Carcassonne Central

I picked up the base game within the last month and have enjoyed it so much that I have also got I&C, T&B, A&C, The Count, River II, King & Scout, Cult Siege & Creativity, and the GQ expansion.

Storage was my first concern and, having good success with Plano fishing tackle boxes for Risk 2210, decided to go that route. I purchased their model 3700 box which is perfect for the job. I have already set up the slots for the tiles from Princess, Tower, and Catapult (and since I don't plan on actually using the catapult, don't have to worry that there is no room for it.) I plan on posting a picture of the setup sometime soon along with the breakdown of how to set it up.

Since I have been mainly playing 2-player games using all the expansions, an updated scorecard was the next thing I needed. I did not have to look any further than Carcassonnecentral.com and quickly downloaded the 100 Point Scoring Track & 500 Point Extension. A quick trip to Office Depot and $2.99 later, I had them pieced together and laminated.

Future plans include some sort of markers to use on the scorecard for the 500 point expansion track and also to put on the scorecard to indicate the longest road and largest city for the King and Robber Baron (I have seen the post regarding using Settler's pieces for this but am still up in the air as to what route I'm going to take.)

Does anyone else have any other "Extras" they use? Bonus points if you include pictures!!!

Thanks.

tackle boxes - genius idea!
I keep all my stuff in the original boxes still, however once I've finished building my woodworking workshop I'll be making a Carc box.

I bought the deluxe Carcassonne storage box this summer, and now with the Catapult and Cult, Siege & Creativity it's almost full.
But there will be some space for more custom tiles as well if I get any bright ideas to send to Novelty.
(What do you use as tiles, when your blank tiles, and scout tiles are already used?)

As for extra pieces, I am about to buy all the wooden pieces from the "other" Carc games (Hunters & Gatherers, The City, The Castle, The Discovery & New World) from Germany.
Is it correct that there are six different special meeples in those games, plus huts, castle and tiger trackers.

Are you able to write a review regarding this box... a few of us would love to read exactly what you can fit in it. Pictures would be good. I can host any pictures if necessary.


Buy an extra expansion and use the tiles from that to mount customs on.


The City: There are 4 different coloured meeples (Yellow, Green, Red and Blue)
The Discovery: There are 5 different coloured meeples (Yellow, Green, Red, Blue and Black)
Hunters and Gatherers: There are 5 different coloured meeples (Yellow, Green, Red, Blue and Black), 5 different coloured huts (Yellow, Green, Red, Blue and Black) and Green discs.
The Castle: There are only 2 colours (Brown and Natural)
New World: There are 5 different coloured meeples (Yellow, Green, Red, Blue and Black) and large meeples in White (or Natural, i'm not sure).


Here is what I currently use:

(http://www.john-warren.co.uk/carcassonne/images/scoreboard.jpg)

I use an extra meeple of each colour on the 500 point extension board. An extra meeple of each colour was purchased from Meeple People.

(http://www.john-warren.co.uk/carcassonne/images/king_robber.jpg)

A Brown meeple for the Robber, a Purple meeple for the King (royalty).

(http://www.john-warren.co.uk/carcassonne/images/pieces.jpg)

From the top:

Large huts from Hunters and Gatherers
Small Huts from board game 'Clans' (these are currently my Trading Posts)
Coloured discs (not sure what game these are from)
Meeples from The Discovery
Meeples from The City
Meeples from Hunters and Gatherers

I use these for playtesting various variants/expansions. Some of my pieces have had to be painted in Grey for the extra player.


Mind you with all the extra components and tiles my Big Box does suffer:

(http://www.john-warren.co.uk/carcassonne/images/CC_forum_images/Carcassonne_BB_1.jpg)

Great John, (but you wrote The City instead of The Castle in the list of meeples)

This is the storage box I use, it's perfect, even holds The wooden storage Tower:
(http://www.serieborsen.se/images/spel/carc_storage_box.jpg)

Will look forward to get hold of those extra meeples, I will use the meeples from Hunters & Gatherers as fishermen. Then there will be Jesters & Minstrels of course.
More ideas will surely come when I have the meeples.

For the Plano 3700, do the tiles push at the lid of the tackle box at all, or are they pretty flush with it? I have—I think—a Plano 2700 for my Catan accessories (from Das Buch, Atlantis, and Traders & Barbarians) as well as a deeper one for my basic, Seafarers, and Cities & Knights expansions, but those push on the top a little more than I wish. What's the status with the 3700? Thank you!

Here's what I use for King & Robber.

No, the tiles do not push at the lid at all. I just retested this and if you jiggle the box, the tiles go back and forth.

I have a 3750 that I use for the Risk 2210 pieces. Prior to going to pick up the Carcassonne tackle box, I tested the tiles in the 3750 and it came up short much like you describe. I would strongly recommend taking a sample tile with you to test prior to purchase as "eyeballing" does not work well.

The 3700 came with 20 dividers and in the configuration I have set up now, I am only using 18.

**On a related note, I would like to post a picture of the tackle box and a diagram of how I set it up. Is it possible to attach files to these messages or do they need to be hosted elsewhere? Thanks. **

They need to be hosted elsewhere and linked to.

Scotty, thanks for the marker. That will come in handy.

Joff, the colored discs are from Hunters and Gatherers...

Not really, Hunters & Gatherers only have green discs, so these must come from some other game.

I have bought meeples from The City, The Discovery and Hunters & Gatherers now.
And as a Christmas present to my girlfriend I bought brown "ordinary" meeples as well (her favorite colour is brown). So I hope I will get them before Christmas.
Then after Christmas we will play "The Jester & The Minstrel", "Row, row, row..." (with fishermen meeples from H&G) and "Trading Post".
The discs I will use as point markers (after I have painted them)
Should be interesting.

The german guy didn't have the meeples from The Castle or New World, I am interested in getting those as well, though. Do I have to buy those games to get them ?

.../Patrik

Well, green discs are colored discs...

Members should have the ability to post (small) attachments actually. On the reply screen, you should see "+ Additional Options" on the lower left below the text edit box. Click on the +, there should be an attachments feature. Let me know if you don't see it.

Okay, I'll give this a whirl. I had originally put this into an Excel spreadsheet and then cut/pasted to a Word .doc file so I hope it works.

This is a schematic of how I placed my tiles in the Plano 3700 tackle box. The 3700 has "hard molded" walls which separate the tackle box into four long compartments. In addition, you get twenty smaller walls (indicated by dashed lines in the schematic) which slip into slots in the hard walls which allow you to sub-divide those four compartments even further. Each of the four compartments can be separated into a maximum of twelve sub-compartments.

The smallest compartment you can make holds twelve tiles perfectly which is really nice as most of the smaller expansions come with twelve tiles. In the attached scematic, I have indicated in parenthesis the number of tiles in each compartment. Note that these are the number of tiles you draw - the actual number of physical tiles in the compartment could be higher (I did not indicate the Abbey tiles or the King & Robber Baron but those tiles are lumped in with their respective expansions.) Additionally, I have printed out a copy of the schematic and taped it to the inside of the box which makes clean up that much easier.

Joff - the colored disks look a lot like the ones from _{Ticket to Ride}  I feel kinda bad mentioning a non carc game, though it is a fun game.

Actually, yes they are in Ticket To Ride, but my set was a bag with 12 different colours in.

Perhaps some extra colors from Ticket to Ride like there are in Carc.

Naw, don't, there are a lot of excellent games out there, and Carc can make good use of some of their parts & concepts for expansions

Yeah, specially for the fan-made expansions...

Here is a .jpg of the Plano box setup.

Welp, that is next on my list of items to buy. I guess I will be adding a third Plano tackle box to my game collection (Catan requires TWO!). If I get Agricola for Christmas and buy the Animeeples before I return to the UK, I may have to get two more tackle boxes. Sheesh, that may get a little heavy, though.

Scotty, would you mind if I made that as a public download on this site?

Novelty that would be great, easyier for people to find.
I'm not sure who made it.  I found it on BGG (I think) a while ago. 
Makes it alot better to keep track during the game instead of trying to cout it all at the end.

Hmm.... if you didn't make it then I'd have to hunt for the original maker to make it available on the downloads page.  Maybe someone could make a version so that we can host it here or something :)

I'll see if I can find out for you

I have downloaded the 100 Point Scoring Track & 500 Point Extension, put them together, and had them laminated. I was planning on purchasing one extra Meeple in all six base colors (as markers on the extension) as well as one brown and one purple Meeple to use on the scoring track to indicate the longest road and city.

However, I was in Hobby Lobby the other day and saw that they sell 1/2" unpainted cubes (fourteen cubes in a plastic bag for $1.47). I decided to get those instead and, using paint I already had, painted up two cubes in each of the base colors and one each of brown and purple.

An inexpensive alternative** to buying the Meeples.

**as long as you have paint and don't mind investing the time/effort.

Novelty, I couldn't find it so I made one.  Its pretty much the same so I hope it works for you.

Heres a better one.  I use 4 brown and 4 white meeples as the markers.  Brown for the cities and white for the roads.

Thanks scotty.  It's now available on the downloads (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=59) page.