Bridges, Castles and Bazaars

General info and comments

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Bridges, Castles and Bazaars (originally Brücken, Burgen und Basare) was released for the New Edition by Hans im Glück in 2017. It is an update of the first edition released in 2010.

This is the eighth major expansion for Carcassonne and introduces some new aspects to the game. Travelling traders arrive in the land and organize bazaars, in which haggling is considered an art. At the same time, engineers are expanding the road network with modern bridges, and small castles are being built everywhere to defend the region.

New features/things are:

• Bridges
• Castles
• Bazaars

A Carcassonne expansion is not really a Carcassonne expansion when there are no new tiles, so in the box you also find 18 tiles that represent city segments, road segments and cloisters in new configurations plus the addition of bazaars which will help create much more than a beautiful landscape.

Contents

• 12 new land tiles including 8 with a bazaar

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Bazaar symbol

• 12 castle token

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Castle token

• 12 wooden bridges

Wooden bridge

Rules

Preparation

Shuffle the new land tiles with those of the base game and stack them facedown as a general supply within easy reach of all players.

Then, give each player a number of bridges and castles:

• When playing with 2, 3, or 4 players, give each player 3 bridges and 3 castles.
• When playing with 5 or 6 players, give each player 2 bridges and 2 castles.

The twelve new land tiles should be mixed with those of the basic game. Over the course of play they will be drawn and placed according to the usual rules.

Bridges

1. Placing a tile

Just like in the base game, you must place tiles so that its edges match the edges of the tiles already in play. After placing a tile, you may place a bridge, which counts as a road and connects roads over features or meeples on that tile.

Example 1: Placing a bridge.

You can place one bridge on the tile you just placed, or on a tile touching the tile you just placed. When placing a bridge, you must place both ends in a field, and it must be placed facing either left-to-right or up-to-down (it cannot be placed diagonally across the tile). Once placed, a bridge remains on that tile until the end of the game.

You can place a tile so that a road ends against a field, but you must place a bridge that continues the road on that same turn. You can use multiple bridges in a row along the same road, but each tile can have a maximum of only one bridge on it. Bridges can be placed on tiles with meeples on them.

Example 2 - Place a bridge on the tile you placed: You (the Red player) placed a tile to expand the city. The tile you placed does not have a road on it, so you can place one of your bridges on it to continue the road.

Example 3 - Place a bridge on a tile adjacent to the tile you placed: You place a tile. You placed a bridge on an adjacent tile to continue the road.

Example 4: You cannot place a bridge on this tile, because both ends would not be on a field.

Example 5: Two bridges built in a row, one going over a monastery with a monk in it.

2. Placing a meeple

After placing a tile, you can place a Meeple normally. If you build a bridge on the tile you just placed, you can place your meeple (or another figure) on the bridge as if it were a road.

3. Scoring a feature

Bridges are scored like tiles with a road on them.

Bridges do not separate cities or fields.

Example 6: You placed a tile to complete this road, and score 6 points.

Castles

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3. Close a small city and place a castle

When you place a tile that completes a small city (a city consisting of only 2 tiles ), if a player has a meeple occupying that city, he or she chooses to either score 4 points as normal, or to place a castle on that small city instead.

When you place a castle, cover the small city that was just completed with a castle from your supply.

Once placed, a castle remains on that tile until the end of the game.

Example 1: You placed a tile to close the small city, and placed your meeple on it. Instead of scoring 4 points, you placed a castle.

3. Scoring a castle

Placing a castle does not score you any points. Instead, you score points when a neigboring feature is completed. A feature is considered neigboring if it is on either one of the 2 tiles containing your castle, the 2 tiles to the right, or the 2 tiles to the left.

Only part of the completed feature needs to be on a neighboring tile for you to score points for it. Both you and the player who would normally score points for that feature score its full points. Once you score points for a neighboring feature, your meeple is returned to your supply, but your castle remains on its place until the end of the game.

Example 2: The tiles and spaces numbered 1 to 6 are neighboring your castle. You can score points when the following features are completed:

• The monastery on 1
• The road to 1
• The top city on 3
• The right city on 6

(The small city on 3 and 6 was scored before your castle was placed, and you cannot score points from it any more.)

The following rules apply to castles:

• You must score points for the first feature completed on a tile neighboring your castle. You cannot forego scoring to leave your meeple for a later feature.
• Even if the first completed feature does not contain a meeple, you still score points from it if it is neighboring your castle.
• If you control both a castle and the next completed neighboring feature, you score its points twice (once for the feature and once for the castle.)
• A monastery is only neighboring a castle if the tile with the monastery on it is in one of the 6 neighboring spaces.
• If a tile is placed that causes multiple features that are neighboring your castle to be completed at the same time, you decide what order they are scored. As always, you only score points for the first feature.
• If a castle is scored while neighboring your castle, your castle is also scored. All castles involved in such a scoring score points from the initial completed neighboring feature.
• Castles separate fields, just like roads or cities.

Example 3: The Blue player completes the city and scores 16 points. Because part of the city is neighboring your castle and is the first completed neighboring feature, you also score 16 points.

Final scoring

At the end of the game, an unscored castle is worth no points. When determining the value of a field, castles are worth 4 points (instead of 3.)

Bazaar

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When you draw a tile with a bazaar on it, do the steps: 1. Place a tile, 2. Place a meeple and 3. Score a feature normally. You cannot place a meeple on the bazaar.

Other expansions

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

Bridges

• You can place the following figures on a bridge:
  • Normal meeple, the standard option (Base game)
  • Large meeple (Exp. 1 - Inns and Cathedrals)
  • Builder (Exp. 2 - Traders and Builders)
  • Wagon (Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor)
  • Ringmaster (Exp. 10 - Under the Big Top)
  • Phantom (The Phantom)

• Exp. 4 - The Tower: You can place a bridge and a tower on the same tile. If necessary, adjust the tower's position to make room for the bridge.

• Exp. 10 - Under the Big Top: You can place a bridge over the campground. You can only place a bridge on the acrobat tile if there is no acrobat on that tile.

Castles

• You can place the following figures in a castle:
  • Normal meeple, the standard option (Base game)
  • Large meeple (Exp. 1 - Inns and Cathedrals)
  • Wagon (Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor)
  • Mayor, however, since the castle doesn't have a coat of arms, the mayor cannot score points (Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor)
  • Ringmaster (Exp. 10 - Under the Big Top)
  • Phantom (The Phantom)

• When scoring a castle, you still score bonus points for:
  • Roads with an inn (Exp. 1 - Inns and Cathedrals)
  • Cities with a cathedral (Exp. 1 - Inns and Cathedrals)
  • Monasteries or shrines with a vineyard (Exp. 9 - Hills & Sheep)

• Exp. 2 - Traders and Builders: When scoring fields with a pig, the castle is worth 5 points.

• Exp. 3 - The Princess and the Dragon: The dragon cannot eat meeples in the castle. You can place the fairy with a meeple in the castle and score the usual fairy points.

• Exp. 4 - The Tower: A tower cannot capture any meeples in the castle.

• Exp. 5 - Abbey & Mayor: When scoring a field, whether for farmers or barns, a castle is worth 1 point more than a completed city.

• Exp. 6 - Count, King and Robber: A castle does not score as a completed city for the king.

• Exp. 10 - Under the Big Top: When scoring a circus, your meeple in the castle scores points if part of the castle lies within the circus' surroundings. For the purpose of scoring the castle, acrobat pyramids do not count as completed features.

• River II - River II: The pigsty (or pig-herd) tile provides one more point for castles in the field.

• Monasteries in Germany (New Edition) / Japanese Buildings or Monasteries in Germany (1st Edition) / Monasteries in The Netherlands & Belgium: Because an abbot scores only at the end of the game, and this monastery is never considered completed, a monastery with an abbot will not score points for a meeple in a castle.

• Besiegers - Cathars - Siege: A city under siege (or under attack from Cathars) can be converted to a castle, and it is handled as a normal castle. The siege or Cathar attack is ignored after conversion to a castle.

• The Wheel of Fortune: Castles do count for scoring of the Famine sector of , as this is effectively a scoring of farms. Followers from the City of Carcassonne cannot move to a castle.

• The Plague: Meeples in castles are safe from the plague, as it affects the tile directly, and castles are not present on a specific tile.

Bazaar

• Exp. 2 - Traders and Builders: If you place a bazaar tile and it expands a road or city containing your builder, complete the bazaar auction before beginning your double turn.

  Question: What is the order of events if the bazaar tile extends a feature with a builder?

Answer:

If you draw a bazaar tile and can perform your builder-turn, first take the appropriate number of face-down tiles and perform the bazaar and the auction. Then a new round with a special property starts – each player has an open and known tile instead of drawing an unknown tile, and you cannot place your abbey as your first tile. If you placed your auctioned tile and you can perform a builder-turn, you can choose to place your abbey or draw a new unknown tile. If any player draws a new bazaar tile [for his or her builder-turn], it will be ignored until the last player who has an auctioned tile finishes his turn (including his builder-turn, if possible). Any pending delayed bazaars will take place now in turn. Once the bazaar rounds are finished, you perform your builder-turn.

In other words:

• Draw bazaar and perform first part of your double turn.
• ** // Start pending bazaars // **
• Draw the tiles (still face-down)
• Turn tiles face-up and perform the auction
• ( Start delaying any new bazaars )
  • 1st Player with auctioned tile
  • 1st player’s builder-turn, if applicable
  • Next player with auctioned tile
  • Next player’s builder-turn, if applicable
  • ...
  • Last player with auctioned tile
  • Last player’s builder-turn, if applicable
• ( Stop delaying any new bazaars )
• Player who drew and placed a new bazaar in his/her builder turn (pending delayed bazaar)
• ** Back to // Start pending bazaars // until no pending delayed bazaars **
• Perform your builder-turn (second part of your double turn)

• Exp. 3 - The Princess and the Dragon: If you place a dragon tile during a bazaar auction, the dragon moves immediately before continuing the bazaar auction.

Tile distribution

Total Tiles: 12

  x1     
(F)

  x1     
 

  x1 (–)
Inn

  x2     
(W)

  x1 (+)
(H)

  x1     
 

  x1     
 

  x1     
 

  x1 (–)
(G)

  x1 (+)
Inn

  x1     
 

Note: The initial tile distribution by in Germany presented the following differences by mistake: Tiles marked with (–) were missing and, instead, two copies were included of the tiles marked with (+).

Some of the tiles have a small illustration on them. The letters in brackets show which illustration is on each tile:

 
G | Garden

 
F | Farmhouse

 
W | Water Tower

 
H | Highwayman

Moreover, two tiles present an additional feature indicated in bold, an inn, that serves as a tie-in with Exp. 1 - Inns and Cathedrals.

Total castle tokens: 12

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Footnotes

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