Hills & Sheep

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The Shepherds in the meadows throughout Carcassonne wait peacefully until their entire flock of sheep gathers around. However, they have to be careful that a wolf doesn’t show up before they have led their flock safely into the stable. In the hills, you can take control of lands once thought lost. In addition, many a monk is always happy to have a vineyard near his monastery.

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The Shepherds in the meadows throughout Carcassonne wait peacefully until their entire flock of sheep gathers around. However, they have to be careful that a wolf doesn’t show up before they have led their flock safely into the stable. In the hills, you can take control of lands once thought lost. In addition, many a monk is always happy to have a vineyard near his monastery.

General info and comments

Expansion symbol

Hills & Sheep was released for the new edition by Hans im Glück in 2018.

This expansion was originally released for the 1st Edition, known as C1 for short, in 2014.

This is the ninth major expansion for Carcassonne and introduces some new aspects to the game.

New features/elements:

  • Shepherds, a special figure that can grow and score a flock of sheep.
  • Sheep and wolf tokens, that are drawn from a bag to add new sheep to your flock or lose it if you draw a wolf.
  • Vineyards, that provide additional points to neighboring monasteries
  • Hills, that may break ties in a feature being scored

Contents

  • 18 land tiles
Tile with a hill
Tile with a vineyard
  • 18 flock and wolf tokens (4x 1 sheep, 5x 2 sheep, 5x 3 sheep, 2x 4 sheep, 2x wolf)
Sheep and wolf Tokens
  • 1 cloth bag
Bag for the tokens
  • 6 shepherds, 1 in each 6 colors
Figure Shepards C2.png

Rules

Preparation

Place all of the sheep and wolf tokens in the bag. Give each player (including yourself) the shepherd in their color. Shuffle the new tiles with the other land tiles.

With the exception of the new rules used with this expansion, all basic Carcassonne rules remain unchanged.

Shepherd, sheep and wolves

Hills And Sheep C2 Shepherd And Tokens.png
2. Placing a meeple

After placing a tile with a field, you may choose to either place a meeple as normal or place your shepherd on the field. If you place the shepherd, immediately draw a token from the bag.

Example 1a: Placing a shepherd on a newly placed field tile
Example 1b: Drawing a token from the cloth bag

If it is a sheep token, place it sheep-side up next to your shepherd in the field.

If it is a wolf token, place it back in the bag and return your shepherd to your supply.

You can place your shepherd even if there is already a farmer in that field (and vice versa), but you cannot place a shepherd if there is already another shepherd in that field. The shepherd is a special figure, not a meeple.

During the game, the shepherd has the following effects:

1. Placing a tile

When you place a tile to expand your shepherd's field, first resolve the action 2. Placing a meeple as normal, then resolve one of the following two actions:

  • Grow the flock (draw another token from the bag)
  • Guide the flock to the stable (score the sheep)

Grow the Flock

Draw a token from the bag:

Token HillsSheep Sheep3 C2.png
1. If it is a sheep token, your flock grows. Place the token with the other sheep tokens next to your shepherd.
Token HillsSheep Wolf C2.png
2. If it is a wolf token, your flock scatters. Return all of the sheep tokens from your field to the bag and return your shepherd to your supply.

Guide the Flock to the Stable

For each sheep token in the field with your shepherd, score points equal to the number of sheep shown on the token. Then, return all of those sheep tokens to the bag and return your shepherd to your supply.

Multiple Shepherds on One Field

If separate fields with shepherds are later connected, multiple shepherds can be in the same field. All players with shepherds in that field can grow their flock or guide their flock to the stable as normal, but those actions can resolve differently:

  • When a sheep token is drawn, the token is placed as normal. When a wolf token is drawn, all sheep tokens from that field are returned to the bag, and each shepherd on that field is returned to its owner's supply.
  • When a player guides a flock to the stable, all sheep tokens from that field are returned to the bag, and all players with shepherds on that field score points for all of the sheep tokens in that field.
Example 2: The blue player and you each have a shepherd in the field. The two flocks have 4 sheep tokens with 8 sheep total. During your turn, you expand the field and choose to score the sheep. Both you and blue score 8 points. You return all sheep tokens to the bag.
If you had chosen to grow the flock instead and had drawn a wolf token, all shepherds and all of the sheep in that field would be returned to the bag, and no one would score any points.

Normally to score points for your sheep, you must use the Guide the flock to the stable action.

Exception: If any player closes a field with shepherds and sheep by fully surrounding it by roads and cities, immediately resolve the Guide the flock to the stable action for that field. [1] [2]

Example 3: You place a tile and grow your flock. Since you have completely closed the field with your shepherd with this tile, you immediately guide the flock to the stable and score 7 points.
3. Scoring a feature

The shepherd does not score for any other features and is not affected by any other scoring.

Final Scoring

If your shepherd and sheep are in a field at the end of the game, you do not score any points for them.

Hills

Feature Hill C2.png

(Idea: Manfred Keller)

1. Placing a tile

If you draw a tile with a hill, immediately take another facedown tile and place it under the hill tile. Do not look at the second tile! Place the hill tile using normal placement rules but keep the facedown tile under it. [3]

Example 1: Placing a tile with a hill
2. Placing a meeple

After placing the hill tile, you may place a meeple on the tile as normal (on one of the features: road, city, field). You cannot place a meeple directly on the hill itself.

3. Scoring a hill

If you have a meeple on a feature of a hill tile, ties for scoring that feature are broken in your favor. When a feature is scored (road, city, and field), if players are tied for most meeples, check to see if any part of that feature appears on a hill tile. If it does, and if one of the tied players has a meeple on that feature of the hill tile, that player breaks the tie and is the only player who scores points for that feature. Unlike ties without hills, other tied players do not score any points. [4] [5]

Having a meeple on a hill only affects ties when scoring a feature. If there is not a tie, the hill provides no additional effect. After a feature is scored, a meeple on a hill tile is returned to its owner's supply as normal.

Example 2: The blue player and you each have a knight in a city when it is scored. Your knight is on a hill, so you win the tie, scoring 12 points. Blue scores no points.
Final Scoring

Meeples on hill tiles break ties and score points as normal during final scoring (including farmers).

Vineyards

Scoring C2 Vineyard.png
1. Placing a tile

You place a tile with a vineyard as normal.

2. Placing a meeple

After placing the vineyard tile, you may place a meeple on the tile as normal, but you cannot place the meeple directly on the vineyard itself.

3. Scoring a vineyard

When completing and scoring a monastery, the player who scores points for the monastery scores 3 additional points for each vineyard on one of the 8 surrounding tiles. A single vineyard can score additional points for multiple monasteries.

Example 1: Your monastery is being scored. There are 3 vineyards in the tiles surrounding the monastery. You score 18 points (9 + 3 + 3 + 3) . If the blue player's monastery is completed later in the game, it will also benefit from the vineyard above it, scoring an additional 3 points.
Final Scoring

During final scoring, an incomplete monastery does not score additional points for the surrounding vineyards. [6]

New land tiles

Hills And Sheep C2 Feature Tile 01.png
The fields on either side of the two city segments are not connected.
Hills And Sheep C2 Feature Tile 02.png
The road from the top and bottom both end at the small house.

New Special City Tiles    (Idea: Jan König)

Hills And Sheep C2 Feature Tile 03.png
This tile has two seperate city segments. If you place a tile with one city segment to the right of it, the city segments become connected.
Example: The tile to the right connects the two previously separated city segments from the tile to the left.
Hills And Sheep C2 Feature Example 02.png

Note: If you place these two tiles next to each other as shown, all of the separate city segments are connected. (The segments of the two tiles are intentionally offset.)

Hills And Sheep C2 Feature Tile 04.png
This tile has two separate field segments. If you place a tile with one field segment to the right of it, the field segments become connected.
Example: The tile to the right connects the two previously separated field segments from the tile to the left.
Hills And Sheep C2 Feature Example 04.png

Note: If you place these two tiles next to each other as shown, the two city segments are not connected. The top and bottom fields are also not connected.

Other expansions

This section contains additional information about the interactions with other Carcassonne expansions.

General comments:

Exp. 3 - The Princess & the DragonExp. 3 - The Princess & the Dragon

Interpretation from the Community The dragon will eat only the shepherd (and that shepherd's flock) on its tile. It will not eat other shepherds from the same field unless it moves onto the corresponding tile. The shepherd is not a meeple, so the fairy cannot be assigned to it.

Exp. 4 - The TowerExp. 4 - The Tower

Interpretation from the Community You cannot capture a shepherd with a tower.

Exp. 6 - Count, King & RobberExp. 6 - Count, King & Robber

Interpretation from the Community You cannot place your shepherd into the city of Carcassonne.

General comments:

Interpretation from the Community The following figures can use the hill's tiebreaking effect: Note: A tie in majority is not defined by the number of meeples on a feature, but by the total strength of the meeples on it. The strength of the meeple placed on the hill is irrelevant in a tiebreak (it could be a mayor with strength 0).

Exp. 5 - Abbey & MayorExp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor

Interpretation from the Community You cannot place an abbey tile under a hill tile. A hill can be part of the tile junction that the barn is placed on, but there is no additional effect.

Exp. 6 - Count, King & RobberExp. 6 - Count, King & Robber

Interpretation from the Community You may deploy a meeple from from the city of Carcassonne on a hill tile with a feature about to be evaluated. [7] If you do, you gain the benefit of the hill.

Exp. 8 - Bridges, Castles & BazaarsExp. 8 - Bridges, Castles & Bazaars

Interpretation from the Community You can place a bridge on a hill tile. You can place a castle (even partially) on a hill tile. If you take a hill tile during a bazaar auction, do not take the facedown tile (to put under the hill) until it is your turn to place the hill tile.

General comments:

The AbbotThe Abbot

Interpretation from the Community Your abbot can score additional points for vineyards only if the monastery is scored when completed. If you return the abbot before then, you do not score the additional points. [8] [9] If the abbot is placed on a garden, you do not score additional points for vineyards.

Exp. 5 - Abbey & MayorExp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor

Interpretation from the Community Abbeys can score additional points for vineyards.

Exp. 6 - Count, King & RobberExp. 6 - Count, King & Robber

Interpretation from the Community Shrines can score additional points for vineyards. If there is a challenge, you score the additional points only if you win the challenge.

Exp. 8 - Bridges, Castles & BazaarsExp. 8 - Bridges, Castles & Bazaars

Interpretation from the Community You can place a bridge on a vineyard tile.

Monasteries in GermanyMonasteries in Germany / Monasteries in the Netherlands & BelgiumMonasteries in the Netherlands & Belgium / Japanese BuildingsJapanese Buildings

Interpretation from the Community When using German monasteries or Japanese buildings, the vineyard bonus is applied if the meeple is placed as a monk and the feature is scored as a finished monastery. However, the vineyard bonus is not applied if a meeple is placed as an abbot, as the abbot scores only at the end of the game, when the vineyard has no effect.

House rules

Common house rule or variant If you’re not concerned about whether or not players count tiles as a strategy, and you want to be able to use all of the tiles in the game, you can place blank tiles under any hills that are drawn. (Thanks to Crispy Jones.)

Tile distribution

Total tiles: 18
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile A.jpg ×1
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile B.jpg ×1
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile C.jpg ×1
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile D.jpg ×1
Hill + (W)
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile E.jpg ×1
Hill + (G)
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile F.jpg ×1
Hill + (H)
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile G.jpg ×1
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile H.jpg ×1
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile I.jpg ×1
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile J.jpg ×1
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile K.jpg ×2
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile M.jpg ×1
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile N.jpg ×1
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile O.jpg ×1
Hills And Sheep C2 Tile P.jpg ×1
Several tiles have a small illustration on them. The letters in brackets show which illustration is on each tile:
Feature Garden C2.png 
G | Garden
Feature Farmhouse C2.png 
Feature WaterTower C2.png 
Feature Highwayman C2.png 
Note: The small illustrations of a cowshed, a pigsty and a donkey stable are collectively referred to as sheds or stables.
Total tokens: 18
Token HillsSheep Sheep1 C2.png ×4
Token HillsSheep Sheep2 C2.png ×5
Token HillsSheep Wolf C2.png ×2

Footnotes

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  1. ↑ Interpretation from the Community This exception refers to a special case when a field is surrounded and "closed" with roads and cities so it cannot expand anymore. At that point the shepherd scoring takes place: The player gets points for the sheep, the sheep go back into the bag, and the shepherd goes back to the player's supply. (12/2015)
    A field completely surrounded without any gaps cannot be extended, but this does not mean that the field is scored automatically. The surrounded field will be scored at the end of the game as usual.
  2. ↑ Interpretation from the Community The same exception should apply when placing a shepherd on an inner field. Inner fields are present on several CCCC or CCCF tiles, so they closed by city walls and cannot be extended. In this case, you would place the shepherd on the inner field, perform the Grow the flock action and, if no wolf token was drawn, you would perform the Guide the flock action automatically since the filed is already closed. These are examples of CCCC tiles with inner fields:
    Inns And Cathedrals C2 Tile H.jpg 
    Traders And Builders C2 Tile M.jpg 
    Traders And Builders C2 Tile X.jpg 
    Tower C2 Tile D.jpg 
    Abbey And Mayor C2 Tile C.jpg 

    These are examples of CCCF tiles with inner fields:

    Traders And Builders C2 Tile N.jpg 
    Princess And Dragon C2 Tile F.jpg 
    Abbey And Mayor C2 Tile E.jpg 

    The following CCCC tile doesn't show an inner field as it is not surrounded by walls or roads as a regular field. The green patch serves just as a decoration for a jousting scene. (In any case, it would be rather odd to have shepherds and flocks around knights in a jousting tournament, right?)

    EssenSpiel 2016.png 
  3. ↑ Official clarification from the publisher If the hill tile drawn is the last tile in the game, the player is still allowed to place it without a second tile underneath. The normal turn (move wood, score features) then takes place. Note that generally a tie break would not be possible with this tile – even if a meeple is placed on it, there will be no way to connect that meeple to an occupied feature, as the game will be over. (10/2014)
  4. ↑ Official clarification from the publisher If the tied players also have equal numbers of meeples on hills in that feature, the tie remains unbroken and both players still receive the points. Even if the number of meeples on hills is unequal, as long as each of the tied players has at least one meeple on a hill, the tie is unbroken and both players receive the points. (5/2014)
  5. ↑ Common house rule or variant As an alternative tiebreaker method, the number of meeples on hills can be counted. Thus, if two players have the same number of meeples in a feature, but one player has more of those meeples on hills than the other player does, the player with the most meeples on hills gets all of the points and the other player gets none. (5/2014)
  6. ↑ Official clarification from the publisher Regardless of the type of monastery involved (normal cloister, abbey, shrine, German monastery or Japanese building), the vineyard has no effect on final scoring at the end of the game. (5/2014)
  7. ↑ Notorious rule difference among editions or publishers We updated this sentence according to the the German rules. The rules by ZMG contain a mistranslated version of this sentence: "You can place one meeple from the city of Carcassonne on a hill tile with a feature that has not been completed."
  8. ↑ Interpretation from the Community If an abbot is removed from an uncompleted monastery in phase 2. Placing a meeple, it will not get points for any adjacent vineyards. Since you are scoring the meeple and not the feature, vineyards do not apply in this case.
  9. ↑ Interpretation from the Community We updated the wording to make it closer on the German rules and avoid the ambiguity that affected the removal of the abbot when the monastery was completed. The original English wording is: "Your abbot can score additional points for vineyards only if the monastery is completed. If you return the abbot before the monastery is completed, you do not score the additional points."
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Can a road end at the tip of tile SchK ?
anonymous | Posted on Oct 26, 2023 at 5:12 pm

Tile SchK depicts a city wall with a point touching the middle of the edge of the tile. Is it permissble to take another tile with a road and let the road connect to that point? That would close the road in an elegent way.

Meepledrone | Posted on Nov 2, 2023 at 12:40 am

The rules show examples of city-to-city placement an city-to-field. The former would exclude the city-to-road placement, as the city-to-city placement implies that there is no gate to connect a road. These tiles do not behave like city gates.

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Hills and equality
anonymous | Posted on Dec 13, 2021 at 1:53 pm

If a zone contains two hills and has equality when being scored, does it make a difference is someone has a big meeple over a hill and the other player only a simple meeple over the other hill? (let's say that both players have one meeple and one big meeple in the scored zone)

Meepledrone | Posted on Dec 14, 2021 at 12:34 am | Last edited on May 29, 2022 at 11:18 am

The number of meeples on hills or their strength is irrelevant. In case of a tie, one player will break the tile if he o she has at least one meeple on a hill, and the other players have none.

In a 3-player tie scenario, if two players have meeples on hills and one player doesn't, the latter will lose the tie. The other players will be tied in the majority no matter now many meeples placed on hills they have or their strength.

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Bridges
Paloi Sciurala | Posted on Aug 3, 2020 at 10:19 am

"You can place a bridge on a hill tile"- but it is not mentioned if it affects the bridge.

Meepledrone | Posted on Aug 13, 2020 at 7:59 am

The hill will also affect the bridge as any other feature on the tile. Do you find that clarification necessary?

Paloi Sciurala | Posted on Aug 18, 2020 at 11:37 am

Yes. It is mentioned only that you can place the bridge on a hill tile. You can place a bridge on a inn tile, but the inn does not always affect the bridge.

Meepledrone | Posted on Aug 18, 2020 at 1:37 pm

Hills affect any meeples located on features in the whole square space no matter if occupied by a square tile or by one or two Halfling tiles.

Other cases involving bridges with different behaviors:

  • Little building on a tile: Little buildings affect all the features in the tile, not matter its geometry, including bridges on them.
  • Inn on a road: Inns only affect the actual printed road segment(s) next to the inn. Bridges passing over the tile are not considered.
  • Farmhouses, sheds, gardens and highwaymen on a road: When scoring tollhouses, they will be considered for the actual printed road segments next to them. They will not be considered for bridges passing over the tile.
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Shepherd
Paloi Sciurala | Posted on May 25, 2020 at 7:32 pm | Last edited on May 28, 2020 at 9:38 am

"then resolve one of the following two actions:" It is not optional? --User:Paloi Sciurala (talk) 19:32, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

https://www.hans-im-glueck.de/_Resources/Persistent/6ce3b59d0e2de571f1092f14b7cc134d420e0581/Carc_II_D_Erw9_Regel_Web.pdf. --User:Paloi Sciurala (talk) 13:20, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Also, it is not mentioned that you are not allowed to look at the token when you draw it. --User:Paloi Sciurala (talk) 22:16, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

"Exception: If any player completes a field with shepherds and sheep by fully surrounding it by roads and cities, immediately resolve the Guide the flock to the stable action for that field." It is not mentioned that the exception should apply if you place the shepherd in a closed 2+tiles field. --User:Paloi Sciurala (talk) 09:02, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

"Meeples on hill tiles break ties and score points as normal during final scoring (including farmers)." "as normal" means as during the game or as during final scoring? --User:Paloi Sciurala (talk) 15:50, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

"It will not eat other shepherds from the same field unless it moves onto the corresponding tile." It will not eat other shepherds and other flocks. --User:Paloi Sciurala (talk) 09:22, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

"on a hill tile with a feature that has not been completed"? --User:Paloi Sciurala (talk) 09:38, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Meepledrone | Posted on May 30, 2020 at 7:22 pm | Last edited on Oct 20, 2020 at 4:12 pm

1) "then resolve one of the following two actions:" It is not optional?

https://www.hans-im-glueck.de/_Resources/Persistent/6ce3b59d0e2de571f1092f14b7cc134d420e0581/Carc_II_D_Erw9_Regel_Web.pdf

The German wording says you may choose from two options. There is no third option such as doing nothing, so you are forced to choose one: Either grow your flock or guide it to the stable.

I checked the discussion forums and found a clarification by Kettlefish on BGG (https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1201062/shepard-question) confirming this point in 07/2014:

Turn sequence:
1. place a tile
expand with placement of a new tile the field where the shepherd already stands.
then
2. place a follower - move wood
may place a follower (before the action of the shepherd takes place)
then
2-3. activate the Shepherds action - Scoring
Choice to do one of the two actions
3. Scoring
(I've called with HiG about the rules some weeks ago.)

2) Also, it is not mentioned that you are not allowed to look at the token when you draw it.

Are you referring to the tokens in the bag to pick one that please you?

3) "Exception: If any player completes a field with shepherds and sheep by fully surrounding it by roads and cities, immediately resolve the Guide the flock to the stable action for that field." It is not mentioned that the exception should apply if you place the shepherd in a closed 2+tiles field.

This special case applies to fields that cannot be extended. This may happen with fields of one or more tiles.

Please check footnotes 1 and 2. If some more clarification is needed, please let me know.

4) "Meeples on hill tiles break ties and score points as normal during final scoring (including farmers)." "as normal" means as during the game or as during final scoring?

"As normal" refers to "score points"...

Another way to put it is the following: Meeples on hill tiles also break ties when the scoring after the game. Hills will affect all meeples placed on incomplete features and also farmers.

5) "It will not eat other shepherds from the same field unless it moves onto the corresponding tile." It will not eat other shepherds and other flocks

Several shepherds in the same field share their sheep but the sheep drawn by each player are placed next to their shepherd. This collective fate will affect drawing a wolf token or scoring the collective flock of sheep. However, the dragon may eat a shepherd and its local part of the shared flock and leave the rest of the shepherds and sheep unharmed.

6) "on a hill tile with a feature that has not been completed"?

Oooooops! This is an error in the ZMG rules. This could only happen when preparing to score after the game (players deploy their meeples in the market district to fields).

Corrected according to the German rules:

You can place one meeple from the city of Carcassonne on a hill tile with a feature that has not been completed. If you do, you gain the benefit of the hill. -->

You may deploy a meeple from from the city of Carcassonne on a hill tile with a feature about to be evaluated. If you do, you gain the benefit of the hill.

Paloi Sciurala | Posted on May 30, 2020 at 7:57 pm | Last edited on May 30, 2020 at 7:59 pm

"Are you referring to the tokens in the bag to pick one that please you?" Yes.

But at Hills & Sheep (1st edition) is written "and then he may choose between the following two special actions".

Meepledrone | Posted on Jun 1, 2020 at 8:13 pm

7) "Are you referring to the tokens in the bag to pick one that please you?" Yes.

Do you think is it necessary to clarify that? When you draw a tile from the bag it is assumed you don't look in the bag either...

8) But at Hills & Sheep (1st edition) is written "and then he may choose between the following two special actions".

"May" here is a used in a polite way instead of "must". There are only two options to choose from so you must choose one of them. There is no third option to avoid choosing here.

Paloi Sciurala | Posted on Aug 22, 2020 at 5:21 pm

The fruit action is optional, but the "sheep action" is still mandatory?

Meepledrone | Posted on Aug 23, 2020 at 8:21 am | Last edited on Aug 23, 2020 at 11:15 pm

Yes, according to the wording.

  • The Hills & Sheep rules indicates you may choose between two options, that is, you ("politely") must choose between two given options. There is no possibility to skip this selection.
Translation from German: "Whenever you expand the field where your shepherd stands by placing a landscape tile, you may choose between two actions [...]"
  • The Fruit-Bearing Trees rules tell you that you may choose one option out of two candidates. So the rules are not forcing you to pick one.
Translation from German: "If you have placed a Meeple, you may now perform one of the two actions below. [...]"
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The Festival
anonymous | Posted on Mar 26, 2020 at 4:19 pm

+These tiles: Festival15-07.png + Festival15-08.png.

Meepledrone | Posted on Mar 26, 2020 at 8:35 pm | Last edited on Mar 26, 2020 at 8:50 pm

Thank you for your interest.

We didn't list all the possible tiles but their topologies. For example, there is another one in Count, King & Robber:

King Robber C2 Tile C.jpg

Cheers!

anonymous | Posted on Mar 27, 2020 at 12:34 pm

Under The Big Top C2 Tile O.jpg?

anonymous | Posted on Mar 27, 2020 at 1:41 pm

Abbey And Mayor C2 Tile M.jpg?

anonymous | Posted on Mar 28, 2020 at 12:51 pm

Are these inner fields?

Meepledrone | Posted on Mar 29, 2020 at 6:27 pm | Last edited on Mar 29, 2020 at 6:30 pm

These tile from Exp. 10 - Under the Big Top...

Under The Big Top C2 Tile O.jpg

...and The Watchtowers...

Watchtowers C2 Tile E.jpg

... a very small triangular field enclosed by two city segments and the big top/watch tower. They are really small fields but they are not closed by cities alone as in the previous cases to be considered inner fields.

Can a meeple or a shepherd be placed on this tiny field patch? There is no rule against it. You will have to balance the pros and cons, of course.

The central part of the roundabout shows a pile of rocks in C2...

Abbey And Mayor C2 Tile M.jpg

...and a well (upside down in this picture) in C1.

Abbey And Mayor C1 Tile 11.jpg

The C1 representation left no room for a proper field and implementations of the game did not consider this are to be a field. The C2 pile of rocks is more ambiguous although it would stick to the same rules: no filed here.

The use of a roundabout in the graphical representation helps indicate that all the roads connected are merged into one road network. The green patch in the center wasn't supposed to be claimable.

The same would happen with the central part of the roundabout with the Hans in Glück statue on the Spiel Promo 18 tile:

EssenSpiel 2018.png

Just want to mention all the fuss about the following Crop Circle 1 tile with an "open junction." Nothing interrupting the roads would indicate that the roads are merged into one but the clarifications by HiG stated that these roads were actually three separate roads.

Crop C1 1 06.png

So we better have some clear roundabouts or juctions with villages or trees to avoid rules contradicting the visual cues on the tiles.

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anonymous | Posted on Mar 24, 2020 at 12:54 am

" Icon Open Book.png If the hill tile drawn is the last tile in the game, the player is still allowed to place it without a second tile underneath. The normal turn (move wood, score features) then takes place. Note that generally a tie break would not be possible with this tile – even if a meeple is placed on it, there will be no way to connect that meeple to an occupied feature, as the game will be over. (10/2014)". But if you move meeples from the market district on this tile, on field?

Meepledrone | Posted on Mar 25, 2020 at 11:37 pm | Last edited on Mar 25, 2020 at 11:38 pm

The clarification assumes you are playing with the base game. If you are playing with the Count of Carcassonne (part of Count, King and Robber) you may deploy at least one meeple from the City of Carcassonne to a field with a hill (even if it is the last tile of the game). If a tie is provoked, the hill may help you break it in your favor.

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anonymous | Posted on Jan 18, 2019 at 8:10 pm

The Vineyard example has a wrong picture.

Michal Sasinski | Posted on Jan 24, 2019 at 11:40 am

Hello, Thank you! Image is corrected.

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