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Carc - Bridges, Castles & Bizzares - Castle Question
« on: February 06, 2017, 12:49:32 PM »
Hi friends,

My wife and I were playing last night and this scenario came up:

My wife was building a PRETTY big city -- and I was trying very hard to get my meeples on it. However, I realized I had a castle token that I could put in the vicinity and should she complete it before anything else (or I complete it), I would also get all those points (GREEDY GREEDY!).

However, you usually need two of these city tiles with the 'half circle' end pieces in order to create a castle (see image below).

However, I had one of those 'half circle' end pieces and then one of the 'newer' city end pieces (from the abbey and mayor set) that doesn't quite look like a half circle (see second picture below). I tried to create a castle out of this and my wife said 'no you can't' because it wasn't two round end pieces making a four point city.

Does it matter what two end city pieces it is -- just as long as you're only making a two tile city?

Thanks



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Re: Carc - Bridges, Castles & Bizzares - Castle Question
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2017, 01:04:19 PM »
Whatever you decide to do works.  There are 2 sets of rules that say different things.  House rule it!


"This excludes small cities which do not consist of two semi-circular segments, such as might
be constructed using the cfrf tile with the triangular city segment shown"

"The ZMG rules, however, state that a small city consisting of “two city end segments” would
qualify for castle placement, which would allow use of the triangular (or in your case the tile you pictured) city segment"

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Re: Carc - Bridges, Castles & Bizzares - Castle Question
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2017, 01:18:29 PM »
dirk2112 was here first, I will just confirm, that official rules state that you can't use anything else to create a castle apart from semi-circular segments. So in this case your wife was right.
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Re: Carc - Bridges, Castles & Bizzares - Castle Question
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2017, 01:54:32 PM »
dirk2112 was here first, I will just confirm, that official rules state that you can't use anything else to create a castle apart from semi-circular segments. So in this case your wife was right.

The wife is always right...  :-X


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