Award-winning board game by Rio Grande Games - Liber Mortis highly recommends Carcassonne the Board Game!
The southern French city of Carcassonne is famous for its unique Roman and Medieval fortifications. The players develop the area around Carcassonne and deploy their followers on the roads, in the cities, in the cloisters, and in the fields. The skills of the players to develop the area and use their thieves, knights, farmers, and monks will determine who is victorious.
Carcassonne Board Game Overview:
The players place land tiles turn by turn. As they do so, the roads, cities, fields, and cloisters emerge and grow. On these, the players can deploy their followers to earn points. Players score points during the game and at the end. The player with the most points after the final scoring is the winner.
Carcassonne Board Game Gameplay:
Players take turns in clockwise order beginning with the starting player. On a player's turn, he executes the following actions in the order shown:
- The player must draw and place a new land tile.
- The player may deploy one of his followers from his supply to the land tile he just placed.
- If, by placing the land tile, cloisters, roads, and/or cities are completed, they are now scored.
The player’s turn is over and the next player, in clockwise order, takes his turn in the same manner.
Carcassonne Board Game Tile Placement:
First a player must draw a land tile from one of the face-down stacks. He looks at it, shows it to his fellow players (so they can advise him on the "best" placement of the tile), and places it on the table, using the following rules:
- The new tile (with red borders in the examples) must be placed with at least one edge adjacent and abutting one previously placed tile. The new tile may not simply be placed corner to corner with a previous tile.
- The new tile must be placed so that all field, city, and road segments on the new tile continue to field, city, and road segments, respectively, on all abutting tiles (cloisters are always complete within single tiles).
Carcassonne Board Game Contents:
- 72 land tiles (including 1 starting tile with a different back), which picture city, road, and field segments and cloisters.
- The 12 river tiles are NOT part of the basic game (see below), but do have the same back as the starting tile.
- 40 followers in 5 colors. Each follower can be used as a knight, thief, farmer, or monk. One of each player's followers is the player's scoring marker.
- 1 scoring track, used to track players' scores.
- 1 Rule booklet
- 1 Summary sheet
This version of Carcassonne includes the River Expansion.
