Description
Carcassonne — Messenger and Mayor (2025 Redesign) Expansion
Enhance your medieval city-building game with the Messenger and Mayor expansion, adding new ways to influence the towns and territories on the board. Send messengers to sway rival knights, deploy mayors to lead your city, and use scarecrows to divert opponents’ plans. This expansion turns simple city expansion into a lively contest of influence, negotiation, and tactical placement. Perfect for players who enjoy strategic roleplay within their territorial battles. Available from Mind Games — Australia’s oldest and best games store, since 1977.
Highlights
- Adds Town Hall tiles, mayor and messenger meeples, and scarecrows—new pieces to extend influence and control across the map.
- Influence mechanics: Use messengers to sway knights and the mayor to secure control of cities before they are challenged or grown.
- Tactical play: Decide when to send messengers or deploy scarecrows to disrupt opponents’ plans, adding a new layer of bluffing and negotiation.
- Expanded strategy: Influence voting, control of key structures and strategic influence in new and exciting ways.
Contents
- 12 new land tiles featuring town squares, mayor and messenger placements.
- 6 Town Hall tiles for influence contests.
- 6 Mayor meeples, 6 Messenger meeples, and 6 scarecrows for player and opponent use.
Game details
- Players: 2–6
- Playtime: 45+ minutes
- Ages: 7+
- Mechanics: Tile placement, area influence, roleplay, tactical interaction.
- Note: This is an expansion, and the core Carcassonne game is required to play.
Why you’ll want it
- Adds a new influence-and-negotiation layer to your city-building campaigns, encouraging inventive play and social tactics.
- The mayor and messenger components introduce roleplay and strategic timing, making each game session more dynamic.
- Perfect for experienced players and newcomers who want more ways to shape the story of their towns.
Bring a fresh twist to your Carcassonne experience with the Messenger and Mayor expansion — influence towns, challenge rivals, and steer your cities to victory!















