¶ Overcoming Adversities
Overcoming adversities is a free action that allows you to discard all 
adversities of a chosen type from your components. To do this, follow these steps in order:
¶ 1. Maneuver
Perform a maneuver with your 
units (peasants and/or military units) into your city or castle.
¶ 2. Bag Preparation
Choose one type of adversities you wish to discard. Prepare the bag as follows:
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+1 black
for each adversity of the chosen type on your components.
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+1 neutral
for each engaged 
peasant.
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+1 your
for each engaged 
military unit.
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+1 your for each
relic of engaged army.
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+ any number of action and experience (optional).
¶ 3. Bag Check
Randomly draw 3 cubes from the bag.
¶ 4. Resolution
For each black drawn, pay 1 
or 10 
.
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Success: If you drew no black , or were able to pay for each black cube drawn, discard all adversities (black cubes) of that type from all your components, and gain
for each cube discarded.
- Failure: If you cannot pay for at least one black cube, you pay nothing, overcome no adversities, and all engaged units remain depleted.
discarded, you gain .
/ 10 for each to discard them without using the bag.
malfunctions of your technologies, you simultaneously attempt to overcome them both on your researched and borrowed technologies. If the action is successful, black cubes are also discarded from your borrowed technologies, making them available for the other player as well.
heresy, you discard black cubes from all religious communities of your religion across all provinces, including those you don't control. This may restore control of religious communities to other players sharing your religion. You cannot overcome heresy if your religion is Paganism (which ignores heresy but cannot remove it).
Laura received 4 
calamities in the forests of her provinces as a result of the last event.
This blocks her ability to gather wood.
To overcome these adversities, Laura engages the swordsman and peasant units. During the maneuver, she combines these units into one army and moves it into the city.
Laura prepares the bag:
+4 - for all calamities in her provinces
+1 - for the peasant
+1 
- for the swordsman
+1 experience
For a total of 7 cubes.
Laura randomly draws 3 cubes: 2 and 1 .
For the two black cubes drawn, Laura pays 1 and 10 .
All 4 calamities are overcome - Laura discards the corresponding black cubes from her provinces and gains 
.
She can now gather wood from these hexes again.
However, her peasant engaged in the maneuver remains depleted and will not be able to gather resources this or next round.
