The River


Released in 2001.
  • U-turns
  • With the U-turn rule when building rivers, does that mean no U-turn ever, or just no immediate U-turns, because it will complicate the placement of subsequent river tiles?
    Only immediate U-turns are explicitly forbidden. (Naturally there can also be problems if a straight is in between.)
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  • U-turns again
    This post relates to a discussion that took place concerning the original question about U-turns, and you should probably read that first. The passage here is taken from correspondence with Georg Wild of HiG; I mentioned what Pavils Jurjans had said - that he had received a different answer from HiG to the one I received - and asked for a clarification. This is the answer:

    …my colleague asked me what he should write. In principle he wrote the same, with the qualification that if you want to proceed in absoooolute safety then you have to forbid all U-turns. In other words, what I, with possible difficulty, sought to express. It is really only immediate U-turns are completely forbidden.


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  • The Spring
  • Does the spring tile end a farm? Or does the farm go right around the spring?
    Officially, the farm goes around the spring. So it is a connected farm. I personally prefer to use it as a division, since otherwise, despite the river, there is still only one large farm.
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  • River & fairies
  • Since a player is allowed to deploy a follower when placing the river tiles, can the fairy be moved when they do not deploy a follower at this stage?
    Yes.
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  • The River & The River II
  • When the two River sets are combined, should we make two rivers (using the two springs) or discard one spring and one lake and make just one river?
    One spring and one lake are discarded.
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