Influx of Settlers

Frequently Asked Questions

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 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.
  Tags: Counts As, Swallowed by the Wilderness (Lure of the Deep Wilderness), Lure of the Deep Wilderness, Beset by Many Troubles, 28 more...