CATAN
Can you give a resource now in exchange for a promised return on a later turn, and is a future trade promise binding?
Several repliers say future-trade promises are not allowed or not enforceable, but others dispute it, and the rulebook is silent.
- l-hansen · Community · 2013-01-07
- xipuloxx · Community · 2013-01-07
- lordrahvin · Community · 2011-12-25
- johnclark · Community · 2011-01-25
- Gizensha · Community · 2011-01-16disagrees
- Octavian · Community · 2004-01-13disagrees
- Geert Vinaskov · Community · 2011-12-27disagrees
No. A trade must be a finished exchange within the turn, with cards from your hand on both sides. A promise to deliver cards later is not enforced by the rules, so it can be broken without a rules penalty, though it may cost reputation. Some groups treat such deals as a house rule.