Carcassonne Central

(I really hope she'll never get her own account here, it'll hurt really bad ;) )

Last night we played The Castle. None of us really likes it, but we take it out now and then to have a go at it. It was the first game of the siblings I bought before I knew the differences really. I played original C with an ex girlfriend but Castle was cheaper so I bought that instead :)

Anyway, to the game:

It started off pretty well for me, I got to the first two wall tiles by tactics alone - I played a bent road next to a corner so I could get a single point in order to take the first WT for example. Sara started to build on her house, since that usually generates a lot of points. And for once I let her - I only built two houses I think, and one of those was an one-pointer.

I had a lot of luck with drawing market tiles and could place them next to my already occupied courts. I also could build so that I merged a meaningless tile to Sara's big court - rendering it pointless for both of us, which hurt her a lot more than me. I concentrated on building a big tower, and it yielded 26 points when it was finished - I also built a smaller 12 poinst worth of unfinished tower because I had that WT.

Since the only thing that needs to be connected are roads, City actually plays quite differently from both C and H&G. You don't have to match tiles, and it takes a while to get adjusted to that kind of thinking. After yesterday's game both me and Sara agreed that .. well, maybe, after all City isn't such a crappy game as we have thought for so long. The session was actually quite fun :)

In the end I won by 5 points: 103 - 98. It was also the first time anyone of us reached over 100 points.

I guess this means we'll play it more from now on!

Edit: typos  ::)

Hey Tobias, yeah you had better hope she doesnt come on here, specially as you mentioned an ex-girlfriend  ;D ;D

Good to hear that you enjoyed the game though, and it was interesting to hear someones view on it as I have been thinking about this game as an alternative.

The Castle is on my want list too, I'm definitely drinking up the description of how the game works, good job!

Naturally, she passed my chair as I read your reply so now she knows :P

The ex girlfriend thing isn't a problem, they both know eachother well - besides Sara isn't my girlfriend really .. *cough* ;)

Anyway - We'll play it more often now and I have to give credit to the guy who can take a concept, change it slightly and get a totally new game!