Carcassonne Expansion 2: Traders and Builders New Edition
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Introduces trade goods, builders, and pigs to the original Carcassonne game: players acquire trade goods (which are scored by majority at game end) by completing cities with good markers; strategically-placed builders allow a player to take a second turn; and pigs allow farmers to score extra points for adjacent cities.
Publisher's Description of Carcassonne Expansion 2: Traders and Builders New Edition
In this expansion for Carcassonne, traders and builders arrive in the cities. Collect goods and send your pig to the fields for extra points. The builder speeds up the construction of your roads and cities.
EXPAND YOUR CARCASSONNE ADVENTURE: Introduce traders and builders to your game for fresh mechanics, new strategies, and higher scoring opportunities.
TRADE GOODS FOR EXTRA POINTS: Collect valuable wine, grain, and cloth tokens as you complete cities—even those finished by opponents.
BUILD FASTER WITH THE BUILDER: Use the builder meeple to gain additional turns when extending your cities and roads.
BOOST FIELDS WITH THE PIG: Send your pig meeple to the fields to increase farm scoring, raising your chances of victory.
NEW COMPONENTS INCLUDED: Expansion comes with 24 land tiles, 20 goods tokens, 6 pig meeples, and 6 builder meeples. Base game required to play.
Revisit the medieval city of Carcassonne, France in this strategic tile-laying land development game. In the base Carcassonne game, players attempt to strategically place a randomly drawn land tiles to build cities, roads, cloisters, or fields. Each player has 7 followers that can act as knight, thief, monk, or farmer, depending on their placement. Larger roads and cities score more points when completed, and multiple players can share in the scoring of a multi-tile completed project. Many expansions are available to supplement the base game. Games take about 45 minutes. For 2-5 players.