The Drawbridges

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Promotional image of The Drawbridges

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File:Drawbridges C3 Expansion Symbol.png Expansion Symbol

The Drawbridges was released by Hans im Glück in 2023.

If you are fast enough, you can conquer the neighboring cities via the open drawbridges.

This expansion has cities with clipped buildings.

This expansion has been developed for the Carcassonne basic game. All the basic game rules still apply in addition to the expansion rules below. You can combine it with other expansions - but at your own risk – that is, there will be no official rules for these combinations.

Contents

• 12 new land tiles with a drawbridge at each city gate.

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Drawbridge

Rules

Preparation

Shuffle the 12 tiles of this mini-expansion together with the other land tiles.

Gameplay

1. Placing a tile

Whenever you draw a tile, place it normally.

2. Placing a meeple

You may place a meeple according to the usual rules.

3. Scoring points

If you close a road that leads to a drawbridge, you first score the road as usual. Then you have to check whether the drawbridge is up or down.

• Once the city with the drawbridge is completed, the drawbridge is up and nothing else happens.
• If the city is still incomplete, then the drawbridge is down, and you may use it:

If you have the majority on the road leading to the drawbridge, you may move your meeple from that road into the city. It doesn’t matter if there are already meeple (yours or someone else's) in the city or not.

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You place this tile and complete the road that leads to the drawbridge and score 2 points for this. After that you move your meeple from the road to this incomplete city.

Special case: If there are several drawbridges on the road, you may decide in which of the incomplete cities you place your meeple in. If you have more than one meeple on the road, you may decide for each one whether you want to move it to one of the incomplete cities, or take it back. If you move several meeple, you may place them all in one or in different incomplete cities.

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With your tile you complete the road, which has drawbridges on both ends leading to incomplete cities. You score 6 points for the road, because you have the majority. Blue scores no points and takes their meeple back. You have 2 meeple on this road. You decide to move one of them to the bigger city and return the other one back to your supply.

If you complete the road and also the city with the drawbridge at the same time, then the city is completed, the drawbridge is up.

If no one has the majority on the road, no player can move their meeple to the city.

New land tiles

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This road leads to a drawbridge but it doesn't end there. Both ends of the road must be closed in order to be able to score.

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This road leads to 2 separate cities, each with a drawbridge.

Footnotes

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