Carcassonne Expansion 8 - Castles and Bridges (2025 Redesign)

Description

Carcassonne — Castles and Bridges (2025 Redesign)

Enhance your medieval city-building adventures with the Castles and Bridges expansion, where clever bridge placements, castle constructions, and farm scoring come together. This set introduces strategic features that reward smart tile placement and influence—allowing knights, farmers, and bridge builders to claim their territory and reap extra points. Perfect for players aged 7+ and groups of 2–6, this expansion adds depth and tactical options to your Carcassonne games.

Features

Includes 16 new land tiles designed with river crossings and castle outlines to expand your landscape and create exciting building opportunities.
Adds 6 barn tiles—score extra points for farms located outside the city walls for ongoing influence and territory control.
Contains 6 castle tiles—build thematic strongholds that grant additional points and strategic positioning.
Includes 12 bridges—place across rivers and roads to connect features, extend routes, and block opponents.

Gameplay & strategy

Use bridges to create longer roads or connect separated city sections, gaining influence and more points.
Build castles to create defensive strongholds that earn points when completed, while influencing nearby areas.
Place barns to support farms that generate points independently of city connections, rewarding players who expand farmers externally.
Clever tile placement combined with influence mechanics lets players shape the landscape and influence the game’s outcome.

Why you’ll love it

Adds new tactical layers to classic tile placement—players must decide when to build bridges, castles or farms for maximum influence.
Promotes out-of-the-box thinking: think beyond cities to connect features and control farms.
Rich artwork and thematic tiles create an immersive medieval world bursting with strategic possibilities.

Compatibility & requirements

This is an expansion; the base Carcassonne game is required to play.
Supports 2–6 players for longer, layered gameplay.

Why you should add it

Perfect for players who enjoy territorial influence, strategic building and expanding beyond the city walls.
Great for experienced players wanting to deepen their tactics, or newcomers eager for a more involved city-building experience.
Ideal for combining with other expansions for a sprawling, medieval landscape filled with castles, rivers and farms.

Bring more complexity and charm to your Carcassonne adventures—build bridges, castles, farms, and outwit your opponents for dominance!