Example #1 The situation:
BLUEhas aRobberon the same space asRED’s Woman Follower.RED’s Normal Follower is on a different space. With placement of one tile,REDscores points for both a road (3 points) and a city (6 points).
Each feature is scored separately.REDdecides which of his/her scoring figures moves on the scoring board.BLUEonly receives “Robber points” for the first movement of the scoring figure that stands on the same space as theRobber– hereRED’s Woman Follower.
One of the following can happen:
1) First, theWoman Followerscores 3 points for the road. After that, theNormal Follower scores 6 points for the city. Then theRobberrobs half of the points from theWoman Follower(2 Points).
2) First, theNormal Followerscores 3 points for the road. After that, theWoman Follower scores 6 points for the city. Then theRobberrobs half of the points from theWoman Follower(3 Points).
3) First, theWoman Followerscores 3 points for the road. After that, theWoman Follower scores 6 points for the city. Then theRobberrobs half of the points for the road (the first score) from theWoman Follower(2 Points).489
4) First, theNormal Followerscores 3 points for the road. After that, theNormal Follower scores 6 points for the city. Here, theRobberrobs nothing from RED because theNormal Followerwas not on the same space as theRobber.
Example #2 The situation:
BLUEhas aRobberon the same space asGREEN’s Normal FollowerandRED’s Woman Follower. The other scoring figures forGREENandREDare standing on different spaces.
With placement of one tile,GREENscores points for a road (3 points) andREDscores points for a city (6 points)
489RED could have chosen to score the city first, in which case BLUE’s robber would score 3 points. However, it is unlikely that doing that would be in RED’s best interests.
TheRobberis on a space occupied by more than one scoring figure, and both of the scoring figures (more than one) are scoring points. Thus, theRobberchooses which player he will “rob” half of the points from.GREENandREDcan choose which of their scoring figures move when points are scored. TheRobbercan only receive points from a scoring figure that stands on the same space.
One of the following can happen:
1)GREENandREDboth decide to score with their scoring figures that are standing on the same space as theRobber. TheRobberdecides to rob the half of the points from the Woman Follower(3 Points).
2)GREENdecides to score with theNormal FollowerandREDalso decides to score with theNormal Follower. TheRobbercan only rob the half of the points fromGREEN’s Normal Follower(2 Points) sinceRED’s Normal Followeris not on the same space as theRobber.
3)GREENandREDboth decide to score with their scoring figures that are standing on different spaces from theRobber. TheRobbercan't rob any points from theWoman Followeror theNormal Follower, as theRobberisn’t on the same space as either one of them.
Example #3 The situation:
BLUEhas aRobberon the same space asGREEN’s Normal Follower,GREEN’s Woman Follower, andRED’s Normal Follower.RED’s Woman Followerstands on a different space.
With placement of one tile,GREENscores points for a road (3 points) and for a city (6 points), andREDscores points for a road (2 points) and for a city (8 points).
Each feature scores separately.GREENandREDcan choose which of their scoring figures will score the points. TheRobbercan only receive points from a scoring figure that stands on the same space as theRobber. In this case, theRobbercan definitely receive points fromGREEN, because both scoring figures fromGREENare on the same space. The Robber’sability to rob points fromREDwill depend on which figure(s)REDchooses to move. Since theRobberis on a space occupied by more than one scoring figure, and more than one figure is scoring points, theRobberchooses which player he is “robbing” half the points from. TheRobbergets all of the information that he/she needs about movement from the other players (REDandGREEN) before making the best decision about which points to rob.
One of the following can happen:
1)GREENandREDeach score with one of the scoring figures that was standing on the same space as theRobber. They both decide to score their roads first.GREENfirst scored the road worth 3 points with theWoman Follower.REDthen scored the road worth 2 points with theNormal Follower. TheRobberdecided to rob half of the points from the
Woman Follower(2 points), because robbing theNormal Followerwould have only been worth 1 point.
Since bothGREENandREDchose to score their cities second with the same followers, the Robbercould not get half of the points from either city. TheRobbercould only choose to rob the firstGREENpoints or the firstREDpoints available. (If, however,GREENhad scored the city with theNormal Follower, theRobbercould have robbed half of those points, since that would have been yet another follower to choose to rob from.) 2)REDdecides to first score the road worth 2 points with theWoman Follower, which does not stand on the same space as theRobber.GREENfirst scores the road worth 3 points with theWoman Follower.REDthen uses theNormal Followerto score the city worth 8 points. TheRobberdecides to rob half of the points from theNormal Follower(4 points), because there were only 2 points available from theWoman Follower.
3)REDdecides to first score the road worth 2 points with theWoman Follower, which does not stand on the same space as theRobber. ThenREDalso scores the city worth 8 points with theWoman Follower.GREENfirst scores the city worth 6 points with the Normal Follower. TheRobbercan only rob half the points from theNormal Follower(3 points) because theWoman Followeris not standing on the same space as theRobber.
Example #4 The situation:
TheBLUE Robberand theYELLOW Robberare on the same space asGREEN’s Normal Follower,GREEN’s Woman Follower, andRED’s Normal Follower.RED’s Woman Follower stands on a different space. With placement of one tile,GREENscores points for a road (3 points) and for a city (6 points), andREDscores points for a road (2 points) and for a city (8 points).
Each feature scores separately.GREENandREDcan choose which of their scoring figures will score the points. TheBLUE RobberandYELLOW Robbercan only receive points from a scoring figure that stands on the same space that each of them is on. In this case, the BLUE Robberand theYELLOW Robbercan definitely receive points fromGREEN, because both scoring figures fromGREENare on the same space. The Robbers’ ability to rob points fromREDwill depend on which figure(s)REDchooses to move. Since theBLUE Robber andYELLOW Robberare on a space occupied by more than one scoring figure, and more than one figure is scoring points, each Robber chooses which player he is “robbing” half the points from. TheBLUE RobberandYELLOW Robberget all of the information that they need about movement from the other players (REDandGREEN) before making the best decision about which points to rob.
One of the following can happen:
1)GREENandREDeach score with one of the scoring figures that was standing on the same space as theBLUEandYELLOWRobbers. They both decide to score their roads first.
GREENfirst scored the road worth 3 points with theWoman Follower.REDthen scored the road worth 2 points with theNormal Follower. TheBLUE Robberdecided to rob half of the points from theWoman Follower(2 points), and theYELLOW Robberdecided to rob theNormal Follower(1 point). Why choose to take fewer points? IfYELLOWis the active player and can receive a message, this makes more sense.
2)REDdecides to first score the road worth 2 points with theWoman Follower, which does not stand on the same space as the Robbers.GREENfirst scores the road worth 3 points with theWoman Follower.REDthen uses theNormal Followerto score the city worth 8 points. TheBLUE Robberand theYELLOW Robbereach decide to rob half of the points from theNormal Follower(4 points), because there were only 2 points available from theWoman Follower.
3)REDdecides to first score the road worth 2 points with theWoman Follower, which does not stand on the same space as the Robbers. ThenREDalso scores the city worth 8 points with theWoman Follower.GREENfirst scores the city worth 6 points with the Normal Follower. TheBLUE RobberandYELLOW Robbercan only rob half the points from theNormal Follower(3 points) because theWoman Followeris not standing on the same space as the Robbers.