Carcassonne for Everyone~!

[Gwommy]

Funk wanted me to post this picture of Carcassonne that Funk(red), Blackberry(green) and I(purple) played tonight. The huge city in the lower right corner was named Gwommysucksville. We were all competing for the points, but I ended up taking them all, so Funk chose an appropriate name.

WARNING(Large Pic)
http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?i...assonnenr9.jpg

EDIT=====
Read my post below(post#16).

[Loki]

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I've never heard of this game, but it looks fun. Care to tell us a little bit about it?

[Valkysas]

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what's Carcassonne?

[Chad]

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A tile based game? Sweet! My favorite board game right now is Betrayal at House on the Hill.

[neobi]

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Carcassonne is such a fun game. I love it!!! Played it at Governor's school all summer.

[hitogoroshi]

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A tile based game? Sweet! My favorite board game right now is Betrayal at House on the Hill.

I responded to this already, but I hate you for being able to get a group for it. I really want it (huge Avalon Hill fanboy) but I'm worried I won't get enough people to play it, and I'm too poor for the 40$.
Anyway, it crashed my browser when I tried to view it. Could you describe it?

[Zieg Rauros]

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Hito, I'll put in for half. I'm sure Yoshiko would too. Let's play.

[Marc M.]

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I've played it a few times, its a pretty interesting game.

[Loki]

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Because Gwommy left us in the dark: WIKIPEDIA!

Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and Rio Grande Games in English. It received the Spiel des Jahres award in 2001. It is named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, famed for its city walls. The game has spawned many expansions and spinoffs, inspired several PC and console versions, and the wooden follower pieces from the basic game (colloquially called meeples, a portmanteau of miniature people[1]) have become a symbol of European board gaming.

The game board is a medieval landscape built by the players as the game progresses. The game starts with a single terrain tile face up and 71 others shuffled face down for the players to draw from. On each turn a player draws a new terrain tile and places it adjacent to tiles that are already face up. The new tile must be placed in a way that extends features on the tiles it abuts: roads must connect to roads, fields to fields, and city walls to city walls.

After placing the new tile, the placing player may opt to station a follower piece on that tile. The follower can only be placed on the just-placed tile, and must be placed in a specific feature. A follower claims ownership of one terrain feature - road, field, city, or cloister - and may not be placed on a feature already claimed by another player's follower. However, it is possible for terrain features to become shared after the further placement of tiles. For example, two field tiles which each have a follower can become connected into a single field by another terrain tile.

The game ends when the last tile has been placed. At that time all features (including fields) score points for the players with the most followers in them. The player with the most points wins the game.


Sounds kinda like Settlers of Catian.

[Gwommy]

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Thanks, Loki. I was going to respond, but you saved me a lot of work. And it is somewhat similar to Settlers of Catan. Although, I think it's more fun and less repetitive than SoC. It's more like a combination of Tetris and Risk.

Then it also has expansion sets which I have all of. So there's a few more than 72 tiles in that picture. I have yet to use all the rules from all the expansion sets yet. We're planning on adding a rule every time we play. It'll be interesting.

[TechStorm]

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Dunno... Settlers of Catan is quite different.

Ever since I discovered boardgamegeek.com over a year ago, I've bought several boardgames, and a friend also has some. Here are a few interesting ones, worth checking out (I've played all of the following):

*Caylus. Players are architects, and compete against others for the most prestige. You can build craft buildings (such as farms, sawmills, etc.) that give you access to important resources and useful abilities. You can use the craft buildings of other players to gain the advantage while blocking them out of it, but if you do so, they gain prestige. You must also help expand the king's castle. If you do, you gain prestige; but if you don't, you lose it.

*El Grande. This 1995 game is now sold as El Grande Decennial, which includes expansions. It is a game of political influence. You benefit from having the most influence of a region but of course you can't have the most influence everywhere. You can't change the influence of the region where the king is. The possible actions vary by turn using a card system that reminds me a little bit of a collectible card game (note: this game is not collectible).

*Elasund. Players compete to contribute the most buildings to the newly founded city of Elasund. You can build on top of smaller buildings thereby destroying them and making your opponents lose points while you gain. Control of the coast is important too. You need permits before building, so foresight is a must.

*Lost Cities. This is a 2-player-only game, and it's very good. You compete to form expeditions and discover ancient places. Beginning an expedition incurs in a cost, so if you begin an expedition you don't advance a lot on, you lose points instead of gaining. Again, trying to compete in all fronts is a losing strategy, so you need to pick your expeditions carefully.

*Mesopotamia. To me this is a good game, though I'm surprised all other people liked it even more than I did. This is a tile-based game (like Carcassone, or Betrayal at the House on the Hill), so the landscape varies from game to game. You control some tribes and you need to be the first to deliver 4 offerings to the central temple. To do so, you need to explore the land for resources, and build huts and sacred sites, and expand your population, in order to arrive at the goal.

*Tigris & Euphrates. This is a very, very good game. While playable 2 to 4, I recommend 3 to 4. Each player controls the 4 leaders of a specific faction. Each leader influences different tiles in the board, depending on its type as well as its position. When more than one leader of the same type influence the same tiles, conflict ensues, after which some parts of the civilization will be destroyed. The goal is to acquire the most points in each of the 4 relevant areas of leadership: religion, agriculture, commerce and "settlements". Definitely worth checking out.

[Blackberry]

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Hey, I see Funk's foot in the picture.

I almost beat Gwommy's 60-some point cities with my farmers. Lost by one point. I am shamed and must perform ritual suicide now.

[Funk]

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I'm going to have to start some farmers next time. I forgot all about those things.

[neobi]

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Hey, I see Funk's foot in the picture.

I almost beat Gwommy's 60-some point cities with my farmers. Lost by one point. I am shamed and must perform ritual suicide now.

I'd demand a recount! I've had some pretty close games too...when you get close to the end you gotta start looking for those petty points cause you most likely won't be able to close off and finish everything you want. The petty points add up, like placing a guy on a road and picking him up the same turn.

I've only started the game with the river once...and it didn't all connect so it was dumb....


Oh and where's the group photo lol?

[Funk]

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I've only started the game with the river once...and it didn't all connect so it was dumb....

Do you have the Count expansion? I think that helps the river expansion connect better. I may be wrong, though, because I don't know all of the intracacies of the game.

Oh and where's the group photo lol?

We'll take some the next time we play.