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When playing the river or river2, does placing the lake count as a players turn? As an example, player A places the last tile before the lake is placed, then does player B place the lake or is the lake placed by rule and then player B draws the first tile? In the completed annoted rules (great document by the way if not to say awsesome) it is not mentioned if the lake tile is placed as a players turn. "When the river is finished, the lake tile is placed, and the game continues..."

If a mayor of strength 0 (i.e. no pennants) is alone in a ciy and the city is closed, does the player get points for this or does the mayor have to be of at least 1 one strength?

Thanks for your help!

Last tile to be placed riverwise is the lake with the Dragon on it, which I believe allows the player to pull the first tile from the normal tiles. If you are talking about the normal lake peice then you dont get a further tile as you are allowed to place a meeple on it (farmer).

The mayor scores for the city it scores regardless of if there are shields in it or not. The mayor sort of acts as a normal meeple when on its own. Shield counts only come into play when there are opposing factors in a feature.

strench 0 of a mayor does NOT score at all... see the FAQ : Blue has a mayor in a city with no pennants. Does the city count as occupied? And if so, when the city is scored, will blue score points?
--> The city is occupied. The mayor has no ‘strength’, so he counts as if there is no follower, and scores no points.

the FAQ is awesome too!

Thanks for the answers.

As for the mayor question, we've got conflicting answers.

Anybody else have an opinion?

For the mayor, i just take the FAQ with copy+paste... i do not dream that!  ;)

Thanks Deatheux, I hadn't realized that there was a FAQ on this site. I always referenced the completed annoted rules when looking up stuff.

Great job to all of you working on this site!

Best regards

This is incorrect. If a city is closed that contains a mayor and there are no pennants (shields) the mayor is worth nothing and cannot score for the closed city.