Are Tie Tiles counting?

[ontnagent]

In my last game the tie tiles do not seem to be counting?

The fifth shield brown says me 4 vs 4 but that 4 or 5 does not count on the final score?

http://www.mabiweb.com/modules.php?name=GM_Richelieu&g_id=7879&op=view_game_reset

How are these tiles ment to score?

thanks

tristan[/u]

[MaBi]

No, tied shields don't count, only those where you have a majority (displayed in blue in the scoring table). In that game you have 3 brown shields from cards + 1 token, and your opponent 4 shields from cards, so brown is tied and doesn't count.
A possible source of confusion is the fact that during the game your own tokens are displayed with an underline, but they are not added to the score, while after the end the numbers represt the total score, tokens included.
I have changed that scoring table a few times, but never really found an optimal way to display Richelieu scoring, so finally I gave up and blame Schacht for the confusing rules :).