Author Topic: Star... meeples at Meeple Source. (Read 15698 times)

CKorfmann · « **on:** August 29, 2013, 01:35:32 PM »

Star Wars and Star Trek meeples at Meeple Source! Plus more including a pirate complete with a peg leg!

The interwebs are busted...

http://www.meeplesource.com/products.php?cat=17&utm_source=New+Characters%2C+including+Stormtroopers+etc&utm_campaign=8-29-13+Newsletter&utm_medium=email

Linkback: https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=407.0

wicke · « **Reply #1 on:** August 29, 2013, 03:13:01 PM »

I also got this email today from MeepleSource.
I am mostly interested in the Viking Meeple, since I am related to King Harald Fairhair (born 858, died 940).
Did some genealogy earlier before getting kids and getting hooked on Carcassonne.
http://www.wikstromtree.org/_2gen/gen.htm

danisthirty · « **Reply #2 on:** August 30, 2013, 05:56:30 AM »

I like the Cavemen as they look slightly more like me than the Zombies. Surprised they've done pirates again, but the new pirates do look better than the old ones.

Scott · « **Reply #3 on:** September 02, 2013, 11:26:12 AM »

Quote from: wicke on August 29, 2013, 03:13:01 PM

I am mostly interested in the Viking Meeple, since I am related to King Harald Fairhair (born 858, died 940).
Did some genealogy earlier before getting kids and getting hooked on Carcassonne.
http://www.wikstromtree.org/_2gen/gen.htm

Interesting... I'm related to these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_Holland

wicke · « **Reply #4 on:** September 02, 2013, 01:01:10 PM »

Cool, House of Valois, like in my fan-made expansion.
I did that mainly because of Charles the fifth.
The swedish version of Charles is Karl, and I am the fourth generation of
Karl (Karl Arne Patrik) in my family, and my son is the fifth (Karl Olof Ted).

harvster · « **Reply #5 on:** September 03, 2013, 08:38:09 AM »

Has anyone collected complete sets all the various meeple types? That must be expensive - and fun! :-)

ALso curious to know what do you do to get matching meeples for all the other followers?

danisthirty · « **Reply #6 on:** September 03, 2013, 08:57:49 AM »

I own eight Meeples of each of the following sets: Zombies, Princesses, Astronauts, Ninjas, Pirates (not the new ones), Monkeys, Monsters, Soldiers and Outlaws. I like the idea of collecting all of them but there's only so much you can do with them once you've got them and they're not cheap (especially if you live overseas).

The colour matching is tricky. Some are better than others so the Zombies go well with the green follower set and the Monsters go well with the blue follower set etc. The Princesses however are pink and the Monkeys are brown. I can get the pink and brown follower sets from Cundco to go with these but it seems like a lot of trouble to go to just for the sake of matching colours and the standard-sized Meeples from those sets wouldn't be used. I have no idea how I'd try to match some of the more recent additions to a set of coloured followers as they don't seem to have a single colour theme. You could try to be artistic about it but then you find yourself in the situation whereby you're trying to paint a Caveman builder/ pig/ mayor/ wagon/ barn and you start to wonder where your life went wrong...

The other problem is that because the character Meeples are all mega-Meeple size, you can't easily distinguish between them and the follower that represents the mega-Meeple. This can be solved now that there are the super-mega-Meeples but it's all extra expense.

In summary, I'd say that I really like the extra character Meeples and they do add a bit of fun. They're difficult to include in serious games though so think before you buy!

wicke · « **Reply #7 on:** September 03, 2013, 09:05:16 AM »

I have Zombies and Soldiers (because of my 11-year old son Ted's fan-made expansion) but
I am thinking of buying Vikings and the new Pirates.
The rest doesn't do much for me.

Scott · « **Reply #8 on:** September 03, 2013, 05:50:37 PM »

I don't expect I'll be buying any character meeples. I'm in the process of collecting different colors of plain meeples only. If I can't get every type of meeple, I'm not overly concerned because my set doesn't see any play time anyway.

harvster · « **Reply #9 on:** September 08, 2013, 11:03:01 AM »

Quote from: danisthirty on September 03, 2013, 08:57:49 AM

You could try to be artistic about it but then you find yourself in the situation whereby you're trying to paint a Caveman builder/ pig/ mayor/ wagon/ barn and you start to wonder where your life went wrong...

Beautifully said! :-)

And thanks for the advice everyone who replied!