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One of the biggest issues for me is box size. The bigger the box the more carefully I have to consider purchasing it, so when I order something and the box is oversized (excluding necessary inserts/expansion room) it just feels horrible.I could have twice the games if they all took up half the space. It's a shame I care so much about retaining the original boxes.If you're wondering which game prompted this post it was palm island. It's a double-deck sized box with one decks worth of cards in it. On the other hand there are games like Burgle Bros and Ravens of thri sahashri which fill their boxes so perfectly. There seems to be a new trend lately. Boxes for hobbyist board games (designer games from the likes of Knizia, heavy euros, hybrid and niche games like Root, small publishers like Splotter) are shrinking.
Instead of focusing on box size, they are letting graphic design, artwork, title, and/or weight do the talking. They're either shrinking components or putting less in, packing a lot in a thin package. Take a look at games that have come out recently following this trend: Root, Battle for Rokugan, Blue Lagoon, Clans of Caledonia, Brass Birmingham, Healthy Heart Hospital, Food Chain Magnate. High Society. These boxes pack a ton of stuff in a relatively itty bitty package. I think publishers have caught on that while casual and new gamers don't care much about space, a hobbyist target market does. Not only is this something a lot of fans ask for, but it makes perfect sense.
The more room a hobbyist has on her shelf, the more games she can buy to fit on there. And if the artwork is good enough and the box feels heavy enough, it feels worth the price.
Not to mention online sales where the imposing, impressive nature of a big box does not really come across, so you're not losing anything from your web store. Not saying your points aren't ones publishers consider, I totally agree with them. But I'm seeing a trend in spite of those points. Yeah, I know about the shelf real estate thing, per my comment above. But that becomes moot in Kickstarters, for online sales, and while selling to a hobbyist with either limited space, an insatiable appetite for a niche, or bases their purchases on even a little bit of research. The price point of a lot of these games means you're not selling these to a casual shopper who buys a book by its cover.
I think nowadays there are a ton of reasons that small box is outweighing big box, especially when the total components are similar in weight or number. I think hobby board games are moving in this direction too. Not that brick and mortar stores are dying, but there are far more online sales and KS campaigns. Online, box size doesn't matter. So if you can get the same components into a smaller box, you can save a bit on shipping costs. Plus hobby board gamers care about space because they tend to have a large collection. They can buy more games if those games fit in a smaller space.
So games that aren't marketed to casual players have less or no incentive to make a bigger box.
.Players2–5 (6–8 with expansion)Setup time1–5 minutesPlaying time30–90 minutesRandom chanceMediumCarcassonne is a for two to five players, designed by and published in 2000 by in German and by (until 2012) and (currently) in English. It received the and the awards in 2001.It is named after the of in southern France, famed for its city walls. The game has spawned many expansions and spin-offs, and several PC, console and mobile versions. A new edition, with updated artwork on the tiles and the box, was released in 2014. A follower (or ') on a tile, showing the walls and buildings of the town.The game board is a medieval landscape built by the players as the game progresses.
The game starts with a single terrain tile face up and 71 others shuffled face down for the players to draw from. On each turn a player draws a new terrain tile and places it adjacent to tiles that are already face up. The new tile must be placed in a way that extends features on the tiles it touches: roads must connect to roads, fields to fields, and cities to cities.After placing each new tile, the placing player may opt to station a piece (called a 'follower' or 'meeple') on a feature of that newly placed tile. The placing player may not use a follower to claim any features of the tile that extend or connect features already claimed by another player. However, it is possible for terrain features claimed by opposing players to become 'shared' by the subsequent placement of tiles connecting them.
For example, two separate field tiles (each with a follower) can become connected into a single field by another terrain tile.The game ends when the last tile has been placed. At that time, all features (including fields) score points for the players with the most followers on them. The player with the most points wins the game. Scoring During the players' turns, cities, cloisters, and roads (but not fields) are scored when they are completed—cities and roads when they are completed (i.e.
Contain no unfinished edges from which they may be expanded), and cloisters when surrounded by eight tiles. At the end of the game, when there are no tiles remaining, all incomplete features are scored. Points are awarded to the players with the most followers in a feature.If there is a tie for the most followers in any given feature, all of the tied players are awarded the full number of points. Walls of in FranceCarcassonne is considered to be an excellent 'gateway game' by many board game players as it is a game that can be used to introduce new players to board games. The rules are simple, no one is ever eliminated, and the play is fast.
A typical game, without any expansions, takes about 45 minutes to play. There is a substantial luck component to the game; however, good tactics greatly improve one's chances of winning. Examples of tactical considerations include:. Conserving followers.
Since each player has only seven followers, it can be easy to run out. This is especially important with fewer players, because then each player will play more tiles during the game. Joining in on other players' features. Often it is possible to add a separate road or castle segment near a big road or castle and join them up.
This allows a player to gain points from their opponents' work. Avoiding sharing. An advantage can be gained by preventing other players from getting points. This is more important with fewer players, or if the sharing player is doing well.
Judicious placement of followers in fields. Followers in the right field can be worth a lot of points. However, once placed, they are there for the whole game. Trapping opponents' followers.
Not all possible tile configurations exist in the game. So if a player knows which tiles exist or are more common, they can create situations where it is hard or impossible for an opponent to complete some feature. The result is the opponent's follower is stuck in something half-completed.Box contents. Distribution of tiles of Carcassonne, including The River expansion categorised by number of city and road boundariesThe 2000 base box contains the following items:.
72 terrain tiles, each 45 mm (1.8 in) × 45 mm (1.8 in) × 2 mm (0.079 in). 1 score table of up to 50 points.
40 wood followers in 5 colors (8 followers of each color). Instructions on 4 sheetsThe 2014 redesign contains the same items as the original and also adds the following items:. 5 Abbot followers (1 in each color). 12 tiles from the River expansion.Expansions.