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General Category => Rules Questions => Topic started by: lorricount on March 12, 2014, 02:54:10 PM

Title: BUA contacting a road
Post by: lorricount on March 12, 2014, 02:54:10 PM

BUA can be placed contacting a road.

If BUA is on a hill. it is placed w'hen the hill is placed.

After the opponent place a hill, can I put a road on the hill and then put a BUA on that hill claiming that the rules allow me to place a BUA contacting the road?




Thanks in advance.




With Best Regards,

Lawrence Ho

Title: Re: BUA contacting a road
Post by: Jack M Startin on March 12, 2014, 05:11:15 PM

In my humble opinion - yes.

You'd also therefore be able to do it if you'd put the road across the hill

Your opponent, knowing, as they would, that you had a BUA to place, should take that factor into consideration when about to lay out their road.

Title: Re: BUA contacting a road
Post by: LawrenceG1 on March 17, 2014, 11:17:51 PM

P19 is clear that the option to place the BUA without dicing on/adjacent to a road is only available for a BUA not on a hill.

"If on a hill, it is placed when the hill is placed...   If not, ...(a) astride or in contact with a road..."

Furthermore, if placed after a road that itself must have been placed after the hill, it would clearly not be being placed when the hill is placed.

Also on p 21, it is specified that  a BUA placed after roads in the sequence is "BUA unless on a hill".

So there are multiple reasons in the rules why you can't do what Lawrence (Ho) suggested.

Title: Re: BUA contacting a road
Post by: lorricount on March 19, 2014, 02:20:30 PM

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.