Carcassonne: Expansion 5 – Abbey & Mayor

Makes the game even better.

Our first play with the A&M (+ IC & TB) 4/2/12.

(From Big Box 2009.)

2010-04-14 (rating 9):

Great expansion.

Wagon is quite nice addition. Properly used allows to place two followers in a single turn. With wagon scoring roads (even or maybe especially the short ones) is finally useful.

Mayor is less interesting. Nothing bad about him but it is just a special case of large follower. Nothing especially new here. Also it has too similar shape to the large follower. Why did they make it so? I don't know...

Abbey is interesting. Usually we keep them to the end of the game when we score for them just like with cloisters. However their nice closing property is useful. So they can be used as a threat of undesired closing or separating.

And last the best of the expansion. Barns. They change meadows scoring a lot. With barns fight over the good meadows is not so heavy. Also scoring of meadows is much faster. A player who often scores farmers against a good barn has large advantage over others.

Deck and Dice mai 2009

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