Yesterday, we trotted out of our favourite board games, "Carcassone". Pictured is our artistically-rendered catapult, one of many add-ons for the game.
Carcassone is a tile-laying game that resembles a jigsaw puzzle. Players build a map of the Carcassone region, which in reality is a large fortified city in southern France. Although many gamers don't at all like the catapult, we think it adds some interesting spin to the game. At least, we had fun decorating the unpainted wooden contraption with colourful paint.
Legend has it that the citizens of Carcassone were surrounded by the forces of King Pippin. Starving, they decided to feed the last of their grain into the last of their pigs and shoot the beast over the walls using a catapult. Pippin's forces decided that if the besieged people could afford to feed their animals so well, they couldn't be starving, and that the siege was a dud. Discouraged, Pippin retreated his forces and Carcassone won. At least that's the story, and the game has pigs, grain, walls, and of course, catapults.
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