Maybe I'm being thick, but do you not refill your province when you reveal a holding card like you do when you play a character from a province?

Actually, come to think of it, when DO you refill provinces when a holding has been revealed?

You refill only when you choose to discard the holding. It takes up the space in the province.

3 minutes ago, Khudzlin said:

You refill only when you choose to discard the holding. It takes up the space in the province.

Oh wow, so provinces with holdings don't play any other cards until you ditch the holding?

1 minute ago, Deathseed said:

Oh wow, so provinces with holdings don't play any other cards until you ditch the holding?

Exactly, it's a choice between the holding and potential characters.

Just now, Khudzlin said:

Exactly, it's a choice between the holding and potential characters.

Interesting!

Thanks for the clarification. We've only played one game, so we're still working out the kinks in our understanding of the rules.

Have fun.

Yup, it's a balancing act. The Lion holding, Staging Ground, allows you to choose 2 facedown cards in your provinces and flip them faceup. This is the only holding that midigates its space hogging problem.

A few holdings sacrifice themselves. All others have to be discarded by: being on a province when it breaks (and the attacker may decide to discard that card), being on a broken province come Step 2 of the Regroup phase, or if you choose to discard it from an unbroken province during Step 2 of the Regroup phase. In any case where it is discarded, the province is then refilled (facedown) as normal.