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How to Play video by Watch it Played with Rodney Smith:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZrG99c4vKQ

Overview of Architects of the West Kingdom

https://youtu.be/mYXROunPOqE

West Kingdom trilogy: https://youtu.be/FxI1psoj_R4

Locations

Players can play to several locations on the board to

Resource locations

Mines: 1 clay per worker here, or 1 gold per 2 workers here

Quarry: 1 stone per worker here

Forest: 1 wood per worker here

Silversmith: 1 coin per worker here, plus 1 coin

Black Market locations

(Note these are separate actions, and each can only hold one worker of any player, until black market reset)

Lose 1 Virtue + 1 Coin : Small location bonus

Lose 1 Virtue + 2 Coins : Hire an apprentice for free, or look at 5 buildings and draw one

Lose 1 Virtue + 3 Coins : Large location bonus

Guardhouse actions

Put workers in the guardhouse, gaining 1 coin per worker

Retrieve your workers from the guardhouse (for free)

Pay 5 money (2 of it tax) to retrieve all captured workers from opponents

Pay 6 money (3 of it tax) to pay off a debt

Kings Storehouse actions

Players can take one action per worker they have here, including any actions they have from apprentices

2 (Brick/Wood/Stone) to gain 1 Virtue

3 (Wood/Stone) to gain 1 marble

Workhouse actions

Players can either hire an apprentice or draw from the building deck

Buy an apprentice from the left column for 4 money (2 of it tax) -- or columns further in either market row with multiple workers or by putting 1 coin on skipped apprentices

Draw from the building deck, plus an additional card for every 2 workers here