Advance
- Pay 2 Food (or Ideas/Gold) for 1 advance.
- When starting a new category, you must
choose the top advance. A few advances also
have a pre-requisite advance shown in red.
Governments require the last advance in the
category above them (shown with an arrow).
- To switch Government types, pay 2 Food
to transfer the existing cubes instead.
- Advances with a yellow/blue outline increase
Happiness/Culture levels (which mark your
Mood/Culture token limit) and grant a token.
Found City
- Replace 1 Settler with a Settlement piece.
- Must be a non-barren Land space with no
other city or foreign unit.
Activating Cities
- If you activate the same city more than
once in the same turn, its mood will drop
after each additional activation.
- “Happy” cities get a +1 bonus to Building
units and Collecting resources.
- “Angry” cities are size 1 for Building units
and Collecting resources, can’t Increase in
size, and can only be activated once a turn.
Activate City: Build Units
- Build a number of units up to the size of
the city (+1 if “happy” and only 1 if “angry”).
- Stacking limit of 4 Army units per Land
space. (Settlers and Ships have no limit.)
Activate City: Collect Resources
- Collect resources up to the city’s size (+1 if
“happy” and only 1 if “angry”) from the city’s
space and adjacent spaces. Each space can
only be collected from once per activation.
- You cannot collect from spaces with
another city (even your own) or foreign
units (Ships/Settlers/Armies).
Activate City: Increase City Size
- Add one city-piece per activation.
- You must have the required advance.
- “Angry” cities cannot increase in size, and
a city can’t grow to a size larger than the
total number of cities you have.
Move
- Move up to 3 different units or groups.
- Land units move 1 Land space, or onto
a Ship. Ships move to any connected Sea
space. Limit of 4 Army units per Land space
and 2 Land units per Ship.
- Battles are resolved immediately and
before other units/groups move.
- Units entering a Forest space may not
move again that turn if it results in a battle.
- Units may not move after participating in
a battle or after entering a Mountain space.
Exploring Rules (in priority order):
1. A Land unit can’t move into a Sea space.
2. Sea spaces must touch Sea spaces.
3. Otherwise, place Sea spaces at the edges.
Exploring with Ships:
Place so any Sea spaces can be reached by the
Ship without entering any other regions. If
that isn’t possible, place normally, and move
the Ship back to the space it started from.
Civic Improvement
- Increase the mood of a city one step by
paying Mood tokens equal to the city’s size.
- You may pay to increase the mood of
several cities by several steps in one action.
Cultural Influence
- Target a city (at least size 2) within range
of one of your cities that itself is not under
Cultural Influence. The range is your city’s
size, +1 per Culture Token spent.
- Roll a 5 or 6 to exchange a city-piece in
the target city with a matching city-piece
in your color. Add +1 to the roll for each
Culture Token spent after rolling.
- Each attempt costs an action, and you
may only succeed once a turn.
Player Trades
Players may trade with the active player:
Resources, Action cards, Objective cards,
Mood tokens and Culture tokens.
Immediate trades must be fulfilled. Future
trades, loans, and diplomatic agreements, are
up to “the players’ conscience and goals”.
Combat Sequence Event Card Icons
1. Play 1 Action card? Attacker decides first. You Event icons only affect the player who
must have “Tactics” (Warfare) to play an Action card. drew the Event card, and are resolved
2. Reveal Cards. Carry out the effects of Action immediately after drawing.
cards if they take place prior to the combat roll.
3. Combat Roll: Both players roll dice equal to the Gold Mine!
number of Army units they have. (For Naval battles, Receive 2 gold immediately.
use Ships instead.) Add the dice results to find CV
(Combat Value). Divide by 5 for “hits” inflicted.
4. Remove Casualties. Remove an Army unit for Exhausted!
each hit. Settlers get removed with the last Army. Place an Exhausted Resource
(Units on Ships get removed with the Ship.) token on an empty (no units/
5. End of Battle? The attacker may retreat to the cities), non-Barren Land space
space he moved from, or continue attacking. adjacent to one of your cities.
No resources may be
Barbarian Attacks “Collected” from that space,
The battle lasts only one round. For each hit, first and no cities may be founded
remove an Army or Settler (target’s choice). Further there (including Barbarians).
hits remove city-pieces and make the city “angry.”
Barbarians Spawn!
Winning a Battle
1. Place a Barbarian settlement
- You win if you eliminate all of your opponent’s
and a Barbarian together on an
units without losing all of yours.
empty (no units/cities), non-
- If both sides lose all their units, combat ends with
Barren Land space within 2
no winner or loser.
spaces of one of your cities.
- If you only have a Fortress defending, you win if
2. Place a Barbarian unit in a
you eliminate the opponent in the first round. And
Barbarian settlement of your
also, in the case of Barbarians, without taking any
choice (including the new
excess hits (which counts as losing all your units).
settlement).
Capturing Cities:
1. Replace the owner’s city-pieces with matching Barbarians Attack!
pieces in your color. City-pieces under “Cultural 1. Find the Barbarian
Influence” by other players are not replaced. settlements within 2 spaces
If you have run out of a certain city-piece then of your cities, even across Sea
remove it and gain +1 Gold compensation. If you spaces (no crossing unrevealed
don’t have the required advance for a captured city- regions).
piece, then it counts for city-size and VP but you 2. Of these, the settlement
can’t use its power or complete objectives with it. with the most Barbarians
2. If the city was “happy” or “neutral”: attacks the closest of your
• Spoils of War: Receive Gold equal to city’s size. cities.
• Refugees: Previous owner gets a Settler in a
city of their choice (if they have any cities left). If tied for size or range, then
3. The city becomes “angry”. you decide which of the tied
settlements attacks which of your
Capturing Barbarian Settlements: tied cities.
- Earn 1 Gold for every Barbarian defeated.
- Keep the city (change it to your color) and make
it “angry”, or Raze it for an additional 1 Gold.