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“Cities & Knights” Expansion

• Progress Cards: Crane - May I play 2 Crane cards and pay 2 commodities less for an improvement?

  No. You may only play 1 Building Crane card per each expansion.

• Progress Cards: Crane - May I play a Crane card and then perform various improvements, each for 1 commodity less?

  No. You can use 1 Crane only for 1 improvement.

• Progress Cards: Crane - May I use a Crane to perform a level-one improvement at no cost?

  Yes.

• Progress Cards: Deserter - If I already have 2 basic knights, does my opponent have to give me a strong knight even though he has a basic knight?

  No. If, under these circumstances, your opponent chooses a basic knight, he must remove him from the game board, but you are not allowed to place an additional knight.

• Progress Cards: Deserter - May I immediately use a deserted knight to perform a knight action?

  Yes, provided that he was activated when he deserted to you.

• Progress Cards: Deserter - May I make a mighty knight desert to me if I don’t have a Fortress yet?

  Yes.

• Progress Cards: Deserter - May I play the Deserter if I can’t place a knight of the same strength?

  Yes.

• Progress Cards: Deserter - Where do I have to place a deserted knight?

  At a location where the rule allows you to build a new knight. This can also be the place where your knight stood before, provided that one of your roads is adjacent to it.

• Progress Cards: Deserter - Who determines which knight to remove from the game board when a Deserter is played?

  The victim.

• Progress Cards: Diplomat - Do I lose the Longest Road while I move one of its road pieces?

  No. You don’t lose the Longest Road because you are moving one of its road pieces, provided that after relocation your continuous road is at least as long as before.

• Progress Cards: Diplomat - If an opponent interrupts my continuous road by placing a settlement or a knight, does this mean that my two road pieces adjacent to the interruption are now open?

  No. Please also see the answer to the question When is a road open?.

• Progress Cards: Diplomat - May I remove a road if, as a result, a knight is left without connection to a road of his color?

  No. It is mandatory for a knight to be connected to a settlement or city of his color via roads of his color.

• Progress Cards: Diplomat - May I remove a road if, as a result, a settlement or city is left without road?

  Yes.

• Progress Cards: Diplomat - May I remove an opponent's road and place one of my own roads instead?

  No.

• Progress Cards: Diplomat - What happens to a road I have taken away from my opponent?

  It returns to your opponent’s supply.