Difference between revisions of "Winter Edition Base Game"

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* '''40 followers'''  40 followers <ref>

'''Question''': Too few followers—are we playing wrong or are there really too few? '''Answer''': In our view there are not too few. A certain shortage of followers is entirely intentional. An important element of the game is precisely learning to be economical with one's followers.

</ref> in five colors:

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The rules for the winter edition are identical to the normal rules of the game Carcassonne. The 12 additional tiles with animal illustrations are played by the usual rules. <ref>

One of the animals on the tiles is a Wolpertinger, a beast from southern Germany. The closest American equivalent to this is the Jackalope, although that really doesn’t do the Wolpertinger justice.

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HiG has asked the fans of the game for new rules to use with the animal tiles. For now, however, the animals are simply aesthetic.

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The starting tile is placed in the middle of the table. The remaining tiles are mixed and placed face-down on the table in several stacks, so that each player can access them easily. <ref>

Tiles can also be placed into a sack and drawn randomly.

</ref> The scoreboard should be placed at the edge of the table if possible.

As their first action, the player '''must''' draw a tile from one of the stacks. The tile is then shown to the other players (so they can “advise” the player about where to place it) and placed on the table. The player must take care to observe the following:

* At least one side of the new tile (with a {{ColorRed|red}} border in the examples below) must touch one or more tiles already in play. <ref>

'''Question''': We have difficulty deciding when a placed tile represents a new city or belongs to one already being built. '''Answer''': 'Corner to corner' is not a connection! Segments can only be connected on the edges. In the example shown there are two cities at the moment.

</ref> Corner-to-corner placement is not permitted.  

* Any city, road, and field segments must continue segments already in play. <ref>

Cloisters can be placed directly next to each other, or corner to corner. It is not necessary for there to be eight other (non-cloister) tiles neighbouring a cloister. A cloister stands in the middle of a field segment and other segments can be placed next to it. In contrast to roads, cities, and fields, it is not possible to connect to a cloister.

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A newly placed land tile must fit the adjacent terrain on all edges. During placement it is not enough to look for only one side that fits.

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In the rare case that a tile cannot legally be placed anywhere, and all players agree, it is removed from the game, and the player draws another. <ref>

  If drawing tiles out of a bag, a tile that cannot be placed could be returned to the bag for later use.

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[[File:Win example1.png|frame|Road and field segments continue previous segments.]]

[[File:Win example2.png|frame|The city is continued.]]

[[File:Win example3.png|frame|On one edge, the city is continued. On the other edge, the field is continued.]]

[[File:Win example4.png|frame|An example of incorrect placement]]

==== 2. Deploy a follower ==== <!--T:29-->

* The follower may only be deployed to the tile just placed.  

* The player must decide which part of the tile the follower is deployed to <ref>

  If you complete a previously unoccupied city when placing a tile, you do not have to occupy this city and earn the points. You can close the city without it being occupied and (for example) deploy a farmer as long as the farm is unoccupied. The city does not necessarily require a knight to look after it.

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'''Question''': On cloister tiles, are we allowed to deploy a follower on the surrounding field segment? '''Answer''': Yes! The same rules are valid for a field surrounding a cloister as for any other field. You can also deploy a farmer next to a cloister. In this case the cloister remains unoccupied for the rest of the game.[unless the cloister is occupied via a magic portal, or from a follower in Carcassonne—ed.]

</ref> as either: <ref>

There are several text boxes in the rules suggesting that players play the first game without farmers.

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[[File:Win placement1.png|frame|a thief on a road segment]]

[[File:Win placement2.png|frame|a knight in a city segment]]

[[File:Win placement3.png|frame|a monk on a cloister]]

[[File:Win placement4.png|frame|a farmer on a field segment]]

* There must be no other follower (not even one belonging to the same player) on the road, city, or field segments connected to the tile just placed. It does not matter how far away the follower is. The following two examples may help to explain:

[[File:Win placement5.png|frame|{{ColorBlue|BLUE}} may not place a thief, as the road is already occupied. He may play a monk or place a follower on the field.]]

[[File:Win placement6.png|frame|{{ColorBlue|BLUE}} may not place a knight in the city, as the city is already claimed. He may place a thief on the road or place a follower on the field.]]

If a player runs out of followers during the course of play, he or she may only place tiles. But don't panic: you can also get followers back.

'''Exception''': If a road, city, or cloister was completed through the placement of the tile, it must now be scored. <ref>

'''Question''': There is a situation that puzzles us. If a player draws a tile with two city segments and completes a small city, earning 4 points, can he or she then deploy a follower to a new city segment in the same turn?

A road is completed when the road segments on both sides end in a crossing, a city segment, or a cloister, or when the road forms a closed circle. <ref>

'''Question''': Can a road end in nothing? '''Answer''': No, like all the usual land tiles, a road segment must continue to another road segment on all edges.

</ref> There is no limit to the number of road segments which can lie between these endings.

[[File:Win road exc1.png|frame|{{ColorRed|RED}} scores 4 points]]

[[File:Win road exc2.png|frame|{{ColorRed|RED}} scores 3 points]]

A player who has a thief on this completed road scores '''as many points as the road is long''', determined by '''counting the number of tiles'''. <ref>

'''Question''': How are the road segments between T-junctions scored? Are the horizontal segments (on top of the T) also ends, or do these count as straight roads that have to be completed elsewhere? '''Answer''': Every crossing (or junction) ends a road, irrespective of which direction they reach the junction from. The thieves cannot enter the small villages on the junctions either. In the example shown, every thief is on its own road.

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A player who has a knight in a completed city scores '''2 points for every city segment'''. '''Every pennant''' (shield symbol) <ref>

Note that a pennant only affects the city segment it is in, not the whole tile (if there is more than one segment on a single tile.

</ref> '''scores an extra 2 points'''.

[[File:Win city exc1.png|frame|{{ColorRed|RED}} scores 8 points (three city segments and one pennant)]]

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|{{ColorRed|RED}} scores 8 points (four city segments, no pennants)

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What happens if there are several followers on a completed road or in a completed city?

'''The points are then scored by the player with the most thieves or knights.''' <ref>  

When two followers of one color are occupying a road, city, or farm, you DO NOT score double in these cases. The number of followers has no effect on the points that a player earns from a road, city, cloister, or farm. Two knights do not double the points. The number of followers is only important in establishing who has the majority.

</ref> '''In the case of a draw, all players involved score the full number of points.'''

[[File:Win city exc3.png|frame|

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|{{ColorBlue|BLUE}} and {{ColorRed|RED}} both score the full 10 points, as they both have one knight in the city—a draw!

|}]]

===== A completed cloister (monastery) ===== <!--T:53-->

A cloister is completed when it is surrounded by eight land tiles. The player who has a monk in the cloister immediately scores '''9 points—1 point for each land tile, including the cloister itself'''.

[[File:Win cloister exc1.png|frame|{{ColorRed|RED}} scores 9 points(for 8 suurounding tiles and the cloister itself.)]]

===== Returning followers to their owners ===== <!--T:56-->

'''It is possible to deploy a follower, score immediately, and have the follower returned, all in the same turn'''. In this case, you must use the following order:  

[[File:Win returning exc1.png|frame|{{ColorRed|RED}} scores 4 points]]

# Complete a road, city, or cloister with the new tile.  

# Return the thief, knight, or monk to your supply.  

[[File:Win returning exc2.png|frame|{{ColorRed|RED}} scores 3 points]]

===== Farms ===== <!--T:60-->

Several connected field segments form a farm. <ref>

In determining farm size, farms can be limited by all kinds of barriers, for example, roads or cities which cannot be circumvented, or the edge of the playing field. It can certainly happen that a farm covers almost the entire playing field, and there will likely be farms that remain open for the entire game.

</ref> Farms and field segments are not scored. They serve only as places to deploy farmers; the owner of the farm only scores points at the end of the game. As such, farmers remain on the farm for the duration of the game and are never returned to their owner! In order to make that clear, the farmers should be laid on their backs.

Farms are separated from each other by roads, cities, and the edge of the playing field – this is important during the final scoring.

[[File:Win farms exc1.png|frame|All three farmers are on their own farms. The road segment and the city separate the farms from each other.]]

[[File:Win farms exc2.png|frame|After the placement of the new tile, the farms of the three farmers are joined to form one.]]

'''Be careful''': The player who placed the new tile may not deploy a farmer, since the (now connected) farm is already occupied by farmers.

Any points scored should be recorded on the scoreboard immediately. The board is a track of fifty fields that can be lapped many times. When the ‘0’ field is reached or passed, the counting figure should be laid down to indicate that the player has already earned 50 or more points. <ref>

Use of counters, such as the 50/100 tiles from the standard edition of Carcassonne (''Inns and Cathedrals'' or ''Big Box'' sets), would also be helpful.

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[[File:Win score exc1.png|frame|{{ColorBlue|BLUE}} scores 3 points. He moved his figure that started on 48. To indicate that the score is greater than 50, he lays the figure down.]]

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The first things to be scored during the final scoring are the '''incomplete''' roads, cities and cloisters. For every '''incomplete''' road, city, and cloister the owner scores '''1 point for each segment'''. '''Pennants also now score only 1 point'''. <ref>

'''Question''': Final scoring: segments of incomplete roads. 1 point per follower or 1 point per road segment? Cloister: 1 point for every neighbouring tile (e.g. 5), or is an incomplete cloister worth only 1 point? '''Answer''': During the final scoring, roads earn exactly as much as during the game, that is, 1 point per road segment. In the example shown, blue earns four points at the end of the game. The cloister earns 1 point for the cloister itself and 1 point for every neighbouring tile. When there are five tiles surrounding the cloister it earns 6 in total.

</ref> As soon as the feature in question has been scored, the followers involved are removed.

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|{{ColorBlue|BLUE}} scores 3 points for the incomplete city on the bottom right. {{ColorGreen|GREEN}} scores 8 points for the large incomplete city. {{ColorBlack|BLACK}} scores nothing, since {{ColorGreen|GREEN}} has more knights in the city.

|}]]

===== Scoring farms ===== <!--T:73-->

Only the farmers and their farms are left, and these will be scored now. The owner of each farm must be established. If several players have farmers on a given farm, then the player with the most farmers is the owner. In the case of a draw, all the players with the most farmers are considered to be owners of the farm. The owner (or owners) of the farm score '''3 points for every completed city which borders the farm''', or lies within it. <ref>

'''Question''': It is unclear whether incomplete farms earn points during the final scoring. '''Answer''': It is almost impossible to close off or complete most of the farms. The most important thing when scoring the farms are the cities, which do indeed have to be complete. So: completed cities count on incomplete farms as well.

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'''Question''': At the end of the game, do we score farms which are completely closed off by roads, but which don't have any adjacent cities? If so, how? '''Answer''': Strictly speaking, they should be scored exactly like every other farm, with 3 points for every completed city. In this case, that makes a total of zero points. And the farmer is nevertheless unable to leave the farm. All this is of course highly frustrating and cries out for revenge!

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If a city borders more than one farm, '''the owner(s) of each farm''' score(s) 3 points for the city. <ref>

This describes what is known as the “third edition” method of scoring farms, the method curently accepted by all publishers for all versions of Carcassonne.

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[[File:Win scoring farm1.png|frame|{{ColorBlue|BLUE}} scores 9 points (6 points for the upper farmer and 3 points for the lower one).]]

[[File:Win scoring farm2.png|frame|{{ColorBlue|BLUE}} scores 6 points. {{ColorRed|RED}} scores 3 points. The incomplete city generates no points.]]

[[File:Win scoring farm3.png|frame|

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[[File:Win scoring farm4.png|frame|

On the large farm {{ColorRed|RED}} and {{ColorYellow|YELLOW}} both have two farmers, and so both score 6 points: 3 each for the cities A and B. {{ColorBlue|BLUE}} owns the small farm, scoring 3 points for city A.]]

Every farm scores the bordering cities <ref>

A bordering city is one that has a wall bordering the farm; a single point of contact at the corner of a tile is not sufficient.

</ref> in the same way. When this has been done, the game is over.

Here is a more detailed example of how farmers and their farms are scored. “Wiese” is translated as “farm.”

[[File:Win scoring farm5.png|frame|none|

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==== How can multiple followers stand on one feature? ====

[[File:Win mul exc1.png|frame|Turn 1: {{ColorBlue|BLUE}} places a follower on the field.]]

[[File:Win mul exc2.png|frame|

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== Tile Distribution == <!--T:120-->

72 tiles as in the original Carcassonne:

12 tiles with animals:

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