Les torres i els lladres
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In this expansion for Carcassonne, you build towers and place watchmen on them to protect your lands from theft. The towers are contested, but if your watchmen spot the thieves, you score points as a reward.
Informació general i comentaris
Torres i lladres was released by HiG for the third edition, known as C3.1 for short, in 2025. This edition includes more detailed graphics than previous versions and cities with clipped buildings.
It includes 13 land tiles, one of them a river tile, and 5 tower tiles. All in all, this expansion introduces the following new elements:
- Tower foundations, where towers are built.
- Tower floors, neutral figures that players use to build towers and place watchmen to score points.
- Thief symbols, which trigger the building of towers, the stealing of tiles and the scoring of watchmen.
This expansion also provides a tile dispenser in the shape of a tower.
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Expansion background
This expansion is a revised version of La torre released for the second edition, known as C2 for short, in 2016. And it was originally released for the first edition, known as C1 for short, in 2006.
These original versions included 18 tiles with tower foundations but no tower or river tiles. They also included 30 tower floor pieces in unpainted wooden color, and a larger tile dispenser in the shape of a tower. The mechanics of the expansion was completely different, where players built towers to capture meeples. |
Contingut
- 13 land tiles (marked with
to help you separate and sort your tiles), one of them with a river and a tower foundation. The other 12 land tiles have a thief symbol with a number (2 x value of 2, 3 x value of 3, 3 x value of 4, 2 x value of 5, 1 x value of 6 and 1 x value of 7). - 5 tower tiles, featuring tower foundations and a special back.
Tile with a
thief symbol
Tile with a
river and a tower
foundation
Stack of face-down
tower tiles
- 20 tower floors
- 1 tile dispenser tower
The tile dispenser tower provides a dedicated space for the face-down land tiles. It is optional to use it.
It is recommended that the tile dispenser tower is no dismantled once it has been assembled.
 
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Regles
Preparació
Preparació addicional
If you are playing with the mini-expansion 
El riu (recommended), shuffle the new river tile into the usual river tiles.
Shuffle the 5 tower tiles (with a tower on the back) and place them face down as a stack next to the scoreboard.
Shuffle the rest of the new land tiles into the other land tiles. If you are playing with the tile dispenser tower, place the land tiles in two stacks in the two compartments. Draw tiles from either compartment as usual. Place the tower floors next to the playing area as a general supply.
Each new game element is explained in relation to the 3 actions:
- 1. Col·locar una peça de territori
- 2. Posar un seguidor
- 3. Puntuar un element
Si una acció no s'explica detalladament, s'apliquen les regles bàsiques.
Tower foundation
1. Col·locar una peça de territori
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Note: If you are playing with the mini-expansion El riu, the first tower foundation comes into play with the new river tile. We will look at how the other tower foundations come into play shortly.
2. Posar un seguidor
Instead of placing a standard meeple on the tile you just placed, you may place it as a watchman on top of a tower. This may be the tower on the tile you just placed or the tower on another tile (see Tower range).
Tower range
You may only place a watchman on top of a tower if the tile you just placed is within that tower’s range.
The tile on which a tower stands is always within that tower’s range.
Additionally, each tower has a range corresponding to its number of tower floors. A tower with 1 floor reaches the 1st tile in all 4 directions (left, right, up and down). A tower with 2 floors reaches the 1st and 2nd tiles, a tower with 3 floors reaches the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd tiles, and so on.
Gaps in the playing area do not interrupt tower ranges and are counted like placed tiles.
Important: If there is already a watchman on that tower, remove and return him to the supply, before you place yours on the tower. If another player removes one of your watchmen this way, you immediately score 2 points.
El símbol del lladre
1. Col·locar una peça de territori
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Add 1 tower floor from the supply to the top of each tower that has no watchman on it. Towers can have a maximum of 5 floors. If a tower already has 5 floors, do not add another.
The supply of tower floors is limited. If there aren’t enough floors for all empty towers, you choose which towers to add them to (not more than 1 each). If the supply is depleted, you do not add a floor to any tower.
Special case: Thieves steal your tile
If there are no watchmen on any towers, first add 1 floor to each tower as usual. Then place the drawn tile with the thief symbol face up next to the scoreboard. The thieves have stolen your tile and are now on the run.
Instead, draw 1 tower tile from the face-down stack and place it as usual. If there are no tower tiles left to draw, draw a land tile from the regular stack instead. Skip the scoring of watchmen (II).
- You draw a tile with a thief symbol and add tower floors as usual. As there are no watchmen on any towers, you place the tile with the thief symbol next to the scoreboard.
- Now you draw a tower tile and place it as usual.
If you place a stolen tile next to the scoreboard and there is already a stolen tile, return the old one to the box and replace it with the new one.
The thieves have escaped.
Note: If you play without El riu mini-expansion, there is no tower when the
first tile with a thief symbol is drawn. Since there also are no watchmen, this tile is stolen as usual, and you draw a tower tile and place it instead.
Pregunta: If you draw a tower tile but you cannot place it, what should you do?
Resposta: If you draw a tower tile and you cannot place it, place it underneath the tower tile stack and draw the next tower tile from the top. If you cannot place any of the left tower tiles, you skip placing the tile. (7/2026)
Pregunta: In the extreme case no tower tile can be placed, shouldn't you draw a normal tile and place it? Otherwise, you would lose your turn.
Resposta: This is an extremely rare case (if even possible). Deep dive rules of this kind would only complicate things. People can still make up their own rules if needed. (7/2026)
If this case happens and no tower tile can be placed, the player may draw a normal tile instead.
After floors have been added to all empty towers, score all watchmen on all towers. They have discovered the thieves and receive a reward.
For each of your watchmen, you score the number of points shown on the thief symbol of the drawn tile. If there is a stolen tile next to the scoreboard, you additionally score the points shown on that tile for each of your watchmen. Return the stolen tile to the box after scoring.
After scoring all watchmen, remove them from the towers and return them to their respective supplies.
Finally, place the drawn tile as usual. The thief symbol on it has no further effect.
3. Puntuar un element
Puntuació final
In the final scoring, you score 5 points for each of your watchmen on a tower.
Additionally for each of your watchmen you score the points shown on the thief symbol on the tile next to the scoreboard (if any).
Peces de territori especials
 The rocky tunnel has no further relevance. |
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Resum ràpid
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Fonament de torre |
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Símbol de lladre |
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Terra de la torre |
Altres expansions
Aquesta secció conté informació addicional sobre les interaccions amb altres expansions del Carcassonne.
You may not place your large meeple as a watchman.
Exp. 2 ‒ Comerciants i constructors
You may trigger a double turn by placing a tower tile as usual. You may not assign a pig or builder to a watchman.
The dragon may remove watchmen on towers but not the towers themselves. When orienting the dragon, consider watchmen as standing on the tile of their tower.
You may assign the fairy to a watchman. Place it close to that watchman's tower. When that watchman is moved or removed, you remove the fairy as usual.
You may not place a meeple as a watchman via the magic portal.
You may also place a watchman on top of a tower if you placed a tile with a dragon hoard within that tower's range.
The watchman scoring does not trigger the fairy bonus. (10/2025)
You may place a watchman on top of a tower if you placed your town hall tile within that tower's range. You may not place your mayor, messenger or scarecrow as a watchman.
You may not place a watchman on top of a tower as a consequence of placing a prize tile within that tower's range. After nominating a meeple as a consequence of continuing its feature in 1. Col·locar una peça de territori, you may place another meeple as a watchman in 2. Posar un seguidor as usual.
The tournament tile counts as 6 adjacent land tiles, which must be taken into account regarding the range of the towers.
If you won a prize and have a prize tile in front of you, you draw a land tile as usual. If that land tile depicts a thief symbol, you resolve it even before you place your prize tile.
Each fortress tile counts as 6 adjacent land tiles, which must be taken into account regarding the range of the towers.
When placing a tower tile with a tower floor, you may also build a castle (if appropriate) in the same turn. You may build a building and place a watchman in the same turn. Even if you build a castle and move a meeple from underneath onto it, you may still place a watchman as usual.
You may not place your shepherd on a tower.
When scoring a performance token, watchmen on towers are taken into account.
Distribució de peces
Peces normals
Peces amb torres
Peces amb rius
Notes
Per a veure les descripcions de les icones i llicències, visiteu la pàgina d'icones.