Dahan and Blight

[scruloose2001]

I had 4 Dahan in a ravaging area containing 1 city and 2 explorers. I though the result should have been 2 Dahan die, 1 is flipped, the the city and 1 explorer die. Since all damage was taken by the Dahan, I though this prevented a blight, but after the combat, the area gained a blight. Am I misunderstanding the rules or is this a bug? Thanks

[MigrantP]

Invaders damage the land and Dahan simultaneously. If 2 or more damage is dealt to the land, Blight is added to the land. Dahan being in the land does not affect that rule at all.

[lord wolfhunt]

Yeah, it was an interesting discovery when I learned that Dahan do not act as meat shields for the land.

[JF]

Same I actually tried to make dahan as meat shields for the land a lot of times lols

[{ИЯm} Keith]

Originally posted by lord wolfhunt:

Yeah, it was an interesting discovery when I learned that Dahan do not act as meat shields for the land.

I've also played the RL game and thought Dahan were meat shields.

[Hankroyd]

I never played the tabletop version, but yeah, for some reason, the fact that dahans are not meat shields seems counter intuitive.

I guess from a player perspective, it's weird that a city alone deals 2 damage (to the land) and a city near a dahan deals 4 damage (2 to the land, 2 to the dahan).

[LtUlman]

Damage is not necessarily "damage", damage to the land could be organised crop farming, laying out crops in rows rather than letting them grow wild/like nature intended, damage to the Dahan could be converting them from their "Spiritual" ways.
A city could have more than enough people to do both while not taking away from the other, priests are rarely farmers too!

[{ИЯm} Keith]

Originally posted by LtUlman:

Damage is not necessarily "damage", damage to the land could be organised crop farming, laying out crops in rows rather than letting them grow wild/like nature intended, damage to the Dahan could be converting them from their "Spiritual" ways.
A city could have more than enough people to do both while not taking away from the other, priests are rarely farmers too!

Correct! In fact, some of the card illustrations show this. (like the one that skips an invader action but is bad for the Dahan. It shows them trading with the invaders)