Spoiler in the title and in your first post, so obvious whoever is reading has been warn !
I don't have the exact rules and translation with me, but it says like "if there is either a plague cube and/or an hollow men in any location, reduce the population by 1 in this location".
It's apply to the Haven, will it be in the case of a plague breakdown and/or by moving hollow men in here.
So in the end of the month, you should have three haven that have lost 1 population each.
Kind of same rule apply for the increasing of population at the end of the month : "spend 1 productionunit to increase the population of any non-forsaken location by 1." So you can counter the loss of population in the haven by spending production units.
You're not get exposure by hollow man ONLY if there is a bunker in there location. While a bunker need a city card matching the color, you can't construct a bunker in the haven, and nowhere it says that haven count as bunker. So yes, you while get exposure from them.
Defeat by loss of cubes seems also odd for me, as with enoiught preparation you should have at least 20-25 location card in package 6, help from all the labs and 30 supply cubes. Also, with the sanitation worker, you can take out one card by turn...
But there is way to prevent hollow man from gathering too !
First thing : we had immediately construct a shelter in Utopia when we saw the number of infection card in that city.
After, we tried to gather hollow men in as few city as possible, to trade new one by losing population, or adding new shelter in here.
For December, we were 3 players, and one was moving to deliver the vaccine (and he has the Helmsman capacity, which was overly helpful) and the 2 other that where using sattelite tower (permanent building in the same location as permanent supply center, to go to them by plane). We managed to do it in our first try :D
We felt that this game may be puninshing for not having a global plan each month, and not thinking well with long term.
(I hope I made myself clear enough, since english isn't my native tongue :blush:)
EDIT : removed one spoiler bar (since you're talking about December, you have access to all the rules)
I don't have the exact rules and translation with me, but it says like "if there is either a plague cube and/or an hollow men in any location, reduce the population by 1 in this location".
It's apply to the Haven, will it be in the case of a plague breakdown and/or by moving hollow men in here.
So in the end of the month, you should have three haven that have lost 1 population each.
Kind of same rule apply for the increasing of population at the end of the month : "spend 1 productionunit to increase the population of any non-forsaken location by 1." So you can counter the loss of population in the haven by spending production units.
You're not get exposure by hollow man ONLY if there is a bunker in there location. While a bunker need a city card matching the color, you can't construct a bunker in the haven, and nowhere it says that haven count as bunker. So yes, you while get exposure from them.
Defeat by loss of cubes seems also odd for me, as with enoiught preparation you should have at least 20-25 location card in package 6, help from all the labs and 30 supply cubes. Also, with the sanitation worker, you can take out one card by turn...
But there is way to prevent hollow man from gathering too !
First thing : we had immediately construct a shelter in Utopia when we saw the number of infection card in that city.
After, we tried to gather hollow men in as few city as possible, to trade new one by losing population, or adding new shelter in here.
For December, we were 3 players, and one was moving to deliver the vaccine (and he has the Helmsman capacity, which was overly helpful) and the 2 other that where using sattelite tower (permanent building in the same location as permanent supply center, to go to them by plane). We managed to do it in our first try :D
We felt that this game may be puninshing for not having a global plan each month, and not thinking well with long term.
(I hope I made myself clear enough, since english isn't my native tongue :blush:)
EDIT : removed one spoiler bar (since you're talking about December, you have access to all the rules)