Pestilence Arrives on Canvas Sails

Frequently Asked Questions

Event Cards

• When an Event deals damage to Dahan, is the damage reduced by Defend powers?
  Generally no, since it is the Event and not the Invaders that's dealing damage.

  However, Events can harm Dahan in ways that Defend can prevent:

  • If an Event causes a Ravage or increases Ravage Damage, then the ravaging Invaders are the ones dealing the Damage, and Defend works like normal.
  • If an Event explicitly makes Invaders deal Damage to Dahan (e.g., "Raiding and Retaliation" making each Town and City deal 1 Damage to Dahan) rather than generically dealing Damage in a land with Invaders, then Defend reduces that Damage unless the Event explicitly says it doesn't.
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• Can Events on an Event Card be resolved in the order of your choice? (e.g., to get the benefit from "Canny Defense" during the Ravage cause by "New Cash Crops Take Hold" earlier on the card)
  No, the Events on a card are executed in order from top to bottom, so the extra Ravage takes place before you get the benefit of "Canny Defense."

  Likewise for "A Strange Madness Among the Beasts," the Beasts deal damage after the first part of the card (in which some of them may be removed).
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General Play

• If an effect checks for the "most," "least," or "fewest" of something with a minimum or maximum condition (e.g., "the land with the fewest Towns/Cities (min. 1))," what happens if two conditions are in conflict (e.g., if the land with the fewest Towns/Cities has 0 Towns/Cities)?
  Nothing happens, since nothing meets both conditions.

  If a minimum or maximum limit is given, ignore anything that doesn't meet the min/max condition before ranking what's left. So when checking for "the land with the fewest Towns/Cities (min. 1)," consider only the lands with at least one Town/City before trying to find the fewest Towns/Cities among those lands.
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• 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.
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