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Official Rules / Re: Watchtowers questions
« on: April 22, 2017, 04:25:50 AM »
we've played it several times, and i also think its rubbish. Besides the wrong number in the english rules (says 6 instead of 12).
Its very unclear, as to what happens if you place it to extend or finish a project you're already on, do you get the watchtower bonus or not?
So we kinda decided that:
When you play the tile, you have to claim something on it (not the tower itself, as it states in the rules you can't i think)
When you finish that project you count the points and get the bonus
It can't be used again (otherwise you have to keep track of what has been used and what not)
No end of game bonus
The english rules state you can put a meeple on the tile as a farmer, but they don't trigger scoring, and meeples are not on the tower itself, but on the city,road or farm. And it says that if a completed road or city has a meeple on a watchtower (i asume watchtowertile) you trigger watchtower bonus, so thats why we agreed on that you have to claim something on the tile when you lay it, and that is the only thing that can get the bonus. If you use it to complete a city/road you're already in, you can't get the bonus, because you don't have a meeple on the watchtower tile (cus you cant when your already in the city/road).

Its not the best of expansions, and just gives more questions.

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Anything Else / Interesting souvenir from Russia
« on: April 21, 2017, 11:53:49 AM »
Today i was at my girlfriends parents and i saw something interesting.
Its a stone souvenir of the hut of Baba Yaga. They said they got it from a friend from Russia, and had no idea of the carcassonne tile that has it. So i showed them a picture and they agreed that it was a nice coincidence.
The roof is a lose bit and the right thingy is actually a little spoon. So it can be used as a sugarpot or something like that.
I thought its a nice little thing that I wanted to share here.

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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: April 21, 2017, 10:18:05 AM »
Nice set Adam! Got it al from Amazon italy? Its one of they only ones with some of the old expansions for a decent price.
Hope the rest arrive soon!

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General / Re: Element of the Week #56 – The Labyrinth
« on: April 16, 2017, 01:57:15 PM »
I didn't know of the 2 points per other meeple :o
I like putting them in (usually use both of them in one game), because it can make for some interesting roads.
Roads with lakes, or leading up to German Cathedrals, or German Castles, or even to the School can be made very interesting and worth a lot of points with the labyrinth.
Usually they end up being used as 4-way crossroads, but sometimes someone will be able to score some decent points by stealing it from someone else with the labyrinth.
Its happened often that someone starts with the labyrinth with 1 meeple on it, and someone connects to it using their big follower, thus getting the majority already.

I like this little mini expansion!

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The Marketplace / Re: Where to find it...
« on: April 02, 2017, 10:43:38 AM »
I must say, they went for much less than I expected. All 3 had a good price!
Anyone from here the lucky bidders?

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General / Re: The Cathedrals (in Germany) – Element of the Week #56
« on: April 02, 2017, 03:07:05 AM »
Thse have become a much used element in our games. They make roads more interesting for scoring, and combined with the ferries, make for a good strategy element!
We always play with the Phantom, so it makes the decision to claim a road or the cathedral a bit easier, as you can do both in one go!
And they look good to :D

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The Marketplace / Re: Where to find it...
« on: March 29, 2017, 10:53:00 AM »
A tip for people looking for the Spiel tiles for maybe a good price; they are on sale on the german ebay auction. Prices are low now, but nobody knows what will happen in the last few seconds of course :P
Spiel 14 tile
Spiel 15 tile
Spiel 16 tile

There are a few people already bidding, so I don't expect it to stay as low, but still a few days to go!

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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: March 29, 2017, 09:45:47 AM »
I've got a special little order in today from a befriended woodworker.
We were thinking of a different version of the catapult. The wooden catapult that is included in the expansion when it came out is very simple and difficult to use. We thought that is probably to save costs, but also to make it more of a comedic addition to the game.
Nevertheless we wanted to try something new, so this came to my doorstep today:


It works a bit better (i think at least) than the original. We were working on more of a Trebuchet version, but that didnt work well, so this was the end result.
Its about as long as the original, but a bit wider and higher.



And its easier to aim and decide on how fast you want to shoot it :)



Now we'll have to try it out soon :D

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General / Re: I love the postman...
« on: March 28, 2017, 09:56:18 AM »
Oei!
BigBoss and i both emailed them for confirmation, and both got a reply saying it was the 2013 spielbox version. I believe they changed it on their website now, but obviously it was too late for your order...

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The Marketplace / Re: WTB: Besiegers, tunnels and festival
« on: March 25, 2017, 08:17:16 AM »
Hello and welcome to the forum Caciej!
Besiegers are hard to find im afraid, but maybe someone has a spare set for you.
Tunnels are usually not too hard to find on ebay.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/322419789736?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
This is a not too bad price for it, and the seller is very kind and has several copies left.
For the Festival its the easiest to find a copy of the 10 year special edition that it comes with.

Good luck with your search!

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Reviews & Session Reports / 2-player MegaCarcassonne
« on: March 22, 2017, 04:56:15 AM »
Me and my girlfriend decided to sacrifice our dining table for a MegaCarcassonne! We figured we could start and stop whenever we wanted, and just resume the next day, and that is what we did. We started Friday afternoon, and finished Wednesday morning. I can't say how many hours went in to it, since we went out and had friends over, had to work and of course sleep. So we probably spent a lot of time in it :P

It was Base game, Winter edition base game, Inns&Cathedrals, Traders&Builders, Princess&Dragon, Tower, Abbey&Mayor, Count, King&Robber, Catapult (tiles only), Wheel of Fortune, Bridges, Castles &Bazaars, Hills&Sheep, River (1,2 and BB5) Count, GQ11, Cult, Siege &Creativity, Crop Circles 2, Festival, Phantom, School, Flying Machines, Messengers, Ferries, Goldmines, Mage&Witch, Windroses (2 sets), Watchtowers, Cult (3 versions), Tunnel, Little Buildings, Halflings 1&2 (got 4 halflings each), Labyrinth (both versions), German Monastaries, German Castles (2 castles each), German Cathedrals, Gingerbread Man, Winter Crop Circles, Darmstadt, Spiel 14,15,16.
Came out to almost 540 tiles in total (including the WoF starting tile & Count starting tile).
We used the scoretrack of the winter edition for our messengermeeples, so it was easier to see what was going on.

We used the lid from the BB5 to have all the tiles, with 2 teatowels as a cover, since the tiles didnt fit in our bag anymore. After we got through most of the tiles we put the rest in the bag and continued with the bag as normal.
We didn't use the Japanese Buildings and Dutch monastaries, because we have a house rule using the abbot meeples for the monastaries, so they're not too powerfull as everyone has just one to use. And with the normal cloisters and a lot of expansions having cloisters we figured there were enough of those in the game. Also didnt use the Robbers because we dont really like those in a 2 player game. Same with the Besiegers and Plague, so they were left out as well. Basicly everything else was in there!


At some point we were running out of meeples, so I tried to use the cat to claim a city. But it turned out she didnt want to stay there for long as she walked away soon.

We had mostly a nice game where we mostly went our own way. I stole a city from her and she came back with stealing a city from me, that had a cathedral, Mage and Gingerbread man, leading her to score over 50 points for the little city. And at the same time she trapped one of my meeples in a nearby city I tried to link up. But with her Halfling she made sure I wouldnt do that.
She did that again when i was building a nice big city, and trapped another meeple there with one of her Halflings. I made her remove some of her farmers as a comeback.
She ended up capturing one of my farmers and stealing that farm at the end though.


I trapped a meeple of hers in a German Cathedral and we were coming to the end!
Right at the end I was able to secure the last 2 pieces of gold, bringing my gold stash to 10! So I got a nice 40 points extra at the end, that I was very happy with!

We ran out of score tiles at the end, even after I got a couple from the Star Wars Carcassonne. So we used a piece of paper to write down how many 50's we had extra.
She had a very good barn down with 14 city's in, so I was hoping my farmers good make up for that!
The abbots were close, hers got 52 points, mine 56.


And that was it! I was tasked with cleaning up, since she went to work, so I spend about an hour sorting through everything.
In the end:
Pink: 1424 points
Blue: 1510 points
I was ahead most of the game, and managed to take the win!
In a previous big game she beat me by over 250 points, so I was happy to win this! Even though at the end we were also happy that we got through it :P



Now we will probably not play Carcassonne for at least 2 days  ::)

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General / Re: The 10th expansion (Under the Big Top) - poll
« on: March 09, 2017, 02:39:37 PM »
I will probably buy it when it comes out. Im not thrilled by the mechanics or theme but do want to give it a try. I am not gonna buy a big box in new artwork, because i dont like it and dont want a base game in it. So ill probably buy the expansion and use it in my games every now and then

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The Marketplace / Re: Tip for a almost complete collection
« on: March 09, 2017, 12:51:39 PM »
Yeah. Ive got them, but a few of them are slightly damaged. In the end i thought i shouldnt have any more stuff hehe

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The Marketplace / Re: Tip for a almost complete collection
« on: March 09, 2017, 12:24:01 PM »
To be honest, I really like the Halflings, and was thinking of getting the Halflings 2, because mine are slightly damaged.... But in the end I am very happy with my purchases from it!
When I found it, I emailed the guy, he didnt want to sell it in parts, and I thought that was it. Thinking I could help one person, I never thought we would end up having such a good example of the spirit of this forum!
Halfling, thank you again and again for taking the risk on this! As you're about breaking even and having some stuff for ebay, I reckon you'll make a well deserved profit from it!
I didnt dare to hope I would end up with Darmstadt, the Spiel tiles, the Festival (I have a 10th-anniversary in NL waiting for me, but this was a good opportunity for the Festival) and the Plague!
And seeing how many forummembers are happy to find some good stuff on this, gives a smile! :D

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The Marketplace / Re: Where to find it...
« on: March 08, 2017, 11:47:04 AM »
I was going through some second hand site today, and found a few things that might be interesting for some:
Mueller special edition complete
same, but a bit cheaper on a similar website from Austria
someone with a lot of different bits and expansions for different games
These will probably all want payment via bank transfer, as usual on these sites. If anyone needs help with that to prevent high transaction costs, Totor66 has offered to help, and I will be happy to help to. Ive got a dutch bank account as well as an english one and PayPal linked with both, so can help out with transfers to Iban bank accounts, like german and austrian ones

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