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General / How to play with two copies of Carcassonne Mists? (Help)

« on: October 18, 2023, 03:47:32 PM »

A little bird somewhere told me that something could be come up with, so I bought another one ($19.20) because the price was so good and it arrives.

So really two questions.
1. How to play a game of Carcassonne mists with two base games or at least utilize some of the contents of the 2nd copy? (This may be a really bad idea.)
2. How to use two copies of its expansion version in MegaCarc? (my immediate hope )

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General / Build me a game worthy of MegaCarc!

« on: September 24, 2023, 08:10:12 PM »

The power of my collection is at your command, Lords of Carcassonne. Build me a game worthy of MegaCarc!

I've lost my mind and one of my next games will be Mega Carcassonne, two handed solo.

Per Scott my "table limitations, tiles are 1.75" square, so your 37x74" table can hold a maximum of 882 tiles. If you build a 42x84 topper, that will go up to 1152 tiles. These numbers assume no gaps, which is unlikely. They also don't leave room for the scoreboard or for players to store their meeples. So maybe deduct 10% or so to allow for both of those."

I have the topper, but will be putting together a poor man's neoprene mat for it from a bunch of $1 mats which is a task I'd rather not do for this game.

My collection:
-------------------  copies   total tiles   949
Carcassonne base   (x5)   360 (I do believe I can unsort these, so up to five base games possible.)
Expansion 1 – Inns & Cathedrals   (x3)   54
Expansion 2 – Traders & Builders   (x3)   72
Expansion 3 – The Princess & The Dragon   (x2)   60
Expansion 4 – The Tower   (x2)   36
Expansion 5 – Abbey & Mayor   (x1)   18
Expansion 6 – Count, King & Robber   (x1)   34 (Have an extra King & Robber)
Expansion 8 – Bridges, Castles and Bazaars   (x1)   12 (I have an additional half set of Castles and Bridges I may bring to bear)
Expansion 9 – Hills & Sheep   (x1)   18
Expansion 10 – Under the Big Top   (x1)   20
The River   (x4)   48
Carcassonne: The Count of Carcassonne   (x1)   12
River II   (x1)   12
Corn Circles II   (x1)   6
The Phantom   (x1)   0
The Festival   (x1)   10
The Flying Machines   (x1)   8
The Messengers   (x2)   0
The Ferries   (x1)   8
The Goldmines   (x1)   8
Mage & Witch   (x1)   8
The Robber   (x1)   8
Windrosen Start Tile   (x1)   1
Pigsty   (x1)   1
German Monasteries   (x1)   0
Castles in Germany   (x1)   12
Cathedrals in Germany   (x1)   6
The Fruit Bearing Trees   (x1)   6
Barber Surgeons   (x1)   6
GQ Promo Tiles   (x1)   10
Labyrinth   (x1)   1
Peasant Revolts   (x1)   12
The Signposts   (x1)   12
The Bets   (x1)   10
Mists   (x1)   60
Wheel of Fortune   (x1)   28

My initial thoughts are that my long table might be served best by an extremly long River, but I'd like to play Mists as an expansion and its start tile is supposed to replace the one in the base game. And then of course Wheel of Fortune start tile is available. River II. River III (one of my River I's is from Big Box 5). And then I have both versions of the Count start tile. And not to be forgotten is the Windrosen start tile (don't own the rest of the expansion). It looks like that the tile count alone will not require my larger topper, but should I use that to give more flexibility. Am I correct to assume one is not allowed to overhang the table?

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General / Mega Carcassonne: Double your pleasure and Meeples?

« on: September 23, 2023, 08:21:45 PM »

I now largely have my Mega setup, but I never thought about the number of meeples:
1. Do you double all the meeples from the first two expansions and the base game if you're running two sets? Would one possibly tweek the count removing a few or even running with just one set of meeples, but double the tiles?
2. Hills and Sheep, Abbey&Mayor along with Big Top also would be easy expansions to double, so just straight up double the meeples?
3. Messenger and Robbers have only come in big boxes for sometime now, so would you straight up double for these?

Traditional mega is just one of every expansion with maybe two base sets. Some advocate especially for doing a mega game where the first two expansions are doubled as well. Are they any other expansions that one would strongly recommend doubling for around a 400 tile game or more.

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General / Mega Game and Tile Organization

« on: April 17, 2023, 08:22:42 PM »

I'm trying to figure out how I want to go at equipping with Carcassonne (I play online, well just started tonight ). And I've decided I want to go for the mega game capability since that does not work at all on my ipad. I have a table with a sunken area that is 37 x 74 inches. If feeling really ambitious I can top this for 42x84 inch flat surface.

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time studying expansions. I had just bought the C3 base game on sale for $20 at Miniature Market (I am USA based) but its on hold and I'm kicking myself for not going for the 2022 Big Box which already has both expansions plus the only way to get a lot of the promos in C3 (it would have been $47 and my reasoning at the time was I did not want the gigantic box plus I thought "new edition" expansions on sale were actually new rather than eight years old, plus I've come to like the big box cover and some of the expansions.)

I've certainly looked hard at C1 and C2, but I also really, really want the 20th anniversay edition and it is the one that has swayed me towards the C3 look despite it looking a bit busy at a distance. I also like the French C3 2022 Winter Edition quite a bit. I'd also been hoping to somehow get some donor C3 tiles for applying vinyl stickers of some print and play Carcassonne like Baba Yaga, etc. so the backs would be consistent. (As an aside it is a pain to get any mini expansion in USA as shipping from Cundco is over $50 to the USA for just one promo. )

So all my C3 plans with consistent backs were set and then I caught wind of the Mega Game at around 4 hours. It sounds like a lot of fun, but also has issues:
1. Tile seperation and Organization
2. And the details of how to go about it given my table limitations

I've heard of people using two big boxes together so double of the first two expansions as well and that this seems to balance well with maybe a few more expansions, but I'm not sure my playing area is suited for quite this much. This sounds great and not really that expensive if I can sweet talk Miniature Market into switching up my order at the sale prices, BUT it sounds like murder to seperate the expansions and base games from each other especially when you consider that many experienced players tend to just run the first two expansions and then vary maybe some of the minor expansions so they really never have to sort tiles.

I've not heard of it, but I'm thinking (especially if the tile backs will help with seperation) that it might be advantageous for a sane collection to actually have C2 and C3 versions. This all ties in with how you organize/store and do your tiles .... stacks on table, Towers, or crown royal bag (well I have a 9.5 x 15" Indiania Select Club velvet bag in royal red.)

This is far too much for a neophyte like myself to figure out, so I'm looking for some direction on this. I know people are particular about their tiles matching for the most part, but for Mega maybe NOT matching is a good idea?