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pamnkory wrote:
Having played the various Catan games literally 1000s of times, we came across a variation for which I couldn't find anything in the written rules. Help!
Here was the situation. Player 1 built a road and positioned a new knight at an open intersection of player 2's road who held the longest road card. This break in the road resulted in player 2 losing the longest road card; however, both player 1 and player 3 now had the same number of roads (which exceeded the 5 or more requirement). Bottom line: if either player receives the longest player road, he has the 13 points required for victory...do we have a winner?
lordrahvin wrote:
In this case, nobody has the longest road and the card is set aside until someone has a road that is clearly longer.
This can be found in the rulebook at the top of page 9. "Set the Longest Road card aside if, after a longest road is broken, several players tie for the new longest road or no one has a 5+ segment road. The Longest Road card comes into play again when only 1 player has the longest road (of at least 5 road pieces)."
Also note that a player can only win on his own turn, no matter how many points any other player has. Assume that P1 & P3 all have 9 points when playing to 10 and P2 has the longest road. P1 breaks the longest road of P2, by building a settlement, thus giving P3 longest road. P3 now has a total of 11p. But since P1 have the 10p needed for victory, he still wins.
