This list has wallet-sized and wallet-friendly games; games for the first timer and for friends who have been playing for years. or "Should I use this tile to expand my city, or should I place it near my opponent instead, giving him a hard time to complete his project and score points? At the end of the game, the players will score varying amounts of points per gold bar based on how many bars they’ve collected overall. More ways to score; cunning insertion of meeples in places where they wouldn't have normally gone; more or less interaction; more or less tactics; more or less of anything! If that player controls the field at the end of the game, the pig makes the field more valuable, scoring four points per completed city as opposed to three.

But eleven years later, my copy of Carcassonne has expanded beyond the limits of what the base game box can hold and is spread across multiple boxes. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.But if you ask me, more exciting than being able to double up a meeple on a specific feature is the ability to remove one of your meeples from a specific feature entirely. I was in a position where I not only wanted those early mini-expansions, but I also needed a better storage solution. Originally, though, each mini-expansion came packaged in its own box with a total of nine tiles—the eight tiles which made up the expansion and a ninth tile which made up 1/6th of the Crop Circles mini-expansion.

The 2017 version of the Carcassonne Big Box combines the base game along with eleven of its expansions, making it the perfect starter set for anyone who wants to play this bestselling game with as much variety as possible. More importantly, the River expansion highlighted just how easily the addition of a few extra tiles could change the entire makeup of the game. Carcassonne is a tile-laying game where players collectively construct the area around the medieval French city of Carcassonne while competing to place followers on various features and score the most points.I talked about the base game at length with Andrew Holmes, and many of the early expansions were the basis for my earliest reviews posted on Boardgamegeek. Sorry for what might seem like an obvious question but I’m pretty out of the loop on the current state of Carcassonne. Review Summary: One of the classic games of our times packed in a box with so much content that you will wonder whether you will ever need to play anything else.