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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

Tax Stand actions

Players can lose 1 Virtue at the tax stand to take all the coins there (coins paid as tax)

Guildhall actions

Players can spend a worker to build a building, or build an available stage of the Cathedral.

To build a building, pay its cost (ensuring you have symbols needed on apprentices) and gain any immediate benefit

To build an available Cathedral stage, pay the corresponding resources and an unused building card, gaining the next bonus card (or just 1 virtue)

Workers spent in either way go in a row to the left of the cathedral.

Town Center actions

Players can capture a player's workers from a specific location paying 1 tax. If the player has have multiple workers in the Town Center, they can capture multiple players' workers in that location, paying 1 coin per set of workers, but still only a tax of 1 coin overall. (in a 2 or 3 player game, each group can be from a different location.)

Captured workers go on your player board, and may be turned in or retrieved at the guardhouse. (Note if you capture your own workers, they go back to your supply)