How is MERMAIDS's Special Landscapes work

[edwardcheng26]

By definantion, The Coral Reef must be placed on a River space that is directly adjacent to a Mermaid Structure. It does not prevent other players
from using that River space for expansion or indirect adjacency. Shipping works with the Coral Reef as with any other Structure.

• Unless stated otherwise, the special landscape may be placed during the Action phase instead of a regular
Terrain tile when transforming Terrain into your Home Terrain.
• The special landscape is considered a Structure with a Power value of 1:
• It counts towards forming a Town.
• It counts towards the Area Scoring and the Final Scoring tiles.
• Unless stated otherwise, the special landscape is not considered any of the existing types of Structures.
Especially, it is not considered a Dwelling and, therefore, any tiles providing Victory points for Dwellings (or
any other Structure for that matter) do not provide any for the special landscape.

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Initially i thought the coral reef is count 1 power and a connected space to the town, but it didn't form a town

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then i build a bridge, and still not form a town

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until i upgrade the trading house to form a town, so what is the point to build coral reef, it didn't treat as a part of the town or 1 power, which is against the rule, is this a bug or what?

[nik592]

Is this about a game on BGA? If so, you might do better posting in the specific forums for that game (that said, I couldn't find a game called Mermaids, so I'm not sure if it's about something else entirely).

[ufm]

It's about Terra Mystica, I guess.

[nik592]

See I play Terra Mystica and that still wasn't obvious to me (I didn't look at the pics, which probably would have told me). I don't know the answer anyway, but the point still stands, they'd be better asking in the game specific forum.

[buu441]

To answer the question, you can not use the coral reef and skip a second river space to form a town. The coral reef counts as the skipped river space.