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Who cares if it is a minor deviation!? The only important question is whether it is more fun for your game. The answer is obviously yes, so this is a great house rule!
QuoteIt's easy to see that it's more difficult to achieve this 22-pennant feat as the number of players increases.In a multi-player game, “conspiracy” is how you win! This is the magic of multi-player Carcassonne! In particular, in a 7-player game, two players would likely be happy to join two giant pennant-filled cities in order to make the game effectively a 2-player game from then on.
It's easy to see that it's more difficult to achieve this 22-pennant feat as the number of players increases.
Quoteyour opponent does not help you build your monster city with a fragment containing pennants, ever. (Fair assumption, eh?)No. Even in a 2-player game, with I&C, you might gladly place a CCRR tile with a pennant in a way that adds to an opponent’s big city if: that city is not close to complete and contains a Cathedral; the road connects your single Inn to a long road on which you and your opponent both have one meeple (thus completing the road and scoring you all the points at 2/tile); and/or the tile connects farms in a way that is advantageous to you. More simply, you might repeatedly add CCCF and CCCR tiles with pennants to a city with a Cathedral if the opponent gets close to completing it.
your opponent does not help you build your monster city with a fragment containing pennants, ever. (Fair assumption, eh?)
Who cares if it is a minor deviation!?
…you get < 0.01. That's still a very small probability…. It was the “minor deviation” I wanted to defend when the nerd mode turned on.
I have 2 copies of River 1 & 1 copy of River 2
Quote from: Broadstorm on January 07, 2023, 05:56:02 AMI have 2 copies of River 1 & 1 copy of River 2That’s plenty to try “Untamed River” or “Wild River” where the River tiles get mixed in with the regular tiles!Welcome to the Forum @Broadstorm.
I am currently in the process of splitting off 2 sets. I was already playing with nearly 300 tiles, but 2 recent orders from cundco.de getting me 50 tiles each & Mists Over Carcassonne getting me another 60 tiles, will make my set huge.
Quote from: Broadstorm on January 08, 2023, 04:46:19 AMI am currently in the process of splitting off 2 sets. I was already playing with nearly 300 tiles, but 2 recent orders from cundco.de getting me 50 tiles each & Mists Over Carcassonne getting me another 60 tiles, will make my set huge. Shortly after I made that post, my wife convinced me the game would be better if it were smaller, so I set about assembling a set of 60 tiles as my personal “base game” with lots of interesting tiles and reducing the tile count of all expansions as much as possible (e.g., only use the 6 Inns from I&C, since many of the other tiles were already in my base game.I think she was right: we almost never play with more than 100 tiles now. Better for us to play three 100-tile games with a mix of small expansions than to play one 300-tile game. Although in truth I’m the only one who would be willing to play that long, so the real option is have anyone to play the 100-tile game with me.
…we do play with a fair number of “sub-expansions”.
I treat each expansion as a collection of modules and add those modules individually rather than considering each expansion as something that needs to be added whole.
Would it be considered “house rules” when you play with partial expansion, sub-expansions?
One of the things we love about Carcassonne is that there are about 100 different combinations of “sub-expansions” that we can decide to include in our next game. We can play a different game each time we get together.
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