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Carcassonne Families

Families is the name of a fan-produced extension for Carcassonne. The author is Frederic Renaud. Of course, the basic Carcassone game is required to play this extension.

Game idea
The basic idea of the game is inspired by medieval family feuds: Two families cannot stand each other and cannot be in the same city. This expansion includes a set of new tiles with a different shield printed on them. These red/yellow shields represent the one family crest, while the original blue/white shields (from the original game) represent the second family.

Rules
If a tile with a family crest is put into a city, it is impossible to add a family-crest tile from the second family.


Additional Tiles
In addition to the family feud, the extension set contains a few new road and bridge tiles.

families_expansion.jpg

My 2 cents
Quite frankly. I do not get it! What kind of an expansion is this? It serves basically no purpose. Unless I have missed something - the rules are not extensive. I would really appreciate any comments or ideas you have with regard to the rules.

Anyway, the files can be downloaded at BoardGameGeek. Just follow this link!

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I just noted: a version 3.0 has been put out which adds cloister tokens. It is available at BGG: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=13644

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