Pandemic
Who gets the free lab action when a research station is built with Government Grant?
The designer answered this in 2014 and 2017, and the Operations Expert point is a community reading consistent with the rulebook.
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2014-02-17
- AdmiralACF · Community · 2014-02-17
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2014-02-18
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2017-02-16
- BitJam · Community · 2016-03-08
The player whose turn it is, even if another player plays the Event, and only when it is played during the action phase. If you play it after you've started drawing cards, the station is built but no free action occurs. It can be taken immediately after the Event resolves. The Operations Expert building a station also earns the free action.