Thread: Brian Boru: High King of Ireland:: Rules:: Why are there so many monasteries in the box?

by Pabl0

Hi,

I've been having this doubt ever since I bought the game. I think a similar question has been asked about the coins, but I wanted to be sure I'm playing right. Great game, btw.

In the box 16 monasteries are included and in the church phase of every round, the person with the most discs in the church places one of the monasteries in the board in one of their towns. If another player has four or more discs after that, that player gets to place another monastery. I hope I got this right.

So the thing I don't understand is why are there 16! of them. Usually only the player with most discs will place one, maybe two players... In the best case scenario every player places one every round (and I don't think that's even possible) so only in a 5-player game they could actually run out.

Am I understanding this right?

Thanks in advance