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Placing a knight in a city containing a mayor
« on: December 30, 2019, 11:54:23 AM »
The general rules for placing meeples, including knights, is that you may not place one in a feature where there is already at least one other meeple.

However if we consider a mayor that is occupying a city with no shields/pennants/coat of arms, the mayor has 0 strength and therefore has no claim to the city.

I propose therefore that a knight may be placed in a city that is already occupied by a mayor (belonging to either you or an opponent), provided it has 0 strength.

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Re: Placing a knight in a city containing a mayor
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2019, 12:52:34 PM »
The general rules for placing meeples, including knights, is that you may not place one in a feature where there is already at least one other meeple.

However if we consider a mayor that is occupying a city with no shields/pennants/coat of arms, the mayor has 0 strength and therefore has no claim to the city.

I propose therefore that a knight may be placed in a city that is already occupied by a mayor (belonging to either you or an opponent), provided it has 0 strength.

See the rules on wikicarpedia you will see that you can’t do that.


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Re: Placing a knight in a city containing a mayor
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2019, 01:07:42 PM »
Hi burtonlazars!

Congratulations for your first post.

Permiting the addition of mayors to ocuppied cities with no pennants could be a house rule.

Have you tried it yourself? It could become a cutthroat mechanic to take over cities by starting slow.  >:D

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Re: Placing a knight in a city containing a mayor
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2019, 01:14:45 PM »
Hi burtonlazars!

Congratulations for your first post.

Permiting the addition of mayors to ocuppied cities with no pennants could be a house rule.

Have you tried it yourself? It could become a cutthroat mechanic to take over cities by starting slow.  >:D

Cheers!
Using a Mayor in a city without pennants makes no sense... emoji code12]

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Re: Placing a knight in a city containing a mayor
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2019, 01:22:36 PM »
As a final stage, it doesn't. But what if you send the mayor in a diplomatic mission to take over the city?  >:D

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Re: Placing a knight in a city containing a mayor
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2019, 02:46:18 AM »
As a final stage, it doesn't. But what if you send the mayor in a diplomatic mission to take over the city?  >:D
Take over a city with a lot of pennants you mean. emoji code12]

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Re: Placing a knight in a city containing a mayor
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2019, 03:38:12 AM »
You inflitrate your Mayor in a promissing city with no pennants and then you start to add tiles with pennants to avoid other players to take over while your Mayor grows in strength. Totally evil!  >:D

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Re: Placing a knight in a city containing a mayor
« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2019, 03:42:40 AM »
You inflitrate your Mayor in a promissing city with no pennants and then you start to add tiles with pennants to avoid other players to take over while your Mayor grows in strength. Totally evil!  >:D

You could do this but for me it’s too much risking... Maybe you can’t do that if someone takes the tiles that you are waiting for... Or if someone put a CCFF or CCRR without pennant and connect the castle and takes all the points for him...


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Re: Placing a knight in a city containing a mayor
« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2020, 01:22:16 AM »
Welcome to the forum Burtonlazars,

An interesting suggestion, however, the 'official' rules are clear on this matter:
http://wikicarpedia.com/index.php/Abbey_and_the_Mayor_(1st_edition)#Deploy_a_follower_2

I've moved this thread to the unofficial rules forum, for the discussion to continue.


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