Explorers are added to squares that have a town/city as well as squares adjacent no? In your example it shows you not adding an explorer to one of the towns.
I'm pretty good with rules but one that I got wrong for almost 10 games was that you lose 1 presence in a land when you can't defend a ravage, you don't lose all your presences. It opens up some new possibilities when you play this rule right.
Yeah that was a bit confusingly phrased I feel. What she says at first is correct: the damage to the land and Dahan is dealt simultaneously, but this means that Dahan can never 'take hits/damage to protect the land'. It's easier to just follow this list: first check if 2 or more damage is being dealt in that land (by subtracting defend from the Invader damage); if so, add blight. Next, check if there are Dahan, and deal the same amount of damage you calculated in the previous step also to them. Finally, if there are any Dahan left, they deal 2 damage each to the Invaders.
