House Rules / Table Edge / Coast Line

The standard Coast expansion includes 5 outer , 15 straight , 9 inner edge tiles, plus 1 totally blank tile.

The original image posted in 2016 and the additional 4 inner edge tiles in the standard Fan-Expansion seems to indicate that the original purpose of this expansion was to create a body of water / lake within the tile map. BUT, the only purpose for this expansion for our personal group will be to keep the tile map from running off the edge of the table.

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Our House Rules

We are going to use 29 of the 30 original Coast tiles, plus 3 additional tiles that we created. We are going to eliminate the original solid blue tile, we made a copy of the standard straight edge River Coast tile and split it into 2 additional outer edge corner tiles, and we modified a copy of the original Road Monastery tile to create an additional Field Monestary tile.

At the start of every game, shuffle all 32 of the Coast tile and divide them into the following 6 random face up stacks:

Edge-2  
 
River  
 
City  
 
Road  
 
Road  
Field  
 
Field  

Then, play the game as usual with the River, followed by the standard tiles.

    Edge-4  
    Edge-3  
    Edge-2      

At any time during the game, whenever a player places any tile that is 4 tiles away from the edge of the table (Row Edge-4), that player gets a "Coastal Second Turn".

  • Based on the edge of the new tile that is now facing the edge of the table: City, Road, Field . . . River.
  • Draw the face up tile from the top of that Coastal Stack and place it on the board (Row Edge-3) next to your original new tile.
    • Yes, you are allowed to claim features on the Coastal tile.
    • Monasteries and Gardens are scored as usual, but the solid water tiles that would normally be part of the 8 surrounding tiles are not required to complete the feature, so you just score less points when the feature is "complete".
  • If the new Coastal Tile is an Inner Edge tile, half of it's coast line will be pointing away from the center of the table, SO, you can take a "Coastal Third Turn".
  • Draw the next face up Outer Edge tile from the top of the Edge-2 stack and add it to the edge of the first Coastal Tile so that both coast lines are parallel to the edge of the table.

Let's take a closer look at the possible Edge-2 bump situation

    Edge-4  
    Edge-3      
    Edge-2  
    Edge-1  
Fall off the table

When an Inner Edge Coast situation occurs, that is when the next tile has to be one of the Outer Edge Coastal Tiles that will be placed in Row Edge-2 to turn the Coastline back to parallel to the edge of the table. Moving forward, after the River Phase has been completed, the Coastlines can be extended with randomly drawn tiles from the remaining Coastal Tile stacks.

What if a city tile is then placed next to the River Coast tile in row Edge-3, and the City Coast tile also requires a second "bump" tile to be placed in row Edge-1? Do we allow the tile map to expand to within less than an inch from the end of the table? Or do we set up a house rule that would allow us to choose a different City Coast tile when there is an Edge-1 situation?


    Edge-4  
    Edge-3  
    Edge-2      

We are going to have to come up with some house rules. Similiar to the No U-turn rules for the Rivers, how do we handle the situation after an Edge-2 Coastline has been created. We need to create our own No Row Edge-1 rules!

You must always take the required tile from the top of the designated stack. The only time you are allowed to take a different tile is when the tile on top will create an Edge-1 situation. There is 1 Garden and 3 Monastery Coastal tiles. If they are not already on top of their stack, you cannot randomly choose one of these tiles unless there is no other choice.

Basically, this extra 32 tile fan-expansion should not add any extra time to our games. Other than the two Road/Field tiles, the player has no choice on what tile to draw for a second or third coastal turn, and for the most part, it can only be placed on the board one way.


Just an FYI: This is the link to the previous versions of this page that led to the creation of these house rules!
The Coast   • Tiles 1   • Tiles 2   • Set Up   • Tables  

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