1. ... Yellow player takes a tile, extends his city (with this receiving a right to take one more tile), and as his "move the wood" action he capture his own follower from this city, which automatically pull out his builder from the city. As he owned the right for a second tile before, he takes another tile, places it to the city in question and claims it again (but now in much safer place)! Logical question: does yellow allowed to do such combination? Formally rules for builder say: "Whenever the player places a tile that extends the road or city which includes their builder, they may take a double turn" (emphasis - mine). But at the end of the first part of the move there are no builder in play.
2. Imagine that you have placed a shepherd and started to extend your field, move by move. But suddenly someone (not you) has completely closed the area, where your shepherd is! (see picture 2, black has placed a tile with a road and a flier symbol, completing the road and shutting down the shepherd area). According to the rules for the shepherd, he can "herd the flock into the stable" by extending a field containing his shepherd by placement of a new tile. Since it is now impossible, does that mean that yellow shepherd is stuck on that field till the end of the game?
The rules are very clear: Your shepherd only can score if you yourself extend the field he is on...
Quote from: MrNumbers on May 26, 2014, 01:54:58 PM1. ... Yellow player takes a tile, extends his city (with this receiving a right to take one more tile), and as his "move the wood" action he capture his own follower from this city, which automatically pull out his builder from the city. As he owned the right for a second tile before, he takes another tile, places it to the city in question and claims it again (but now in much safer place)! Logical question: does yellow allowed to do such combination? Formally rules for builder say: "Whenever the player places a tile that extends the road or city which includes their builder, they may take a double turn" (emphasis - mine). But at the end of the first part of the move there are no builder in play.This play appears to be perfectly legal to me. It's a gamble, but within the rules. It would be very similar to extending a feature containing your builder and completing it with the same tile. You still get your extended builder play even though you now don't have a builder on the board.
2. If strictly follow the rules, Fritz_Spinne is right: the shepherd is trapped, and exactly that way we played our 4-player game. I am not a "house-rule-guy", I prefer to stick to the official rules, so until further official clarification this will stay as it is. It will be additional thing to watch for: not only ordinary follower can be trapped
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