Carcassonne The Count

Carcassonne The Count

Carcassonne The Count (Der Graf von Carcassonne) is another expansion to the well-known series.

It contains a further twelve tiles plus the count (a nice wooden figure).

The tiles depict the town Carcassonne itself, which is visited by the Count. When a player places a tile that causes scoring for other players but not for themselves, they may put a follower in one of the four regions of the city.

They may also move the Count to a region, imprisoning all followers in that region. Each region corresponds to a scoring method, and when a feature of that type is scored, the player may move their follower to that feature, to share in the scoring or even prevent another player from scoring!

Carcassonne the Count requires the basic Carcassonne game, and can be combined with any of the other expansions. (from www.spielbox.de)

Carcassonne the Count

  • 2 to 5 player game
  • 45 minutes to play
  • Medieval theme
  • City building strategy
  • Expansion for popular line

Carcassonne The Count is a small expansion that adds 12 tiles representing the actual city of Carcassonne and are the starting tiles for the game.

During the game, players who help others score points may place followers in the city and later move them to scoring features out

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Carcassonne The Count

Carcassonne The Count is the 2nd of the small box expansions to Carcassonne and it changes the game play significantly.

In true Carcassonne tradition the designers wished to offer something here that offered something completely new. So this expansion offers 12 tiles that must be built before the game begins to form an inner city of Carcassonne, complete with 4 quarters.

This forms the initial board (remove the original starting tile) and the initial tiles must be placed in connection to this inner city precinct.

  • The 4 quarters are called:
  • castle (city)
  • cathedral (cloister)
  • market (farm)
  • blacksmith (road)

And each of these quarters is linked to a feature found in the standard landscape of the game.

The game can begin once the Count figure is placed on the castle quarter. The game play is then quite simple.

If a player can place a tile to earn an opponent 1 or more points, whilst they themselves earn nothing, they earn the right to place a follower on any 1 quarter in the inner city.

In this way the inner city may have many followers in its quarters at any one time.

If you liked Carcassonne The Count, you may want to read this Samurai review.