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Ever buy a much anticipated game, tore off the shrink wrap, watched the how to play videos, but felt underwhelmed by the actual play experience?

I have to. Imhotep is the first. Such an attractively presented game, lovely chunky wooden components, but the game play for me was… meh. 

The other is Mysterium. Such an amazingly beautiful component inventory, lovely artwork and as thematic as hell. But the gameplay (for me) is way too much setup work for an only mediocre play experience. 

I have returned to these two multiple times with different groups and they just never click. 

What games disappointed you? Have at it!

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 The other way to score points is: if you draw a monastery tile, then what you can do is you can place your meeple on the monastery becoming a monk and you score once all of the it surrounding tiles around that monastery are blocked in you then score One point for each of the surrounding air tiles and one point for the monastery itself. Whenever you score with a meeple, you then pull them back to your pool, and you can then use them in the following turns the only exception to this is, if you decide to lay your people down and claim him as a farmer, farmers stay in the game. Right over till the end, and then this score depending upon how much farmland they control. This is how the game becomes quite technical, as you will quite quickly run out of Meatballs and have them hanging out on roads and in cities trying to wait for them to be completed now, you're trying to complete those cities and roads so that you can score Points and bring your Mable's back, however, your opponents are also trying to score their own and trying to stop you from scoring, so they can play styles that make it very difficult for you to complete roads and to complete cities

 Let'S not forget that this game came out in 2000. It'S 19 years old. This year and there's a lot of people who will just not look for all the games, they'll constantly be looking for the new stuff. So if you're new to Carcassonne, keep watching this review and if you're a seasoned, copper zone player, maybe you've got some different opinions to me

 Wherever they can, you must join up roads, the roads. You call you couldn't, for example, just put a road going into the middle of nowhere like that. You could put it like that, then the player who plays that tire has an option to play at one of their meatballs. Each player starts with it Mabel's one of them steers on the score, trucker and tracks your score

 So why not keep watching Carcassonne is themed around the famous french city from the Middle Ages. That was well known for its fortifications, and the game sees you taking turns in playing house to try and build those cities and fortifications and lean down the roads between them. The game always starts with a starting tile, and this is a very easy to recognize, as it is a different color on the back of the tile and everything else. That'S in the game - and we start by laying down that tile in any orientation that you'd like to once the start and tyler's down players then take turns in drawing a facedown tile from the deck, placing it on the board

Carcassonne Board Game Review 2019

  This part of the world has a long and complicated history: Over the last 2,500 years, it’s been home to Romans, Visigoths, Saracens and Cathars. In 1209, the Albigensian Crusade conquered the city, and throughout the Middle Ages, it grew and prospered in trade thanks to its location near the border of Spain, all the while modifying and expanding its fortifications. A 1659 peace treaty with Spain moved the border away from Carcassonne, and it fell on hard times, with abandoned walls and towers starting to crumble over the next two centuries, but the city was revived and rebuilt to its medieval glory starting in the mid-1800s by architect Eugene Violett-le-Duc, an early proponent of historical restoration. (One of his first major projects was rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

Explore the Charming French Town of Carcassonne

Right now on amazon, caracassone (base+river+abbot) is on sale for 27.10 and was wondering what people’s opinions are of it besides the big reviewers.

Is Carcassone really as good as people say it is?

 These followers will become knights, monks, farmers and thieves, depending on where they are placed. No matter their followers’ function, the player who places their followers most intelligently, and who builds the playing area most deviously, will win the game.

by - Price:    -   -   -   -  Expansion:   by - Price:    -   -   -   -  Expansion:   by - Price:    -   -   -   -  Expansion:   by - Price:    -   -   -   -  In Carcassonne, players build the area surrounding this impressive city, one tile at a time. They then place a follower on fields, cities, roads or monasteries in order to score as many points as possible. These followers will become knights, monks, farmers and thieves, depending on where they are placed. No matter their followers’ function, the player who places their followers most intelligently, and who builds the playing area most deviously, will win the game

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Has dominon aged well, or are there better games to pick up now?

I’m a family gamer (3-4 player) with kids. I like light gateway games — azul, forbidden island, draftasaurus, the crew, carcassonne etc.

I would like to get a simple deck builder. For a tile builder. I like carcassone. It’s new to us and super simple. 

Is dominion a good choice for a simple deck builder? Or has it been replaced by something better? It’ll be new to us, so I’m looking at theme, production quality etc. Do the marvel series scratch the same itch?

Simple deck builder (dominion?)

 If you get points and that's it and whilst the farmer mechanisms a little bit tricky to get into red when you first play, that's one of the best parts of the game is the farm a bit. But it's a really simple game and it's of this really quick to play and it's great than the new players moving on from that. The turns are really really quick, you're, just taking us all putting on the board and then put the meat put down. It'S quick decisions: it's not that deep and yeah the turns move quick

 You will take your meatball off and you'll score points and you've got boats that you need to completely got a city's that you need to complete. You'Ve got monasteries that you need to encircle with other tiles and you've got farmer's fields and with farmers. It'S probably less complicated, but you can't place them on their back and end it again. You'Ll get extra bonus points for every completed city that is in a field that your farmer is it and player with the most points wins at the end of the game

 We really enjoy that. We do. We'Ve been doing that for donkey's years yeah. The rules on this one are all just imports, a great gateway game it so take at all place at all dumping me poor, poor and taking me block

 The turns are really really quick, you're, just taking us all putting on the board and then put the meat put down. It'S quick decisions: it's not that deep and yeah the turns move quick. So before you know it turns come around again and it's it just it's just a quick shot. Gun turns bang, bang, bang and yes, really really good yeah

Carcassonne Boardgame Review - Still Worth It?

There's another post about playing a game to death and after replying I realized I had misread the question. Rather than answer his questions I answered with:

What game have you played a ton and show no signs of stopping playing.

For me, these 3 games stand out

Through the ages: A new story of civilization, the App really allowed me to go deep on this game. I always have 3 games ongoing for this with various friends and we are showing no signs of stopping. BG stats says I'm at 157 plays of it.

Ticket to Ride. For me and my wife this was the game that really got us into the hobby, played it to death, then stopped playing as we got into other games but this has recently resurfaced as my kids got old enough to play the non-kids versions, been playing alot of Nordic and loving it, but my son has been requesting Europe and I am even considering grabbing a new map or two which I think is amazing after all these years/plays that it's still feels worry further investment

Castles of Burgundy, replaced ticket to Ride as my go-to game to play with my wife on a work night. We are always down for a game of this, I'd say we are in the process of playing this to death

What games of yours fit? Do you have any all time favorites that you can enjoy pulling out for a game despite having 'played it almost to death'

What games have you played a ton of and show no signs of stopping

 That'S why it's a tiring game so on a person's turn, they will take 8. I all like this, and then they will attach it. You need to make it so the edges always match. So in this case the road is touching, the road or the castle is joint to the castle or the grass is joined with the grass

 Ok, then, once you've scored your nine points on your track, you will then remove your man and he can be neutral again and you can use them to be whatever you need them to be. Ok. The second role is the night. The night will go on a castle piece, so in this case, if I was to play this time and place my meatball on now, he is now a knight and he is responsible for constructing this castle

 So, in this case he scores six points, because this city is connected to his grassland and this city is connected to his grassland, oh and this city here, so he will score nine points. Sorry, how do you be not school for this one because there's a road blocking so that separates his grass from someone else's grass? So if the green player is there, that's the green player's castle, he supplies food too, and the yellow player was supply for those three. So he gets nine points. The green player he's only got one finished castle

 You can give them a shuffle up like a fish in a dish, and then you make some small little piles of them like so also each player chooses the maple color that they want and then obviously takes all the metals for their choice. Okay, so with your tiles piled like this, your starting tile set out of this, your players have all chosen their color. Then each player designates one of their people just start on 0 on the scoreboard, and then we are ready to play now. Why is this game called a tile? Layin game is cooled at our line game because, basically, what you're doing is you're taking a towel and you're laying it next to another time

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