Ranking the Carcasonne Expansions (13)

 

The Plague

This was one of the last expansions I got when I was collecting a bunch of them. Every time I tile is placed you put plague tokens out from each previous tile. When it hits another player, they must remove their meeple. I love this expansion because each one of the tiles are tempting to place a meeple by or on it. You run the risk of being removed. Last time we played with this one, I got every tile! That will never happen again. Another expansion I would play every so often. 

The Robbers

When you pull this tile, place your robber meeple next to someone on the score track and steal their next score. I love this mini-expansion because it makes other players look for low scoring opportunities so they won't lose big points to the robber. but while they're focused on that, you're still trying to get those bigger points. Love it. A keeper!

The School

A starting tile when whoever finishes the first roads gets the "teacher" which a colored pawn not being played in the game. Afterward, whenever one of the roads are scored, they get the points and pass the teacher to the next player. You continue to go around until all roads to the starting tile are filled. This expansion is "meh". Everyone makes sure to keep the roads short so the player who holds the teacher doesn't get big points. The teacher could play tiles for others, extending the road for bigger points but that never happens in the games we've played. Not the best mini-expansion Carcassonne has. 

Siege

When played next to a city or road, if that tile doesn't score at the end of the game, you get ZERO points. I like the idea but there's only 6 tiles in the expansion and most times people make sure to finish the project before the end of the game so they don't get screwed. I love this expansion but it rarely pays off in the end. It needs more tiles in my opinion.