by alextfish
Heh. For what it's worth, from our reading of the rules my wife and I had concluded yet another variation. To set things out in table form (with my understanding of the conclusions on this thread):In a 2-player game, with the second advancement on the
agriculture tech track, can I take corn from a space...
When no wood or corn When one wood and one corn When all the wood and
has yet been taken? have been taken and one of corn has been taken?
each remain untaken?
Official rule Yes Yes Yes
Original rule No No Yes
Our interpretation No Yes Yes
(In all cases, a "Yes" does not acquire a corn field.)
I understood it as "There has to be a cleared field somewhere. In the 2-player game, the 3rd and 4th spaces don't exist at all so they're not cleared fields." It's good to know the official line now, although it won't make very much difference to how we were playing it.