Carcassonne Maps: Nordics
Carcassonne Maps: Nordics Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 30 map-chips (10 each in purple, light blue, orange). The map-chips are available from cundco.de (accessories).
- We recommend playing with 115–125 tiles (e.g. from the BigBox: Base game (72) + 1st expansion (18) + Mini 4 to 7 (30) = 120 tiles).
Setup
Use 2 of the 3 possible starting slots of choice.
Mix the map-chips and place 2 of them face down on each marked space (the "space for 2 map-chips").
Gameplay
1. Place a Land tile
Collect chips
If you place your tile next to a pre-printed city, immediately take the map-chips lying there. It doesn't matter whether you place a meeple or not.
You get points immediately according to the numbers on the map-chips. Afterwards, you put the chips in your personal supply.
Example: You place your tile next to Oslo. You get 2 map-chips that are worth 3 points.
Waves
Fields with wavy lines can be seen on the map. You can't place a landscape tile on these spaces.
Discover Nordic highlights
You can't place a land tile onto a highlight. But you can place any tile next to it.
Like at a border square, all areas are closed at the side of the highlight.
When a highlight is discovered at one side, you can't automatically place tiles at the other sides (unlike a printed city).
2. Place a Meeple
After you placed your tile, you may place a meeple on it according to the usual rules.
3. Scoring points
If you are scoring a road, you can upgrade it, by using your map-chips. For every color you use, you get 1 additional point per tile. You can use 1 chip per color per scoring.
Afterwards, the used chips are removed from the game.
Every highlight is bordered with one of the 3 map-chip colors. Because of that, you will get 2 instead of 1 point for each tile of a road to a highlight.
If you use map-chips with other colors, you get 1 more point per color for each road tile.
The colors which border the highlight can be used several times.
The ferry roads are counted, independent from their length, as 1 road tile and can be improved by map-chips as usual.
Example: 1) You close the road to Santa Claus Village. 2) You use a blue and a purple chip, to have all 3 colors (the village is bordered by yellow, so you don't need a yellow chip). Because you have 3 different colors, each road tile is now worth 4 points for you. You get 12 points total for this road. Since Blue is also on this road, but didn't use any chips, Blue only gets 2 points per tile, so 6 points total.
End of the game and final scoring
At the end of the game, you can't upgrade any of your roads, neither with chips nor by the highlights.
The Nordic highlights
The sheet's second page describes the ten highlights printed on the map. The text is reproduced as printed (including the sheet's spelling).
Faddersbøl Mølle
The mill was built in 1859. The today landscape is shaped by high windmills, which are a lot of this in this area. Faddersbøl Mølle is a so-called Holland mill, which, as the name suggests, was developed in Holland. The mill was used by the farmers of this aera to grind their grain.
Gotland
Gotland is a Swedish island and historical province. It's the second largest island of the Baltic Sea. Their name gets the island by the German tribe of the "Goths". Today Gotland is a famous holiday destination. Gotland is known for a species-rich natural landscape. Especially the birdlife and the diversity of orchids are to be highlighted.
Imatrafall
The Imatrafall is a waterfall in the city Imatra. The Vuoksi river falls here, over around 500 meters, in a narrow granite canyon 18 meters deep. Since 1929 the falls are used for energy production and the water redirected. Only at certain times the locks are opened, and the old river gets flooded. The Imatrafall is one of 27 official "nature landscapes" of Finland.
Inarijärvi
Inarijärvi is a lake in Finland part of Lapland. The lake is the third largest lake in Finland. The deepest point of the lake is 92 meters deep. Because of his more than 3000 island, it seems like a labyrinth of water roads, instead of a stretch of water.
Kebnekaise
The Kebnekaise is with his 2097 meter (north peak) the highest mountain of Sweden. Previously the glaciated south peak was higher than the north peak. In 2018 he was, because of the global warming and the glacial melt, first time smaller than the north peak.
Old Tjikko
Old Tjikko is an about 9550 years old Norway spruce, which grows in the mountains of the Swedish province Dalarna. Old Tjikko is the oldest living individual clone tree. The stem gets estimated of some hundred years. The tree as a whole, survived much longer, by regrowing a new stem, from the still living root system.
Santa Claus Village
Santa Claus Village is an amusement park in Rovaniemi, in Finland part of Lapland. It was opened in 1985. In the middle of the village is white line, it shows the polar circle from 1865, today the polar circle is about 700m more north. Santa Claus has an office in the village, there you can meet him while his office hours.
Svartifoss
The Svartifoss, in English "black waterfall", because of the color of the surrounding rocks, is at Skaftafell national park in south-east of Island. Der Stórilækur (big creek) falls over a rock edge, which is surrounded by basalt columns like organ pipes, and keeps flows in the Vestragil (west canyon).
Tromsdalen Church
The Tromsdalen Church (also called Arctic Cathedral) is an Evangelical Lutheran Parish and Seaman's Church and that Tromsø city landmark. The cathedral was greated by the architect Jan Inge Hovig and builded in 1964 and 1965.
Trollforsen
Trollforsen is one of the biggest rapids in Europe. It's in the Norway community Arvidsjaur. On a distance of 800m flows the Piteälven river between rocks and over cliffs and overcomes one considerable difference in altitude. The nature forest around is full of creeks, little lakes and swamps.