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View ArticleThread: The Castles of Burgundy:: Rules:: bonus tiles
by Mir4ge The first player that manages to cover all spaces of one colour takes the corresponding large bonus tile. What if i'm the first and the second player with buildings or ships that manage to do...
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by djdano How can you be second when you're first?
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by jaysachsMir4ge wrote:The first player that manages to cover all spaces of one colour takes the corresponding large bonus tile. What if i'm the first and the second player with buildings or ships...
View ArticleReply: The Castles of Burgundy:: Rules:: Re: bonus tiles
by DoomTurtle You only get a bonus tile for covering everything in a color, not just a connected section. So to get the brown bonus tile, you must cover every brown location on your board. If there are...
View ArticleReply: The Castles of Burgundy:: Rules:: Re: bonus tiles
by dlhammond It's cover ALL. Covering all in a section gives bonus points (based on turn number) but not the tile.
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by joefunk I'm not sure if I understand your question completely. You can only get one bonus tile of each color.If you're the first player to fill up your building spaces, you get the large bonus tile...
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by Mir4ge Thanks for your quick replay I surely did misunderstood the rules. I thought that the rules stated that you get a bonus tile while finishing first a region. That makes much more sense now....
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by shadowjump Great question. I have been playing it wrong also.
View ArticleReply: The Castles of Burgundy:: Rules:: Re: bonus tiles
by IanthePez Wow, I've been playing this wrong as well...glad this came up!
View ArticleReply: The Castles of Burgundy:: Variants:: Re: small variant when rolling...
by LudoH For sure, having double is generally an issue at this game, and for this, the variant looks great to me (at least to give it a try).I am not sure yet whether you should pay a worker for this;...
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by JeffyJeffLudoH wrote:it prevents you from being stuck with many doublesanyone is is being "stuck" with doubles in this game is playing it wrong!
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by Holmes108JeffyJeff wrote:LudoH wrote:it prevents you from being stuck with many doublesanyone is is being "stuck" with doubles in this game is playing it wrong!That's what I've been thinking....
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by LudoHHolmes108 wrote:JeffyJeff wrote:LudoH wrote:it prevents you from being stuck with many doublesanyone is is being "stuck" with doubles in this game is playing it wrong!That's what I've been...
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by chris1nd The problem is not that players get stuck when they roll doubles.The problem is that rolling too many doubles results in inefficient use of actions. One has to take and use more workers...
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by Holmes108LudoH wrote:Holmes108 wrote:JeffyJeff wrote:LudoH wrote:it prevents you from being stuck with many doublesanyone is is being "stuck" with doubles in this game is playing it wrong!That's...
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by chris1nd LudoH has the right of it. Same numbers provide considerably fewer opportunities. Especially if they are the same number and your need for those numbers (and adjacent numbers) is...
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by LudoHHolmes108 wrote:But again, with all of the different options available, it seems to me that in the bigger picture, 2 identical dice are nearly as likely to give you exactly what you need as two...
View ArticleReply: The Castles of Burgundy:: Rules:: Re: bonus tiles
by BartP There's a different bonus for finishing a region (one to - afair - eight hexes large) that varies depending on a round, and there's a bonus in a form of a token when you finish ALL hexes of a...
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by kjamma4TheRiddler1976 wrote:I just find it odd that people try to come up with solutions to a non-problem, that's all.And it's never the person who something like this DIDN'T happen to that proposes...
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