Two castles close to each other: what happens in this case?

[Snearone]

I don't understand. Why don't the two castles overlap? Aren't the tiles marked in yellow shared between the red and blue castles on the right?

The areas do overlap, but in this case the red castle could get points from a blue castle, but not the other way arround.

For blue castle, to get points from that city, and not directly, but throught that red castle it would need to be placed like that:

[Meepledrone]

A castle triggers the scoring of another when the the castle overlaps the other castle fief (one of the 6 spaces in the vicinity of a castle). The overlapping of two castle fiefs is not always reason enough.

Please check this footnote on WICA for a detailed example:

https://wikicarpedia.com/index.php/Bridges,_Castles_and_Bazaars#cite_note-20

[joe_abbot]

Please check this footnote on WICA for a detailed example:
https://wikicarpedia.com/index.php/Bridges,_Castles_and_Bazaars#cite_note-20

"The blue castle overlaps the red castle fief but not vice versa"

I don't understand, how can red not overlap blue if blue overlaps red? Two tiles are always shared, aren't they? I feel like I'm missing something fundamental here.

[Bumsakalaka]

"The blue castle overlaps the red castle fief but not vice versa"

I don't understand, how can red not overlap blue if blue overlaps red? Two tiles are always shared, aren't they? I feel like I'm missing something fundamental here.

No. It's not.
Every Castle has it's own "radius" and there can have areas which are in "vicinity" of both castles, and there are also places which are on control of one castle and not of second one.

As vicinity of Castle is not "square", so areas depends of orientation of castle. And red and blue have different orientations.

Try to look, from point of view of blue which areas he controls. Do you see on those areas red castle?
So if red castle scores, blue will not score in the chain, because it is not in his vicinity.

Issue is, that trigger of scoring is not vicinity of scored feature (in this situation, red castle), but it's in other view.
If in castle vicinity is something scored, it triggers scoring of the castle.
(again, from scoring feature to score of the castle, and not from score a castle to score a feature in vicinity)

[Challa007]

@joe_abbot :forget the word "overlap" because it induces into error.

Look at it this way:
A castle scoring can only be triggered, if there is a feature finished in the 6 tiles zone.

Now look a the blue 6 tile zone. There is no feature there. So the blue castle cannot be triggered...

[corinthiens13]

And the castle itself is considered to be on two tiles only, not on 6.

[Bumsakalaka]

And the castle itself is considered to be on two tiles only, not on 6.

Not really true

The dragon cannot eat the following figures since they are not placed on a particular tile:
* A meeple in a castle (Exp. 8 - Bridges, Castles and Bazaars): meeple placed across the two tiles

So castle is not on tiles, castle is token placed across the two tiles. So none of tiles represent castle as a feature.

[corinthiens13]

Indeed, but for the case discussed above you consider the two tiles on which the castle is laid on. If one of the two tiles is in the other castle's fief, then the castle is in its fief. I was trying to explain with more simplicity 

[Bumsakalaka]

Indeed, but for the case discussed above you consider the two tiles on which the castle is laid on. If one of the two tiles is in the other castle's fief, then the castle is in its fief. I was trying to explain with more simplicity 

I wanted to be "clear"