Frequently Asked Questions

Rule Book page 32: The Treed only has 1 movement option but the graphic is incorrect. The Treed should have moved 2 hexes, while still ending adjacent to Awsh.

No one. Unless a talent or other game effect says otherwise, when a unit defeats itself the player who is responsible for the defeat is the controlling player, who does not get rewards for units they defeat.

Explaining it as simply as possible, talents happen when they say they happen. Page 2 of the rules reference specifies in the Attack section that if a talent is triggered when attacking, its effect occurs simultaneously with the damage being dealt, and if a talent triggers after attacking, it occurs after resolving the attack and retaliation if it is not defeated. If a talent says it happens as a result of moving onto a specific hex, the talent triggers right after the unit moves onto that hex; it does not wait until the full movement is over. If something triggers off of being reduced to 1 health, it triggers when the unit reaches 1 health, keeping in mind that attack and retaliation happen back to back unless the talent says it happens when attacking or that the retaliation is skipped. For a specific example, say an AI Taproot has 2 health and 2 movement. It moves 1 hex and triggers Toxic Secretion, losing 1 health. It now has 1 health and so the Taproot's Summon is triggered. It does not finish its movement, it uses Summon, and gets flipped and grouped under whatever it summoned. The new unit also does not finish the Taproot's movement or move itself, because the AI Summon talent says it does not move this turn. If instead the Taproot were reduced to 1 health from an attack, the Taproot would get to retaliate first, because that is part of the attack and Summon says after, and then it would Summon. With regards to the word immediately, its use does not usually have a special meaning. It is usually just used to emphasize unusual timing, but timing that would occur even if that word were not in the sentence.

At the start of your turn you may use your limited build options to construct a spire and then upgrade the spire you just constructed. Build options are done one at a time, so doing this will use up both of your build options for the wave, and upgrades added to the spire will always go below the upgrades the constructed spire starts with. For example, the Brawnen player decides they want to construct a Dispatch Platform spire and also want to give it an extra attack upgrade. They spend 4 Source to construct the spire, using 1 of their 2 build options, and then spend 3 Source to add an attack upgrade to the bottom of their spire using the second of their build options. The upgrades on the spire can be put in any order of the player's choice but the Brawnen cannot put 2 attack upgrades above the range upgrade in this situation, because the range upgrade was added as part of the first build option.

Yes. When you construct a spire, the influence is granted immediately, which you can use to construct a spire on a Source well that you may not have had influence over prior.

Yes. Like units in the deployment stack, units in the Evolution Pit are in play. However, they are considered to be inside the fortress, which means they cannot be attacked by opposing units, including by opposing heroes.

No. Source wells are not considered non-path hexes and cannot be used for these talents.

The Burrower may still evolve as normal. Note that doing so means that it can be attacked by opposing heroes, unlike when using the Burrow talent where it cannot be attacked at all.

No. The unit in the Evolution Pit is considered inside the fortress and cannot be attacked.

No. In order for a unit to move onto a hex, the hex must be unoccupied in order to be considered a valid hex. The hex is occupied by the chip so units cannot move on or through it, including Greige units, unless another ability says otherwise, like the Greige fortress advancement Tunnel System 3 - Shortcut.

Yes. When a unit is defeated by a Greige-controlled Toxic Secretion talent or by a Toxic Fumes chip, the Greige are responsible for the defeat and get the rewards for it. Toxic Secretion from landmark minions does not count as Greige defeats, as landmarks are not Greige units. If a defeat from Toxic Secretion occurs from Echri's Toxic Secretion she gained from the Queen's Chamber fortress advancement, Echri levels up. In the rare instance where there are multiple different Toxic Secretion talents and which one caused the defeat matters, the player whose turn it is decides the order in which the damage is applied.

Yes. Using the Evo Pit is an expedited way of evolving Greige minions.

You do not have to choose a Greige minion type. The minion type can be any minion in the game including allies and opposing minions.

Yes. It will gain its last health and flip over at the start of your turn, and will then activate as normal that turn.

Yes. When a Larva minion spawns on an invalid hex it follows the rules for invalid hexes on page 10 of the rules reference.

Evo Purifier grants Source for all successful evolutions.

The Larva simply promotes to its promoted side. The use of the die is optional, so after seeing the rolled result if that unit is unavailable your only choice is to forgo the benefit.

Yes. Campfire mode lasts for the entire wave, regardless of how it is triggered.

Echri will recover back to 5 health. This is considered her maximum health stat.

Your units still form a deployment stack on your fortress gate as normal. When they move off the fortress gate they may do so adjacent to one of the Tunnel Access chips in play. The amount of progress they made uses the fortress gate hex as the hex they started from.

Excess damage is not carried over and the attacking player does gain rewards, including both Source and leveling up if the attacking unit is a hero. The fortress gate will retaliate even when the defending unit is defeated.

Yes. Inactive units retaliate like other units. Evolving minions are still on their basic side so they retaliate using the stats from their basic side.

No. Source wells are not considered non-path hexes and cannot be used for the Creep talent.

No. Engage says that units that are able to attack must do so. For Dywen, because she can attack the unit with Engage, she cannot use her Pacify talent because she does not have the option to forgo her attack.

Yes. These talents only prevent a summoned unit from moving on the turn it was summoned. Attacking, exploring, and using talents may all be done without penalty.

Yes. If you place two units under the same hero over the course of multiple waves it will have the talents of all units under it. However, redundant talents do not stack, so a hero with two Warbriars under it will still only do one damage from Impale.

Yes. Any upgrades removed through the use of the Root Die must come off of the bottom of the spires.

Yes. Landmark minions are considered opposing, so they will be damaged by Impale.

Challenge says that any attack a hero makes must be against this unit. Weak Point is itself not an attack, but it is instead of attacking. As a result, because the hero loses its ability to attack it cannot use an instead of attacking talent unless that talent was directed at the Orgegrowth because the hero can attack it.

Yes. The Evoke talent specifies that the unit is summoned on the path hex closest to Ybanthe, which does not necessarily have to be adjacent or valid. If the hex is invalid, for example the path being summoned on has no connection to the Grovetender's mark, the summoned minion will follow the rules for invalid hexes found on page 10 of the rules reference. Note that this is different from a Muskeg spire, which specifically calls out a valid hex in the text for Wallop.