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« on: February 25, 2016, 06:10:40 AM »
If the big money players (the guys and gals who buy every expansion) reject Carc II, it will become a New Coke situation. I doubt that will happen as the new game seems to be selling ok.
Ever notice classic games being re-released in their old style? Right now I can go to Target and buy 1950s Risk, Sorry, Clue, etc. I imagine in 20 years, old will be new again, and at least the base game will be released as "Classic Carcassonne - with the River 6".
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« on: February 24, 2016, 03:41:23 PM »
I went as far as calling Canadian vendors without having luck. For some reason paying that much to ship something kills me.
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« on: February 24, 2016, 03:19:21 PM »
I haven't played the hills much, but I don't like the tile elimination factor either. You may as well just randomly remove 6 tiles before the game begins.
Has anyone used the flyer tiles as hills? They don't have flags on them, but they are hills.
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« on: February 24, 2016, 01:20:37 PM »
Whoa after reading this, I have been playing barns all wrong. I would purposely connect other people's farms to my barns to limit their farmers to 1 point per city. Example, their farmer is attached to 5 cities and my barn is attached to 5 cities. By connecting their farm to my barn, they get 10 points instead of 15.
You are all connecting your own farmers to your barn to get your meeple back and get quick points.
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« on: February 24, 2016, 11:54:37 AM »
One of the strangely appealing things about Carcassonne for many of us has been hunting down rare expansions. For you, now, that basically means all expansions. So it might be a little frustrating but in the end you'll be super satisfied when you get your hands on them and it (sort of) adds to the fun and suspense.
I'm not going to try and catch them all. I am really interested in Inns & Cathedrals and slightly interested in Traders and Builders and the mini expansions. The Count (I bought the meeple for 25 cents, but have no tiles), The Princess & Dragon, and a few of the others make the game a little too cutthroat to play with a small child. Also, my wife plays and I don't want to sleep on the sofa.
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« on: February 24, 2016, 11:27:16 AM »
In my opinion, the mayor is the least powerful thing in the Abbeys and Mayors expansion. I only put him down if I am starting a city with at least 1 pennant in it as it is easy for other players to close it off and leave me without any points. I guess it is ok to risk that if you are out of other meeple.
My family plays with the house rule that cities (with pennants) with mayors are untouchable by other players. So no merging your city with another person's city that has a mayor. If there is a mayor, "U can't touch this."
The farm and the wagon are much more powerful and used more often. Situationally, the wagon can be more powerful than a regular meeple. My son loves trapping my wagon on a road or in a city I can't finish.
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« on: February 24, 2016, 10:12:39 AM »
Welcome to the forum Dirk, good luck on your quest - it may be worth snooping around here to look where people buy things.
Funny you should join the forum now. I was just looking at a Dirk Gently book on amazon, when you appeared.....the interconnectedness of all things....
Thanks! I have been lurking a few weeks. Thanks to the fine people here, I scored the GQ11 expansion for $9 and that solved my wife's massive river farm problem.  I have seen several copies on various European game sites along with some of the Big Boxes for reasonable prices. I may have actually learned a little German and Flemish in doing so, but the shipping to the US is murder. I asked Z-man if they had any laying around and they told me that the new art works well with the old. I think they must be blind. One of the owners of the game shop we frequent had already unloaded all of his old Carcassonne tiles because he loves the new art. I figured there may be someone like him here who is doing the same.
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« on: February 24, 2016, 07:57:57 AM »
I am also interested in the Old Style Inns & Cathedrals. The new version can be had online for $15 shipped, so if anyone wants to upgrade to the new art, I am willing to pay $15 if you want to ship me your complete old version. If you no longer have the box, the rules, or the gray meeple, I am still interested in the tiles for a reasonable price. I live in Maryland. We just acquired the base game for Xmas. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, we ended up with the old style artwork. My son who is 7 loves this game and we drove around to all of the local board game shops looking for the out of print expansions. We found Abbey and Mayor plus Hills and Sheep. There were no other old style expansions to be found. 
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