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(More customer reviews)I've played with all of the various large and small expansions for Carcassonne and The Catapult is far and away my least favorite.
The premise is that a fair has come to the town of Carcassonne and with it some exciting games of skill and chance. The set comes with about a dozen new tiles, four types of catapult tiles and the catapult itself.
The playing rules are fairly straightforward. Whenever a fair piece comes out, it's time to use the catapult to launch one of the four catapult tiles into the board. Each tile has a different effect.
Knock out: Removes from play any playing piece it touches, including those of the firing player.
Seduction: Offers the firing player the opportunity to replace the closest opposing piece with one of their own.
Target: Five points for whoever can get the piece closest to the fair tile that was just placed.
Catch: Various point awards when an opposing player can/cannot catch a piece catapulted in their direction.
The whole thing plays a little gimmicky and really wasn't that much fun. The catapult is too big and will generally only shoot the pieces straight up in the air making any kind targeting effort practically worthless. It seemed to us that the game designers were out of expansion ideas when they came up with this one.
There are a number of very worthwhile expansions to Carcassonne but this is not one of them. If you absolutely must have every expansion, go ahead and pick The Catapult up. Maybe you'll enjoy it. The art on the new tiles is really nice and since we can't return the set we'll probably continue to use them and come up with some expansion rules (sans catapult) on our own.
But generally speaking, I'd suggest you save your money and skip Carcassonne: The Catapult.
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Its fair time in Carcassonne. A traveling salesman arrives and brings his newest invention: a wonderous catapult!His demonstrations amaze the crowds and inspire the creative to find many uses for this new contraption. Of course, not every planned use is well thought out or successful...
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