Inns and Cathedrals

Inns and Cathedrals
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The expansion offers all fans of Carcassonne new challenges: The Cathedral triples the value of a city, and the Inn doubles the value of a road but only when they are completed. Players may use the new large follower to double their chances of controlling a city, road, or field. Also included is all necessary material to allow a sixth player to join in the fun. Finally, there are six point tiles to make scoring easier when players score more than 50 points. You need to have the Carcassonne game in order to use this expansion.

Product Details

• Brand: Rio Grande Games
• Model: 4098401
• Dimensions: 7.50" h x 2.75" w x 5.50" l, 1.00 pounds

Features

• You need to have Carcassonne in order to use this expansion
• Designed for 2-6 players
• Adds new dimensions to Carcassonne

Editorial Reviews
From the Manufacturer
The expansion offers all fans of Carcassonne new challenges: The Cathedral triples the value of a city, and the Inn doubles the value of a road but only when they are completed. Players may use the new large follower to double their chances of controlling a city, road, or field. Also included is all necessary material to allow a sixth player to join in the fun. Finally, there are 6 point tiles to make scoring easier when players score more than 50 points. You need to have the Carcassonne game in order to use this expansion.

Customer Reviews
Pretty Fun and Entertaining Game
This game is a little different than some of the others that are like this but is relatively fun and unique especially with the expansion packs. It does take a couple of games to get into it but that is normal for these types of game sets. I really enjoyed it!

Fun, but nothing extremely new
This is an expansion that requires the core game of Carcassonne Game (which I highly recommend if you don't have it).

This expansion does two core things. First of all, it provides inn and cathedral tiles that multiply the value of the road or city they're associated with so that completed cities with cathedrals are worth 3 per tile or pennant instead of 2. Completed roads that are connected to an inn on the lake are worth 2 per tile instead of 1. However, if these features aren't completed by the end of the game, the entire city or road is worth nothing.

This makes these tiles good either as a bonus for a feature you think you can complete or a hinderance for a feature you think your opponent cannot complete (particularly with the cathedrals since they make the cities much bigger and harder to complete). This definitely adds some strategic elements and sabotage potential to the game. It also adds more tension as players try to complete things before the game ends.

Perhaps the biggest gameplay change is the simple addition of the giant follower. The giant follower is identical to other followers, except it counts as two followers for the purposes of determining who owns a completed city, road, or field. This makes it much more possible to attempt to steal a city from your opponent and also allows you to deploy the giant follower to defend assets you think might be vulnerable.

If you don't want to buy for this expansion, get colored indicators and use them as giant followers and you'll get about 20% of the expansion's benefits, maybe more.

This expansion also adds gray pieces for a sixth player to be able to play.

All-in-all, it's a good expansion that I recommend getting, though I liked Builders and Traders better.

Adds a little more backstabbing to a great game
This is a terrific expansion to Carcassonne (note - you cannot play this on its own, you need to have the original game!).

It includes two "cathedral" pieces and several "inn" pieces. These increase the value of your cities and roads, respectively - but only if those cities and roads are finished by the end of the game! Oh, it's great fun to add a cathedral to somebody else's big city at the end of the game, let me tell you!

You also get a big meeple for each color, which counts as *two* meeples, making it easier for you to still somebody else's cities, roads, or farms.

Really, this expansion fits in so well with the original game that there's no reason not to get it.

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