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Carc Central Community => News and Events => Topic started by: Whaleyland on July 30, 2015, 08:56:07 PM
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News has reached me via http://www.spielen.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=346402&start=10 (http://www.spielen.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=346402&start=10) that this year Brettspiel is releasing an advent calendar through Spielbox Magazine. It will include 24 (or 25?) separate small expansions for many games, including Carcassonne! Whether this will be a new expansion or a reprint of an old one is not currently known, but regardless this may be a fun Christmas indeed.
The full press release, in German, is this:
Jedes Türchen für die Tage der Adventszeit kommt mit einer anderen kleinen Erweiterung für ein beliebtes Brett- oder Kartenspiel daher. Die Liste der Spiele, für die im Adventskalender eine Erweiterung enthaltenen ist, umfasst sogar den aktuellen Spiel des Jahres-Preisträger 2015 Colt Express.
Die vollständige Liste in alphabetischer Reihenfolge ist: Abyss, Arler Erde, Bohnanza, Cacao, Carcassonne, Catan, Colt Express, Die Burgen von Burgund, Doctor Panic, El Gaucho, Funkenschlag, Glasstraße, Isle of Skye, Las Vegas, Loony Quest, Marvel Dice Masters, Orléans, Rokoko, Splendor, Targi, VivaJava, Wizards, ZhanGuo und Zooloretto.
Wir bedanken uns besonders herzlich bei den Verlagen 2F-Spiele, AbacusSpiele, alea, Amigo Spiele, Argentum Verlag, Asmodee, Bombyx, Catan, dlp Spiele, EggertSpiele, Feuerland, Franckh-Kosmos, Hans im Glück, Libellud, Lookout Spiele, Ludonaute, Mayfair, Pegasus Spiele, Repos Production, Space Cowboys, What's Your Game? und WizKids für ihr Unterstützung.
Der Kalender ist mit einer großen und exklusiven Illustration vom Spiele-Illustrator Klemens Franz auch optisch ein Blickfang. Alle Käufer eines Kalenders unterstützen zusätzlich einen guten Zweck, denn von jedem verkauften Exemplar gehen € 4,- an eine Wohltätigkeitsorganisation.
Der Brettspiel-Adventskalender 2015 hat eine UVP von € 47,99. Auf der Spiel ’15 ist der Adventskalender zum Messepreis von € 45,- zu erhalten.
This may be the single-largest collaboration between the major European games companies to date. Who's excited for this!?
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Totally replying to my own post, but I'm excited to get the Carcassonne, Catan, Castles of Burgundy, and Zooloretto expansions. I took the first and last of those games with me to New Zealand, and I've been keeping up with all the expansions for the four of them for years, so that alone makes this an exciting set. I really hope, though, that they are going to made available separately as well since I don't own the other 20 games listed. Fortunately, all my games are language-independent usually, unlike many of the others.
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the Advent calendar with mini-expansions of different board games:
For a playing group (where they almost have all of the games) is this a great idea.
I have my Carcassonne collection - that means this is nothing for me.
They produce only 3000 pieces of this advent calendar - made by "Frosted Games (http://frostedgames.de/)".
The publisher Frosted Games runs by Matthias Nagy (darkpact). He has an own blog and is a part of the podcast (http://bretterwisser.de/ (http://bretterwisser.de/)). He is well known in the boardgame scene.
Here is a youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X6W2Q8gBbo) an interview with Matthias Nagy from Sebastian Wenzel (www.spielama.de (http://www.spielama.de))
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only 1 game i have in my collection and its carcassonne..
Hopefully the expansion will be available to all, because 50 euro is a bit to much for me.. even if i could sell all the separate parts..
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It would be nice to see some photos of the actual content.
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I'm more interessted in how many tiles. It says expansion and I would hope this means more than just 1-3 tiles.
(http://frostedgames.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Brettspiel-Adventskalender-final.png)
Image source: http://frostedgames.de/shop/brettspiel-adventskalender-2015-spiel-2015-selbstabholer/ (http://frostedgames.de/shop/brettspiel-adventskalender-2015-spiel-2015-selbstabholer/)
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Follow the Frosted Games link kettlefish put up and some of your questions will be answered. Also check out the Discussion Forum on BGG for the calendar—the designer has responded to some concerns. 22 of the 24 expansions will be unique, but some may be available from the publishers at at a later point in time. They will all be small, promo-sized expansions composed of cards or tiles (no mats, figures, or dice apparently).
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I did visit BGG.com and followed Twitter etc. Not much info there atm and the rest was in foreign language(s). :@
The big question we should ask is (for those solemny interested in Carcassonne only): Which will be cheaper? To buy the entire calendar or just the loose tiles from auctions/sales.
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Follow the Frosted Games link kettlefish put up and some of your questions will be answered. Also check out the Discussion Forum on BGG for the calendar—the designer has responded to some concerns. 22 of the 24 expansions will be unique, but some may be available from the publishers at at a later point in time. They will all be small, promo-sized expansions composed of cards or tiles (no mats, figures, or dice apparently).
So from what i see is that there are 22 unique expansions and 1 wasnt available in germany before..
23 of the exansions are language independent. so that wont be a problem.
He said that for 2 expansions he wasnt able to create new promos.. so my guess is that the new carcassonne expansion is language independent and unique.
considering its a fairly big package my guess is that we can see 1-8 tiles. but not more..
Carcassonne 1 or 2?.. my biggest question for now.
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I did visit BGG.com and followed Twitter etc. Not much info there atm and the rest was in foreign language(s). :@
The big question we should ask is (for those solemny interested in Carcassonne only): Which will be cheaper? To buy the entire calendar or just the loose tiles from auctions/sales.
BGG - Are these new expansions or existing ones? (https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1403320/are-these-new-expansions-or-existing-ones)
22 of these 24 expansions are completely new and never been distributed before. And they will not be available outside this product before Essen 2016, if at all.
And I say always - please wait... >:D
You know it - there is a CundCo-Shop...
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At BGG you can find this:
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193435/games-brettspiel-adventskalender-2015 (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193435/games-brettspiel-adventskalender-2015)
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So no expansion for regular carcassonne but an expansion for the winter edition!
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At least that means it's not carcassonne 2
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At least that means it's not carcassonne 2
I bet if it was more catapult tiles you guys would fine with it ok as long as it's not v2.0! ;D
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I would buy it but there is always the chance it could be The Gingerbread Man. I play loads of games so it'll most likely have some stuff for me.
Maybe Santa Claus tokens to fire at your cities with the catapult to deliver presents to your meeples would be fun!
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Maybe Santa Claus tokens to fire at your cities with the catapult to deliver presents to your meeples would be fun!
:) :(y)
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I don't have the winter edition of Carcassonne, but I am curious about the Catan expansion (If you zoom into the Catan guy on the box, he seems to be holding a hex with a snow-covered house...)
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The Carcassonne promo is 6 tiles. I asked this on Facebook and got that answer.
I did order the Adventcalendar with Essen Pick-up. I am interested in 7 of the 24 promos and figure I could sell the rest of them.
I just hope that none of the promos I'm interested in are one of the already released ones or the one in German. Ah well.
For those interested: I'm after the Catan, Carcassonne, Splendor, Abyss, Burgundy, El Gaucho and Power Grid promo.
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A user CarcF published a photograph of promos of Carcassonne, unfortunately I can not find her.
The expansion to the promotional winter edition is ................
Do not read the sentence in little if you do not want to ruin the surprise
Crop Circles.
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I've seen the mini-expansion - it looks nice.
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A user CarcF published a photograph of promos of Carcassonne, unfortunately I can not find her.
The expansion to the promotional winter edition is ................
Do not read the sentence in little if you do not want to ruin the surprise
For everyone's information, on the tapatalk app the small text was not small and was at normal size. So maybe another way to hide spoilers is needed.
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The real spoiler is here:
(http://www.carcassonne-forum.de/download/file.php?id=5651&sid=9fbf61d4f1f15515659276ed3c1fe2a2&mode=view)
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The real spoiler is here:
When quevy mentioned it, I thought it sounded like a strange visual combination that would not work very well ... and so it is. Off the top of my head, this is the only mini-expansion that requires that the ground be grass and not snow - i.e. it's the expansion that is least suited to the winter edition yet somehow was the first one chosen. Sometimes decisions like this just boggle the mind.
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There are forums that have hidden text where you click on it to reveal its content. This would have worked well in the case of spoilers.
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Mechanically it's quite a good expansion (assuming the rules have not changed). It's hard to find, so it makes some sense to have it available in one form. Thematically it works well: the snow has been cleared to show the grass underneath. I think this is a welcome mini-expansion.
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Will this be available for the common folks? I checked their website it was all sold out but from what I could read these will be available in (certain) stores as well.
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I believe Cundco will have it later this year
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Mechanically it's quite a good expansion (assuming the rules have not changed). It's hard to find, so it makes some sense to have it available in one form. Thematically it works well: the snow has been cleared to show the grass underneath. I think this is a welcome mini-expansion.
Then I guess we'll agree to disagree. :green-meeple:
The one I would have loved to see is Besiegers. A besieging army failing to cause the city to surrender before winter sets in and being stuck outside the walls with its camps and siege engines under snow could have been amazing in terms of artwork. And if the siege tiles helped offset some of the power of the Gingerbread Man, even better.
Another one I'd like to see is the Ferries adapted for winter. So the transport would be ice transport to travel over frozen lakes. This would be good for both artwork and gameplay, as the Ferries was a very well-received mini-expansion. Equally, a winter edition River with a frozen river would have been a good opportunity for nice artwork.
I honestly think I put more thought into this in the last 10 minutes than anyone else did before choosing the Crop Circles.
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Hopefully we'll get those next year too :(y)
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Mechanically it's quite a good expansion (assuming the rules have not changed). It's hard to find, so it makes some sense to have it available in one form. Thematically it works well: the snow has been cleared to show the grass underneath. I think this is a welcome mini-expansion.
Then I guess we'll agree to disagree. :green-meeple:
The one I would have loved to see is Besiegers. A besieging army failing to cause the city to surrender before winter sets in and being stuck outside the walls with its camps and siege engines under snow could have been amazing in terms of artwork. And if the siege tiles helped offset some of the power of the Gingerbread Man, even better.
Another one I'd like to see is the Ferries adapted for winter. So the transport would be ice transport to travel over frozen lakes. This would be good for both artwork and gameplay, as the Ferries was a very well-received mini-expansion. Equally, a winter edition River with a frozen river would have been a good opportunity for nice artwork.
I honestly think I put more thought into this in the last 10 minutes than anyone else did before choosing the Crop Circles.
Where's the button "Like" when you need it the most. :(y) 8) Well said, JB
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I absolute agree with JB, too. I also like the idea of "Sledges" or the like instead of "Ferries".
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+1 to JB, very well said! Maybe we need to send it to ... who was responsible for that :)
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I really like the look of the new promo, so I (finally!) decided to cave in and buy the winter edition...
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Well worth it! The extra 12 tiles are great & the Gingerbread is very fun :(y)
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Well worth it! The extra 12 tiles are great & the Gingerbread is very fun :(y)
I really hope the Corn Circles Winter Edition becomes available outside of the Advent Calendar. Same with the Castles of Burgundy, Zooloretto, and Catan expansions.
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Well worth it! The extra 12 tiles are great & the Gingerbread is very fun :(y)
I'm really looking forward to it now! (I bought the one with the gingerbread man included)
I really hope the Corn Circles Winter Edition becomes available outside of the Advent Calendar.
I'm hoping it comes to cundco... it would be ironic if both versions became impossible to obtain (I still don't have the original)
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I really hope the Corn Circles Winter Edition becomes available outside of the Advent Calendar.
I'm hoping it comes to cundco... it would be ironic if both versions became impossible to obtain (I still don't have the original)
Yes, the Corn Circles I for the Winter-Edition will come to the CundCo Shop.
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It should be worth noting that Crop Circles: Winter Edition are not the same tile configurations for Crop Circles 1: Carcassonne
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It should be worth noting that Crop Circles: Winter Edition are not the same tile configurations for Crop Circles 1: Carcassonne
Thanks Decar - you are right.
So the Crop Circles Winter-Edition are different than Crop Circles I and II Standard Edition.
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Has anyone see any of the other promos included with the calendar?
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khonnor posted some nice pictures on BGG:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1450160/spoiler-thread-there-be-spoilers-here-you-dont-eve/page/3
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Looks like I have a calendar making it's way to me shortly. I only wanted some of the expansions, so if you're interested in the others let me know. Some of them have been taken already; so I'll make a list in another thread.
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Since the tiles are a different configuration than Corn Circles I & II and only available for the winter edition, I decied to make a simple base game equivalent of the tiles. I call them the Snow Circles:
(http://s29.postimg.cc/97pnj98uf/Snow_Circles.jpg)
If any one wants to make them themselves, I have attached the PDF I used with the snowy shapes. Five of the tiles are spares from the base game and the last one (with cloister) is a spare from Inns & Cathedrals. After cutting out and sticking on the shapes I outlined them with pen. Nothing too elaborate, but I'm pleased with how they came out!
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We have had the same idea, I have recently started working with the normal version of these crop circles. I lost time to print the tiles directly and I set aside this little project. You've preceded :)
(http://i65.tinypic.com/2805ao3.jpg)
(https://scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/12249825_10208204819903366_8291005407281242320_n.jpg?oh=40b1e510bfdc6448a61b8ceedf7cee8b&oe=56B2ED01)
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All tiles
(https://scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/12240102_10208205429918616_3601243983103240588_n.jpg?oh=1b16c83a0bc8ede7cab430b0e34b62e0&oe=56B6E165)
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These look great quevy! Your tile printing is amazing :)
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I was able to order the Winter Edition crop circles on the BGG marketplace today.
Even though I don't think this was a great choice of mini-expansion for the Winter Edition (as I wrote earlier in this thread (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=1983.msg29549#msg29549)), and there's no actual crops/corn in these crop circles (nor 'circles', for that matter!), I still think it will be cool to have an additional expansion for the Winter Edition. A game with the crop circles and gingerbread man plus the extra 12 tiles with house-rules for the animal tiles sounds like a nice game indeed.
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Add file in download
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Any update on when CundCo will (hopefully) have the Winter Edition Crop Circles expansion in stock? I know I haven't gotten my late October order from them yet but I don't want to miss out on this expansion. It may not add much to the game, but an expansion's an expansion and I must have it. TAKE MY MONEY!
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I just learned to be published "Brettspiel Easter Basket 2016 (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/191779/brettspiel-easter-basket-2016)", unfortunately will not contain parts of Carcassonne.
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I just looked it up. Don't own any of those games depicted. Oh well. :)
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As sorry as I am that there isn't going to be another expansion released in this way, I'm kind of glad of it if the new one would be anywhere near as difficult to get hold of as the Christmas one.
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I just learned to be published "Brettspiel Easter Basket 2016 (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/191779/brettspiel-easter-basket-2016)", unfortunately will not contain parts of Carcassonne.
Im still getting it ! :(y) :black1-meeple: