Carcassonne Central

We are fans of Mega-Carcassonne game.
Yesterday played with 4 players.
Including:
Basic set
River
Inns & Cathedrals
Traders & Builders
The Princess and the Dragon
Abbey & Mayor
Bridges, Castles and Bazaars

Picture below shows table after last tile's placement.

(http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/4885/game16022012.jpg)

Points after final scoring:
Red (mine  ;)): 365
Yellow: 322
Green: 234
Black: 224.

Biggest amount of points gave city with a cathedral, where nearby 2 castles were built. After scoring that city Red and Yellow received 108 points each!

So many unused meeples ... why  ???

Green and black don't have much experience yet. As for me, I prefer "connecting to barn with a pig" tactics, so meeples quickly come back in my supply. I try to use them as much as possible, but definitely not for placing on every little road.

That's awesome... ;D

I wish I had more people to play with, closeby. :-\

Awesome. Love Mega-Carc. We normally play with two but will be playing a Mega game this Monday with 4. Looking forward to it.

It's been far too long since I've played a game like this.  I need to do so again soon.  Green must be a newbie to have that huge farm and be that far behind.  Merit point for the photo.  Thanks for sharing.

Tell black he's not allowed to play tiles over the edge of the table. I guess you let it slide because he was in last place. ;D

Yes, you're right ;D And the second reason is that it was the very last tile on the game.
We always play on a piece of cloth and when we reach the edge of the table, we simply move this cloth and free some space :)

Yes, green (and black) can be counted as newbie. Me and my wife found them as playing partners about 3 months ago and they didn't know any expansions except the Basic game, so we must teach them all the rules of all expansions, one by one. Next is - The Tower. Soon my ordered King, Count and The Cult will come :) Can't wait to be able to order Carcassonne Minis :D

P.S. Thanks for the merit ;)

Be sure to tell Black to farm that last tile next time.  He left 2 points off the board by claiming the one piece city.  Gotta give the newbies hints to make them better, which in time will make for more thrilling games instead of 100 point blowouts.   :D

Yes, this is awesome. I love Mega-Carc but don't get to play it enough.

I wonder how long the game lasted?

In this case it was exactly my hint: instead of placing a follower on a farm and earning 3 points I suggested him to take and finish a road with a wagon and drive into a city, so - 4 points :)


It lasted about 3 hours +/- 30min.

Tomorrow evening we will play another Mega-Carc with 2 other friends, and they are not newbies! :) But with them we play in teams 2x2, men vs. women ;) For now we (men) are in the lead! 8) (winning streak for last 3 games).

Good game sir! How did you go on the market place tiles, never played them with more then two persons... Should be good fun with a group of 4 i guess..  :D

Aw, well done.  I didn't notice that was a wagon.  I didn't realize a wagon could be used like that...to place, score and move all in one turn.  I need to play more and type less... :-[

Actually... in the lower right hand corner, the furthermost right tile on the board is a RRRR tile with a bridge and a green farmer next to a Dragon tile with a red cart on a closter.  The black player could have put their CCCR tile on the "north" side of the RRRR tile and placed his follower as a farmer getting seven total points (four for the castle and three for the completed city).

Or... he could have played his abbey tile in any one of four completely surrounded holes and played his last guy as a monk and gotten nine points.  However ,that would have given the red player the last tile to do the same thing and give them even more points at the end. 

Ultimately it wouldn't have changed the outcome, but it's interesting to find the options.  Can anyone find a better one?

CK, I think Green already has the farm you are referring to on the east side. I do see a castle farm on the west side though that he could have taken.  :)

Whoops, you're right.  I got excited and missed that the road was a roundabout.  I'm not sure by looking at it, but I think if the farm you're referring to is in the northwest corner, that it might also be already owned by green as well.  Looks like the abbey play is still best.

Yes, in both cases green already owns the farm. About Abbey tile: I should to agree that it was the better option to score maximum amount of points with the very last move.
One note: if black places his Abbey tile to an only available hole with ALL surrounding tiles, that will give red and yellow (as they share barns) one more city, so +4 points each. In this case it would be better to place it into another hole and score only 8 points, but not to give 4 points to two other opponents.

I should not try to make such observations several hours after my bedtime.  I was wrong again and you are correct.  There is only one hole that is completely surrounded.  I'm just going to stop now...  ::)