Carcassonne: Builders and Traders is an expansion for the famous and award-winning tile-placement game Carcassonne. This expansion introduces 24 new tiles and cardboard pieces, which represent items such as wine, cloth, and wheat, that players will obtain by placing followers on the tiles with their respective icons.
This is the second expansion, and like all expansions of this game, the different options it presents can be used modularly, employing only those that interest the players.
In addition to the new tiles, Builders and Traders includes cardboard tokens that represent wheat, cloth, and wine, which can be obtained by placing followers on tiles that include these icons and completing cities with those tiles.
At the end of the game, each player earns 10 victory points for each type of item in which they have the majority. Another novelty is the builder meeples, which, if placed in a city or road under construction, allow the player to place an additional tile in that city or road. Lastly, the pigs increase the value of the farms to which they belong to four points per city.
With this second expansion, the game gains great strategic depth. The use of the builder, especially, increases the possibilities of combining plays, and the materials obtained by completing cities greatly increase the interaction between players.
Company
Devir is a Brazilian publishing group founded in 1987 and specialized in entertainment products: fantasy literature, comics, and games of all kinds, including role-playing games, board games, collectible card games, and more. The group has subsidiaries in eight different countries: Brazil, Portugal, Spain, the United States, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina.
Devir holds exclusive translation rights to Portuguese and Spanish for Wizards of the Coast products. The four most representative games in the company's catalog are the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, and the board games Catan and Carcassonne, all of which feature international tournaments.