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Voting closed: November 21, 2014, 02:03:29 AM
...and since it’s also possible to lay down a challenge against yourself...
Quote from: danisthirty on November 14, 2014, 04:09:33 AM...and since it’s also possible to lay down a challenge against yourself...I did not know this, Dan. Or at least never considered it. Is it true that you can challenge yourself? Is it in the CAR? That would be a fun accomplishment in any case - to recover a trapped meeple
I do use them to challenge Cloisters though...just to experience the spirit of the expansion. Win or lose it creates some tense game play.
I can not be arsed to check the rules right now, but is there not a limit to how many cult places/cloisters that can border eachother? If so, you could use them as fairly powerful blockers.
However, a shrine may not be placed in such a way that it adjoins severalcloisters.261 Similarly, a cloister may not be placed so that it neighbors several shrines.262, 263––––261 In other words, a shrine cannot adjoin more than one cloister, and vice versa.262 Question: Can I place a shrine in such a way that it forces a cloister to neighbor several shrines? What effect does that have? Answer: It leads to enormous problems when multiple cloisters and shrines neighbor each other. [In other words, no, you can’t place a shrine in that way—ed.]263 The rules that restrict the placement of cloisters next to already placed shrines also restrict the placement of abbeys.
I'm also going to say that I disagree with obervet and mjharper's choice to call this expansion element "Shrines and Heretics". I think the intention is very clearly to portray these as heretical, pagan, and/or heathen cult centers. "Places of worship" to be sure, but much more in the vein of a pagan temple than a simple heretical sect. That's what we have the Cathars for, they were a quasi-heretical sect of Christianity. I see no Christian overtones with the Cult. I don't think the tiles need to be called anything but Cults or Cult tiles and the whole argument against that, begun by Rio Grande when they released their own version, is ridiculous. I'm not sure what Z-Man calls it, but I am arguing for simply "Cults". Certainly not "shrines".
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