Start Tiles.

[FennShysa]

Hola.  New guy here.  I've got a gaming group who loves carcassonne. I've started to make some of these fine expansions. Finished the Forests, Fisherman, Mills & Bakeries, Gold Mines, Breweries, City Council, and a few odds and ends. I'm going to post a thread on how i did it later with some pictures.  Haven't played with them yet but i'll give some session reports too.

However i have one big request (or a lot of little requests). I would like some starting tiles for the expansions. Would that be possible?  I have a few ideas in mind.

A single with: Forest, City, Road, Field.
A single with: River, City, Road, Field.
A double with some combination of : Forest, River, City, Road, Field.

We also play a lot with the Count. Almost all the time actually. I saw one thread where someone modified the city with a lake in it for fishermen expansion. I like.  However would someone be willing to modify the outside of the city to have one with starting Forests spaces, one with starting River spaces and one with both? 

[Whaleyland]

I thought I posted these ages ago, but perhaps not. I made four start tiles, one with a river, one with a mountain, one with a forest, and one with just a hillside (separating the fields). They aren't sized correctly, but you can do that yourself for now:

[FennShysa]

It's possible that you may have posted them somewhere and I just didn't find them. I don't think they are in the downloads section though.

Either way, thank you!  That's definitely a good start for what I'm looking for.

[CARC_Zoner]

I made four start tiles, one with a river, one with a mountain, one with a forest, and one with just a hillside (separating the fields).

Beautiful work, Whaleyland!

CARC_Zoner

[FennShysa]

I have printed and constructed them. Thank you!

Is anyone interested in tackling my other ideas eventually?  The 4x3 city with outside modifications and a double start tile with River and Forest added?

[Cappy]

It's been a couple of months, but if you're still interested, FennShysa, what do you think of this layout?



It's purely rough draft right now. If you like it, I'll tackle a full-scale pass on the tiles that changed.

(And, yeah, it's a bad idea to let forest grow right up to the city walls, but watcha gonna do? )

[Whaleyland]

I like this city-scape but I do have a few suggestions:
• Have all the forests not touch the walls, per the reasons you implied.
• Change the river source to a lake.
• Add a mountain to the top tile where the forest currently is.
• Add a hillside on one of the bottom field tiles.
These would take into effect most of the fan expansion and would also further divide the fields.

[Cappy]

I like this city-scape but I do have a few suggestions:
• Have all the forests not touch the walls, per the reasons you implied.
• Change the river source to a lake.
• Add a mountain to the top tile where the forest currently is.
• Add a hillside on one of the bottom field tiles.
These would take into effect most of the fan expansion and would also further divide the fields.

I hear you, but will let others weigh in before jumping on it.

1) Don't rivers always start with a spring? Wouldn't it be odd to build from a lake?

2) A hillside? Which expansion is that from? Do you mean the cliffs from the forest expansion?

[FennShysa]

That's very awesome!
I'm perfectly happy with whatever you will do. (The forest to the walls doesn't really bother me.) If it's not too much work, could you do it in 3 versions? One with just the river, one with just forest and one with both?

The only problem I see is that where you put the River start tile is where i think the place is to place the count and meeples for the foresters.

A mountain start would be ok too. But not necessary for me.

Whatever you do, thank you for tackling this!!

[Whaleyland]

I hear you, but will let others weigh in before jumping on it.

1) Don't rivers always start with a spring? Wouldn't it be odd to build from a lake?

Not nearly as odd as having a city prompt a spring...unless it was a filthy run-off stream that no sane person would ever drink from. I've started games with a lake before and ended it with the source. It only matters at the end of the game for visual purposes.

2) A hillside? Which expansion is that from? Do you mean the cliffs from the forest expansion?

Yes, I meant the cliffs, I think.

[Cappy]

Not nearly as odd as having a city prompt a spring...unless it was a filthy run-off stream that no sane person would ever drink from.

It does look funny to have a rivers starting at the city... I'll see what I can do.

The lake inside of the city was just me fiddling, I'll probably leave it out in the final run -- wouldn't want the Count and woodsmen to be homeless.

[FennShysa]

I don't know how anyone's drawing skills are, but i just had an idea.  While the lake inside the city looks a little odd, maybe a fountain could be squeezed onto tile 6 for the Rivers.

[FennShysa]

I've managed to do up a couple variations on the City so far.
City With River
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m218/FennShysa/Source%20Art/CityWithRiver.jpg
City With Forests
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m218/FennShysa/Source%20Art/CityWithWoods.jpg
City With Forests and River
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m218/FennShysa/Source%20Art/CityWithRiverWoods.jpg
If anyone wants a better quality pdf of these just let me know, i'll e-mail or figure out somewhere to host.

[Ulstergeki]

I would love the pdf of these!
great job!

[neosatan]

Could You do with mountains? I like way that You publish it cause when I want to play with river I will just change one tile, when I want to play with forests. Thats prety cool. I wolud like to see something similiar for mountains. That way I could personalize my Carcassonne City for any game. If You can, I would ask form more special features on thouse cities. That way there would be more ways to personalize City of Carcassonne.

btw. I was thinking that City could be done in similiar way that puzzles does. That way the pieces wouldn't slip when You place meeple.