SpielByWeb

[Eibe Itu]

Hello,

For refilling the space where the larvae and tiles are taken from it says :
For each of the five differently coloured larva cubes on the open-sea board that is accompanied by fewer than three polyp tiles, add one polyp tile to the space containing that larva cube.

Is the just emptied space always counts as a larvae accompanied by fewer than three polyp tiles ? If so I suspect there's a bug. See in the Game 36765 round 2. The space was refilled with only one tiles although there is another space with only two tiles.

Regards

[freduk]

Hi, and welcome to the SBW forums.

As far as I can see, the game is correct. Looking at the previous turns, the previous player picked a Yellow Larva Cube, and the player before him picked White. What this means is that by your turn, the Larva Cube board would have shown:

White + 2 tiles
Yellow + 1 tile
Orange + 3 tiles
Pink + 3 tiles
Grey + 3 tiles

When you picked the Pink cube + 3 tiles, the board would be refreshed by replacing the Pink cube, then adding 1 tile to each cube that had less than 3 tiles (White, Yellow, and now Pink) leaving:

White + 3 tiles
Yellow + 2 tiles
Orange + 3 tiles
Pink + 1 tile
Grey + 3 tiles

which is where we are.
Hope this helps,
Fred

[Eibe Itu]

Thank you for your enlightening answer.

[hagin]

I don't know what it is but the Reef Encounter rules cause so many people (myself included) to make errors regarding rule interpretation. I did this one wrong at first too. But yes the above answer is correct: any pile with less than three gets one added.

[freduk]

eef is a great game, it's ust a shame that the rules are so badly written.
However, there are a few "rules aids" over at BGG that explain the game much better.

[fendwick]

People keep saying this about RE's rules, but I just don't see it. Perhaps it's because I was weaned on wargames with far more fearsome rulesets, but when I learned the rules off of SBW they didn't cause too much head-scratching (aside from the whole polyp/anemone/coral/algae vocabulary). Of course I did miss some rules (such as the game ending when one of the larva cubes cannot be refreshed, damn you, hagin! ), but that's normal enough in any game, really.

Enjoy your game, Eibe!