The Tower


Released in 2006.
  • Building towers
  • If you place a dragon-tile and add a block to a tower, what happens first: follower capture by the tower, or dragon movement?
    Prisoners are taken first; placing a tower block is an alternative to deploying a follower, so occurs before dragon movement.
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  • Closing towers
  • Can I place a follower on a tower foundation to prevent a tower being built?
    No. Only tower blocks can be placed on tower foundations. The tower can only be blocked when it already exists.
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  • Can the magic portal be used to place a follower on the tower?
    Theoretically yes, but it isn't necessary, since it is always possible to place a follower there anyway.
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  • Can the mayor, the wagon, or the barn be placed on top of a tower?
    No, the deployment of these figures is limited to the features described in the rules.
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  • Capture
  • Can a shorter tower capture the follower from a taller tower, or does the tower need to be equal or greater in height?
    The height of the tower only determines the range of the ‘attack’ and has no other function.
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  • Can the mayor and the wagon be eaten by the dragon, captured by the tower, or seduced by a princess?
    Yes (at which point the question of what the princess does with the wagon arises…)
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  • Ransom
  • Is the ransom for the big follower doubled?
    No: he may be big, but he's still only one person.
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  • How often does prisoner buy-back occur in a “double turn” (e.g. just once, like fairy scoring, or twice, as part of a repeated step)?
    It happens once per turn. The double-turn is still only one turn.
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  • Tower, fairy
  • Can you move the fairy to a tile, when the only follower on the tile is on a tower?
    Yes.
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  • According to the rules, "no other figure" may be in same feature as the wagon - does that include the fairy, the dragon and tower pieces (because they're all figures)?
    We didn't pay enough attention here (damn!): instead of "figure" it should read "follower". As such the question shouldn't arise. The fairy normally stands next to a follower (except when the follower is taken prisoner) and so the feature would already be occupied. The dragon would eat the immediately and the tower is always on its own feature (the tower foundation).
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