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Common Component Questions 1

• There is a variation in the colors and contrast of my cards. Is this normal?

Accessibility and Localization 2

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Strategist's Corner 2

• RETURNING STRATEGISTS: Pledging during the current campaign
• Important Update to Our Strategist Program

Common Shipping Questions 9

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• Need a Component Replacement?
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• CTG Customer Care and Return Policy
• How can I find out when a product is back in stock?

Errata - General Rules 4

• Heirs: Fortress Advancement Kaze Roost 3 - Royal Nest
• Uprising: Lookout # Talent (Netorut)
• Horizon's Wrath: Fortress Advancement Hold 1 - Stowaways
• Tutorial: Treed Movement on pg. 32

Errata - Solo/Co-Op Scenarios 15

• Learning the Vines Tutorial Errors
• Solo Brawnen 2: Expansion
• Solo Heirs 3: Narora Borealis
• Solo Grovetenders 1: Punished for Our Peace
• Solo Grovetenders 2: Fighting for Our Future

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Components 3

• Confusion on Terrain for Some Hexes
• Limited vs. Unlimited Components
• Joining War Hardcover: Printing error on one Griege scenario (2nd print)

General Gameplay 13

• In what order do I resolve effects happening at the same time i.e. start of turn?
• During the Prep Phase, what information am I permitted to ask of my opponents?
• Do I have influence over a hex group that touches my fortress on the side?
• What does "occupied" mean?
• What defeats do I get rewards from?

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Landmarks 15

• What do I do if one of my units has two units with the talent Engage within its range?
• When a defeated landmark grants you a free spire, which spires can you choose from?
• Does Fair Fight copy the attack stat of its attacker, or the damage it receives?
• What happens if a landmark minion with no attack stat becomes a faction minion and makes it to a fortress gate?
• Is a gateport counted as path when determining if there is a path connecting fortresses?

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Market 2

• Can equipment be taken off of a hero once it’s been equipped?
• Do heroes equipped with Makeshift Wings gain the ability to move on any terrain?

Relics & Events 0

Heroes 6

• When a hero returns to its fortress, does it keep its equipment and upgrades?
• When you select a hero for deployment, do you have to move it out of the fortress?
• Can I prepare a 3rd hero and leave it in my fortress to deploy later that wave when one of my other 2 heroes is defeated?
• Can merc heroes return to the fortress and recover to full health?
• Can a hero in Campfire Mode be displaced?

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Spires 9

• In what order do spires fire?
• Can spires fire on landmark minions?
• If you are at your spire limit, can you voluntarily remove one in order to construct a new spire?
• Do spires have to fire if they have a valid target?
• Can I put more than one upgrade on a spire for one Build Option?

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Attack, Retaliation & Defeat 7

• If a grouped unit is defeated from a retaliation, does the next unit in the group get to attack as well?
• Can I attack my own units?
• When a unit or spire defeats itself, who gets the reward?
• Can I attack or damage a unit that is in their fortress gate hex?
• Is retaliation optional?

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Movement 9

• Can a unit move “backwards” on its turn?
• Do minions have to displace friendly heroes if they can?
• Do units have to displace units with the talent Flying, or other talents that have displacement text?
• Is a displacement considered a move for talents such as Survival and Toxic Secretion?
• Can you displace a friendly hero in campfire mode?

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Talents 3

• Can a unit with the talent Flying move through other units?
• Do units have to use their # Range talent?
• If a spire uses the talent Splash, does it have to get a hit on its attack dice in order to deal the damage from Splash?

Heirs 5

• How do elfinkazes work?
• Does an elfinkaze sitting on top of a moving unit take damage if its perch moves into a hex affected by Toxic Secretion or Toxic Fumes?
• When do elfinkazes move?
• Can you use the Sight Unseen advancement more than once a wave?
• Is using Quick Strike optional?

Brawnen 4

• When a builder changes a dispatch platform into a siege tower, does it get its starting upgrades?
• Does the artillery die have to be resolved when it is rolled?
• When the Brawnen use their Artillery Die, does it turn off or remove their Level 2 (Gate Dispatchers) or Level 3 (Gate Spikes) advancements?
• Can a Siege Tower use Raze the same turn it is constructed?

Grovetenders 2

• Does Impale work on landmark minions?
• Do upgrades removed from the Root Die have to come from the bottom of the spires?

Narora 7

• When Anvasse uses Matter Distortion, do I get to construct a spire on the earthscape immediately?
• What happens when a unit uses Naroran Rift to teleport to a fortress spire?
• Is Incorporeal optional?
• What happens when a grouped unit uses Possess?
• What happens when a grouped unit uses Stasis?

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Griege 6

• When Echri uses the talent Burrow, how much health does she recover?
• Can an opposing hero attack a unit in the griege Evolution Pit?
• Does a griege unit take a turn the same turn as it finishes evolving?
• Does an evolving minion get to retaliate if attacked by an opposing hero?
• Does the Evo Purifier advancement grant Source for all evolutions, or just those within the Evolution Pit?

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Solo, Co-Op & Endless Modes 9

• AI Exploration
• End of Wave Objectives
• Order of Scenarios and Playing One-Offs
• Multiple Opposing AI Factions
• AI Units in the Fortress Gate

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Errata 3

• Component Count - Imperatives
• Striking Walls: Awareness Before Movement
• Flux Capacitor Equipment

Tutorial 1

• Surveillance Beads

General FAQs 5

• Security Always Attacks Adjacent Detected Units
• Pushed Units Maintain Facing
• Changing Floors Starts a New Round
• Keypads with No Inputs
• Most Frequently Overlooked Rules

Bot FAQs 8

• Access – Reassign Ability
• Byte – Tumble Magnet
• Byte – Silent Entry
• Byte – Distortion Cloak
• Gyro – Power Walk

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Mission FAQs 1

• Needchain – Terminal Viscosity

Security Unit FAQs 1

• Security Ability - Shift

General 5

• Decreasing Strategy Stat - Discard Items
• Cannot Apply Misses
• Instant Rewards Don't Require an Inventory Slot
• Can't Use Single-use Items Outside of Inventory
• Gaining a Reward is Not Mandatory

Solar Sentinels 5

• Valkyrie, Mk. 7 - Stat Increases
• Deceitle - Negate Effect of an Enemy
• Drone Alone 3 - Change Two Misses to Two Hits
• Gutterdie - Add Enemy During Endgame
• Big Sucker - Matching Colored Pairs

Too Many Bones 1

• “Face Up” Enemies - Scouted

Victorum 3

• You Lose if you Can’t Move
• Volcanic Brute Reward - Treat as Defeated
• Serpent's Special - only has an effect if there are Primuses in battle

Battle 7

• Do Baddies re-roll Active Def on their turn?
• Can Gearlocs and Baddies roll Atk dice without a valid target in order to acquire Bones?
• What blocks Gearloc and Baddie movement? Can they move through allied units? Opposing units?
• In what order do you resolve "start of turn" effects?
• When does a battle end?

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Baddie Skills and Encounter Terms 13

• Poison
• Q: If a Baddie with "Engulf" does damage to another Baddie with "Break," are the Baddie with "Engulf's" Atk dice exhausted?
• Q: When resolving "Thick Skin" do you remove Def dice first? Does it negate the first # of Atk dice, or just the first # of total incoming Dmg?
• Q: How many Baddies do I add to the Battle Queue each Round if a Baddie has "Signal 2, 3, etc?"
• Q: If Bones are rolled on ATK dice and used in my Backup Plan to deal damage to a Baddie with "Break" - are those ATK dice exhausted?

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Tyrants 6

• Q: How many orcs will Marrow call with his "Call Orc" Backup Plan if he rolls 3 Bones?"
• Q: When do I resolve checking whether Mulmesh has 3 HP or less remaining? Can I apply Poison, Bleed, etc before he leaves (or after the HP check) to benefit me?
• Q: What happens when a Gearloc is Revived during Nom’s Battle?
• Q: If the Goblin Queen’s Guard is moved out of the A/B spots (by a Skill or Loot, for example), how does the Goblin Queen’s Guard move thereafter?
• Q: How do you resolve Kollossum's Synapse, if the “closest fellow Gearloc” has no available adjacent spaces?

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Specific Encounters 2

• Q: Can you clarify how "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" works?
• Q: How does the “Gearlocs Need Food Badly” Encounter work?

Loot 3

• Q: If multi-use Loot has been partially used, can I still use it to search for better Loot during my Recovery phase?
• Q: Does trading the Tewaren Gem for a Trove Loot count as my one Recovery Action?
• Q: Does the Reinforced Buckler ignore my Defense Stat?

40 Days in Daelore 1

• Q: Am I missing a card in 40 Days in Daelore?

Age of Tyranny 1

• If I carry over the Hunter's Body Count Necklace, do the Baddies on it carry over?

Rage of Tyranny 1

• Why do you recommended to play with the Day 1-2/3 cards from RoT specifically?

Tantrum 3

• Q: Can I change my target/still attack after I use my "Jump" Skill?
• Q: Does Tantrum's Rage Meter increase when taking damage using Buff HP?
• Q: Do I increase Tantrum's Body Count if a Baddie is killed via the poison from my "Poison Armor?"

Boomer 3

• Q: Can Boomer's frag grenades target a space on the Battle Mat, rather than a Baddie?
• Q: What does the unlisted symbol on Boomer's "Search for 325" die do?
• Q: How does Boomer's Napalm skill work? Will she always take Backlash?

Patches 2

• Q: Does Patches need to be adjacent to another Gearloc in order to heal them?
• Q: Can Patches heal one of Tink's bots?

Picket 4

• Q: Can "Riposte" be used to avoid Baddie Skills that trigger when Bones are rolled? Can "Riposte" be used to avoid Tyrant Skills?
• Q: Do Def dice in Picket's Locked Slots for his Innate +1 reduce his available Def to roll?
• Q: Does the order of Def resolution matter when using Constant Defense in my Locked Slots?
• Q: Does Picket's "Shield Bash" Backup Plan exhaust standard Atk and Def dice, or only Skill dice?

Tink 3

• Q: Can Tink have more than one Bot out on the Battle Mat at a time?
• Q: What happens to a Bot out on the Battle Mat if Tink is KO'd?
• Q: Can Tink Bots Auto-Attack on the turn that they are deployed?

Ghillie 3

• Q: Does the exact rolled value of Camo need to be used, or can I use "up to" the rolled value?
• Q: What happens to Ghillie’s pets if Ghillie is KO’d?
• Ghillie's Pets - Dex is Spent on Ghillie's Turn

Nugget 2

• Q: Do Nugget's Slingstones cost Dex? Do I need a Slingstone for each Atk die, or just one for the whole Atk?
• Q: Is Longblade a melee Skill or a ranged Skill?

Duster & Nightshade 3

• Q: Does Nightshade enter the Battle Mat at the end of a round, if Duster has been KO’d?
• Q: When Nightshade enters the Battle Mat, where does it position itself?
• Q: Can a Baddie with Dodge still be Poisoned by an Atk that’s had Duster’s Blade Dip applied?

Stanza 2

• Q: How does Stanza's "Electrify" work?
• How do Stanza's A/I skills work?

Gasket 3

• Q: Does Gasket’s Gut skill work around Thick Skin and Hardy?
• Q: How exactly does the Green Bone work on Gasket’s Hydro Valve?
• Q: Do Gasket’s Skills exhaust if a Baddie Skill forces them to? (i.e. Shock)

Riffle 1

• Can I choose the Vision suit with Pocket Pairs?

Gale 1

• Do all of Gale's Major skills last the entire battle?

Carcass 1

• Meat Hooks & Undead Baddie Skill

Static 1

• Vanish Clarifications

General Questions 12

• Q: If asked to remove dice from my Active/Locked Slots, are those dice exhausted, or put back on my Gearloc Mat?
• Q: Do Atk and Def dice being used in my Backup Plan reduce the number of Atk and Def dice I have available to roll?
• Q: Can Buff HP be used to mitigate poison, true damage, etc?
• Q: What counts as a "Hit" as it relates to triggering Baddie abiilities and Skills?
• Q: My copy of the game has a couple of dice with blank sides, is that normal?

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Errata 4

• Mercury’s Boots - important paragraph missing from rules
• Pandora’s Ruin - Atlanteans Side A - Rival tridentholder uses “Others” priorities for targeting
• Pandora’s Ruin - Amazons Side A - Units can have a maximum of one Diana’s Sigil at a time
• The Forge - Damascus Steel Tactic - shouldn't have Def icon

1st Print Errata (Victorum & Remastered) 5

• Victorum Errata: Kalliope Scion Card
• Remastered Errata: Depthcharger's Tactician Skill
• Remastered Errata: Scheherazade HP chips
• Victorum: Beasts in Pluto's Refugees Arena
• Victorum: Act IV modifier - HP or Health

Skill Qs (Victorum & Remastered) 4

• Skill: Agile - How is it different from an attack?
• Skill changes mid-turn
• Skill: Heave - do rivals use Heave if they have no attack target?
• Skill: Intercept Blow - How does it interact with Retaliate, Absorb, and Dodge

Victorum Specific Qs 15

• Defeated Primuses - returned to the box
• Kunlun Arena and Tactical
• Stats on Hero Chips
• Using blessings to gain bag units
• The Parthian's 'Teacher of the String' prowess

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Remastered Specific Qs 2

• Skirmish - Do inactive heroes count as units in your camp? (No)
• Shaghad Shards Out of HP

Other General Qs (Victorum & Remastered) 2

• Dazed: Getting dazed off-turn
• Blue text on the Skills Reference - for rivals only

The Lost Cities (Original Hoplo) 30

• Q: When can I use an Ability?
• Q: Do Arena units go back in the bag when defeated?
• Q: Can a gladiator pass an Arena Beast without getting combat-locked?
• Q: When and how often can you play a Tactic Chip?
• Q: Can you "Hurl" or "Pull" Bosses?

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Rise of Rome (Original Hoplo) 37

• If a friendly unit gains the "Impel" Ability, i.e. another basic attack on your turn, and this unit attacks another unit with the "Absorb" ability twice, is every basic attack from the attacking unit absorbed? Or just the first one?
• Archers or spearmen typically hang out on the pillars in a non-solo match. But in a Titan match, the pillars are occupied (at least initially) by shards. Do we wait to deploy archers/spearmen until the pillars are free?
• Where do my defeated gladiators/used tactics go? Back into the bag or discarded?
• Does "Relentless" allow the unit to reroll all dice once each turn, or once for the entire time he's in the arena?
• Do you activate Shard Shock/Slam for each shard carried or just once for the "group" of shards?

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Origins (Original Hoplo) 55

• When playing the Atlantis arena, if you choose a unit with Bloodlust as your leader, does the skill trigger when any damage is received? Or, only after the leaders original health is lowered?
• The solo trials rule sheet says that you only draft 6 chips instead of 8. Can I still draft more than one Star Type chip?
• When executing the Xanadu Champion "Heave", what does "directly overhead" mean?
• When fighting Atlas on the Atlantis Arena, I manage to take down Atlas with a basic attack. However, Atlas having "Retaliate" also manages to take me out. Do I win in this case?
• After the El Dorado AI champion picks up the tribute, does the Player get to choose which way it moves around the fountain to the players advantage?

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Pandora's Box Qs 10

• Mercury’s Boots - Changing Regions
• Pandora's Box - Entering Capital locations
• Arenas: Parthians Side A
• Arenas: Atlanteans Side A
• Arenas: Kunlun Side A

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Errata 13

• Some places refer to the 19-hex tile as a 17-hex tile
• Item card count - should be 100 common, 60 legendary
• Objective token - wrong icon (pg. 35 of rulebook)
• Recover Dice section in rulebook (pg. 23) re: drained dice
• Black Marsh A01 (Mages Guild quest, pg. 18)

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General Rules Questions 11

• Overland Movement - you can move through landmarks
• Bonus HP - does it count as HP? (No)
• Fatigue - when you can take "any amount" of fatigue, is there a limit to this? (No)
• Healing - is how much you healed based on HP gained or the healing given? (HP gained)
• Town actions - all town actions are personal unless stated otherwise

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Combat 15

• Enemy Defense - Applies to each engage or instance of damage
• Survey and Uncover delves - what's the difference between these objectives?
• Range - does it apply to all skills?
• Enemy Combat Dice - are they limited? (yes)
• Engage - only units targeted are engaged

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Races & Classes 6

• Class abilities - when can they be triggered?
• Necromancer - can the Spirit Guardian companion maintain HP above its stat between battles? (Yes)
• Innates and Enduring class abilities are optional
• Nightblade - Can enemies with Detection target you while you have Consuming Darkness active? (no)
• Bard - Can you reroll results that must be resolved? (yes)

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Adventurer Skills 5

• Daedric Summoning: Bound Armaments - can you change battle forms? (No)
• Restoring Light: Master Ritualist - where do you resurrect? (The same hex as defeated)
• Illusion: Mayhem - this does not turn off all skills
• Acrobatics: Fleet Phantom - start of turn movement allows you to attack Elusive enemies
• Acrobatics: Rapid Maneuver - can't damage the same enemy twice

Enemy Skills 6

• Dodge - what dice are considered to deal damage?
• Enemy skills "after" engage - do they trigger if defeated? (No)
• Stalwart - can't lose more than 1 HP - this includes from true damage
• Divert - requires at least two instances of damage to be defeated
• Enemies can only have one instance of each skill

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Status Effects 5

• Status effects - are they automatically removed from adventurers after battle? (No)
• Stealth - Is stealth maintained if I use a skill that "defeats" an enemy? (Yes)
• Fear - "non-Combat skills" are all skills except the Combat skill line
• Daze and Steal - can a Dazed enemy that's moved, use Steal? (no)
• Blind - enemies factor in their Blind status for targeting and moving

Regions, Quests, & Side Quests 3

• Skyrim: Icy Buildup - does it clear between delves? (Yes)
• SQ-09 Watcher in the Dark - No Reward Phase after the delve, hexes with no landmark = empty hexes
• SQ-20 Dice! - this card is allowed to be discarded

Items 6

• Pets - what if a game effect forces them into your pack? (Discard)
• Armor - is there a limit to how many times it can be used in a round? (no)
• Armor - when do you choose whether to overtax it? (after the enemy rolls)
• Inventory slots - your pack can have more than 4 items (as long as item total doesn't exceed 8)
• Palefrost Elk (common pet) - for lockpicking, each die adjusted is an instance of light fatigue

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Errata 5

• Component Count: should say 36 Elite Troop Dice
• Elite troops provide their victory point bonuses only in regions you control
• Koda Trappers return to their mat once activated
• Scenario: Cull the Weak
• Scenario: Bring the Rain

General Gameplay 16

• Do you use the Round die in PvP? (no)
• Are feats chosen in secret during setup? (yes)
• Running out of Corra - Take one at a time or all owed? (one at a time)
• Setup - Are VP tokens placed face-up or face-down? (face-up)
• Can you use “Extend” to add troops to the deployment zone? (yes)

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Faction-Specific Questions 15

• Aldan - Field Advantage Feat
• Guild - Crysen
• Guild - Stellen
• Koda - Grizzled
• Koda - Trapper

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Solo/Co-Op Gameplay 9

• For solo, if the player takes the Exodus action, does the AI still get 3 actions that round? (yes)
• What happens when the round counter would exceed 6? (leave it at 6)
• For scenarios with VP win conditions, do you lose if the AI attains this amount of VP before you do? (yes)
• Will the AI disperse even if it would leave no troops in the region? (yes)
• Do the AI consider abilities when determining which region to attack? (no)

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