Carcassonne: The Watchtowers

Description

"Watchtower" is a mini-expansion for Carcassonne introducing 12 special tiles with watchtowers that provide bonus points on completion. Key mechanics include: - *Tile shuffling* Integrate 12 new Watchtower tiles with existing land tiles for drawing. - *Restricted meeple placement* Meeples can occupy city, road, or farm segments on Watchtower tiles, but never the watchtower itself. - *Bonus scoring sequence* On completing a road or city with a meeple on a Watchtower tile, claim the tower's bonus points first, followed by standard points. - *Farmer immunity* Farmers on Watchtower tiles yield no additional points from the tower. - *Diverse bonuses* Five different tower types each deliver unique bonus effects. Watchtower is a compact mini-expansion for Carcassonne, part of its series, featuring 12 new tiles shuffled into the base land tiles deck. Tiles with watchtowers follow standard placement rules, allowing meeple deployment exclusively on cities, roads, or farms—not the tower. Completion of a road or city containing a meeple on such a tile triggers initial bonus points from one of five distinct tower effects, followed by conventional scoring; farmers remain unaffected by these bonuses, receiving no tower points. This adds layered scoring strategy without altering core gameplay.