Archeologist on Map 12 with Conceal border space

[boardgamesmue]

Hi,

Is there an explanation why the two placement bonus for conceal don't trigger the border space bonus from Archeologist on Map 12?

I ran into this in https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=798521229 where I wanted to place the large aquarium on the X border space bonus and the conceal, but only one trigger happened.

[Jellby]

The map rules explicitly say that the "conceal" bonus is not a placement bonus. It's more like the "H" spaces in Hollywood Hills, if I remember correctly.

[danielvictor]

The game designers are aware of Archeologist's power,and are framing any new rules so as to avoid helping it.

[boardgamesmue]

The map rules explicitly say that the "conceal" bonus is not a placement bonus. It's more like the "H" spaces in Hollywood Hills, if I remember correctly.

I found that in the PDF now, but would be nice if it would be also part of the tooltip.

[zixak]

You can distinguish a "Placement Bonus" from a "Special Map Bonus" by it's shape. Placement Bonuses have a Pentagon shape, while special map actions are on a square shape. The first are taken into account for cards like archeologist, excavation site and so on the later is not.

For example the wave and shark attack bonuses on lagoon map are placement bonuses, the conceal or H bonuses are not. On Caves and Rescue Station map the special bonuses are handled as placement bonuses but you still can't have more that three cards tuck under your map at the same time.