Small World
Can a Seafaring race conquer a sea or lake that is not next to its regions?
The publisher confirmed the adjacency rule for water, and it matches the rulebook's following-conquests text.
- Small World rulebook · Rulebook · Following Conquests
- rasmussen81 · Publisher · 2014-12-29
No. Seafaring treats the water as ordinary regions, so a sea or lake still needs an adjacent region you already hold before you can conquer it.