Carcassonne Big Box 5

Description

--- <TLDR> Carcassonne Big Box is a tile-placement game where players build French landscapes, deploy meeples strategically, and score points on feature completion amid expansion and blocking choices. Key mechanics include: - *Tile placement* Players draw and place tiles featuring cities, roads, cloisters, or grasslands, matching adjacent features like cities to cities and roads to roads. - *Meeple deployment* After placing a tile, players optionally place a meeple as a knight on cities, robber on roads, monk on cloisters, or farmer on grasslands. - *Scoring* Completed areas award points to the owner of the meeple placed there. - *Strategic decisions* Players weigh deploying limited meeples to expand their features versus blocking opponents, with quick turns limited to one tile and one meeple. - *Big Box contents* Includes base game plus Inns & Cathedrals, Traders & Builders, Wheel of Fortune, Hills & Sheep, The River, and extra pink/purple meeple sets. Carcassonne Big Box is a tile-placement board game set in southern French landscapes, where players draw tiles depicting cities, roads, cloisters, grasslands, or combinations and place them adjacent to existing tiles, ensuring seamless connections such as cities to cities and roads to roads. Following placement, players may deploy a meeple onto the new tile's features—knight for cities, robber for roads, monk for cloisters, or farmer for grasslands—earning points when those areas complete. Gameplay emphasizes tactical choices, like risking a final meeple on a promising spot or using a tile to hinder an opponent's progress rather than advancing one's own, all within rapid turns constrained to one tile and optional one meeple. This edition matches other Big Boxes in size but features a unique component mix: the base game alongside expansions Inns & Cathedrals, Traders & Builders, Wheel of Fortune, Hills & Sheep, and The River, plus additional pink and purple meeple sets. ---