Does Yasuki Tanimura 3 gold reduction help pay for attachments like items and followers?
A better question might be, what do you spend gold on that is not an action?
Yasuki Tanimura and attachments
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Does Yasuki Tanimura 3 gold reduction help pay for attachments like items and followers?
A better question might be, what do you spend gold on that is not an action?
Personalities, holdings, and attachments are ways to spend gold that aren't spending it on an action.
Spending gold on an action means either paying the gold cost on a Strategy card, or a gold cost directly associated with an action being taken (such as Yoritomo Singh's Battle ability).