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Cards with Battle abilities can only be played before or after an attack on an enemy front (or starting a new front), not during the battle.
Animal husbandry can therefore only remove wound tokens from units who've survived with some damage. Likewise, Mathematics can only add wound tokens to units already in fronts. All these cards are resolved before the ...
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Only during your movement phase.
Page 22 or the rulebook, there is the card Currency :
City management : Gain 3 culture tokens
and the following explanation :
For example, Currency (shown above) allows a player to spend one
incense resource token to gain three culture tokens during the
player’s City Management Phase
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Military bonuses can be blockaded, but not stolen. So you get the trade, but nobody gets the combat advantage.
Source Blockading a Great General (Board Game Geek), from the the designer
Military bonuses CAN be blockaded, however, scouts CANNOT steal
military bonuses (military bonuses weren't originally icons, and I'm
pretty sure that could be game ...
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For simplicity, I will focus on the base game (Sid Meier's Civilization the Board Game, as published in 2010) without any expansions because this is what I assume you are currently playing.
Tech victories are common while learning the game rules. This is because the Research phase acts as a sort of timer; if everyone acquires approximately 1 technology per ...
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We recently played the Civilization Board Game with 3 players and had a similar experience. In our case one of the players was the Soviets (who have the ability to "steal" tech by marching units into other players cities), and also managed to get a wonder allowing them to steal a technology once per turn. This speeded up the tech victory win, however in ...
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I've been thinking about this problem. On top of that I've also noticed that the wonders barely get used in our games.
So we thought it might work to restrict level 3+ tech until after the 4 ancient wonders are placed, then restrict level 5 until all medieval wonders are placed.
Haven't tested this yet but I think it might work to balance the huge ...
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