![]() There is of course plenty of strategies involved when placing the tiles: trying to build features for yourself and trying to obstruct other players. In the end, the player with the most victory points wins the game. The scoring system seems pretty complicated at first, but you soon get a grasp on it and realize it’s very straightforward and easy to understand. Meeples on the fields are calculated when the game is finished and are therefore a long-term investment. As players place them they have the option to put their meeple figure on any of the features on that tile: when that feature is completed (a road, a city, or a monastery), they receive victory points and get their meeple back. Players draw tiles and place them next to existing ones so that the pictures on them match and they form a landscape full of features: cities, roads, fields, and monasteries. You don’t even have to play the game, you can just take the tiles and try to build an impressive map.Ĭarcassonne does not have very complicated game mechanics, especially the base game. Compiling this landscape is one of the key selling points of Carcassonne. I couldn’t help myself and imagine how it would be to walk the roads, see the bustling cities, or just lie in the shade of the trees in the nearby garden. Combined, the tiles form an amazingly looking picturesque medieval world. The tiles look impressive on themselves, but when you start putting them together and building a landscape, it all goes a notch or two higher. Attention to detail is high: a village here, a garden over there, just a couple of random trees by the road, the winding roads, the farms … The images on them are brilliant and not two of them are the same. The tiles are of course cardboard, but the artistic style on them … I cannot praise it enough. ![]() Meeples are made of wood and are very distinctly shaped. Decent quantity though: over 80 tiles and over 40 meeples, so there is plenty of building material available.Įverything in the box scents of quality and style. There aren’t really that many different components in the box: besides instructions you have the tiles, you have your figures (Meeples as they are called), and a scoring board. It is therefore not a surprise, that map-based or tile-placement games (computer games or board games) have a special place in my heart. As a kid, I would browse the world atlas just for fun, checking out the layouts of cities and the countryside and cursing the authors for not selecting more city maps or enlarging certain parts of the map that I was more interested in. ![]() What is Carcassonne, how does it play, and do I recommend it? Introduction Carcassonne – Board Game Review ![]() In this article, you can read my review of Carcassonne, a gateway tile-placement board game. ![]()
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