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Scenario 1:
City made by 6 tiles, with 3 pennants and one follower placed, the score is 6*2=12 for the tiles and 3*2=6 for the pennants, totally = 18

Scenario 2:
City made by 6 tiles, with 3 pennants and one Mayoer placed, the score is  6*3=18 for the tiles and 0 for the pennants, totally = 18

Is this correct, or do I have to count for the pennants too in Scenario 2? ....and if yes, is it 3*2=6 or 3*3=9?

Thanks in advance..

Scenario 1:

Yes, this is correct. It is 18 points total.


Scenario 2:

The Mayor is worth 3 followers (3 pennants in the city). This is his strength. Each pennant is worth the same as 1 follower to the Mayor, so in this case another player will need three followers in that city to share in it (and four followers to overrule the Mayors strength). The total is indeed 18, but it is scored in this way: for the 6 tiles, 2 points each (6*2). For the 3 pennants, 2 points each (3*2). The scoring is the same for the Mayor as it is if you had majority followers in the city. So to answer to your final question is yes, it is scored the same way as scenario 1.

Of course, if one of the tiles happens to be the cathedral, then each tile would be worth 3 points (6*3) and each pennant worth 3 points (3*3) for a total of 27 points, but you would still score in the same way as you would score for normal followers.

Another example is if you have placed a Mayor in a city which later gets closed off, leaving only the Mayor and no other followers in that city, but the city has no pennants within its walls, then the Mayor scores nothing as it has no strength within that city. A Mayor always needs at least one pennant to have some strength.

Hope this helps :)

Thanks a lot, this clarifies some of our scoring here  8) ..and when I carefully reads the instructions from CarcassonneCentral, I just realized the sentence "The score is not changed by the Mayor"

Cheers,
Harry