Disease

Frequently Asked Questions

Adversaries

• Against the Habsburg Mining Expedition Level 1+, does Disease only prevent Ravages in Mining lands during the Build Step?
  No, Disease in Mining lands will prevent any Ravage, including those caused by Ravage/Build Cards (common), Events (uncommon), or Powers (rare).
  Tags: Disease, Build Step, Ravage, Habsburg Mining Expedition, 0 more...
• Does the Kingdom of France's "Slave Labor" effect, converting Explorers into Towns, trigger if they don't Build normally?
  No, it doesn't. The effect happens "After Invaders Build", so if they are prevented from building (by Disease, or by skipping actions for one reason or another), then it doesn't trigger.

  By the same token, if the Invaders get an extra Build for any reason, the effect would trigger then.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Build, Disease, Kingdom of France
• If Habsburg Mining Expedition Level 1+ would Ravage in a land with Disease, then an Event ignores Disease during Builds, does the Disease still prevent that Ravage?
  No, the Ravage happens normally.

  Ceaseless Mining makes modifiers to Disease (in this case, making Disease do nothing) apply to Ravages in addition to Builds.
  Tags: Disease, Action Modifiers, Lingering Plagues, Irregular Outbreaks, 1 more...

Event Cards

• When an Event stops Disease from preventing Builds, is that Disease still removed when Invaders Build?
  No, Disease is only removed by a Build Action as part of skipping that action.
  Tags: Disease, Lingering Plagues, Irregular Outbreaks
• When Disease events do damage to Dahan, is the damage reduced by Defend powers?
  No, since it is not the Invaders doing damage.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Damage, Dahan, Disease, Defend, 8 more...

Fear and Fear Cards

• How does Overseas Trade Seems Safer at Terror 2 ("Invaders do not Build Cities in Coastal Lands this turn") interact with Disease?
  Treat Overseas Trade Seems Safer as skipping the Build if a City would get built (ie, Towns > Cities). So for Disease, you can choose to apply the Overseas Trade skip first, preserving the Disease token.
  Tags: Disease, Overseas Trade Seems Safer

General Play

• Can a land have multiple copies of a given token (e.g., two Disease)? Can multiple Strife be attached to a single Invader?
  Yes and yes.

  How this works depends on the token.

  • Badlands: Each Badlands token separately contributes its Damage bonus to each action that deals Damage in the land.
  • Disease: When Invaders would Build in that land, skip the Build Action, remove one Disease, and leave the rest of the Disease in the land.
  • Strife: When the Invader the Strife is attached to would deal Damage to the land or to Dahan, remove one Strife from that Invader, reduce the Damage dealt by that Invader to 0, and leave the rest of the Strife attached to the Invader.
  • Vitality: When Blight would be added to that land, remove one Vitality per added Blight to prevent that Blight from being added, leaving the rest of the Vitality in the land.
  • Wilds: When Invaders would Explore in that land, skip the Explore Action, remove one Wilds, and leave the rest of the Wilds in the land.

  And all tokens (including Beasts tokens and Deeps tokens) get counted separately for effects that scale with the number of those tokens in the land (e.g., "1 Damage per Beasts token.")
  Tags: Beasts, Strife, Disease, Badlands, 6 more...

Power Cards

• Does Fragments of Yesteryear restore the Disease and Beasts added as part of Branch & Claw / Jagged Earth setup on the balanced boards?
  No, since those are not printed setup symbols, unlike the tokens printed on the thematic boards. However, restoring them is the more thematic option, so you're welcome to do that if your group is willing to take the extra time to figure out where the Beasts started.

  If you want to put in a bit more work, the most thematic option is to restore the land to how it looked at the end of setup, including the first Explore and all Spirit, Adversary, and Scenario setup. If you need to add Presence for a Spirit, use their destroyed Presence; if they don't have enough destroyed Presence, add as much as you can. Depending on the exact combination of Adversaries, Scenarios, and Spirits, this may require a good memory or photographs of the starting board state to track variable setup options (e.g., where Ocean's Hungry Grasp put its second Presence).
  Tags: Spirit setup, Island setup, Disease, Beasts, 2 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• Can Vengeance as a Burning Plague let the Habsburg Mining Expedition Ravage in Mining lands with Disease in order to earn Fear?
  Yes.

  The Terror of a Slowly Unfolding Plague modifies how Disease works, so Ceaseless Mining lets it apply to Ravages in Mining lands.
  Tags: Disease, Action Modifiers, Vengeance as a Burning Plague, The Terror of a Slowly Unfolding Plague (Vengeance as a Burning Plague), 1 more...
• If Vengeance uses its 'The Terror of a Slowly Unfolding Plague' special rule to let Invaders Build in a land with multiple Disease, how much Fear does it generate?
  1 Fear total. The special rule checks if Disease would prevent a Build, not how much Disease is present.
  Tags: Fear, Disease, Vengeance as a Burning Plague, The Terror of a Slowly Unfolding Plague (Vengeance as a Burning Plague), 0 more...
• Does the event Lingering Plagues *("....Ignore Disease during Builds this Invader Phase")* stop Vengeance from gaining Fear by letting Builds happen where there's Disease?
  No, Vengeance may still gain the Fear. Lingering Plagues should be read as "Disease doesn't prevent Builds this Invader Phase" - it modifies the same thing ("When Disease would prevent a Build") as The Terror of a Slowly Unfolding Plague, so you can choose to apply the latter first.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Action Modifiers, Disease, Build, Lingering Plagues, 3 more...