by KnittelMan
So this is a question for when you get the tunnels in the haunted wastelands area based on a specific employee, the financier. It says all the cards you play the first time on a tunnel route must have pickaxes, and the financier allows you to pay 2 coins for every missing train card you have, which also gives you a bonus if you are the first person to build there.We had a player exploit this a bit.. so for example, you need 4 pickaxe symbols to get 10 coins for. Route. He would not have any cards and just pay 8 coins, to cover the 4 missing cards, and make it his own color. Ultimately banking him 6 coins without having to do anything and being able to lay down 4 trains..
And he could do this on longer ones as well. The rules never stated for his employee that he has to play a minimum amount of cards, or any.. and the rules for tunnels don’t say anything about not being able to use employee powers etc. just that the cards played must have pickaxes, but he didn’t need any cards.. so ultimately it just felt very OP.
Did we miss a specific rule somewhere to fix this? This employee was retired after this game, but still, just made that whole mechanism seem a bit broke.