Carcassonne : Inns & Cathedrals

Inns and Cathedrals adds not only more tiles and thus more possible scoring options, but also 50 and 100 point tiles for when you’ve sent your scoring man around the board once/twice. There was a definite need for these tiles as in a two player game we often had men moving around on their back to indicate +50 and on their head to indicate +100!

The actual mechanics of the game remain the same, but you have more tiles with depictions of Cathedrals and Inns (funnily enough!). These increase the value of a city and road respectively, but only if they are complete.

Another level to the base game, but boy is it frustrating to pull out a Cathedral near the end of the game!

If you are looking at Carcassonne expansions, it must be because you're hooked onto Carcassonne and are looking for ways to make the game more interesting or to give it a new twist. I've tried this and think it's worth getting.

The expansion offers Carcassonne fans new challenges: The Cathedral triples the value of a city, and the Inn doubles the value of a road but only when they are completed. Players may use the new large follower to double their chances of controlling a city, road, or field (this is my favourite feature - I love deploying my large follower!). Also included is all necessary material to allow a sixth player to join in the fun. Finally, there are six point tiles to make scoring easier when players score more than 50 points.

I'm sure I don't need to say this but you do need to have the Carcassonne game in order to use this expansion.