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Hi! We've just started to play Carcassonne with this expansion and we've a doubt:
Does the big meeple "replace" one of the regular meeples or it's just added to the avaliable meeples of a player, thus allowing to have one more "playing meeple"? 
Thanks!
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I believe it's in addition to.
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Miguel
France
Caen
(from Valencia, Spain)
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It is added, you have one extra meeple and it counts double when determining majorities. Since the expansion adds more tiles, having one more meeple to place is good.
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Tiwaz Tyrsfist
United States
Gladstone
Missouri
Behold in amazement as my wife demonstrates the proper way to clean your cat.
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Yes, as you add expansions, you add many tiles, and the end board gets bigger and bigger. Thus, all the special meeples are "In Addition To" your regular meeples, because you have more area to cover and there will be more unfinished stuff at any given time then there was before.
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Great! We were playing the right way, then.
Thanks all for your answers!
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Chris Starling
Goldsboro
North Carolina
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Since on the subject of big meeples.
Do they count 2x when scoring?
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Pete Hooper
United States
Machesney Park
Illinois
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Tarheel55 wrote: Since on the subject of big meeples.
Do they count 2x when scoring?
I believe that they only count as two when determining who has the most meeples in a scoring situation (such as a city). The player with the most meeples is the one who gets the points.
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Scott Wheelock
Canada
Woodstock
New Brunswick
"Nope... back to a good year like 1626 when a good Manhattan cost a mere 24-bucks."
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Tarheel55 wrote: Since on the subject of big meeples.
Do they count 2x when scoring?
No. (Very common misconception, though.) They count as two followers for the purposes of determining who 'owns' a feature, but have no effect on scoring.
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Chris Starling
Goldsboro
North Carolina
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Thanks for that, but I thought only 1 meeple regardless of size could occupy a city, road, or so forth. But your referring to when a city or road connects to another city or road that already has a follower on it. Whoever has the most gets the road?
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Scott Wheelock
Canada
Woodstock
New Brunswick
"Nope... back to a good year like 1626 when a good Manhattan cost a mere 24-bucks."
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Tarheel55 wrote: Thanks for that, but I thought only 1 meeple regardless of size could occupy a city, road, or so forth. But your referring to when a city or road connects to another city or road that already has a follower on it. Whoever has the most gets the road?
Yup. What you're describing is how Carcassonne can be competitive, and is exactly what the big follower is designed to promote.
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