User:Black Bear/Introductions

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Base game	Originally released by Hans im Glück in 2014. Carcassonne, the world-famous French city, is known for its imposing fortifications erected during Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This fortress, surrounded by magnificent walls, still stands today as one of the most unique French cities. In this game, players must develop the area around Carcassonne. They place their meeples onto roads and into cities, monasteries, and fields. Only those who make the most judicious placements will gain the points required to win the game. Copies printed in the period 2014-2016 have the darker city backgrounds.	Originally released by Hans im Glück in 2014. Carcassonne, the world-famous French city, is known for its imposing fortifications erected during Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This fortress, surrounded by magnificent walls, still stands today as one of the most unique French cities. In this game, players must develop the area around Carcassonne. They place their meeples onto roads and into cities, monasteries, and fields. Only those who make the most judicious placements will gain the points required to win the game. Copies printed in the period 2014-2016 have the darker city backgrounds.
The Farmers	Originally released by Hans im Glück in 2014. Farmers are considered a part of the base game for most Carcassonne players. They are also used in every official tournament as they are not considered an expansion. In the new edition of Carcassonne farmers were separated as a supplement to ease approach to the game for new players. WikiCarpedia follows this streamlined approach. For the sake of other expansions and the rest of the WikiCarpedia, farmers are considered a part of the base game. What would life be without agriculture? We try to answer part of this question by introducing the hard-working farmers who spend long hours in the fields of Carcassonne. As we did for the roads, cities, and monasteries, the farmers will be presented using the actions of a game turn.
The Abbot	File:Abbot C2 Logo.png The Abbot logo The Abbot was originally released by Hans im Glück in 2014. It introduces the abbot meeple and garden features. File:Abbot C2 Example Garden.png A garden Along with The River, The Abbot is considered part of the basic game that can be used as desired. It implements a mechanic that is unique to the new edition of Carcassonne, diverging in this aspect from the 1st edition. With its introduction in 2014, tiles featuring gardens became available in the new design Base Game which included The River. Later, they appeared on tiles in the major expansions as they were re-released in the new artwork, and in Big Box 6 when it was released in 2017. Bear in mind that The Abbot provides a new mechanic involving the abbot meeple, but the tiles it affects are not part of the expansion itself. Garden tiles that have been included in the base game and in expansions are listed for information in the tile distribution below. Finally, it must be noted that the (new) abbot in this expansion is not the same as the (old) abbot used on German, Dutch and Belgian Monasteries, and Monasteries. The new abbot is a specialized meeple for monasteries and gardens whereas the old abbots were normal meeples placed on specialized monasteries. Just in case things weren’t confusing enough already.
River	For first edition rules follow here: River. File:River III C1 logo.png Expansion symbol for The River I (Big Box 6 version) File:Count King And Robber C2 Expansion Watermark.png Expansion symbol for The River II The River was originally released for the New Edition by Hans im Glück in 2014. The 1st. Edition of River was release in 2001. The River II was released for the New Edition by Hans im Glück in 2017 as part of Count, King and Robber. The River II was originally released for the 1st. Edition in 2005, and later bundled in the major expansion Count, King and Robber in 2008. The river expansions modify the beginning of the game by having players place a set of specific river tiles before the normal tiles. Copies of The River printed in the period 2014-2016 have the darker city backgrounds.
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