Others have included the Princess & the Dragon, Abbey and Mayor, River 2, Wheel of Fortune, The Tower, and Hill & Sheep along with Bridges, Castles, & Bazaars and Count, King, & Cult. Each contains the base game along with the River, Inns & Cathedrals, and Traders & Builders expansions (with the exception of Big Box 4 which did not contain Inns & Cathedrals). Each iteration has been slightly different from the others, but they all have a few things in common. Since the first Carcassonne Big Box was released in 2006, there have been a total of seven different variations.

I was in a position where I not only wanted those early mini-expansions, but I also needed a better storage solution. But eleven years later, my copy of Carcassonne has expanded beyond the limits of what the base game box can hold and is spread across multiple boxes. Ever since then, I’ve longed to get my hands on one of the Big Boxes, but the price was always just slightly too high for me to justify the purchase, considering I already had everything else in the box.

Those six mini-expansions were seemingly forever out of my reach.Īnd then Carcassonne Big Box 4 came along later that year and changed all of that. The aftermarket prices on Ebay and the GeekMarket were obscene. Before I knew it, the opportunity was gone. Life circumstances, coupled with the FLGS I frequented closing its doors, conspired to prevent me from acquiring them at the time. Back in 2012, six mini-expansions were released for the game, each containing a single tile for a seventh expansion. My Carcassonne journey has been a pretty good one, but there’s always been one thing I’ve regretted. Heck, I even reviewed My First Carcassonne. I recently had a chance to sit down to play and review Mists Over Carcassonne. I talked about the base game at length with Andrew Holmes, and many of the early expansions were the basis for my earliest reviews posted on Boardgamegeek. If you know me, you know I’m a fan of Carcassonne.

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