Carcassonne Wheel Of Fortune

Carcassonne Wheel Of Fortune

This set can treated both as an expansion to the Carcassonne game and as an alternate starting set. How does it suit these two roles?
Carcassonne Wheel Of Fortune Instructions

It's similar to the regular game of Carcassone, but it has a huge 4x4 starter tile that's called the Wheel of Fortune. This basically gives you some bonus points for knights, farmers, and monks, if you pick a tile with a wheel of fortune symbol on it. I really like city building games, and this is an awesome city building game. My semi-competent review of the newest board game in the Carcassonne family, 'Wheel of Fortune'. It's a really good game, I recommend it - in fact I think I'd recommend buying this rather than the.
We were playing Carcassonne last night using the expansions Wheel of Fortune and Abbey & Mayor. A situation came up where a player had his mayor on a large unfinished city with several pennants and the wheel landed on taxes. The Count of Carcassonne: all 12 tiles of the City of Carcassonne are considered to be additional tiles, not part of the usual game. The farm and city segments are nevertheless scored as usual. Abbey & Mayor: 6 abbey tiles. The Wheel of Fortune: 16 tiles composing the Wheel itself. As stated in the rules, the various land segments surrounding the Wheel are scored in the usual way.
As an expansion it is very big (71 new tiles) and it adds a new starting area – the wheel in a form of 4*4 tile. Unfortunately it is pretty incompatible with both versions 'River' expansions (unless you use the 'Mini expansion' along with them (as it allows connecting the source of the river to a road). 
Carcassonne Wheel Of Fortune Rules PdfAs an alternate starting set it is OK. But is it really better than the standard version of the starting set? I doubt so. The wheel adds a new mechanics: basically generating random events that benefit or punish all the players for certain deeds (e.g. having followers in certain structures). To be honest – the events are not totally random: by memorizing the frequencies of tiles that cause the wheel rotation a player may prepare somewhat what could possibly happen in the nearest future. 
Carcassonne Wheel Of FortuneOne more mechanics addition: players may put their followers as fortune-tellers on the wheel to score points when the wheel stops pointing at the appropriate meeple. But it should also be taken into account that as more and more expansions are added to the game the wheel spins more and more rarely which makes fortune-tellers not a great investment.
Carcassonne Wheel Of Fortune

This set can treated both as an expansion to the Carcassonne game and as an alternate starting set. How does it suit these two roles?
Carcassonne Wheel Of Fortune InstructionsIt's similar to the regular game of Carcassone, but it has a huge 4x4 starter tile that's called the Wheel of Fortune. This basically gives you some bonus points for knights, farmers, and monks, if you pick a tile with a wheel of fortune symbol on it. I really like city building games, and this is an awesome city building game. My semi-competent review of the newest board game in the Carcassonne family, 'Wheel of Fortune'. It's a really good game, I recommend it - in fact I think I'd recommend buying this rather than the.
We were playing Carcassonne last night using the expansions Wheel of Fortune and Abbey & Mayor. A situation came up where a player had his mayor on a large unfinished city with several pennants and the wheel landed on taxes. The Count of Carcassonne: all 12 tiles of the City of Carcassonne are considered to be additional tiles, not part of the usual game. The farm and city segments are nevertheless scored as usual. Abbey & Mayor: 6 abbey tiles. The Wheel of Fortune: 16 tiles composing the Wheel itself. As stated in the rules, the various land segments surrounding the Wheel are scored in the usual way.
As an expansion it is very big (71 new tiles) and it adds a new starting area – the wheel in a form of 4*4 tile. Unfortunately it is pretty incompatible with both versions 'River' expansions (unless you use the 'Mini expansion' along with them (as it allows connecting the source of the river to a road). 
Carcassonne Wheel Of Fortune Rules PdfAs an alternate starting set it is OK. But is it really better than the standard version of the starting set? I doubt so. The wheel adds a new mechanics: basically generating random events that benefit or punish all the players for certain deeds (e.g. having followers in certain structures). To be honest – the events are not totally random: by memorizing the frequencies of tiles that cause the wheel rotation a player may prepare somewhat what could possibly happen in the nearest future. 
Carcassonne Wheel Of FortuneOne more mechanics addition: players may put their followers as fortune-tellers on the wheel to score points when the wheel stops pointing at the appropriate meeple. But it should also be taken into account that as more and more expansions are added to the game the wheel spins more and more rarely which makes fortune-tellers not a great investment.
Carcassonne Wheel Of FortuneAll in all: for the startup I recommend a basic set instead, and for an expansion I can recommend the Wheel to collectors only.