Anyone ever find it weird that they don't have special contest rules
regarding castles?

Anyone have their castles contested away? I was thinking about it, and it
went something like this .."I build this level 5 castle, and then someone
could come in and wipe it right out with a couple of cheesy contest
actions, and that just doesn't make sense! I mean, it takes lord only
knows how many turns to build, costs at least 40 GB's, and would take at
least 5 turns to wipe out with a seige, but in 1 turn, a few contest
actions could nuke it... it's just not fair. This must be an oversight on
the part of the writers..."

In the "Rulebook" it also lists castles as a new type of holding in the
province. Well, after a few minutes of pondering I realized I had answered
my question with a post to the List I had made a few days back....

In order to contest a holding, you need to be the Province ruler, or have
"similar holdings". So, you'd have to HAVE a castle, in order to CONTEST a
castle :)

So the rules do cover it. Anyone else ever wonder about that?

Of course, this brings up another question...is it possible to build a
second castle in a province? I don't see where it says you can't... and in
fact, it seems that they've made an exception to the rule where a holding
can exceed the province level--in castles. It just starts to cost double
as soon as you exceed the province level.

Personally, my ruling would be if there is already an existing castle, then
it's impossible to make an additional one. According to the "Rulebook" on
page 56, "Castles can exceed the level of the province, but the cost
'doubles' once the castle level is greater than the province level. It's
expensive to build a fortress that exceed the nearby resources."


Finally, I would no more allow the building of a castle by an outside
ruler, than I would the building of a road. Even a trade route takes a
diplomacy action.

I know, I know--I made points and then counterpoints...I just thought I'd
see if someone had something to add, or came across this problem, or found
a different interpretation :)

Or if anyone was as schizophrenic as I was *grin*

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