Post originally by Dave at 2003-10-03 07:58:37
Converted from Phorums BB System

> Anyway, I think the cloister is not as powerful as it seems.

I agree. A lot of times I see folks place and build around a cloister tile in a way I find to be suboptimal. Also, I'm not too worried about them being "unbalanced" - if one player gets a disproportionate number of them, they likely won't be able to close them all off effectively, assuming they have enough meeples to even use all of them!

> I think the best pieces to draw are the city "elbow/pipe" tiles with pennants.

They are also the most effective tiles for merging in with others' cities. g:-)