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When do cubes get placed in a Hinterlands space?

The designer answered this in 2015 and 2016, and the rulebook describes the same.

  • Anny48 · Community · 2019-02-25
  • HackWeight · Community · 2019-02-26
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2019-02-27
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2016-08-04
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2016-08-05
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-04-14

Only when its colour is rolled on the Hinterlands die, or when a connected city outbreaks. Ordinary infection of a connected city doesn't add cubes there. A cube is placed in the single Hinterlands space of that colour, and an outbreak from a connected city also adds a cube to its connected Hinterlands space (which can chain-react).

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