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Coming soon: 84 tile Carc expansion introducing new landscape: Marshes

(http://www.thesaurus.co.nl/images/car/marshes.jpg)

Featuring:

- Bog-towers c/w new follower: The Boglord.
- Bridges: to get through the landscape (as roads)
- Parkingspots: to park your wagon (or the one of an opponent...), before entering the marsh.
- Quicksand: pretty much the end of your trail...

Rules: plain and simple (to keep my girlfriend happy  ;D)

Next: manufacturing tiles and play test the lot.

Wow that's a huge expansion! Will the marsh sides need to connect to one another?

Wow, that looks amazing! I love the artwork- can't wait to see the rules

an idea of ​​a swamp that I had arrived at the head, I wanted to ask to be developed in cooperation of all.
see it already in the works :o and better than I could do  :o.

I bow before such skill, congratulations.

This is amazing.

These look great.  Nice work.

looking forward for rules. Maybe some new scoring mechanics?

Absolutely! Check them out  by clicking here to get rules PDF (http://www.thesaurus.co.nl/images/car/Marshes_rules_v01.pdf)

Remember this is a draft, all needs to be tested still. But i'm curious to find out what your opinions are. Personally I find 84 tiles a bit too much. Might change my mind later on as we tend to play big games most of the time. ;)

note: the Bog Lord can not be captured by the Tower or Dragon -> forgot to mention in this version of rules.

Large quantities of tiles are typical when adding a new terrain feature.

Those look insanely well made, and the rules look like they'll work really nicely. I love the poachers / bog lord interactions, and I think the use of dice is clever and appropriate in this context.

The only thing I think might not be fun is the quicksand; the group I play with often create and fight over long, 20+ piece roads with inns on them. Losing over 40 points to the quicksand might feel a little unfair. But then again, maybe the possibility of a quick-sandy ending will just naturally deter people from relying on long roads.

In any case, I'm excited to try this when it's completed!

I would suggest that on the tiles that are intended to also have fields the field area is made a little larger so it's more obvious and also would have room to deploy a farmer.

That is one of the reasons for the quicksand tiles. There are only 4 in a set of 90, so it's not as destructive as it might seem. You would think twice though of not ending your road when a bridge gets involved. Certainly when a parking place is part of a road with a borrowed wagon + having an inn involved, the score would go through the roof. I anticipated on that with the quicksand; the opponent should have a fair chance in be being able to counterpart that. The other means of preventing a high score is ofcourse to have your wagon on the map as much as possible (the main reason for the parking place feature). I also needed another means of eliminating poachers from the marsh, hence quicksand.


Point taken, you're right!

Trebuchet - Are you close to having tiles ready for us?  I'm excited to try this.

Hi, sorry for being somewhat quiet lately, had other priorities. Anyhow: Yes! I have in the meantime produced and made all tiles and even playtested once. Will add a pic of that map later on. I now still need to adjust a few things in PS before PDF-ing the lot, mainly replace a few tiles for some lacking ones; gamelong gaps appeared during the test play. The rules seemed fine, however a couple of more tests are needed as the bogtowers were pretty hard to reach in this game. There might be a change there in the rules.  :D

Hi, a little update. Have played the expansion several times now. The rules definately need to be adjusted and there need to be more towers in the game + several tiles  I hope to be able to do that on short notice.

Sorry for the delay but as there are a lot of tiles involved i wouldn't want anyone to be disappointed after having gone through the trouble of producing all of them first, play and then find out some of them aren't needed after all.  ;)

Once published, obviously adjustments can be made according to what you might find still during your games.

So where are the rules now?

Hi

Carcassonne Marshes expansion is available c/w 102 new tiles and a revised rule sheet V2.

Pls find all at: http://www.thesaurus.co.nl/images/car/marches/ (http://www.thesaurus.co.nl/images/car/marches/)

Hope you like it. Scott might want to transfer that to the downloads section in due time, i reckon there's the forum probs to be fixed first, in the meantime i'll leave it there for a while.

Mitch

Yes, the forum is still buggered.

Hi Trebuchet,

I like the tiles - It's a great work.