The Tower: Implications in Completing a Cloister

[meeplesISpeeples]

Came across the following issue when playing Carcasonne The Tower with my wife.

I drew a tile with a tower place on it.  I placed it so that it completed my wife's Cloister.  I placed one of my wooden tower pieces on the tower place, directly above her Cloister.  My question is:  Does she get the points for the Cloister, or do I get to take her follower before she scores the Cloister?

Thanks,

meeplesISpeeples

[Joff]

You get to place a tower piece and capture a follower before scoring takes place. So, in this case, you are at liberty to remove her monk occupying the cloister and she would recieve no points for him.

[Scott]

I concur.

[meeplesISpeeples]

Thank you very much!

 

[canada steve]

Hang on if he just placed the tile then placed a tower piece isnt that his go and the tower doesnt belong to anyone so no other pieces are affected ? Therefore would not the good lady score for her completed cloister ? The tower only captures meeple if there is a meeple on the Tower I think !

[Scott]

No, placing a meeple on the top of a tower prevents meeples from being taken prisoner. It's the act of building a tower taller that causes/allows capturing of prisoners.

[mjharper]

Scott's right.

[Novelty]

Yeah, I got confused with the meeple on top of the tower thing.  Everytime you place a wooden block on a tower square or a tower piece, you get to capture a piece, something that needs to be highlighted.