Novelty's Tiles

[meepleater]

My problem is now how to print out the expansions now our colour printer is kaputt...

[Novelty]

Do you have stationery shops that will print them for you?  How about photograph print shops?  You might have to ask around, and pay a bit, but it is possible to get them printed out in good quality.

[CKorfmann]

wagon placed on 2 tiles. barn on forbidden place (2 city corners). H&G meeple!

The wagon is correctly placed, it's still on a road.  And there are a lot more mistakes than 1

The question would be, when the dragon comes, on which tile does the cart get eaten?  Likewise with the tower, on which tile is the cart captured.  It seems obvious that the correct answer is the tile it was placed on, but I can see where some people might be confused if several rounds have gone by.

[Novelty]

So I finally got around with playing Mega-carc + Forests and some rivers.  All official expansions used - with the exception of the Count of Carcassonne, but did not use the rules for P&D and Catapult.  That's

Base Carcassonne
River 1
Inns & Cathedrals
Traders & Builders
Princess & Dragon
King (of King & Scout)
Abbey & Mayor
River 2
River 2 from GK&K
Shrines from GK&K
Shrines from HiG Almanac
Cult & Siege from CS&C
Cathars
GQ11
Catapult

Fan-made expansions include:

Forests
Timber
Evergreen Forest
Green Dragon
Apple a Day
Log Cabin
Fairy Tales
Wizard of Oz
Fishermen (partial)
Black Tower

and maybe one or two more that I can't remember.  Here's some photos.

The Big Box scoreboard and my old scoreboard is different in colour:


Pile of tiles used in the game:


Non-tiles


Trade goods stacked up


Sample of the figures.  Yes, that is an orange A&M set.  I also got my Agricola sheep, cow and boar which I photographed below


It took 2 towers to fit all the tiles, and then some


After about 2 hours this was the result:

The blue Carc bag held the Apple trade goods.

There was a mistake (illegal placement) that went unnoticed for a long time...

That was long.  We decided to call it a day.  The person in the lead at that point had almost 200 points.  Total points was about 500 shared between 3 players.

The abbey tiles went fast.  Here's a close up of the black tower and the abbey tiles in play:

[CKorfmann]

Wow... I'd like to do that!  My wife thinks there is something wrong with me.  She got tired of playing with 250 tiles.  

How many players were there?  

I bought that same set of sheep, cows, and pigs to eventually use for Dragon Hunter.  I also bought 30 extra sheep for Shepherds.  (I'm using 5 instead of 6).

What was the illeagal placement?  I didn't notice, is it pictured?

[Novelty]

How many players were there?
What was the illeagal placement?  I didn't notice, is it pictured?

3 players as mentioned in the post.  And I'll leave it up to some enterprising poster to find the 2 mistakes (yes, I spotted a second one just now!)

[CKorfmann]

I guess I missed that...

Errors: 
In picture #7 (next to the blue bag) & #8, it appears as though the red builder is in a city all by itself.  The two cities are not connected.

In picture #7, there are two cloisters and a shrine too close to each other just south of the blue barn. 

Same picture, below the shrine/cloister group, there is another group of four cloisters next to an abbey.  Right below that group of cloisters are two tiles with a city section of one tile up against a farm section of another tile (a dragon tile).

I find it interesting that there are no cathedral tiles in play.  There needs to be a few more in a game of this size IMO.

The blue & orange players have a lovely farm going with their barns.  With 9 complete cities (1 under siege) and a potential for at least 4 more, it's definitely a farm I'd like to have.  Too bad that little piece of forest cuts it off on the right.  It prevents 5 more completed cities.  If I were the blue player, I'd be making as many little cities as I could over on the left side where the farm is still open.  I would quickly try to add my pig and a pig farm tile (debatable, I know, but that's how we play).  That farm could knock red out of contention unless they can figure out a way to get in it.

It looked for a minute like you are also playing with the wheat and lavender fields, but I think what I'm seeing is from the OZ set, right?  Do you play the Beast's Castle with the Lord of the Manor rules?

The tiles aren't "squared up" with each other.  That will get you spoken harshly to in my house! 

[Novelty]

Errors: 
In picture #7 (next to the blue bag) & #8, it appears as though the red builder is in a city all by itself.  The two cities are not connected.

Ah, I missed that.  So there's 3 errors then.

I find it interesting that there are no cathedral tiles in play.  There needs to be a few more in a game of this size IMO.

None of them got drawn.  Perhaps there need to be more, but my gaming group just isn't fond of cccc tiles in general, although having said that, all 3 of them that got drawn in this game was part of completed cities.

It looked for a minute like you are also playing with the wheat and lavender fields, but I think what I'm seeing is from the OZ set, right?  Do you play the Beast's Castle with the Lord of the Manor rules?

Yes, those are Oz tiles.  There were no wheat/lavender farms in play.  I don't see what could be Lavender tiles, and the farm tiles from Oz aren't as good as Chr15lynn's wheat field tiles.  We started playing with the Lord of the Manor rules, but the tower put an end to that rather quickly.  That's usually the case.  One reason why I don't really like the tower, but it does balance things out.  Red had 6 captured followers at one stage!  What I do wish for is more Abbeys - those plug in the gaps quick for easy points (and trade goods).  I think we will play with 2 - 3 abbey tiles per player from now on (since I do have 12 of them).

Edit: Hopefully I'll have some time tonight to make more custom tiles - I cleared out my FLGS of River 2 expansions last week, but haven't found the time to make the tiles yet!  There were too few river tiles in the game, even with 3 river expansions and 30 fan-made river tiles.

[Novelty]

Sorry for the double post, but I just wanted to show the first tile that I've made where I didn't make the graphic myself...



The meeples are just there to show that the tiles are real tiles.

[meepleater]

I found 5 errors in the game:

1. Orange pig on farm with a barn (I'm pretty sure they must be removed? The pig herd only seems to count with a farmer.)
2. Red builder in city by itself.
3. Incorrectly placed tile, a shrine next to two cloisters, below the blue barn.
4. Incorrectly placed tile, city-field placement, below the centre of the map.
5. Incorrectly placed tile, forest-field placement, in the forest at the upper- right corner of the map underneath the volcano and the fairground/ cloister tile, in the rightmost end of the forest.

[CKorfmann]

I found 5 errors in the game:
1. Orange pig on farm with a barn (I'm pretty sure they must be removed? The pig herd only seems to count with a farmer.)
5. Incorrectly placed tile, forest-field placement, in the forest at the upper- right corner of the map underneath the volcano and the fairground/ cloister tile, in the rightmost end of the forest.

Not sure about #1.  I haven't been shown anything to my satisfaction on the pig.  I do play the pigfarm with the barn though.
I did miss #5 though.  Good catch.

[meepleater]

I seem to remember hearing that the pig cannot be used with a barn, can't remember where I heard it. The pig-farm is mentioned on the A&M FAQ...