Cooperation Among Towns

Frequently Asked Questions

Event Cards

• If Invaders do extra damage in a land where all Invaders have Strife, what happens?
  Changed answer (as of Jagged Earth): The damage boost does not apply. (JE, p. 7) Per-land damage boosts only apply if the Invaders manage to muster up at least 1 Damage prior to Defend, so empty lands which manage to Ravage, lands where all Invaders are Strifed, or lands full of Explorers that are affected by Mesmerized Tranquility don't get per-land damage boosts. This is a change from pre-Jagged Earth, as noted on the JE rules p. 7.
  

  If you wish to play with the old rule, you can, but the game will be harder.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Strife, Damage, Changed rulings, Destroy the Unnatural!, 9 more...

Invader Actions

• Under “Ravage Timing” on p. 7 of the Jagged Earth rulebook, it mentions “modifiers to individual Invader Damage” happen first, and “per-land modifiers” only happen afterwards. Why is this relevant? What are some examples of individual vs. land modifiers?
  It's relevant when every Invader in a land has been rendered harmless (via Strife, or reducing its individual Damage to 0) — drawing an Event Card like Destroy the Unnatural (which does +3 total Damage in certain lands) won't increase the Damage from 0 to 3.

  Individual modifiers are things like “Cities deal +3 Damage”, Mesmerized Tranquility (“Each Invader deals -1 damage”), or Strife tokens. Per-land modifiers are things like Destroy the Unnatural (above), or anything which says “Invaders deal +N Damage (per land) …”
  Tags: Strife, Damage, Ravage, Mesmerized Tranquility, 17 more...

Power Cards

• How does Voice of Command interact with Events that boost Invader damage or count Invaders?
  Events usually interact with "sides" (attacker vs counterattacker):

  • Boosts to total Invader Damage only benefit the Invaders' side - not the Explorers fighting alongside Dahan.
  • Boosts to "Invader Damage against Dahan" (Xenophobia) apply to damage done to the Dahan side - it doesn't matter if the damage is allocated to Dahan or Explorers.
  • Events counting the number of Invaders Ravaging (Fearful Mobs) count the pieces on the Invader's side - so not the Explorers. (A strict reading would count them, but this is wording for the normal case)

  (The last works differently from Badlands, which care about whether damage is actually done to Dahan pieces.)
  Tags: Ravage, Voice of Command, Fearful Mobs, Xenophobia, 3 more...