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Rick Baptist
United States
Redlands
California
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Hey, it's another Carcassonne expansion!
I haven't bought all the Carcassonne expansions, just a few here and there. I don't feel the need to buy many more, but the ones that I have I enjoy pulling out from time to time (yes, that includes Carcassonne: Catapult. Yes, I think it's fun!) So, I bravely punched out the six tiles, six rats, and 18 fleas in the Carcassonne: The Plague expansion and immediately asked my kids if they were interested.
Now, I'm not sure if this is normal, but my 6-year-old son usually beats me in Carc. This is a fact that I have grown accustomed to. In fact, a few games ago I went into it thinking, "That's it, I'm pulling out all the stops here!" I still lost by two. So when posed with the question of playing Carc with me, he's usually going to say yes. Now, my 5-year-old daughter is not quite as gifted at the game as son, but if she sees a chance to gang up on dad with brother she won't turn it down. Plus, I bought pink meeples for her a while ago. PINK MEEPLES!
So I arranged the tiles and explained the rules. This isn't a review so feel free to check some out at the game page. I thought the idea when first read was clever, and it turned out to be just that. You can really mess people up with these fleas! This expansion put Rattus on a whole new level of perspective for me. So yeah, with my kids ganging up on me, I lost out on scoring TWO cloisters, which really hurt, and several odd castles and roads. They thought it was glorious and I came in last place. See, this isn't a review -- there's no way I could review it at this point because of the dynamic going on here. But I know enough about games to give a thumbs up for this one. It makes you score things pretty quickly, and helps to nullify the "dumb luck" of pulling out a cloister. Pulling out a cloister sounds painful. I digress. This makes me want to write something about expansions. Maybe another time.
     
A few blogs ago I mentioned Robert Florence. Man, I miss his DownTimeTown videos. I've been enjoying his articles over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun though. He's one of the few people that can translate his verbal words into writing. In case you have time to read even more words, here's the link: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/cardboard-children/
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