Ordering

Frequently Asked Questions

Adversaries

• With Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 5 (Wave of Immigration), do you do the effect before or after the Explore on that turn?
  After.

  The reminder card is not revealed until you advance the Invader cards, the last step of the Invader Phase.
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• 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.

  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.
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General Play

• How does "resolve powers in the order they're written" work for things like "If you have (elements), +1 Range"?
  Internal modifiers like this – a Power changing its own Speed, Range, or other targeting – are looked at when they're relevant (like during targeting), not during normal Power resolution. This is an exception to "do things strictly in order once using the Power".

  This is also the case for Powers like The Jungle Hungers, where a threshold modifies the instructions earlier in the Power. Technically, every use of "Instead..." in an innate power works this way; it's pretty simple for human minds to understand the intent, but the formal specification is messier.

  Also related: A Power that is 100% internal modifiers doesn't do anything, so can't be targeted/used for things like Scream Disease Into the Wind..
  Tags: Resolving Powers, Range Boosts, Speed (Fast/Slow), Targeting, 6 more...

Invader Actions

• When doing an Invader action (Explore, Build, or Ravage), can you choose which lands they act in first?
  Yes. The card tells you which lands to act in, but then the players can choose which of those lands happen first. At Invader Stage III, you can do lands of the two shown terrains in any order; you don't need to fully resolve one terrain before resolving the other terrain.

  The order Explore Actions rarely matters, even if those Explores add a new source of Invaders. Similarly, the order of Build Actions rarely matters, even against Kingdom of England Level 1+.

  The order does sometimes matter for Ravages, due to Blight cascades, flipping the Blight Card, or uncommon effects that change the amount of Invaders in a land that is already Ravaging, but the order won't change which lands Ravage even against Kingdom of Sweden Level 5+ or Tsardom of Russia Level 3+.

  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Explore, Build, Ravage, Ordering, 0 more...
• When a Ravage changes which pieces are in other lands, can that cause additional Ravages from the current Ravage Card?
  No. Determine which lands will Ravage before resolving any of those Ravages. A land with no Invaders at this point won't Ravage even if Invaders are later added or moved there. However:

  • If a land already has Invaders participating in Ravage, the new Invaders will also participate in that Ravage. Depending on how well the land is Defended and how many Dahan are present, this could be good (more Invaders destroyed in the counterattack) or bad (the Ravage now adds Blight from the extra Damage). You can resolve the two Ravages in whichever order is more advantageous.
  • If there's another Ravage Card this turn, that card can now cause Ravages in any matching lands that are no longer empty.

  This applies both to lands that "naturally" match the Ravage Card (e.g., a Jungle when the Ravage Card is Sands+Jungles) and to lands that match the Ravage Card due to an extra effect (e.g., lands with 3+ Explorers against the Tsardom of Russia Level 3+). Thus, for instance, against the Tsardom of Russia level 3+, if a Ravage pushes an Explorer by the Level 2 effect A Sense for Impending Disaster, it will not cause a Ravage to happen by the Level 3 effect Competition Among Hunters from the same card, but can cause a Ravage from a following Ravage Card added by the Level 5 effect Entrench in the Face of Fear.

  Explore and Build Cards work similarly, albeit without the concern around the amount of Damage.
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• Does the order of Builds matter to determine what Builds for Kingdom of England at Level 1+ or Kingdom of Scotland Level 3+?
  No. You look at the board position before the Build Card. (The England Adversary card explains this.) Thus Towns or Cities added do not count for further Builds coming from the same Build card.

  If there is more than one Invader Card in the Build spot, then Towns and Cities added from the first card do count for the second card. Likewise if there is a build from England's High Immigration: Any buildings added from that rule will count for (e.g.) the regular Build. In general, you check what lands will Build at the beginning of looking at the Build Card.

  The Jagged Earth rulebook (p. 27) clarifies that this is the general rule, also applying to Explore and Ravage Cards.
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• When an Explore Card adds new sources of Invaders (e.g., adding a Towns via Kingdom of Scotland Level 1 or the Event "Promising Farmland") are the Invaders able to immediately Explore from that new source?
  No. When resolving an Explore Card, first you note which lands have nearby sources, then you resolve all Explore Actions in those lands — in an order of your choice, if relevant.

  Nevertheless, if there is a second Explore Card (e.g., due to the Explorers are Reluctant Fear Card), the new sources will matter for that Explore Card.

  This applies similarly to Build Cards and Ravage Cards, though adding new Invaders can increase the Damage of a Ravage that would already happen.
  Tags: Explore, Ordering, Kingdom of Scotland, Promising Farmland (Event), 1 more...

Spirit Phase

• With the growth of A Spread of Rampant Green, can I gain a power card and then choose where to use the first (non-optional) growth option?
  Yes, you can choose where to place your Jungle/Wetlands presence based on a power card you gain that turn.

  This is more explicit in the Branch & Claw rulebook, where there are more spirits with multiple growth choices.
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Spirits and Innate Powers

• During Growth, can Lure of the Deep Wilderness see which Power Card its gains before it decides whether to Reclaim or Add Presence?
  Yes. The only difference between Lure and other Spirits that freely choose 2 or 3 Growth Options is that Lure can't pick both from the left pair or both from the right pair.
  Tags: Ordering, Growth, Lure of the Deep Wilderness