The River II

• U-turns
• Updated! With the U-turn rule when building rivers, does that mean no U-turn ever, or just no immediate U-turns, because it will complicate the placement of subsequent river tiles?
• Updated! U-turns again
• The Pig-herd
• Updated! Do you receive the bonus from the the pig-herd tile even if you don't have a pig on the field?
• New! Does the pig-herd tile still score an extra point (barn = 4 points, barn+pig-herd = 5 points per city)?
• River & fairies
• Updated! Since a player is allowed to deploy a follower when placing the river tiles, can the fairy be moved when they do not deploy a follower at this stage?
• Odd tiles
• Updated! Does this tile have four farms or two? John's guess: Four. Otherwise people will start arguing about every bridge in the game!
• The River & The River II
• Updated! When the two River sets are combined, should we make two rivers (using the two springs) or discard one spring and one lake and make just one river?
• The River II & Count, King and Consorts
• New! If you combine Count, King and Consorts with The River II, you will now have two forks. Obviously one of those gets placed immediately, but should the other one be mixed in with the rest of the river tiles, or put to one side?

• U-turns
• With the U-turn rule when building rivers, does that mean no U-turn ever, or just no immediate U-turns, because it will complicate the placement of subsequent river tiles?
  Only immediate U-turns are explicitly forbidden. (Naturally there can also be problems if a straight is in between.)
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• U-turns again
  This post relates to a discussion that took place concerning the original question about U-turns, and you should probably read that first. The passage here is taken from correspondence with Georg Wild of HiG; I mentioned what Pavils Jurjans had said - that he had received a different answer from HiG to the one I received - and asked for a clarification. This is the answer:
  

  …my colleague asked me what he should write. In principle he wrote the same, with the qualification that if you want to proceed in absoooolute safety then you have to forbid all U-turns. In other words, what I, with possible difficulty, sought to express. It is really only immediate U-turns are completely forbidden.

  
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• The Pig-herd
• Do you receive the bonus from the the pig-herd tile even if you don't have a pig on the field?
  Yes, the pig herd is a neutral pig, so to speak.
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• Does the pig-herd tile still score an extra point (barn = 4 points, barn+pig-herd = 5 points per city)?
  The pig-herd tile only counts in connection with farmers, not the barn.
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• River & fairies
• Since a player is allowed to deploy a follower when placing the river tiles, can the fairy be moved when they do not deploy a follower at this stage?
  Yes.
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• Odd tiles
• Does this tile have four farms or two? John's guess: Four. Otherwise people will start arguing about every bridge in the game!
  

  
  Correct. Bridges are considered to be roads.
  
  [Thanks to John Sweeney for this! - Matt]
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• The River & The River II
• When the two River sets are combined, should we make two rivers (using the two springs) or discard one spring and one lake and make just one river?
  One spring and one lake are discarded.
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• The River II & Count, King and Consorts
• If you combine Count, King and Consorts with The River II, you will now have two forks. Obviously one of those gets placed immediately, but should the other one be mixed in with the rest of the river tiles, or put to one side?
  In fact, that means using The River II twice. We didn’t plan that, and I think that it will lead to problems with placement. Whoever wants to do it should go ahead, but there’s no rules for it. Sorry!
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