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Before starting this page on our C2 Center Scoreboards, we have to give
credit to drewdane for his thread on Board Game Geeks on
May 21, 2012 where the C1 versions of the
scoring track start tile was introduced.
Scoreboard Center Start Tiles
Based on a recent survey, 60% of all Carcassonne games are played with
just 2 players. When the scoreboard is on one side of the table, both
players can easily see and have access to it. Our personal Carcassonne
games are all played with four or more players. Having the scoreboard in
the center of the table where all of the players can see it and move
their own scoring meeple just seems far more logical, so we did our
research and developed multiple C2 versions of our personal "scoring
track start tiles".
Left Clicking on each of the following images will open the
PDF file that should print on landscape letter sized paper 6
tiles wide and 4 tiles deep.
Warning! Do not try to print one of the
scoreboard images as your first click, or you could waste a lot of ink!
Print the "Test page
for printer margins" PDF first, then use your tiles to verify that the
printed page is the proper width for 6 tiles and the proper height for
4 tiles. The actual width should be 3/40 of an inch wider than 6 tiles
when you include the outer edge black tile lines. The PDFs are designed
that way to allow the tiles to have tiny hairline spaces between the
tiles. Feel free to trim off the outer edge black lines if you want
your scoreboard to be exactly 6 tiles by 4 tiles.
If the Test Page PDF prints properly, feel free to print and use any
or all of the actual scoreboard images.
Test page for printer margins
Basic Game Scoreboard
2 Rivers Scoreboard
3 Rivers Scoreboard
4 Rivers Scoreboard
Inns and Cathedrals Scoreboard
Inns and Cathedrals with 2 Rivers
Inns and Cathedrals with 3 Rivers
Saint Nicholas with 2 Rivers
Saint Nicholas with 4 Rivers
The easiest thing you can do is to try to print the PDF files on a
different computer/printer combination.
If all else fails, Right Click on the Scoreboard image that you
want to print and copy the full 1242 by 828 pixel image to your disk,
then follow the word processing / printer setup instructions in the
How To BYO Page. Again, do this with the test page first so you
don't waste a lot of ink!
Nov 28, 2022 Special Note: I just installed a Microsoft Office
update. When I tried to set the Custom Word Margins to 0.7 and 0.15,
the 1282 by 828 image only filled about half of the page. I used my
image processing software to increase the size by 200%, 2484 by 1656
pixels and then Word did properly shrink the Scoreboard image to
exactly 10.7 inches wide!
Special Rules
There are no special rules when playing with the Center Scoreboard
Tiles, just common sense!
The Flying Machines can fly along the tiles on the outer edges of the
Scoreboard or diagonally across the corner tiles that are under the
scoreboard, but they can't land on the actual scoreboard.
The Dragon can move along the outer edges of the Scoreboard Tiles, but it
can't move onto the actual scoreboard to capture a scoring meeple.
How you play your River tiles is totally up to your own house rules, just
make sure that all of the scoreboard rivers will be terminated with either
a source or lake tile.
Building Your Own Personal Scoreboard
These are the steps that you have to follow if you want to create your
own personal Center Scoreboard Start Tile:
- The first thing that you have to do is create an empty Tile1
directory on your personal computer.
- Then follow the steps in the
BYOfiles.htm web page
to copy all of the necessary files to that directory.
- And then you can open the
HowToBYO Page to learn how
to modify the files in your Tile1 directory to create your own
personal Center Scoreboard Start Tile.
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