Hey all,
This afternoon, my wife and I played a really fun game of Carcassonne, using a few expansions: River I, River II, Traders & Builders, and Inns & Cathedrals. Because I forgot to pull them out of our meeple bags, we didn't use the pig from Traders & Builders.
I ended up winning 276 to 260, a 16 point difference. I was happy for the rare win against my wife, but she was a little slower off the mark on farming this game, which was probably the difference.
Some highlights: I managed to join my wife's city that had one of the cathedrals, so we shared a good number of points when it was completed. The other cathedral had to be abandoned without that city being claimed by either of us, near the end of the game. I ended up farming for 14 completed cities, compared to 7 cities for my wife (we shared some cities). I won the points for the most cloth and wheat trade goods and she won for the wine barrels. Despite everything, the game was still very close.
A picture taken during farmer scoring is attached (hope that worked). As you can see in the picture, the plastic bag holding our green meeples is on the top left. Some good sized cities were completed. Notice the long "road by an inn" at the bottom left corner, which was another source of many points.
To share a tip, we use coloured glass beads (flat on the bottom) for both the scoring track (so we each use 8 regular meeples in game play) and to score the farms (marking the cities being supplied by each player's farms). We also use the beads with the Wheel of Fortue scoring track when using the King & Scout mini-expansion.
And now that I think of it, such coloured glass beads could be used with the "Phantom" rules for the forthcoming Carcassonne: Das Gefolge expansion (but just until we can purchase the real transparent meeples, of course).
CARC_Zoner
