Aquatica
Can you buy, conquer or recruit with coins or power from depths and Mantas without playing a character card?
The designer answered this directly on BGG, and the rulebook's FAQ says the same.
- Aquatica rulebook · Rulebook · Character Cards
- Iv Tuzovsky · Designer · 2020-11-05
- Mach v · Community · 2020-11-09
- mspider_89 · Community · 2022-01-10
- mspider_89 · Community · 2020-12-26
- myerto · Community · 2019-10-25
- mspider_89 · Community · 2022-11-24
No. Coins and power are spent only as part of a main action, which means playing a character card, so a paid buy, conquer or recruit always needs that card. Effects without a + symbol, such as a free recruit or a raise, can still be used before or after the card, but they cannot buy or conquer anything. A card that says buy one or conquer one lets you take only one location, however much you overpay.