I'm a Carc fan, and my SO is nuts about it. But we both a agree that basic Carc isn't that good for two players, and expansions don't help with that.
If expanding your Carc collection is an option, we like New World for two, and love Hunters and Gatherers for two . The meadow scoring rules and bonus tiles keep some tension in the game, but at the price of adding randomness. The Castle (2 players only) is one we enjoy a lot too, but it puts a twist on the basic Carc mechanic that some don't like. Bruce On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Driver 8 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Last night my girlfriend and I played Carcassonne for the first time. > I had played it several times before, but never with just 2 players. > It's supposed to be best with 2 players and highly recommended on BGG. > We even added the some expansions (the Mini Expansion and the Trader > rules, but not the Builder). We also played that farmers were only > worth 3 points per city, not 4. > > Anyway, the game ended with us feeling kind of blah. I just didn't see > the tension there. I guess there was come conflict there in that you > could lay a tile in such a way that it'd be very hard for your > opponent to complete what she was trying to build. But even that > didn't seem to matter much. I think it was a little too light for us. > > Afterwards we agreed that the next time we play we won't score > incomplete cities, roads, and cloisters, so that there's some risk > involved and some opportunities to mess with your opponent even more. > > After playing Carcassonne, we went back to our old standby, the > Mystery Rummy games, which we enjoyed much more. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/BGG_down?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
