle space around start tile

Started by Vital Pluymers

2 Replies
1225 Views
Last post March 29, 2022, 12:31:04 PM
by Vital Pluymers
xx
River & Start Tile

Started by Carcassonne0123

18 Replies
3489 Views
Last post July 23, 2021, 02:28:46 PM
by Bumsakalaka
clip
Favouritism Poll #5 : Start Tile

Started by dirk2112

33 Replies
22183 Views
Last post April 22, 2016, 10:28:47 AM
by Decar
exclamation
Alternative Start Tiles and Rules

Started by t2k

5 Replies
2465 Views
Last post January 05, 2020, 12:08:38 AM
by Meepledrone