Question #21: Red places this German castle tile and has the following questions:
1) Can the player place the pig in this field?
2) What expansions allowed Blue and Yellow to place more than one meeple on the same city tile?
3) How many points does each player score in this scenario?
Answer #21: Red completes a road, a city and a monastery with this tile placement. The completion of the city will also trigger the completion of the castle occupied by
Red.
Note that the monastery is complete even if there is a triangular gap around the monastery. The square is considered occupied even with only one triangular tile. Moreover, there are two double-sized tiles that occupy two adjacent squares to the monastery each. The monastery itself is a triangular tile sharing a space with another triangular tile. This monastery is then completed as it occupies a space surrounded by 8 occupied spaces. All these spaces count as regular tiles when scoring the monastery.
The field where the player wants to place the pig is also the field with the
Red Phantom (the field goes between the city and the German castle at the bottom).
As seen in the picture,
Blue used the "Add Meeple" action of the 20th Anniversary Expansion and
Yellow used a flying machine from Mini #1 - Flying Machines to add a second meeple to the city.
We will see two different answers depending on the scoring rules applied.
Scoring with C2/C3 rulesIf we apply the C2/C3 rules for Halflings and double-sized tiles, each square occupied by one or two Halflings, or half a double-sized tile is counted as 1 square tile.
Let's score each completed feature:
A) The road occupied by
Yellow has 3 tiles and a German castle. The player will score 6 points (3 points for the road + 3 points for the German castle):
* 3 points for the road (3 tile x 1 point per tile)
* 3 bonus points for the German castle at one end of the road (1 German castle x 3 points per castle)
B) The city occupied by
Blue and
Yellow is worth 16 points (10 points for the city + 6 points for the German castles):
* 10 points for the city ( (4 tiles + 1 coat of arms) x 2 points = 5 x 2 points )
* 6 points for the 2 German castles contributing to the city (2 German castles x 3 points per castle)
Blue has a normal meeple and mayor with strength 1 due to the coat of arms, that is 2 majority votes.
Yellow has one normal wagon and a normal meeple, that is 2 majority votes too. However, the tie is broken in
Blue's favor since their meeples are on a hill and
Yellow has none. Therefore, only
Blue receives points for this city.
C) The monastery occupied by
Red is worth 15 points (9 points for the monastery + 6 points for the neighboring vineyards)
* 9 points for the monastery (9 tiles x 1 point each)
* 6 points for the vineyards (2 vineyards x 3 points)
Note that one vineyard shares the same space as the monastery and the other one is on the tile bottom left.
D)
Red will score 16 points for the castle, that is the same number of points the city is worth.
Bottomline:
The answer is as follows:
1) Yes, the pig can be placed in the field chosen by
Red.
2)
Blue used the "Add Meeple" action of the 20th Anniversary Expansion and
Yellow used a flying machine from Mini #1 - Flying Machines to add a second meeple to the city.
3) The scoring is as follows:
*
Blue will score 16 poins for the city
*
Red will score 31 points (15 points for the monastery + 16 points for the castle)
*
Yellow will score 6 points for the road
Scoring with C1 rulesIf we apply the C1 rules for Halflings and double-sized tiles, each tile is considered individually when scoring features. In our case, this will affect the scoring of the monastery.
A)
Yellow will still score 6 points for the road.
B)
Blue will still score 16 points for the city.
C) The monastery occupied by
Red is worth 14 points (8 points for the monastery + 6 points for the neighboring vineyards)
* 8 points for the monastery ( ( 2 triangular tiles in the space occupied by the monastery + 1 adjacent triangular tile + 2 adjacent doble-sized tiles + 3 adjacent square tiles ) x 1 point per tile = 8 tiles x 1 point)
* 6 points for the vineyards (2 vineyards x 3 points)
D)
Red will still score 16 points for the castle.
Bottomline:
The answer is as follows:
1) Yes, the pig can be placed in the field chosen by
Red.
2)
Blue used the "Add Meeple" action of the 20th Anniversary Expansion and
Yellow used a flying machine from Mini #1 - Flying Machines to add a second meeple to the city.
3) The scoring is as follows:
*
Blue will score 16 poins for the city
*
Red will score 30 points (14 points for the monastery + 16 points for the castle)
*
Yellow will score 6 points for the road