Fortification

Errata / Updates

Effect Rules

• Branch & Claw, Core game - all printings
  Errata / clarification on older materials with imprecise wording -- Some earlier game materials use terms that are now ambiguous with the more precise terminology introduced in Jagged Earth. For the most part, they work just as they always have, but in case additional clarity is needed:

  • Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares - their Special Rule is a modifier - when your Power would Destroy Invaders, instead generate Fear (and perhaps Push them).
  • France lvl 6 - "After the normal Explore Phase," should read "After resolving an Explore Card,"
  • Event: Fortification - first sentence should read: After advancing Invader Cards: perform a Build Step for one terrain not shown under any Invader Action.
  • Event: Cash Crops Take Hold - first sentence should read: Perform a Ravage Step for one terrain not shown under any Invader Action.

  The only mechanical change is that France 6 will behave slightly differently if there are 0 or 2+ Explore cards in a turn, adding one Explorer per card instead of a flat 1.

  See also Errata / Clarification on which items are triggered actions and New Nomenclature Roundup.
  Tags: Kingdom of France, Fortification, New Cash Crops Take Hold

Frequently Asked Questions

Adversaries

• Does Ceaseless Mining (Habsburg Mining Expedition Level 1) cause Ravages in Mining lands from extra Build Steps (e.g., from High Immigration when combining with the Kingdom of England)?
  No, Ceaseless Mining only affects the ordinary Build Step corresponding to the Build Space printed on the Invader Board, since it refers to the Build Step. Build Cards in extra Build Steps will Build normally.

  Similarly, Mining Boom (Levels 3 & 5) won't trigger after extra Build Steps, and The Empire Ascendant (Level 6) won't affect Explore Cards resolved during extra Explore Steps.
  Tags: Combining Adversaries, Build Step, Fortification, Kingdom of England, 1 more...
• With Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 5 (Wave of Immigration), do you do the effect before or after the Explore on that turn?
  After completely resolving the Explore Card above it, but before resolving the Adversary's "After the Explore Step" Escalation. If you're resolving another Explore Card that turn, e.g., because you're playing the Surges of Colonization scenario, resolve the effects of the Reminder Card before revealing the next Explore Card. Similarly, the effects of the Reminder Card happen before anything triggered by Advancing the Invader Cards, like the extra Build Step caused by the "Fortification" Event.

  Formally, Reminder Cards resolve once you're done resolving the Invader Card above them. (Or, in unusual cases like this FAQ, if they end up atop the Invader Deck.)

  This ruling originally implied that the "Seek Prime Territory" Escalation happens first. Because the timing of the Escalation was made more explicit in later printings, this ruling has been updated accordingly.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Invader deck, Ordering, Reminder Cards, Combining Adversaries, 6 more...

Event Cards

• How does a Stage II Coastal Lands card interact with the "Fortification" event *(After advancing Invader Cards: Invaders Build in one terrain not shown under any Invader Action)*?
  It doesn't – it is treated as though the card were blank, since "Coastal Lands" is not a terrain type.

  Similarly, "Fortification" doesn't interact with any unique Invader Cards that don't correspond to the four terrains: Jungle, Mountain, Sands, and Wetland.
  (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Terrain, Strange Tales Attract Explorers, Fortification, New Cash Crops Take Hold, 0 more...

General Play

• When an effect checks for lands that don't match a Ravage Card / Build Card, but there are currently multiple Invader Cards of that type, do you choose a specific Invader Card?
  No, find lands that match none of the Invader Cards / that match at least one of the Invaders Cards. So, e.g., if the current Build Cards are "Coastal Lands" and "Jungles," then the "Extensive Building" Event ("On Each Board: Build in a land with Invaders not matching a Build Card.") must Build on each board in a land that is neither Coastal nor a Jungle.

  The top option of "Hard-Working Settlers" ("Immediately Ravage in the land with the most Invaders that matches a Ravage Card.") works in a similar way: players aren't choosing a Ravage Card and finding the most-populated land matching that card (allowing them to choose a card with a favorable Ravage); they're looking at all lands that match at least one of the Ravage Cards and finding the most-populated land amongst all of those lands.

  If there's a card in an extra Invader Space (such as a Build Card in the "High Immigration" tile from the Kingdom of England Level 3) or an effect that changes the type of an Invader Card (like the "Farmers Seek the Dahan for Aid" Event), then be sure to check that card too! For example, if the card in the High Immigration space is "Sands" and the card in the Build Space is "Mountains + Wetlands," then "a land that doesn't match a Build Card" can't be Sands, Mountains, or Wetlands – you have to pick a Jungle. (The "Migratory Herders" effect of The Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) is intended to be an exception, but strictly speaking isn't written as one.)

  Don't forget effects that change which lands match each card! For example, "Competition Among Hunters" (The Tsardom of Russia Level 3) makes lands with 3+ Explorers match all Ravage Cards, such such lands don't count as lands "not matching a Ravage Card" unless there are no Raavge Cards. Similarly, if "Weave Together the Fabric of Place" joins two lands of different terrains, then that land only counts as not matching a Build Card if neither of its terrains match any of the Build Cards.
  Tags: Build Cards, Combining Adversaries, Matches, Kingdom of England, 13 more...

Invader Actions

• If an effect *(e.g., "A Year of Perfect Stillness")* makes "Invaders skip all actions", what is affected? How is this different from "Skip all Invader actions"?
  Both phrases mean the same thing: any time the Invaders would Ravage, Build or Explore in that land that turn, skip the Ravage/Build/Explore action in that land only.

  All such actions in that land are skipped, even if you'd rather let them happen. This includes any normal actions that come from the Invader cards, and also any extra actions that come from effects like the power "Manifest Incarnation" or the event "New Cash Crops Take Hold." (See the B&C rulebook, p. 15, for the distinction between "normal" and "extra" actions.)

  This doesn't skip anything the Invaders do due to an Adversary effect, Scenario effect, or Event card unless explicitly the words "Ravage," "Build," or "Explore." For example, when up against Habsburg Mining Expedition, while "A Year of Perfect Stillness" skips the Build half of "Mining Boom (II)," it does not skip the Upgrade.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Skipping Actions, A Year of Perfect Stillness (Vital Strength of the Earth), Paralyzing Fright, Indomitable Claim, 5 more...
• 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.)
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Normal Action, Bureaucrats Adjust Funding, Panicked by Wild Beasts, Pour Time Sideways (Fractured Days Split the Sky), 3 more...
• What happens when multiple Invader Cards are in the same space on the Invader Board? (e.g., due to Explorers are Reluctant)
  In the corresponding step of the Invader Phase, resolve each card one at a time, starting with the oldest card – the one closest to the Invader Board. When Invader Cards advance at the end of the Invader Phase, the cards move together. [B&C p. 14, JE p. 11]

  Each card separately determines where it creates Invader Actions. If a land matches multiple cards, it can thus get an Invader Action from each one! Clarifications for specific actions:

  • Ravage: Defend applies separately to each Ravage. Only add Blight if a single Ravage deals 2+ Damage to the land. In the uncommon case that a Ravage created by the first card adds or moves Invaders, it can change which lands Ravage due to the second card.
  • Build: Towns/Cities added by the first Build Card affect what is built in that land by the second Build Card.
  • Explore: Pieces added by the first Explore Card can be sources for the second Explore Card, though this only matters if something makes an Explore Action add Towns/Cities or allows Explorers to be sources.

  Anything effect that checks which lands match the Invader Cards in a particular space (e.g., the Hard-Working Settlers Event) or the terrains showing on those cards (e.g., the Fortification Event), checks all of those cards. (It generally won't matter how many times those lands match or those terrains appear, just if they do.)
  Tags: Invader deck, Matches, Tsardom of Russia, Surges of Colonization, 6 more...
• I'm confused - when do restrictions like "there must be Invaders" for Build and "there must be a source of Explorers" for Explore apply?
  Those apply when resolving Invader Cards – specifically, when making a list of what lands are affected by the Invader Card (JE rulebook p. 27)

  If an Event tells you to perform a single Build action – e.g., "On Each Board: Build in a land with Dahan" – don't check whether that land has Invaders.

  But if it tells you to resolve an entire Build Step / Build Card for a particular terrain, it works just like it would if you had a physical card – you're making a list of which lands match and will be affected, so the normal Build/Explore restrictions apply. The Events "Fortification" and "New Cash Crops Take Hold" work this way (and do not usually build in empty lands), though it's not how they're phrased. (See the Errata in the JE rulebook p. 27)
  Tags: Build, Explore, Ravage, Events, 3 more...