New Carcassonne box out in Germany - including new version of "Die Katharer"

[wicke]

Is it possible to get this anywhere, and to pay through PayPal ?

[Scott]

Kettlefish mentioned in another thread that the six Belagerer tiles will eventually be available from Cundco, so now I'm not sure if I'm still in on this.

[Whaleyland]

Not only is the artwork different from Siege, but most of the tile configurations too. I only see one that is the same configuration (CCRR).

Different configurations + tin box = me interested, but if I'm doing this I want to pay via Paypal. Kettlefish makes me pay via wire transfer which cost me an extra $10 in transaction fees.

I agree. I'd like a copy of the set, especially if it has a tin. But I'm against high additional charges, especially transaction fees. Shipping is high enough.

Nice discovery with the tiles being different. I was going to check that but didn't find the time.

[CKorfmann]

I was kind of assuming they'd be different being that there were six of them.  Looking them over, they looked a little different. 

Not sure how I'd feel about a game with 10 (or 14) Cather/Siege tiles though.  It would be hard to have any full value cities at all and be a big boost to all farmers.  I think it would be akin to playing with all 12 Crop Circle tiles.  I guess if they game was big enough, it would be a little better.

[Svartisen]

Hi,

I'm glad that new and bigger Cathars expansion is out. It's one of my favorite. Too bad that you have to buy the whole game and (again) the King and Count expansions, but the tin box is tempting. Does someone from Germany know how to buy it online? I couldn't find it on Mueller's site. Since I'm from EU as well, sending costs won't be so high for me.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. We have the most frustrating CAPTCHAs I've ever seen here on CC 

[AlbinoAsian]

P.S. We have the most frustrating CAPTCHAs I've ever seen here on CC 

Indeed they are ... But as far as I understand they will disappear once you've posted a certain amount of posts.

[Carcking]

Does someone from Germany know how to buy it online?

Welcome Svartisen! Glad you made it through registration gauntlet 

I too would like to know if it's available anywhere online?

[Hylian87]

Unfortunately it's not availble online anywhere. Mueller do have an online shop but it's only for ordering photos or photo-books.

[kettlefish]

P.S. We have the most frustrating CAPTCHAs I've ever seen here on CC 

Hi Svartisen,
this Captcha is only for the first post or so.
After that post then all following posts are easy.
Nice to see you again.

Greetings
kettlefish

[Svartisen]

Unfortunately it's not availble online anywhere. Mueller do have an online shop but it's only for ordering photos or photo-books.

Ouch! That's mean. So the only way to get it, is to visit a Mueller's store that still has it or have someone to buy it for you. Right now we're not sure if HiG will ever re-release the new tiles later and make them available at their online shop.

@KettleFish & the others: thanks for the captcha explanation.

[kettlefish]

Unfortunately it's not availble online anywhere. Mueller do have an online shop but it's only for ordering photos or photo-books.

Ouch! That's mean. So the only way to get it, is to visit a Mueller's store that still has it or have someone to buy it for you. Right now we're not sure if HiG will ever re-release the new tiles later and make them available at their online shop.

@KettleFish & the others: thanks for the captcha explanation.

That's right Mueller is more a supermarket and really not an online store.
Even in my region of Germany we don't have much Mueller supermarkets.
 
But HiG / CundCo Shop will re-release the 6 tiles - but we don't know when.
Later - perhaps in a year - but they really don't say never.

[meepleater]

I'm still not sure whether to try and buy this- even if Cundco does publish them later, the tin box would be nice (I store all the tiles in the cardboard box and it is starting to weaken with the weight), as well as the spare tiles (I have very few).

What are the arrangements, if people don't mind me asking, for organising a deal with members from Germany to have the box shipped overseas?

[kettlefish]

This box is more created for Carc beginners.
HiG like to have here and there some new Carc fans.

In Germany starts the new school year in Juli / August / September (it is different in each part of our country). And the box could be a great gift for relatives for the new school child.

Such things you can find here in Germany each year (it is not only the first special - I mean that is it what you can find also with DVD's, books and many others).
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The price of the box is 24,99 EUR. Shipping is quite different. I don't know the weight of the box.
But if the box has more than 1000 grams - than the shipping might be more than 16-18 EUR. And I don't know if the tin box might costs some extra duty in your own country.

[Svartisen]

I'm still not sure whether to try and buy this- even if Cundco does publish them later, the tin box would be nice (I store all the tiles in the cardboard box and it is starting to weaken with the weight), as well as the spare tiles (I have very few).

Same here. A tin box would be a more time-proof storage solution for my tiles. And I don't mind having some spares either.

@Kettlefish: it was surprising to find that that the school begins differently in different lands. As for the exclusive versions of games and other stuff, or even HiG's policy, the Germans do know how to make the economy spin.

[danisthirty]

Personally I don't mind having to buy multiple copies of certain things (i.e. the basic 72 tiles) in order to get hold of specific expansions every now and again. It's not ideal, but I can put up with it as long as what I want is actually available to me.

I do find it more than a little frustrating though when new expansions are released in a very limited way such as this. I think that HiG do a good job but since they're in control of who's allowed to release what, could they not have stipulated that this special new boxset could only be produced as long as x thousand copies of it were also available online to those not living in Germany and then tipped us off beforehand? I'd certainly feel like my loyalty had been rewarded if this was the case! As it is, my overwhelming feeling is that they're not really considering their international fans in the same way as they do their more local customers.

It sounds like Die Belagerer will probably become available via Cundco at some point but whether we'll have to wait months or even years for this remains to be seen. And what will happen in the meantime is that those who can buy the game will be buying it up and selling it on eBay for increasingly ridiculous prices while there's demand. I'd rather my money was going to HiG than some guy on eBay but I do feel kind of forced into this position at present.