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Carcassonne: The City

Game ID: GID0059731
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2004
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Carcassonne: The City is a standalone game in the Carcassonne series. Players build up the old town together by placing tiles. While the town area grows, the town walls grow around it, starting from a wooden gate. The wall is comprised of delicately carved wooden parts, that create a beautiful rendition of the medieval town at the end of the game.

Next to the slightly modified tile-laying rules, players have the possibility to place their followers as guards on the walls, offering them a wide view of the town. This brings the players extra points. Each player also receives between three and six cylindrical wooden towers (depending on the number of players), giving the town walls an added aesthetic effect.

Description

Carcassonne: The City is a standalone game in the Carcassonne series. Players build up the old town together by placing tiles. While the town area grows, the town walls grow around it, starting from a wooden gate. The wall is comprised of delicately carved wooden parts, that create a beautiful rendition of the medieval town at the end of the game.

Next to the slightly modified tile-laying rules, players have the possibility to place their followers as guards on the walls, offering them a wide view of the town. This brings the players extra points. Each player also receives between three and six cylindrical wooden towers (depending on the number of players), giving the town walls an added aesthetic effect.

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Video T7rta6VyM1E Watch It Played Discussion at 12:51 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
  • Carcassonne
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • if you want to buy a game and you really like the look of it and you think oh that game looks really good that looks right up my street I like the theme I like those mechanics I like that designer that publisher never lets me down whatever your reasons are maybe all of those reasons are there and then you find out the games ranked 5 out of 10 on board game geek as a general ranking of the game or it's really far down in general of the all the games in rank order so it's like at number 20 000 on boardgamegeek should you really pay attention to that
  • ultimately the only person that needs to like that game is you
  • don't let other people tell you what games you can and cannot like but do your due diligence look hard and research if you're gonna spend your money on something make sure you're spending on something that you like
  • blasting top 40 hits while i'm trying to think about my next tile placement absolutely not
  • what is the game that you're most happy you own not necessarily the most expensive game not necessarily the most rare game but what is the pride possession of your board game collection
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Video 344EHyfbVOo Watch It Played Top 5 List at 1:15 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
  • beautiful visuals
  • impressive visual design for a Carcasson variant
  • great version for a group play
Cons
  • hard to find / not easy to locate
Thematic elements
Comparison games
  • Carcasson (base game)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • enclosure — wooden blocks enclose the game board as the game progresses.
  • guard placement and scoring — guards placed on walls score for special buildings they overlook.
  • variable tile alignment — tiles don’t have to match perfectly as long as roads connect.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • There’s something very beautiful and wonderful about this.
  • It's Carcasson for two players designed by Rhina Kitia.
  • The cool twist here is you want to score specific amounts of points to get these bonus tiles that give you bonus scoring and some bonus actions.
  • It's tense. It's quite difficult.
  • The reason it's the best one is because I feel it does something that's interesting. It's very beautiful.
  • It's a great little card game.
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Video KLWi8e6FtPg The Dice Tower Top 100 List at 5:43 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Cleanest/most teachable Carcassonne variant; good for newcomers
Cons
  • Less novel than base Carcassonne for experienced players
Thematic elements
  • city planning and fortifications
  • Medieval city-building with walls and towers
  • compact, streamlined Carcassonne variant
Comparison games
  • Carcassonne (base game)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Area Control — Place followers to claim structures and walls.
  • Area control / placement — Place followers to claim structures and walls.
  • Tile Placement — Place city tiles to build walls, with adjacent features scoring points.
  • Tile-laying — Place city tiles to build walls, with adjacent features scoring points.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • this was the game that put cooperative games on the map because I played this I played Lord of the Rings from Knizia, but this was the game that did it and also added that traitor aspect which was so interesting.
  • I really enjoyed playing it.
  • the cleanest version of Carcassonne I think
  • Mystery of the Abbey is fantastic.
  • It's a game of pure logic until it's not.
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Video S3wsj9p5X1g Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Discussion at 13:51 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • sociopolitical intrigue with cloister/cult adjacency
  • Carcasson cult expansion
  • tactical, competitive
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Area Control — A cloister and a cult adjacency triggers a challenge; encircling tiles yields points
  • Encirclement/area control — A cloister and a cult adjacency triggers a challenge; encircling tiles yields points
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Quotes (from this video)
  • The madeup game is of course slap the penguin.
  • I have Mr. Bacon's Big Adventure. I have Mr. Bacon's Big Adventure.
  • Sedate the ape.
  • We mail Matthew a certified letter and we wait 6-8 weeks for it to come back.
  • Swack is real? It looked real dangerous.
  • The plague and occult, it was very difficult to narrow it down.
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