Carcassonne: Jesse Cox, Nika Harper and Kumail Nanjiani join Wil on TableTop SE2E17

Carcassonne is a small fortified town in France originally settled by the Romans in the year 100 BCE Carcassonne is also a classic european-style board game originally published in the year 2000 seee isn't learning fun along with games like Settlers of Catan and Alhambra it's a modern-day classic and easily traversed gateway into the world of tabletop gaming today on tabletop Jesse Cox Kumail Nanjiani Nika Harper and I will assume roles of the original builders in southern France constructing cities and cloisters roads and farms as we create our own tabletop version of Carcassonne Carcassonne is the classic tile laying area control game designed by klaus and yurgin verde along with Catan Ticket to Ride and Alhambra Carcassonne completes the four pillars of classic European style board games it when the coveted spiel des Yara's in 2001 and introduced the world to this beloved icon the meeple i love you' meeple oh stop it people you're embarrassing me o people I'm gonna take you out for drinks later okay thanks we're all going to build the board with tiles together but compete for points separately the tiles have certain features on them like city walls monasteries roads and the surrounding farm lands we are playing with the popular river expansion see we'll see rivers as well you're welcome Carcassonne is one of the rare multiplayer games that is also excellent for two players right out of the box on your turn you will draw a tile and add it to the board following a couple of rules like roads must connect to roads and cities must connect to other cities then you may place one of your meatballs on the board to score points and a special roll Knights defend the cities until the walls are up farmers will earn lots of points in the fields and monks live in monasteries while the thieves live on the roads Knights monks and thieves are finished with their jobs when their area is complete and the player will get their meeple back to place out on a subsequent turn each score different number of points and offer lots of strategy options but when the last tile is drawn from the stack the game ends we'll go on to the final scoring where farmers are key and then we will see who has the most points so Teaneck long y'all it's Carcassonne hi I am Nika Harper I host a riding vlog on a geek and sundry vlog network hi my name is Camille and Jionni I am a comedian and actor hi my name is Jesse Cox and I do gaming videos on the internet I play games I review games i fun with games it's time to play Carcassonne we have done a randomizing first player ritual and i won so it's it's about time that I actually won a thing on my own show so here we go I play with the river expansion and what we're gonna do is go through this pile of tiles to build along the river and then we'll get into the rest of the city of Carcassonne so my first tile is this guy here and it's a city and I'm gonna go ahead and put a knight in that city and Nika would you like there you go all right oh that's the least interesting thing um I suppose I will just build out that direction yeah sure there's nothing else you can do really at the beginning I'm going to I'm going to immediately farm I think my strategy for Carcassonne is actually going to be kind of long-term investments which is why I started off with the farmer right off the bat I think that the board is actually going to supplement me and get me a lot of points so long as we stay in that area there's really only one place I can go so yeah okay you for reading my mind I like the river expansion because it sets a prescribed beginning for the game and it lets players who aren't especially familiar with it settle in and get used to the experience of laying tiles and putting out meeples I'm good at this game that I've never played before here we go oh you got a coaster this is all I can do yeah it has a monastery monastery with a road I'll put a nipple on it okay you're gonna monk you're a monastery are you gonna Robert okay good I would say the strategy I'm going for with the monk is sort of a going with God kind of thing I figured if I go with the religious guy and if there is a God then he's gonna give me the tiles or she the towels I need to get the points there and my team name is ice cream sandwich okay cuz no one's against those right sure you're calling them ice cream sandwiches come on ice no so much ice cream sandwich as a team together people a different flavor yeah that one's that one's that one's a strawberry chocolate which is okay not a very common flavor but I like it I should say my guys are in a suicide pact in case they lose so Wow so they just want to win real bad wait a minute is in a suicide pact that means that it just wants someone to eat it I want to you ice cream sandwich to win because I don't like it when people die but if they die does that mean we get to eat them the name the name of my team is awesome robot okay yeah well team awesome robot is awesome because well one they're robots and two it's right in their name awesome robots heavens I've already got a name well you can't go till you have a team they're already in a pyramid so I was thinking the black cheerleaders except I just wasn't a fan I'm black like my soul team team goth people it will change intermittently are you going to play a meatball ah I would actually like to try the road all right I'm gonna there you go man I'm just delicious team team yoloswag money millionaire yeah gazillionaire I'm so hip to the kids that team yolo swagg money is natural that I just it I mean you see that right here Yolo you uh so you want to come no no no you gotta be you gotta build on the river if so yeah so do you want to build yeah so you actually have to go that's it the only way you can do is build that what I will take over a town okay my god that's a good move very excited look at that there's more more rivers happening alright and that's it that's right it is my turn it's a little early to place a farmer but I think I might want to put a farmer down now think that's good let's go there so I don't know if I wanna make this guy a farmer we like background singers for this putting out a farmer early is a super high variance strategy it's going to either be 12 or 15 points at the end of the game or it's gonna be nothing I have a bridge congratulations yeah I feel really good about that I think I have I bet that this is the digital get to you is that what happened to her if I caught you I'm pretty sure this is gonna be a leg ready I'm gonna call it an BAM I'm just gonna help you out by placing it there for you okay you can you know you can farmer if you like or no all right canal go ahead and draw from any of these stacks I just separated these into equal stacks so that we could just draw from them did you put the ones on our side I put the winning ones on my side wow we're too boring I'm gonna sort of yeah the call that that hope that that F's me in the B and it is good for your monastery to put a guide there and I can't you can if you want to because I'm very likely going to have to end that road so that I can close up this city so that'll be good but yeah so you can't do that let's see yeah I think that this guy is gonna go here like that and this guy's gonna go here and I'm going to score him right away because that's a closed Road so come two points for team awesome robot there's always a risk in Carcassonne that you're gonna get a meeple on the board and never get it back and as you reach the end game you could end up with a golden scoring opportunity and no meeples so playing a quick to point robber three point robbers six point robber lets you always have a meatball in your pool ready to go for later in the game they're not happy about the suicide turn these back up because they can't be on their side unless they're farmers and farmers farmers are lazy farmers have to lay down people say that I think that what it means is that the farmers are very busy putting their faces down in no ground yeah so because they're working very hard and they might be truffle farmers that's all we have listen come on this is not any bin to Carcassonne I haven't please don't get angry I don't I don't know there yep right on it are you pulling them off and you get two points for you there congratulations nope oh no it is for ya my bad mistake each square is worth two points thank you I'm glad you caught that so this I can't really play anywhere except here yep you can play it and play it there you can play it there or if you would rather not extend a road you can connect the farm side of that tile to any other farm tile so like you're trying to get this going you can right yeah you can do that that's good nuts and that's good for you yeah and now I'm gonna draw this and I'm gonna play it here and I'm gonna put a robber on this road and that's 123 four points for that guy there which takes him up to six guys is very early in the game you've been playing this for thousands of years it's for its it is true that I actually went back in time and actually invented farming one day this game would exist I have played hundreds of hours of Carcassonne I had it right after it came out and then the instant it was available for iOS I got it I think will has a better chance than most of us to actually win this game because I think he's much more familiar with it however I think that if I have my way then I'll be doing pretty good this one is kind of a tricky one because all its gonna do is just make everything larger why are you why are you unhappy about that you just gave yourself another so I'm never gonna finish it here we go can we do like that you're going south from that little crossing this guy here yes you got it alright good so just this is this good for me to do myself well it's good for you because it extends your Road it's also good for me because it's putting more points into my city so on balance that move is better for me but I still encourage you to do it cuz it's better for you right I had a good idea I could do this uh-huh and then put a guy there maybe have get in on his city yeah okay that also works you want in on team yolo swagg money 4:20 okay look by the way 420 was an inside job go ahead and play that there as a moment of teaching for the audience at home I just played this guy down here but I can't do anything I can't play a farmer because nica's got a farmer here in this farm I can't play a knight because there's already a knight in this connected city and I can't play a robber because there's already a robber on this road so all that I'm doing is helping myself with my city and my turn is done okay I've got some things here I don't so excited just expanding your mall back to black cheerleaders already yeah cheerleaders so I just took the lead and I I mean just might be the best feeling in the world Wow two four six points for me we'll just to bleed this might be the worst feeling I've ever had hey guess what well I like to three road points for you Nika you go cheer cheer my way there yeah points that's all I got I will put it is that the move I don't know people when they come into this game they have strategies my strategy is not to have a strategy it throws people off they don't know what's happening we're judging you no matter what this is on the internet I'm already judged what a lame okay let's do you put it right over there by the river oh I can't believe you put it there we're winning my god you know what Yolo I hate your everything but I'm right behind you robot catching up to Hellmuth the kids Yolo want to make very something very clear there's a rivalry between team yoloswag and everyone can I go with do anything with all you can add to hers over there yeah that that that that's actually helpful for her or if you play here like this oh that's evil put your guy there and now you're in on the whole yeah yeah I wanted to join her mall because it was getting pretty big and I heard a lot of buzz about it in the newspapers LA Weekly did a piece on it so I was like oh I'll just and then I opened a Panda Express there because I feel like every mall could use a Panda Express all right I'm up oh look at that I think that this guy is gonna come down and he's gonna go right yeah and I think that this nights gonna go here because you know why your mall needs some things in it no the mall doesn't need things in it you guys are just capitalizing off my space I'm a little older than Nika and while I love her Gotham all the sort of foundation of goth is just not represented there at all so I am opening up a store that sells nothing but the Cure Bauhaus Siouxsie and the Banshees Joy Division and Peter Murphy's side-project Dolly's car oh now you want a piece now you want a piece as soon as I've established myself thank you does that give you any what kind of mall are you if you don't have a Panda Express not a mall not a mall doors I really hope she can finish up that mall and then I just sort of leach off of all of her work with my tiny Panda Express listen when you're the first to get to any kind of enterprise or the first to have a great idea you're gonna get some hate for it can I get a different one nope you gotta you gotta know you can't you got to play it you can put it there you can put it there yeah that would help you you would put it there yeah I don't want to help anybody with this that kind of healthy yep Yeah right there it's all your points and I just did nothing perfectly all right oh do you have a dude you can bet it'd be okay you can night why do I want to I only have two dudes left alright you are wasting dudes no he's playing long-term I see it I see it he shot there's nothing happening I have zero point they say it's not a bad thing but I can't see how having zero points is not a bad thing so by the kimono points has a lot of no points he says so few points he has a lot of no points I've never played Carcassonne I know I'd need points come on you have so many points on the board you're so ready to just like kick ass with the entirety of the game but instead you're just whining and talking about suicide pacts dude dude put it together you didn't believe hard enough I did it actually wasn't the fugitoid's what changed I'll get some points for the first server will I light up yeah there you go yep you're doing yeah that's right this one of this one oh this no if you put it well if you put it there you get a meatball back yeah you get a gun remember how stressed you worried about not having meeples it's a real thing okay so it's the Kamel finally scored that's expected I totally get points it's this game goes on too long for you to stay at zero I'm just here to support everybody oh you're that I'm here for you now all right Jesse cheerleaders you have to cheer team Yolo swag why did you draw that tile oh my god come on you're gonna I could have put it right there right but I'm not gonna you're gonna put it in your long in my home anymore start your own Empire over there yes yeah finishing that I'm creating this rival mall because we're gonna be the upscale boutique store and only sell to people with actual money if there was an entire yoloswag mall I I imagine it would be very popular but I don't think anyone I know would go there can I say something well I'm on your side now oh I'm on your team haha so now I'll win if you want swag so I'm gonna say I'm also allied with you because we're all in this mini mall together and we all know swag us to beat all three of you down that's what we do so we're just we just don't we just don't I can I feel like people hate yellow because they don't understand it and Marty McFly yellow is the color of sunshine and flowers and pee actually I don't know where I want to put it I'm very perplexed about this it's actually pretty easy you can go they don't have a few option in there you could go there you can go did you go there you are royally screwing this whole situation but you know that's never gonna finish because you know this can't finish right cuz you moved in no but seriously it really wants Panda Express it's great that guy does he's on there I don't but you can never finish your own monastery now right I'm cool she's so vindictive there's what then the Gothic cheerleader manifesto that if you're not gonna win then spread the hatred everywhere and nobody else can it looks like the super goth mall they all got together the builders and they realized the saddest thing in the world would be to not finish the small you know what weirdly my Panda Express in that abandonment still doing pretty well you know why when I go to a Panda Express I don't look for finished walls I look for orange chicken and other stuff that's bad for me but tastes great all right you got it so in building this city and at this point there is only one tile in the entire stack that can complete that city I really need this tile oh I could that's yeah that's thing you can do okay you know we're gonna so what we're gonna do now is just like in poker we're gonna break tables and we're gonna just combine everything here go for it okay it does not mean okay and I get four points we'll just got the tile of course he did so on the one hand I feel really bad for Camille that I just drew his tile but on the other hand I'm usually the guy who wants that tile and watches someone else draw it so right now I'm I'm having a Kumail tear cocktail and it tastes pretty good how could how could you I don't deserve the only one I really could build out I think great maybe that wasn't the best place to play that I mean then maybe that would have been more points if I'd been yep I made a mistake I should have put it here because that's nine points and I went here and it's only four points and that is a huge huge huge huge mistake apparently he misused the only thing I needed thanks one of those like I lost focus for that long it's that and that may because you guys may pass me in farms for and that maybe if I lose this game by five points I'm going to rage quit tabletop I don't mean the table I mean tabletop I'm gonna turn this entire building upside down I will turn the internet upside down I'm gonna set YouTube on fire almost over you guys I would love to do that complete that get that back yay and pretend that there's a meatball there I'm a people thank you it's that I get anything for me no it makes your dude go longer did it finish anything for me oh did my dude go long yes yes you're at yours this guy's done yeah okay you get one two three four five six seven eight nine points plus you get a people off the board and I get ya porch great porch great yay point secret they've been hanging out that robot too much I actually really like robot isn't it his turn what no you just went oh she's use that's yours sorry well wants to win so badly I don't I don't think you even know watching at home how badly he wants to win it's crazy he's really upset play it there no yeah please you know what this is fate this is the power of a butterfly ten points this is the one time reverse like eight points so nine plus eight is seventeen so that takes down over 230 so you guys I can't go anymore I'm done that was my last my final move is create a butterfly I've never been so happy well I want you to win how can I help you with this can't do you have a people yeah okay so put it you want to put it like yeah you put it there and then put a meepo on it and you're gonna get a point for it when we do because there's a banner on it no you don't oh yeah right right it's a road that's not bad it could have been the other thing is that I'm actually you guys I'm like what is under that smile okay all right great what is it okay it didn't make a difference didn't matter alright so that's okay I feel like Rudy right now okay okay all right now let's see what happening so apparently now it's time to count the points I'm still in last place but no I'm starting to feel kind of good I see a lot of my meatballs are out there by the way this is the only game I've ever played where you don't know who's won until like ten minutes after the game is done like all right the game's over get out your calculator this is the first thing that we score at the end of the game are the roads every night on a road that is not completed we'll get one point for each tile that has not been completed okay so one two three points for this guy there four five six seven eight so that goes from 28 to 36 okay now is anybody else's on roads okay you're on roads you're gonna get one two three okay and four right there okay so let's move you for from 24 to 28 there are no more roads oh no I'm sorry I'm sorry you're on a road here for three one two three so let's do you one two three oh my god okay now let's total up cities okay you get one point for every tile in an uncompleted City plus one point for every shield or banner that is in that sorry cameo let's start with you that's two this is two points this is one two three four five six points okay this is one two three four five points okay and this is one more so that means you now let's now let's score my cities know is made one two three four five and that's the only nights that I have here let's do doors now one two three four five okay six seven eight nine ten eleven right so let's move you from twenty eight to thirty nine now we do the up sorry there you should here choose one two three four five I'm unconsciously forgetting about you because I really don't want to lose through to you by like a point so that's that's all the cities now we score monasteries or cloisters depending on you know who says it and you get one point for the square and one point for each square around it so from a oh you're gonna get eight right here for this guy and you have your if you have another one here you get another eight from there now you have one two three four five six six sorry so that's six so this moves you from 39 to 44 nobody would watch basketball if it was hockey okay so now before we total up farms I want to I want to showcase something that is amazing that is why european-style board games are the best games in the world you thought you were completely out of this game we got to the last phase of the game can I say I was sure right let's complete now here we are we are nearly at the end of the game we're gonna do the very last round of scoring first place and last place are separated by four points now this is the most intense part of Carcassonne for me we are all bunched up usually happens and now we're gonna see whose long-term strategy paid off it's time to count farms I'm in last place so we're gonna do my farms first okay so my farms here so I've got three six nine in this field okay so that takes me from 41 to 50 okay this field is you're gonna weigh with six nine twelve back around 1550 okay remember that people that I was so worried about it ended up getting me fifteen points the long-term strategy really paid off so that takes me to 65 which i think is the max points that I have okay so now let's do you don't have any farms let's let's hope now that I've lost this is the end of Yolo cuz I never want to say that word again you have farms you've got three here for this guy and then this guy doesn't score well farming was an essential part of my strategy here I'm going long-term and instead I'm just doing nothing and then Kumail this is a great feel for you you get three six nine points which takes you up to 52 and hold by one this is a good story this is not about you this is a game I came in second and I didn't know what I was doing no I told you the entire time that you played and I was like I'm super afraid of him I think he's gonna win it and it turns out that the box was filled with bees hello and welcome to on the losers couch I'm your host will wheaton temporarily i would like to welcome today's guest please Nika come on in and have a seat here on the losers couch Nika I understand that you recently cured polio that's how I do amazing good work Kumail Nanjiani please come in hello it's so nice to see you how are you now it's my understanding that you recently built an entire skyscraper out of butter yep it was a lot of cocaine that's okay um interesting choice yes right okay and Jesse hello how are you I understand that you recently ate an entire skyscraper made out of butter for your program oh there's a lot of cocaine I would like to congratulate you on your achievements off the show and I will now go downstairs congratulate me on my achievements on the show I have to say I don't feel like a loser you know who should feel like a loser through me I would think so Jesse he's in last place it's it's kind of one of his default feelings Wil Wheaton first of all I have to say it is incredibly exciting for me to have you on my show I'm a huge fan of your podcast radio free burrito at radio free burrito dot-com I do have to say I think that you could have been a little bit more gracious in victory you're kind of a dick on the losers couch I'm disappointed in you but you get a certificate on tabletop that's the way we do it so I'm going to present you now mr. Wheaton with your own tabletop certificate of Awesome just let me sign this to you like that and now I will give you a seal so that you know that this entire thing is official and I wonder if you'd like to make a speech yes I would like to make a speech and turns out that all those hundreds of hours I played on the toilet I'm very proud of you you know that you sound like a talking meatball I love you too let's go have a dream day okay we'll see you next time on tabletop until next week play board games

Channel: Geek & Sundry

Views: 1,474,023

Keywords: vlogger, nerd, christmas episode, the guild, geek, most recent shelf, OMFGcata, Wil Wheaton, Nikasaur, Carcassonne, board game, table top game, Felicia Day (Video Game Actor), Jesse Cox, Nika Harper, TableTop, The Big Bang Theory (TV Program), Geek & Sundry (Business Operation), Geek & Sundry vlogger, geek and sundry, season 2, Kumail Nanjiani (Film Actor), Jesse Cox on Tabletop, will wheaton

Id: G6VpW4Vljr8

Length: 33min 48sec (2028 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 26 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/evan_ktbd]

I love how excited Kumail was about second place.

[u/rishioapoc]

Nikasaur!

[u/Fizzster]

Wil missed an 8 point monastery for himself I believe.

[u/Radiophage]

Can't wait for this discussion on next week's Co-Optional podcast.

For those keeping track, all three regulars have now been on TableTop, with a combined record of spoiler: Dodger Leigh stomped everyone at Alhambra, John "TotalBiscuit" Bain was unfortunately out-bearded in King of Tokyo, and Jesse spoiler on today's show.

[u/dinosaurpuncher]

This is one of my favorite games. My dad brother and i play it all the time. Its probably my favorite light euro game sine its quick to play and has some great expansions. tweaking the rules to give players a hand also adds more depth to the game and i reccommend that rule tweak for more experienced gamers.

[u/ZombieAIDS]

Carcassonne was my gateway game and still remains my favorite game to this day. It is really easy to pick up and play with new boardgamers, the strategy can be incredibly deep, it's full of risks and rewards, has a fair amount of negotiation, and multiple strategies can pay off. Granted, inns and cathedrals and traders and builders are almost necessary to make the game reach it's fullest potential, but when it reaches that potential, I've never experienced a more gripping and delightful board game experience.

Carcassonne big box (with inns and cathedrals, traders as builders, abbey and mayor, dragon and princess, and bridges castles and bazaars) is a worthy investment. You'll love it, I guarantee it.

[u/lonewombat]

I'm confused when they say the river is an expansion. I just got this game for xmas and it comes with the river in it.

[u/Shrody]

There was so much fluff in this episode. It wasn't very good imo. The game itself is great, but it made for a mostly boring episode.

[u/Siggy778]

I don't know why but I just cannot stand Carcassonne. Granted, I have not played with the expansions which I hear help a lot, but it's just so random and boring.