Vistas (Fan Expansion)

Vistas brings a new Vista feature to Carcassonne. Vista is placed on a viewpoint and is completed when 6 tiles are placed under the vista. Each different type of feature plus each visible and significant part of the landscape awards the player one point. When playing with other expansions, you can get a higher score for a completed Vista.

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Vistas brings a new Vista feature to Carcassonne. Vista is placed on a viewpoint and is completed when 6 tiles are placed under the vista. Each different type of feature plus each visible and significant part of the landscape awards the player one point. When playing with other expansions, you can get a higher score for a completed Vista.

There is much hard work to be done in the land of Carcassonne. But it is also important that the people stop to rest and enjoy the beauty of the land around them. For it is written in the Book of Books that even God Himself stopped and "looked at everything He had made, and it was very good," and "on the seventh day He rested from all His work."

General info

Vistas fan-expansion for   Carcassonne Base Game was released by Carcassonne Central members stalcupojoy (CarcC) and Snearone (CarcC) who redesigned tiles into C2 style as Vistas Revisited C2.

Downloads

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Commercial use of fan expansions is prohibited. These expansions are intended solely for personal use and may not be sold under any circumstances, including at cost price.

Download(s) is/are available from the following site(s) (registration may be required):

Contents

  • 12 landscape tiles with Vista Points.

Rules

Preparation

Shuffle the new land tiles in with those from the base game and stack them normally.

Gameplay


1. Placing a tile

Whenever you draw a tile, place it normally.

2. Placing a meeple

In addition to normal placement options, a player may deploy a meeple on the Vista Point as a Sightseer.

3. Scoring a feature

Each Vista Point faces outward toward a six-tile “Vista” area, two tiles deep and three tiles wide (see diagram) and is scored when this six-tile area is completed. This “Vista” area does not include the tile on which the Vista Point itself is located.

A Sightseer scores 1 point per type of feature in the Vista that is both “visible” and “significant.” A feature type is:

  1. Visible if it is intended as a visible part of the landscape, rather than functioning as an icon (e.g. city pennants, icons like dragon, princess etc.).
  2. Significant if it either:
    • Scores (e.g. cities, roads, gardens, fields, vista points)
    • Influences scoring (e.g. inns, cathedrals, tunnels, hills)
    • Causes an action (e.g. volcano, magic portal, bazaars)
    • Is a notable topographical feature (e.g. the river, water towers)

When not sure, check our Table of Scorable .

 
Example 1: Blue on a completed Vista Point would score for the following types of features: cities, roads, fields, garden, highwaymen, inn, crop circle, farmhouse, vista point, crossroad and river. The Sightseer scores 11 points and then return to its owner's supply.
Final Scoring

Any incomplete Vistas score 1 point per type of visible, significant feature, just as during the game.

New land tiles

The new land tiles are played like those in the base game.

Continuous Road: The road does not end on this tile. Instead, it branches into 3 directions.
Separate City Segments: This tile has two seperate city segments. If you place a tile with one city segment to the top of it, the city segments become connected.
Note: If you place it next to similar tile like the ones from   Hills & Sheep as shown, all of the separate city segments are connected.

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Scorable & Non scorable Features

Rule of thumb: Every feature which is scoreable or significant as described in 3. Scoring a feature

This table is dynamic and contains features depends on selected expansions.

ExpansionScorable
 Base GameCity 
Road 
Monastery 
Field 
Village 
Farmhouse 
Highwaymen 
Sheds 
Water Tower 
 The AbbotGarden 
 RiverRiver Segments 
Large Expansions
 Exp. 1 - Inns & CathedralsCathedral 
Inn 
 Exp. 3 - The Princess & the DragonMagic Portal 
Volcano 
 Exp. 4 - The TowerTower Foundation (including tower floors) 
 Exp. 5 - Abbey & MayorAbbey 
 Exp. 6 - Count, King & RobberCity of Carcassonne 
River Segments
(including River Source, River Fork and River Lake)
 
 
Shrine 
 Exp. 7 - The CatapultCatapult Fair 
 Exp. 8 - Bridges, Castles & BazaarsBazaar 
Bridge 
Castle 
 Exp. 9 - Hills & SheepHill 
Vineyard 
 Exp. 10 - Under the Big TopAcrobat Space 
Circus Space 
 Exp. 11 - Ghosts, Castles & CemeteriesHaunted Castle 
Haunted Castle RuinsFile:Feature HauntedCastleRuins C3.png
Cemetery 
Mist 
 The Wheel of FortuneWheel of Fortune 
Mini Expansions - Numbered
 Mini #1 - The Flying MachinesHill 
 Mini #3 - The FerriesFerry Lake 
 Crop CirclesCrop Circles 
Mini Expansions - Other
 The Barber-SurgeonsBathhouse 
 The BetsBetting Office 
 The Besiegers /  The Cathars /  SiegeCity under Attack 
 Darmstadt PromoDarmstadtium 
Darmstadt Church 
 The DrawbridgesDrawbridge 
 The FestivalFestival Place 
 The Fruit-Bearing TreesFruit-Bearing Tree 
 Games Quarterly #11Pig-herd 
River Segments 
 Castles in GermanyGerman Castle 
 German CathedralsGerman Cathedral 
 Monasteries in Germany /  Monasteries in the Netherlands & BelgiumSpecial Monastery 
 HalflingsUniversal Crop Circle 
Hill 
Vineyard 
 Japanese BuildingsJapanese Building 
 The LabyrinthLabyrinth 
 The Markets of LeipzigCity of Leipzig 
 Russian PromosBaba Yaga’s Hut 
Solovei Razboynik's Tree 
Vodyanoy's lake 
 The SchoolSchool 
 The TollkeepersTravellers 
 The TunnelTunnel 
 Ukraine PromoCountryside Flag Ukraine 
 The WatchtowersWatchtower 
 The Wonders of HumanityWonders of Humanity 
Fan Expansions

If playing with any fan expansions, players must consider, before starting the game, which of the new elements introduced by the fan expansions will and will not count toward Vista scoring.
Players are advised to use the criteria outlined in the 3. Scoring a feature section, but ultimately simply need to agree with each other.
This is list of suggested features to score. List contains some of fan-expansion with scorable elements supported by WiCa.

 Castle LordsCastle on road 
 City BridgesCity Bridge 
 The City GatesCity Gate 
 Děčínský SněžníkObservation Tower Děčínský Sněžník 
 The Flying Machines 2Hill 
 Fortune TellerFortune Teller Tent 
 The LabyrinthsLabyrinth 
 La PorxadaLa Porxada 
 VistasVista Point 
 The WellsWell 
 The WetlandsWetland 

Interactions with expansions

Tile Distribution

Vistas Revisited C2

Total tiles: 12
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Well + (D)
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Several tiles have a small illustration on them. The letters in brackets show which illustration is on each tile:
 
Note: The small illustrations of a cowshed, a pigsty and a donkey stable are collectively referred to as sheds or stables.

Vistas C1

Total tiles: 12
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Footnotes

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