Bureaucrats Adjust Funding

Frequently Asked Questions

Event Cards

• If there are multiple Ravage Cards, which lands get a Ravage Damage bonus from "Foreign Dignitaries Visit"?
  Each Invader Card grants the bonus to the lowest-numbered land it matches, only for the Ravage it creates in that land (if any). For example, if the first Ravage Card is Wetlands and the second Ravage Card is Coastal lands, then if land #2 is a Coastal Wetlands, it'll get the +2 Damage in the Ravage caused by the Wetlands Card (as the lowest-numbered Wetlands) but not in the later Ravage caused by the Coastal lands card (since that cards grants bonus Damage in land #1).

  Which land gets a bonus doesn't change once it's locked in at the start of resolving that Invader Card, even if the list of matching lands changes due to some of the Ravages (e.g., due to the Tsardom of Russia's "Competition Among Hunters" making lands with 3+ Explorers match all Ravage Cards). Nevertheless, these changes can affect which land gets the bonus from any subsequent Invader Cards that cause Ravage Actions.
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• For Bureaucrats Adjust Funding, when do you check how many Towns or Cities there are on the boards?
  At the time you draw the Event (not at the time when you Build), when you perform the "On Each Board" instruction.
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• Can the "3 or fewer Towns/Cities" effect of "Bureaucrats Adjust Funding" cause a Build Action in a land without Invaders?
  Yes, and the resulting Build Action will usually Build a Town in that land.

  "Bureaucrats Adjust Funding" only checks if the land matches the Build Card, not if it contains Invaders. This is different from "Pour Time Sideways," which checks where Invader Cards are already creating Invader Actions.
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General Play

• When instructed to count multiple piece types separated by slashes (e.g., "the fewest Towns/Cities"), do players choose which piece type to count?
  No. Count all pieces that are at least one of the types on the list. So in the example, if there are 2 Towns and 1 City in the land, the total for that land is 3 Towns/Cities. In the unlikely case that a piece is on the list multiple ways, it only gets counted once.
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Invader Actions

• Are the extra Builds from Bureaucrats Adjust Funding part of the normal Build for the purposes of Panicked by Wild Beasts?
  Yes, if the Build Card is in the Build Space, Panicked by Wild Beasts level 2 or 3 skips any additional Builds it causes via Bureaucrats Adjust Funding.

  Bureaucrats Adjust Funding modifies how the Build Card works, and thus any additional Build Actions it causes are normal if caused by a normal Build Card. (If the Build Card is not a normal Build Card because it's not in the Build Space printed on the Invader Board, then the extra Build Action isn't normal either.)
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