![]() Perhaps the most famous image of the modern tabletop hobby, meeple are an iconic and influential design. To celebrate this incredible game, Meeple Mountain is proud to present the 21 most important and influential moments from 21 years of Carcassonne. ![]() It’s no exaggeration to say that Carcassonne has changed the landscape of tabletop gaming forever. Published in 2000, Klaus-Jurgen Wrede’s board game behemoth has sold over 12 million copies, been officially translated into 22 languages and reached an all-time high of #2 in the rankings on BoardGameGeek. There are also a lot of Carcassonne related games with a similar system like Carcassonne Hunters & Gatherers, Carcassonne The Castle, Carcassonne The City, New World: A Carcassonne Game and many more.Join Meeple Mountain as we celebrate everything Carcassonne, including the 20th anniversary of Carcassonne winning the Spiel des Jahres prize.Ĭarcassonne is one of the classic modern board games. ![]() Carcassonne Bridge, Castles & Bazaars – 2010.Carcassonne The Princess & the Dragon – 2005.We haven’t played any of the other many Carcassonne expansions that have been published, but here’s a list and the year published for a number of the expansions: Oh, and because Carcassonne The River is a mini-expansion of only 12 tiles, it’s very inexpensive as well. Not that we’re opposed to giving friends board games as gifts – we’ll just save our expansions boxes for gifts amongst ourselves. Because when we give gifts to our friends wrapped in an expansion box, they think we’re giving them a game expansion (of which they don’t have the original) and we have to tell them to open the box to get to their real gift. The only catch we’ve found is that we should only wrap our own family presents in them. They’re a great size for wrapping presents. What do we do with the game boxes from the expansions? That way, it’s very easy to grab them to start the game, then draw from the bag (that came in the Carcassonne Traders & Builders expansion) the rest of the game. Easy to store the expansions we have in the original box.Įven though we play with the river tiles every time, we keep those tiles in a separate baggie from the other land tiles. And let’s face it, having a cool river flowing through the middle of the land creates a more beautified landscape. One of the big draws to Carcassonne is the fun of building a cool countryside as the game progresses. Because farm areas will extend around the spring and lake, we’ll typically try to play some early farmers to gain an advantage in that part of the game. The main reason we play with The River every time is because it opens up the countryside quite a bit. Along the way, players can play followers/meeples to the river tiles like normal in fields, in cities, on roads (just can’t place them on the river itself – there are no swimmer or fisherman followers).Īs you can see, the addition of the river as starting tiles doesn’t add any additional rules to the basic game.ĭoesn’t the countryside look beautiful with a river? So why do we like Carcassonne The River? Then each player takes turns adding a river tile by connecting the river for a continuous flow to the last river tile – the lake. ![]() The first tile placed is the spring, where the river begins. When playing with The River, players begin the game by placing the river tiles. The distinction however is that each of these 12 tiles have a river flowing through the rest of the terrain – through a field, next to a city, or under a road. However, just because it’s mini doesn’t mean it isn’t great – because we play with the River every time we play!Ĭarcassonne The River adds just 12 land tiles to the Carcassonne board game. Our 3rd, and last, Carcassonne expansion board game review is for the mini-expansion: Carcassonne The River.Īnd since it’s a mini-expansion, this will be a mini-review because there isn’t a lot to say about it.
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