Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony)

Frequently Asked Questions

Adversaries

• How does Farmers Seek the Dahan For Aid affect Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 1?
  It doesn't — it changes the next Ravage Card to a Build Card, but doesn't affect the Invader Steps.

  Likewise if the Build is entirely skipped by Immigration Slows, there is still a Build Step and Habsburg Lvl 1 still happens.
  Tags: Build Step, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), Farmers Seek the Dahan for Aid, Immigration Slows, 1 more...
• What does "in board/land order" mean for Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 1?
  It specifies exactly what order lands Gather Towns in: any relevant lands on Board A resolves first (starting with the lowest-numbered land matching a Build card and going up), then Board B, etc. On the thematic boards, go in "reading order" of left to right, top to bottom: NW, NE, W, E, SW, and finally SE.

  You go by order of lands to Gather in to. As usual, they can come from any adjacent land, including on another board.

  The primary motivation for this rule is speed of play – if it's not in a deterministic order, it usually doesn't matter much, but occasionally it really does, and searching for those cases and choosing the precise ordering of lands can slow the whole process down.

  If you want to handle all boards simultaneously for further speed, you can, so long as you avoid Gathering Towns that an earlier land might Gather.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Ordering, Thematic map, Matches, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), 0 more...
• Is the "6 or more damage to the land" check of Kingdom of Sweden's Level 1 Heavy Mining affected by modifiers to the land's health? (e.g., All Things Weaken, the Resilience Aspect for Vital Strength of the Earth)
  Yes. So they would need, e.g., 5 Damage to add 2 Blight if the land has only 1 Health due to "All Things Weaken," but 14 Damage to add 2 Blight in a land with Vital Strength of the Earth {Resilience}'s Sacred Site.

  The same applies for the Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony)'s extra loss condition (which would need 7 Damage in a 1-Health land to count Blight and 16 Damage in such a Sacred Site to count Blight).
  Tags: Damage, Resilience Aspect (Vital Strength of the Earth), Kingdom of Sweden, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), 3 more...
• Which Blight is counted by "Irreparable Damage," The Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) loss condition?
  All Blight added by the individual Ravage Action that deals 6+ overkill to the land, including:

  • The 1 Blight normally added by dealing 2+ Damage to the land in Ravage;
  • Blight added by cascades, including both cascades caused by an unusual condition, like the "Fragile Sands" effect of the Varied Terrains scenario, and "chain" cascades caused by cascading into a land that already has Blight;
  • Blight added by the Ravage due to the Invader Damage meeting a particular condition (e.g., The Kingdom of Sweden's "Heavy Mining" check).

  However, it excludes:

  • Blight added by a separate action "After" the Ravage Action, like from The Kingdom of Scotland's Level 5 "Runoff and Bilgewater" effect;
  • Blight added from box instead of the the Blight Card, like via the "Self-Sacrifice Buys Time" Event or Stone's Unyielding Defiance using "Hold the Island Fast with a Bulwark of Will."
    Tags: Combining Adversaries, Ravage, Blight, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), 6 more...
• For Habsburg Level 1 (Migratory Herders), does it check all Build Cards, or just those in the normal Build Space?
  The intent is that it only checks cards in the Build Space printed on the Invader Board, but that isn't explicitly spelled out for space reasons (and because it doesn't matter 99% of the time). If you play it as written (also checking Build Cards in other places), that's totally fine.

  Situations where it makes a difference include are playing double-Adversary with England Lvl 3+ (the High Immigration step has Build Cards) and the Event Card "Farmers Seek the Dahan for Aid" (which can turn a Ravage Card into a Build Card).
  Tags: Build Step, Build Cards, Combining Adversaries, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), 2 more...
• How many Actions is the Habsburg Livestock Colony Escalation?
  One Action per board with 4 or fewer Blight followed by one additional Action per board with 2 or fewer Blight, for a maximum of 2 Actions per board.

  If you are able to move or destroy the first added Town with a triggered Action, it is possible to choose that land again for the second added Town.
  Tags: Actions, Stage II escalation, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony)
• Does a Build have to happen for Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 1 to Gather Towns?
  No, there is always a Build Step, so the Level 1 "Migratory Herders" effect still Gathers Towns into every matching land, even if a Build Action didn't happen there because there were no Invaders present or because the Build Action was explicitly skipped.
  Tags: Build Step, Skipping Actions, Matches, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), 0 more...
• How does "Invaders skip all actions" in a particular land interact with a Stage II Escalation affecting that land?
  If the Stage II Escalation is an Invader Action (i.e., Ravage, Build, or Explore), it's skipped. Otherwise, it is an Adversary Action and not affected.

  Specifically:

  • Directly skipped (Invader Actions): Kingdom of England, Habsburg Mining Expedition
  • Indirectly skipped (triggered by Invader Actions): Kingdom of Sweden
  • Unskippable: Kingdom of Brandenburg Prussia, Kingdom of France (Plantation Colony), Tsardom of Russia, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), Kingdom of Scotland.

  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Skipping Actions, Stage II escalation, A Year of Perfect Stillness (Vital Strength of the Earth), Paralyzing Fright, 9 more...
• For Durable Invaders from Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 4, what exactly counts as a ‘Destroy all’ effect?
  Only “Destroy everything” or “Destroy all (piece) (in a land or lands)”, like “Destroy all Explorer/Town.” Effects limiting the destruction by something the piece has or did (e.g., “is damaged”, “was just moved”, “has Strife”) are not considered “destroy all” and are converted to Damage like all other destroy effects.

  This is most relevant for Ocean's Hungry Grasp, which has “After Invaders/Dahan are moved into the Ocean, Destroy them”; since this limits what gets destroy to “pieces that moved”, it's not a “destroy all”.
  Tags: Durable, Destroy, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), Ocean In Play (Ocean's Hungry Grasp), 2 more...
• When Towns are Durable (have extra Health) due to Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 4+: If Invaders blight a land during Ravage, does their Towns' extra Health wear off immediately?
  Yes, it drops to normal at the same time as the Blight is added / the Dahan are damaged. If any such Towns have already taken 2+ Damage, they will be destroyed immediately, before Dahan counterattack.
  Tags: Damage, Health, Durable, Ravage, 2 more...
• When against The Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), does "Irreparable Damage" (additional loss condition) check for 8+ Damage each Ravage Action, each Ravage Card, or each Ravage Step? Similarly, over what span is the Blight limit checked?
  Each Ravage Action and the whole game, respectively. It doesn't matter how much Damage is dealt across a Ravage Card or an entire Ravage Step, just how much is dealt by one Ravage Action in one land. And the player-count-based Blight limit never resets – it tracks all Blight added that way across the entire game.
  Tags: Timing, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony)
• 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...
• For Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 4, when "Destroy Town" effects turn to Damage, does that Damage have to respect restrictions on which Towns could have been destroyed?
  Yes. For instance, if you Push a Durable Town into a land affected by Melt Earth Into Quicksand that also has several other Towns, the resulting "2 Damage to Town only" may only be done to the Pushed Town, because that's the only one the Destroy could have affected.

  If you had "Destroy 2 Towns with (Strife)", the 4 Damage could only be done to 2 Towns with Strife. Etc. Basically, consider Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 4's text to read "2 Damage to those Towns" instead of just "2 Damage to Towns". (This wording will be updated in a future printing.)

  This does include "number of Towns", which is relevant for cases like Drought, which can't spread out its "6 Damage to Towns" among 6 different Towns then wipe them all out with "1 Damage to Town/City".
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Durable, Damage, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), Melt Earth Into Quicksand, 2 more...

Definitions

• When you "Remove 3 Health worth of Invaders," can you Remove 3 damaged Towns?
  No, the Health of an Invader doesn't change when it takes Damage. Damaged Towns still count for 2 Health each.

  A few effects (e.g., Kingdom of England Level 5, or some Event/Fear cards) modify Health, which does affect how many Invaders you can Remove. But Damage does not reduce Health. (Health is simply the total amount of Damage it takes to destroy something.)
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Damage, Health, Seek Safety, Belief Takes Root, 16 more...

Effect Rules

• When Blight is added to a land with Vitality, does it destroy Presence?
  Not if there's enough Vitality to prevent all of the Blight from being added.

  Sufficient Vitality will also prevent extra effects of Blight being added, including those from Mining Rush (The Kingdom of Sweden Level 5), Irreparable Damage (The Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Additional Loss Condition), Runoff and Bilgewater (The Kingdom of Scotland Level 5), Fragile Sands (Varied Terrains), and All Things Weaken (Blight Card).
  Tags: Blight, Vitality, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), Kingdom of Sweden, 7 more...
• If pieces in a land are affected by a "do not participate in Ravage" effect, do they also sit out Ravage Actions in other lands?
  Yes, if a modifier to a Ravage checks for pieces in an adjacent land, it also checks if those pieces are participating in Ravage.

  As of the release of Nature Incarnate, this primarily matters in three cases:

  • When "Far-Flung Herds" (The Habsburg Monarchy Livestock Colony Level 6) checks for adjacent Towns in Ravage, it only counts participating Towns.
  • The threshold of "Instruments of their Own Ruin" can't make Ravaging Invaders deal Damage to adjacent Invaders that aren't participating in Ravage.
  • The Event "Network of Support and Trade" only scales its Defend with adjacent Dahan that are participating in Ravage.

  In the rather unusual case where you check if a piece is participating in Ravage for the purpose of one of the above modifiers and then that piece ends up in the Ravaging land mid-Ravage, it continues to either participate or not participate – whichever you originally determined – since participation (or lack thereof) lasts for the entire Ravage Action.

  Action triggered by Ravages, like "Vengeance of the Dead," don't check if Invaders in adjacent lands are participating or not. And similarly, the Fear Card "Tread Carefully" does not check for which Dahan are participating in Ravage, since it locks in its effects when it first resolves, rather than checking for participating pieces during the Ravage Actions themselves.
  Tags: Do not participate in Ravage, Ravage, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), Instruments of their Own Ruin, 2 more...
• When do you resolve a Reminder Card in the Invader Deck when accelerating multiple cards out of the deck (e.g., during the Despicable Theft scenario)?
  If a Reminder Card is revealed in the middle of accelerating the deck, set it aside and then resolve it after the action that caused the acceleration (and any actions it triggered).

  For Despicable Theft in particular, all Thieves in one Coastal land escape as a single action, so if multiple numbered Thieves escape from that land, accelerate the deck from all of them before resolving the revealed Reminder Card.
  Tags: Reminder Cards, Accelerate, Ordering, Despicable Theft, 1 more...
• Are “Destroy” Powers “Damage dealing” Powers when used against Durable Invaders (e.g., for Flame's Fury)?
  Yes.

  For example, Asphyxiating Smoke deals 2 Damage to 1 Durable Town, so that can be increased to 3 Damage to 1 Durable Town by Flame’s Fury.
  Tags: Durable, Badlands, Damage, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), 7 more...
• If an effect prevents a piece from being damaged or destroyed, does that also prevent the piece from being removed or replaced?
  No and no. While "destroying," "removing," and "replacing" all result in a component being taken off the island, they're mutually exclusive effects.

  Similarly, a piece that can't be removed can still be destroyed or replaced.

  A small number of effects separately protect against more than one of Destroy, Remove, and Replace:

  • "Stubborn Solidity," a Unique Power of Stone's Unyielding Defiance, prevents Dahan from being changed in any way.
  • "Fortify Heart and Hearth," a Special Rule of Hearth-Vigil, explicitly prevents Dahan from being destroyed or replaced by Events. (It doesn't prevent them from being removed, but no such Events exist as of the release of Nature Incarnate.)
  • "Thwarting the Sneaky Thieves," a rule in the Despicable Theft scenario, explicitly prevents Thieves from being destroyed, removed, or replaced in certain circumstances.
    Tags: Destroy, Remove, Replace, Saved From Destruction, 28 more...
• If an Invader or Dahan is in a land where it has a Health bonus, takes Damage equal to its normal Health, and then gets moved into a land where it has no Health bonus, where is it actually destroyed? (E.g., for *Vengeance of the Dead*)
  The Invader/Dahan is destroyed in the destination land.

  There's no “in between” state where it loses its Health bonus for being out of the first land, but hasn’t yet arrived in the second land; it’s either in the first land and has a Health bonus or in the second land and doesn’t have a Health bonus.

  Moving a damaged piece into a land where it has a Health penalty works similarly.
  Tags: Health, Damage, Triggered Actions, Durable, 16 more...
• If an effect happens after a particular step of the Invader Phase (e.g., "after the Build Step") and there are multiple Invader cards in the corresponding space, does it happen after resolving each card?
  No, resolve the triggered action(s) after the entire step is over, once you've finished resolving every card in that step. If the triggered action references the corresponding cards, it refers to all of those cards.

  So, for example, when up against Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 1+ and have both a "Jungles" card and a "Mountains+Wetlands" card in the Build Space, then (in order):

  • The Invaders build in Jungles;
  • The Invaders build in Mountains and Wetlands;
  • "Migratory Herders" triggers, gathering Towns from Sands into each Jungle, Mountain, and Wetland.
    Tags: Ordering, Invader deck, Triggered Actions, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), 9 more...
• If an effect happens after a particular step of the Invader Phase (e.g., "after the Build Step") but there are no Invader cards in the corresponding space, does the effect still happen? How about if the card in the space wasn't resolved, or was resolved as a different type (e.g., resolving a card in the Ravage Space as a Build Card)?
  Yes and yes. The steps of the Invader Phase always happen – the Invaders just might not do anything particularly interesting in a given step. For the most common case of this, there is always a Ravage Step on Turn 1, despite no Invader Card being in the Ravage Space.

  To cover some of the prominent cases:

  • "Pressure for Fast Profit" (The Tsardom of Russia Level 6) and the "Invested Aristocracy" Event both add extra Invaders on boards where the Ravage Step added no Blight even if there was no chance to add Blight because no Ravage Cards were being resolved. (Fortunately, neither happens on Turn 1 – the latter because it can't resolve on Turn 1, and the former because it explicitly excludes Turn 1.)
  • "Migratory Herders" (The Habsburg Monarchy Livestock Colony Level 1) attempts to gather Towns even if no Build Card was resolved that turn. That being said, if there's no Build Card in the Build Space, this Adversary effect won't actually do anything because there are no matching lands to gather into.
  • "Mining Boom" (Habsburg Mining Expedition Levels 3 & 5) upgrades and potentially builds even if no Build Card was resolved that turn.
  • The "Voracious Consumption," "Ransack and Ruin," and "Visions Out of Time" Events all resolve their "After the Ravage Step" effects even if no Ravage Card was resolved.
  • In The Great River scenario, "Population Spills Across the River" causes extra Build and Explore actions in Coastal lands even if no Invader Cards are resolved in the corresponding Step.
    Tags: Triggered Actions, Build Step, Tsardom of Russia, Invested Aristocracy, 10 more...
• Does a cascade count as part of the action that added the original Blight (e.g., for effects that care about Blight being added during a Ravage Action)?
  Yes. This means that a Ravage in one land can, via cascading, add Blight into another land, even one on another board.

  For specific examples:

  • The "Destructive Nature" special rule of Heart of the Wildfire protects its Presence from cascades caused by Spirit Actions.
  • Against the Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), if a single Ravage Action causes 8+ Damage to a land, then all of the Blight cascading from that Ravage also counts towards the Adversary's "Irreparable Damage" loss condition. (In solo play, this causes an immediate loss.)
  • Against the Tsardom of Russia Level 1+, Blight cascading from a Ravage destroys Beasts tokens due to "Hunters Bring Home Shell and Hide," possibly harvesting multiple Beasts tokens from a single Ravage Action.
  • Against the Kingdom of Scotland Level 5+, Blight cascading into a Coastal land from a Ravage triggers the extra Blight from "Runoff and Bilgewater" even if the Ravage Action was in an Inland land or on a different board. If Blight is added into multiple Coastal lands this way due to a single Ravage Action (e.g., if a Ravage in a Coastal land cascades into another Coastal land), only trigger "Runoff and Bilgewater" once. (Thus if a single Ravage Action adds Blight into Coastal lands on multiple boards, player choose which of those boards is "that board" for "Runoff and Bilgewater.")

  However, cascading Blight against the Kingdom of Sweden Level 5+ doesn't activate the "Mining Rush" effect, since "Mining Rush" explicitly excludes cascades.
  Tags: Ravage, Blight, Victory and Defeat, Solo games, 6 more...

Event Cards

• If the "Xenophobia" Event stops each individual Invader from dealing Damage to the land (but leaves them dealing Damage to Dahan), do Ravage Damage bonuses increase Damage dealt to the land?
  No. In order for per-land Damage bonuses to apply, at least one Invader must be dealing more than 0 damage. (See the Ravage Timing sidebar on page 7 of the Jagged Earth rulebook.) This is checked separately for "damage to the land" and "damage to Dahan".

  Damage to the land and to the Dahan are tallied separately. The vast majority of the time, these Damage amounts are the same until applying any Badlands in the land, so it's not worth the trouble of computing them independently until Badlands are checked in Step 4. The "Xenophobia" Event can make the Damage amounts diverge back in Step 1, which means that the Damage bonuses in Step 2 can potentially apply differently to those totals.

  This most commonly comes up against the Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 6, which can grant +2 Ravage Damage per land. If only Explorers are Ravaging, "Xenophobia" makes each of those Explorers deal 0 Damage to the land. Since none of the Ravaging Invaders can harm the land, there is no Damage to the land for the Adversary to increase. On the other hand, since the Explorers are still dealing Damage to the Dahan, the Adversary can increase that Damage total by 2. (This can also arise with more complicated Invader configurations if Strife or the "Mesmerized Tranquility" Minor Power are involved.)
  Tags: Ravage, Xenophobia, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony)
• When War Touches the Island’s Shores does Damage in a land where Rising Heat of Stone and Sand has exactly 2 Presence, can you take advantage of the Health penalty from Blistering Heat to Destroy Invaders?
  Yes. There is no point at which Rising Heat's Presence has already been destroyed by the Blight, but Invaders haven't yet been checked for taking enough Damage to destroy them.

  This also applies to Far-Off Wars Touch the Island against Durable Invaders.
  Tags: Blight, Timing, Health, Durable, 5 more...
• 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...

General Play

• How are ties handled when checking for the "most," "least," or "fewest"? How about if there's an all-way tie for 0?
  Players break ties every time there's a check for most, least, or fewest. So, for example, if there are multiple lands that tie for "the land with the most Invaders," the players choose which single land land counts for this specific effect. If they later have to check again for the land with the most Invaders, they are not required to break the tie in the same way.

  Unless an explicit minimum is given, 0 is a valid amount for both "most" and "fewest." So when "Ports Sprawl Outward" (Escalation of The Kingdom of Scotland) checks for "the single board with the most Coastal Towns/Cities," players could break the tie in favor of a board with no Coastal Towns/Cities if none of the other boards have any Coastal Towns/Cities either.

  In the less common case where an effect checks for multiple things ranked in a particular way, keep choosing things until you have the requisite number, breaking ties as needed along the way. So for example, when "Wave of Immigration" (Level 5 of The Habsburg Monarchy Livestock Colony) checks for "the 3 Inland lands with the fewest Blight" on a board where 2 Inland lands have 0 Blight and 3 Inland lands have 1 Blight, the Adversary affects:

  • Both lands with 0 Blight, since one of them is the land with the fewest Blight and one is the land with the second-fewest Blight (though it doesn't matter which is which);
  • One player-chosen land with 1 Blight, since the remaining lands are all equally-valid choices for having the third-fewest Blight.

  That is, it affects 3 total Inland lands, prioritizing lands with fewer Blight, rather than affecting Inland lands that are mutually tied for the fewest Blight (max. 3 lands). In the rare case that you don't even have enough items to rank (in this case, having fewer than 3 Inland lands), affect all qualifying lands.
  Tags: Stage II escalation, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Sweden, 22 more...
• When a piece or the land has both a bonus and a malus to Health, can players benefit from the standard "min. 1" limit on the malus by applying all of the penalties before the bonuses?
  No, the restriction that Health can't go below 1 applies to the final Health at the end of the computation, not on any intermediate state where only some of the Health modifiers have been applied. Apply all of the bonuses and maluses at once to get the final Health value, and then apply the "min 1." limit at the end.

  This mostly comes up when there are multiple maluses at once or when a single malus is -2 or more. For example, if the land is under the effect of "All Things Weaken" (-1 Health), "Depleted Soil" (-1 Health in lands with Towns/Cities), and "Anchor the Land's Resilience" (+8 Health in Sacred Sites of Vital Strength of the Earth's Resilience Aspect), the final total is 2−1−1+8=8 Health for the land, even though applying the penalties "first" made the Health 0 in the middle of the computation.
  Tags: Health, Durable, All Things Weaken, The Land's Bounty Exhausted, 19 more...

Invader Actions

• 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...

Play Options

• When combining the two Habsburg Adversaries, when does Migratory Herders (Livestock Colony Level 1) Gather check which lands match the Salt Deposits card (Mining Expedition Level 4)?
  Migratory Herders checks which lands match (i.e., non-Mining lands) after the Build Step is over. Builds in the non-Mining Lands might turn them into Mining Lands before Towns are Gathered, reducing the number of lands where Migratory Herders does anything. The list of lands that will be Gathered into is fixed at this point, before any Gathers happen.

  However, which lands can be gathered from, the lands that don't match (i.e., Mining lands) is checked when actually Gathering the Town, so it's possible to Gather a Town into a non-Mining land to turn that land into a Mining land, and then Gather that Town into the next non-Mining land.

  Tags: Combining Adversaries, Matches, Timing, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), 1 more...

Scenarios

• In the Great River Scenario, if a Town with a Health bonus and 2 Damage taken moves off the island due to Relentless Migration Eastwards, is it Destroyed or does it remain on the Scenario Card?
  It remains on the Scenario Card. The Scenario checks if it successfully exited the island, not what state it would be in after the move if it ended up in a place where it didn’t have a Health bonus.
  Tags: Durable, The Great River, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony)
• When the Invaders do an extra set of actions during Setup in the Blitz Scenario, does that include any Adversary effects that happen during or trigger after the Build/Explore Step?
  No, while the Invaders are resolving a Build Card and two Explore Cards, they are doing so during Setup, not during the Build Step or Explore Step (which are part of the Invader Phase).

  In particular, the following effects don't apply during Blitz setup because they reference specific steps of the Invader Phase or explicitly exclude setup.

  • "Frontier Explorers" (The Kingdom of France Plantation Colony Level 1) and "Trading Port" (The Kingdom of Scotland Level 1) don't change which pieces are added during or after Exploring – not even from the second Explore Card – because they don't apply during setup.
  • "Migratory Herders" (The Habsburg Monarchy Livestock Colony Level 1) doesn't gather Towns.
  • "More Rural Than Urban" (The Habsburg Monarchy Livestock Colony Level 2) doesn't build 2 Towns in place of building an Inland City, since play hasn't started yet.
  • "Ceaseless Mining" (Habsburg Mining Expedition Level 1) doesn't cause Ravage Actions in Mining lands.
  • "Mining Boom" (Habsburg Mining Expedition Levels 3 & 5) doesn't upgrade or build anything.

  ... but these effects do happen during setup:

  • "Slave Labor" (The Kingdom of France Plantation Colony Level 2) does upgrade Explorers after Building in lands with 2+ Explorers.
  • "Persistent Explorers" (The Kingdom of France Plantation Colony Level 6) does add an Explorer after each of the two Explore Cards.
  • "The Empire Ascendant" (Habsburg Mining Expedition Level 6) does add extra Explorers (and stack with the extra Explorer from Blitz!), since it explicitly applies during Setup.

  ... and these effects can happen during setup, but are unlikely to do so:

  • "Triangle Trade" (The Kingdom of France Plantation Colony Level 4) does add a Town as part of Building a Coastal City, though this only happens if the first Explore Card matches a land with a Coastal Town.
  • "Indentured Servants Earn Land" (The Kingdom of England Level 1) and "Chart the Coastline" (The Kingdom of Scotland Level 3) both allow building in lands without Invaders, albeit in a way that's unlikely to matter unless the first Invader Card matches a land that has a Wilds in it during Setup.

  Tags: Island setup, Matches, Thematic map, Blitz, 5 more...

Setup

• What counts as the end of Setup for “During Play” Adversary/Scenario effects? And how are they different from “After Setup” effects?
  During Play effects do not affect Setup, but do affect normal gameplay. Setup normally ends with the initial Explore, with normal gameplay starting with the first Spirit Phase, but some Adversaries and Scenarios have Setup instructions that happen after the initial Explore and before the game starts.

  There is no difference between During Play and After Setup effects that happen more than once. With Jagged Earth turning "after" into a key word for Triggered Actions, if "after Setup" were interpreted as strictly as possible, it would make the associated effect happen exactly once, between Setup and Spirits choosing Growth Options on the first turn. With the exception of Guard the Isle's Heart, which explicitly adds an extra step to Setup, "after Setup" effects from Jagged Earth and earlier should be interpreted as "During Play."
  Tags: Guard the Isle's Heart, Kingdom of France, Varied Terrains, Despicable Theft, 3 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• If an effect changes the Health of all pieces that meet a particular condition, does that affect pieces in The Endless Dark?
  Yes, so long as it checks the traits of the piece itself (e.g., what type it is, how much Strife it has) rather than the traits of the land it’s in (e.g., if Blight is present, if at least 3+ Invaders are present).
  Tags: Health, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Kingdom of England, 9 more...
• What happens if Fractured Days Split the Sky uses Visions of a Shifting Future on the Invader deck, and there is a reminder card right below the top card?
  Set aside the reminder card, look at the top Invader Card, and shuffle the top two Invader Cards (one of which was previously below the reminder card). Then put the cards back on top of the deck, with the reminder card below the top card.

  If you instead choose to put the top Invader Card on the bottom of the deck, resolve the reminder card before moving on with the rest of the Slow Power Phase.

  Unless otherwise specified, Reminder Cards mark a position in the deck. They are not Invader Cards.
  Tags: Reminder Cards, Invader deck, Visions of a Shifting Future (Fractured Days Split the Sky), Fractured Days Split the Sky, 1 more...
• Do Adversary effects based on lands (e.g., the loss condition of the Kingdom of England) work in The Endless Dark?
  No, The Endless Dark is not a land for Adversaries.

  In particular:

  • The Kingdom of England can't count The Endless Dark as a "Proud and Mighty Capital" to cause a loss.
  • The Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) can't make Towns Durable there with "Herds Thrive in Verdant Lands."
  • The Habsburg Mining Expedition can't match The Endless Dark with its Salt Deposits card, nor can Russia match The Endless Dark to a Ravage Card via "Competition Among Hunters."

  However, Towns in The Endless Dark are still not available to be placed against the Kingdom of France.
  Tags: Matches, Victory and Defeat, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Kingdom of England, 5 more...
• When the Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 2+ would Build a City in an Inland Fathomless Mud Sacred Site, how many Explorers get Built?
  One or two Explorers, your choice.

  If you choose to apply Offer No Firm Foundations first, it switches the Build from a City to an Explorer, so More Rural Than Urban doesn’t apply. On the other hand, if you choose to apply More Rural Than Urban first, it switches the Build from a City to two Towns, which Offer No Firm Foundations then switches to two Explorers.
  Tags: Build, Action Modifiers, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), Offer No Firm Foundations (Fathomless Mud of the Swamp), 1 more...
• When exactly do you have to pay for Finder's rule Responsibilities to the Dead when you move something?
  There are two cases where Finder of Paths Unseen must pay:

  • When Finder moves a piece in a way that decreases the Health of a damaged Invader/Dahan so it has now taken lethal Damage (one of many ways Finder's action can destroy the Dahan/Invaders with its own action);
  • When Finders move an Invader/Dahan in a way that directly triggers their destruction by another action (Finder directly triggering their destruction by moving them).

  The first case can happen by causing a Health penalty (e.g., Pushing a damaged Town/City into a Sacred Site of Rising Heat of Stone and Sand) or removing a Health bonus (e.g., Pushing damaged Dahan out of a land with "Infinite Vitality" or Gathering a Blight into a land with a damaged Durable Town against Habsburg Monarchy Livestock Colony Level 4).

  The second case most commonly occurs in conjunction with Powers like "Melt Earth Into Quicksand" and "Call to Guard," and when teaming up with Ocean's Hungry Grasp to Push Invaders into the Ocean (but not when moving Heart of the Wildfire's Presence, since moving the Invaders/Dahan isn't what triggers "Blazing Presence").

  If something prevents the destruction, then Finder does not need to pay. If one triggered action triggers another triggered action that causes destruction (like moving pieces into another Spirit's "Bargain of Coursing Paths," which then moves those pieces into another Spirit's "Melt Earth Into Quicksand"), this does not count as "directly triggering" the destruction.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Triggered Actions, Durable, Health, Responsibilities to the Dead (Finder of Paths Unseen), 8 more...
• What happens if the Durable Towns of Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 4 are moved into the Ocean? Do they Drown? Does Ocean's Hungry Grasp gain Energy?
  Maybe. Drowning is a special form of Destroy, so it works just like a restricted Destroy effect ("2 Damage to those Towns only" per Town moved into the Ocean). It only grants Energy for Invaders successfully destroyed by that Destroy instruction.

  E.g., After you move a Town into an Ocean, the Town takes 2 Damage. If that’s enough to Destroy it (because the Ocean has Blight or the Town was already Damaged), then it Drowns normally. Otherwise, it follows the usual rules for Invaders/Dahan that fail to drown in the Ocean: you Push it to a non-Ocean land. If the land it goes to has Blight, it will immediately be Destroyed, but Ocean’s Hungry Grasp will not gain Energy.

  If 4 undamaged Towns are pushed into the Ocean with a single Action, that results in “8 Damage to those Towns only”, which you could distribute as you wished. If you used it to immediately Destroy 2 of the Towns, those Towns would be successfully Drowned and grant Energy.
  Tags: Destroy, Durable, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), Ocean In Play (Ocean's Hungry Grasp), 2 more...
• When Rising Heat of Stone and Sand has exactly two Presence in a land with a Durable Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Town that has taken one Damage, what happens with Blight is added to the land?
  The Town is destroyed.

  To lay out the steps in detail:

  1. Heat has two Presence. The Town has 1 Damage and 3 Health.
  2. Blight is added. The Town has 1 Damage and 1 Health.
  3. Destroy one Presence (Blight was added) and the Town (it took Damage equal to or greater than its Health).
     Tags: Blight, Timing, Blistering Heat (Rising Heat of Stone and Sand), Rising Heat of Stone and Sand, 1 more...
• What happens if 1 or more Invaders/Dahan moved into the Ocean aren't successfully destroyed by the Ocean in Play special rule?
  Push them to non-Ocean lands (as part of the same action). If the Push also fails somehow (perhaps due to Isolate), the pieces will be left in an illegal state and cleaned up to the nearest land after all triggered actions complete – human pieces cannot remain in the Ocean between "action trees" (a primary action and all other actions following from it). Regardless, Ocean's Hungry Grasp does not get Energy for them.

  This isn't formally specified on Ocean's panel because it's virtually never relevant with just the core game, and spelling it out would both take up a lot of space and needlessly increase complexity / confusion-potential for players who only have the base game. However, it becomes very relevant when playing vs. The Habsburg Monarchy Lvl 4+ (Jagged Earth), which blunts "Destroy Town" effects; see this FAQ if you need details.

  The fact that the Push is part of the triggered action means that it can trigger further actions – e.g., "Melt Earth Into Quicksand" or "Call to Guard" in the land Pushed to – which cleaning up illegally placed pieces does not do.

  As a very specific edge-case, if the Ocean is also a normal land due to "Weave Together the Fabric of Place," humans can hang out there without trouble (until end of turn when the effect expires).
  Tags: Illegally placed pieces, Triggered Actions, Push, Durable, 13 more...
• Can Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares destroy already-damaged pieces by giving them a Health penalty or causing them to lose a Health bonus? (E,g,. moving a Dahan that has taken 2+ Damage out of a land where it's getting a Health bonus from "Promises of Protection.")
  Yes. The Power itself isn't performing any explicit "damage" or "destroy" effects, which is what "To Dream a Thousand Deaths" modifies; it's just changing the Health of the piece. From that, the game's core rules cause the piece to be destroyed.

  The destruction does still happen within the scope of the action (Power), so triggered actions like "Vengeance of the Dead" trigger after the action (Power) is complete.

  The most common ways for this to happen are:

  • Replacing a damaged piece with another piece type that has less Health;
  • Moving a damaged piece into a land where it has a Health penalty or out of a land where it has a Health bonus;
  • Adding Strife to a damaged Invader while a Fear Card reduces Invader Health based on the amount of Strife they have.
    Tags: Damage, Health, Replace, To Dream a Thousand Deaths (Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares), 9 more...