I had sent a question about the mini expansion "The barber surgeons" to HiG and we got the following clarifications.
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MAROONQ: Can players buy back only one meeple or several meeples during their turn?Here the long version of the question:
Can players buy back only one meeple or several meeples during their turn?
The rules are not entirely clear. In the section 2. Place a meeple, in German, there is the header "buy back meeples from the bathhouse" (=plural) and the whole section always refers to "a" meeple which is written more as a generic "a". Nowhere it is specified that it is exactly one meeple.
That is why we always assumed that you could buy back several meeples at once. However, I have now met people who question this.
A case where this becomes important:
1) place a tile
It is my turn. The tile completes a city (where I want to place one of my meeples) and two roads (where there is 1 meeple each from another player).
2) place a meeple
All bathhouses are full. I buy back 2 of my meeples that are in bathhouses and place one of them in the city.
3) Score features
I have triggered several scorings and can therefore decide the scoring order. I decide that the roads are scored first and so the meeples of my two opponents must go to the two bathhouses I have just vacated. I then score the city and can take the meeple into my supply.
This means that buying back 2 meeples is a strategic move to send my opponents' meeples "onto the waiting bench".
A: Buying back meeples is independent of the actual placing of a meeple. As you have always done, this is not limited.C: So basically, what they say is: the action "Buy back a meeple" and the action "place a meeple" are independent. Therefore, the fact that you can only place one meeple during your turn does not mean that you can only buy back one meeple during your turn - since there is no connection between the two actions. The action "Buy back a meeple" is not limited, so you can buy back as many meeples as you want during your turn.Thanks
@Bumsakalaka for constructing the example for this question
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