My statement is: it's always more efficient to just rate your shepherd as soon as possible.įrodoskywalker's answer is correct but not comprehensive. In the clever guy example you secure three points by immediately rating them. It's less likely to get points eaten by the wolf.You have less chance that the shepherd is not going to get rated (when the game is over, the shepherd doesn't give any points any more).The clever guy example reduces the risk significantly: Scoring the sheep (granting 2 points to the player).Scoring the sheep (granting 3 points to the player).Scoring the sheep (granting 5 points to the player).My issue with these rules is why on earth I would even consider to draw a new sheep/wolf-token? It adds risk while giving no benefits. You get your shepherd back, the tokens are removed and you get a point for each sheep. But you are also able to just score your sheep. Same rules apply: displaying sheep good, displaying wolf bad. Every time you add a field card to the field occupied by the shepherd, you are able to draw a sheep token. This is the only process to get the sheep-thingy up and running as far as I understood. if it shows sheep good for you, if it is a wolf everything is 'undone'.

place a card with a field-section on it.As I understood them correctly it goes like this: The day after the game-night I wondered how the rules of the sheep part even make sense. We've a pretty large setup with a lot of expansions. We were playing a game of Carcassone last weekend.

Carcassonne rules hills and sheep pdf