Sight Reader
United States
Colorado
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This rule has me confused. First they say,
"When a player places a house, he may, in addition, take one embassy (...) and place it beneath the house"
So, this leads me to believe that you slide the Embassy counter under the house you're playing. I assume the color of the Embassy is your team color (the board doesn't have a blue, but the sample JPGs show blue embassies)
That means the house you played (your team color) has to be the same as the Embassy (also your team color)...
...which is why the following confuses me:
"The embassy must be in a different color than the house"
But if both the embassy and house belong to the same player, how can they be different colors? Ack!
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Lee Fisher
United States
Downingtown
Pennsylvania
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sightreader wrote: This rule has me confused. First they say, "When a player places a house, he may, in addition, take one embassy (...) and place it beneath the house"So, this leads me to believe that you slide the Embassy counter under the house you're playing. I assume the color of the Embassy is your team color (the board doesn't have a blue, but the sample JPGs show blue embassies) That means the house you played (your team color) has to be the same as the Embassy (also your team color)... ...which is why the following confuses me: "The embassy must be in a different color than the house"But if both the embassy and house belong to the same player, how can they be different colors? Ack!
The embassy has to be someone else's color. Then you will score for their stuff. It is like a "foreign" embassy.
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sightreader wrote: I assume the color of the Embassy is your team color.
That means the house you played (your team color) has to be the same as the Embassy (also your team color)...
No. The house you play must be in your color but not the embassy placed under it. You choose the embassy from the embassy tile supply near the game board. You cannot choose an embassy in your color.
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Sight Reader
United States
Colorado
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ABACUSSPIELE wrote: No. The house you play must be in your color but not the embassy placed under it. You choose the embassy from the embassy tile supply near the game board. You cannot choose an embassy in your color.
Hmmm... so now you're playing someone else's embassy for them? Basically, you're siphoning their score from them?
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sightreader wrote: Hmmm... so now you're playing someone else's embassy for them? Basically, you're siphoning their score from them?
Yes, you are playing an embassy in a color of a different player. You are benefitting from that player's score.
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Sight Reader
United States
Colorado
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ABACUSSPIELE wrote: Yes, you are playing an embassy in a color of a different player. You are benefitting from that player's score.
Yay! More score stealing! That way, if you've been neglecting an aspect of development, you can just steal the other guy's hard work.
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Chaddyboy
United States
Olathe
Kansas
Bloooooop.
Bluuuuuurp.
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sightreader wrote: ABACUSSPIELE wrote: Yes, you are playing an embassy in a color of a different player. You are benefitting from that player's score. Yay! More score stealing! That way, if you've been neglecting an aspect of development, you can just steal the other guy's hard work.
Well, you're not really stealing their score. Per the rules included with the promo, at the end of the game you get a point per piece in the region matching the color of the embassy you placed in that region.
So, if the blue player places 6 pieces in a region, placing a blue embassy in that region scores you 6 points.
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Sight Reader
United States
Colorado
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chaddyboy_2000 wrote: Well, you're not really stealing their score.
True. Like the rest of this game, it's all about "mooching", although embassies sound even more parasitic than the other mechanisms!
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Antonio Ferrari
Italy
Bagnolo Cremasco
Cremona
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looking at the pictures here, it seems there are 2 embassies per color... so is it possible that the same player has 2 embassies of the same color under 2 of his houses? in that case, does he double the points for that province?
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af7hqs wrote: looking at the pictures here, it seems there are 2 embassies per color... so is it possible that the same player has 2 embassies of the same color under 2 of his houses? in that case, does he double the points for that province?
The player gets the points for each embassy, in case he got 5 points for a red embassy in that province he would get another 5 points if he also had the 2nd red embassy under another house in that province.
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Posted Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:46 am
