According to the Rules Reference this is Step 1 of setup
Place the Game Board
This combat item cancels the 2nd most Dracula combat cards
Crucifix
This ocean region is connected to the fewest large cities
Adriatic (zero)
This is the maximum number of Dracula cards Dracula may hold in his hand
4
According to the flavor text on Escape, escape is describing a confrontation in this type of city
Port
According to the Rules Reference regarding the Encounter Steps if Dracula moves to a location with a hunter in it he cannot place an encounter or do this
Place a rumor token
This card has been played the least number of times according to the leaderboards
(Blood transfusion at the time this question was written. Yes even more than customs search)
This is the only city in the game with an achievement associated with it
Toulouse
In second edition Seward could hold this number of items/events in total
7
The flavor text on Surprising Return describes this ally
Jonathan Harker
In a team game hunters must openly discuss things and may not confer in private except in these circumstances
When trading or using Van Helsing's leadership ability
The symbol on vampire cards denoting HP is this:
Physical Heart
Hunters may not perform the normal supply action in these spaces
Ocean Spaces, Castle Dracula, Hospital Spaces
The maximum number of road spaces that a horse may be used to travel in a single day is this
8
(With renewed vigor, trading and 4 hunters that can travel to each other in a line)
Dodge's flavor text describes fighting this
One of Dracula's vile spawn
According to the Escape as Bat rules this is what happens to the escape as bat card if it is on a location which Dracula promotes to a lair
it is discarded
The encounter reckless vampire has art unique to digital edition. It's original artwork from third edition is now used to represent this card in digital
Fangs
These are the only large cities without rail access
Nantes, Lisbon, Athens, Amsterdam
Cagliari is a city with this number associated with it
13
According to the flavor text in blood transfusion this is why it works
We don't know
(lol)
While we like to say Dracula can escape when the round marker reaches despair +2. The rulebook describes the rule in this way:
if Dracula plays escape as bat or escape as mist before he has played a number of cards greater than the number of despair on the time track the card is canceled.
The card Great Wolf in second edition was named this:
Quincy Morris
If a "long rail" is defined as a rail which accomplishes two roads worth of movement in a single segment, then these are the only cities connected to two long rails
Bordeaux and Paris
The number of places on the map that hunters may legally exist is this number
73
(60 cities/Castle Dracula, 10 ocean spaces, 3 hospitals)
The Russo-Turkish War