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Re: Mini-Expansion "German Kathedrals" for Carcassonne-on-Tour 2016
« Reply #135 on: March 23, 2016, 07:19:32 AM »
I made an expansion a few years ago about the Franish reconquest of Gaul from the Moors. Check it out: http://carcassonnecentral.com/forum/index.php?topic=1116.0.

Edit: Apparently I need to re-find the files. They are all linked to my old WorldofCatan site, which doesn't exist anymore. Here's the link to the rules, at least: http://www.whaleyland.com/downloads/gaulrules.pdf

Cool idea.  Your expansion would work well with Die Windrosen so players would know which way was South.

Until the blue Windrose appears and South moves :P
Look to the north. Keep looking. There's nothing coming from the south.

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Re: Mini-Expansion "German Kathedrals" for Carcassonne-on-Tour 2016
« Reply #136 on: March 23, 2016, 07:46:33 AM »

Until the blue Windrose appears and South moves :P

With all of the crusading and pillaging, they may have lost their way a little bit.

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Re: Mini-Expansion "German Kathedrals" for Carcassonne-on-Tour 2016
« Reply #137 on: March 23, 2016, 01:09:10 PM »
I made an expansion a few years ago about the Franish reconquest of Gaul from the Moors. Check it out: http://carcassonnecentral.com/forum/index.php?topic=1116.0.

Edit: Apparently I need to re-find the files. They are all linked to my old WorldofCatan site, which doesn't exist anymore. Here's the link to the rules, at least: http://www.whaleyland.com/downloads/gaulrules.pdf

Cool idea.  Your expansion would work well with Die Windrosen so players would know which way was South.
Here are the missing files:
Starting Board Part 1
Starting Board Part 2
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Just arrived! :)


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English rules (sorry for the poor quality, someone will scan a better version later I hope!)


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Re: Mini-Expansion "German Kathedrals" for Carcassonne-on-Tour 2016
« Reply #140 on: March 25, 2016, 12:02:21 PM »
I don't like counting the tile multiple times, but other than that the rules seem ok. 

Thanks for posting the pictures.  My Kathedrals are hopefully crossing the Atlantic. 

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Re: Mini-Expansion "German Kathedrals" for Carcassonne-on-Tour 2016
« Reply #141 on: March 25, 2016, 12:06:57 PM »
I like them - the rules are straightforward and simple; but new for the game and the the slight tweak to roads are interesting, remembering each road segment scores isn't too fiddly and I think the points are necessary for making Bishops worth playing (eg: +3 or +4).  Making the roads more valuable +2 is nice too as it makes trapping slightly less viable.  I don't see it breaking space/time laws nor other expansions.  The Watermarks are nice - Can't wait to get mine and give it a proper thumbs up

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Just arrived! :)

Wow, that was fast! They said 10-25 working days. Plus they emailed me yesterday to say my transfer hadn't arrived yet (even though I sent it on Monday night), so I'm pretty amazed that you have your copy already!

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Re: Mini-Expansion "German Kathedrals" for Carcassonne-on-Tour 2016
« Reply #143 on: March 25, 2016, 12:30:55 PM »
I like these rules! Anything that makes roads more valuable is always good in my book, as I feel they get a bit overpowered by other features in the base rules. Looking forward to getting my copy :green-meeple:

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Re: Mini-Expansion "German Kathedrals" for Carcassonne-on-Tour 2016
« Reply #144 on: March 25, 2016, 12:40:03 PM »
Funny how they try to distance themself from other combinations..

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Re: Mini-Expansion "German Kathedrals" for Carcassonne-on-Tour 2016
« Reply #145 on: March 25, 2016, 01:12:07 PM »
Funny how they try to distance themself from other combinations..

HiG is learning - they know that the community will check out all the possible problems with using other expansions (especially like "the Plague" or the "Tunnels"...

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Re: Mini-Expansion "German Kathedrals" for Carcassonne-on-Tour 2016
« Reply #146 on: March 25, 2016, 01:47:26 PM »
I dont see any problems with other expansions yet.

I wonder though. If 1 road is ending in a german castle and german kathedral will the bonus be +3 or +6?

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First game with German Cathedrals and Labyrinth tonight.

Labyrinth tile (only one: old style of course!) was drawn very late in the game so it didn't play a big role.

However we scored lots of points with roads connected to cathedrals (as expected). We claimed 1 cathedral each that we managed to complete, again scoring a fair amount of points.

Thought the rule to count the cathedral tile more than just once for scoring would be confusing but not at all. We both enjoyed the expansion.

Great to see an expansion that boosts the roads. I'd like to try it with Inns, must be brutal.

Final score:

Grabushka 167  -  Jéré  153


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Thanks for the report! It sounds like a fun expansion.

But uggh, those fields on the cathedral tiles aren't even close to the normal colour. How can it be so hard to get this right?

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Re: Mini-Expansion "German Kathedrals" for Carcassonne-on-Tour 2016
« Reply #149 on: March 25, 2016, 03:40:07 PM »
Wow those are very green!

Speaking from my limited personal experience in printing and printing tiles.  Whenever i look at something on my computer screen and when I look at what comes out of the printer.  I have no idea how different it will look and once some of the ink has started to run out, they look different again.  But I'm not doing professional print runs for a boardgame, so it's a little different!


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