Carcassonne Winter Edition

[Khonnor83]

Ah, thank you for letting me know...I also live in The Netherlands...so guess I won't be playing with these until 2012...

[PresetM]

Today I was finally able to download the Winter Edition and I must say, most of the graphics looks nice and cute. Especially the snowy cloisters and the towns are great. But I also dislike the computer generated backgrounds. These backgrounds does not fit to the other graphics.

And second:

IMHO, it would have been nice to have some 'bleed' between the tiles

I also think so. But it turns out that's not a big problem. I edited the PDFs with Foxit Reader and retrieve all single tiles. The tiles have a good quality (802x802pixel/24bit). As usual I arranged all tiles in a Word document with a little space between the tiles and 24 tiles per page (every tile I resized with a macro exactly to a dimension of 4,5 cm x 4,5 cm). This saves a little money when you're printing out the tiles in a copy shop on a professional laser printer. And it makes full use of the stickers that were used for printing. And you only have one file (three pages).

[Scott]

I sent an e-mail to service@cundco.de explaining the problem with Paypal and got a reply that I should send the payment to that e-mail address and they can finish processing my order.

[Carcatronn]

Can always pick this up in the Shoppe instead 

[Scott]

If I wasn't already half-way through buying from Cundco I would have.

I just downloaded the six PDF files and I notice that on a few tiles a portion of a road is buried in snow. I'm pretty sure this is just for looks, but I already anticipate arguments about whether the farms on either side of the road are now connected, so I sent an e-mail to Cundco to see what they have to say for themselves.

[Talisinbear]

Anyone have a link/cost to the tiles.

They interest me, while the stickers aren't so exciting

[joshgambit]

There aren't any tiles.  It is a download that you print off onto sticker paper and use either blank tiles or tiles you no longer use.  Unless you're talking about the blank tiles:

http://www.cundco.de/shop/?tx_dkdshop[category]=7&tx_dkdshop[product]=75

[Deatheux]

is it me, or this is totally pointless, and uninspired??, can we have a GOOD expansion containing more than 2 tiles and with constructive and innovative, a premiere since the Trades & Builders...??

[Talisinbear]

I don't like that it really doesn't work with existing game

[Scott]

I went to the office supply store yesterday and got some 8.5x11 full sheet labels, printed everything out, and this morning I finished sticking them to tiles. I think I've nicely solved two problems simultaneously by sticking the labels to the tiles from the 10th Anniversary edition. That edition comes with transparent meeples, which makes it awkward to play with expansions that have additional meeples. Since the winter graphics make it awkward to play with expansions also, now I have the winter graphics and transparent meeples in the same set.

[Carcking]

Nice. And given that the anniversary tiles are thinner than regular tiles that's a good use of those tiles.